later in the week on tuesday sessions was back in the west wing. on wednesday kelly sat down again with justice department officials about various things. things came out during these conversations in which both trump and chief of staff john kelly said, listen, you ve got to live up to expectations. you ve got to really work here. you need to be great or you re going to go down in history as being some of the worst at your jobs in history. so really laid down the line of what they expect of them and how they want them to be handling their jobs. so it was a long week of frustrations. and then when this letter from the doj was sent saying don t release the memo,iest just told that the president and other white house officials were just thinking is this justice department trying to undercut us again? what is their motivation here? are they trying to hide something? are they trying to protect someone? trump on air force one setoff a
wing. on wednesday kelly sat down again with justice department officials about various things. things came out during these conversations in which both trump and chief of staff john kelly said, listen, you ve got to live up to expectations. you ve got to really work here. you need to be great or you re going to go down in history as being some of the worst at your jobs in history. so really laid down the line of what they expect of them and how they want them to be handling their jobs. so it was a long week of frustrations. and then when this letter from the doj was sent saying don t release the memo,iest just told that the president and other white house officials were just thinking is this justice department trying to undercut us again?
dossier. this is the opposition research that was paid for first by anti-trump republicans and then by hillary clinton. and so that is all tainted. now, look, i would love to see this memo. i d like to see the whole fisa application, the whole warrant application. the fight is you can t tell the whole list of abuses. and we have republicans trying to make the case this is all tainted surveillance, but we re not going to be able to see the whole thing. and the public is not going to be able to make that determination off of this report. that much is clear. a subquestion, that this is all predicated on the o.j. trial, that this is an effort to cloud up the jury pool and we re all in the jury pool. is this memo going to have impact among the core or the general public? are we going to have people
very unlikely if the president of the united states blocks the release of the memo, that the full house would then vote to override that decision. so if they decide to block the release, then theoretically it might not appear, it might not be released. and jennifer, we saw schiff come out. and schiff said that in their meeting today they bleed, the democrats did and the minority, for the minority remarks about this to come out. everything they wanted to say to counter the points in this edited memo, that s been rejected until this memo comes out. would something lake that be leaked and find its way to the public domain anyway? well, one would hope not. if it contains classified information, you would hope it would not be leaked. and this is part of the reason why the intelligence community was willing to share this information. they allowed members of congress to view classified documents, about a thousand pages and gather the information that was used to write these dueling memos.
you don t use them to attack your enemies. and this is falsely attacking the fbi to protect the president. it s a line that we just cannot cross, and i m still hopeful that we don t go there, but i think we re as close as wave ever been. i know you re not able to speak to the contents of the memo. it s the point of the argument. but if you re able to even if it calls for speculation, what s at work here? why is this being pushed out? what s it toward? i ve read both memos, the republican one that will go to the public as early as tomorrow and the democratic one that they ve prevented the public from seeing. what this does is it really seriously discredits bob mueller and his investigation by putting out facts just not supported by the evidence.