heard today from director comey, that he answered the questions, that there was really nothing about russia, only the emails and that there was no problem with the fisa or the surveillance warrant process. and it will also allow us to test the statements of republicans that a government lawyer really ran a lot of interference and shut down critical lines of questioning. sean: so much here though. if you look catherine, remember christopher steele in that interrogatory wouldn t stand by his don t dossier. if it was as the nunes and grassly graham memo say, the bulk of information in the fisa applications came from the dossier and its own author doesn t the stand by it one has to question if the email chain exists as john solomon reported that said directly james comey s name was on it, did they verify it? when? what part did they verify? was it wrong? was a fraud committed on the court?
total confidence in the dossier. he denied any abuse of the surveillance warrant process in the 2016 campaign. that s the highlights. if i get more on the cohen memo, i will certainly come back to you, charles. charles: thanks. i just got a copy, but it s pretty lengthy here as well. do we still have chris swecker with us? chris, apparently reports in the media may have been misleading to how well michael cohen was cooperating. there s a request for jail time. it s a long document, that he has not cooperated to the degree that the public was made to believe. are you surprised by that? no, i m not surprised. cohen didn t have a deal with the special counsel. manafort did. he blew the deal apart. he will get hammered. cohen by contrast didn t have a deal. i don t think mueller had a lot of interest in him.
intelligence website is the most logical place to do it. the president tweeted it out. i can t imagine it going out through any other channel than through the house intelligence committee web page. we ll be keeping an eye out for that. michael zelden, thank you so much. breaking news that the president has released this controversial publicly written memo. our news will continue with dana bash right now. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. breaking news this hour, a white house official tells cnn that president trump has authorized the release of that highly controversial house republican memo about the russia investigation. the fbi still says it has grave concerns about the memo which cnn is told alleges agency abuse with the secret surveillance
so his staff wrote this memo. and according to those who have seen it, not many people have seen it outside of congress, it is sort of a cherry-picked assessment of ways that the process for getting a surveillance warrant was compromised. it s not clear what that was, but democrats who have seen this and are privy to the investigation it is theoretically based on say it is beak out of hand, that it s either nonsense or a partisan list meant to sort of stir up emotions. the department of justice has not seen it. they haven t even had a chance to respond to this memo and just sent a letter to nunez today, i believe it was, that called it reckless to even consider releasing this to the public without the department of justice being able to see it, and saying they ve seen no evidence that the surveillance warrant process was problematic. that s the memo. then there are these text messages. people may remember there was an