something carter page denied to cnn this morning. the warrant is heavily redacted, but lays out why the fbi was allowed to conduct surveillance on page starting in 2016. so what other details are we learning from this 400-page, newly released warrant? shimon prokupecz joins me from washington with more on this. what stands out to you. >> when you get around the rhetoric sur roungd this and read the lengthy document and some of what the fbi is alleging is troubling, and should be for carter page. calling him an agent of a foreign power talk about how they believe he was collaborating and conspireing with the russian government. they say this fisa application, in targeting carter page that they believe he was the subject of targeted recruitment by the russian government and which they go on to say was trying to undermine and influence the 2016 u.s. presidential election. and then really finally this point that this fisa application makes is really damaging, i think, certainly for carter page among some other things in this, that it says

they used the media reports carter page complained about to interview carter page.t's in the report today. is is this a 3rd world country? >> tucker: it seems like it. it's not about trump or carter page. it's about america. dan, thank you. democratic socialists are everywhere. the head of the democratic party says they are the future. what is democratic socialism? we have one of the most celebrated leaders of that movement corneal west joining us after the break. ♪motorcycle revving ♪ motorcycle revving ♪motorcycle revving ♪ motorcycle revving ♪ no matter who rides point, ♪ there are over 10,000 allstate agents riding sweep. ♪♪ and just like tyrone taylor, they know what it takes to help keep you protected. are you in good hands? this wi-fi is fast. i know! i know! i know! i know! when did brian move back in? brian's back? he doesn't get my room. he's only going to be here for like a week. like a month, tops. oh boy. wi-fi fast enough for the whole family is simple, easy, awesome. in many cultures, young men would stay with their families until their 40's. >> ♪ >>

something carter page denied to cnn this morning. d, but lays out why the fbi was allowed to conduct surveillance on page starting in 2016. so what other details are we learning from this 400-page, newly released warrant? shimon prokupecz joins me from washington with more on this. what stands out to you. >> when you get around the rhetoric sur roungd this and read the lengthy document and some of what the fbi is alleging is troubling, and

they used the media reports carter page complained about to interview carter page.t's in the report today. is is this a 3rd world country? >> tucker: it seems like it. it's not about trump or carter page. it's about america. dan, thank you. democratic socialists are everywhere. the head of the democratic party says they are the future. what is democratic socialism? we have one of the most celebrated leaders of that movement corneal west joining us after the break. today... back pain can't win. now introducing aleve back and muscle pain. only aleve targets tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve back & muscle. all day strong. all day long. saynot todayis because of my bladder, thanks to tena intimates with proskin technology designed to absorb so fast, it helps to protect and maintain your skin's natural balance so you can feel fresh and free to get as close as you want all day, and now all night for a free sample visit tena.us ♪ he eats a bowl of hammers at every meal ♪ ♪ he holds your house in the palm of his hand ♪ ♪ he's your home and auto man ♪ b

if i were carter page, i would be quite worried. 0n the other hand, carter page is a very different personusly quite comfortable with a lot of uncertainty and strange activity in his life. so i'm not sure he's worried, although he perhaps ought to be. britain's new brexit secretary dominic raab has accused the european commission of acting "irresponsibly" by trying to increase the pressure on the uk in negotiations. mr raab was commenting on a warning from brussels that citizens‘ rights would not be guaranteed if the talks failed. he said the british government would do everything it could to mitigate disruption if no agreement could be reached. 0ur political correspondent, chris mason, has more. laughter it sounded like they all agreed, but at the cabinet meeting last week, some around the table were still unsure about the prime minister's plan for brexit. that is according to the new brexit secretary. but he is sounding confident a deal can be done with brussels. i'm striving every sinew, with our department, with michel barnier, who i think is a man that wants to do a deal with us, trem

in the documents, carter page is refered to as an agent of foreign power. that the fbi believes page has been the subject of targeted recruitment by the russian government. earlier i spoke to david kris, founder of culper partners. he previously served as assistant attorney general for national security at the us department ofjustice. i asked him what evidence the fbi had that they thought carter page may be involved with the russian government. well, there is a good deal of evidence that's revealed in the applications that were released, including the fact that carter page spent time in russia, that he had an energy consulting business and met with a number of russian government officials, including intelligence officers. and then, of course, there's the information gathered by christopher steele, the former m16 officer who is a source of information in the document. but even with today's releases, as you pointed out, a good deal of information remained unavailable, blacked out or redacted from what was released to the public, presumably in order to protect

