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Such a sincere expression of frustration on the part of the fbi director, where he has not been able to be per swas i hasu the president or to the white house to not release a document that apparently not only did not go through a proper national security declassification review, but also is the opposite of what the intelligence community has been trying to do in their transparency initiatives. instead, this is really the definition of using intelligence information for political purposes. >> an...

Nevertheless, republicans are not concerned, not planning on having a revote in the committee which means that if the president does, in fact, agree to release it tomorrow then the house intelligence committee probablys going to end up releasing it, brooke. >> okay. thank you. dana bash, come back. i want you part of this conversation. i have with me norma eisen whos a former white house chief ethics lawyer under president obama. mr. ambassador, first to you, bring this all back to christopher w...

Time for the five things to know. drk congressman adam schiff accusing house intelligence chairman of altering the memo before sending it to the white house. the nunes spokesperson calls them minoresque. >> fbi director christopher wray trying to stop the white house release of that controversial gop intel memo. in a rare public warning the fbi says it has, quote, grave concerns about the memos accuracy. >> cnn exclusively reporting president trump asked deputy attorney general rod rosenstein if...

Need more people like him. >> yeah. in a statement yesterday, i just want to remind our viewers, the fbi said as expressed in the initial review, we have grave concerns, used the word "grave," grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the accuracy. official public statement, extraordinary from the fbi about this development if the republicans release the memo. extraordinary if you think about it that he would stay on the job, he would stay on if the president simp...

Review, we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact memos accuracy." those certainly seems like issues with the content thrust of the memo. the fbi says these concerns were addressed during the initial reviews. all of those republican talking points about the fbi director having no problem with it does not seem to be true or the fbi is lying. someone is not telling the whole truth here. before, christopher wray showed the memo, steven boyd, also raised conce...

Opportunity to review this memo the day before the committee voted to release it, as expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memos accuracy. so, theres that, and then theres also the possibility that the white house could agree to some redactions. exactly how many and of what, were not clear. the redactions might address certain security concerns, but likely will not improve on any mistakes in accuracy. >> anderso...

Accurate picture and instead was misleading, which is what critics and democrats have said about the release of this memo. were certainly learning more here, wolf, about what the presidents mindset is about the release behind this memo. >> we certainly are. that fbi statement, as you pointed out, was a very strong statement. ill read a couple stentsz from that statement with regard to the republican memorandum, the fbi was provided a limited opportunity. the as expressed during our initial revie...

With this president on whether to release devin nunes memo, very controversial memo. the white house made every indication it will do that, will mack a final decision today. the fbi feels like this is definitely not something that should be out there so much so that they issued a rare public statement that reads we have grave concerns about material omission of facts that fundamentally impact the memos accuracy. this isnt we prefer they dont. it has inaccuracies and shouldnt be out there. do you...

And to our government above pure partisan politics. also the thought that mark warner weighed in very clearly on this as well, saying he had reviewed the information, that this memo is highly misleading. mark warner has been an extraordinarily competent steward of the senate side investigation, and we should really listen to what hes having to say. >> because if the fbi director, christopher wray in that extraordinary statement yesterday that was released, he says, we have grave concerns about m...

Extraordinarily difficult position. destroying the trust that is keeping us safe. >> you are saying you can say with complete accuracy that the so-called steel dossier was not the basis for the fisa application? >> what i am saying is this investigation that began as a counterintelligence investigation began independently of the steel dossier. >> appreciate your time tonight. thank you very much. coming up next, what our intelligence and national security pros has to say what the white house is ...