and you mentioned senator grassley. i have to tell you, senator grassley has done a phenomenal job here, sean. a lot of people have given, myself and my committee, a lot of credit we've dug up. but i can tell you that senator grassley has been phenomenal throughout this whole process. i think he deserves a lot of credit. >> sean: this guy, christopher steele, is a guy who has a desperate -- was desperate that donald trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being the president. so he has his own political motivation in all of this. >> and, sean, that also was not presented to the court. >> sean: well, i mean... i know the democrats are putting it out. my sources are telling me tonight that they don't even question this in the democratic side, that all they are saying is, well, on the fisa application, there might have been a footnote to say that there is some political painting, and that's it? they told nothing about christopher steele, nothing about being paid for by clinton, none of this came out to the c

in my hands brand new at this hour bombshell revelations from the grassley memo. major parts from the memo from yesterday have now been unredacted. huge parts yesterday. memo furthe providing further evidence that the fisa court was lied to in order to get a trump campaign. christopher steele may have lied to the fbi about briefing media outlets there is a lot to cover. we are going to go through it slowly. we will do it together. now the memo starts with this. this is page one of the memo right here. on the face, the dossier, it appears that mr. steele gathered much of his information from russian government sources inside of russia. and, according to the law firm perkins coie, mr. steele's dossier efforts were funded through fusion gps by that law firm on behalf of the democratic national committee and clinton campaign. let's pause here. hillary clinton is paying steele to spread russian lies and russian propaganda. i will read it again because this is important. much of the information from russian government sources inside of russia. isn't that what the media

he has been going through this grassley memo that has now been unredacted.e went over a lot of it. whatat caught your attention? speak it was interesting as well is that this is a criminal referral that republican senator chuck grassley had sent to the justice department about christopher steele. want to read the potential crime? grassley is angus roof for all that steele may have lied about his contacts with the media. yahoo! news, and "mother jones" magazine, for example, because this document, this grassley memo, is saying that steele represented to the fbi that he had not talked to anyone in the media about the dossier. so the fbi took that, that he was reliable, he had not spoken to the media, and went to the fisa court with the application to get a warrant for surveillance of carter h page, s we've beeno, reporting. in this memo, grassley says, "the fbi already believed mr. steele was reliable. he previously told the fbi he had not shared the information with the press and lying to the fbi is a crime. referring to the fact that christopher steele, desp

grassley and lindsey graham saw them.m available in some capacity as devin nunes believe asking for this information tonight. >> they have probably already identified the felony statutes that were likely broken by the fbi and the department of justice. abuse of power and perjury. and what will be critical is as you reported and actually we talked about it two night ago is that nunes is now requesting the presiding judge to provide the transcripts of all four of those fisa hearings. to get to the bottom of the false representations, the fraud upon the court per at the traited during those hearings. if those transcripts provide that evidence, then charges should must be brought officials department of justice and fbi. >> sean: if they knew. >> that footnote may have political origins and knew darn well it was bought and paid for by hillary and if they knew on top of it hillary aids were feeding this and remember go back to the grassley graham unredacted. they are saying this is russian government lies. the russian governmen

general sessions wants to take a very hard line on marijuana andna senator grassley has a revolutionary bill people have praised on both sides of the spectrum but general sessions doesn't team to want to embrace prison reform so your thoughts particularly with regard to the grassley bill? >> with marijuana we got it right to the justice department has limited resources when you try to decide how to deploy those resources what places will you place emphasis the memorandum said essentially really will elect a state will just let the state experiment but put up guardrails it was very explicit dealing with marijuana to minors, the