election, and then really one of the most remarkable thing s s i the affidavit is how they describe carter pagend how they believe, the fbi believes that the russian government efforts are being coordinated with page and perhaps other individuals associated with candidate number one's campaign, and that is the president donald trump campaign of course. and other references in the document to carter page and such thing as the fact that they believe that carter a page was collaborating and conspireing with the russian government. there is a lot that we don't know, fred. i it is because so much of the information in this document, and in these documents is red t redacted and clearly blocked out so we can't refsee what the fbi referring to. when you get past the political rhetoric from the president and members of congress, we just don't have a full picture in these papers, in these court documents exactly what intelligence the fbi has. they seem to be referencing other people, and perhaps people here in the united states that carter page was communicating with, but those names are blacked out ther

was being spied on, president trump making the case that carter page supports his position that the justice department misled the courts. in fact, the surveillance application says, and this is a quote, the fbi believes that page has been collaborating and conspiring with the russian government. so page was on one of the sunday shows today and he was asked point blank if any russian official ever talked with him during the 2016 election about lifting sanctions on russia or whether the russians had compromising information on hillary clinton. well, page said no one ever approached him about hillary clinton, but here's what he said about the sanctions. >> you know, look, when i was there in july of 2016, you know, people -- a few people brought it up in passing. but, you know, again, it's a major economic issue. and so, you know, there may have been a loose conversation. i'm very careful in terms of, you know, making sure that there is a clear record. there is nothing in terms of any nefarious behavior. >> reporter: and just by way of context, former president obama expanded sanctions

do you love your country, carter page?i love my country and actually, all of my actions directly speak to that. and i think, you know, president trump and his initiatives in terms of building a better structure for international relations, particularly u.s.-russia relations, i think is going to show great love for the country. >> tucker: i'm embarrassed to live here, this is a shameful moment in our nation's history. >> a great code word, a great code word in the document from john solomon today. they use the term, there's a new code word, dragon, right? interest reminded me of dragon energy, that kanye west was talking about. both dragon energy, president trump is my brother, i love everyone. it's this very positive approach, trying to create a better world for all american citizens. and better peaceful situation in the world. versus, i think well we heard from mr. hawn of just tearing people down. the funny part of that is going bab to the dossier, they were pulling these same false hoods -- >> i don't know about the dra

carter page and george papadopoulos. that's what we see in the documents that have come out from the foreign intelligence surveillance corps about surveillance on page. here is page speaking today saying that he just doesn't understand this document. again denying he's done anything wrong. >> you know, look, i mean, when i was there in july of 2016, you know, people -- a few people might have brought it up in passing. but, you know, again, it's a major economic issue. and, so you know, there may have been a loose conversation. i'm very careful in terms of, you know, making sure that there's a clear record. there is nothing in terms of any nefarious behavior. >> okay. >> and there he's referring to sanctions against russia, and was there conversation about trying to ease those sanctions in a future if he were successful trump presidency, long before we knew what the outcome would be. >> page says he handled that issue carefully. that was one of the prime areas that officials were looking at. would there be any kind of a de

so carter page, go to carter page next. carter page, to paraphrase his own words, to say that he was an adviser to the trump campaign is way over the top. okay? carter page participated in one, perhaps one roundtable discussion with a fledgling campaign at best. right? to say that he's some sort of puppetmaster involved in steering the campaign is farcical. so if it's not paul manafort, if it's not carter page, who's the center -- >> no. i'm just asking. as an observer. do you know what talks carter page had with the russians? >> i don't. >> don't you think that -- >> sure. >> okay. so we're seeing that through. >> have at it. >> paul manafort worked for free? >> there are other individuals, donald trump jr., and the truth is we don't know what else there is. >> there's also this real attempt on the part of the white house and republicans to muddy the waters around carter page and nothing there i don't understand what this whole effort has been about. i mean, remember way back like in the place to see with the new necessary

