Gowdy: Warrant For Surveillance Would Not Have Been Authorized Without Dossier

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) tells Face the Nation that the FISA court would not have authorized surveillance on the Trump campaign without the Steele dossier:





MARGARET BRENNAN, CBS NEWS: Now, we should dig into this. Because you are, from my understanding, the only Republican investigator on the House Intelligence Committee who actually viewed the FISA applications. Everything that went into essentially putting together this memo. So, when you're talking about this Steele memo, you are not saying that it was the sole piece of evidence used to justify these four authorizations of the surveillance warrant. Are you?



REP. GOWDY: No. It was not the exclusive information relied upon by-- by the FISA court.







MARGARET BRENNAN: Would it have been authorized were it not for that dossier?



REP. GOWDY: No. It would not have been.



MARGARET BRENNAN: How can you say that? Because it was authorized four times by separate judges.



REP. GOWDY: Right. And the information was in there all four times.