fisa courts are a little bit different. the justice department and fbi come in make representations, they swear to it. so the judge has to rely upon that documentation. now you can poke holes in it and ask questions but they papered this thing up in a way that is outrageous. frankly it should have drawn a intellectual curiosity from the judge, particularly when they abandoned source number one who we now know or believe is christopher steele, yeah, we had to cut him loose as a source but we buy all the stuff he has given us. recycling of the story through michael isikoff and yahoo! news. lou: yeah. >> that is transparent fraud on the court. lou: it is a fraud on the courts, carried out by the obama justice department, the obama fbi. it is a disgrace what we're witnessing here, what has been confirmed, again because of the diligence and efforts of "judicial watch," we have the documents, over 400 pages of them today. chris farrell, as always, great to have you with us. thank you. >> thank you, lou. thanks. lou: up next, pres

lying to fisa judges to spy on americans? we don't have a constitution, sir, if the stands. >> we do have a constitution, we just have to fight to preserve it. benjamin franklin said to a woman right outside of a constitutional conventionti when she said, what have you achieved, and he said, i republic, if you can keep it. we are in that kind of cycle. if i have any complaint about what sarah sanders said today that the president thinks he's going to do in terms of these people, he's not going far enough and he's not being serious enough. i think we ought to have some kind of open reporting on every single person who lied to us about benghazi. i think we ought to have a really serious look at all the different ways in which the establishment grew more corrupt and more dishonest, more willing to lie to the american people and if i wanted to fault the president, it would be for going too far. it would be for not methodically and systematically exposing to the american people, starting frankly with the fisa warrant. there's no e

griff: thanks for letting me come explain the redacted redacted redacted fisa. abby: you were fabulous. pete: oh, there's some got to it have a great sunday everybody we love you. thanks for being here with us. abby: have a good day. maria: good morning, good sunday morning we're getting a first look at top secret surveillance records this morning, showing how the fbi spied on a former member of the trump campaign, and now the president is weigh ing in this morning, meanwhile vladimir putin makes clear one of his obsessions during that joint press conference with president trump and what is the strategy for house republicans to keep control of the house as we witness a rising interest in democratic socialism, ahead of the mid-term elections good morning, everyone thanks so much for joining me i'm maria bartiromo and this is sunday morning futures. president trump responds this morning to the justice department releasing more than 400 pages of documents related to the 2016 fisa application, for former trump campaign advisor carter page. it shows the intimate stee

i want to talk about the fisa applications. here is rush limbaugh weighing in and saying if it was so bad with carter page, why didn't they go to trump and tell them someone is trying to infiltrate your campaign from russia? >> why do they get a fisa warrant to spies so they can find it happening? what was the point here? it doesn't seem to be that anybody involved in the obama team wanted to stop it. they wanted an opportunity to find evidence that it was happening. and if they couldn't find any evidence, they wanted to plant some. >> shannon: response from both of you. >> i think what is getting lost here is that the mueller investigation isn't just about possible ties between the trump campaign of the russians. it was to look into russian interference. i'm not going to use any kind of judgment about who they helped and who they hurt. i think we all agree, although the president goes back and forth, that they did so. he is tasked with among other things finding out who did it and why. as part of that, carter page who does not

it made up the bulk of the fisa. even with the redactions commute can see that's the case. >> laura: i want to ask you about particular part. let's quote from david chris on the warrant application on the website. he said "we can see the footnote disclosing christopher steele's possible bias takes up more than a full page in the applications. there is literally no way the fisa court could have missed it. the fbi gave the court enough information to evaluate christopher steele's credibility. that point being repeated often. >> one of the things you have to realize that with all the presses the certain members of the press work for the democratic party. that blog is one of them. every day there's a new attack. i don't put a lot of credibility into what they say. the fact of the matter is you have to present verified information to the court. let's not forget, to open up a counterintelligence investigation into a campaign, unprecedented. but then to use these invasive types of capabilities on an american citizen that sh