it does discuss prior investigations into carter page, they had been watching him for some time. doesn't it indicate there was information on page. he was meeting, had some contact with government officials. they had ample reason along with along with papadopoulos to open an investigation. >> carter page was not a foreign agent. went to the fbi due in 2014 and '15? they interviewed the guy. that would've placed this start. you don't open up an investigation into a campaign and then turn around and get a fisa warrant so you can go and grab a lot of information that had her come from the campaign. this is, back and '13 and a punishment for two, they ran an investigation the way it was supposed to be run. they did not want to tell the car at carter page actually had cooperated with the fbi in the past and that the russians didn't want to recruit him because they thought he was an idiot. those with the russians' words, not anybody else's. the russians said that. there were lots of reasons to believe carter page wasn't acting as a foreign agent. >> laura: what is next? >> we want the p

why was told about a 2016 yahoo news article that redescribed some of the same claims about what carter page was up to in moscow. republicans said they put this in here as corroboration of ste steele's claims. democrats said no, that's not why it was there. it was there to tell page denied the allegations. the section that described that yahoo news article is titled page has denied these allegations and so that seems to corroborate democrats' description of why that was there, not republicans claims in february. that sort of argument about the argument is where this is really valuable and sorting truth from fiction. >> can i also look ahead to what the president tweeted and his reaction to this that came out about 6:30 a.m. this morning and for his claim saying that the fisa documents confirm with little doubt that the department of justice and fbi mislead the courts. charlie, do these fisa documents show what the president claims? does it show the opposite or can we even judge? >> my assessment having closely followed this, having read these documents, having closely followed this in februa

this is -- the steele dossier is not the reason carter page -- there was a fisa warrant on carter page the reason it was renewed three vat separa separate times. they were concerned he had been compromised and was a foreign agent. that's the reason. back to you, wolf. >> very interesting that on august 17th, after he got the nomination, the obama administration, the intelligence community not only briefed hillary clinton, the democratic nominee, but also him in depth about these russia allegations. so to say that he wasn't informed, that's clearly not true. >> just one other quick thing. to say he wasn't informed because they expected hillary clinton to win, they briefed both sides at that time. so this was not because they thought one side or the other was going to win. they did both. >> all right, chris. thank you very much. carter page fired back at the accusations in that warrant on cnn, saying they are so ridiculous and misleading. but listen to what he said when cnn's jake tapper pushed him on if he ever advised or worked with the kremlin. listen. >> no, i've never been an agent

maria: welcome back the justice department releasing the carter page fisa documents, let's bring in ourrollins is a former reagan bush campaign manager, james freeman assistant editor for the wall street journal editor editorial page, a pleasure to see you both. your reaction to what we've heard this morning ed rollins? >> the truth of the matter is what was discovered with this document and the strzok testimony what have you, hillary was never a target of any investigation, peter strzok admitted she was never under investigation. clearly strzok was one of the instruments of going after the trump campaign and he's trying to woo the girlfriend and basically, she was very anti- trump. brennan was an anti-trump person and my sense is that they used this idiotic document that was in opposition research document to go violate the fisa rules and all of the rest of it and this whole thing that started carter page is not an operative for the soviet union . the problem is the trump campaign did not have the big significant foreign policy people. these were all kinds of fringe players and i think

and when you look at these documents, it's about donald trump in the campaign, carter page is a pretext in a vehicle to getting the trump campaign. it's a real crisis that the fbi and doj is doing this and they're still apologetic about it and it still benefiting from this corruption. >> harris: judicial watch bringing forth a huge effort to get those documents unveiled if you will, even though there heavily redacted in terms of that secret fisa court which we are all learning more about. thank you very much. >> you're welcome, thank you. >> harris: president from continuing to defend his summit with russian president vladimir putin. democrats are pushing back on his claims that it was a great meeting. but lawmakers hope to hear from secretary of state mike pompeo when they question him on the hill about the summit wednesday. and progressive heroes or socialist? alexandria ocasio-cortez and bernie sanders say their once radical ideas are now mainstrea mainstream. are they right about that? and what would that mean to that party heading into the midterm elections? can you sell socialism

if carter page was truly engaging in these activities for years why was there not surveillance of carter page for years? this was a consequence of his involvement with the trump campaign. second major problem with the government leads with the dossier. with your best evidence but for the dossier there would never be authority to spy on some hillaryai clinton campaign or d mentioned when it comes to their mentioned when it comes to their relationship for paying for this dossier and don't see the wife of bruce or, senior breast justice to permit official working on this and bruce or was the person with the political information into the intelligence spectrum. for those reasons i take a different view.eadi >> i immediately tried to read it myself and my twitter feed was split down the middle. on the left they were claiming claiming victory, each side saying it proved their point. i want to play more of what the ranking member had to say tonight and give you a chance to respond. >> this is a patently false statement but not just by nunez. others signed off like trey gowdy. >> this fisa appli

