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House intelligence committee and you watch devin nunes putting out this memo, i mean -- look, as i understand, correct me if i am wrong the reason the intelligence committees were created was so that a select group of lawmakers could see the intelligence and be nonpolitical about it? >> little history here. i was a young lawyer on the senate judiciary committee during the saturday night massacre. i was there and on sunday the democrats on the committee, there were no intelligence committees conv...

I think what they have done in a masterful job of, is making this a hyper- partisan issue. now its going to be democrats and republicans fighting over to competing memos and that will further muddied the water as opposed to letting the legitimate investigation play itself out. >>chris: i want to pick up on that with you jillian. as you worked in the security council for both presidents bush and obama. congressional intelligence committees traditionally try to rise above politics and stick to fac...

I think what they have done in a masterful job of, is making this a hyper- partisan issue. now its going to be democrats and republicans fighting over to competing memos and that will further muddied the water as opposed to letting the legitimate investigation play itself out. >>chris: i want to pick up on that with you jillian. as you worked in the security council for both presidents bush and obama. congressional intelligence committees traditionally try to rise above politics and stick to fac...

Nixon. i was a young lawyer during the saturday night massacre, so i lived this history. whats tragic here is the committee is broken, this is a political document. i dont know what the democratic version will say, but mike is right to call for a full classified investigation by the house intelligence committees, and all the relevant people should come up there and all the backup material should be reviewed, and my guess is it will show a very careful fisa application process. >> that may be pos...

Between the intelligence committees and the fbi and the white house? particularly because -- and you said the this in the lead into this segment that richard bur, the chairman of the senate intelligence committee as best as we know has not had an opportunity to review in this memo. the senate committee which has been doing this investigation into russian election meddling that seems way more bipartisan than anything going on in the house or anywhere else. the fact that theyre not involved in thi...

Chairman of the senate intelligence committee, has asked to see this memo. and so far the house has refused. so the situation where we are right now is that any member of the house had the ability to view it, republican or democrat. but no member of the senate has been able to do it. chairman richard burr in his capacity as a member of whats called the gang of eight. so that top eight intelligence -- they receive special -- more information about national security than even the other members who...

It did go through -- >> its interesting the chairman of the committee has not actually seen the underlying intelligence. he left that up to two staffers and apparently one other member of the committee. >> it would be extraordinary, really. normally if there are investigations that are either ongoing or current surveillances or recent, normally the intelligence committees dont review actual applications. i used to handle these cases. they dont review them. in an extraordinary circumstance if the...

Congress is exercising its oversight of the executive branch and thats what congress is supposed to do and so in this releasing of the memo, if it does come out, and ive seen some additional reporting today that suggests the fbis concerns have been addressed and they no longer share the concerns from letter addressed a week or so ago. and let the american people make the decision in terms of what they think if there was anything done inappropriately. >> the counterargument was nunes was part of ...

Walling on this issue? >> i would say it has been given short shrimp from the beginning. they have never seen this as a counterintelligence issue that i think the reality. we ought to hear from the treasury officials who have expertise on this. we ought to have open hearings on this and yes, in both the house and senate, the republican leadership is ducking what i think is right at the center of this and thats following the money. by the way, steve bannon, i dont quote him often, thats what he s...