this morning to the justice department releasing more than 400 pages of documents related to the 2016 fisa application, for former trump campaign advisor carter page. it shows the intimate steele dossier was in fact a major component for the surveillance warrant. fresh reaction from house judiciary chairman bob goodlatte and alan dershowitz coming up this morning. vladimir putin called him out by the name during the helsinki news conference by president trump. today, bill browder responds to the russian leader and will join me live and the mid-term race is heating up and i'll speak exclusively with house majority whip steve scalise about the republican leadership strategy to keep control of the house all that and a lot more right now as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. top of the news right now, the justice department making its first public disclosure of a highly sensitive fisa request by releasing the heavily redacted version of the documents relating to that fisa warrant against former trump campaign foreign policy advisor carter page. the 400-plus pages were released as a resul

no one has ever before had a fisa warrant released. the only reason this probably ever came to light was because of the issuance of the memoranda, controversial as it was. but when the president declassified the nunes memo and the justice department declassified in part the schiff memo it allowed these documents to be published, with these redactions, admittedly. now we have a fight. we have the information that came out, all the open source info, and the steele dossier. but there's pages upon pages that have been redacted, government information, confidential source information, we don't know what went into this, we don't know the full story. >> do you believe it should be challenged? the unredacted version should be released? >> when the government issued this four month time frame to produce the records in march, we spent a letter to the president, care of don mcgahn, saying don't make the fbi go through this process, declassify the entirety of the applications, you can make specific redactions for very specific sources and methods

it made up the bulk of the fisa. even with the redactions, you can see that's the case. >> laura: i want to ask you about that particular part. let's quote from david kris on the warrant application on the website. he said "we can see the footnote disclosing steele's possible bias takes up more than a full page in the applications. there is literally no way the fisa court could have missed it. the fbi gave the court enough information to evaluate steele's credibility." and that basic point is being repeated quite often. >> by the left. one of the things you have to realize now with the press. realize now with all the press is the certain members of the press work for the democratic party. and the law fair blog is one of them. every day there's a new attack. i don't put a lot of credibility into what they say. the fact of the matter is you have to present verified information to the court. let's not forget, to open up a counterintelligence investigation into a campaign, unprecedented. but then to use these invasive ty

they lead with it in the fisa application. so that's what we really wanted to get out to the american people, because we believe at that time that most americans would agree, and i think that they would agree, if journalism was not so dead as you said in your monologue. most americans when you talk to them and they are not watching the other cable news network's and you talk to them about is it okay for me as a politician to go out and pay someone to dig up dirt on my opposing candidate -- whether it is running for governor or president or something else and feed it to the fbi. the fbi that is controlled by my own party, that only happens in the banana republic. so if that was the point of the memo, it is sad that the media has failed to cover it.. what is more surprising is that we have totally vindicated with the release of the fisa s application over the weekend h that you continue to see the media going absolutely crazy. and i have never seen anything like it. i think that like you said journalism is dead in thisev country

they lead with it in the fisa application. so that's what we really wanted to get out to the american people, because we believe at that time that most americans would agree, and i think that they would agree, if journalism was not so dead as you said in your monologue, most americans when you talk to them and they are not watching the other cable news network's and you talk to them about is it okay for me aso go out and pay someone to dig up dirt on my opposing candidate -- whether it is running for governor or president or something else and feed it to the fbi. the fbi that is controlled by my own party, that only happens in the banana republic. so if that was the point of the memo, it is sad that the media has failed to cover it. what is more surprising is that we have totally vindicated with the release of the fisa application over the weekend, that you continue to see the media going absolutely crazy. and i have never seen anything like it. i think that like you said, journalism is dead in this country. i don't know what