if carter page was truly engaging in these activities for years, why was there not surveillance of carter page for years? obviously this is a consequence of his involvement in the trump campaign and the desire to clock surveillance of the trump campaign. the second major problem: the government leads with the dossier. i am a litigator. every litigator knows you lead with your best evidence but for the dossier, they are never woue authority to spy on someone close to the campaign. the third major problem are the omissions. you never see the hillary clinton campaign or the dnc even mentioned when it comes to their relationship to paying for this dossier. you also don't see that nellie or, the wife of bruce ohr, senior justice from an official, was working on this and then bruce ohr was a person who violated the political information into the intelligence spectrum. for those reasons, i take a different view of my good friend marco rubio. >> shannon: when they fisa stuff went public, i was trying to read it on my twitter feed west split down the middle. on the left they were claiming victory

redacted version of the previously top secret application of surveillance for former campaign aid carter page. and the fbi believes that page has been collaborating and c conspiring with the russian government. the warrant itself of course has been the subject of a very partisan fight in the house intelligence committee. and there's little doubt that the department of justice and the fbi misled the courts, witch hunt, rigged, a scam, in fact that tweet itself is a scam. in fact the fbi did use information from the steele doz y -- dossier, it noted that steel had been a reliable source of information in the past. let's talk to former trump campaign advisor carter page now. the fisa application says, quote, the fbi believes that carter page has been collaborating and conspiring with the russian government. there's probable cause that such activities involve or are about to involve violations of the criminal statutes of the united states. the document accuses you of being, a, quote, agent of a foreign power. were you? >> jake, this is so ridiculous, it's just beyond words, you know, it's -- you'

they've tried to take carter page out of context. at the entire evidence we know in public, what you've really got is a concerted plan to infiltrate the u.s. government by russia. you've got the most obvious which is donald trump in helsinki last week groveling to vladimir putin and then meeting with him in private for two hours. you've got his campaign manager manafort who is going on trial today for basically getting $75 million from russian interests from the russian government to take care of their interests in the ukraine. you've got papadopoulos who was aware of the break in to the democratic national committee back in march, april, of 2016. you've got roger stone who was talking to both of the people that were involved in staging the release of those stolen e-mails, guccifer 2 .0 and the wikileaks. you've got the republican national convention where the trump campaign kept out any increase in sanctions. you have jared kushner basically trying to get a secure communications system between the -- >> i forgot about that one. that

made the documents about surveilling former trump campaign aid carter page public. and don't forget about paul manafort whose trial begins this week in virginia. along with a reminder that the president's former campaign chairman has been sitting in jail for over a month as he prepares to face a jury. but back to that part about gravity. the president's approval rating is ticking up, not down. a brand-new poll from nbc news and the "wall street journal" conducted before and after the helsinki summit shows the president approval rating at 45%. that is up 1 point from june. among republicans, that number is 88%, the highest ever his entire presidency. >>> with that, i would like to welcome in my panel. joining me on set national nbc news julia ainsley. bbc world america and msnbc contributor katty kay. and principal at cogent strategy kevin mclaughlin. thank you all for being here. kevin, i would like to start with you. >> yes, ma'am. >> i would like you to explain why it is 88% of americans approve of president trump considering what saw contradicts republican orthod

people, and people in this country working with carter page. there seems to be other names mentioned in some of the lines burk like you said, because they are blocked out, we just don't know. >> shimon, thank you for walking us through that. and let's bring in ryan goodwin and james who have both worked in washington, and is there anything in the warrant to suggest that the fbi did not follow proper protocolle? >> yes, even this morning there is nothing in here to suggest any wrongdoing on their part, and with anything that with all of the information on carter page, you would think it is their duty to follow through and investigate him, because there is enough red flags to point t out. >> and shimon said that at lot of it is redacted and can we draw any conclusions? >> well, it is sure, redacted, and a lot of it that is redacted is that they had interviewed him and they don't tell us what they said in the interviews, but it is referred to, and there was also a case in russia where they had a group of russian spies who were trying to pick up ca

