foreign ministries the hackers are said to belong to the same group that attacked the democratic national committee ahead of the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election also coming up the international olympic committee lifts its doping ban on russia after the remaining tests of the country's athletes at the winter olympics come back negative so does this draw a line under moscow's massive state run doping scandal. and fears grow in germany over the welfare of the tens of thousands of homeless people forced to live outside those temperatures plunge to record lows. i bring coffee it's good to have you with us reports tonight coming in that the german government's computers have been hit in a cyber attack berlin confirming that a hacking group infiltrated the foreign and defense ministries and may have stolen sensitive data sources say a hacking group with alleged links to the russian government broke into the government network the attacks were apparently discovered. ember but were only made public today of the ministry of the interior has confirmed that the attacks did indeed take place all right

to the russian group accused of attacking the democratic national committee ahead of the u.s. election in two thousand and sixteen. the international olympic committee the i.o.c. has reinstated russia's olympic membership the move comes after the remaining tests of the country's. winter olympics turned up negative russia had its membership suspended for evidence of mercy of a huge state run though being scandalous. afghan president. has offered peace talks to the taliban during a conference aimed at bringing stability to the region it's part of his attempts to end an insurgency that began after the u.s. led the taliban in two thousand and one though the taliban are not taking part in today's conference on the offer the militant group the possibility of political recognition if it did his peace offer and afghan constitution president also reached out to neighboring pakistan which has been accused of providing a safe haven for taliban militants. although reports that pakistani officials are preparing the forced return of millions of afghans who have sought refuge there some have

including with the christopher steele dossier that they say was compiled on behalf of the democrat national committee. democrats want their own memo to come out, and for that to happen, the committee would have to vote for that to be able to come out. florida, daniel on the line for independents and others. >> thanks for having me. i think the release of the memo, the declassification on the part of trump's legal team was brilliant. if they can prove why law that -- by law that the basis of the investigation was illegal and the renewal of the warrants was based on an illegal move, then all of the evidence gathered during the investigation is null and void, it cannot be used. that investigation went on years prior to the election. >> do you think he will be able to get the full story with so much of this being intelligence material that is classified? it, you're notof going to be able to get. if it is illegal, they will not admit it or it will not be admitted. and any evidence that you have toward particular people, you're not going to be able to use it in our courts. host: thanks for the call. scott

defense and foreign ministers hackers are said to belong to the same group that attacked the democratic national committee ahead of the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election also coming up banned no more the international olympic committee lifts its doping ban on russia athletes tests at the winter olympics came back negative so does this draw a line under moscow's massive state run doping scandal. plus one war in two different stories russia says it has evacuated civilians from eastern guta in syria but aid workers say the people trapped in the rebel held on plane afraid to leave. also in search of a soldier our moscow correspondent travels to the ins hoping to get information about the russian mercenaries fighting and dying in syria no find why few people in this town are willing to call. and a new survey reveals there has been a change in attitude so among germans towards the united states we'll tell you why . i bring golf and it's good to have you with us reports tonight coming in that the german government's computers have been hit in a cyber attack berlin confirming that a hacking group infiltra

lot of folks look at the facts that michael steele may or may not of been paid by the democratic national committee and assume that that taints everything you said. ordinary law-enforcement witnesses are often paid informants. that does not prove that any warrant is tainted. more often than not, it is not. this is why the real question is not what of the memo say, the question is what was actually submitted to the five a court -- fisa court? so that was any concerns would dissipate. host: is there a way to release that underlying information that doesn't copper my's national security? -- compromise national security? guest: we could try. the president has the final say on these kinds of classifications and declassification questions. if he really wanted to declassify the underlying application to the fisa court with appropriate reactions. with blackout passages to hide sources and methods, he could try to do so. he could instruct the director of national intelligence to take a shot in that direction. not hearing ae clamor from either the president or house intelligence committee either to release t

