but here they were a willing major participant in it and then they were interviewed by the fbi. that is entirely inappropriate, improper and just deadout wrong. secondly, if andrew mccabe, in his december 2017 hearing, said that without this dossier we would never have been able to get this fisa application approved, then we have a real problem. yes, you could argue that the foundation of the first application, the foundation of the entire case after that is in some sort of jeopardy. now, that s a legal issue and i ll leave it at that. for the fbi, the issue is this, they should have fronted that to the judges. there are five judges on a fisa court. it was their decision to decide how this would interfere or affect their decision. neil: but the fisa judge or judges over the course of time and repeated requests to do this, would they have been aware and why wouldn t they have asked the source of this material? well, you know, usually they