grassley and lindsey graham saw them.m available in some capacity as devin nunes believe asking for this information tonight. >> they have probably already identified the felony statutes that were likely broken by the fbi and the department of justice. abuse of power and perjury. and what will be critical is as you reported and actually we talked about it two night ago is that nunes is now requesting the presiding judge to provide the transcripts of all four of those fisa hearings. to get to the bottom of the false representations, the fraud upon the court per at the traited during those hearings. if those transcripts provide that evidence, then charges should must be brought officials department of justice and fbi. >> sean: if they knew. >> that footnote may have political origins and knew darn well it was bought and paid for by hillary and if they knew on top of it hillary aids were feeding this and remember go back to the grassley graham unredacted. they are saying this is russian government lies. the russian governmen

in addition, senator grassley has a prison reform bill that people have praised on both sides of the political spectrum. the general sessions does not seem to want to embrace prison reform. your thoughts on his position on marijuana and on prison reform, , particularly with regards to the grassley bill. >> i think we got it right with. the justice department has limited resources. when you're trying to decide how to deploy the resources and what places you will place emphasis. the memorandums that essentially we will let the states experiment but we will really put up guardrails. it was very explicit. we said that when it came to dealing marijuana to minors. transportation marijuana across

they walked away with the four pillars to take action on and that's in the grassley bill. fundamentally the senate needs to act on a bill to protect these daca recipients and protect our southern border. that's only in the grassley bill. >> sandra: steve bannon seemed to frustrate a few of the committee members there. he sat down multiple times this week with special counsel robert mueller. the white house thoughts on this this morning. >> on the issue of the house intelligence committee we've been working with them for several weeks on mr. bannon's testimony. we have to insure presidential confidentiality is preserved. that's a prerogative of this president and previous presidents and will be of future presidents. this is not just about steve bannon but about the office. and with respect to the special counsel, we're cooperating with their investigation as the president has long said, there was no collusion, they aren't going the find any evidence of wrongdoing. we'll cooperate and put this behind us. >> sandra: quickly, trey gowdy said he was troubled by almost every asp

today, led by chairman grassley of the senate judiciary committee, group of members from the side off the aisle will put forth a comprehensive proposal, including the presiding officer. it centers on the four pillars the president has said he would like toai see addressed. i think most people have been surprised, maybe shock is a better word at the generosity of the president's offer for the daca eligible recipients. right now they are 690,000 of them who signed up but the president's proposal would not only offer them a legal status. it would offer one point he really an eligible young people a pathway to citizenship, far more than president obama ever offered and it provides a real opportunity for us to keep our commitmentsen when it comes to border security, utilizing more boots on the ground, better technology and additional infrastructure. it reallocates visas from the diversity lottery system in a way that a is fair and continues the existing family-based immigration categories until the current backlog is cleared and changes to more of a merit pay system. i'm proud to cosponsor

what would grassley cruz have done? one of the things grassley cruz did is substantially increase the funding for school safety to put in place things like armed police officers and security guards, to put in place things like metal detectors that might have helped prevent this crazed madman. president obama during his administration cut the funding for school safety and that's why grassley cruz sought to restore the funding that the obama administration had cut. i think it was a serious mistake for senate democrats to filibuster funding for school safety. another thing grassley cruz did, it directed the attorney general and the department of justice to assess every federal agency that has criminal convictions and make sure they're reporting those convictions to the national background check database because a great many agencies and for that matter a great many states have been failing to report convictions to the database. the reason that matters is the database, background checks don't work in the convictions aren't

grassley: did you make your formal objection? mr.cruz:yes. mr. grassley: thank you. normally i would speak after the senator from texas but i'm going to call on the colleagues who are here because i've got more time than they have. i know the senator from texas has to go, and he accurately did describe our relationship generally in this body as senators from iowa and from texas. i want to let everybody know that we have that good relationship. we sure disagree on this issue. i'm sorry we do. and with that said, i'm going to defer to the senator from michigan. and i want to say that she's the ranking member of the agriculture committee and represents the farmers of michigan very well, but also in her leadership position as former chairman of the agriculture committee and now the ranking member, she has done a great job of leadership in the area of agriculture. so would you proceed. ms. stabenow: thank you very much. mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. ms. stabenow: thank you very much for those kind words from the senior senator from iowa.