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there was a direct pipeline into the doj essentially from the democratic national committee and fusion that is troubling , more bad details are going to come out about that unfortunately who at the fbi was aware of that? we're still determining that. maria: and it feels like, jim kallstrom, we're pursuing an investigation of potential collusion between trump and russia something that doesn't exist and we're not investigat ing something that we know exists and that is this bias and this corruption at the top of the fbi which is why the congressman's comments are so important. >> when comey was fired, he applied soon after that to be the fbi director. went to the white house with rosenstein i understand, was turned down for that job and then a day or two later, rosenstein appoints him as the special counsel when there was no predicate crime. maria: yeah. >> there was a conflict of interest as long as the jersey turnpike and speaking of rosenstein, he signs one of these orders. the deputy attorney general signs one of these fisa orders. now, did he, is he claiming he did not know that thi

. >> hillary clinton and the democratic national committee funded the dossier.hey called it a sham memo out to discredit robert mueller's investigation. saying no one is above the law. on the question of law a lot more information on why a trump appointee rod rosenstein helped renew the fisa warrant after the new president took office. the dossier may have only been a smart percentage of the information submitted to the judge to get the warrant. comey tweeted today: remember that bit you played at the top. the president saying what do you think when asked about rosenstein, suggests more house cleaning. >> martha: here with more breaking news. congress pete king who sits on the house intelligence committee. we spoke to him throughout this process. signaturuggest suggests. what do you make of the former fbi director james comey about this memo and how it wrecked so many of the individuals who were involved with it, i mean the agencies? >> i was one of those people who over the years supported james comey. i am disappointed. that was a political response. he did no

case, the guy who put together the dossier was being paid for by clinton for america, the democrat national committeeand maybe a russian oligarch. that is scary if that took place. these are the kind of things we need to get to the bottom of. that is why we need a second special counsel. >> let me jump in on one thing. we talked about gun control earlier. we talked about our law enforcement. we love our law enforcement. the vast majority of fbi are wonderful, serving individuals who love the rule of law. fundamentally, what happened in the white house the last few days on this whole gun debate, it really is what distinguishes us as a nation. or somene in china other place had a problem with the way their government operated, we would push back. they would say things -- in another foreign area, you might be sent to jail. what happens in america, you get an invitation to the white house for an honest dialogue. that is what makes america great. that is what we need to support. [applause] president trump himself mentioned in his speech that there is a possibility that republicans could get clobbered in n

when did you first learn or come to believe the dossier was funded by the democratic national committeed/or hillary for america clinton campaign? >> the facts are not bearing to what democrats wanted to be because we have found collusion, we have found collusion between the democrats, specifically the clinton campaign and the democratic national committee and the russians. however, doesn't seem to be, nobody is interested in that. >> reporter: republicans released the controversial memo earlier this month claiming british by christopher steele composed the anti-trump dossier with unverified allegations used to obtain a fisa warrant against carter page. >> all of my communications were hacked and wiretapped for over a year. about the tremendous resources not only in terms of fake news, us government propaganda in 2016, but even with the fbi. >> reporter: the son-in-law of a russian oligarch pleaded guilty to lying about his last communication with former trump advisor rick gates who was indicted along with from former campaign manager paul manaforte. gaetz will plead guilty to charges of

ministry is installing the packers are said to belong to the same group that attacked the democratic national committee ahead of the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election. and fears grow in germany over the welfare of the tens of thousands of homeless people forced to live outside as temperatures plunge to record low voice. hello i'm terry marchant good to have you with its the international olympic committee has confirmed to d.w. that russia's olympic ben has been lifted with quote immediate effect the news comes just two days after russian athletes returned from competing as neutrals at the john shank winter olympics in south korea two russian athletes failed drug tests at the games but the ban was automatically deducted after no further positive tests russia was banned after revelations of state sponsored doping at the sochi games in two thousand and fourteen. well for more on this development let's bring in jonathan crane from d.w. sports hey jonathan does this decision come as a surprise to be honest terry not really i think when the i.o.c. decided on sunday that it wasn't going to lift the ban f

leon: the chairman of the democratic national committee. elizabeth: why he wanted the goods on larry o'brien, there are various theories about that, having to do with howard hughes and blah blah. leon: that's my favorite one. elizabeth: but. where was i? [laughter] elizabeth: my point was, because he couldn't make the distinction he kept getting into trouble. why were they so obsessed with ellsberg? the pentagon papers were really about the vietnam war under johnson, but he questioned the foundation of the vietnam war. it was kissinger who was very worked up about this and ellsberg was an enemy and we have to get him. this was the atmosphere of that white house, who are we going to get? that's what led him down this trail. one of the articles of impeachment that i think is important, i know you have a question about that. there were three articles of impeachment that the house judiciary committee approved. one of them held at the -- held the president accountable for the acts of his aides. it had to be a pattern or practice of a certain kin

