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White house could itself release the memo. based on what geoff is saying and youve been reporting all week, it sounds like thats not going to happen so that brings us to scenario two. the president could declassify the memo, sending it back to t house intelligence committee. at that point the committee is free to release the memo at the time of its choosing. devin nunes perhaps in consultation with the speak could release it today or they could want to roll out and brief reporters and the public...

This idea that with a media -- a wing of the media -- state-run media essentially functioning to sort of obscure and cover up and distort the reality, how does an fbi -- how does the fbi protect the fisa process moving forward from a president totally willing to declassify and hand over to fox news -- by the way, fox news got this before any other news organization. so, there wasnt even a pretense of releasing the memo for the public good or for all citizens. simply to the viewers of fox news. >...

Negotiated. any interbranch dispute gets negotiated. congress can pull the funds of the agency if they dont want to comply, but they can use deliberative process, privilege and other things to try to hold it back. thats always a fight that happens. >> so theres news about rick gates lawyer, julia. the a.p. reporting also that muellers team has postponed the sentencing of michael flynn. why are those two things significant? >> sentencing of michael flynn, the postponing means that maybe michael f...

Fbis toolbox. so the fbi director should be expected to come out and be compelled to publicly rebut line for line, bullet for bullet, this memo. not for political reasons, but because he needs to explain to americans that the fisa technique is real, its vital to our safety and hes going to stand up to anybody whos challenging that technique. >> thats really interesting because there have been questions about what chris wray does after all of this. our sources are telling us that hes not consider...

Day. phil, i want to start with you. i want to start with where donald trump is on this. we know because he has said it publicly in a hot mike moment, he 100% wants to release this memo. how did he come about this decision? we were told by sources he hadnt even seen the thing yet. >> hallie, our reporting is this decision was preordained. trump first heard about this memo two weeks ago when a pair of house conservatives, including congressman mark meadows, a close ally of the president, brought ...

Lawyer was if its a four-page memo, which we were told it is. theres a situation where a lot of people havent read the underlying information for that memo. fisa warrants or all the information going into to get a fisa warrant is 50, 60, 70 pages. it goes to a judge, a judge has to review that. it is -- its been hard for the people that ive talked to on the outside of this to understand how you could have kind of a credible analysis of that in four pages. so it may not really tell anybody anythi...

About what happens with chris wray. youve seen a lot of classified memos. explain why the fbi is so worried about this release and what you expect to see when it comes to potential redactions? >> yeah, so a couple of thoughts. first, we see the use of the word "grave" when the fbi and department of justice come out and say they have grave concerns about the release of that. theres significance in the word "grave" within the intelligence community. >> why, what does that mean? >> its the word tha...

Chris wray can make it. i dont think anyone else can speculate. >> nick, your reaction to that? >> yeah, my reaction is this is extremely significant. in fact the only party thats going to gain anything out of this memo appears to be the russians. because theyre going to have classified information about sources relating to our fisa process, how we go about doing the fisa process, and i agree with the other guests that were speaking before. this really is a dud. it doesnt prove anything. but it ...

Which the white house could green light the memo. walk us through it. >> hallie, i think our viewers can be forgiven if they think theres been a lot of conflicting information this week. >> because there has been. >> yes. because our sources are giving us conflicting information. >> thats exactly right. literally, mike, let me pull back the curtain for a second. you and i talk all the time offline along with our white house team on this reporting. there are times we will get information from one...

Have extra over site and care about the fisa process. that is the central -- and i think that is part -- i dont care how bipartisan the democrats are that president trump is guilty, it is an extraordinary tool and you have to dot every i and cross never t. >> but you dont do the over sight by spilling it into the public where methods and sources of information are available the large. you dont do this on a partisan basis. they have taken what more or less has been a bipartisan agreement on how t...