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Good idea, essentially asserting not in writing but only through his counsel and without detail and without reasons that some vague national security concern is present. but the house committee is already taking account of that. house committee is seeking from the fbi and the department of justice suggestions as to what redactions might be necessary to preserve security. so the president is trying to have it both ways, hes trying to say its up to me to decide to release the phony nunes memo and ...

Content in the memo. did the white house submit, in writing its objections to your committee? >> it did. >> it did? >> we received that friday evening. >> okay. >> we received a letter with their objections. then they also sent over a nonpublic letter which has what they state are the top secret concerns. thats right. devin nunes is also -- its interesting that hes accusing mr. schiff and colleagues on the committee of not being able to review what was sent over. but, of course, members back hom...

In a room with it. and we havent heard from a witness in our investigation for over a month. >> now, we had laurence tribe on harvard university. both he and marty letterman who has written a piece online that is posted pour justsecurity.org. have both said that there is nothing in the constitution that prevents congress from releasing the democratic memo. no matter what the white house says. the white house says theres no power to stop you. so can democrats just simply release the memo and igno...

White house first to, you know, look at anything that would jeopardize national security sources. and then if you dont agree with the interpretation, understand the house rules we have to conduct a vote. i think the bigger issue here, the president, if hes ever been consistent about anything in this presidency, expect that he is willing to do anything to obstruct, and that includes preventing this memo from being released. the prior work that the white house has done with durbin nunez since the ...

Controlling law apparently in this regard. according to professor tribe and professor letterman. nothing in that ruling or any other case suggests let alone that the president has constitutional authority to restrict congress disclosure of the information, such as information in that memory. therefore no executive orders or presidential actions preclude this piece by letterman to congress. in other words, sir, the only restrictions on your committee to release this memo are the restrictions that...

Implying that the house intelligence committee will make its own relief i hope they do exactly that. >> can the minority do that on their own or do they have to have a majority vote? >> theyve already had a vote, not just majority but unanimous on monday that the memo should be released and that hasnt been retracted and see no reason it would be xbl let me ask you another question. we also had this blizzard of news, the number three at the department of justice stepped down or announced she will...

I think its terrible, you want to know the truth. i think its a disgrace whats going on in this country. its a disgrace. when you look at that and see that and so many other things, whats going on, a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that. >> fire rosenstein, still have confidence in him? >> you figure that one out. >> donald trump was quick to release and promote his chief house republican conciliatory devin nunes memo but the dems version, not so much. the trump...

Public. here to respond is congressman eric swalwell, joining me by phone. your response to devin nunes saying democrats need to be busily in the capitol redacting everything the white house wants right now if they want the memo out, your thoughts? >> good morning, joy. our staff is down in the capitol, been there all weekend, thats how hard theyve been working. every second spent is a second they havent been able to spend to work on the attacks that the russians continue to carry out on our dem...

Transparency would lead that effort. >> well, wait, but laurence tribe, professor tribe said, no, the vote already happened. that the house intelligence committee already voted unanimously to release the democratic memo. according to professor tribe there doesnt need to be another vote. i reiterate, why doesnt congressman schiff simply release it? >> again, i think we want to show the respect for the same rule of law that theyre trampling over. our interpretation is. would require a house vote. ...

That is his role as well. what hope would the american people have if it went to a full house. if donald trump returned a fully redacted memo that blacks out everything that he thinks could be bad for him, detrimental to him, and it went to a full house, why should the american people believe that paul ryan will support the idea of voting, again, to release the democratic memo? >> joy, we cant count on paul ryan or devin nunes, what we can count on the american people to be heard. to be loud. ju...