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The public just how outside the norm this is. i was speaking to an attorney named jeffrey smith who has worked for both the cia and the hill over the years. he was talking about how theres been this system of congressional oversight of intelligence that has grown up over 40 years and its based on trust. the executive branch shares some classified information with the hill on the premise that its not going to be released unless everyone agrees that doesnt harm nooational security. what devin nune...

One thing, the memo needed to come out. josh dawsey is one of the "post" reporters sharing the byline on this breaking story tonight. he joins us now by phone. so, josh, talk to us about the presidents decisionmaking process when it came to this memo. >> right, anderson, at first, the president was told by conservative lawmakers theres an intriguing memo that alleges abuses at the fbi that can help you. the president, as you said, was vaguely aware of it. as conservative lawmakers, his inner cir...

Not see the democratic rebuttal, at least not right now. what has all the appearances of a white house cover up of abuses. some covered up for months. we begin with the memo story and the presidents decision with jim acosta for us tonight at the white house. >> you are not going to see this memo. thats the latest. the president decided he is not going to declassify the adam schiff memo that was going to come from the committee to rebut the devin nunes memo last week that was released and decla...

Politically messy. tal, will the president release it? will he not? we are hearing he will. break it down for us. what does he have to gain by releasing it and what does he lose by releasing it? >> rene, when you look at what he has to gain, and this is what democrats are accusing republicans of makes the case stronger based on what we know about the memo which only a few people have seen. what we know about the memo is it makes the case there were abuses of the fisa system. abuses by the fbi. w...

Sake, has president trump really delivered for americas farmers as much as he says he has? >> despite claiming to do all he can, president trumps policies arent doing much to help them. trump won 62% of rule voters because of a widely held belief that they are the america he promised to make great again. what has he done for them so far? not much. for example, trump is happy to boast of the burdensome regulations his administration has rolled back for farmers but he revoked the farmer fair pract...

Agency. >> i want them to go through the normal classification and declassification process. >> kellyanne. exit question. one-word answer. is the president going to release the memo today? >> well, the president -- >> just one word! >> probably not. >> okay, thats two. close enough. >> republicans on the hill voted to release the secret memo which they say reveals shocking abuses at the fbi and doj and which democrats say is nothing but a partisan effort to delegitimize the very body that is inv...

Them two years from now and i dont want a motion to be held in contempt of congress. i want them sooner rather than later. either the bureau needs to find them or we need to have someone who has really easy access to these text messages and it may be law enforcement. >> martha: let me ask you to want to this very quick question. the four-page memo of the fisa abuses that it details, will there be a criminal referral made to the doj with regard to that? >> i dont know that johnny and i, either on...

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What we have been saying for a long time needed to be done. that would be appointed a second special counsel to investigate rampant fisa abuses and abuse within the fbi and the doj. heres what we know. the fbi lied to the fisa court by using an unverified dossier, bought and paid for by hillary clinton to get a warrant to spy on an associate of the trump campaign during an election. the fbi broke the fisa law and they also did not follow the bureaus own protocols by relying heavily on something ...

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