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Well? the fact that adam schiff has come forward and says look, the memo the white house has right now was altered, changed, from the one we approved out of committee. the big back and forth over how significant the changes are. the fact that nunes has said, hey, those changes are cosmetic. this is the other big issue. you have republican members of congress out of town now. theyre at their retreat in west virginia. in fact, the presidents going to go there later today to speak to them. there is...

In consultation with the fbi they made a change to register those concerns and then they voted on releasing the memo to the white house. so the process is exactly what it should have been. scrubbed to make sure there are no sources or methods were revealed. when an issue was brought to the committee they went through it and then through the committee process. >> republicans are traditionally the party of law and order. you have an fbi director saying please dont release this memo, it is misleadi...

Completely politicized institution. >> well, its a great tragedy for the committee, but this is the direction mr. nunez decided to take us. and in terms of the minority, we can go along for the ride or fight this abuse of the committee process and weve chose tone fight it. they have, as the department of justice said quite aptly decided to start declassifying information without regard to the investigation or source of methods. to make a political point that is, as they said, extraordinarily rec...

>> but you think everyone should be able to read it? >> i think both sides will put out a memo and people should read them. >> republicans arent letting democrats get their memo out. >> i do believe sunshine on this issue because we have real threats when we talk about terrorism and the rights to privacy and our constitutional safeguards. thats why i think josh and i can come in as democrats and republicans and say these are real threats. this memo, i think, will illustrate this issue that could...

Deficiencies when it came to certain policies versus others. when it came to health care, he knew a lot less about international trade and taxes. i always thought his biggest handicap this year was that he didnt seem to understand the process of governing. what i mean by that is he came to the table not really understanding the pressure points in congress and the processes of congress, the committee process, and how members of congress are going to deal with pieces of legislation and how the pre...

The committee process. people have been able to comment on it, bash it, love it. this has been an open process. what happened in the senate is democrats attacked small colleges that have a trust fund that give appalachian kids who have never gone to school and college in their families gave them free tuition and democrats attack to make us come back to the house. this isnt moving too fast. a procedural play by democrats. were happy with the process. everyone is commenting on what were doing, far...

And thats not the whole truth you just told. >> well i dont know these are necessarily scare tactics a lot of people are trying to figure out whats in the content of the bill since it was written so haste ill it and there was a lack of transparency, lack of true committee process throughout the entire process of getting this bill passed. >> dagen: jonas, people get more of their money back. how is the world coming to an end that corporations will be given incentives to create jobs in this countr...

Night on friday night. we have all seen the sausage made before. it is not pretty when you are up against a self imposed deadline. >> any bill like this, the longer it hands out there, the more people throw arrows at it and the more unpopular it is. imperative for the leadership is they had the votes and they were going to jam it through and get it passed to no end. they started to delay the vote until monday. they failed in that regard. this is not a partisan thing. democrats did the same thing...

Thats not happening here. so these kinds of discussions and these kinds of issues back and forth would have been hammered out through the committee process and the hearings and we wouldnt have this like 11th hour drama. the republicans have set themselves up on this because of the timetable being so compact, because theyre so desperate for a win. >> is this all just about a win? >> you know, don, i was in st. charles, missouri, yesterday, when the president spoke. you know missouri from your tim...

As we get closer to tonights cnn tax debate, more on the senate tax bill that moved forward today. the questions are what did it take to get to this point, and most importantly, whats in the bill for people to look forward to or be aware of. cnns phil mattingly joins us from capitol hill with what hes learning tonight. whats the current state of play? does it look like the tax bill is going to make it through? >> look, anderson, theyre in a much better place right now than this morning, no quest...