carter page, it was a best said that he is more inspector gadget and then jason bourne. if you listen to him talk when you watch these interviews that he is doing, he doesn't have a lot of credibility. he seems like he's kind of all over the place. he seems to like being on tv. i can understand why he has a meeting with anyone, it would raise suspicion have the same time he's been on the radar for really long time and the fact that he's hanging around the hoop at the trump campaign as well, i don't know. i would dispute some of jessica's facts and the idea that the warrant mentions in every single place this dossier which we know is paid for by the opponent and didn't prove out to be true and those yahoo stories were circulated by the same people that created the dossier, so it seems like if they didn't need the dossier, it wouldn't be listed everywhere. >> harris: it was unverified so that's the issue. >> elizabeth: have to get into these hypertechnical terms that have blocked the debate down. senator marco rubio to melissa's point has said carter page was on the radar

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democrats is that the really important stuff, the really good stuff that proves them right that carter page should have been placed under surveillance, that stuff is blacked out. it is redacted. indeed, if you look at this fisa warrant that has been released there is page after page after page and every word is blacked out on it. so we don't know what's in there. >> bill: what would settle this matter, if it is for some a political rorschach test? >> that leads to an obvious solution. release and unredacted version of this fisa application. now, people say that it's highly classified, it has to remain so. i've talked to people -- and i said how much could be opened up unredacted and how much would have to still be redacted to protect the methods of the intelligence community or particular sources? and the feeling is that most of it could probably be unredacted and indeed all 13 republican members of the house intelligence committee we're just finding out wrote to president trump last month saying look, if you can't unredact the whole thing, here is about 20 pages that are really important a

it's not a carter page thing. in effect, what it's doing, a and hallie i think you can talk to this as well, it is an effort to confuse the entire narrative. donald trump has been going after the russia investigation for over a year in any way possible. standing next to vladimir putin, calling it a witch hunt, using this carter page thing to call it a witch hunt, using devin nunes to call it a witch hunt. to a degree it certainly is working among some voters. our friend ali vitale, a white house reporter here at nbc news and msnbc was talking to voters in north dakota. i want to play a couple of sound bites from them and i want you to mull over it with me after we come back. listen. >> do you agree with the president when he calls it a witch hunt? >> i agree. there are a lot of things that it seems like the democrats have been grasping at straws. >> reporter: but bob mueller is not a democrat, right? >> thinking about how much they would have to actually do to rig an election, there is just so much involved. hones

version of the top secret application for surveillance of trump campaign foreign policy adviser carter page. this is the first time such a document has ever been made public and says, quote, to the fbi believes that page has been collaborating and conspireing with the russian government among many other charges, the warrant itself has been the subject of a very partisan fight on the house intelligence committee and the president is already claiming victory on twitter. saying that the released documents confirm with little doubt that the department of quote justice and fbi misled the courts, witch hunt, rigged, a scam. in fact the tweet itself is misleading the documents show that the fbi did use material from the steel dossier but the fbi disclosed that the american who hired steel likely was looking for ways to discredit then candidate trump. it also noted that steel had been a reliable source of information in the past. let's talk to former trump campaign adviser carter page, who joins me now. let's get to the crux of it, carter. the fisa application says the fbi believes that carter page

carter page is become in the spotlight. he was on cnn's state of the union today. >> you did advise the kremlin in 2013 or 2012, somewhere in there? >> jake, it's really a spin. i mean, i sat in on some meetings, but to call me an advisor i think is way over the top. >> informal having some conversations with people. i mean, this is really nothing and just an attempt to distract from the real crimes that are shown in this misleading document. >> well, "the new york times" is one of several organizations that filed a request to see the application involving carter page. charlie savage, a washington correspondent for "the new york times." he joins me now. great to have you with me, charlie. i am looking at this application, the subsequent renewal applications as well. 400 pages in length here. help us understand how extraordinary this is that you, that i, that anybody can now look at this application. >> it's extremely extraordinary. it's the first time in the 40 years that the national security wiretapping has been regulated