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fisa applications are typically quite long. they're big enough that you don't want to drop them on your foot and they contain a lot of information and detail. because the statute is quite exacting in what it requires the government to establish in order to get warrant granted. >> in terms of this release this weekend, this is obviously the product of some wrangling in terms of trying to get this made public, for political reasons and for giving the public the right to know, before this, the public has never had access to anything close to this kind of information about fisa warrants or applications for fisa warrants. this is an unprecedented disclosure, isn't it? >> it is unprecedented. fisa applications are not even released to defense attorneys in criminal prosecutions of people who have been wire attempted under fisa, let alone revealed to the general public, even with these heavy redactions. so this is an extraordinary event that has occurred here. >> do you think it is dangerous? are you concerned? >> by the time we got to

stunning to see a fisa document out in the public. i've never seen anything like it in all of my reporting. and it's so fascinating to see how methodically they build these cases and how long the documents are. all the different sourcing of the documents. and i think it's also really ironic that the justification for releasing this document is trump's own sort of lowering of the secrecy standards, so that devin nunes and the house republican committee or the chair could release that three-page memo and his investigation into the russia sort of -- the charges of russia conspiracy and the election. and so it's really using their own justifications that this document ever came out or trump's administration's own justifications that this document has come out. so i think -- now this one has been released. >> and bob, with regard to president trump's tweets this morning, he says this fisa application once again proves that the justice department misled the courts. somewhat of a predictable response from the president. but is it accurate, g

pete: so this is a fisa, we've been waiting to see anything of these fisa applications because they're highly classified and judicial watch did the hard work , they've been released highly redacted the president weighing in moments ago saying congratulations to judicial watch on being successful in getting the carter page fisa documents of course this is all about surveiling carter page. as usual, and the trump campaign , as usual, heavily redacted but confirmed little doubt that the department of " justice" and fbi mislead the courts, a witch hunt rigged, a scam! and i read the first 40 pages which means i really read like seven because they were redacted what struck out to me was source number one which referred to throughout the document is -- abby: the dossier. pete: the dossier. christopher steele is source number one throughout this document in the information used to justify, not just surveillance of carter page but in the document it says the same authorities this warrant gives may also incidentally acquire other foreign intel information, so while we're surveiling carter page,

steve: fisa documents released revealing anti-trump dossier was the source in obtaining the fisa warrant leading up to the 2016 election. tom fitton watchdog of the group judicial watch fought for the release of these redacted documents and is urging the president to declassify them. he is here to explain. tom, good morning to you. >> good morning. how are you. steve: i'm looking at the documents. there is a lot of sharpy in there. a lot of stuff blacked out. we have no idea what's if there there. you think the president this morning could call somebody and declassify it and we would know what they are hiding, right? >> that's for sure. devin nunes bob goodlatte is suggesting there is other material in there that is classified right now but doesn't need to be classified. we already see from the material that was released over the weekend that the material that was -- we were told -- they couldn't even tell us existed one way or another didn't need to be classified. and we know why it was classified. it wasn't because they were protecting national security secrets. it was to cover up misc

these are fisa warrants which were made public over the weekend. they used to not acknowledge these things existed. the applications for fisa warrants in 2016 through late 2017, they bluntly described carter page as an agent of a foreign power. the fbi believes page has been the subject of targeted recruitment by the russian government. for months, the president and republicans in congress called the carter page fisa surveillance a gross abuse of power. a prime example of overreach. in these newly released documents, you can see not just the fbi considering the diesel dossier as a reliable and credible source, you can see them telling the court that steel was hired to do the digging on the trump campaign for political reasons. something that republicans denied the court had been informed about. more substantively than that, we also now just got this mountain of other evidence that went into the fbi calling carter page a russian agent. the meetings to reporting state side to the spy ring that tried to recruit him in new york. republicans are calling

the fbi has released a fisa document for the first time ever. it lists carter page as an agent of oforeign power. it is heavily redacted, but it lays out why the fbi was allowed to conduct surveillance on page sta starting in 2016. carter page, himself, reacting to the release for the first time on cnn this morning. >> you did advise the kremlin in 2013 or 2012, somewhere in there? >> jake, it is really spin. i mean, i sat in on some meetin meetings, but to call me an adviser is way over the top. >> except in the 2013 letter, you wrote that, it says, quote, over the past half year, i have had the privilege to serve as an informal adviser for the staff of the kremlin in preparation for the g-20 summit where issues will be prominent on the agenda, and that is you yourself calling yourself an adviser to the kremlin kremlin. >> informal and having conversations with people, and this is ra really nothing, and an ad temd a attempt to distrac real crimes shown in the misleading document. page 8, it talks about the disguised propaganda and including the

