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Our guest is a former u.s. attorney, has extensive experience with the fisa process and james comey and robert mueller, seems like the guy to talk to tonight. thank you for being here. my pleasure. obviously there has been criticism any classified information has been released at all. further, there is criticism if something is going to be released, this selection of information about the fisa process according to democrats is misleading and incomplete and according to the fbi fatally incomplete and inaccurate. from what you know about the fisa process, would it be possible to declassify safely enough information to give the public a true picture of what appropriately or inappropriately led to a warrant being issued? i can answer it this way. if you wanted to give everyone a full picture, this wouldn t do ....
So after all of the hype, after all of the excitement, after all of the absolute fixation on this big reveal, this big revolutory home today, i will admit to being shocked what the they released. it was just kind of like a sad trombone. we only bring that out for very special occasions. but we did nevertheless get a landmark moment in american history today. we did get a public release of classified information, pushed by house republicans and okayed by the president of the united states, apparently because he thought this was going to be good for him politically because fox news told him it would be. fisa warrants are classified. the whole fisa court process is a classified process. we re not supposed to get any public information about the fisa courts or warrants, ....
i think the republican staff wrote the memo. that s the best of our understanding and quite breathtaking because the chairman didn t bother to review the underlying material. the only one apparently of republican members that did, trey gowdy brought us the endless benghazi conspiracies that never prove to be true. it s important for people to understand as they try to justify this use of this never before used house rule to publish this, this is not what oversight looks like. they claim this is part of oversight. we do oversight every day. oversight involves bringing agencies before our committee and asking tough questions and demanding information when they raised this memo, which they raised with no notice to us, we said let s bring in the fbi. let s bring the department of justice. let s hear what they have to say and look at the full fisa applications and go through them and see what s being left out of the memo. we took a vote and they voted no, we don t want to know. we who hav ....
There is no more russia investigation, trump is innocent. the page fisa application also mentions information regarding full owe trump campaign adviser george papadopoulos. the papadopoulos information triggered the opening of an fbi counterintelligence investigation in late july 2016. so that means the dossier wasn t the basis for the fbi s counterintelligence investigation. it was other intelligence that the fbi had about actual contacts between the trump campaign and the russians. they weren t made up. they ve already resulted in a guilty play and cooperating witness. oops. why did they put that in their big memo? they could put anything in here. they didn t let anybody check it against the actual facts? they just released it on their own? why did they put that in there? oops? but they did. even if you never fell for any ....
If it ran for another 90 days and it was renewed for a third time, which is what the memo said today, that means it was renewed in july. and then it would run for another 90 days, which would be august, september, october. so that manse from october 26, 16 to october 2017 at least carter page was being surveilled under a fisa warrant, which is the kind of thing we are never supposed to know. but now we ve got this information because they released this classified information, from at least october 16 to october 17 this trump foreign policy adviser was under surveillance thanks to a fisa warrant because he was believed to be either a foreign agent or at least a u.s. person in contact with a foreign intelligence services. and it s bizarre that we know that. it s bizarre that has been declassified and given to the public. it s handy to know for trying to piece together some of the ....