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>> bill: did peter strzok fill the application out for the fisa warrant that was later used to surveil carter page, sir? >> i have to be very ful about answering questions regarding documents that are classified so i think i'll pass on that. let say he was heavily involved in that investigation and -- >> bill: i apologize. maybe there is another way to phrase it respecting the bounds by which you are trying to operate here. was there anyone within the agency who was more central than peter strzok on the russia investigation as it relates to the trump campaign? >> that's a great question. we're...

>> bill: fox news contributor, former u.s. attorney andrew mccarthy with us now. quickly, though, you heard the question about goodlatte about 15 minuteago about whether or not peter strzok was involved in the fisa application that was used to surveil carter page. is he or not? >> he would have been deeply involved in it. congressman would have been very hesitant appropriately so to answer your question because the application itself is classified. so he has to be careful about how he addresses it. but a fisa application, any wiretap application, even one on just a criminal wiretap is a collab...

His problem is that the facts that are necessary to show if the democrats are right that the nunes memo is wildly misleading and mischaracterizes things at its core findings, those are still classified. it will take president trump's decision and a vote by republican members of the house to let those contrary facts see the light of day. it will be interesting to see whether that happens. the key thing, the really core question is when the memo says the nunes memo, that is, that the intelligence court was never told that the democratic national committee or hillary clinton paid for the oppositi...

It. >> this is the trump case. >> right, or the nunes case. >> same difference. >> but it's not just that the that original application for carter page had this information in it. the important thing, the most important thing i think from what we're hearing it talks about extending that wiretap application applying for renewals every 90 days up to the point in which the trump administration is in charge and rod rosenstein is the official signing off on that dossier that resubmits the same information to the court saying we want to stay up on this guy. if it is a scandal to use steele informati...

Investigation. did he not mishandle classified information. he is running that department once again. meanwhile, here is mollie hemingway and she boils it down quite concisely why the dossier, if it led to spying, is such a problem. >> the question is whether the actual special counsel investigation itself was not compromised by its 1r06789 with this dossier. i think the american people deserve to know whether it was and most importantly i think they deserve to know whether that wiretap application was in any way related to the dossier. if it was, oh, boy, that's a scandal. pete: do we have an...