dana boente, he was the u.s. attorney for the eastern district of virginia, which is an important position given its proximity to d.c. when if president fired acting attorney general sally yates, until they swore in jeff sessions, then they made him deputy attorney general, until rod rosenstein got sworn in and then they made him attorney general of the acting. considering it was obama hold over they made these efforts to keep him around and in these positions. that's why it was surprising, when dana boente was finally out, suddenly announced he was leaving the justice department and nbc news learned he didn't jump, he was pushed. he had been told to resign. after they gave him all those jobs, why did they fire that guy? don't know. but then they changed their minds just a few days ago. they brought him back to the yet another big job. they have him working as the general counsel of the fbi. the trump administration just can't quit dana boente. today we learned something else about him, something he did when he w

>> no, i want a second special counsel to look did. >> dana boente was just hired as the fbi general counsel. if he signed off on one of these fisa warrants and you've got a four-page memo here saying that it's awful -- >> inspect or general or a second special counsel will get to the bottom of it. >> why wait to tell me if you think it's a good idea to have him still working at the fbi? >> we called for a second special counsel six months ago. congressman meadows, myself, and a whole bunch of other members called for a second special counsel because -- and mueller can't expand this probe. i think he's inherently compromised. jeff sessions has recused himself. i know of no other remedy where you can get to -- >> you said mueller is compromised. is he compromised by this memo because i was told by trey gowdy and everyone else who is commenting on this today it's not about robert mueller. >> speaker ryan. >> i'm talking about a second special counsel to look at the fbi. i'm not talking currently what he's doing. he's go the that investigation going on. >> congressman jim jordan, congre

and dana boente. are they the leadership of the fbi and justice department who politicize the process. >> this memo raises concerns. >> are they at the highest level? >> when they can use the most intrusive surveillance tools against american citizens, i think americans should be concerned. >> should they be concerned that boent signed the memo? >> lastly, the memo does not impugn the mueller investigation. does the president agree with that assessment? >> that what? >> that this memo doesn't impugn the mueller investigation. we are not talking about the mueller investigation. the fact of the matter in the height of a presidential campaign, the fbi and the doj signed fisa warrant applications bought and paid for using information bought and paid for by the democrats and did not tell the judge about it. again, should be concerning to most americans. >> it was three weeks before election day when the fisa warrant was signed and the american people didn't know. this is the fbi that repeatedly told the am

da dana boente, asked to accept down. andy mccabe, asked to step down. and rod rosenstein. can you tell me about the names of list that was acted upon. he's fired everybody who is investigating a man on his campaign, who was known to counterintelligence officials, a known russian agent. >> it's hair-raising to hear you tick off the names and think about where those people are. that's why we must protect him. also, nicolle, the d.o.j. and the fbi have to do something they're not comfortable doing. that's speaking up. they like to keep their heads down and do the work and stay out of politics. now is not a time to do that. i was so glad to see that christopher wray spoke up to talk about how destructive this would be. others need to do the same. we're going to need bipartisan leadership in congress or we're risking these individuals to protect the president. >> what will democrats do? do you have a plan for the moment you see it flash across your phone that trump has fired rod rosenstein? what will you do? >> i believe that's obstruction of justice. that's grounds for being r

acting yates dana boente is not there any longer in that role. and rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general right now. a man that donald trump has said to refer to as the democrat from baltimore, even though he is a republican, a man that donald trump appointed to that role. most importantly, though, a man that donald trump is not happy with because he is overseeing, this is according to reporting, overseeing the russia investigation. is it clear that this is intended to try and cut down rod rosenstein? >> it's interesting because in devin nunes' own statement in -- accompanying the release of this memo today, he says this whole process is an important part of making reforms to the fisa process. as you and i discussed yesterday, the house just approved and the president has since signed a reauthorization of the fisa program. it did make some changes but if this was such an important issue, if the pretext on the -- if nunes is saying this is an important part of making reforms to the fisa process, it probably should have been released earlier s

another name it mentioned was dana boente. he of course had left his position as the eastern district of virginia u.s. attorney, but just came on to be the deputy -- just came on to be back at the fbi this past week. so it could be that they already had him in the crosshairs and didn't like that he was coming back to this leadership position. so there are a number of people who could be implicated in this, but it's all based on what we know is very skinny memo. i think that chuck todd hit this earlier, this is part of the win at all costs practice, that it's okay for them to be kind of ruffling the feathers within these organizations that they think they will be able to change the culture and take out the people they see as against them. >> the other question is that this is now unchallenged, because the democratic memo, the counter memo, is not going to be released for awhile. do you know anything about the timing of that? >> we don't know anything about the timing of that at this point. it's really curious, we have been hear

and so did dana boente. let's talk about what a lot of people believe is the ultimate goal of this memo, other than to entertain donald trump and fox news, which is part of the goal. but the other part of the goal, reportedly, is to under mine rod rosenstein so that trump can fire him. jeff sessions just a few hours before this memo was released defended rod rosenstein at an event at the doj. let's listen to that. >> rod and rachel are harvard graduates, experienced lawyers. rod has had 27 years in the department, rachel has had a number of years in the department previously. so they both represent the kind of quality and leadership that we want in the department. >> in your view, harry, is rod rosenstein -- is his job in jeopardy tonight? >> how did the president put it? you tell me? look, it was an agenda here, and by the way, as paul says about these fisa warrants, it's all true and who does all this work, it's the rank and file of the fbi that supposedly trump was extolling, but if he were to use this, a

boente. we also know that mccabe testified without the dossier, the fisa warrant never would have been approved. and speaking of the application. remember, and the grassley-graham memo, the bulk of that fisa warrant application relied on the garbage this dossiere, had a net, that fusion gps and the fbi never i verified. that is even more troubling, because james comey said it was salacious and unverified. and he also briefed president-elect trump about the fake news dossier, and that was in january 2017, and he said tha same thing to donald trump. he said it was unverified and salacious. once earlier in october, comey had no problem using it to get the fisa warrant to surveille carter page. on to the next point, was president obama briefed on any information contained in the dossier prior to january 5th, 2017? now we know about january 5th in that meeting because the former national security advisor, susan rice is the one that sent her email to herself on president trump's inauguration day. a

james comey, andrew mccabe, sally yates, dana boente, rod rosenstein are all complies sit in this because they all approved surveillance on page. now this part is shocking. the fbi then used a yahoo news report that was written by michael his cough about a carter page trip to russia as evidence to corroborate information in the phony dossier. the source for the information and the yahoo news report was none other than christopher steele, the same author of the dossier that they were using. so the fbi used steele's leaked to ya other to corroborate the dossier created by the same person, steele. this is what we call circular reporting, because the fbi was pretending that they had two sources, when in facts it was the same source, and they were presenting that go to the judge. now the memo was also exposing how christopher steele the former british spy that according to reports was known to pay russian sources, had previously worked closely with the fbi, was suspended and then terminated as an fbi source for leaking to the press about his relationship with the bureau. we also know, independ