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The russia investigation and the mueller investigation. and you know, he -- he wants to get out information that will -- that will cast the investigation somehow in a negative light. so i agree with you. he will release it. look, it has serious consequences across a number of axis. first, the concern is about what the specific information is in this document that may have national security consequences. information about the fisa process is classified for an extremely good reason. both civil lib...

>> then we -- well first of all we have to deal with whatever is in the memo. and then we deal with the fallout. im almost without words to try to describe the amazing moment that were in. i covered the justice department once upon a time when top aides to attorney general -- attorney journal mooes was under investigation and top aides resigned in protest of some of his acs. and yet a tax on the legitimacy of that investigation, dealing with classified information, this absolute overt war with t...

Wants -- he is projecting what the president wants to have happen. we saw the president as he was leaving the chamber last night get door stopped by a republican senator who asked him about the memo and the presidents answer is 100% it will be released. sarah sanders tried to walk that back a little bit. suggesting that there is still a number of steps in the process to go and they wont do anything rashly and so forth and then a few hours after that, john kelly said, yep, good to go. >> michael,...

Is doing here is shattering that trust and it is going to do amazing long-term damage to the willingness of the intelligence community to cooperate with what we have all come to expect in the way of congressional over site. i. >> i want to show you another excerpt, the transcript of the closed door meeting about whether to release this memo. democratic congress mike quigley addressed nun he is and asked him, was any of this done -- referring to the memo, after or during conversations or consulta...

Similar documents, many people in government called him a traitor and he is on the run from the u.s. government ever since. that is how highly sensitive many people believe the sources and methods are to this memo that was used to make this memo. joining me is ben whitis, editor of la fair and an msnbc legal analyst. ben, i know youve been following this as closely as anybody. and frankly the last half hour weve been reading excerpts of what is a just released transcript of the house intel commi...

Three members of the intelligence committee leadership, that is chairman richard bur on the senate side, mark warner, the ranking member on the senate side and adam schiff, the ranking member on the house side should jointly issue a statement saying what they think to the excetent theyo not approve of or agree why or believe in the factual integrity of this memo. >> ben wittes, i will leave it there and an nbc and msnbc political analyst. thank you. >> thank you. and bringing in tonights panel...

But the implication is that the white house may have been working with nunes. he got caught once working with the white house. on the unmasking issue. is there anything that the house can do that would sort of block nunes by questioning he was working with another branch of government on this? >> if the president and the chairman want this document to be released, it is going to be released. and i do think that the question of to what extent devin nunes is an in dependent actor here and to what ...

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...

Saying there was no reference to mueller last night. we argued it. might have been one reference to mueller. take a listen. >> tonight i call on congress to empower every cabinet secretary with the authority to reward good workers and to remove federal employees who undermine the public trust or fail the american people. >> translation, michael steel. i will hire and fire whoever i want. >> and that is the bottom line of this whole thing. is the presidents inability to get rid of the people who ...

Want to. >> i will meet you there. >> i will build that guard rail. if it is wednesday, the fight between the white house, the fbi and the department of justice is escalating. tonight, breaking all of the norms. the fbi makes its concerns public to keep the nunes memo from going public. but the white house seems ready to release it and nunes is firing back too. plus, the democrats dilemma. >> so lets come together, set politics aside, and finally get the job done. >> could they pay a hefty p...