chuck grassley said at the hearing that he considered jeff nssess friend. he actually worked very hard to get jeff sessions confirmed as attorney general. and grassley said, last year when the president wanted to fire jeff sessions over his recusal from the r investigation, grassley stuck his neck out for sessions, and this was no way to treat a friend. in fact, earlier today, i checked in with grassley's office, grass still angry at jeff sessions. he said jeff sessions promised to help him with this bill, he's gone back on his word, and he needs to do better. >> sreenivasan: all right, carrie johnson of npr, thanks so much for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> this is "pbs newshour weekend," saturday. >> sreenivasan: at least 13 people are dead after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit soexutheasterno last night. all thirteen were killed today when a helicopter carrying ofrvficials ing the damage crashed during landing. 15 others were injured. there are, so far, no deaths as a result of the quake itself, or its strong aftershock. dozens of buildings were damaged a

i will say this in terms of the grassley memorandum or the grassley letter, it is part of the same effort along with the chairman of our committee to try to put the fbi and bob mueller's investigation on trial. it is a well-known defense tactic when facts look incriminating of your client you try to put the government on trial. and what this of course detracts from is the investigation that we need to be conducting of what the russians did, how they did it, connections they had with the trump campaign most importantly how do we protect the country going forward that's not the interest of this grassley letter. that's not the interest of chairman nunes but that is what the national interests holds. >> garrett: thank you very much for being with us, pri are your time. your time. we'll be right back. please, don't go away. glavine - every day. brought to you by more than a thousand workers in boston. we're proud of giving you our best. gillette - the best a man can get. [ click, keyboard clacking ] [ keyboard clacking ] [ click, keyboard clacking ] ♪ good questions lead to good answers. our a

last night we explained in depth about the unredacted details in the grassley-graham memo. here are the highlights if you weren't with us. the funny dossier in fact did make up the bulk of that fisa application. in march of 2016,f james comey briefed congress that the fbi used the dossier enough fives application because i thought christopher steel was credible. call me trusted steele. the fbi only vaguely referenced the political origins to the fisa court, so what they were doing was hiding the fact, they did until the fisa court in the application that that dossier that they didn't verify was boughtry and paid for by hillary clinton. the centers also accused steele of materially misleading misleading the fbi. steele was working on a second dossier, we told you last night, and he impart -- this takes the case -- was being fed information from the obama state department and clinton associates. so they are giving literally clinton's friends are giving steele the information he's using in the phony dossier but the rest of the information came from the russian government, reme

but this document has been slapped together literally in a matter of days as opposed to the grassley and nunes memorandum which were the product of months and months of work. and more than self months in the case the grassley memo, of the memo being sent to the various authorities before it arrived at the president to make sure nothing is endangered by the release of this memo. it's theatrics, the politics desperately clutching at straws. >> this is a document getting virtually no attention by the mainstream media. while it is true that both the criminal referral and the republican memo were chock full of if we didn't have before, and information that proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the trump dossier did have a lot to do with the fisa warrant. it's getting scant attention by the mainstream media. i'm wondering how much we are talking about does filter through to the american public. >> i published a piece on the hill comparing watergate to the fisagate. let's boil it down. not a lot of americans read senate or house memoranda or criminal reestles. let's put it on a bumper stic

according to the memos, the dossier made up the bulk, remember, the grassley and graham ♪ ♪ , made up bulk of the phis application. the fbi, james comey they never bother to bear verify it. theyey used it to go before a fa court in an effort to spy on carter page and the trump campaign, they never said hillary clinton bought and paid for it, had not verified it. as we told you, "politico" is reporting that former white house chief strategist may have been picked up by fbi surveillance when carter page was being spied on. a state department official admitted that he wasn't sharing anti-trump opposition research from friends of the clintons with the dossier creator christopher steele. this is all an unprecedented abuse of power. the constitution is being shorted before your eyes. civil liberties are being severely violated. the fourth amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure. in spite of what the media's telling you and downplaying, it is bigger than watergate. as we have been reporting, a lot more information is coming out every day. take a look at the side of your

