abused the process for obtaining the fisa warrants to eavesdrop on carter page. what arguments did they offer in that memo? >> that's right. so as you'll remember it was a little over three weeks ago devin nunes and republicans released the memo. democrats wanted to have their response memo released at the same time but it took a certain amount of weeks and negotiations with the fbi and the justice department over these redactions. a lot of the republican points had to do with the work of christopher steel, the former british intelligence operative who was the author of the dossier that included some unverified claims about donald trump and contacts with russian officials. what the democratic memo here attempts to deal with primarily has to deal with a main allegation the republicans made which is in the application for fisa warrant against carter page, the fasa court was not informed of the fact that