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Seven in the first application and a total of 17 by the final renewal application. for example, the crossfire hurricane team obtained information from steele's primary sub source. in january 2017 that raised significant questions about the reliability of the steele reporting. this was particularly noteworthy because the fisa applications relied entirely on information from the primary subsource's reporting to support the allegation that page was coordinating with the russian government on 2016 u.s. presidential election activities. however, the fbi did not share this information with departmen...

Reporting from christopher steal considering page's election acts for russian 06 fishls, the department was ready to move forward to obtain feis zoo author to surveil page. the steele reporting pushed fisa over the line in terms of establishing probable cause and we concluded that it played a central and essential role in a decision to seek a fisa order. fbi leadership supported relying on steele's reporting to seek a fisa order after being advised of concerns expressed by a department attorney that steele may have been hired by someone associated with a rival candidate or campaign. surveillan...

Was what is referred to in your report as the interviewed that prime sorr so that is the basis of this dossier. what did the primary sub source say as the oig report says, interviews with the primary sub source raised, quote, significant questions about the reliability of the steele reporting. what did the sub source say specifically as your report says, it says steele misstated orst exaggerated multiple sectis of the reporting. it says portions of it particularly the more salacious portions were based on rumor and speculation. it says that some of the basis of that came from conversations wit...

Source program that been christopher steele since "whitey" bulger. john durham knows a lot about that. and he's come into this with a lot of experience with that. i think we are going to see some very, very impactful action and i underscore the word action from durham and barr on this. >> laura: i want to go to you. this is part of the ig report. the information known to the manager or supervisor's and senior officials should have resulted in questions being raised regarding the reliability and this steele reporting and the fisa applications but did not. >> look, i know a little bit about fisa...

Source program, that been christopher steele, since "whitey" bulger. john durham knows a lot about that. and he's come into this with a lot of experience with that. i think we are going to see some very, very impactful action and i underscore the word action from durham and barr on this. >> laura: i want to go to you. this is part of the ig report. the information known to the managers, supervisors, and senior officials should have resulted in questions being raised regarding the reliability and this steele reporting and the fisa applications but did not. >> look, i know a little bit about fis...