steele may not have known about the clinton correct. and that is a fair point. and ben, interpret mr. comey. let me put it up. that s it? dishonest and misleading memo wrecked the house and intel committee and destroyed the trust of intelligence communication and damaged relationship and the fisa application ort and inexcusable composed. for people that can t read it. there is a really simple way to know whether representative meadows and jordan are in the aggregate correct here. and it is that now that this memo is public, the fisa court itself is going to be aware of the allegations. an there is an institution it is not the house intelligence committee. it is the foreign intelligence surveillance court that in fact gets to decide whether the application submitted to the
other americans. which is very visceral. it is not like the fbi has never done that before. read the files on dr. king and that is the playbook for a while. but the issue the argument is this is partisan. i understand the argument about it is important for the fisa judge to know that the providence of this information was from the dnc. that is not entirely true because it was republican before it was democratic. so that is an issue. but it is material if you believe the investigation is inherently political. and in fairness, steele the steele wasn t hired until clinton was paid. so that is a that is a fair critique. but the issue is about this evidence. it is i kept thinking that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. this idea that we have said there is no evidence of collusion doesn t mean there is none. it just means we haven t heard of it or it hasn t come out yet. so there is some logical issues that we have to keep straight. and there is evidence of
part of that is peter strzok and lisa page partisan. so when you add that together. it has a partisan tone and what we have been saying for six months, let s a special counsel to investigate. if a partisan sees a crime a crime being committed, they should should be discounted. we are not saying that. but they are are we going down that road. you need to give the facts. so when a warrant is obtained, they say this is the person giving us the information and here is the credibility factor that you have to weigh in as a judge. and yet that wasn t done. you have lawyers on your other panel that would weigh in on that all of that and as prosecutor needs to be they didn t tell them who paid for it or about bruce store s relationship with steele and the relationship with fusion gps. they didn t tell important pieces of information they
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.