Unprecedented, on mymy radio sh. you just have to be willing to address every issue. here with reaction, fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett. former congressman and fox news contributor jasonn chaffetz. there is so many issues here, gregg, if i can start with, if a guy that put the fix and, we now know, this is not in dispute anymore. he was exonerating before investigating. he told trump in january, 2017, it s an unverified and salacious dossier, but he allowed the same dossierr to be used as the bulk of information for the fisa warrant against carter page in the trump campaign. is he in legal jeopardy? come he s in a lot of legal jeopardy. this is a guy who failed to uphold the law and lacked integrity. those are the direct words of department off justice when they recommended that he be fired. let me read one line from rod rosenstein, who wrote the memo on the findings and remember, he
One s campaign. that s a reference to donald trump. again, the president and the republicans have said that this is not information that was sufficient to show the court that this was a dossier that was paid for by democratic by democratic donors, by the hillary clinton campaign. the democrats say not so much. all right, evan perez, thank you for unpacking all of that. and to the point you were making, evan, let s go to boris sanchez now at the white house. and despite what evan is telling us about what is in this memo, we got a statement from the white house that contradicts a bit of that. boris, what did the white house have to say? yeah, ryan. the white house putting out a statement saying this is a political document that aims to undercut the president. really reiterating some of the claims that we saw in the nunes memo, that the schiff memo attempts to dispel. the idea that salacious dossier was the basis of the russia investigation, and that a fisa judge wasn t informed abo
October of 2016, when the justice department and the fbi go to the secret court to get this surveillance warrant, they have additional information. they say that by the time there are three more renewals of that surveillance of carter page, they say that the fbi had been able to corroborate important pieces of information in the dossier that was put together by christopher steele. another important point here that devin nunes said, which was that the court was never advised that the steele dossier was paid for by democrats. according to the democratic memo that was released today, they say that the court was aware, and they cite one particular portion of the memo in which they say that the fbi speculates, again, this is a part of the application that was made to the court, it says the fbi speculates that the identified u.s. person, this is the person who had paid for the dossier, was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit candidate number
Stated, the fisa judge was never informed that hillary clinton and the dnc funded the dossier. that was a basis for the department of justice s fisa application. in addition, the minority s memo fails to even address the fact that the deputy fbi director told the committee that if it had not been for the dossier, no surveillance would have been sought. as the president has long stated, neither he nor his campaign ever colluded with a foreign power in the 2016 election, and nothing in today s memo counters that fact. my panel is with me now. paul callan, samantha vinegrad, and our political commentator said anna nuvavarro and doug he. that was a lengthy statement but worth reading for a number of reasons, because there are quite a few things if you read the memo, even a little bit, you might be scratching your hid, because a lot of these things the white house claims are not in the memo are. but i want to point out the fact
That in this response by the white house, they never mentioned the word russia. do you think that s significant? that seems like a pretty big gap to me. when i saw the statement, you can imagine this actually coming out of the kremlin rather than the white house because it s so full of misinformation, and it doesn t mention russia. you literally have to look at the first page of this document and contrast it to the white house statement, and see that the white house apparently either didn t get past reading the first page or is purposefully misrepresenting information. this document addresses in detail the multi-pronged rationale for the surveillance warrant on carter page in october 2016. it wasn t just the dossier, and the white house and devin nunes in all of their statements have not once talked about russia, again, in this document, there s a line that says the doj s waurnlt request was based on compelling evidence that page was knowingly assisting clandestine russian