that says what they can and cannot does. on the one hand criminal investigation they cannot open it unless they have all actually basis. they opened the probe of the trump campaign. the second is in a counter intelligence probe, they have to submit evidence for surveillance warrant that is corroborated and verified. again e it s in the i do diag. sean: don t we know it was never verified. that s right. sean: in january comey goes to trump tower and say it s salacious to the verified. months he is now now months later it was unverified and he news ited. using it is a violation much at least six different felony statutes. you noticed some that devin nunes point you had out you and i have been talking about plus a couple others.
is noteworthy. you re from the intelligence community and you understand that they have an inside job here. all the information that was given, the organizational chart, all of the banking institutions that were used to foster this sort of thing, all of the information, all of the conclusions, everyone involved, you have somebody who was able to have a counter intelligence probe probably from the inside doing just that since 2014. final thought from you as we actually, i want to look at some live pictures of the president in pompano beach, florida. he s going to be heading, as we believe, to the hospital where massacre victims have been, where there s still a few that remain there. it s the hospital where the suspect himself was actually treated as well. i want to bring in boris sanchez. he is in parkland. boris? reporter: hey there, brianna. we learned a short time ago that
it. essentially, this was this was put up or shut up moment. this was a put up or shut up moment when putting up was not the better of the two options. the central claim of their weeks of hype, their whole campaign to release the memo is somehow this memo would prove the dossier by an mi 6 officer christopher steele, the campaign was based around the idea this memo would prove that the steele dossier is what led to the whole russia investigation. now the problem with that argument with having created that expectation about the secret memo is the secret memo actually conceded that it was not the christopher steele dossier. the fbi started a counter intelligence probe into the trump campaign s ties with russia because of what turned
talked with him. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. the announce memo is out and it does indeed contain a stunning revelation. unfortunately for the white house and the memo s authors the revelation is precisely the opposite of what they wanted to reveal. you see, the memo finally answers a central question, one of the central questions about the entire russia investigation. what prompted is the u.s. government to open an official counter intelligence probe at the height of the 2016 election into the campaign of a major party s presidential candidate? that s a very big deal. that s a big thing to do. what was the piece of information that set off their alarms that they would do that? we now know. we now know it was not the infamous steele dossier. instead the memo confirms for the first time what the new york times first reported late last year. that it was information from
it literally mirrors kgb style tactics. what we re learning about the man at the heart of the memo. did you meter is guy kislyak income cleveland? did you talk to him. i m not going to deny that i talked with him. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. the announce memo is out and it does indeed contain a stunning revelation. unfortunately for the white house and the memo s authors the revelation is precisely the opposite of what they wanted to reveal. you see, the memo finally answers a central question, one of the central questions about the entire russia investigation. what prompted is the u.s. government to open an official counter intelligence probe at the height of the 2016 election into the campaign of a major party s presidential candidate? that s a very big deal. that s a big thing to do. what was the piece of information that set off their alarms that they would do that?