so the gop has been saying the steele dossier can t underline any of this but the steele dossier was not what started this, according to this memo. bobby, i want to get your take. what do you make of all of this? well, you know, in addition to being an agent for 27 years, i m also an attorney. and i was really interested in seeing what this memo was, what it looks like. quite frankly, early in my career, i did a lot of title 3 applications, wiretap applications. one of the always routine things when we got them to trial was a pretrial motion to suppress the evidence of the wiretap. and they would challenge a wiretap affidavit all the time. we were always successful. this four-page or five-page memo reads very much to me like a motion to suppress wiretap evidence. and we were always successful because you always did verify and corroborate a lot of the information. you worked with many different sources and conducted surveillance and did all your
famous dossier funded at times by democrats. i spoke, for instance, yesterday to the former director of national intelligence, michael haydn, who like you has been involved in fisa warrants, the issuing of them. he made the point, listen, you do not ever seek or get granted a fisa warrant based on some one piece of outside information. you ve got to have independently collected intelligence to bolster that case, intercepted communications, et cetera. say it was mentioned in the fisa application, this dossier, there s no way first of all, the fbi would request such a warrant or the judge would grant such a warrant based on one piece of information. is that an accurate expression of how this is done based on your experience? it is. i did a lot of criminal work, spent some time doing counterterrorism work, but these work the same way as criminal wiretap applications. it s a composite of information
an investigation into collusion and people around him. into financial dealings going back some years long before he entered the last race. if that is true that does seem like mission creep on a pretty grand scale. well, i think mueller has a pretty broad, if i remember his charter correctly, he has a broad scope of inquiry. that s common in investigations like this. and there is no indication that i have seen that mueller is involved in any of these wiretap applications. but there is no question when you bring a guy-like like bob mueller on, you are going to get a very thorough and extremely aggressive investigation. that s the way he operates and really bob mueller doesn t care what you think or i think or anybody thinks. tucker: he ought to care what we think because we are american citizens and he is not god and there was a new york times piece in which you are quoted that said i m
an investigation into collusion and people around him. into financial dealings going back some years long before he entered the last race. if that is true that does seem like mission creep on a pretty grand scale. well, i think mueller has a pretty broad, if i remember his charter correctly, he has a broad scope of inquiry. that s common in investigations like this. and there is no indication that i have seen that mueller is involved in any of these wiretap applications. but there is no question when you bring a guy-like like bob mueller on, you are going to get a very thorough and extremely aggressive investigation. that s the way he operates and really bob mueller doesn t care what you think or i think or anybody thinks. tucker: he ought to care what we think because we are american citizens and he is not god and there was a new york times piece in which you are quoted that said i m
into financial dealings going back some years long before he entered the last race. if that is true that doesret seem like mission creep on a pretty grand scale. well, i think mueller has a pretty broad, if i. remember his charter correctly, he has a broad scope of inquiry. that s common in investigations like this. and there is no indication that i have seen that mueller is involved in any of these wiretap applications. but there is no question when you bring a guy like like bob mueller on, you are going to get a very thorough and extremely aggressive investigation. that s the way he operates and really bob mueller doesn t care what you think or i think or anybody thinks. tucker: he ought to care what we think because we are american citizens and he is not god and there was a new york times piece in which you are quoted that said i m not defending paul manafort