The memo is out, and we are going to go through it as it comes out more.

It's coming out piece by piece, but we'll do what we can.

I'm Ben Shapiro, this is the Ben Shapiro show.

Yes, one of the dangers of doing a live show is that news breaks right as you are doing the show.

So the full memo is not yet out. We've only seen summaries of a

memo, which is itself a summary of intelligence documents. So we'll bring you all of the information

as it breaks. But we have some interesting, interesting news about the memo. And it's not

exactly a nothing burger. There was a lot of talk about how it was going to be a giant disappointment.

If what Byron New York at the Washington Examiner says it's true, if what Fox News reporting is true, if the memo itself is reflective of truth, then the FBI has some answers that it needs to be giving. We'll talk about all of that in just one second. First, I want to say thank you to our friends over at Dollar Shave Club. So while you were waiting for this show to start, you grew a beer because we were a little bit late. Well, that means that you need my friends over at Dollar Shave Club to help you out. You've heard me talk about the amazing products at Dollar Shave Club. They don't just have their magical razors. They also have their Dr. Carver's shave butter, and right now they have everything else, right? Body cleanser, hair gel, and yes, even the fabled butt wipes. They have you covered head to toe. Now is a great time to give Dollar Shave Club a try. You can get your first month of their best razor along with travel-sized version of Shave Butter, Body Cleenser, and yes, even the magical butt wipes for just $5. After that, replacement cartridges shipped for just a few dollars a month. This is the DSC starter set. So get yours right now, five bucks exclusively at dollar shaveclub.com slash ben. That's dollar shaveclub.com slash ben. Use that slash ben so that they know that we sent you and all of their products are fantastic. You will feel cleaner. You will smell better. People will love you more. You'll have a happier life. Dollar shaveclub.com slash ben. Use that slash ben again, so you know that you sent you and also

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The entire memo is about to be released, but we don't actually have the entire text of the

memo. If it comes out during the show,

then I will just read the entire memo to you verbatim because it's not that long. It's about

four pages long. So here is what we know. According to Fox News, the memo suggests that the FBI,

when it first gathered a FISA warrant on Carter Page. Carter Page was a Trump foreign policy advisor, and he was supposedly colluding with the Russians, right? This was the supposition of the FBI. This is why they went and got a FISA warrant on an American citizen who was a member of the Trump campaign. The question is, what was that warrant based on? When you submit an application to FISA court, you have to say, here's why we have probable cause believe that we need a wiretap on this guy. So what did they use for that? Well, according to the memo, the only thing that they used, and the central component that they used, was the Steele dossier. The Steele dossier was a piece of bad research compiled by a spy named Christopher Steele, who went over to Russia and talked with probably some paid Russian folks. And it was done on behalf of Fusion GPS. Fusion GPS is an Apollo research firm.

Originally, Fusion GPS was hired by the Washington Free Beacon to do Opel research on Trump.

They cut out of that project. But then Fusion GPS shopped around that intel and Hillary Clinton

decided that she was going to fund the

APO research file. So she funded the Fusion GPS dossier, which was based on research from Christopher

Steele, who was getting information from the Russians. That information was then funneled to the

FBI and the FBI based on that unverified dossier, based on their, a piece of information

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