investigation of a presidential candidate, a president-elect. so this is something that is in at the grassroots level. this is at the top of the fbi. and if anybody comes away with this, well, it is just a few rogue people there, then they are missing a very frightening picture. there needs to be some very serious reforms, not just at the fbi, but congress needs to take a very serious comprehensive look at changing the fisa system. laura: byron, this is what former cia director john durham said to congress about the steele dossier in 2017. watch. do you know if the bureau relied on the steele dossier as part of any court filings applications, petitions pleadings? i have no awareness. did the cia rely on it? it was not the basis for the intelligence assessment that was done. laura: byron, lying to
intelligence assessment that was done. laura: byron, lying to congress. this report is absolutely devastating for the dossier. look at the actual details. the dossier say there was a well developed conspiracy between the trump campaign and russia that had been going on for years. this report looks into the original source with two or three pieces removed, gave it to christopher steele. and there is absolutely nothing to it. it said to come i remember that the allocation carter page had t with a big wheel barrel and offered a bribe to get trump to drop the sanctions against russia, nothing they are. and it did say as you quoted earlier that the dossier played a central role. laura: but go back to brennan who is a paid contributor to another network. he knew that. he did appear there was something more complicated here. remember the intelligence community assessment, the thing
fbi who are conducting a secret investigation of a presidential candidate, a president-elect. so this is something that is in at the grassroots level. this is at the top of the fbi. and if anybody comes away with this, well, it is just a few rogue people there, then they are missing a very frightening picture. there needs to be some very serious reforms, not just at the fbi, but congress needs to take a very serious comprehensive look at changing the fisa system. laura: byron, this is what former cia director john durham said to congress about the steele dossier in 2017. watch. do you know if the bureau relied on the steele dossier as part of any court filings, applications, petitions, pleadings? i have no awareness. did the cei gnomic cia rely on it? it was not the basis for the
laura: to juicy jerry nadler platform the gavel? they need to bring in a new one. believe it or not, that was not the circus. it was the house judiciary chair, the second impeachment hearing on the hill today. but that mockery of justice was only just beginning. we are now learning the democrats intend to file i m sorry i m laughing i know it is serious but i don t take any of these people seriously. two of the articles of impeachment, abuse of a power and this is what we see the fbi did to trump and obstruction of congress. wait, do they go to court to get a subpoena? no, they didn t. joining me now, steve scalise, buck and steve chap it. great to see all of you, congressman steve scalise, i went to the tv and set my watch, a bunch of politicians and lawyers interviewing committee lawyers. i ve never seen anything like this. your take away. the witness literally gets up
he has all obstructing. they don t go to court to challenge that privilege, they just charge him with obstruction. laura: congressman, if anybody is guilty of obstruction of congress, it is adam schiff. i mean i guess if you are congress but he has obstructed your ability to put on defensive witnesses, despite they claiming they would. he said he would bring the whistle-blower and going back to the mueller investigation more than circumstantial evidence. he never had any because there wasn t any. really when you talk about something, it is an abuse of power. he found out later he was spying on members of the press, members of congress. we don t know who else. i ve heard reports up to 3500 pages of telephone records that adam schiff is sitting on. he only selectively released it against his political opponents, against a concerned reporter. why isn t the press outrage the way he is spying on members of