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white house correspondent peter doocy live on the ground in hi roche a ma with the latest. >> reporter: griff, thats what he told the world 4r50eders gathered here in japan, but for months hes been telling us zelenskyy doesnt feed -- need f-16s fighters. were finding out why it is that president biden is changing his tune. >> weve reached a moment where it is time to look down the road and say what is ukraine going to need as part of a future force to be able to deter and defend agains...

Were just helping them succeed, and its in our national interests for them to win. were not done yet. the right now weve been sending them himars with a 100-kilometer range. the russians is moved a lot of their logistics, and be sitting targets. i believe the president and his team do a a lot of hand-wringing, a lot of second and triple guessing, and i think they look weak in the eyes of the world. aishah: okay. i want to get to the debt ceiling quickly here. i know that there is some hope from ...

Go ahead. >> i was going to say i agree with that. in fairness, however, we wouldnt have put ours out if they hadnt put theirs out. but i do agree -- look, if you care about the country, you dont do this. ryan has been a terrible disappointment. i think hes been a huge failure as a speaker. >> they put their memo out, so we need to put our memo out. does this become pointless and invaluable to the american public that there is this political back and forth between people who are supposed to be d...

Who were appointed by republican presidents, what do we know about sort of the efficacy of the wiretapping of the surveillance? >> look, theres a belief the democrats obviously believe and the fbi believes valuable information was gained from the wiretaps, so thats the key issue here. its an ongoing investigation, so the republicans push of, hey, get out your memo, we dont want the memo out, or this investigation should be over, this memo speaks against it. look, we got this drip of information,...

Olympics going on, a lot of other news, a lot of other headlines. they think the white house was trying to bury this. the timeline is important. it was a month ago that republicans in the house committee voted to make the nunes memo public. they voted against having the democrats release their own memo at the same time. then two weeks later when they unanimously did vote to put the schiff memo out, the white house originally said they would not release it due to the highly classified nature of s...

Wanted this out to the public and these edits are only political in nature, he should come to the floor on tuesday night and tell his colleagues that the public should see this for the sake of consistency and transparency. >> congressman swalwell, i appreciate your time. back now with jeffrey toobin, milgram, scott jennings, scott campbell, even perez as well. in terms of the options that the democrats have, its pretty limited. they basically have to if they want this memo out, they have to wo...

Same concerns about the republican memo, and the president still released that one. he said he was going to release it even before he looked at it. is he being hypocritical? >> there certainly is at least a grain of hypocrisy in this, but for the president, the reason he was so emphatic about getting the nunes memo out, even before he had seen or read it, and not this one, is clear. this memo is not one that is designed to back him up politically, essentially, or be exonerating in certain respec...

Not, whatever. my interest is transparency, and you should want that as a journalist, of course, for the american people to see that. >> for sure. >> there are a lot of folks on both sides who have an issue with this. i have great respect for the fbi. i have many friends of mine who i served with who are in there, who are great. but i have big problems with some of the actions of some of the senior leadership, and i think a lot of the american public does, too. its important for us to have overs...

Is there any chance that, a, it will be redacted or the president may decide not to release it? >> weve heard mixed messages from the white house because, clearly, if trump releases this democratic memo, you know, it could have some negative consequences for him because it would totally undermine the previous nunes memo. so its not in his political interest to release it. but you saw last night, you saw a -- you know, a unanimous vote by the house intelligence committee both republicans and demo...

Clear what he hoped the memo would accomplish. according to the he said he thought the release of the memo would help build a public argument against rosensteins handling of the russia case suggesting it might give him justification it fire rosenstein. asked about the memo today, the president declined to offer support for his deputy ag. >> i think its a disgrace whats happening in our country. and when you look at that, and you see that and so many other things whats going on a lot of people sh...