Chris Stewart: ‘I Promise You the Intent of McCabe’s Answers Was The FISA Warrant Depended on the Dossier

WALLACE: I want to focus on one sentence in the memo, gentlemen.

Deputy Director McCabe testified before the committee in December 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought, would have been sought from FISC, that’s the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court without the Steele dossier.

Congressman Stewart, I notice that that’s not in quote.

REP. CHRIS STEWART, R-UTAH, INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE: Yes.

WALLACE: Did Deputy Director McCabe actually say that?

STEWART: That may not have been his exact phrase, but I assure you I was there, I was part of the questioning, I promise you that the intent of his answers was that we would not have gone forward were it not for this dossier.

There were two basic pieces of evidence, the dossier and then ironically, a Yahoo News report that was based on what? The dossier.

And the author of that news report yesterday was shocked. He said, I can’t believe they would use my news reporting as evidence before the FISA court when it was clearly based on the dossier. The information was fed to him by Fusion GPS and by Christopher Steele.

That was the evidence, that was the bulk of the evidence for justifying this dossier, and they knew it was weak. That’s why they didn’t want to be honest with the FISA court and reveal to them that, oh by the way, this was written by the Democrats, this is paid for by the Democrats. And, you know, that’s one of the things we are most concerned about —