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This a political stunt. >> the short lived government shutdown did not shut down gop efforts to undermine the russia investigation. republicans may bypass the executive branchs declassification process to release a classified memo on the fbis alleged surveillance abuses. and are now considering releasing some of the underlying intelligence behind the memo. >> committee will come to order. >> spearheaded by house intelligence chairman devin nunes, who recused himself from the russia probe last ye...

Russias interference in our election. this week the intercept reported new details about the russian hacking, including their attempts to penetrate a voting software company. the vice chair of the senate intelligence committee mark warner reacted to that report, telling usa today that russian attacks on the election were even broader than what has been reported so far. >> we need to declassify more of that information so that americans can fully appreciate how broad and far-reaching this russian...

Russian attempt to interfere in our most basic democratic process. i dont believe they got into changing actual voting outcomes. but if the extent of the attacks is much broader than has been reported so far, again, im trying to work through a declassification process. >> according to a new "washington post"/abc news poll released today, 56% of americans think president trump is trying to interfere with investigations into possible russian influence in the 2016 election. just 34% of americans th...

Is one of the best appreciated, respected individuals within this white house was notable, because hes a guy who has the credibility that they thought could best sort of put this issue to rest. hes a general. hes a guy who can speak with real knowledge about classified information and the declassification process. and also, the white house says, while the president himself had tweeted only a matter of days ago about the fact that, how can you affect my surrogates and even my aides to know, to be...

Interrogation methods that were not approved by the justice department or cia headquarters. the agency impeded effective white house oversight regarding the program. it actively evaded congressional oversight. and it hindered oversight by its own inspector generals office. earlier this month, the senate intelligence committee voted to declassify the report. president obama said he would like the declassification process to be expeditious. joining me now is senior national security and intelligen...

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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 comes out. because this is classified right now, it has to go through a declassification process. and well see what exactly theyr...

Seen, we think we know what is in it or the subject of it but were not 100% sure and all of it -- it has its own complicated side story but legal experts tell my colleague delanian that all of the actions by this justice department are not formal. it is not normal to publicly object to the white house release of a it is not normal to give congress these kinds of sensitive classified documents in the first place. it is not normal for the house intel chair to refuse to share the information with h...

The president it will leak. and one way or another this will come out. and i think those trying to stop it probably not going to help themselves by saying that. >> it is interesting. because if it comes out, ken, the folks who think it shouldnt come out because it compromises national security and the fbi and the justice department, you cant have this battle out in public. you cant release this because it has information that shouldnt be out there. if it gets released, now what do you do. >> if ...

Agency. >> i want them to go through the normal classification and declassification process. >> kellyanne. exit question. one-word answer. is the president going to release the memo today? >> well, the president -- >> just one word! >> probably not. >> okay, thats two. close enough. >> republicans on the hill voted to release the secret memo which they say reveals shocking abuses at the fbi and doj and which democrats say is nothing but a partisan effort to delegitimize the very body that is inv...