was funded by the dnc and clinton campaign. subpoenas are in play. if they don t answer the questions truthfully and fully paid responding to republican allegations that the fbi and justice department were guilty of surveillance s abuses. the counter memo released over the weekend with redactions at the fbi s request. democrats conclude there was intelligence beyond the trump dossier to justify surveillance of a campaign aide. the fbi acted appropriately seeking a warrant for carter page. they are not part of some deep state. democrats had multiple sources corroborate the dossier allegations. this appears to conflict with former fbi director james comey s 2017 congressional testimony. three months after the paid surveillance page surveillance warrant, comey briefed the incoming president and considered the dossier salacious and unverified. democrats sized the fisa court knew the dossier was a political
document but specifics about who funded the project were withheld because of the fbi s tradition to protect sources. bottom line is we can t have a secret court operate like this in america where they are going to take and use it against political enemies. the republican memo said andrew mccabe testified the bureau would never have sought the page surveillance warrant without the dossier. bret: thank you. let s get some perspective on this. senior political analyst brit hume joins us. good evening. your thoughts on the democrat memo, the fallout from it. i have read both of the memos carefully and the republican memo asserts the fbi and justice department made improper use of this so-called dossier which is a collection of, you know, to some extent, to a considerable
used and paid for by opposition research. i mean, that s very, very damaging and not to mention, they never revealed that to the judge and that s what makes it salacious. and the white house feels it vindicates the president. it moves toward that end. the president is clear there s no collusion. obviously there s no obstruction. these types of pieces of information that continue to come out, prove the point, there s nothing there and the democrats keep going down this road. we ve been completely cooperative with mr. mueller and the special counsel, we ve given him documents and time and wasted the taxpayers money. in the wave of this negativity and this nonsense, this president has record-setting accomplishments in record-setting times. i want to read to you something the vice-president said, it raises serious concerns about the i go integrity at the highels levels. does the white house believe