the congress on fisa documents. it's the reason why department of justice is stonewalling the manafort defense team on fisa documents. i mean -- at the end of the day, i agree with alan dershowitz. there are 300 pages of this 400-page fisa document that are redacted. anybody this summer who is creating a great novel, rip out three quarters of the pages of your book and throw it in the pool and tell me if you know the story. the redaction was covering up incompetencies and it's what he's referring to when he doesn't believe the people trying to run him out of office. >> michael, do you remember when barack obama went abroad and there were so many people in the right wing media who said it was an apology tour? >> uh-huh. yes, i do. and let me tell you -- >> did you think that president trump was on something of a blame america tour a week ago? >> i don't. i don't. >> what's the difference? >> i don't agree with the president talking about the american government overseas that way. i don't agree with the congressman an

it was not all of the fisa. it was a floor of the house. the fbi had already established a foundation and was well on its way of building a house, if you want to use that anal ogyanalog. folks have criticized the fisa application, including some members of the house, saying that this -- the fbi never disclosed to the foreign intelligence surveillance court, the judges that approve the warrants, saying where the information came from. actually, i want to be able to show you. we've prepared a bit of the warrant, where it actually specifically says, hallie, in the fisa application, it says that the fbi knows where this information is coming from. it is somebody who has provided them reliable information in the past. hey, this information is being derived from somebody who is being paid to get the information. and we speculate, the fbi's words, we speculate the person paying for this information is trying to discredit candidate one, who is donald trump in this fisa application. for both sides that have criticized, saying the fbi was forthright

court, hid material information from the fisa court. it is an outrageous abuse of power and if jeff sessions and rob rosenstein have not begun a grand jury to investigate all the people involved in the phony dossier and everything involved on it, ultimately when mueller is done, rosenstein and sessions should be fired. this is a clear case of criminal law violation in the fisa application, it is clearly a fraud and it is beyond belief that nothing publicly known has been done to hold accountable everybody involved in the signing of those applications to the fisa court. >> sean: we've got to run but you've been amazing on all of this. >> i couldn't agree more, i want to say really quick remember what they did leave out. the doj said christopher steele would do anything to keep donald trump from being president and i think that's all we need to say. >> sean: and hillary paid for it and these are unverified russian lies. there's your russia story, go find it. we laid it on a platter for you, thank you all. the president's attorney rudy giu

the fbi has released a fisa document for the first time ever. it lists carter page as an agent of oforeign power. it is heavily redacted, but it lays out why the fbi was allowed to conduct surveillance on page sta starting in 2016. carter page, himself, reacting to the release for the first time on cnn this morning.

court, hid material information from the fisa court. it is an outrageous abuse of power, and if jeff sessions andt rob rosenstein have not begun a grand jury to investigate all the people involved in the phony dossier and everything involved on it, ultimately when mueller is done, rosenstein and sessions should be fired. this is a clear case of criminal law violation in the fisa d application, it is clearly a fraud and it is beyond belief that nothing publicly known has been done to hold accountable everybody involved in the signing of those applications to the fisa court. >> sean: we've got to run but you've been amazing on all of this. >> i couldn't agree more, i wanw to say really quick remember what they did leave out. the doj said christopher steele would do anything to keep donald trump from being president and i think that's all we need to say. >> sean: and hillary paid for it, and these are unverified russian lies. robert mueller, there's your russia story. go find it. we laid it on a platter for you, thank you all. when we come

