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Aide, trying to water down some of its own assertions here. from your perspective, does -- is this fishy to you? is it confusing? if they thought there was wrongdoing why do they backtrack before send going to the white house. >> certainly, yeah -- of course, were operating without the memo. it would be nice to have it in front of us. if what theyre talking about is redactions. that can become a compromise between the house and the white house in terms of whats included in the memo. thats within...

Angry and motivated moderates. >> but its -- >> moderates never get angry. >> its a contradiction in terms. you look at primaries, maybe 8% of the voters vote in primaries. we had one dick luger in my state lost a republican primary by 20 points to a tea party candidate. dick lugar had been in the senate arguably for 30 years and he was tossed out because he was allegedly too moderate. only 19% of eligible republicans voted in that primary. so as long as moderates and centrists dont participate ...

Need to know about the presidents priorities. without reading it and without hearing from the intelligence agencies or the fbi over the damage it would do with the public release. >> reporter: the republicans running the investigation mike conroy pushed back on schiffs assertions. they are prepared to release the memo drafted by schiff. it comes to the different conclusions than the devin nunes memo. they he wawant to follow the sa procedures as the nunes memo. they want access to the classified...

Author of the memo has also not seen. what i will say from my perspective as a former united states attorney, when the fbi or some intel agency says in a strong way, we have concerns about classified information being made public, whatever the reasons may be, we take it very seriously. sometimes the officers themselves wanted information to come out so you could try a terrorist or someone accused of espionage in the court. and you have to work that out in the court. the executive branch will be ...

Committee. he said executive privilege prevented him. the white house prevented him from talking about anything that went on during transition. >> theyre preparing for a different tactic when they go to meet with mueller. >> could steve bannons on the record interviews for the controversial book, fewer and fury be fact orred in? >> legal experts say absolutely. thats because the comments were bombastic. it caught the eye of muellers team but investigators on capitol hill for a closed door hearin...

Campaign. >> what do you say to that? >> i would say that it is partisanship at its worse. many people years from now will look back on the damage they did to the fbi and the doj based on no evidence. and the reason i say no evidence anderson s because the memo is based on highly, highly classified things. so highly classified, but that certainly your average member of congress has not seen. so inasmuch as members of congress are out there making confident assertions, what theyre doing is puttin...

Negotiation between what the congress is going to ask a witness and the white house and the white house says these are certain things that cannot be asked because its covered by something that can be debated and ironed out. i would imagine if this is tried in front of mueller, that it will end up in court and the court will rule that this does not apply, that there is no executive privilege and that the witness is going to have to answer the questions. >> i wanted to follow up on that because we...

I would imagine if this is tried in front of mueller, that it will end up in court and the court will rule that this does not apply, that there is no executive privilege and that the witness is going to have to answer the questions. >> i wanted to follow up on that because we have the news yesterday was mueller subpoenaed bannon. now theyve struck a deal. it sounds like from the reporter hes not going to try to make she is same assertions. youre saying given the holding in the watergate case, th...

Graham and i, and say weve done it. we have met your criteria. we have a bipartisan bill, were ready to go. then to be called into the presidents office and explain it to him and find weve been sandbagged. general kelly and steve miller, as i understand it, invited five other members of congress who were not in favor of immigration reform, and they were there to refute any assertions we made that this was good policy. >> i think somebody on the staff gave him really bad advice between 10:00 and ...

At one point sarah sanders describing the remarks. that is not going against political correctness, that is being discriminatory against people coming from those countries. >> "the lead"s jack tapper -- walking to a setup. >> we call him two days later and say they have done it. we met your criteria. we are ready to go. and then to be called into the presidents office and find that we have been sandbagged. general kelly and steve miller invited five other members of congress who are no the in fa...