s justification to wiretap former trump campaign adviser carter page. ificant role in the initial foreign intelligence surveillance application which was submitted in october 2016. the f.b.i. stated, quote, "it believes page had been the subject of targeted recruitment by the russian government to undermine and influence the outcome of the 2016 u.s. presidential election, in violation of u.s. criminal law." the documents also include several renewal applications to extend surveillance of page. in the last renewal in late spring 2017 is significant, because at that point the f.b.i. had dumped christopher steele as a source after he misled them over his media contacts. as the documents state, subsequently the f.b.i. released source number 1 as an f.b.i. source. despite that the f.b.i. said that steele was still reliable based on his previous work though the visible sections of the renewal application don't indicate the dossier was verified. carter page has said all along that he did nothing wrong and was never a spy for russia, and last night he told fox n

the fbi relying on the unvetted dossier to spy on carter page. >> carter page is more like inspector gadget and james borne. we'll never know if the fbi had enough without the dossier. the dnc funded dossier because they included it and everyone who reads this fisa application sees the amount of reliance they placed on this product funded by hillary clinton's campaign and the dnc. i do have an issue when you rely on political opposition research that is unsetted and you represent that to a court and use it to spy on an american. todd: what we have to remember, in knowledge mall criminal procedures, a defendant gets to defend him or herself. in a surveillance situation, obviously secrecy is paramount. because of that, the court and the people applying for the application need to be completely above reproach. that did not happen here. as a result, we are in the situation we're now. ainsley: they used unverified information to spy on carter page or the trump administration. it was funded as the president tweeted over the weekend reminding all of us it was funded by hillary clinton or by

for his continued insistence carter page was a nobody. >> he can call carter page a nobody. the time in the campaign, he was a foreign policy advisor, the period trump was not able to recruit any of the top shelf foreign policy figures to join his campaign. he wasn't at the president's side. he was a fixture at that time in the campaign, on paper at least. >> this seems to me this is what the republicans have been demanding on the hill for months. they insisted there have been abuses. and you ask paul ryan a question whether devin nunes should continue with the investigation he always goes back to this. clearly, you've seen a divide, republicans saying this proves it was wrongly issued. at the same time, for all the redactions, a decent amount of information there laying out a clear case why they wanted to do this. >> i think that most of the time, when you have a new document or new thing coming out, it becomes such a partisan of thing, one population of people can look at this and say, this proves our point, this new document, here's what i'm talking about, or democrats or

the applications for fisa warrants in 2016 through late 2017, they bluntly described carter page as anf 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 if are more of the application for fisa warrants to be revealed and get un redacted and released. -i'm nought sure we have that as much from the parts we all rig

documents showing how investigators justified their surveillance of former trump campaign aide, carter page. it was made public last night after requests from "the new york times" and other outlets. they believe page is the subject of targeted recruitment by the russian government. undermine and influence the outcome of the 2016 u.s. presidential election in violation of u.s. criminal law. page is a former policy adviser to a candidate for u.s. president. these are the very documents president trump declassified earlier this year, reigniting tensions between democrats and republicans over the russia investigation. he's never been charged with a crime in the two years under surveillance. he denied being a russian agent. president trump tweeted within the last hour, the documents prove the documents misled the courts and ended the tweet saying witch hunt rigged, a scam. let's bring in kevin cirilli chief foreign correspondent for bloomberg tv. thanks for being here. so much to talk about. >> always. >> jonathan, what is your biggest take away? >> the opposite of what the president tweeted. ba

what do they exactly tell us about why the fbi sought this secret fisa warrant against carter page? >> well, the first problem with these documents, of course, is that you look through the 412 pages, and an awful lot of it is blacked out, redacted, in order to protect sources and methods and other exemptions are allowed in order to take that information out. so we don't learn some things that we could learn from it, if we had a full copy of the document. broadly speaking, i think what we learned from it is a lot of what we had already heard, if you put the democratic and republican memos together that they released earlier in the year, describing this, which is to say that the fbi did rely on the steele dossier, at least one element of its request to the court for a fisa warrant. it did disclose to the court that the steele -- was looking for incriminating information about donald trump. but didn't identify steele, didn't identify who paid him, which, of course, initially was republican opponents, later was the democratic opponents of trump. and it makes clear that there are other re

