Why Marco Rubio is right to push back on Trump’s tweets on Carter Page FISA application

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The heavily redacted Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant applications to wiretap former Trump campaign aide, Carter Page, released over the weekend, don’t reveal much that wasn’t already known. The president’s tweets about the release, however, are wildly misleading and seemingly demonstrate that he doesn’t understand, or has willfully misunderstood and misrepresented, the FISA applications, the investigation into Russian meddling, and how the two are connected to him.

[READ: All the declassified FISA documents on Carter Page]

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