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Intelligence committee. so a number of my colleagues are very troubled. i think there will be a backlash against this breach of protocol and norms that are so vital to the country and by the way, transparency has a role. and there should be transparency. >> might those senate republicans speak up if this memo is released? >> i think they should. ive been disappointed that weve seen less outspoken republican qualms about this memo. weve seen very few republicans break their silence on it. and wev...

Find the republicans in that deliberative body might find this not acceptable for release? are you hearing anything from your republican colleagues about their reaction to the memo, would they have been shown it? >> im hearing from a number of my republican colleague who is are deeply troubled. they are hugely concerned about this breach in protocol and norms. you know, when we hear intelligence, we go into a room, that is proofed and debugged and we leave our electronic devices at the door and ...

>> im also a bernie williams fan, youre right, hes an excellent guitarist, ive heard him play. >> senator lets talk about the business at hand. president trump and the white house have cleared the way for the release of devin nunes memo. their version of whats coming out of the house intel committee. what do you think are the implications of that? what happens if that memo is made public? >> lets recognize whats happening in the special counsels investigation. the investigative vice is tightenin...

Investigation during the campaign. they were all of his disclosures as joe has rightly said about the clinton campaign, which probably very seriously damaged her chances of winning. but the fact that collusion between the trump campaign and the russians in their meddling was under investigation, never was disclosed. i think a lot of the statements that donald trump has made in connection with the release of the nunes memo may well come back to haunt him. as evidence of obstruction. because what ...

We saw the rather unprecedented statement they put out a few days ago sort of bashing the decision preemptively to release it, now they wonder what will happen when the memo itself does come out. the sense is they will send it back to the house and let them be the ones who facilitate the relea release. >> this morning president trump tweeted this "the top leadership and investigators of the fbi and the justice department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of democrats and...

Extraordinarily reckless to release the memo we know that the fbi says it has grave concerns about the content of that memo being made public. what do you think? whats going to happen today? >> well im sure the president is going to re lease the memo. he said, he said he would. and he was saying he was going to do it even before he read the memo. acting like the republicans on the committee who said we must release this memo. they hadnt even read the memo. they havent read whats underlying the m...

Before and theres not an historian that writes a book on the 2016 election, willie, that wont say a that that put wind back in donald trumps sails, his campaign was down around 10, 12 points at that time. he came back and he won and that was the fbi and he praised the fbi when things went his way. contempted them when they didnt. all of these people, republicans. rod rosenstein, republican. bob mueller, republican. james comey, was a lifetime republican. and andrew mccabe, you dont have to regis...

To fire rosenstein or to make other changes at the justice department, which he had complained was not sufficiently loyal to him. so clint, take all that, that president trump had sort of made up his mind the moment he heard about the memo. which scenario do you think is most likely? will it be declassified, pushed to the house for decision? will it be released with redactions? what do you think will happen? >> knowing trump and his actions over the last year, i would say hell push it to the hou...

House has tried to make from the outset every time donald trump says something outrageous, they said were not talking about the rank and file guys, theyre great, theyre doing the hard work, stopping terrorist attacks. its the leadership of the fbi thats corrupt, the argument goes. >> and all you have to do is go back and see what donald trump said about james comey. after james comey basically handed him the presidency. it is so important for everybody to remember. donald trump is attacking the ...

Obstructing justice? >> i think there is probably a credible case involving nunes as well. not just in what we know publicly. but in conversations that no doubt took place between him and the white house, which evidently was involved in drafting that three and a half-page memo what we dont know is all of those private communications and as you well know, nunes himself was under investigation by the house ethics committee for the unprecedented and hugely embarrassing visits he had with the white ...