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About its accuracy. the justice department said it was extraordinarily reckless. while on the other hand, our memo is released after working hand in hand with those agencies to make sure we weren't being reckless and this did not release additional classified information. >> you're right in that fact that you did work with the justice department and the fbi after the memo initially went to the white house. but we should point out that the fbi still did not want this memo to be released because of national security concerns. they felt the same way about the republican memo. why do you think it ...

The washington examiner -- no republican had anything to do with the steele dossier. >> that was the washington free beacon, not the washington examiner. that is a conservative outlet. but i guess the point i would make -- >> no no no. this is wrong. this is part of the misstatements that are being put out about the trump campaign. the fact is that when you talk about preliminary research which had been ended. the steele dossier -- steele was not in the picture until the other investigation was totally over. the steele dossier came about and it was paid for entirely -- every word in the steele...

The hillary clinton campaign. but it's their assessment that the court was very much aware of the fact that this was a group with the goal of digging up opposition research on then candidate donald trump. he's referred to as candidate one in the memo. isn't that true? >> that's true what adam schiff is saying. i practice law. if you have something that's clear cut as the democratic campaign committee and the hillary clinton committee paying for that put that out. not this round about language where it could be just somebody who has a political interest. somebody who has a partisan interest. th...

Again in the memo about carter page being a russian agent listen, i don't know how anyone can take page seriously on anything and the fact he went to moscow -- he spoke at a public graduation over there. but carter page was never ever any kind of player in the trump administration -- the trump campaign. he never spoke to trump or any of the top people in the campaign. there was no evidence that he spoke to anybody in the campaign about the trip to russia. why did they go to this effort several weeks before the election day based on a trump dossier to be wiretapping carter page. listen, i have ...

That's pretty serious accusation, congressman. how would you respond to that? >> yeah. you have to remember unfortunately we lost our chairman when -- the day after james comey told congress the president's campaign was under investigation. he went over and showed his loyalties working with the white house. that's unfortunate because we needed an independent investigation not to work with them. so i think his credibility, you know, has been lost on this. i hope that mike conaway is able to return as the acting chairman and so -- until we wrap this up. to the point on the fisa process, you know...