[cheers and applause] rachel: heading to a fox news alert, blackout pages of the affidavit used to search mar-a-lago have been released. will: some details we knew but also a whole lot more questions. kevin is live in washington with more. reporter: a lot of questions. let s be clear, last night we said with good reason that the affidavit would be heavily redacted and present uncorroborated allegations presented in such a way as to frame the argument the former president was up to something by having those documents at mar-a-lago and we got a look at the affidavit and there s not a ton of detail because as you said it is really read acted heavily. half the pages were read acted. a lot of sharpy. the fbi believed there might be evidence of obstruction, the criminal investigation began after the national archives sent a referral to the doj in february. president biden insists he is not sure if the former president had the right to declassify all the materials at his home.
Thank you, mr. Chairman. Welcome, everyone, to the last gas of the russia collusion Conspiracy Theory. As democrats continue to foist the spectacle on the American People, as well as you, mr. Mueller, the American People may recall the media first began spreading this Conspiracy Theory in the spring of 2016. When the fusion gps, funded by the dnc and the elder Clinton Campaign, started developing the Steele Dossier. A collection of outlandish accusations that trump and his associates were russian agents. Effusion gps, steel, and other confederates and to top officials in numerous agencies, quitting the fbi, the apartment of justice, and the state department. Among other things, the fbi used dusty allegations to obtain a
warrant to spy on the Trump Campaign. Despite acknowledging dusty allegations as being salacious and unverified, former fbi director james comey briefed those allegations to President Obama and president elect trump. This briefings conveniently leaked to the press. Laun
trump people. we have trump s former personal attorney, rudy giuliani was rated by the fbi in the early morning, his devices seized. a year later they were returned to him and the new york times was told, not him, the new york times was told there would be no indictment on him and they spied on him for two years and it is extraordinary and other people, james o keefe also rated, no charges. victoria tens ling and georgia jennifer, attorneys, rated, no charges. it cost people enormous amounts of money coming enormous stress, damage to their reputations. why is the fbi doing this? is it to intimidate? is it to unethically survey a people to surveilled trump and continue spying, that has gone on since the beginning of his presidency?
conspiracies, we return two indictments in the computer crimes arena. one, gru, and another, active measures. in which we lay out in excruciating detail what occurred. in those two rather large conspiracies. i agree with respect to that. why this is important, an application and through renewal applications were submitted by the united states government to spy or surveilled trump campaign carter page, and on all occasio, the government submitted the steele dossier as a central piece of evidence with respect to that. the basic premise of the dossier, as you know, was that there was a well-developed conspiracy of cooperation between the trump campaign on the russian government. but the special counsel investigation didn t establish any conspiracy. correct? what i can tell you is the events you are characterizing
announced he had proof federal agents surveilled trump s campaign and promptly informed the president. i felt like i had a duty and obligation to tell him because he s been taking heat in the news media. reporter: critics suggested it was like given the police file to the subject of an investigation. nunes walked it back a bit and not before widely sharing details. what i saw is has nothing to do with russia and nothing to do with the russia investigation, everything to do with possible surveillance activities. reporter: fellow republican mike rogers hit nunes fast saying when he was in charge of the same committee members worked to get facts in a bipartisan way. we didn t have press conferences about it and run out and say this happened or that happened. reporter: nunes stepped away from the committee s russia investigation and pressed on in other ways, sharply suggesting the probe is a political witch hunt, pushing the idea that any real fault lies with intelligence ser