grassley, proposes an amendment number 1959. mr. grassley: i ask that the reading be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: i call up the toomey amendment 1948 to the grassley amendment number 1959. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: mr. mcconnell for mr. toomey proposes amendment 1948 to amendment 1959. mr. mcconnell: i ask that the reading be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. the democratic leader. mr. schumer: i call up the amendment 1958. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator proposes amendment 1958 to the amendment proposed to be strike bin amendment 1959. mr. schumer: i ask that the reading be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. the senator from illinois. mr. durbin: i call up amendment 1959 to schumer amendment 1958. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: amendment 1955 to amendment 1958. mr. durbin: i ask consent that the reading be dispensed with. the pre

so we have the grassley graham memorandum unredacted that comes out last night. minutes before we start the show. in this they are saying this dossier is full of russian government lies, they don't say lies but russian government sources, russians, and then we learn that there are clinton sycophants also feeding michael steele. now it's bad enough that they are using the dossier to feed to a liberal media that doesn't do any work or fact checking on their own. but then it gets even deeper is that comey and others use this as the bulk of information unverified, hillary clinton bought and paid for, russian propaganda. full of salacious lies to get a fisa warrant against an opposition party candidate to prevent him from winning and then when he does win, to try and unseat a duly elected president. i don't even know where to begin with the law here. >> if you were to write a script for hollywood over the top. you see, sean, the frustration that i have and so many americans have is that as we keep hearing these pieces of evidence come out. why anything being done or i

one from senator grassley, and one from representative goodlatte.e obviously favors his bill, but he did not answer how he could resolve that with democrats. his bill will probably get almost no democratic support. even though he sounded eager to get this done, i did not hear anything that will lead me to believe there is a solution. remainhe two sides really polarized? >> certainly. on most bills, let's take zeroatte for example, democrats are cosponsoring. is important.8 it will take almost all of the republicans to get behind the bill for it to pass the house floor. right now, even the republicans are divided. -- what we understand promote we understand, the support is nowhere near to 18. from what problem -- we understand, that support is nowhere near it to 18. -- 218. , republicans are divided on the issue of immigration. there are a few that wish that prevails ando nothing happens on immigration and the so-called daca children are left in the lurch. that will be a real fear for democrats and immigration activists. >> moving on to the issue of

just like the nunes memo in the house grassley graham memo in the senate.hey lay out the fbi, the doj did in fact lie and mislead a fisa judge about the fact that hillary clinton and the dnc that she controlled actually paid for the russian dossier full of lives. now, schiff, he actually quotes a section o of the fisa application in his memo. reads that the doj disclosed that christopher steele was approached by an identified u.s. person who has indicated a source one steele, that a u.s.-based law firm had hired the identified u.s. person to conduct research regarding candidate number one's ties to russia. trump. the identified person and source number one have long-standing business relationship. now, the identified u.s. person hired source number one to conduct the research. the identified u.s. person never advised source number one as to the motivation behind the research into candidate one's, trump's ties to russia. the fbi speculates the identified u.s. person was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit candidate number one's cam

the leader supports the proposal by senator grassley that's essentially the president's plan. let's vote on that first. we will have several bipartisan bills to offer. we should vote on those too. now, democrats are focused like a laser on finding a partisan bill that can pass the senate to protect the dreamers. democrats are focused like a laser on finding a bipartisan bill that can pass the senate pro protect the dreamers. several moderate republicans are working towards that as well. the only person who seems most intent on -- or the one person who seems most intent on not getting a deal is president trump. president trump's contribution to this debate has been to put forward a proposal that contains a vast curtailment of legal immigration far outside the stoap of daca for border -- scope of daca for border security and demanding that the democrats support it. instead of making a proposal in good faith or working with democrats on a compromise, president trump is trying to force his unpopular hardlined immigration agenda down the throats of the american people by calling it

