o er was recently demoted over his contacts with steele and glenn simpson whose opposition research firm fusion gps directed the trump project. o er s wife nellie worked for fusion gps and began investigating trump as early as may 2016. republican investigators say the court was never told about the dossier s split cal roots, neither the fisa application in 2016 disclosed the role of the dnc, clinton campaign or any party campaign in funding steele s effort. even though they were then known to senior doj and fbi officials. according to the memo, deputy fbi director andrew mccabe testified before the committee in december 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought without the steele dossier information. mccabe was removed earlier this week. brit at this records show fusion
o er was recently demoted over his contacts with steele and glenn simpson whose opposition research firm fusion gps directed the trump project. o er s wife nellie worked for fusion gps and began investigating trump as early as may 2016. republican investigators say the court was never told about the dossier s split cal roots, neither the fisa application in 2016 disclosed the role of the dnc, clinton campaign or any party campaign in funding steele s effort. even though they were then known to senior doj and fbi officials. according to the memo, deputy fbi director andrew mccabe testified before the committee in december 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought without the steele dossier information. mccabe was removed earlier this week.
himse himself. while democrats on the intelligence committee led by adam schiff charge nunes designed this memo, the chairman insisted otherwise in an exclusivity interview with fox s bret baier. you know there are some members who are useing this to question the mueller investigation. are you separating the two? i think what s happening is i think the mainstream media and the democrats are tying this to the mueller investigation. because they re trying to perpetuate this nonsense of obstruction of justice because they ve left the russia collusion issue. they know there was no collusion. no evidence yet of collusion as nunes said. but these investigations are continuing tonight on two tracks. mueller still probing potential obstruction of justice charges while. nunes and the inspector general are basically investigating the investigators. shannon: thank you so much. the democrats have their own memo they want released and
brit at this records show fusion gps briefed half a dozen media outlets in the fall of 2016 but the majority did not go with the story. one who did was apparently used to just identify fbi surveillance. the carter page fisa application cited a september 23rd, 2016, yahoo news article by michael isikoff which focuses on a jewel 2016 trip to moscow. page denied working with the russians. i have never broken any law or done anything untoward in russia or relating to any russian person. according to the memo an fbi counter intelligence chief said the corroboration of the steele dossier was in the early stages even as the initial fisa was submitted. comey later testified he told the president reflect at trump tower the dossier was quote salacious and unverified but it was used repeatedly to review
rosenstein grew so angry he threatened to subpoena emails from the house intelligence community despite obvious separation of power issues. congress al republicans and just it s department of president trump who today told people this memo was a disgrace. since rosenstein was a part of renewing the fisa warrants that led to whether the president still has confidence in his deputy attorney general. he seemed lukewarm. [ inaudible question ] president trump: thank you very much. [ inaudible question ] . president trump: you figure that one out. well tonight white house spokesman said the president has no plans to fire rosenstein and he expects him to continue in his job. rosenstein appointed robert mueller to lead the russia probe after jeff sessions reexcused