not made clear that it s unverified. they suggested that the fbi had verified at least parts of it. the other important point about the dossier is that it s not clear that president-elect trums was told, in fact we believe he was not told, that the dossier was paid for by the dnc and the clinton camp. even though james comey knew that. sean: i m trying to wrap my arms around this. if it s not verified, and is used as the bulk of information, i would think that if donald trump, if he had paid for this dossier, and it was full of russian propaganda, and it was used on a fisa court to get a warrant to 91 in the clinton campaign, the same media that is silent here or missing in action as you say, they would be apoplectic about this. they would be if the shoe the other foot. i think here s the real test. when and if we finally see this democratic memo, if some more reductions are made, maybe there
it named two names, yes, but made a fundamental point that in fact the fisa court judge and judges, since there were multiple fisa applications, it was not disclosed to them that in fact the clinton campaign, the dnc, had paid for that dossier, which was a key part of getting the surveillance and spying of trump advisor carter page. the very bottom line is, yes, democrats are entitled to get the memo out as well. the president said the only reason he s blocking it right now is that there is classified information that he wants pulled back. the democrats go back to the drawing board and reshape their version of the memo. we are told by lawmakers who ve seen it, it does not dispute that fundamental point we were talking aboutre that the fisa court judges were not told that the dnc and clinton campaign paid for the dossier. even the democratic motherng doesn t dispute that. sean: if you look at the timeline, first, there was an all earlier attempt that was
is more points to the democrats. maybe they will be able to challenge the facts you just laid out. we simply do not know because we have not seen the democratic memo. again, should this point, they have not challenged that fundamental point that the fisa court seems to have been misled. as a reporter, if the democratic memo has something we don t know it today, we have to be fair and balanced and say, here s another piece ofyb information, maybe te fisa court judges were told something beyond the dossier to give him the confidence that itt was verified. at this moment, we don t have that. sean: thank you for the update. whenea we come back, a huge anniversary for a conspiracy theorist msnbc s chris matthews. a good one. it s our video of the day and the hannity hotline. straight ahead. you need a ghostbed™. the only mattress with cooling latex over gel memory foam to give you the deepest sleep. delivered to your door. in a box. at a great price.
phones, listening to everything they do. that is why that information has to be secure and clean and clean. sean: the grassley-graham memo says that the dossier was the bulk of information evidence andno so they had this number, three months later, you ve got james comey saying to trump, it s not verified and salacious. but it s only a footnote as we understand it to the fisa court. itth may have political origins. they knew hillary bought it. they knew she paid for it. they knew it was not verified but they didn t tell the judge. what should happen now? the judge needs to bring them back before him, they should all be held in contempt at the very minimum for bringing false information to a judge. that is more than lying by omission. they did not give the judge all the facts. i believe it was very falsified what they did. it needs to go back before the judge and it needs to be wiped out.
kramer, john mccain, he meets with w steele. steele agrees to give him a copv in copy of the dossier. in early 2016, mccain gives the dossier to the fbi director, james comey. see how it s all tying together? inin january of last year, buzzfeed decided to publish this fake news document that president trump s personal attorney, michael cohen, is suing over for defamation. here is where it gets shocking. according to reports, during the summer of 2016, former trump campaign associate carter page spied on, they used this b12 warrant, and we found out from other reporting that former trun paul manafort, he was surveilled before and after the election and thanks to sara carter and john solomon and others, we have confirmed tonight this new information through three separate sources. we started it last night. the clinton funded, unverified dossier with the salacious