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Call phase two of our investigation, which involves other departments, specifically the state department and some of the involvement that they had in this. >> phase two is where they take off the clown nose. >> as devin nunes previewed, fridays memo isnt the last to target government departments. there could be as much as five additional memos or reports that claim wrong doing ahead. nunes said, this was phase one that resulted with the memo designed to go public. theres not plans of additional ...

This memo given the republican leadership supporting its release and also it makes it hard for them to argue this isnt part of a witch-hunt against senior department of justice officials and the leadership of the fbi if they dont let people hear both sides of the case. thats a challenge for them because it makes it look political if they dont treat the democratic memo the same way. >> lets talk about the fisa process, chuck. does the memo describe adequately the process? >> theres a lot more to ...

Happening. >> i do, too. >> thats, again, the disintegration of the process. fear of donald trump. >> kamala harris, thank you for being here. still ahead on "morning joe," the former director of the cia, john brennan, is standing by. he has firsthand knowledge that directly refutes what devin nunes claimed in the memo. he joins the table next on "morning joe". >> whats a memo? >> a home mow is something you write to give people information? >> thats your plan? youre going write a book report?...

A flimsy document on its face. that the argument -- they rested all this argument that somehow the surveillance of carter page was illegal and we found out within minutes that, in fact, the court had been told that the dossier was paid for by a political opponent of donald trumps. it didnt say it was the dnc or hillary clinton campaign, but it was a political opponent. it knocks out that in fact the entire investigation began because of george papadopoulos, not carter page. so its one thing for ...

Power. and what we are seeing now is the possibility, if we believe he might fire mueller, is that the president of the united states as the head of the executive branch would direct the united states department of justice to get rid of the investigator investigating the president of the united states. >> and russia. >> and russia, of course. and so is the senate select committee on intelligence. >> you started talking about the disintegration of the process. how hopeful are you? how would you n...

Find out, to investigate what happened, how the russians interfered in our election and whether theres anything we should do to stop it in the process. instead, his entire investigation now seems to be kind of going across various parts of the government to see if theres anyone that did anything to try to blow the whistle to try to help stop russian interference and find out what happened. i mean, he is investigating the investigators. and i think -- i was going to say, i think the worry is the ...

Folks some cover. what do you think will happen here? >> im a little less confident in what the white house will put out specifically the notion that they will put a memo thats the miror image of the republican memo. not a single word was redacted from the republican memo even though there were elements quite sensitive. meaning a long time fbi source going into the fisa process, talking about specific investigative steps. remember what the president said even before the white house had received ...

Sent the bureau on friday and the type of leadership hes showing over there. >> i think christopher wray is an individual of high integrity and honesty and somebody who can lead the bureau during these challenging times. he has a very difficult job in light of what is taking place right now in the administration. he needs to maintain the support of the bureau and let them know he has their back and hes going to defend them. hes going to look at whether or not there were any missteps at all durin...

About the integrity of the judiciary, the justice department, the fbi, law enforcement agencies like it while the president continues to criticize it and potentially undermine it? >> well, you know, the inspector general is doing a review at the request of the republicans, fine. the inspector general system has been set in place to review all agencies, including the department of justice to make sure that everything is working well. and wherever they do, they find ways to improve. theres nothing...

>> we go back a long way on fisa before they had this process. it was set up in the 70s after the abuses of that era. on surveillance. i never liked the idea because i thought it diluted political accountability. a court if the fbi went in the wrong direction they could say a judge approved it. it seems to me if you have a fisa process, isnt this the most basic information you want to tell in the middle of a presidential campaign? >> i think so. especially given the rationale of the fisa court. ...