fisa warrants. it will also -- i think also the supporting documents -- remember, sean, the only person at this moment in time that can get those documents declassified for the american -- >> the president. >> is president trump. >> and by the way, you're echoing something that gregg jarrett has been saying and i agree with both of you on. it's a sad day but it's also a day that everything you have talked about, sarah has talked about. i'm going to miss a million names. david schoen, too many people, alan dershowitz. we've been right. how do we get to the justice part? the fact it was a rigged investigation. we'll get to jim jordan on fisa. that fisa judges were lied to. that they went after and abused their power, as you say to get donald trump? >> it needs to be fully exposed and the people behind it like peter strzok and james comey and lisa page need to be prosecuted under the various statutes you and i have talked about so often. today this guy said he didn't remember writing this infamous text

jillian: good morning, welcome back, newly-released fisa warrant application revealing bomb-shell new information how the fbi convinced the court to wiretap former trump campaign adviser carter page. rob: the documents proved the unverified dossier helped role in obtaining fisa warrant and that the fbi never told the judge who had paid for the dossier. jillian: what does it mean now, joining us, former presidential speech writer for george w. bush ned ryan, thank you for being here this morning. >> good morning, guys. jillian: what do you make of the information? >> justifies devin nunes and justifies a lot of us who have been saying that the fbi used dossier not one, but twice but major part of fisa applications to spy on carter page. just think back for a moment and think about this, this was compiled with british spy, used as justification to spy in u.s. citizen and violate fourth amendment rights and the amazing part of all of this, january 2017 james comey said it was solicitous and unverified yet it would be used three more times to secure fisa warrant and it was integral to get

you broke this release on the fisa documents. why are they being released now and how unprecedented is this? >> you might remember back in february there was a big fight between republicans and democrats on the house intelligence committee and republicans said the fact that the fbi got that warrant against a former trump campaign aid was abusing authority and they said no, you're misaract torizin eiz. part of that president trump declassified the existence of these wiretap applications and that allowed a number of news organizations including "the new york times" to go after them in court under the freedom of information act. no fisa information, this say special wiretapping for terri terrori terrorism, not ordinary criminal cases operates under a different law with different courts and different rules. no fisa application has been seen by the public in the 40 years since that law governed wiretapping. it's an extraordinary stceptica. >> okay. 412 pages here. they state over and over again that carter page is believed to be an ag

when you are drafting a fisa application, what sort of stuff goes in there? from what you can see, do the republicans have any cause for concern here in how it was drafted? >> katy, from what i can see, the only cause for concern that the republicans is that they have been shown to be inaccurate about their claims regarding this affidavit. in fact, even though i would have cringed a couple of weeks ago if you were to tell me that the u.s. government was going to release a fisa affidavit, which is unprecedented, i am kind of glad they did because it shows to the world that the fbi submitted an affidavit that went out of its way to explain any potential bias or concerns about the dossier. it demonstrates that the dossier was not a substantial part of the probable cause development for this. it also shows that they asserted strongly that carter page was an agent of a foreign power, not merely what they could have asserted, which was that he may be a target of foreign powers. they argued alternatively that he was both. it's a very strong affidavit. then, remember

in fisa's 40-year history, these applications have never been released before. and so there has been a whole chain of events, starting with the president and the house intelligence committee's statement statements about these carter page surveillances that have gotten us to this point. but really, the information contained in these documents is sensitive, it's classified, it's national security information. s so that other information would have further supported the case that the government was making to the fisa judge. >> glenn, one thing that is not redacted is what you mention in point number two. and that is that republican allegations about the dossier are not supported. in fact, republicans have said that the fbi failed to tell the courts that the steele dossier may be politically biassed and that is not true. the footnote reads, u.s.-based law firm had hired the person to conduct research regarding candidate number one's ties to russia. and the fbi speculates that the identified u.s. person was likely looking for information that could be used to discred

we know fisa court's grant winds really easy. there should be a revision of the way fisa courts operate, there should be a devil's advocate who is arguing against the granting of the application. these two pieces of information, i want to hear from rosenstein and others, why did they justify withholding those two pieces of information, if they knew this and they knew the fisa court would want to know that? >> sean: 19 pages unredacted, david schoen, of the last warrant that rod rosenstein signed off on, because i hear that it is devastating to him and to others. let the american people see all of it. >> that's a key point. respectfully, professor dershowitz, he's right on track but there's not a question about what rod rosenstein i knew. we know that he signed off on at least the last renewal. the rules of the fisa court expressly provide that if there is any -- any -- error, doesn't even have to be material error, error that must be corrected, the court must be notified immediately in writing. if there was any error or omission.

