Democratic lawmakers have released a memo refuting key parts of a recent Republican memo that purported to show the FBI and Justice Department abused their authority by placing Trump campaign adviser Carter Page under surveillance in 2016 over his ties to Russia. Democratic Congressmember Adam Schiff said his memo showed the FBI acted appropriately.

Rep. Adam Schiff: “The FISA Court was informed that Carter Page had a history that the FBI knew of well before the Trump campaign, that he was the target, effectively, of Russian recruitment, that the court was informed that another Trump foreign policy adviser who occupied the same kind of position as Carter Page had similarly been approached by Russian agents and informed that the Russians had damaging information on Hillary Clinton in the form of thousands of emails.”