foreign ministries the hackers are said to belong to the same group that attacked the democratic national committee ahead of the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election also coming up and no more the international olympic committee lives doping ban on russia the athletes tests at the pyongyang the winter olympics they came back negative and why were investigative reporter young and his fiance martina over shot dead could there be a link to what turned out to be the final story. barbara goff it's good to have you with us reports are coming in tonight that the german government's computers have been hit in a cyber attack berlin confirming that a group infiltrated the foreign and defense ministries and may have stolen sensitive data sources say a hacking group with alleged links to the russian government broke into the government's network the attacks were apparently discovered in december but were only made public today the. ministry of the interior confirmed tonight of the attacks took place. our let's bring in our political correspondent all over salad he's on the story for us tonight h

he was being paid by the democratic national committee and he was out to get trump. d using his work product was a mistake. >> reporter: and tonight there could be another internal battle brewing for the house intelligence committee even though adam schiff wants to subpoena corey lewandowski. the republican leading the investigation won't say if he'll back the subpoena push from schiff and republican pete king even flat out said tonight that he won't support the lewandowski subpoena. and that's becauser pete king said that lewandowski has already answered 90% of the questions. >> thanks so much. with lewandowski and bannon both refusing to answer more questions from congress, i'll talk to the panel. why might they be reluctant? plus, first to cross the border. kim jong-un sending his sister to the olympics. that isn't stopping trump administration from making another tough move. whoooo. looking for a hotel that fits... ...your budget? tripadvisor now searches over... ...200 sites to find you the... ...hotel you want at the lowest price. grazi, gino! find a price that

compiled in part by fusion gps and paid for in part by hillary clinton's campaign and the democratic national committee. >> exactly right. that's at the core of this. is that the correct kind of documentation on which to base the authorization for domestic espionage? the "wall street journal" has reported that was not all presented as evidence in order to justify this domestic surveillance. >> jon: what about -- there are some at the white house who have said that this thing is kind of being oversold. americans might read it and shrug their shoulders and say so what? >> that's exactly a possibility in all of this. i've heard many republicans also are calling for the underlying documentation to be brought forward, not just this memo. as you know, some of the f.b.i. are concerned that the memo takes things out of context. it should be clear this is a republican memo and there is a democrat memo that some are calling to be released as well. the question is the underlying documents, what do they show in terms of whether the process to authorize domestic surveillance was done properly or not. >> jon: democr

it just happens to be with the hillary clinton campaign and the democratic national committee. >> it's about a distorted memo that the republicans decided to put forth. >> serious concerns about the integrity of decisions that were made at the highest level of the department. >> this is a red herring, an attempt to confuse everybody. >> there is a lot of fear in washington that the president is gearing up to fire the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein. the president was asked about it today. >> you figure that one out. >> the firing of rob rose stein in my view would be an act of obstruction of justice. >> this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. >> good morning, and thank you very much for spending time with us. the build-up's over, the memo's out. the question is, will the leaders of the fbi and department of justice, previously held in high esteem by both parties, lose any jobs over the document? >> the president refuses to say whether he still his confidence in the man heading the russia probe after the release of the controversial memo. abbey phillip

really been spoken about in all this bipartisan arguing and that is national security but the ranking democrat on the national security committee is adam schiff and he says of the repercussions of releasing this full page memo for republicans have real issues and real ramifications for national security let's listen to what he has to say sources are going to dry up because of what the republicans on this committee are doing now there's a compact between our committee and the intelligence community you give us your deepest held secrets we will hold them in good confidence we want to use them. they're going to share a lot less with us now and other sources of nation are going to decide not to share with the f.b.i. because they can't rely on our committee not to be partisan in the handling of that information and that's a deep disservice which ultimately makes the country less safe and i was even alluded it's not necessarily running through party lines here of course the president already said he's been vindicated but some republicans are backing the intelligence community and indeed the russia investigation. i'm in the archive mo

