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that the fbi and the justice department when presenting a case to the fisa court, asking for a warrant to surveil carter page, may not have made it clear or didn't make it clear that they were basing this, at least in part, on the dossier from christopher steele, the former mi-6 guy. >> that's the inference, but likely the four judges needed a whole lot of detail, and this memo pared it down, and that's why critics say it's partisan because nunes just kind of -- the chairman of the house intelligence, devin nunes, just cherry picked certainly details and presented this memo and everyone is ...

classified information that these memos are predicated on. we'll never really get to see the facts for ourselves. so it would have been a much better process if they didn't do this, and if there are problems in the fisa warrant application process, then there are procedures to follow there. inspector generals and classified hearings before the full committee, which christopher wray actually asked the committee to allow him to do, and the committee denied him that right. so this is so much political nonsense that it's really sad to watch from a law enforcement perspective. >> so the preside...

He says it is about transparency, it's about letting everybody know about how this process works. >> well, if you're going to let people know about how the process works, then you have to give them a complete picture of how the process works. and this memo does not do that. now, i have seen the democratic rebuttal memo, and i hope the public is going to be able to see that. i hope the committee will allow that memo to come forward. that will give broader context. i think it will make it clear that this was misleading, that there was information cherry picked, and it was not transparent. so you...

To knock the investigation off track, and they want to stop mueller from doing his job. and the public needs to be very concerned about that, because bob mueller is their representative in the justice system to get to the bottom of what's happened with this russia attack on our democracy. >> for the sake of transparency, would you ever be an advocate of all of the information of the process as it pertained to carter page or anyone else who, you know, the fisa court wins approval on surveillance, do you believe that everything including transcriptions should all be released for the public? >> w...

Voted along party lines in the house with republicans agreeing to release and democrats opposing it. congressman brad wenstrup is a republican from ohio. and a member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, good to see you. >> good to be with you. >> your republican colleague in the senate, john mccain said this in a statement about the release of this memo, saying quote, the latest attacks on the fbi and department of justice serve no american interests, no party's, no president's. only putin's. that from john mccain. this is your fellow republican in the senate. raising these conce...