President has called his vindication in the russia probe. reporters have anticipated this for weeks. the memo written by adam schiff and his staff tries to dismantle the narrative built by the republican majority that the obama administration improperly surveilled the trump campaign. our justice correspondent evan perez has read through the document, and cnn white house correspondent boris sanchez is at the white house. evan, let s start with you. what does this memo say? well, this memo contradicts and tries to rebut the argument that was made by devin nunes and the republicans. they said that the christopher steele dossier, the dossier put together by a former british spy and paid for by the democratic national committee and the hillary clinton campaign, they say that that played a crucial role in the decision to open a very intrusive surveillance of carter page, who was a former national security adviser to the trump campaign. and according to this memo that s been released by the
Salacious dossier. they didn t tell the court it was bought for by hillary clinton and the dnc. having the corroboration from the house and senate that there are problems with these surveillance authorities is big news. shannon: why do you think the memo didn t get a lot of attention yesterday. they sent us for criminal referral in january but what they asked the fbi do is to unredacted as much as possible. prepared by different people and it does seem to lay out many of the same claims, almost exactly as in the house memo. it didn t get as much attention because a lot of people in the press had already pronounced the house memo a dud. it s all over. this was a separate investigation coming to this conclusion separately and certainly people in the house committee are frustrated today that this is not getting more attention because they do feel
Trump associate without the dossier. they were shut down the first attempt they tried to get it. they got it on the second shot and admit without it, they never would have got it. so let s just remember what happened eleven months ago. the president tweeted out that his campaign had been spied upon. he was rid called by the left and the mainstream media. we now know not only is it true that he was spied upon by the obama administration but the warrant was acquired illegally. i had a chief of police text me today and he said if any of his officers had acquired a warrant while excluding exculpatory information that officer would be charged with perjury or abuse of power. not only that, this is fascinating. let s unwind all of it. congressman gates just reminded me on the 16th of may rod rosenstein escorted robert mueller to be interviewed by the president to be the director of the fbi again.
Campaign advisor carter page. now during that fisa warrant process, the fbi, or at least the upper echelon, not the rank and file, repeatedly never told the fisa judges that the phony salacious dossier was financed by hillary clinton and the dnc. in other words they purposefully omitted crucial information from the fisa court judge so they could continue this process. james comey, andrew mccabe, sally yates, dana boente, rod rosenstein are all complies sit in this because they all approved surveillance on page. now this part is shocking. the fbi then used a yahoo news report that was written by michael his cough about a carter page trip to russia as evidence to corroborate information in the phony dossier. the source for the information and the yahoo news report was
Unverified and salacious dossier and those are the words coming out of comey s own mouth, they used that to spread lies about the trump campaign to the media and anybody they could try to share it with. this is what is so incredible. the media bought it. and they chose to ignore the other side. they chose to ask for verification. and the entire precedence of the special counsel was based on that dossier, according to mccabe. sean: you know i even have testimony, i don t have time to play it all, we have so much information to get out tonight. remember when comey met with donald trump, he said it s unverified and it s salacious, but two months earlier he was arguing just the opposite. and the worst part is, they knew where this dossier came from, and they never told the fisa court. criminally speaking, so in jeopardy tonight? oh absolutely. this is just proof of government corruption and it s sad. the fbi and the department of justice, they concealed evidence