in investigating senator grassley and senator graham asking national archives for all the informationregarding the transition from the obama team to the trump team as it relates to the russian probe and they found an email that susan rice wrote to herself on inauguration day talking about a meeting they had january ath in the oval office -- january 5th. joe biden, james comey, salary yates and president of the united states and her, saying they did everything by the book. she went on in the letter. what do you think is going on there? do you have any questions yourself? >> i have a lot of questions. frankly i don't know what is going on. that email raises a lot of questions. i can assure you five minutes before you walk out of the door of the white oust on january 20th, 2017, you write email doing something by the book,ç it is pretty clear u didn't operate by the book. it raises a lot of serious questions. there have been two storylines when it comes to the russia probe. fbi investigation and now special counsel probe has found no evidence of collusion but a eparate story the mainstr

the other thing about the grassley memo that irritates me about the nunes memo.his whole thing about how you shouldn't take a yahoo news article and to convince the judge there is corroboration. in the grassley memo, it says it wasn't used for corroboration. the yahoo! news article. i get cautious about commenting on all of this because it is cherry picked information. >> jesse: i don't get what you mean. >> dana: the grassley memo says the yahoo! news article was used to cooperate. that's not why the articles referenced. the grassley memo appears to confirm it was not present for the purpose of corroboration. >> kimberly: there is a contradiction. >> jesse: i didn't see that. i know they didn't presented alongside the dossier. >> tom: i will be calm, juan, i will be friendly. it's dirty. >> juan: i think peter strzok is going to start sending texts to jesse, little love notes. >> kimberly: please don't. >> jesse: i will bleach them. >> kimberly: we've got to go. you can continue the witty repartee during the break. we have the greatest military in the world and

the leader supports the proposal by senator grassley that's essentially the president's plan. let's vote on that first. we will have several bipartisan bills to offer. we should vote on those too. now, democrats are focused like a laser on finding a partisan bill that can pass the senate to protect the dreamers. democrats are focused like a laser on finding a bipartisan bill that can pass the senate pro protect the dreamers. several moderate republicans are working towards that as well. the only person who seems most intent on -- or the one person who seems most intent on not getting a deal is president trump. president trump's contribution to this debate has been to put forward a proposal that contains a vast curtailment of legal immigration far outside the stoap of daca for border -- scope of daca for border security and demanding that the democrats support it. instead of making a proposal in good faith or working with democrats on a compromise, president trump is trying to force his unpopular hardlined immigration agenda down the throats of the american people by calling it

senator charles grassley at the podium. live coverage on c-span 3. >> we have been working over a period of three months to put together a bill that we think the president can sign. numerous meetings among the senators and four meetings with the president. so we're introducing this proposal. our proposal provides a compassionate solution to those who were illegally brought here as children through no fault of their own, and it includes a very generous opportunity for citizenship. it also takes meaningful steps to ensure that other generations don't find themselves in the same condition as daca kids today. we do this by improving border security and border security is so very important to make sure the problems don't repeat themselves and secondly, to make sure that we remove people that are criminal aliens that kill people like kate steinle's killer. the bill also includes other elements agreed to in a bipartisan meeting between lawmakers and the president. going forward, our proposal reforms family-based immigration focus,

the leaders support the proposal by senator grassley that is essentially the president's plan. let's vote on that first we will have several bipartisan bills to offer and we should focus on the stupid democrats are focused like aar laser on finding a partisan bill that can pass the senate to protect the dreamers and several bipartisan bills excuse me, democrats are focused like a laser on finding a bipartisan bill that can pass the senate to protect the dreamers. several moderate republicans are working towards that, asin well. the only person who seems most intent or the one person who seems most intent on not getting aa deal is president trump. president trump's contribution to this debate has been has been to put forward in good faith we are working with democrats on compromise president trump is trying to force his unpopular, hard-line immigration agenda down the throats of the american people by calling it a daca bill. theil president's proposal, now the grassley bill, is so extreme on legal immigration that several pumpkins have been critical of it. including my c friend

