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Judge information that indicates that they believe that the surveillance was yielding fruit, was yielding valuable information that supports this idea that carter page or whoever you would have in a surveillance is acting as an agent of a foreign power. again, today the president tweeted about the sacred investigative process. and wolf, what we're seeing from this document is a little bit of a picture of how messy investigations are. yes, sometimes you use information from informants that are not clean. obviously when you're investigating criminal organizations, you use criminal informants, pe...

President trump, in effect, that he had an agenda against president trump. but now some context. one, we know, and cnn has previously reported, that the fbi had its own corroborating intelligence to call for this warrant to surveil carter page. we also know that the way this process works in the fisa court, former director of national intelligence james clapper said this on the air this morning. they do not base warrants just on outside information. there would need to be warrants to back up this request, specifically to surveil an american. that's important there. that's why that initial head...

>> there is a gang of eight process. i was in the gang of eight, so was mike when he became chairman, allow us to see information that the rest of the committee can't, so i assume that was the process that was followed. we've done careful oversight over the fisa process for years. in fact, until about 1990, i was not in congress yet, but each fisa application was reviewed or at least shown to the house and senate communities. we remanded fisa in 2008 to set up section 702 and there is sophistication in congress about the fact that it works well. the fisa court is picked by the chief justice an...

Heard it, is that they almost always authorize what the fbi and the justice department, as they rarely reject a request. >> so that's really inaccurate. we went through this process and we went through the very careful process, by the way, in the committee a few years ago to bring in a fisa judge not as a witness. this was all negotiated, to come in and talk through how all of that process worked. we kept getting these allegations that as an fbi guy, i know it wasn't true. i sign the application and it gets signed off by a whole bunch of check-offs. agents, the legal department in the fbi, the...

To make their case as does, i might point out, the fbi if they feel like there is something in this memo that isn't accurate. i hope they do make their case. but i tell you once again, whether this is released simultaneously or a few days apart, you're going to be able to compare them side by side and draw their own conclusions. >> so many of your colleagues, former members, current members, they say what you did -- you voted against releasing the democratic report. all the republicans did along strict party lines. you voted in favor of releasing the republican report, congressman. >> no, that...