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Clearly they had reason to believe he was a suspected russian agent. and they were able to get four different federal judges to sign-off on first applying for and then extending the surveillance of him. >> we have learned to have a lawyer present for all of our discussions now. counselor, you are it. what stood out to you today? >> first of all, as a lawyer always looking for facts -- >> thats a funny habit. >> its amazing, and this memo had virtually none. i think ken has just mentioned what i ...

More interesting, frankly, than the memo itself, because i dont think the memo does anything the republicans claimed it was going to do. and i think the media and public opinion are increasingly settling on that opinion. like, what is this really all about? but i am worried about the tweets coming from the president who is somehow using this by way of vindication and what that might mean. lets be very clear. the republicans have voted to release this memo. theyre engaged in a complicit act with ...

To run for cover to protect this president and certainly this memo suggests that. if you were this president you might get the sense that you can do almost anything and get away with it. >> my opponent on that, this is an unnecessary trauma on the country. if you look at the memo itself, there is zero grounds for letting go mr. rosenstein. theres absolutely nothing here. hes exercising his discretion as a career public servant within the executive branch headed by the president of the united sta...

A reference to watergate there. lets bring in the panel. byron york, susan page, and matt schlapp. >> well, the first thing on the memo itself, there are two big points. one is said the memo was an essential part of this effort to get a wiretap warrant on carter page. two it said andrew mccabe number 2 at the fbi said without the dossier there would not have been a warrant. >> one clarification. its not a quote in that part. i asked nunes about that. he said there was a process to put out the tr...

Not the memo itself, what it represents in terms of -- additional attacks on fbi. john mccain, the senator, chairman of the armed services committee, the former standard bearer for the republican party issued a strong statement saying these attacks on the fbi serve nobodys interest. not the president or any political party. only vladimir putin. and that is what we hear on the democratic side. all of the time invested in the memo, the month long release, the hashtag weve had here is time that cou...

Investigation, and i would say this is really a constitutional abomination and we have challenges here. the directions in the memo is to release the information in the memo. in the memo itself, we know was actually created by a member of congress. this is not some kind of factual piece of evidence that was in a file somewhere that actually dmon stratsd realtime information. this was a memo created by a partisan branch of the government. so this has severe consequences to the integrity of our pow...

Government about this from at least the justice department and the fbi. i was told earlier if it did come out, because its classified, the justice department people believe they cant take us by the hand and walk us through it and say heres why this is misleading and this is left out because its classified. so i think what we have from the fbi is sort of a preempttive statement to get ahead of the note coming out that has a feeling of finality and the fbi is saying dont take this thing at face va...

Then theres really no idea whether, in fact, what theyre saying is what he knows to be true. >> look, hes supposedly in charge of naming the next fbi director. this news alone for many members of congress and i think on both sides of the aisle, they may make an argument this disqualifies him from naming a new fbi director. this memo itself, that is going to be hard for anybody to handle in a confirmation hearing. >> reporter: he said its going to be a fast decision. he said theyre making good pr...

Does that matter? >> of course it parmatters. the memo is not full of lies. >> im not saying that. >> the memo itself, obviously he is well respected of course. director comey, who has given great service to the nation. lets say that. he made serious missteps for sure. democrats and republicans are on record for saying. that he clearly, the president, whether that is the only reason or other reasons where he lost the confidence of the president. he lost the confidence of the president. he is wit...

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