mr. vladek has any information regarding this russian involvement. host: mr. vladek, any context to that? guest: there is no question, u.s. law enforcement, counterintelligence agencies have been following those matters closely. this is why the odds are pretty applicatione fisa against carter page was not based entirely on the steele dossier and that there was plenty of additional evidence, including, frankly, carter page's own words. not to prove that he had committed a crime or was guilty of spying on behalf of the russians, but to create probable cause that would have allowed the government to convince any federal judge in that position to authorize further investigations, some kind of surveillance on page. what i find so remarkable about the situation, pedro, is that the republicans by getting so invested in this memo, trying to use it to discredit the mother anestigation, have picked odd figure to rest all their hopes on an carter page. even't know how we look at what is publicly out there about carter page. forget what is in the classified fisa applicatio

mr. vladek has any information regarding this russian involvement. host: mr. dek, any context to that? guest: there is no question, u.s. law enforcement, counterintelligence agencies have been following those matters closely. this is why the odds are pretty applicatione fisa against carter page was not based entirely on the steele dossier and that there was plenty of additional evidence, including, frankly, carter page's own words. not to prove that he had committed a crime or was guilty of spying on behalf of the russians, but to create probable cause that would have allowed the government to convince any federal judge in that position to authorize further investigations, some kind of surveillance on page. what i find so remarkable about the situation, pedro, is that the republicans by getting so invested in this memo, trying to use it to discredit the mother anestigation, have picked odd figure to rest all their hopes on an carter page. even't know how we look at what is publicly out there about carter page. forget what is in the classified fisa application,