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Will is set to enter its third act. two administration officials tell nbc news the white house could likely release a highly controversial memo compiled by republican house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes as early as today, after the president seemed to confirm the decision in a hot mic moment before his state of the union address. >> lets release the memo. >> oh, yeah. dont worry. 100%. can you imagine? >> 100%. if you couldnt hear that. republicans claim this memo shows abuses of t...

Legitimate oversight and if mistakes were made and if individuals did something wrong, then it is our job as the legislative branch of government to conduct oversight over the executive branch if abuses were made. >> im joined by senator richard blumenthal of connecticut. your advice to paul ryan that this is just oversight? >> the congress has an oversight role when it comes to the feeis court and our intelligence community. but its role should be to examine it, first of all, confidently, witho...

Back and forth. there were times when democrats were very upset with the conduct of the fbi in political investigations over hillary clintons e-mails. so theres a lot of role reversal going on. quite frankly, a lot of precedent setting that i think were just starting to try and wrap our heads around. just try and remember as much as were down in the weeds on the details here, the process that the house intelligence community is using has never been used before. it was designed and set up to try ...

Nondisclosure agreement actually, you know, has anything to do with federal election rules, if it broke rules or not. we still do not know the answer to any of that. and weve heard nothing from the fdc as to whether there will be any kind of investigation. >> so many unanswered questions. sara sidnerks thank you very much for that. breaking news. presidenter president trump is in a showdown with his hand picked fbi director as the fbi publicly warns it has grave concerns about the accuracy of ...

Meeting on monday about basically them appealing accord to the post to john kelly for the white house not to release this memo. >> reporter: we did report yesterday that rosenstein and wray were meeting with the white house chief of staff and kelly. this was an interestingly timed meeting. but yes, the washington post is reporting this evening that rosenstein and wray were appealing to john kelly during this meeting that this gop meeting alleging abuses in the russia investigation should not be ...

Call, visit, or go to xfnitymobile.com. so we could really be minutes away from the release of this memo from republicans on the house intelligence committee which alleges abuses by the fbi in the early stages of the russia investigation. the president says 100% he will get this out. you know what? at this point its his decision. lets talk about this and much more. joining us cnn legal analyst paul callan and cnn senior law enforcement analyst tom fuentes. tom, former assistant director of the...

Respond to that too? >> i do. this is the different president the presidents speech and joe kennedy speech. he was talking about all. the president tries to pit one group against another. this is not a zero sum game. if dreamers win that doesnt mean america loses. it means we all win. this is the point is that the democrats really want us to focus on all. when you say that he wasnt -- that the democrats dont talk about young people and their a aspirations, joe kennedy was talking about how we ca...

>> yeah. let me try to follow up on your previous conversation with the form former. >> i served on the intelligence committee. most of america dont know because thats the way we operated, as members of the intelligence committee not to put findings out, not to release information but to safeguard the american public from any abuses of the intelligence community and to safeguard the methods and the secrets of our nation. i find this unprecedented. both in the senate and the house, the intelligen...

Because no one has any doubt that the priority is the national security, interest of justice. its just the naked, personal interest of the president. >> tonight republican devin nunes is responding a terst response, saying theyve stonewalled congress by withholding documents over the past year and if they want the record to be straight they should release all the information they have on these alleged abuses. the intelligence community has already said any release of information could compromise...

Coming up, as we await the presidents decision on whether hell release this controversial memo on abuses at the fbi, theres another big question. did anyone at the white house play a role in writing the memo? a fellow member of the house intel committee asked chairman nunes just that. congressman mike quigley will join me next. if hed taken tylenol, hed be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve. all day stron...