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Was emailing people on the trump team and its changing information, outed by "the new york times." youre telling me the campaign wasnt spied on? that is like bizarro superman land. >> jesse: before they were never spied on. now its they were spied on there was good reason for it. >> marie: i can name multiple cases. jesse, the president has picked certain pages in these fisa warrant to be released. do you think all of them should be released? some people have said cherry picking makes it look li...

What hes doing with declassifying this information. you have to go back to the fact that this fisa application into carter page has already gone through declassification review, and the national security professionals at the justice department, at the fbi, have determined that the 21 pages that they held back, some in total, some partially, were held back because releasing that information would compromise sources and methods or jeopardize ongoing investigations. the president is swooping in aft...

Wont ask them to do is investigate allegations of sexual assault. at the same time as you point out, hes taing this step using the powers of the presidency to advance his personal interests. what hes doing with declassifying this information. you have to go back to the fact that this fisa application into carter page has already gone through declassification review, and the national security professionals at the justice department, at the fbi, have determined that the 21 pages that they held bac...

Would serve to do it is to get out in to the press some basic evidence that could be used against him, for personal against him in the russia probe. >> whats interesting is this may be another example of the presidents own administration slow walking one of his requests. take a listen to this from ken delaney of nbc news, in response to the justice department announced monday they would begin a declassification review of the material. that struck some intelligence officials as a stalling tactic,...

>> matt, the president doesnt want the fbi involved here. he would very much like the fbi to reveal formerly confidential communications that could reveal sources and methods, conceivably. >> yeah, its a bit ironic after a year and a half the president making repeated inappropriate depand demands of the fbi, one thing he wont ask them to do is investigate allegations of sexual assault. at the same time as you point out, hes taking this step using the powers of the presidency to advance his perso...

Department about how theyre going to go through the declassification review now, they already did that with respect to the carter fisa page regulation. it was done in january after they went through a review and held back the information they thought was most secretive and they really needed to keep classified to protect sources and methods. the president has ordered that material completely released. intr entire pages blanked out. there are clear references to sources, references to actions ins...

Now democrats, they are furious. insisting that the president is only releasing the top secret information in order to help themselves politically. >> well, i think its first and foremost a way of donald trump helping his own defense, providing these own materials to his own legal defensed team. this is coordinated between the president and his lyallies. and the president dent acedent e had since watergate that a president does not interfere at specific cases in justice is shattered. >> lets be ...

Way, mika oyang. let me put up what sort of things the president is declassifying. 21 pages of fisa warrant documents to surveilled carter page. we know thats been a big talking point among republicans. and almost this, another big talking point, text messages related to all of these individuals in the russia investigation, andrew mccabe, bruce ohr, lisa page, peter strzok and james comey, unredacted text messages. what is the intention here, ken? >> look, clearly the intention is political. it ...

Who stone walling, slow walking and saying they dont have records when they do have records and they have been lying. what does the president do at this point? he is the chief executive and f.b.i. and justice department are under him. and what should he do to get it out. norder a mandatory declassification review of the documents within a decent amount of time and have outside experts that he trusts review these records and make sure nothing is held inproperly. we are waiting on the text message...

Who stone walling, slow walking and saying they dont have records when they do have records and they have been lying. what does the president do at this point? he is the chief executive and f.b.i. and justice department are under him. and what should he do to get it out. norder a mandatory declassification review of the documents within a decent amount of time and have outside experts that he trusts review these records and make sure nothing is held inproperly. we are waiting on the text message...