about even though there were tens of thousands of law enforcement may be smeared. it s staggering how republicans continue to put party over principle. this is a tipping point for ourac democracy. are we going to be a democracy after today, or is it going to be despotism? paul ryan is no longer on team usa or even on team old republican party, he s on team devin nunes. which means to some extent they are all advancing in some sense the interest of russia. a tucker: ask questions and you are working for putin. there is a meltdown over the release of the fbi memo, why is that? why shouldn t we have been allowed to see it? a former it s a super simple question. why should i as a task taxpaye?
released right away. you say that the documents we were just talking about, the evidence the fbi brushed stomach brought to justify spying out to be released to the public, what s the argument against tha? speak of argument against it would be there could be some information over the course of the application that will include sources and methods that may need to get redacted in the effort to argue against providing any of the related material that was sourced some might say we shouldn t be releasing any of it. the counter argument i would provided to that is anything at all that could possibly be released for the american public, it s one thing when you lead a majority memo that was released today. it s another thing when you get an opportunity to read the adam schiff memo when it comes out.
what does the memo actually say? it s not primarily about donald trump or even about the broader russia investigation. the memo is a story of a semiobscure trump campaign volunteer called carter page, who back in 2016 was identified by the obama administration as a secret agent of the putin government. four times fbi officials went to a surveillance court and argued they had probable cause to believe that carter page was working with russia spies, he was an agent of a foreign government. three times fbi director jim comey personally signed off on this claim, deputy director andrew mccabe and rod rosenstein put their names to it as w well. why were all of these officials so certain that page who was a naval academy graduate, has no criminal record was betraying hisy country? we now know they were lying on the trump dossier, that s the unverified opposition research dumpy paid for by the rnc and
they are classified. many critics have said for years at the fbi and other agencies have been classified materialoio avoid embarrassment. this may be a most public and relatively rare example of that. there is nutley remotely in this memo that justifies the rhetorid used by minority leader pelosi, ranking member schiff. they all say that there would be dire consequences. the fbi director said thereit would be grave problems that would be released. tucker: the freedom of information act as i understand that the said unless the government has a compelling reason to keep something secretive has to release everything unless it can show that it shouldn t because it belongs to the public. it seems in washington the instinct is opposite, everything is classified unless there is political pressure to declassify it. anyone looking at this memo can see that it s written to avoid sources and methods. it s basically what we had already heard the difference is that there were discussions of
justice department made four times. i don t know if it s true or not. when we see these source documents were going to find ouh what he was doing. and how it s connected to the trump campaign. tucker: why is he a free man when he has betrayed his country? it s very heavy charges to someone who is not been indicted or convicted and against him there is no publicly available evidence. why he is walking the street is a question that should keep a lot of republicans up at night, let s leave it at that. tucker: it s hard to believe you would say something like that. i have absolutely no evidence when a guy has been under surveillance by the fbi since 2015. tucker: martin luther king was under surveillance. what is this? t you cannot get a fisa renewat unless you show the judge that you have evidence that an american citizen was involved with what you are claiming he