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Memo particularly since they claim they are releasing the gop memo in the interests of transparency. >> will the president support that? including the fisa warrant itself? >> well, the president and the white house has stated that we would be open to consider anything the house intelligence committee chooses to vote out. this is the republican speaker of the house has talked about and read the schiff memo that he was just talking about and supports the release. well consider it. we consider anyt...

Rosenstein, in part because the president fears that doing that may prolong the russia investigation. we should note, though, ana, we have seen in the past similar votes of confidence from this administration for a number of different officials, only for those officials to be shown the door soon thereafter. >> the presidents his own boss. he makes that very clear. the fbi had warned the president against releasing this memo. his fbi director that he picked out said he had grave concerns. and we ...

At the fbi and doj. >> let me say that ive had a chance to see the memo. our administration believes the memo raises serious concerns about the integrity of the decisions made at the highest level of the department of justice and the fbi. >> all right, joining mow know to discuss all of this, steve hall, cnn national security analyst and retired cia chief of russia operations. and shawn turner who is also a cnn national security analyst. good to see you both. all right, so shawn, you heard the v...

Intelligence agencies themselves? how do you know? >> they are free to dispute it. i dont think people are making counter factual arguments whats in the memo. again, we welcome that information. it has to go through the same process, voted on by the house and intelligence committee. lets be clear about this, no one is saying that republicans on the house intelligence committee are blocking anything. they are working it through the same process. the nunes memo was made available to be viewed in a...

Memo has raised very legitimate questions about how and in what ways the fisa process may have been abused by using campaign political opposition research. i will tell you, right, if in the heart of a political campaign an attorney general is using campaign political opposition and not telling a judge about it when seeking a spy warrant, i think if the tables were turned and this happened to say barack obama, i think there would be outrage. i think adam schiff, nancy pelosi would be totally outr...

That was submitted by the house of representatives. there is a process. the house intelligence committee voted out this specific memo with the information in it. we thought it raised questions. the president believed that the public had the right to know about what was in it so he ordered it declassified. but well continue to be open to other documents, other things that are relevant to this matter, and others that the house intelligence committee chooses to vote out. >> so this is crucial, beca...

It was set up in the 70s after the abuses of that euro. on surveillance but i never liked the idea because i thought he diluted political accountability. if they went in the wrong direction you could say, a judge approved it. it seems to me if youre going to have a fisa process, isnt this the most basic information you ought to tell in the middle of a presidential campaign in particular? >> especially given the basis for the fisa court. what they are seeking in order to be able to surveillance i...

Especially mr. nunes and some of his allies in the intelligence committee and other republicans in the house are trying to do whatever they can to play defense for donald trump. i mean the idea that this memo was about shining light on the fisa process, i mean thats farcical. and donald trump made as much clear this morning when he tweeted out, oh, this shows, you know, what awful things are going on at the department of justice and the fbi. and like he said in that pool spread today when he sai...

Is deliberate? do you think thats a dangerous game to be playing here? >> i think so. i think its actually very distracting from what the real threat is to america. remember, it was the russians attempt to subvert people in the campaign and interfere in the investigation that launched this not only investigation of trump officials but counter investigation. russia is coming back in the next election and instead of figuring out how the russians tried to get in and how we can stop them going forwa...

And the point of that is if devin nunes and these republicans really believe theres corruption at the heart of the fisa process, shouldnt they go to the held of the fisa court and raise these allegations and lets have it out. of course, the democrats are saying tonight that the key allegations in this memo are false. they are saying, for example, andrew mccabe the deputy fbi director did not say as stated in the memo there would not have been a fisa application absent the dossier. so we need to ...