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Establish probable cause. and in the democratic memo today what we're seeing is they've determined the fisa court got what it needed, that the dossier was not critical player in that probable cause and that the court was properly notified of the basis of information provided in the affidavit. >> michael still watching this for us as well. mike, you've been going through the documents. i understand a new statement out from the house? >> that's right, adam schiff who along with his staff the top democrat on the intelligence committee has put out a statement now. he's the author of this memo. and...

Law enforcement and instead revealed that both the fbi and justice department made exten extensive showings to justify all four requests. what's also interesting here that schiff says in his statement is that we know that the house intelligence committee voted two weeks ago to actually release a response memo to the nunes memo, which went public on february 2nd. the president rejected initially releasing that memo, the schiff memo in response two weeks ago. and there was some question as they went through this process of redactions with the fbi and with the white house itself whether they migh...

I don't know why it's taking so long. >> bill: two weeks ago it was said washington is going to implode if you release the republican memo. it's still standing. >> i'm glad you brought that up. this is an issue that adam schiff has. he was shouting from the rooftops before the nunes memo came out this is going to endanger national security and put potentially at risk sources and methods for our intelligence agencies. then the memo came out unredacted and it didn't do any of those things. it became very clear that those concerns were vastly overblown. then the democrats have their response memo...

Restraining order against him. so, there is plenty of evidence. >> regarding the democratic response memo, what is the status of it now? can you say? >> so, the status of the memo is, that the fbi and the department of justice now, are going to meet with the minority members of the committee, particularly adam schiff is the ranking member. and determine what, if any, has to be redacted. ironically, the president issued the memo, redacted nothing. and yet, there were sources and methods that were actually made public. >> so, you're saying, in the republican memo, there were sources and methods....

I want to read this. this is what the president tweeted this weekend. democrats sent a political and long response memo which they knew because the sources and methods and more would have to be heavily redacted where upon they would blame the white house for lack of transparency. told them to do and send back in proper form. that's a jedi mind trick. given the president's track record with the truth, this is hard to judge without seeing it because you have to go in and do fact checks and research every time the president saying something to make sure he is telling the truth, which is not very ...