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The president and his hand-picked fbi director chris wray. they asserted they have grave concerns about the material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memos accuracy. they warned it would be extraordinarily reckless to relea released. >> dont worry. 100%. >> reporter: a source tells cnn the white house may release the memo as early as today, possibly with some redactions. it is not clear if it would address concerns about it being incomplete. they informed the president they want t...

Noticed. we will see if it changes later today. we start with the escalating feud with the fbi and the president over a classified memo which the president could release as soon as today. fbi director chris wray clashing with the president over the memos pushed by devin nunes. wri it wray issuing a warning of the material omissions of the fact that fundamentally impact the memos accuracy. >> the comment from the fbi chief coming after two days of private talks with the president where top justic...

remember this happening. the fbi has warned that the -- it has grave concerns over the expected release of a classified memo written by staffers of the house intelligence committee and chairman devin nunez. in todays statement the bureau said, quote, as expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about the material omissions of fact that fund. ally impact the memos accuracy. this mirrors complaints that democrats on the commity have had to say there is cherry picking going on ...

>> hi shep. good to be here. >> they fired you. your claim is they did so improperly as a result yourekéduç suing. why should we believe that they closed an investigation when all of the facts werent right? >> well, because theres been no mechanism to vet those representations on their part. the case never werent to trial and congress has not conducted any type of congressional inquiry, so because bruce ivins did commit suicide theres been no trial and none of the exculpatory evidence has been...

The congressional investigators and like what made up other parts that drew from this dossier or was there other people with intelligence that the fbi had? >> i wonder from the democrats memo would they be able to talk about some of the other components and they might not. because it was to be classified and we may not ever learn that. >> presumably, the democratic memo draws from the same underlying intelligence.they would have access to that same information. it is one of the reasons why the m...

Days. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. good evening. im chuck todd in washington. welcome to "mtp daily." it is groundhog day again. and the president is calling his justice department a disgrace. some would argue claiming it is a partisan investigation. and the apparent evidence behind all of that, this memo. which has, quote, material omissions, according to the presidents own fib. compiled by a former member of transition member devin nunes written by staff members an there is m...

Reported late last year, that it was information from george papadopoulos which triggered the opening of an fbi investigation in late july 2016. papadapoulos who is cooperating reported to have told an australian diplomat over drinks in a pub or wine bar, that russia had political dirt on hillary clinton. we will talk about that specific revelation or confirmation of reporting. which has very profound implications. well talk about that in just a bit. but proponents of the memo are using it to ad...

I asked did your staff. and then he became quite agitated and said im not answering that. >> did devin nunes work with anybody in the white house on that memo? >> not that i know of. >> he was a member of trumps transition team. he was asked to step aside the committee after rushing to the white house to discuss intelligence related to the probe. nunes was eventually cleared. the memo setting up an unprecedented showdown between the president and his hand-picked fbi director chris wray. they ass...