together by a former british spy and paid for by the hillary clinton campaign and the democratic national committee. >> we know it's just political garbage. it's no more credible than a $2 novel and the fbi used the dossier to survey a private u.s. citizen who has no accusations against him except for he has associations with the trump campaign. >> democrats say the fisa courts were told there was a political motivation behind the dossier. democrats to spew a former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe told lawmakers. the memo says mccabe said in december that no surveillance warrant would've been taught without the dossier. democrats countered by saying that's not what mccabe said. >> that is not what he said. they had the transcript better understand why they would focus on the transcript. they did disclose it was politically motivated source. that's what the judge needed to know. >> congressman stuart said he was part of the questioning of mccabe and insist the intent of the answers is that there would not have been a warrant without the dossier. eric: molly, thank you very much. molly: from imus,

they never told the cold that the democrat national committee an the clinton campaign paid for it. >>hree of those times they did so after knowing that the very person who wrote it -- the dossier was not telling the truth. >> house republicans on the attack after the release of the nunes memo alleging intel abused by the fbi. today we obtained a rebuttal from congressman jerry nadler. challenging the nunes memo core conclusions. back with us, charlie savage, msnbc contributor and robert trainham from the bush-cheney campaign and vice president at the bipartisan policy center. robert, we'll start with you. and you heard from the ohio representative there, they did not let them know that this was politically funded but that is not true according to our sourcing as well as other representatives who are privy to the information that indeed they were made aware of the political contributions made to this very report in the beginning. but all said, robert, when we have the nadler response and now we're good to get the official democratic response from the house intel committee, this is the

he was paid $160,000 by the democratic national committee and hillary clinton's campaign. >> i would argue it is unprecedented to rely on political opposition research to inform an application and it is really bad and unpress dented to not tell a -- unprecedented to not tell a court. >> reporter: president trump tweeted the fbi became a tool of anti-trump political actors. this is unacceptableane democracy. democrats say the american people should know a corresponding memo democrats was not released. if it were house minority leader nancy pelosi says it would become clear that the republicans are cherry picking facts. cbs news, new york. >>> congress faces a deadline this week to avoid another government shutdown. funding from the last measure runs out on thursday and so far there is no deal on the immigration issue that triggered a three day shut down last month. that centers on the status of 700,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the u.s. as children. today senator richard derbin said efforts will continue and he doubts whether or not it will lead to another government

my main concern is things like did the court know this was paid for by the democratic national committee dossier. >> exactly. i'd be curious to ask a judge, did you know who paid for this dossier that's been presented to you and would it have made a difference? i think it's more looking within the agency, something we have oversight over. they don't have oversight us we have oversight over them. that's why i wanted to move forward. >> there are a number of house republicans including gowdy who agree with wen strup but there are other republicans who are saying, no, the whole thing is corrupt and the mueller probe needs to end. >> that's just not the case. i agree with brad in the way he articulated this and speaker ryan who said to his conference, this is really not about the mueller investigation. trey gowdy said that. what we are going to learn when the democratic -- if and when and we hope that it is, the democratic memo is released which is a counterpoint to the republican memo, what we will learn is that it is not true that this fisa warrant was awarded solely on the basis of the st

it just happens to be with the hillary clinton campaign and the democratic national committee. >> itblicans decided to put forth. >> serious concerns about the integrity of decisions made at the highest level of the department. >> this is a red herring, an

. >> the latest e-mails released by wikileaks suggests that top officials at the democratic national committeenned to undermine bernie sanders. >> suspected russian leak of embarrassing democratic national committee e-mails. >> some reporters did also press on russia's role during the convention. nbc's andrea mitchell raising the point with bernie sanders' campaign manager, who didn't welcome russia's help. >> we have been told by the computer experts there's a strong suspicion the russians were behind the original hack. do you have concern about a foreign adversary trying to influence the election? potentially on behalf of donald trump, who has praised vladimir putin? >> certainly a very, very disturbing. we don't want foreign powers trying to influence u.s. elections. no doubt about that. >> that was in the middle of the convention. that's, of course, the right cent answer. >> as more came out, more journalists dug into just how deeply this russian operation exploited the democratic primary battle. >> they used automated social media bots and what appeared to be paid operatives in russia and

