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>> should the fisa judge have been told that the steel dossier was funded by the dnc and clinton campaign? >> interestingly enough, let me get to that. but the work of fusion gps and the work of christopher steele started out by a republican entity. >> i have to stop you. i think we believe fusion gps was hired by the washington free beacon first and yes they were funded. but steel did not come on -- >> hang on. the question at hand here is whether the fisa judge should have been told about the source of the funding. >> another misleading almost. the notion that the judge was not told. the con...

Is that once the fbi changed its assessment of steel as a source, that what they should have done and what the normal practice should be is that they go back to the court and inform the court. the amount of information that they originally in the first application to be provided by the court depends on all of the other information in there. how critical his information was to the application and we don't know that. and the members that you have had on haven't been briefed on them and picked and showed what information they wanted to put out to support their narrative. the american public is le...

Court filing that he talked to a number of journalists when he came to washington in september of 2016, and he named the news organizations that he spoke to, and yahoo news -- that's me -- was one of them. so, yes, i'm not giving anything away here. yes, christopher steele was somebody i spoke to when i wrote that story. >> and the implicatiomplication from this memo is that he was the only source for your story. >> well, that's not the case. >> you corroborated -- >> all you have to do is read the story and you'll see there are moment source who's are cited. >> and you corroborated the things...

The republican memo features a cast of characters that include two journalists. the memo cites an article by michael isikoff. first here's the reference in the memo. the carter page fisa application also cited extensively a september 23rd, 2016, yahoo news article by michael isikoff which focuses on page's july 2016 trip to moscow. this article does not corroborate the steele dossier because it is derived from information leaked by steele himself to yahoo news. david corn's work is also cited in the memo. he and isikoff are the authors of russian roulette that comes out on march 20th. michael ...

Show us the information. >> he was suspected for an agent. and that was why they were asking for a warrant to surveil. >> if you had other information on carter page, why didn't you use it. why did you rely on the dossier. >> congressman himes was clear. they didn't tell the court that the democratic national committee paid for it. >> like the nunes memo that is a mi misrepresentation of the facts. remember this, congressman jordan said four times they went to the fisa court and that is exactly right. four times they went and under the rules each of those times when they apply for a renewal of...