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Now today, we found out what happened right after that briefing. they tell obama and a small group of his top white house advisers that the incoming national security adviser is the subject of an fbi investigation, what happened next? what happened immediately thereafter? as of right now, we can tell you. quote, classification, top secret. and then you see top secret is struck through. its because this has gone through a formal declassification process at the national security council. this has ...

That was released. i will jump down to the third paragraph of this letter. which gets into this issue. it says consistent with the review of previous memorandum, meaning the g.o.p. one, the president asked the office of director of national intelligence and the department of justice to assess the declassification process and request rather and provide him recommendations. the department has identified portions of the february 5th memorandum. the disclosure of which is t. believes would create sp...

Against the white house with this explosive information. >> crazy tale. alan, my last question to you about where things go from here. you talked about the declassification process. weve seen a lot of information about the fisa warrant revealed in that last document. what damage has been done here, in your estimation? "new york times," get information on the underlying documents behind that republican memo. how much have things changed here as a result of the release of that first memo, how much...

Memo in a way that it cant be released? >> you can tell by the way hes been answering questions with regards to the memo. he has not revealed the fact that his memo was filled up with different sources and methods that have to be redacted. i think the responsible thing would be for the drafter of the memo to prepare the memo for release because it obviously includes a lot of different sources of and methods that shouldnt have been in there in the first place. >> i mean the committee, which has r...

Possible, and that includes getting the schiff memo as well. as that second tweet went on, i said if congressman schiff wants to change anything that hes basically making the same exact point but without revealing certain sources and methods, im all for that. as it goes through this process of declassification, im confident we can get this out to the public. >> why do you think the republicans then unanimously voted on the committee to let it go forward? i mean you would think they would share y...

Document that the white house said should be released. it is not normal for the gop chair of the house intel committee to refuse to share a classified document of mutual interest with the gop chair of the senate intel committee. it is not normal for the agency that was the source of the classified material in this case the d.o.j. to be excluded from the declassification process. and it is not normal for anyone in the government to expose secret material that sheds light on fisa surveillance. as ...

Idea of the federal judge who signed off on this affidavit. if congressman nunes truly had it in his heart to correct the record, to get a remedy in place for whatever allegation hes going to launch against the fbi regarding this affidavit, he has a solution. he could go to the chief judge of the fisa court, he could say i believe you signed off on a flawed affidavit and heres why, and that can be fixed and remedied. hes choosing not to do that. hes choosing not to go to the fbi director, not to...

This memo? >> no. the director has. but he is the only one who has been able to see it along with an analyst. we havent gotten feedback from the department. the fbi director wanted to come before our committee or have the bureau come before or committee and express concerns and they voted that down. they werent willing to entertain a briefing from either the committee or the house. why did they release one and not the other? these are the people pushing the release the memo campaign. it is polit...

Release the memo campaign. its political. it just -- this is a continuation of the effort to protect the presidents hide, push out a misleading narrative selectively declassifying information. its a really disgraceful act in my view to make partisan and political the declassification process. i think its what you see when you have a flawed president infecting the whole of government. >> you have no doubt this is just a smoke screen. that this is about trying to stop the russia probe or slow it d...

This is a complicated and partisan story. break it down what we know about when and if this could happen, the process for releasing the memo. we have reporting on what else is in the memo and who it is talking about. >> we had an interview with the congresswoman of florida. a lot of what is in the memo has to deal with surveillance done during the campaign, specifically about carter page, the off-sited former foreign adviser to then candidate trump who was under surveillance. it does detail some...