lot of folks look at the fact that michael steele may or may not have been paid by the democratic national committee and assumed that taint everything he says. pedro, ordinary law enforcement witnesses are often paid informants. not prove that any warrants the government obtains from that information is tainted. in fact, more often than not, it is not. that is why the real question is not what the memo says, but what was actually submitted to the fisa court, was there enough sufficient, independently corroborated information so that any concerns that we have about the provenance of this dossier would dissipate. host: is there a way to release that underlying information that does not compromise national security? guest: certainly, we could try. ultimately, the call is up to the president. the president has the final say on these kinds of classification and declassification questions. if he wanted to declassify the underlying application to the fisa court with appropriate reactions, blacked out passages to high sources and methods, he could do so. he could instruct the director of national intelligen

the democratic national committee were donald trump made a plea to russia. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. i think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. >> questions like, why did the then-candidate ask that? did somebody tell him to? was it scripted? was donald trump trying to give himself cover for what he already knew was about to come? investigators also want to know if he knew hillary clinton's campaign chairman, john podesta, would be targeted later. nbc news reached out to the white house and the president's legal team. we'll have their response in just a moment. witnesses tell us trump's longtime confidant appears to be a key focus. contacts with wikileaks and if he ever met with julian assange. one witness says he wanted to know if there was a scheme. was stone working on the side for trump after he officially left the campaign? that witness felt they were trying to figure out if the wikileaks release was a big plot. investigators were interested in statements still made in the lead-up to the elections

warrant against carter page, it's obvious that the trump dossier which was paid for by the democratic national committeend the hillary campaign committee was a prime reason why they got the warrant. and they never told the court that. i know there's all this misleading language at the end where it says that this could have had partisan purposes. it's much different if you say that it was done actually by the presidential opponents. that was left out. other than that, if they had so much evidence on carter page why do they have to wait till he got the dossier before they applied for the warrant? carter page -- i don't know anyone takes him seriously as a russian agent including the russians or the fbi, because he worked against the russians back in 2013 and he never played a real role in the trump campaign. >> to that point, congressman king, the fact that he didn't play that important of a role, i mean, one of the major assertions in the schiff memo is that the justice department did not use a fisa warrant to spy on the trump campaign or to spy on donald trump. it did say it spied on page but after he w

did she through the national democratic committee which she controlled dispatch christopher steele toalk to russian agents to come up with serious or concocted allegations against donald trump which the fbi at one point took seriously. was mrs. clinton herself behind this? and was the dnc accepting something of value from the russians? what the crime is whether done by the trump campaign or hillary campaign or democratic national committee, accepting something of value from a foreign national or foreign government. federal law makes that a felony. kennedy: we know millions of dollars were paid for the content of the steele dossier. knowing she and her campaign could get in so much trouble especially if she were elected. judge napolitano: should the justice department. where is jeff sessions. should $jeff sessions direct an investigation of this? or is it just too close to the russians for him to be involved with. kennedy: someone has to investigate something so we don't have to appoint a special counsel every single time. judge napolitano: special counsels have a tendency to overindic

not only not to have happened but to have been invented by the democrats paid for by the democrat national committee and the clinton campaign think about the democrats trajectory or first of all last week before the pfizer memo was released democrats said oh no we can't do this with a b. would be devastating to the institution of the f.b.i. but from friday once the memo was released till today we've heard this was a dud the memo was a nothing burger it didn't mean anything it so wait a minute first it was going to damage the f.b.i. terribly then it was nothing and now it deserves a rebuttal my head spinning and some of the most vocal critics of the pfizer memo have been the washington post and the new york times journalism has become the subject of a new film but it's odd to use american explains journalistic values can suddenly change over time. the washington post and the new york times once established themselves as shining beacons of true journalism a brave group of reporters who would stop at nothing to find out as much as they can in their quest for truth but i'm actually talking about the sev