. >> congressman adam schiff on the release of the carter page fisa application. rebecca tracer on the midterm messaging from democrats like elizabeth war erren. and a message of apology from this american lawmaker. >> america! >> "all in" starts right now. >> you're going to drop the gun or i'll touch you! >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. today the former campaign chairman to the president of the united states showed up in a green jumpsuit to federal court, where he got a rare legal win to postpone his first of two trials for all of six days. now, while the president's former lawyer and fixer we just learned had at least 12 audio recordings possibly with the president on them, which federal prosecutors now have in their possession. this as the president himself lashes out in all different directions and provokes new fears about his apparent leejs to vladimir putin. one week since he stood next to putin in helsinki and sided with the russian president against the u.s. intelligence community, the president has undone all attempts at cleanup by his w

starting in october 2016, the fisa court approved multiple warrants to surveil page, who the f.b.i. suspected was "...an agent of a foreign power" and" ...the subject of targeted

fisa is exactly that because you never get disclosure of it. and what people are going to wonder is if they did that in this case, how rampant is the problem? how much do they push the envelope because they know no one's ever going to check their work. >> harris: so irrespective of party, that's an excellent question because it's always been the secret court. and so we begin to feel even with redaction's a bit process back, should we then naturally be curious, has this happened before? have there been things that have been used to give warrants before this court has looked at that we might want to dig deeper into. >> howard: it's hard to judge because it has been so surrounded by secrecy and at the same time, we want to know if this was municipally unanimous. i was struck by congressman saying top trump officials should resign. mike pompeo should resign. >> harris: why should they resign? >> howard: the idea is that if you don't like donald trump's national security policies, his handling of the mueller investigation or his handling of vladimir

. >> congressman adam schiff on the release of the carter page fisa application. rebecca tracer on the midterm messaging from democrats like elizabeth warren. and a message of apology from this american lawmaker. >> america! >> "all in" starts right now. >> you're going to drop the gun or i'll touch you! >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. today the former campaign chairman to the president of the united states showed up in a green jumpsuit to federal court, where he got a rare legal win to postpone his first of two trials for all of six days. now, while the president's former lawyer and fixer we just learned had at least 12 audio recordings possibly with the president on them, which federal prosecutors now have in their possession. this as the president himself lashes out in all different directions and provokes new fears about his apparent leejs to vladimir putin. one week since he stood next to putin in helsinki and sided with the russian president against the u.s. intelligence community, the president has undone all attempts at cleanup by his whit

now, let's turn to the fisa warrants and carter page. for the first time in the history of the 40-year-old secret court that was established by the foreign intelligence surveillance act, documents that supported a warrant were released this weekend. a freedom of information act lawsuit disclosed the october, 2016, application to wiretap carter page. a trump campaign foreign policy adviser. along with several renewal applications after donald trump declassified their existence earlier this year. among his 400 pages, many of which are redacted, the application states, quote, the fbi believes page has been the subject of targeted recruitment by the russian government. and identifies page as a former foreign policy adviser to a candidate for president. it says, quote, the fbi believes the russian government's efforts are being coordinated with page and perhaps other individuals associated with that campaign. and the fbi believes that page has been collaborating and conspireing with the russian government. page called the claims ridiculous an

