internal investigation of the presidential investigation. and it will look into whether there was a inpropriety or political information and where they used informants to collect intelligence. in a statement, rod rosenstein said if anyone did infiltrate or surveil participants in a presidential campaign for inappropriate purposes we need to know about it and take appropriate action. as part of the ongoing reporting, fox news learned the republican chairman of the house intelligence and the oversight committees devin nunes and trey gowdy want a discreet set of records, about 200, related to the intelligence source. and whether information from that source was used in the russia case or for obtaining surveillance warrants. the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee said the president s allegations including the claims about the former british spy christopher steele who authored the dossier has no factual basis. this is part of a string of meritless allegations from the be
same senate intel committee that is doing the entire russia investigation. she is here exclusively to explain why moments. but trace gallagher and the west coast newsroom with the back story. hi, martha, the senate committee is asking jill stein for documents in six different categories pertaining to the russian interference in the 2016 election. she has submitted material four categories including information about her 2014 trip to moscow where she was photographed with vladimir putin and national security advisor michael flynn. the intel committee also wanted communications between the stein campaign and former british spy christopher steele who authored the steel dossier which is filled with salacious but unverified information about donald trump s ties to the kremlin. the lawyer says that today have no documents related to the steele dossier, but to refusing to hand over documents involving her communications with russian
who paid for the dossier. regardless, that s a really, really, i think critical piece that s lost in this conversation. again, i don t suspect the dossier was the core piece of the fisa, even if that s their argument we ve got evidence the judge was fully informed there was a payment that was made to mr. steele. the only other thing i d say on this, which i think is also important, is that steele himself never had primary information. so he always had sources. if you think about the dossier, or the conversations he would have with the fbi it was never him saying i spoke to carter page. he s saying i spoke to somebody else who spoke to someone. to get into fisa, everything that goes in there has to be independently verified. there has to be independent evidence of it. if you and i were sitting as fbi agents. we would go and if steele says i spoke to x, we would go to talk to x or y or somebody else.
alleging that the parent was wrongfully obtained by the fbi and the justice department. the memo s authors point to the work of former british spy christopher steele who compiled the now infamous dossier on trump. republicans say steele s dossier was a key part to the information shown to the federal intelligence surveillance act, or fisa to justify the continued surveillance. it was funded by the dnc and hillary clinton s campaign, though not initiated originally by them. congressman nunez talked about this memo and how it came together earlier tonight. i have an obligation to the american people when we see fisa abuse, the american citizens represented before this court have to be protected. and the only place that can protect them is the u.s. congress when abuses do occur. i don t believe that somebody like mr. page should be a target
justified. could there be some problems and issues at the margins? of course. i would never say without seeing information and evidence that there isn t. the second thing, the whole contention nunez is making here, the only core piece is this this allegation that it wasn t disclosed. that essentially fusion gps and the democratic party. two things, one is it s been challenged by other members of the committee today. but two, there s a really important piece of the memo where that actual paragraph says that there was information provided that an unnamed person, steele was working for somebody else. as a matter of law, the key question is that they are telling the judge that steele was being paid. so he is not, you know, he doesn t come in as a good samaritan who s walked off the street to say, hey, i have information. he has financial interest. he s being paid by someone. it would be interesting for us to know who that named person is. it s very likely someone who might actually be reco