house gop staffers that purports to describe abuses in surveillance practices in the russia investigation, some of what they re saying about the memo, congressman steve king tweeting, quote, i have read the memo, the sickening reality has set in. i no longer hold out hope there is no explanation for the information the public has seen. i have long said it is worse than watergate. it was never trump and always hillary #release the memo. democrats say this is yet another attempt to discredit the investigation and the people running it, but the memo might not be classified for long. the house intel committee passed a motion along party lines to make it available to all members in the house. let s get right to nbc intelligence and national security reporter ken delaney to fill us in. you and i talked before the show. fill in some of the facts. what s going on? well, so, this is a memo based on a classified fisa application. apparently in the trump-russia investigation. the fbi had to g
page stroke text message problem. to the leak problem from doj and fbi. a lot of that is in turn negotiated with fusion gps. and if you look at my twitter feed, you can see that apparently thousands of additional pages of documents have been produced by the department of justice tonight to the house judiciary committee. so the house members are going to have a lot more to look at and we should be getting a lot more information in the future. but there is a substantial correlation. i have no doubt between the dossier and the fisa applications and to the fisa court itself has issued an opinion that everyone should read things to judicial watch funding it had to they have recognized abuses in the procedure. i think that admiral rogers recorded self-reported when he discovered it. there is no doubt that there up in gross abuses of the surveillance practices late in
he has been investigating the page stroke text message problem. to the leak problem from doj and fbi. a lot of that is in turn negotiated with fusion gps. and if you look at my twitter feed, you can see that apparently thousands of additional pages of documents have been produced by the department of justice tonight to the house judiciary committee. so the house members are going to have a lot more to look at and we should be getting a lot more information in the future. but there is a substantial correlation. i have no doubt between the dossier and the fisa applications and to the fisa court itself has issued an opinion that everyone should read things to judicial watch funding it had to they have recognized abuses in the procedure. i think that admiral rogers recorded self-reported when he discovered it. there is no doubt that there up in gross abuses of the surveillance practices late in
surveillance practices including whether the transition team was being improperly monitored for political purposes. now the waters have godden mud muddier and a scandal of improper masking by her when she was national security adviser hoping to perpetrate the claim while pinning the leaks on rice and the previous administration. the notion that some people are trying to suggest that by asking for the identity of the american person, that is the same as leaking it. it is completely false. there is no e 85 lens of masking and leaking. we know some of you won t necessarily take the word of a partisan here on this so we weech
staff and was worried about the trump administration. that was out there. i know nbc news very similar about information in this project do immaculately sensitive information. dr. farkas admissions alone are devastating. on march 4th, the president as you all know, raise serious questions about surveillance practices by the obama administration including whether or not the present elect or transition team members were being improperly monitored for political purposes under the obama initiation. later in march in the ordinary course of their work, national security council staff found information that may support the questions raised by the president and dr. farkas claims. these are serious issues that raise serious concerns. if true, the issues would be devastating. we are committed to the house and senate committees as we said multiple times to get to the bottom of what happen here, why it happened and who was involved. for this reason, we are in the