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Of evidence even beyond information contained in a so-called dossier that would have led to the warrant being issued in the first place. >> okay, mike, thank you. i want to turn to jeff bennett for us as well who was at the white house for us this afternoon. jeff, what are you hearing from there? >> reporter: well, mike framed it perfectly. i would not only add this, remember, president trump had no issue declassifying the republican nunes memo without redactions. there's some reporting to suggest that he made that decision without even seeing the memo, without even first seeing the memo despi...

Investigation has been blown out of the water. >> for anybody joining us i want to reiterate we are talking now about the democrats response, the democrats memo from the house intelligence committee. again, we've been looking through it, as i look at it here hold it up here you can tell there are a lot of redactions, a lot of places where information has been taken out by the white house. so let's go back to mike digging through this a little more for us this afternoon. mike, what more can you add? >> well, you'll remember there was this line at the end of the nunes memo when it was released t...

The page application before the fisa court was not made until october. the other points that schiff's memo makes is that the doj subsided multiple sources in seeking this fisa warrant on carter page. and that it made only, quote, narrow use of information from the steele dossier. republicans have really tried to argue that the steele dossier was a primary source of launching the entire russia investigation. what schiff's memo was saying it was only narrowly used in one fisa application here on carter page. the other point that's made, which is something that we want to i think continue to read...

Elements to refute, rebut the contention that, for example, the steele information, the steele dossier information was critical to it. but, no, the big deal is making that fisa application public to begin with. it is all a big deal. the point is that the white house didn't care one eye owe ta for what the department of justice or the fbi thought the first time around. but now that there is a prebulls, now they have to take classification seriously. >> all right. so assuming, and i heard schiff is going to meet with the fbi and go over what the concerns may be in terms of redacted material. tru...

Research. and you ignore all the other information in that application. stuff that the fbi cannot talk about, to defend itself because that would blow every other source the country has, for figuring out what russia is up to. surveillance, human sources and so forth -- just steele, that's all this thing was, you make that scandalous. the third step is the memo says rod rosenstein used this, too, because he signed off on resubmitting it to the court for an extension. that means he's now vulnerable to attack as also complicit in this watergate-level offense. rod rosenstein stands between trump a...