carter paige and his russia ties, they were not a figment of christopher steele's imagination. all right? it is remarkable to think that the republican party and trump white house are going to try to make it a scandal, that carter paige of all people was being surveilled as a potential agent given his background of being rekrur recruited as a russian former age agent. you should google carter paige or the spy rings where he surfaces but republicans in congress voted to release this memo that they wrote tonight and cnn is reporting that president trump said act rod rosenstein, quote, let's fire him. let get rid of him. "the washington post" is reporting the president thinks this nunes memo, obstruction of justice is a crime. it is a crime for which even presidents can get in a whole lot of trouble and it is fascinating to game out which of the president's actions might be legally actionable if he gets i'm pee impeached or indicted. i get it. but i also get that people try to obstruct justice for a reason. it is to stop an investigation, to stop prodeceedings of justic that could

because i think "the times" a few months ago, i think it was back in april, talked about carter paige as potentially being the catalyst or one of the key -- >> a catalyst, right. >> -- for the fbi's investigation. now the attention here is on papadopoulos. >> right. >> there's also been the question raised here. trump's defenders have put this out there, some others have as well, the question of, did this dossier play a role? so explain how you know that it's not the dossier and it is papadopoulos? >> well, you have to remember that all of these things are sort of happening at the same time, right? you have the e-mails get released, the hacked e-mails. then you get the information from the australians about papadopoulos. and then they start to realize that carter paige, who years earlier had been recruited by russian intelligence agencies, had also made a trip to russia in that same month, in july, and we've been reporting for months now that one of the people he was in contact with there was a suspected russian intelligence agent. and so all that stuff is happening at the same time.

it was an extension, a renewal of a warrant that they had been for quite some time looking into carter paige. there was three russian spies. one was tried, convicted, and jailed. he was writing and talking in a secure facility in new york about this man, carter page long before any dossier or anything else. there was a top secret, high powers investigation. >> and we have not seen the memo, but a application is this think -- >> the renewal application, too. i think the idea about the renewal application is that it is the fruit of the poisonous tree. it was problematic according to the republicans and the remember memo because it relied in part on the steel dos d dossier. and it was not commissioned initially by democrats. fair point, perhaps, but likely the application and the basis for which by which the judge granted the warrant was not just this but a host of things. you have to have a lot of evidence before the judge to get the application granted. we'll see what it is, but -- >> look at how long it takes to explain what happened. it is so easy to make this, oh, these -- they keep going

putting fourth this surveillance warrant application for trump campaign foreign policy adviser carter paige. and we understand from a source this steele dossier was used in part to get this surveillance warrant and one of the sources is telling us that it was not disclosed properly disclosed to the fisa judge that this dossier was funded in part by democrats. of course this is a republican cry that this investigation was potentially politically motivated and all the right channels weren't checked off. >> thanks so much. >> joining us right now california democratic congressman adam schiff. thanks for being with us. can you explain why republicans voted to release their memo and not the democratic response when according to democrats kind of poked holes or pointed out things were incorrect or fact chul untrue. >> the fbi justice has not read this memo? >> no. the director has. but he is the only one who has been able to see it along with an analyst. we haven't gotten feedback from the department. the fbi director wanted to come before our committee or have the bureau come before or committee

chairman paul manafort, he worked on the campaign for a short period of time, foreign policy advisor carter paigethat dude nobody ever met him. today it was white house chief strategists steve bannon's turn. >> how close were they when they were in the white house? one of the claims in the book is you frequently dined with mr. bannon unless he was already in bed. >> the book says he had been sidelined by april, which i think goes further to indicate he had very little credibility to give much information after that point, which most of the book is based after that time frame. again, this book is mistake after mistake after mistake. >> were they not -- >> i'm not aware they were ever particularly close. >> close? steve bannon? who? steve bannon? the guy that ran the president's campaign and give an job in the white house equal to the chief of staff? why would you even think they were close? they definitely didn't dine together and speak. if you are in the room right now, would the president recognize him? everybody says loyalty has always been super important to donald trump. don't let anybody tel

the arrangement made with carter paige to release that testimony, with mr.gements made in advance to release that testimony, and generally speaking, the committee is not going to do that, but when there are extenuating circumstances, an agreement, or compelling reason to do it, the committee might do it. >> thank you so much for joining us. a lot of work to do in the investigation. appreciate it very much. >> yeah, thank you, wolf. >>> coming up, a sophisticated russian spy ship on course towards the united states, the east coast of the united states. how close will it get? what are the russians up to? your insurance company won't replace the full value of your totaled new car. the guy says you picked the wrong insurance plan. no, i picked the wrong insurance company. with liberty mutual new car replacement™, you won't have to worry about replacing your car because you'll get the full value back including depreciation. switch and you could save $782 on home and auto insurance. call for a free quote today. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. >