why is barr saying this? he knows what these words mean. he does. he s smart enough to know. he s also smart enough to know that court-authorized electronic surveillance is not spying. nobody who does that activity and none of the people who actually put their heart and soul into that work will ever consider that to be spying and i think he s smart enough to realize. that s legal and authorized and above board and that s not sneaking in and surreptitiously stealing something which is what he s trying to imply. he s also continuing to criticize for the dossier for monitoring carter page. here he is on that. these irregularities, these misstatements, these omissions were not satisfactory explained, and i think that leaves open the possibility to infer bad faith. okay. you tell me last night, brett, putting the dossier is but the attorney general of the united states is saying
what s happened now, rachel, is that christopher steele is sort of moved to the center of the polarized fight that we re seeing so you have the nunes memo from the house intelligence committee that suggests that the fbi really didn t appropriately alert the fisa court, the court that granted a search warrant for monitoring carter page. that there was insufficient disclosure of who christopher steele was. and senator lindsey graham has raised the question publicly and in his letters to the fbi saying is christopher steele an informant for the fbi or is he in fact a political hired gun, an opposition researcher? and he asked the question can you be both. and so, rachel, what we decided to do was to kind of dive into that question and understand as best we can who is christopher steele, what were his
did get permission from mr. steele s associates to mention the fact that we had talked with him during the campaign. one of the things and because we had talked to him in september and october of 2016, we thought that, obviously we ve been following what he s had to say and read the dossier as everyone else did when buzzfeed published it some months later. we, like the rest of the country and many investigators, have been wondering is this dossier with its salacious detail about donald trump, could this be true? can it be corroborated? it s a huge question. what s happened now, rachel, is that christopher steele is sort of moved to the center of the polarized fight that we re seeing so you have the nunes memo from the house intelligence committee that suggests that the fbi really didn t appropriately alert the fisa court, the court that granted a search warrant for monitoring carter page.