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That chairman gaudy set for the white house chief of staff to reply about security clearances at the white house. was that request met -- did the chief of staff send a reply to the chairman gowdy. >> were having conversation with the committee and continue working with them and i cant go any further than that at this point. >> do you think you might answer the committee? >> again were in regular conversations with them. and were going to continue working with them. trey. >> this week the preside...

Calling this witch hunt theyre almost entirely republicans, right, the key players? >> yes. there are so many layers to this. he is claiming that there was some fisa abuses. but if you look at the schiff response to the nunes memo, there clearly were not any bouss of the fisa process. the four judges were republican appointees. jeff sessions himself is a republican. the head of the fbi, christopher wray is a republican. we have deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, who is a republican. the com...

So we came one a version that corrected the record and it demonstrated the fisa process was followed. in fact, the fisa court was made aware that this was part of opposition research against donald trump. and ill confirm the way this firm, fusion gps, got involved in the first place, they were looking into president trump. then candidate trump in the first place. so wasnt a bunch of democrats. there were also conservatives involved as well. >> should that fisa application, with hindsight, knowin...

Department of justice or the fbi in the last six months. i mean obviously just reassure signing people for personal reasons doesnt tell the story but there are people who seem to be losing their position as a result but people want to know how will justice be served, congressman. i mean theres clearly nothing new here and the democrats have, well they have done what they wanted to do and that is muddy the water so tell us, where is the justice? >> well i think that were putting a spotlight and b...

Political endeavor, is something that he had the opportunity to undo because the house intelligence committee deinvolved into a very partisan kind of investigation. >> and miriam, both sides have very different takes on these memos. as you can imagine. in particular they both either defended or gone after the fisa process. the fisa warrant process. take a listen to this and ill get your reaction to it. >> the dossier was not responsible for the fbi investigation. that is a myth thats been spread...

I dont see any signs of it. >> and not to mention, but in the case of carter page, renewed by different judges and in order for it to be renewed requires the judge to see evidence that the fisa warrant is working. is that correct? >> exactly. it is clear they had more than enough from many different sources to get the initial warrant. and that they are continuing to get information about things that were, even lets use a nonlegal term, troubling, troubling to the court that it kept renewing the ...

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Memos? >> absolutely not. particularly in the democratic memo which really, i think, lays out in much more detail than the republican memo did what was actually said in the application for the fisa warrant. to the extent the aldwags hlegas been that sources were disclosed and thats just been completely debu debunked now. as in the democratic memo, it says that the fact that the person who had avoid steel was looking to discredit trumps campaign, it was revealed in the memo. it doesnt need to dis...

All four requests. what do you want the take away to be here in your district for the american people now having seen this memo? >> well, despite the presidents attacks on the intelligence agencies, they followed the fisa process. this investigation was opened up not because of the steele dossier but because of legitimate information that the fbi had that russians were basically approaching trump campaign aide george papadopoulos. so, remember, i think the context here is important. we didnt wan...

Memo and well be able to fill in a little more of the picture on what the democrats have added to the picture here. and its also important to point out that carter page has not been accused of a crime. nobody has charged him with anything. you know, this was a surveillance that should never have gotten out. this is the kind of thing that the fbi does. under normal circumstances, it never becomes public. >> right, right. okay, evan perez, our justice correspondent. were going to give you a moment...