the steele dossier was at some point funded by the clinton t campaign a democratic national committee. that's it. that's the scandal. the justice department allegedly didn't tell the court about this. jane: but that is important, though, isn't it? because if that is the case, and the fact that they are using dubious methods to investigate their suspects or their targets -- doesn't at then undermine the broader russia inquiry? liza: well, there's a pretty critical difference between saying they're using dubious methods and using source funded in part by the clinton campaign. it doesur not not nly lead from one to the other. nsone of the queste don't know is what other indicators were there of reliability for this document? were there other reasons to trust this document apart from who funded it? you have to understand that informants always come with their own agendas and bias. informants are often paid. this is not an unusual thing. o w significant it is, whether there was a dutyform the court, depends very much on case-by-case details that we don't know from this memo. jane: are we e

not only not to have happened but to have been invented by the democrats paid for by the democrat national committee and the clinton campaign and now they're investigating prof i still think the funniest part about this is they want to say drop well we couldn't find any collusion so it must be obstruction of justice that he fired a former f.b.i. director what was he obstructing if there was no justice to be served because what they were investigating wasn't even true some of the most vocal critics of the nunez memo have been the washington post and the new york times journalism has become the subject of a new film but as a teaser samir a con explains journalistic values can change over time. the washington post and the new york times once establish themselves as shining beacons of true journalism a brave group of reporters who would stop at nothing to find out as much as they can in their quest for truth but i'm actually talking about the seventy's back then new york times and poster less risk jail time by publishing classified documents on the war the new york times begins its explosive series base

by former british spy christopher steele, who was paid, the memo says, $160,000 by the democratic national committeend the hillary clinton campaign via a law firm and a research firm to dig up dirt on trump's ties to russia. the memo says neither the initial application to surveil tapes, what they're talking about here, in 2016 nor any of the renewals disclose or reference the role of the dnc, clinton campaign, or any party campaign and fund funding of steele's efforts. and only were known to senior doj and fbi officials. and that, republicans say, gets to the heart of what they call abuse of power by the department of justice and fbi. >> what you have in the middle of an election, the fbi takes research off a political document to a secret court to get a secret warrant to spy on an american citizen and they don't tell the courts who paid for it. >> but the top ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee does not believe the memo vindicates president trump in the investigation which goes beyond carter page. congressman adam schiff just tweeted, quite the opposite, mr. president, the most im

not only not to have happened but to have been invented by the democrats paid for by the democrat national committee and the clinton campaign and now they're investigating trump i still think the funniest part about this is they want to say traub well we couldn't find a vehicle luzhin so it must be obstruction of justice that he fired the former f.b.i. director what was he obstructing if there was no justice to be served because what they were investigating wasn't even true i think that's laughable the republican party earlier released a memo outlining a potential bias on the part of the f.b.i. and the department of justice in its trunk pressure probe the document faced criticism from the democrats but republicans now say their investigation will proceed to encompass even more branches that the government yes so let me get to that sort so phase one. our investigation was just getting to getting at the pfizer . what we're looking at now is the state department and some of the irregularities there and some of the most vocal critics the memo have been the washington post and the new york times that jou

that lurking in the background was the democratic national committee, these are all really significant issues and a judge would want to know that. neil: as a former fbi official yourself, does it offend you, as seems to be a lot of politicians are saying, for the propriety and the reputation of the fbi to have its motives second guessed or to have a couple of people's motives second guessed that they're on a political witch hunt. people like john mccain says it serves nobody's interest, no party's, no person only vladimir putin, i can't imagine that's the case, but how do you feel about that? >> neil, i begin by being annoyed and then more agitated. and then like just about every fbi agents i worked with, some are currently in the fbi that i know, we don't need any of these politicians to go and tell the american public that we're really upset about this because we're not. fbi agents do not conduct themselves this way and people who work cases and people who go before courts and judges, and the fisa court, we would never operate like this. neil: so you would kwelcome the scrutiny-- jus

not only not to have happened but to have been invented by the democrats paid for by the democrat national committee and the clinton campaign and now they're investigating trump i still think the funniest part about this is they want to say trump well we couldn't find any collusion so it must be obstruction of justice that he fired the former f.b.i. director what was he obstructing if there was no justice to be served because what they were investigating wasn't even true i think that's laughable now the republican party earlier released a memo outlining a potential bias on the part of the f.b.i. the department of justice in its trump probe of the document faced criticism from the democrats but republicans now say very much the geisha will proceed to encompass even more breaches of the government yes so let me get to that so phase one of our investigation was just getting to getting at the pfizer. what we're looking at now is the state department and some of the irregularities there well some of the most vocal critics of the memo have been the washington post and the new york times that journalism is

