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>> its large of the footnotes that i suspect reveal sources and methods. many of the claims in the democrat memo, we can debate those and have those in the public square but the democrat memo is heavily footnoted and some of those footnotes could put americans lives in jeopardy and thats why we need some basic, simple redactions and i suspect the president will do that today. >> harris: what will be the next step? once the american public has this information, what do you do then? >> my fear is ...

We had a guest on the other night who said he thought there could be ethical issues for the fbi and maybe even criminal charges if, indeed, there was a conspiracy to keep this information. >> is serious. lets not rush to judgment. lets be consistent and say, we need to know how that pfizer application for the renewal was. who prepared it, what did they know, when did they know it. i think this is very serious for the reasons that alan stated. another reason, the fisa regime was designed to produ...

Conversation. i mean, jim, wouldnt you assume that? >> absolutely, yeah. >> and again, there are people inside the white house who dont have kellys back. and some of the presidents closest friends have been kept from talking to the president by general kelly, so they dont like him very much. well have to see where this -- you know, where this takes us. >> the bigger point im trying to make is women are fighting for equality, i know theyve had the right to vote for a hundred years, but fighting f...

To deficits in a strong economy. >> you make a good point. what happened to deficit hawks? rand paul saying it is a terrible way to run the government. they are endangered species. white house officials expect president trump to release a democrats memo to rebut the republicans memo over abuses in the fbi. the democrats document reviewed by the trump administration. unless it is a grave threat, white house officials believe it will be made public. one aide telling cnn there is concern about a ...

And age, when it comes to abuses of all sorts. jim, when did john kelly find out about this, do we know for sure? >> you know, don, from what we understand, this was not known in the initial months of the administration. i heard that from a senior white house official earlier today, but that this was becoming known, this was becoming common knowledge as john kelly was taking command of the staff inside the west wing. >> was he keeping it from other people? >> and he was aware of these problems -...

Board. >> ill be interested to see how this comes out. lets switch gears. the white house chief of staff john kelly, as you know, cnn is reporting that general kelly knew about the domestic abuse allegations against the white house secretary rob porter. for months -- porter has now resigned -- knew but did nothing. do you think we can trust john kelly to have that critical and important job? >> i feel very comfortable with general kelly. ive met with him, ive talked to him. i dont know the ins a...

People here at the white house learned about this information, but it has been in the hands of law enforcement since january 25th of last year. >> harris: he does have supporters, orrin hatch has supported him today, saying if this is true, he should get help so he can segue back into politics. john roberts, great to see you today. thank you for breaking this down for us. the clock is ticking whether the president will okay the release of the democratic memo that allegedly counters gop claims ...

President now. it is on his desk. you were pretty accurate when we were asking you to forecast when wed see the republican memo. do you have any estimate of when we might see this one? >> again, it depends on if the president has to make any redactions in there. if not, i would say certainly should be out by the weekend. it was sent over to the white house on monday night. the president has five days so that would be i guess tomorrow or saturday depending how we start counting the days. i would ...

Said it time and again that our founders actually foresaw the riseover an autocrat, somebody who wanted to be an autocrat, somebody who wanted to be a tyrant becoming president of the united states but they never believed for a moment, they could never even allow themselves to imagine that when that happened in the executive branch that the legislative branch that hamilton and madison put to check the excesses and abuses of the executive branch, that they would be so compliance time and time aga...

This is no different than, and you remember this. >> give me the list of fbi people you believe that your party is talking about when they say the fbi. >> well, when you have something such as mrs. comey referring to this dossier at one time as salacious and unverified, the fact that it was three times put before a court, a fisa court without divulging all the information regarding its unverified sources. how is this different than the 1970s when the church committee was looking at abuses of cer...