russian intelligence officers? shannon: do you not think it s important they didn t tell them a lot of information? if you don t tell them this information some of it at least comes from someone being funded by the democrats and opposition campaign and the fact that the fbi was paying him at one point that there were other allegations that the judge never knew about, if i was one of the fisa judges i would have a lot of questions about what i learned today. that s very legitimate. what has and has not been clarified so far today? first of all mr. steele was never paid by the fbi as part of this particular issue. they were considering it, ultimately backed off on doing that. that we now know is this memo was a three page summary of a 50 something page submission. ken knows about how detailed they are, and the fact it s presumed that an informant such as mr. steele will have some kind of bias, judges are used to that, they understand that. what we don t know is how much was truly tol
information. and that is true with every 90 days when i have to go back before the board again. they have to report what they found. not just rehash the original application. have to report what they found or positive or negative. this is shameful if someone knew all of this and did not, tried to deceive. as i look at it as. deceive. shame on them. also a part at the end about papadopoulos. apparently this started with papadopoulos. and it says quote - the carter page fisa application also mentioned information regarding the fellow transport campaign advisor papadopoulos. papadopoulos information triggered the opening of the fbi and fbi counterintelligence investigation in 2016 by peter strzok.it could be that papadopoulos and the meeting that he had, is the starting
how much the judge knew about the extent of mr. steele s employment affiliation in terms of who was he working for? now we know he knew some of the information. how much detail was provided is certainly a matter of concern. nothing in the memo truly got into the details because we have a summary, not the full application. shannon: with that in mind, we ve got to go. i want to ask you yes or no do you think the fisa application should object would ever go public? ken? yes, part of it. at least part of it has got to become part of it just to clear the air. shannon: bradley, ken thank you for lending us your legal expertise. former trump campaign carter page is the guy. he s taking yahoo news and the huffington post to court. why he says today s court bolsters those claims against those entities. our legal eagles will take that up next in night court. at legalzoom, our network of attorneys can help you
justice department was a transparent attempt to discredit the hard working men and women of law enforcement who are investigating russia s interference. now we saw this speaker ryan said days ago he doesn t want republicans connecting these two. these are two separate issues, you shouldn t bring the russia issue into this. is it possible to see the two things, interpret them separately for what they are or are the democrats right this is about discrediting the russia investigation. i would say that this is far bigger than russia or donald trump or even the mueller probe. this is the first time in american history that politics has weapon thighs did the fbi and of course the fbi and department of justice have been fighting to keep this information away from the american people. look at what they did. they ultimately fire christopher steele. they remove the authorization for payment for him and then they go and reauthorize wire tapping on american citizens based on information that the
dishonest and misleading memo wrecked the house intel committee, destroyed trust with intelligence community, damaged fisa court and in excuse blue disclosed classified information of an american citizen, for what? doj and fbi must keep doing their jobs. that followed thursday s twitter claim that, quote, weasels and lie as never hold the field. so long as good people stand up. not a lot of schools or streets named for joe mccarthy. a reference to the senator who held hearings in the 1950 s it try to root out in the u.s. government. some on the left blaming him for hillary clinton s loss after he announced the re-opening of the clinton email investigation eleven days before the presidential investigation. since he was fired by president trump, some republicans have also soured on comey.