a cleat. the house intelligence committee is scheduled to meet at 5:00 p.m. this afternoon and expected to vote on whether to release the democrats ten-page response to the controversial republican memo released on friday concerning the russia investigation, of course. and that, of course, was a four-page memo that claimed the fbi and the justice department abused their powers in obtaining a fisa court warrant to surveil carter page and use it as an excuse to spy on the trump campaign. the president himself claimed on twitter over the weekend, quote, this memo totally vindicates trump in probe. the truth is it may actually undercut the president s case. let s go over and take a look at what the problems are with the president s claim that this undercuts that this kpa exonerates him. the memo s argument, carter page was no longer associated with the trump campaign when the fisa court order was approved. that s what the problem is with this. let s take a look at the timeline outline
continued into early year. cnn report monday that the fbi obtained a fisa court warrant to listen in on manafort s phone calls back in 2014 as part of an investigation into his work as a lobbyist for the ukrainian government. the eavesdropping reportedly lapsed for a time but restarted last year as the fbi looked into russia s interference in the presidential election. president obama s director of national intelligence, james clapper, appeared on meet the press in march and was asked point-blank whether any wiretapping had occurred. there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president, the president-elect at the time or as a candidate or against his campaign. i was just going to say if the fbi, for instance, had a fisa court order of some sort for surveillance, would that be information you would know or not know? yes. if there was a fisa court order. yes, absolutely. and at this point you can t confirm or deny whether that exists? i can deny it.
paul manafort was wiretapped by federal investigators through a secret fisa court order before and after the 2016 residential election. including possible communications with the president were picked up. they published an article titled did obama know about comey surveillance? the piece openly speculates that high-ranking officials inside the obama white house and president obama himself may have been briefed on the fisa surveillance. unbelievably in march of this year, formal obama director of national intelligence james clapper said there was no fisa warrant. you may remember this.ere the part of the national security apparatus that i oversaw as dni, there was no such wiretapped activity mounted against the president-elect at the time as a candidate orty against his campaign.
for surveillance, would that be information that you would know or not know. yes. you would be told on something like this. yes. something like this, absolutely. and at this point you can t quip or deny whether that exists. i can deny it. tls no fisa court order. not to my knowledge. of anything at trump tower. no. and the fact that manafort was wire-tapped proves that the president was right to accuse the former president of wiretapping him and you were wrong. what s your response? well, again, i stand on that statement that you just replayed and i cannot comment on the media reporting, which is all we have, about a fisa warrant allegedly lodged against mr. manafort. i can t comment on that. i will simply reiterate what i said in march, and i stand on that. yeah. and that there is as far as
bad, sick guy. she was derided for this.er but mark, is he somehow vindicated tonight? sean: when will otherw members of the establishmentvi destroy-trump-media, when will they come forward and admit they had it wrong? there is a very important fact in the story that cannot be ignored. that s obama s former director of national intelligence james clapper, he denied on meet the press back in march that there was ever any wiretapping of president trump or his campaign. he also said there was no evidence of a fisa court warrant. listen to what he says. watch this. for the part of the national security apparatus that i oversaw as dni, there was nol such wiretap activity mounted against the president-elect at the time, as a candidate or against his campaign. there is no fisa court order. not of my knowledge. of anything at trump tower? no. sean: wrong and shocking. clapper needs to be hauled in