tens of thousands of redactions to carter page fisa warrant, exposed truth, president obama, his justice department, his fbi, yes, his fisa courts cooperated to spy on the trump presidential campaign and administration. based solely on pretext and no evidence whatsoever. "judicial watch"'s chris farrell joins us to talk about the bombshell document that "judicial watch" brought to light. the president tonight is considering whether to lift security clearances from corrupt former intelligence officials in the in obama administration, who used their authority and security clearances to lie, leak and undermine the trump campaign and trump administration. former federal prosecutor andrew mccarthy joins us to talk about the dems, the desperate, desperate radical dems and the desperate deep state and continuing war against the trump presidency. >>> plus, radical dems rushing to embrace a socialist agenda of higher taxes, universal handouts, open borders, unfettered illegal immigration. of course hatred for president trump. >> my fantasy is see donald trump dragged out of the white house in his

carter page has never been formally accused of a crime or indicted.s another indicator of the degree of alarm there was in real-time while that campaign was happening while there was allegations of collusion and never ever was a peep made in public or leaked any of it to the public. >> something you reported on for a long time was the weaponization and misuse of information laundered in the conspiracy theory. we keep having those moments rules are changed or broken and precedence broken to get something out. when it finally comes out -- >> it's the opposite of what it says. >> take look at this analysis now that it's all out today. >> is he concerned or does he not believe the intelligence community's assessment carter page was a russian agent? >> i think we've spoken extensively on our position and have no changes. not exactly a victory lap. >> this has been -- here's the thing. there's a pattern where the attempt to attack and subvert the investigation with collusion of a foreign adversary by something you can't see, it's a neat trick, over there in

meanwhile the man identified, and he is carter page.his application repeatedly describes you as an agent of the russian government. and are you aware of any criminal charges pending against you, do you expect to be charged for working for the russian government? >> not only am i not aware of it, also the fact that there is no question i have ever been asked, and none of those don't make any sense whatsoever. >> there are specifics. they accuse you of two russian officials, both named igor. did you meet with either one of those men? >> i never met with them in my life. ever. >> tucker: do you believe that that allegation comes from the steel dossier? >> absolutely. in july of 2016, two months before the yahoo! news article came out, i started getting these calls from various news reporters. from "the new york times," "washington post," all asking me about the same two names that i had never even heard of -- if i had heard of session but i've never heard of the other. and it was obvious, some people told me from the media that they heard

and carter page is not a key member of the trump campaign. the trump campaign said that. >> he said trump's tweets are not supported bha is in that warrant application. it is 412 pages long. do you think the president read it? >> i looked through it. i have to tell you, there wasn't much to look through. it was largely redacted. and they were page ands pages long. so it wasn't 400 pages of information. and i think what wasn't redacted was targeting and thing thez found as it related to carter page were conclusions without the facts because those facts were redacted. it is hard to pass judgement from one way or another from a document that we didn't see what the court saw. but i get senator rubio's point that, look, if the russians are targeting carter page and they believe that he was vulnerable or that there was some vulnerability there, sure, that may be something they want to consider. but let's not forget the one thing that was left out of that application is the fact that the dnc partially funded the dossier which a dossier which the fac

what do you say to the democrats >> it's now clear they did nothing wrong with carter page.age has long relationships with the russian government and has been proud from this relationships and now all of a sudden, they're not so important, so i think, of course, we will see the president tweet out as he has in the last couple of hours saying, still trying to blame the fbi for illegally spying in campaign. it's not true, 400 pages of evidence that the fbi did nothing wrong. 400 -- rob: the republicans say, look, this is evidence that they really used this -- this nasty dossier as vital information in getting the warrants, what do you think? >> rob, at that -- that's absoly correct. what was redacted was supposedly other information that we used but we can't see it to tell that's what really went on, i see in collusion in trump and russia whatsoever. when you look at 412 pages, you wonder if the dnc and fbi colluded in order to knock president trump out of candidacy or try to get him i peached at a later date, you have peter strzok, he lied to congress, he had nothing to do wi

the fbi telling a top-secret surveillance court it believes carter page, a former trump campaign adviser is also a russian agent conspiring with the kremlin. page firmly denies the fbi's claims. here's cnn's jake tapper today asking page about his kremlin ties. >> but you did advise the kremlin? i just want to make it clear, you did advise the kremlin back in 2013 or 2012, somewhere in there? >> jake, that's -- it's really spin. i mean, i -- i set in on some meetings, but to call my an adviser, i think, is way over the -- over the top. >> except in a 2013 letter, you wrote, it says, quote, over the past half year, i have had the privilege to serve as an informal adviser to the staff of the kremlin in preparation for the presidency of the g-20 summit next month, where energy issues will be a prominent point on the agenda. that's august 2013. that's yourself calling yourself an informal adviser to the kremlin. >> you know, informal, having some conversations with people. i mean, this is really nothing and just an attempt to distract from the real crimes that are shown in this misleading do

