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With that story because they had no way to corroborate that information. they needed at least two sources to print the story. today, we have a whistleblower statute. we didnt have a whistleblower statute then. if we had, that person could have gone through the normal channels and basically filled out the forms and written a memo just like this whistleblower has done, and whats interesting here is, that this information came out about five months before the election in 1972 when nixon was re-elec...

Telling him about any national security concerns about releasing this memo, the president, according to our sources, was pretty determined to see it come to light. >> kellyanne conway was out talking about it this morning, nick. i want to share with you guys what she had to say. >> how concerned is the president that the fbi director will quit because of this? >> the president has not expressed that concern at all. this particular investigation has taken a lot of twists and turns and its led us ...

Would either read it from the floor of the house or submit it for the congressional record. and that gives them some immunity from being prosecuted for releasing this information. we heard a republican congressman say yesterday if thats the process that they go through, they could talk about it on the house floor but he couldnt even answer questions about it to us, so thats where we are right now. >> mike, i know youre going to be watching and waiting and tethered to a camera in case this does g...

If this -- how far does wray go, i guess is the question? >> thats a great question. you know, many of the concerns that the fbi and by wray have to do with sources and intelligence methods that this memo would somehow reveal classified information about how the intelligence community does its work and that thats pretty sensitive. its unclear if the memo is going to have any redactions at all, if the white house is going to demand those. the last i had heard, the white house was not going to be ...

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...

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 ...

Okay, so were back and looking ahead as if this memo does get the green light from president trump and his justice department, what does that mean? because the doj is not happy about this, it does not think this memo should come out. it has grave concerns. and that has former fbi director, james comey, saying this. all should appreciate the fbi speaking up, comey tweeted. i wish more of our leaders would. he says but take heart, american history shows that in the long run, weasels and liars neve...

Surprising. ill be making a statement. thank you very much, everybody. >> well, that feed got cut off pretty quickly. he said something was a surprise. im sorry, i couldnt hear the question. he also said he was going to be making a statement very soon. i assume the london election was a surprise, thats what im hearing. when he says hes making a statement very soon, well find out what that is, because again, after this meeting hes having with the president of romania, theyll be having a joint pre...

The question to you on set as we figure out the technical issues with nick there. is this a building of a justification to try to undermine the special counsel as democrats and critics have said? >> yeah. i think that the president has made the idea or made the case that he cant really fire -- he cant really fire robert mueller. sarah sanders said from the podium at a briefing recently that they understand washington would really attack them and implode and really be possibly a constitutional cr...

President and undermine the russia investigation and it may not all add up to that. >> let me bring in nick. nick, i think your mike is back working with us so thank you. talk through a little bit, is it legitimate? because paul ryan, other republicans have raised concerns. they have said, yeah, its not about the special counsel, it really is about fisa surveillance and this program put in place to basically protect americans here. do they have legitimate concerns that could potentially be addre...