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Influence to get some loans one wonders what promises michael cohen may have been making. >> we know from the documents paul manafort was spending a million dollars on sxrugz another million dollars on suits. michael cohen on the other hand, he was acting broke. he didn't have a whole lot of money but he had a lot of money coming in. millions of dollars. people who -- he was making money off president trump. sought question is would president trump allow someone to make millions and millions of dollars and not want a cut? >> getting his beak wet. paul butler and nickachorman. thanks for joinin...

Release it to the press right away and do their own thing. it's the democrats who blocked the release of their own memo not the republicans. but they lie. that's all they do is lie. it's pathetic what's going on. it's sad to watch. brian: look at this memo and how comes fran tans send. adam schiff has always been pushing back against releasing this. three main reasons. they said well, they said the dossier was a political document. in the fisa request. not really. it goes on for evidently for about 10 lines when a very simple thing. that dossier that we're asking the federal judge to allow a s...

And richard herman, a criminal defense attorney, joining us from las vegas. good to see you both. all right, so avery, you first. this is going to be almost like a fisa 101 but a real truncated version because it is really complicated. we've got the gop memo that's been released. it's very critical of the process. first off, avery, tell us what the fisa court is generally used for, what exactly is required in order to get a surveillance request approved. >> well, usually, if you're -- 99.999% of americans have never seen a fisa application. >> right. >> orlanyou have an investigati substantial...

New developments as president trump is apparently going against the justice department. the republicans believe the memo will undercut robert mueller's investigation. the top secret document allegedly accuses the fbi of political motivations behind a surveillance request that was made in the early days of mueller's investigation. here's what those on the house intelligence committee who saw the memo had to say about it. >> what i read in the classified briefing room as bad as i thourt it was. >> you are describing the elements of a palace coup, after mark meadows and many others reviewed the i...

And intelligence community are relying on is a third-party doctrine, saying that because you've given your data, because it's shared with a third party, it becomes public property. >> the phone company, because they have a record that you called me. >> and it's important to understand that it then goes metadata. so we start with metadata, but the government is not suggesting that it can't collect your actual communications, can't collect your content. they can collect your content, just as they can collect your metadata. metadata can tell you a whole host of a person's life with the computer p...