october of 2016, when the justice department and the fbi go to the secret court to get this surveillance warrant, they have additional information. they say that by the time there are three more renewals of that surveillance of carter page, they say that the fbi had been able to corroborate important pieces of information in the dossier that was put together by christopher steele. another important point here that devin nunes said, which was that the court was never advised that the steele dossier was paid for by democrats. according to the democratic memo that was released today, they say that the court was aware, and they cite one particular portion of the memo in which they say that the fbi speculates, again, this is a part of the application that was made to the court, it says the fbi speculates that the identified u.s. person, this is the person who had paid for the dossier, was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit candidate number