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Release is expected to go to the white house where they will have five days to review it. the president will make the final call at the request and consulting of his intelligence community, including the fbi director chris wray, who read the memo a day ago. and has talked to officials about it. the democratic version of what they put together is not being released, according to the vote, but maybe at some other time. we will wait to hear of any of the -- lets listen in. >> made it formal today a...

Justice. >> reporter: interagency review. [indistinct] >> i have no confidence that review will take place with the majority memo. in fact i think its quite clear that the majority has no intention of having this vetted by the department or the bureau. at least gleaning from the white house has had over the weekend, it doesnt look like they have much of an intention to vet it either. either that the conclusion is precooked. we did make it clear that if and when the majority allows the minority m...

Issues that the gop is bringing up right now? >> i would only say, at this point, i cant comment yet on the contents of the majority or minority memoranda. that i think mr. mccabe has been deeply and unfairly maligned. he has been a career public servant with the fbi. i think he has done an admirable job serving the country, and i think that this committee and others have done a tremendous disservice to mr. mccabe. [ speaking simultaneously ] >> trying to vote on the member owe, and also is ther...

Majority memo. and that is we need to be concerned not just what happens with this presidency but the lasting damage that may be done to these institutions, and unfortunately, that damage just became all the more greater today. >> congressman, are you comfortable with how doj handled the situation thats under review? are you confident? >> well, i think the department of justice has done what they could, but the majority has been unwilling to share with them the nature of the concerns they have, ...

Bureau, the department and the interest of justice. [ talking simultaneously ] [ inaudible question ] >> -- confidence -- >> i have no confidence that that review will take place of the majority memo. in fact, if i could, in fact, i think its quite clear that the majority has no intention of having this vetted by the department or the bureau and at least gleaning from what the white house said over the weekend, it doesnt look like they have much of an intention to vet it either. that the conclus...

>> we think this will help inform the public of the many distortions and inaccuracies in the majority memo. majority found them in an insupportable position when they released the misleading memo and refused to release the democratic response. they were compelled to take the action they did today and we think this will be very useful information for the american people to see. >> an administration official tells nbc news that the white house will treat the democratic rebuttal the same way they h...

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So if its really about educating the public, shouldnt the public be fully educated and hear what the democrats, what their problems with this memo are? i mean if its really about educating the public, why not release both of these memos at the same time? >> well, first of all, the work on this has been going on for quite some time. the democratic memo is much newer. but after -- >> does that matter? >> -- the members of the house -- i think it does matter. as members of the house have an opportu...

Tonight. >> good to be with you, tucker. >> tucker: you say the documents we were just talking about for example. justify spying on this american citizen, carter page ought to be released to the public. whats the argument against that? >> argument against it some information fisa application reviewing all the documents that are l. reveal sources and methods that may need to get redacted. in the effort to argue against providing any of the related material that was sourced, some might say that we...

You would welcome opportunities like this, because this correction shakes the trees a little bit. >> and a tale of two memos. the house intel committee votes to release a democrat response to the nunes memo. the power to make it public now in the hands of the public. >> this will help inform the public of the many distortions and inaccuracies in the majority memo. >> and three days until another government shutdown with no signs of a deal. the white house calling the bipartisan bill and senate a...