there's a fisa law about it. you're trying to have all the hurdles because they don't want people to have in the open they're being surveilled. it would lead someone to the conclusion that they must be engaged in criminal activity. having said that, in order to get the warrant, there has to be more just fraternizing with somebody. it's got to be more. it has to be bank statements, documents in the trash perhaps, statements by the actual person like carter page talked about. all these different hurdles have to be passed in order to ensure it's not a witch hunt. it has to be able to pass the muster of all the judges. >> clearly huge chunks of that, 400 pages, were redacted, blacked out. we don't know the specific details of what the u.s. suspected as far as carter page is concerned. we do know that carter page has not been charged with any crime. he's obviously innocent as of everything we know right now. >> that's true. he's innocent until proven guilty. the whole premise of the warrant was not to prove he himself

and the truth in the fisa application, which side owns it? nina turner and rick santorum are here for what should be a great debate. let's start with iran. rick, you like the move by the president, do you? >> i do. anything that shows that we stand with the people of iran who hate their leadership, who are being oppressed by the leadership, if you look at mike pompeo's speech yesterday at the reagan library, it was brilliant. he laid out the tremendous scourge that this regime is to their people and how -- i mean rouhani -- excuse me, not rouhani, khomeini, the ayatollah, he has a $95 billion hedge fund. i mean you have the head of judicial has a $300 million estate. i mean these folks are getting rich. they're oppressing their people. they're persecuting and killing their people. they're oppressing women. you want to talk about women really being oppressed, it's not saudi arabia. it's iran. and the people hate the regime. so when the united states stands up and calls out the regime for what they are, that's a good thing for us. >> you think

matt gaetz join us live to investigate the fusion gps connection and answer the critics about what the fisa documents really tell us about

i am talking about the fisa warrant for carter trump and former advise er r to the trump campaign. the fbi is writing in the application that he had been conspiring and writing with the russian government. this is page earlier on cnn today with a strong denial. watch. >> and i have never been a agent of the foreign power in any, by any stretch of the imagination. you know, i may have back in the g-20 when they were ready to do that in st. peterberet etersbur have participated in a meeting that included people from the obama administration were in and geneva, but nothing near what is described here. >> the reaction is pouring in along the part san line, and saying that the newly released documents support their views. and then there was a furious attack on the fbi, and the appointed judges who approved the re quest to surveil page. let's go right to the shimon on this. simone, it is more than 400 pages long, and a ton of it is redact and what have we learned from this? >> well, we have learned a lot of it because of the political rhetoric surrounding it from the campaign is out ther

>> well, look, lou, we obviously need the redaction to the fisa thing. i think it will further substantiate what we've been saying. and then we need the documents involving strzok and page and the beginning of this whole trump-russia collusion stuff. i think there's a reason why they don't want to give it, but we should not let that stonewalling carry the day. so, yes, i think the speaker, majority leader, whip, i think the whole house leadership should get behind this effort, say now's the time otherwise we will proceed tomorrow with a contempt. lou: i just, i'll ask it again. i know it must be tiresome to you. why are you all putting up with speaker ryan? he blocks every move. he is absolutely insistent upon a republican defeat come november. >> well, look, lou, i think there's an open question though about just how many votes we have to try to do some of the things that we all want to do. i mean, i don't think it's the case that we just have 235 votes and if ryan just let it out, everyone would be happy. i mean, there's some members who just haven't r

>> fisa was a law passed in 1978. this is the first time the fisa warrant has been revealed to the public. which is highly unusual obviously and could have detrimental ramifications. what sticks out to me is that you had other evidence. it wasn't just the steele dossier, as tom alluded to. in fact this provides indisputable evidence that it's inconsistent with what david nunes and donald trump has been saying in terms of what facilitated the fisa warrant. it was approved by four republican judges. it's a probable cause determination. it's renewed every 90 days. so it really strengthens the argument that the fisa warrant was not the basis of this investigation. >> okay, that's if you read the details and dig into it. but if all you do is listen to the president's tweets, he goes on a tweet tirade and now says we find out it was indeed the unverified and fake dirty dossier paid for by crooked hillary clinton and the dnc, that was knowingly and falsely submitted to fisa and which were responsible for starting the discred

