opposition research. there is a number of in the weeds factual disputes that are underlying this whole argument that the memo goes through and sheds new light upon. and that was a great breakdown. no surprise that president trump was out over the weekend saying the democratic memo hasn t disproven anything and he reiterated something that we ve heard from him time and time again which there is no collusion between his campaign and the russians. take a listen to what he told fox news over the weekend. you have all of these committees, everybody is looking there is no collusion. no phone calls, i had no phone calls, no meetings, no nothing. there is no collusion. charlie, a number of us noted that he had a slightly new version of that saying there were no phone calls. he added that to his talking point. what did you make of his reaction, does it change the equation in any way? well, a piece of it is the
the weekend titled five takeaways from the release from the democratic mem o what do you think people should be taking away from this. so a lot of this confirmed what we ve been hearing off the record or on background from sources but now we see it in a declassified memo that contains verbatim excerpts from the underlying surveillance application as the heart of this dispute. one piece of it is, yes, the information from the notorious steele dossier was used in this application of a former trump campaign associate. but the information that was used from that dossier was very narrow. apparently it focused only on a july 2016 meeting that carter page had had in moscow and all kinds of other information about years of suspicions the fbi had that he was being recruited by russian spies and including a revelation that as recently as march of 2016 they had interviewed him about his
but first we ll visit one of the biggest stop topics on capitol hill, right now, the democratic memo released over the weekend to rebut claims that law enforcement abused their powers in seeking permission to wiretap a former trump campaign associate as part of the russia investigation. did the democratic memo make the case and we ll look at that question when we come right back after a quick break. stay with us. hi, i m bob harper, and i recently had a heart attack. it changed my life. but i m a survivor. after my heart attack, my doctor prescribed brilinta. it s for people who have been hospitalized for a heart attack. brilinta is taken with a low-dose aspirin. no more than 100 milligrams as it affects how well brilinta works. brilinta helps keep platelets from sticking together and forming a clot. in a clinical study, brilinta worked better than plavix.
there is new fallout today in the wake of that highly anticipated memo released by democrats over the weekend. the ten-page document was a sharp rebuttal to the republican version that came out earlier this month. that memo compiled by house intelligence chairman devin nunes accused the fbi of abusing its powers to conduct surveillance on a former trump campaign adviser. the democrats claim that the memo was full of distortions an part of an effort to discredit the bureau during the russia investigation. and for more i m joined by charlie savage and a correspondent. thank you for joining me. appreciate it. no problem. hi. so let s delve into your article out in the times over
2013 has been surveilled as part of our counter intelligence efforts to protect this country. and you ve got a memo with basically a trump enemy s list, and what makes them all enemies is they found out about it. yeah, maybe i ll state it in a little plainer way, nicolle. four times a federal court found that donald trump s foreign policy advisor was a russian spy. and so if you just think about that, it shows you how irresponsible the trump campaign was even at vetting its own people. and i just want to hammer this point home. revealing this memo today is dangerous. it undermines the work of the fbi. it telegraphs precisely to the russian federation, i guarantee you this memo will be translated in russian within a matter of minutes, telegraphs exactly to them how we undertake fisa applications, what s involved in them, who approves them, the dates of this one. this is very damaging to our counter intelligence efforts. and, chuck rosenberg, that s how it was explained to me by a fo