not only not to have happened but to have been invented by the democrats paid for by the democrat national committee and the clinton campaign and now they're investigating trump i still think the funniest part about this is they want to say trump well we couldn't find any collusion so it must be obstruction of justice that he fired the former f.b.i. director what was he obstructing if there was no justice to be served because what they were investigating wasn't even true i think that's laughable now the republican party earlier released a memo outlining a potential bias on the part of the f.b.i. and the department of justice and it's russian probe the document faced criticism from the democrats but republicans now say their investigation will proceed to encompass even more branches of the government. yes so let me get to that so phase one of our investigation was just getting to getting at the pfizer. what we're looking at now is the state department and some of the irregularities there some of the most vocal critics of the memo have been the washington post and the new york times the journalism is

lapierre: i will tell you this, that is more than anybody at the democratic national committee, or nbc news, or "the washington post" is offering. >> right. [applause] mr. lapierre: you know what, the shameful politicalization of tragedy, it is a classic strategy right out of the playbook of a poisonous movement. in my three decades of leading the nra, i have had the pleasure of working with a number of democrats who believe america to be the greatest country in the world, because of our free market capitalism, and because of our individual liberties. but during the last decade, the obama decade, many of those leaders have been forced out as a tidal wave of new european style socialists seize control of the democratic party. [applause] mr. lapierre: obama promised a fundamental transformation of our country. and you know what, it began with his own national party, a party that is now infested with saboteurs who do not believe in capitalism, do not believe in the constitution, do not believe in our freedom, and do not believe in america as we know it. obama may be gone, but their utopia

that was reported that the fisa judges did know that but not specifically that it was the democratic national committee or the clinton campaign. after this memo comes out, carl bernstein on cnn says we haven't seen such dark days in our democracy since the days of joe mccarthy. on msnbc donny deutsche says our demiate i is under siege, people need to take to the streets, this is a dictator. mollie: if you were corned about the way the fbi secured a wiretap on someone you are anti-republic. these claims that the memo was somehow inaccurate. the fbi did review the memo and had the opportunity to say if anything was inaccurate. they don't dispute the facts in the memo. so when people say facts are in dispute, reporters have a verification to -- have an obligation to verify that before they run with the claim. a hillary clinton-funded opposition document invented through the hillary clinton campaign made it to the highest levels of our government and was used to spy on an opposition candidate. howie: carter page, the trump people used to say he was a low-level volunteer. jessica, one of the things that str

campaign bots were also used to spread damaging information the russians hacked from the democratic national committee in one study showed they generated twenty percent of all the political traffic on twitter during the first second and their debates were overwhelmingly sort of rate of five to one in support of donald trump compared to hillary clinton when it came to swing states we saw that bought usages of the all time high thoughts are being used to spread fake news stories in ways that we've never really seen before are bots to use on facebook as well as twitter facebook has to come clean for instance during the election there was actually a real protest that happened because of fake profile pages that were automated on facebook and so bots are absolutely a problem on facebook. seth turin the founder of you bought studio is well versed in the ways bots are used on facebook his software is one of many turnkey systems to pop up in recent years that make it easy to build a new xbox on social media platforms and they're cheap you can buy one for three hundred dollars or less we call this the you about

the fact that carter page on star michael steele may or may not have been paid by the democratic national committee and assume that means everything he says. ordinary witnesses are often paid informants. such is not prove that information is tainted. that's why the real question is what is a memo say, question is what was submitted to the fisa court. was there enough independent inc. information. >> host: their way to release that underline information that doesn't compromise national security? >> we could try. the call is up to the president. he has the final say on these classification questions. if he really wanted to declassify the underlying application to the fisa court with appropriate rejections to height sources he could try to do so. they could instruct the directive national intelligence to do that. the fact that were not here in a clamor from the president or the house committee either to release the application or they can't release it, i think it's further proof that this charade has very little to do with transparency and a lot to do with fulfilling up political narrative. >> speak.