was funded by? no, not to my recollection. did he want to know who it was funded by. i wanted to know what i knew which it was funded by people politically opposed by donald trump. which particular opponents was important to me. bret: you still to this day don t know it was funded by the dnc. i have read that in the media but didn t know for a fact and didn t know while i was at the fbi which exact opponent of the president s funded that. bret: how many times and to what extent did you brief president obama on the dossier? i didn t ever brief president obama on the dossier. i was present during a conversation where director of national intelligence briefed it to him as we did to the gang of eight and to the president-elect the first week of january. bret: you called the dossier unverified, salacious. why did you use that to the fisa court to ask for surveillance for carter page? not only use it but you led with it a bulk of that fisa application deals with that dossier.
he is still allegeable for future access. as gregg jarrett lists multiple reasons comey should be permanently losing his eligibility. including his improper conduct in the clinton investigation. the fact he stole the government property. remember handwritten memos about the president. remember he leaked that potentially classified information. the memos to a professor friend to give to the new york times. and he also likely mislead the fisa court about the steele dossier he was supposed to verify and never did. then he lied about that in the book tour. we ll remind you. you called the dossier unverified, salacious. why did you use that to the fisa court to ask for surveillance for carter page? not only use it, but you led with it. a bulk of the fisa application deals with the dossier. why? that is not my recollection, brett. i don t know that the fisa application has been released. my recollection is it was part of a broader mosaic of facts laid before the fisa judge to
really should do is get on with our lives. we ll have more on this in a moment. but, first, the man president trump fired from the fbi, james comey, is in hot water tonight after a very puzzling answer he gave to bret baier about the anti-trump dossier. take a look. you called the dossier unverified, salacious. why did you use that to the fisa court to ask for surveillance for carter page? not only use it, but you led with it. a bulk of that fisa application deals with that dossier. why? yeah, that s not my recollection, bret. and i don t know that the fisa application has been released. my recollection was it was part of a broader mosaic of facts that were laid before the fisa judge to obtain a fisa warrant. bret: there was a lot more than the dossier in the fisa application. my recollection was there was a significant amount of additional material about page and why there was probable cause to believe he was an agent of a foreign power and thes to yea was part of that. but
memos that contradict what james comey said just a few minutes ago. a few hours ago. take a look. you called the dossier unverified, salacious. why did you use that to the fisa court to ask for surveillance for carter page? you used it and led with it, a bulk of that fisa application deals with that dossier? that s not my recollection. my recollection is it was a part of a broader mosaic of facts led before the judge to get the fisa warrant. there was more than the dossier? my recollection is there was an additional amount of material and why there was probable cage that page was a foreign agent. the dossier was part of it or not part of it or a critical part of it. i m having a hard time believing that. this is almost unbelievable. james comey still claiming not to know who paid for hillary s
memos that contradict what james comey said just a few minutes ago. well, a few hours ago. you called the dossier unverified, salacious. why did you use that to the fisa court to ask or surveillance for carter page? not only use it but you lead with it, a bulk of that fisa application deals with that dossier. why? that is not my recollection, bret. i don t know the fisa application has been released. my recollection is that was part of a broader mosaic of facts that were laid before the fisa judge to obtain a fisa warrant. sean: there was a lot more than a dossier in the applicati? speak of my recollection is there a significant amount of additional material about page e to believe he was an agent of a foreign power. the dossier was part of that but was not all of it or a critical part of it. my recollection. sean: i m having a really hard time believing that. this is almost unbelievable. james comey still claiming not to know who paid for hillary s