it is done what is visible, the dossier is not ascribed to the fisa court for the surveillance court as a political document that the democrats have asserted, rather the fbi speculates that the fisa court that it was commissioned the damage candidate one who is donald trump. the fisa record show september 2016 yahoo news article about carter page and allegations he was a russian operative is also significant part of the application. the republicans empathize the yahoo news report is not a separate stream of intelligence but rather had the same source as the unverified dossier. emma kratz and republicans exchange some harsh words on the sunday talk show. >> we will never know whether or not the fbi had enough without the dossier, the unvented dnc funded dossier because they included it. and everyone who reads this is application sees the amount of reliance they placed on this product funded by hillary clinton's campaign in the dnc. >> of course not. and i think actually if the performance that we had in helsinki took place before those applications were filed, i think that whole inter

now we know the fisa application contradicts and. what we have here is an fbi and department of justice working in a nonpartisan, professional manner, trying to deal with russian interference in our elections and the mueller investigation needs to continue without interference. >> it's early on a sunday morning, but are you hearing reaction from republicans who, again, signed on to a memo that is the opposite of this warrant oply indication showing steele was not the only source and there was a genuine belief among the government officials who achieved this warrant and carter page was acting as an agent of russia. how are they responding to that? >> they are not responding, yet. it is republican representative, trey gowdy who is going to have a lot to answer for this. he is the one who actually read the fisa warrant himself. nunes was briefed on it. trey gowdy read it and signed on to the memo and endorsed it and said there was reason to believe the fbi had not been forthcoming with the fisa court about the fact that chris steele had

the fisa is frustrating to me. i think pieces of the fisa on carter page, we have had an ongoing feud about this for many many months. i think the fisa is 100% fraudulent. you have james comey and others defending the fisa which is unbelievable to me. so the president just ought to solve this once and for all. declassify. but most of of that fisa, the pertinent parts of it could be declassified. he could help answer for all of us who was telling the truth. were they justified to get a fisa warrant on carter page or not? i don't think they were. and i think the american people have the right to know and the president should declassify. judge jeanine: i suspect he's waiting for you guys to use all of your powers. but it would put an end to this ongoing investigation. i want to thank you for all your efforts on behalf of getting out the truth and putting sunlight into our government. thank you so much. by this time monday when should know for sure who president trump picked to nominate the supreme court. and decision

devin nunes who has been fighting his beefed up the fisa laws. his hypocrisy has been inexcusable regarding selective outrage about fisa powers. so what should we do now? instead of arguing over the details of misused courts that spy on enemies and act surprised agencies would use circular logic. maybe it many time to put on big boy pants and take responsibility and scrap the whole damn system. and that's a memo. fisa became law 40 years ago and this is the first time the public has been able to see one of these warrants applications. given the outrage, is it time we take another look at how our surveillance state operates? bill mcgurn just wrote a piece entitled "abolish the fisa court." >> i can't take credit for the idea. the idea was originally proposed by robert bourke when he was a professor at yale and they were considering the fisa bill. he points out the problem of this of introducing judges who descroanlts this power under the constitution, basically will water down the responsibility. if i were the attorney general and i put my name on

and so last week the -- all these documents were released showing how the fisa warrant -- these fisa warrants were gotten, this special warrant was gotten to surveil an american citizen, carter page. all the evidence that -- so there's hundreds of pages of redacted stuff. >> my question was very simple, there more of a disconnect in the republican party when you have richard burr saying no, there's no issue here, and devin nunes saying there is, and then a bunch of republicans in the house saying i'm going to try and punish rosenstein, despite the leadership? >> there is a disconnect, but it's small, and the people who hate rosenstein and hate the investigation have more energy and enthusiasm behind them. >> thank you very much. it wasn't yes or no, but i'll give it to you. guys, thank you. >>> and ahead, nutty by nature. ♪ a hotel can make or break a trip. and at expedia, we don't think you should be rushed into booking one. that's why we created expedia's add-on advantage. now after booking your flight, you unlock discounts on select hotels right until the day you leave. ♪ add-