first call for stephen vladeck comes from cedar rapids, iowa. independent line, david, you are first up. that in thed read dossier, the much-maligned dossier, that mr. paige had been offered a 19% share in the russian oil company in return for his influence on trump to lift sanctions. the person who allegedly reported that two steele was a agent,kgb intelligence secretly feeding information to steele for the dossier. subsequently, he was suspected of reading the details in an effort to expose the whole thing unfortunately, he was found dead in the back of his car in december 2016. there was another person that was found dead as a result of his involvement. host: so you want our guest to comment on what? caller: i want to know if 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

host: stephen vladeck?est: the president has a lot of power here, including the power to declassify the underlying fisa application. one of the most interesting nuggets in the nunes memo was at the end, where it talks about how the counterintelligence investigation in a russian interference in the election had begun actually well before the first application for a fisa warrant against carter page. i think that reveals a larger point here. there was a broader investigation into russian interference that started before this fisa warned was obtained, that went on after, still going on to this day. whatever you think about the nunes memo, the investigation is still there. this one fisa warrant does not hold that into account. the caller is right, if the president really wanted to end this, facilitate a public conversation about what really happened, there are ways for him to do it. the reason why you are seeing what you are seeing is because there is either one of two things, he believed that this is really a w

our first guest is stephen vladeck of the university of texas austin, the law professor there, covers national security issues. good morning to you, sir. could we get your sense of the assessment on the republican memo? guest: after all of that sound and the fury, i think the release of the memo was a bit anticlimactic. the memo really doesn't include much beyond what had already leaked out. of course, there are these questions about the provenance of thissi

host: stephen vladeck teaches law at the university of texas at austin. he spent his previous career at the university of miami, and american university college of law. thes a senior editor of journal of national security law and policy, also does a podcast on these issues. flat, where can people listen for that? guest: my >> "washington journal" live every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. see this and more at c-span.org. let's go to president trump in cincinnati. live coverage on c-span. ♪ [applause] president trump: i love the state of ohio. what great memories. we're starting to boom, you know that, it's great to be back in ohio. and be here with the hardworking men and women of scheffer corporation. congratulations. we have a lot of great people with us today. we have our secretary of the treasury, steven mnuchin. a man that you know very well, has done an amazing job, great job , in helping with us the massive tax cuts that are helping everybody so much and everyone is fallen in love with it, rob portman , he knows his stuff. thank you, rob, thank you. terr