why rush to release it and why not bring in the fbi leadership including director wray and get to the face of it head-on, and before jumping to conclusions that the abuse of power happened. well, it is not conclusion, but it is facts. it states that is what happened and it happened. and so there is no information that is going if be coming out that hillary clinton campaign information was used by the trump campaign. and so this is our job is to oversee this agency and statutorily we are doing that. and why not directly ask these questions and do it behind the scenes before making it public, and to make sure that you have the complete picture, because according to christopher wray, what was put out in the memo it does in fact cherry are pick some of what was the fisa warrant application, and in fact, creates a misleading an inaccurate picture of what
fbi director andrew mccabe testified before the house intelligence committee in november of 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the fisa court without the steele dossier information and except that we have not seen the transcripts of the testimony and not everybody who was at that hearing agrees. listening to the ranking d democrat on the house intel committee who was in the room for mccabe s testimony. what it ended up delivering is criticism of a single fisa application involving carter page and the renewals that cherry picks information that does not tell the reader the whole of the application, and as the d.o.j. and fbi have said deeply misleading and you can cherry pick any fisa court application or fbi application and do the same thing. and joining us now is congressman who supported the memo release, and thank you for
it a rubber stamp to give it surveillance? well, ana, a good point, but distinction is that it does not matter the weight in the fisa court, it never should have been there. there is never any point at whichpaicampaign-funded opposition reports should be admitted as evidence. the memo goes on the cite the testimony given and in that expression, it did give the appearance that the weight of this made a difference, but i think that the discussion that we need to have as a country, republican or democrat, is that this should not happen ever, and i don t care if it is appended to the entire contents of wikipedia, it should not be as part of the information precepted as evidence for the court to consider. not one presidential campaign giving information against another presidential campaign in a fisa court is evidence. it is wrong and it needs to be addressed. and why not address it directtally with the doj then, and instead of putting it out there in the public memo, and
after he left the trump team, and even though what is becoming known as the russian investigation was underway long before then which is bringing know next line in the memo of the last page of the memo, and the pop dop louse information triggered the opening of an fbi counter intelligence investigation in late july 2016. so according to the new york times in may of 2016, he told an australian diplomat over strings that political dirt was held by russia, and this is what began the russian investigation. the memo, itself, now confirms that. meaning that it confirms that the steele dossier was not the basis of the russian investigation. the memo does allege that there was serious abuse at the top levels in obtaining a fisa warning to surveillance carter page, and then it says that then