application to the republican judges for a warrant. chris: but let me pick up on that because in the gop memo that was put out by the majority, devin nunes, i m going to put up the quote, deputy fbi director mccabe testified before the committee in december 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the fisc without the steele dossier information. congressman, no where in your memo do you and the other democrats rebut that. that is true, but i was in the room, devin nunes was not in the room when andrew mccabe was interviewed and i will tell you that he did not say that, he did not say that a fisa warrant would have been requested but for the steele. chris: why didn t you put that in the memo? well, because the transcript of our conversation with andrew mccabe was classified and the democratic memo, this is
other campaign. and i don t care who you are, republican, democrat or independent, in the united states of america, that is unacceptable. chris: doesn t nunes have a point, sir? no, he doesn t and furthermore he has no credibility. we know devin of the midnight run where he goes to the white house to get information to suggest that there had been wiretapping of donald trump, we know that s not true. i refer to unmasking scandal which turns out not to be true. now it turns out that the fbi used as part of much larger fisa application some information that it received from christopher steele, highly-trusted source. chris: wait, at a point james comey testified that the steele dossier was unverified and solicitous, was it reliable or unverified and solicitous? well, remember, unverified does not mean unreliable. unverified means that the fbi
from the application for the warrant. the fbi speculates that the u.s. person, glen simpson of fusion gps was likely looking for information that would have discredited candidate number one, donald trump s campaign, speculates likely, shouldn t the fbi had been a lot clearer to the court that the steele was bought and paid for by the clinton campaign? well, remember when steele is doing this work, he doesn t know the fact. he s been hired by fusion gps, hired by a law firm which has bn hired by the dnc and clinton campaign. you can read and the american public can read what was shown to the judge, the individual who did this work was acting in a way that was design today find dirt, not the exact word but design today find work on donald trump was being paid so why didn t the fbi in the fisa
justice department based their application to the fisa court to surveil that trump campaign adviser carter page based on the so-called steele dossier. in the memo the democratic memo you say that s not true, explain. yeah, chris, thanks for having me on. it is a democratic memo now make s plain, the application to monitor carter page was not based on the steele information and if we have time we will cover whether the steele has been discredited. but as our memo makes clear, carter page was of interest because of connections to russians for years before 2016, october 2016, he had all sorts of contact, he had been with the russians, he had been interviewed by the fbi, there s a long history of which the dossier is a small part of that
justice department based their application to the fisa court to surveil that trump campaign adviser carter page based on the so-called steele dossier. in the memo the democratic memo you say that s not true, explain. yeah, chris, thanks for having me on. it is a democratic memo now make s plain, the application to monitor carter page was not based on the steele information and if we have time we will cover whether the steele has been discredited. but as our memo makes clear, carter page was of interest because of connections to russians for years before 2016, october 2016, he had all sorts of contact, he had been with the russians, he had been interviewed by the fbi, there s a long history of which the dossier is a small part of that