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they bluntly describe 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 have called the carter page fisa surveillance a gross abuse of power. some sort of prime example of fbi overreach. but in these newly released documents, you can see not just the fbi considering the steel dossier, christopher steel, as a reliable and credible source. you can see the fbi telling the court that steel was hired to do this digging on the trump campaign in russia for political reasons. something that republicans denied the court had been informed about. but more substantively than that, leaving the republicans out of it, we have this mountain of other evidence that went into the fbi calling carter page a russian agent. everything from the meetings he had in moscow to investigative reporting stateside to the russian spy harpring really did try to recruit him if new york. tonight they're calling for even more of the fisa warrants

he has never, i don't think carter page ever said he is a spy but certainly talked about it. >> if cartere had gone to russia during the campaign, that he had meetings with russian officials that page publicly denied, we can now confirm he did in fact have meetings with russian officials. so it was a solid application and renewals signed by four different judges appointed by three different republican presidents. trish: you know what is tricky about this, everyone? what is tricky we need to make sure the russians never meddle with any of our elections ever again. but we also have to be vigilant about making sure that our own government doesn't ever try and use intelligence-gathering against any particular campaign. i have mean that is what the challenge is. we really need to figure out what actually happened because we deserve that knowledge right now. joining me is fox news contributor jehmu greene and ceo of american majority, ned ryun. ned, you and i have talked at length about this i saw that dossier had been floating around in journalist circles. i thought it was a piece of trash. it

carter page has all along denied doing anything wrong. ge defended himself once again on cnn yesterday. >> were you ever an agent of a foreign power? did you ever advise the kremlin or work with the kremlin on anything? >> look, jake, no, i've never been an agent of the foreign power in any -- by any stretch of the imagination. >> but you did advise the kremlin. i want to make it clear, you did advise the kremlin in 2013 or 2012, somewhere in there. >> it's really spin. i sat in on some meetings. you know, to call me an adviser i think is way over the top. >> what is -- why is the public seeing these documents now? what do they say? >> the fbi released these documents after losing a lawsuit that was brought by media and advocacy groups. these are highly classified documents. this is the first time the american public has seen what goes into one of these intelligence applications. what we learned is that it's 400 pages long, heavily redacted. right at the -- it's against carter page, the one-time foreign policy adviser. this warrant was gra

are in our face incorrect. >> first off, when the surveillance of the fbi to start surveillancing carter page, he was an independence citizen. for the president to point to page that the surveillanc surveillance -- the other central claim that trump and other republicans has made sort of a key allegation of this effort to take down the mueller probe is that in this fisa application, there was a lie and this was mislead information trying to keep the judges on the foreign intelligence surveillance court from knowing the so-called steele dossier was funded by democrats. >> let me stop you there, devin nunes issued a statement today, the newly released documents confirm the intelligence committee's long-standing argument that unverified information from the steele dossier formed an essential part of all the fisa applications on carter page. it proves that the fbi used out right political propaganda. >> is that what you saw ned? >> in doing so we can see very clearly that there was some material contained from the so-called steele dossier but there was a footnote and a page worth of texts and an

you and i were not supposed to have a conversation about carter page on television. this case is different. he is presumed innocent. i don't have an issue with looking into people that have cozied relationships with russia. that's fine, that's what law enforcement is supposed to do. i do have an issue when you rely on political opposition research that is undated and you represent that to a court and use that to spy on americans. >> you have seen this document long ago but are there documents that you know exist that you have yet to see? >> some. the mccabe memos that came up during the lisa page interview. >> he became acting director after comey leaves. >> as it as you become director you make a decision to memorialize your conversations with the president. i have not seen the mccabe memos. there were other references that lisa page made to documents and files that i think congress is entitled to see. i am saying as much if not more than any other member of congress which is why i am adamant that russia is not our friend and they tried to attack us.>> are you equal