in the nunes memo that provided a different view to the fisa judges. and by the way, what i also find to be very, very important is that the document reveals that there were four separate fisa judges that approved the warrants in question. and that they were provided with really a balanced amount of information. right, and all four appointed by republican presidents as well. republican presidents, correct. sam, to you now. i think the timeline seems to be one of the big points that the democrats make in this memo. they point out that it was a full seven weeks after the investigation started that this steele dossier became an important part of that investigation. but the nunes memo basically claimed it was the foundation of the investigation, right? right. it rewrote history falsely, but the other point here, i think, that we learn from this memo, which is obvious to a lot of us tracking this investigation is it really lays out the counterintelligence investigation didn t start
carter page or other people that are being investigated. i think we need to let the fisa court go forward and get back to work. are you wondering about why schiff is so disappointed about the final product? we ll hear if he s concerned about what the redactions are. i think that in his role on the intelligence committee, much as we hope other members would do the same, his focus is on oversight of the intelligence committee and on this investigation. so let s hear what he has to say. i think his focus probably is on getting back to work and not allowing this all ten pages of it to distract anybody for another day or another week from doing their jobs. all right. samantha, thank you. we appreciate it. we are going to have more on the release of this memo when we come back. stay here. tive colitis or crohn s symptoms are holding you back, and your current treatment hasn t worked well enough,
and it memo also lays out the fact that many of us know just as a fact, you can google it and see it on the internet, carter page had a long-standing relationship with russia. carter page s relationship did not start in july 2016 or august 2016. it goes back for a long time. so i think this memo really points to the fact that several members of the trump campaign had long-standing relationships with russia. flynn had a relationship with turkey, and that s very concerning. i can tell you, i have been in touch with house democrats and senate democrats. they re glad the memo is out to correct the record, but they all agree. its time to get back to work. we re going to go back to evan perez, who is our cnn justice correspondent. evan has new information he wants to share. evan. ryan, i just wanted to add a lilt bit to that conversation because, again, i think part of the whole purpose of this exercise, the reason why we re even here, is that the republicans have been making a number of
september of 2017. in order for the fbi to be able to continue doing the surveillance, they have to go back every 90 days and get renewals, and they have to show during the previous 90 days, they were getting intelligence, valuable intelligence, that merits and warrants them continuing to do this again. this very invasive surveillance of carter page. it s very important for us to sort of understand that timeline. because we now know that what nunes and what some of the republicans have been saying and what the president had suggested, which was that the fbi was spying on his campaign, that s not true. according to this memo. this memo says that carter page was gone from the campaign, from the trump campaign by the time this surveillance begins in october of 2016. it s also interesting here to remind people, because there s been a lot of focus on this steele dossier, and there s some salacious details in there, according to the democratic memo, there s very limited parts
indicates that essentially the russians promised kompromat, compromising information on hillary clinton when they met with carter page in 2016. so even after the fbi had interviewed him in march of 2016, he continues to have interactions, repeated interactions with an unidentified russian. we don t know who it is that he was in touch with, but from the source of this, it indicates that it should be somebody who is of interest, a russian person of interest to the fbi. so he continues to have this interaction, and that is what s driving the fbi s interest in him and why they continue to believe that perhaps he was up to something and needed to be surveilled. evan, before we break from you, it s interesting to see adam schiff s response to this release up until this point. he hasn t spoke about it, but he put out a statement and a tweet. he seems very disappointed by what was left out of this memo. obviously, we don t know what was left out.