the only people reached out to him or named that individual was chuck grassley senator grassley whose also conducting an investigation so names are beginning to spill out. names that i think would ring a bell like cody shear and sidney blumenthal, who are known long-time hillary clinton advocates this was actually before my time in washington when they were up to a lot of shenanigans but most of the people have been around a long time know these characters and know they're bad characters in terms of the types of things that they're willing to use against political adversaries. somehow, what it appears like if you believe the washington post editor quality or op ed is that these cast of characters were putting information similar to the the original steel dossier -- what appears to be a different steel dossier -- if you believe them which was attacking trump and feeding that into the fbi and that's not all we're looking at. i'm glad that they came out and puked their guts out in the washington post. i'd like more people to do that but we are actually looking at additional challenges of

one from senator grassley, and one from representative goodlatte. he obviously favors his bill, as any congressman would do but , he did not answer how he could resolve that with democrats. his bill will probably get almost no democratic support. even though he sounded eager to get this done, i did not hear anything that will lead me to believe there is a solution. susan: do the two sides remain really polarized? scott: certainly. on most bills to that on most bills. let's take goodlatte for example, zero democrats are cosponsoring that though. that is why 2018 is important. it will take almost all of the republicans to get behind the bill for it to pass the house floor. right now, even the republicans are divided. from what we understand, that support is nowhere near 218. there is a number of problems specifically having to do with lawmakers who represent agricultural regions who have real issues about whether half guestworkers can work some of those higher cultural lands. right now republicans are divided right now, republicans are divided on the

grassley. he spent years pushing changes to the criminal justice system producing legislation to cut mandatory minimum sentence for nine violent offenders and establish programs to help reduce recidivism. what do you think about this legislation what mr. grassley is working on one of the provisions in it in your thoughts on it. >> guest: the association start on it with regard to the letter by the attorney general we agree with them one 100%. the system is not broken at the federal level there's a lot of people confused and conflate our's date system with our federal system of justice. review our federal system of justice at adequately addresses the crime problems, especially the narcotics level of the international trafficking or drugs in your country in mandatory minimums are a very essential and vital process prosecutors to be able to move up the foodas chain and prosecue those who are major traffickers in dealers in heroin and methamphetamine and those kinds of drugs. the attorney general i

senator grassley said they did nothing wrong and they came to the country. let's deal with them first. let's protect them first. the president said yes. but he didn't mean yes. last night, he talked about putting a bipartisan proposal forward. i don't know a single democrat in america, not one, that believes what he offered was bipartisan. or that he was doing when he said he would do and protect the daca folks first. he has put in, and i am pleased at that, an expansion to 1.8 million people and a path to citizenship. that is what he said we should do. we are surprised that he did what he said because he coupled that with a proposal that was in his own words to be in the second phase of negotiations. and the infrastructure proposal that he made last night, not a single comment on how he was going to pay for it. and frankly, 12 months later than he said he was going to put it down. he also made false claims. he took credit for others' successes. he took credit for job creation under president obama one 2017 was the lowest job growth in six years. he made cla

look -- there are , by chuckion bills grassley and then run in the house, they do not specifically likely have thumbs talking about like foreigners purchasing ads on facebook. approach thatical perhaps could be accomplished, and i think people ought to be advocating for that. >> going to what eric had said, -- if want those policies you want those policies to be effective, their malate not be anything wrong with a belt and suspenders approach. we say that is the federal government's issue. but for most of our country's history, states had a more active role with respect to foreign affairs, immigration, etc. particularly at a moment where cop is asleepral

