forward today. a group of conservative lawmakers introduced a resolution to do that. they say americans deserve an independent investigation into how the feds handled three big issues. surveillance warrants, the clinton e-mail problem and the origins of the trump russia investigation. if justice department cannot be expected to investigate itself. as the resolution station, the concerns of the american people are serious and the issues require an unbiassed and thorough investigation are broad. trace: critics say a special counsel will interfere with robert mueller s investigation. remember, he s looking into whether the trump campaign colluded with russian and whether the trump administration conspired with firing james comey. mike emanuel is live on the us on capitol hill. do we know if house members will vote on this? trace, it s not entirely clear this will come up for a vote. it s not clear that it would pass.
russians are doing. were they attempting to infiltrate the campaign, and that was the concern. let s get straight to the doj for the latest. laura jarrett joins me live. laura, you ve been report ing o this all weekend. tell me the biggest concerns you re hearing from the justice department right now. reporter: dana, the justice department is really trying to walk a tightrope, if you will, right now, trying to balance this intelligence source from the order of the chief of command. they are trying to find out how the trump dossier was put together, that rather controversial dossier from christopher steele, but how the applicants of surveillance warrants on trump aide carter page were obtained. everyone is focused on that.
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
committee devin nunes and trey gowdy want a discreet set of records, 200, related to the intelligence source and whether information from the source was used in the russia investigation or for obtaining surveillance warrants. i can tell you nobody was interested in the informant. we asked for the specific documents we still have not received from the department of justice. so they continue to leak out things about this informant. and we don t know if there is one informant or more informants because there is so much out there now. this is really getting tough to follow. we have just asking to give us documentation you used to start this investigation. they also questioned if rosenstein may have a conflict because he signed off on at least one of the surveillance warrants in the campaign. dana: chairman nunes is certainly correct, it is hard to follow. they keep throwing more and more information out there. i understand there is strong reaction from democrats? there is. senior s
from now the president will be meeting with the f.b.i. director, the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein as well as the d.n.i. coats. he oversees the 16 intelligence agencies. this is described to us as a regularly scheduled meeting but the source said they do anticipate that the record request which relates to intelligence source and the information gathered from that will likely come up. in the meantime, you mentioned the justice department wasted no time announcing the expansion of the internal investigation in to the government surveillance in the presidential election. new line of inquiry will consider if there was any impropriety and how they obtain the surveillance warrants or used intelligence to collect intelligence. rod rosenstein said if anyone did surveil participants in a presidential campaign for inappropriate purposes we need to know about it and take appropriate action. we have learned the republican chairman of the house intelligence and the oversight