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Page, developing details. >> reporter: this was a victory for house intelligence committee chairman devon nunez who has been trying to get his hands on this 2-page memo, he wants extraordinary lengths to do so even threatening top justice department officials, threatening to hold them in contempt if that memo wasnt turned over. the justice department gave in and allowed nunez and trey gowdy to see that memo with some rejections. >> if there are reductions i go to the fundamentals. why is it, act...

Fox news of the republic and chairman of house intelligence committee devin nunes along with congress been trey gowdy and committee staffers went to the justice department late today and met with deputy attorney general ron rosenstein and viewed a copy of the two-page fbi memo that kick started the rush probe. not a clean copy, as lawmakers demand, government source told fox the reductions were minimal and justified. based on reporting, the memo from july 2,016th was drafted by or with significa...

Councils. but we need a second special counsel. >> laura: you are not getting one. >> can the fbi investigate themselves? john lausch, seems like a nice guy but, who do they answer to? rod rosenstein. the employees are going to investigate their boss? thats how this is going to work? >> laura: if you were the president, would you fire rosenstein? >> i think those things should be on the table. resignation, impeachment, contempt. >> laura: mark warner gave a comment. he says he is fed up with the...

Heather: just in time the doj makes the deadline to hand over unredacted russia probe documents after a warning from taos intelligence chairman devon nunez. >> we will not just hold contempt, we will have a plan to hold in contempt and impeach. we are not messing around. jillian: was it enough to meet republican demand? is a former doj lawyer. was it? >> we have to hear that from nunez as to whether there is sufficient. what is outrageous about this is doj got a subpoena in august last year, too...

Republican. this is a deep state obstructio obstruction. this fbi only turned over this document after being threatened with contempt and being threatened with impeachment. namely the fbi director, mr. rosenstein. >> harris: talk to me about this memo in particular. we talk about a clean memo because it has not been redacted. >> there is no classified information. theres really no reason to withhold it, other than i think for embarrassment reasons. theres a history with the fbi, their records wo...

Congress may have carried the day. devon nunez really wanted access to a 2-page document showing early justifications for the trump russia probe. we still dont know what that memo contains. >> a step in the right direction. there are still reductions in it, folks in the department of justice, unredacted things, members of congress elected by this country cant see it. >> we have contempt including the director of the fbi. >> the house majority, outside the boundaries most of us would view as appr...

Who used to respect him and frankly with a fair amount of contempt by democrats. david frum with republican senators who have announced, like jeff flake, that theyre not going to run for reelection. they seem free to say things they otherwise would not. is there any chance of that with paul ryan now? >> why should he? you said early on and donald trump has destroyed paul ryan, and, of course, theres a lot of truth to that. its also true that paul ryan has destroyed donald trump. imagine if don...

Taking a position on his investigation, is a man who served this country for his entire life, so to call him the head of a crime family, thats new territory. >> its beneath contempt. sean hannity is a desperate, desperate man. desperately defending a desperate, desperate president. sean hannity has a show that shep smith and the rest of the news people at fox news consider to be a joke. they call it fake news, they call it entertainment and thats fine if people want to be entertained that way at...

Entire life to protecting americans at home and abroad, is beneath contempt. and it shows how desperate they all are. they know that seven out of ten americans say this investigation should be seen through to the end. that no man is above the law. only 12% of americans say in this investigation -- end this investigation. you look at joe -- i dont know how stupid he thinks americans are. but its very insulting to fox viewers that joe di genova thinks viewers are such idiots that they think that j...

Responsibilities and what did he do? he essentially signed his entire job over to the white house. and that, if anything else, will be the long term legacy of one who came with the idea that there was an imbalance in our system, presidents were too powerful, the peoples house was the most responsible, the most democratic of our branchs of government and he frittered it away. that is the great tragedy of paul ryan and i think that plus the enormous debt is what hes going to be known for. i think ...