lindsey graham and chuck grassley dropped a bomb.ristopher steele written well before the original memo that appears to substantiate and back up what the nunes memo puts forward. senator graham is here tonight to explain what he found and wrote in that original as well as some new things. in the original included this that christopher steele le

that includes the president's bill, which is being led by senator grassley, whi we mentioned we expect that out any minute but haven't seen it yet. the kuntz mclean bill, no other bill has 60 votes. there are small bipartisan groups meeting all across the senate and they're in such a tough position they don't want reporters saying who's meeting with who. it just shows what they're up against and they have not found a way to get 60 votes on anything. >> woodruff: so sounds like they're feeling pressure onse thes to get something done. it's pretty unusual to be in this open debate situation. >> incredibly unusual. i sat down with the senate historia for the most elucidatinconversation i had all day. she said our problem job is to look a precedent, but we're not

unrelated to daca, very partisan, respectfully i suggest we move to the bills authored by senator grassley and senator kunz instead. let's get this debate started on the right foot, so i'd check to the leader's request. >> objection is heard. >> today, we are about to begin to deliver an important promise to the american people. debated immigration solution for young adults brought to the u.s. by their parents who now find themselves in limbo. lseveral weeks ago, our democratic colleagues recklessly shut down the federal government to placate the extreme elements in their own party. the majority leader disagreed with this approachpp and he and the rest of my republican colleagues urged them to have been in the shut down ploy before it was too late. they refuse to listen come ignoring the majority of the american who were against this approach. the majority leader the majority leader than promise would've

if you look at the grassley-graham memo, it finds "the bulk of the fisa application consisted of the unverified clinton bought and paid for dossier." wow. now he tries to downplay the reliance on the dossier by writing in t his memo, that it only made up a narrow part of the fisa application. that, too, was a lie. schiff also writes that a specific session of the fisa application actually references the completely unverified claims in the dossier about carter page and june 20th -- june 2016 in the meetings he had in moscow. paige has denied over and over again, it's never been confirmed. schiff is admitting that the dossier made up the bulk of the application to get the fisa warrant. the democrats current position on the dossier, and they are trying to minimize it, is the complete opposite of what they were saying back in march during a congressional hearing. this is all politics. they are all liars and they are all phony and we have been right for a year now. take a look at this now. >> christopher steele, a british -- former british intelligence officer, he was reportedly held in h

it would gotten a lot more information now from this memo that came from senators grassley and grahamng not only what we have heard in the house, but it seems to add details of that and some texture to that as well. what do you make of those revelations? they don't seem new, but they seem like they seem to bolster the later memo that came out from the house intel committee. >> if they do at some depth of accusation and allegation to the actual memo. what they essentially allege is there are hillary clinton advocates, friends were in libya who were following information to the state department after hillary left, but there were still people she'd worked with. the state department was then funneling that information to christopher steele who was then practicing that information and handing it over to the fbi. if that's the case it looks like the state department was being used as a go-between for bad information pushed forward by hillary clinton allies, including perhaps sidney blumenthal if trey gowdy's implication means anything. if that's the case, then one of two things could be tru

i suggest we move to bills offered by senators grassley and senator as said.et's get things started on the right foot, i object to the leader's request. >> statements like that as proof democrats would rather use so-called streamers than actually make a deal. conceivably a deal comes with a march 5th deadline. breaking late today, another federal judge issued a preliminary injunction effectively stopping president trump's wind down of daca protections. if it gives the senate a perfect opportunity to kick the can down the road. if we have learned anything about this congress, it's that when offered the opportunity to punt, bipartisan agreement is very easy to find. >> shannon: at least it's an agreement on something. today, another letter containing suspicious powder arrived at former president d.c. office building. fox news has learned there has been an increase in suspicious substances addressed to members of the house and senate over the past two weeks. he's not even writing but word that tennessee senator bob corker is rethinking his retirement already has