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Omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memos accuracy. so making the same point the democrats have made on the committee that its a selective picking of facts from the fisa application and doesnt reflect on the totality of what the fbi was going after here, andrea. >> and as well the fbi is also saying, as you know, that it takes its obligations to the fisa court, thats the special judge that reviews all of these confidential secret applications, and this was an extension of the eavesdr...

Donald trumps defense team. and if you want to do that, you can go meet up with john dowd and resign from congress. but working on both at once and not making that public is a big deal indeed. the larger memo battle is that tonight the fbi is working as hard as we have seen to keep this classified information to be released which of course could be this week. the fbi released a statement saying we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally affect the memos accuracy. ...

This was an application for a warrant from the foreign intelligence surveillance act. the classified court to monitor the communications of an american suspected of dealing with the russians. secondly, though, they say this memo written by committee staff which was reviewed by fbi shouldnt come out because it is incomplete and misleading. ill read what they say. as expressed during our initial are you ever we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo...

remember this happening. the fbi has warned that the -- it has grave concerns over the expected release of a classified memo written by staffers of the house intelligence committee and chairman devin nunez. in todays statement the bureau said, quote, as expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about the material omissions of fact that fund. ally impact the memos accuracy. this mirrors complaints that democrats on the commity have had to say there is cherry picking going on ...

Committee staff member of the -- of the house intelligence committee or a couple of staffers looked at that application for a warrant and wrote a memo summarizing what is in it. that is what this memo is. it is not the application itself. and as for what you just said a moment ago, people who are familiar with the application itself say, in essence, that the committee took sort of the worst things or the things that would put it in the worst light and that is why the fbi says that there are mate...

Familiar with the memo, the allegation may have been he was communicating with the russians. but. the fbi says number one, this this is stuff shouldnt come out. but then they say the fbi was provided a limited opportunity to review the memo the day before the house intelligence 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 thats the second part. where they think the m...

Released, quote, quickly. but the fbi apparently is so concerned about the consequences of this memo going public that they took their concern public. in a rare statement the fbi is calling the memo not just inaccurate and misleading, but they are saying this -- they have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memos accuracy. it is another way of saying they think the memo is a bunch of you know what. nunes mocked the complaint in his own statement saying t...

Committee have seen the underlying classified information that formed the basis for this memo? >> im not sure about that. i know that an agreement was reached to allow that, but its been fairly recently. >> right. congressman schiff said free, he said trey gowdy and two other staffers that wrote it. >> im not sure how many members have seen it. i couldnt give you an accurate count. >> is it appropriate for vote on a memo that it doesnt give up sources and methods if they havent seen the underlyi...

Officials and they write up a report of it. you look at the report and say this is 180 degrees off. none of this ever happened. would you ever consider editing that report or would you say i got to look at this. i think its wrong. as soon as you put pen to paper on that, you allow members of the committee to come out and say the fbi edited this. they must believe the substance of it is right, because theyre the ones who helped change the language in the document. >> what do you think is -- is th...

Intelligence side, they either question the legality, the factual accuracy, any of that, they would go back to the intelligence agency. and having that person review this memo if in fact they want it to be released publicly and then actual serious review of what of this memo is classified information should be reviewed for classification purpose so no harm to national security. and there is a process. the house intelligence committee did no the have to invoke this historic historic historical pr...