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Government. teams of the national intelligence and justice department have been ordered by the white house the work through a declassification process of classified documents relating to the russian probe and the fisa warrant, and the special surveillance of carter page. to get reaction to this from the senior national security analyst and former cia director john brennan and how unusual is this? >> well, it is very unusual and concerning from two perspectives. one is that it is highly inappropr...

Dangerous. >> but abnormal people are okay with. >> sure. i mean, i think if you ask like an average person would you like to see the crown jewels of our national security and hear about sources and methods and let everyone know, wow, that sounds fun. but i mean, among intelligence officials and anybody with any grown-ups you would know its deeply dangerous. but what can be done about it? i do think theres going to be an interesting bureaucratic process at the end of the day, hes the president. ...

The guilty plea of paul manafort on friday signals another entire area for them to investigate this is far from over. >> martha: we will see. department of justice putting out a statement which they will -- when the president issues such an order it orders a declassification process by various agencies conjunction with the white house basically saying what you are saying. going to take a little while to come ow i want to get your thoughts on this kavanaugh situation and what you think is going t...

Have been waiting on now while andy is acting. andy is a reference to then deputy director andrew mccabe who temporarily took over for comey. page replied we need to lock in redacted in a formal chargeable way soon. in his public testimony, strzok did not clarify the text. sendinciting to a connection to muellers work. >> consistent with the policys based on special counsel equities im not authorized to discuss ongoing investigation. >> okay. >> lawyers for the former fbi officials did not respo...

Members of the republican party and the democratic party have serious, somber, sober, adult-like conversations with themselves and with one another about their constitutional responsibility to provide a check and balance. >> as he had requested house intel chairman devin nunes has received access to the document that led to the investigation of russia and president trumps team. nunes had threatened, congressman, to impeach the deputy ag and chris murray. didnt republicans also shutdown the house...

But the reality is thats not ever going to happen unless its done jointly together because of the two thirds voting rier requirement in the constitution. and both the republican party and democratic party have serious somber adult like conversations with themselves and with one another about their constitutional responsibility to provide a check and balance. >> as he had requested house intel chairman devin nunes has received documents that led to the investigation of russia and president trumps...

Republican majority on the intel committee. it closed its russia investigation. it says theres been no collusion with the trump campaign. what happens now? is that the end, do the democrats have any options left? >> well, sure. so procedurally here what whats going to happen, alex. next thursday, march 22nd, we will have the proposed majority report, the report from the republican majority closing this out, quite prematurely, self-evidently. there will be a vigorous debate on that. democratic mi...

Because it seems to me the public deserves to see whats in that report. >> yes. and now that he no longer works there, eventually the declassification process should seem to be easy. you can dedakt certain things and show everyone the basic rationale for his removal. you put your finger on it. fordown dowds self-serving call, forget stormy daniels, forget sessions late night move. if theres anything we learned this morning, this 20-year veteran who happens to be a registered republican is that t...

That the underlying intelligence backing up that assessment just does not support the conclusion that was drawn in january of 2017. they contended that they need a more thorough investigation about this than the intelligence community, because they said the intelligence community did it in a short window, right after the elections, but they spent months and months and months poring over the documents. now, well have to see if thats actually the case, as dana said, when this report eventually com...

On to say they dont know whats in the final document. the democrats today will get 150 page report. put it through the declassification process. all get to see it devin nunes on at 8:20. remember, he was removed temporarily as they reviewed him for ethics violation. he was exoneration but con conaway kept the job. ainsley: democrats upset about this including adam schiff. 14 months to show all of us evidence. we havent seen any evidence. zero evidence of collusion so far. 14u months when it came...