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Investigation? >> i'm sorry on this matter that i'm handling? >> yeah. >> no one that i'm aware of. >> following up on a question that senator feinstein asked, did the obama administration or president obama himself know about the counter intelligence investigation? >> i don't know the answer to that definitively. our authority was over the fbi and to look at the fbi and the department activities. >> in january 2018 chairman graham and i wrote to the fbi and the department referring christopher steel for investigation of potentially lying to the fbi. we told the fbi and the department that wha...

Immediately following mr. page, carter page, going to news outlets after word of the fisa hit the news media and said to the news media i was someone who worked with u.s. intelligence agencies, not someone who worked against them, lawyers and agents went and said weave got to figure out what's the story, is that what happened? the lawyer, the ogc attorney for the fbi reached out to a liaison at the other government agency that was at issue, asked the question is, was plfrmt page a source or contact of some sort for your organization. the report back and the email referenced the august 2016 mem...

This. >> let's run a clip here. this is what comey said in 2018. it would be nice to have sound. do we have sound? never mind. i'll read it. director comey, the reporter is asking him, can i ask you a question on fisa abuse. it's a major issue for the republicans. do you have the total confidence in the dossier when you used it to secure a surveillance warrant and also in the subsequent renewals? this was asked in december of 2018, about a year ago. comey, i have total confidence that the fisa process was followed, that the entire case was handled in a thoughtful, responsible way by doj and th...

Disturbing about that event, which is the initial application said, as you noted, that the fbi assessed that steele was the direct source or was a direct source, and on october 14th the drafts changed to the exact opposite. what we found is the fbi had no basis for the first statement, no evidence in their file -- it turned out the first statement was, in fact, the accurate statement. the point is they had no evidence to support that. when they flipped that, they had no evidence to support that either. that's the kind of issue that under the basic woods procedures, the factual accuracy procedu...

Whether he was a source for the september 2016 yahoo news article that cited western intelligence sources, quote, unquote? if not, why not? >> they did not ask that question despite having the opportunity to do so. and we got a variety of explanations including that, as to some of these issues, that they didn't want to offend him or jeopardize their relationship with him. >> question two, on october 11th, draft of the vice is a application stating fbi believes steele was the source of the yahoo news article but it was taken out in the october 14th draft. why did the fbi originally say steele w...