this, unless run a cliff here. this is what comey said in 2018. it would be nice to have sound. do we have sound? never mind, i ll read it. director comey, the reporter is asking him, can i ask you a question on fisa abuse? it s a major issue for republicans. do you have the total confidence in the dossier when you used it to secure a surveillance warrant and also in the substantive renewal, this was asked in december of 2018 about a year ago. comey. i have total confidence that the fisa process was followed, that the entire case was handled in a thoughtful, responsible way, by doj and fbi, i think the nation i think the notion that fisa was abused here is nonsense. would it be fair to say that you
exculpatory information? absolutely. they did not? they did not. why? that s the question i can t specifically answer for you. can you say it wasn t because of political bias? on decisions regarding those fisa matters, i do not know their state of mind at this point. so we re talking about actions and what would motivate people. do you think comey and mccabe should have known? that s a challenging question as we explained in the report. there were multiple briefings up the chain including to the director and the deputy director. we don t have a clear record of what precisely they were told and as you know as information flows upstream would you be surprised if it didn t make it up the system? this earth shattering? i won t speculate. did strzok know? so, mr. strzok s there are three iterations of the team. mr. strzok actually transitioned off as the, on this matter in
investigation? i m sorry on this matter that i m handling? yeah. no one that i m aware of. following up on a question that senator feinstein asked, did the obama administration or president obama himself know about the counter intelligence investigation? i don t know the answer to that definitively. our authority was over the fbi and to look at the fbi and the department activities. in january 2018 chairman graham and i wrote to the fbi and the department referring christopher steel for investigation of potentially lying to the fbi. we told the fbi and the department that what the fbi told the court about steel s media contacts didn t match with what he told the british court. four questions in regard to that. did the fbi ever ask steel
immediately following mr. page, carter page, going to news outlets after word of the fisa hit the news media and said to the news media i was someone who worked with u.s. intelligence agencies, not someone who worked against them, lawyers and agents went and said weave got to figure out what s the story, is that what happened? the lawyer, the ogc attorney for the fbi reached out to a liaison at the other government agency that was at issue, asked the question is, was plfrmt page a source or contact of some sort for your organization. the report back and the email referenced the august 2016 memorandum that that agency had provided to the fbi that i mentioned in my opening statement, the fbi did no followup on and said what that
this. let s run a clip here. this is what comey said in 2018. it would be nice to have sound. do we have sound? never mind. i ll read it. director comey, the reporter is asking him, can i ask you a question on fisa abuse. it s a major issue for the republicans. do you have the total confidence in the dossier when you used it to secure a surveillance warrant and also in the subsequent renewals? this was asked in december of 2018, about a year ago. comey, i have total confidence that the fisa process was followed, that the entire case was handled in a thoughtful, responsible way by doj and the fbi. i think the nation i think the notion that fisa was abused here is nonsense. would it be fair to say that you