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About its accuracy. the justice department said it was extraordinarily reckless. while on the other hand, our memo is released after working hand in hand with those agencies to make sure we werent being reckless and this did not release additional classified information. >> youre right in that fact that you did work with the justice department and the fbi after the memo initially went to the white house. but we should point out that the fbi still did not want this memo to be released because of ...

The washington examiner -- no republican had anything to do with the steele dossier. >> that was the washington free beacon, not the washington examiner. that is a conservative outlet. but i guess the point i would make -- >> no no no. this is wrong. this is part of the misstatements that are being put out about the trump campaign. the fact is that when you talk about preliminary research which had been ended. the steele dossier -- steele was not in the picture until the other investigation was ...

The hillary clinton campaign. but its their assessment that the court was very much aware of the fact that this was a group with the goal of digging up opposition research on then candidate donald trump. hes referred to as candidate one in the memo. isnt that true? >> thats true what adam schiff is saying. i practice law. if you have something thats clear cut as the democratic campaign committee and the hillary clinton committee paying for that put that out. not this round about language where i...

Again in the memo about carter page being a russian agent listen, i dont know how anyone can take page seriously on anything and the fact he went to moscow -- he spoke at a public graduation over there. but carter page was never ever any kind of player in the trump administration -- the trump campaign. he never spoke to trump or any of the top people in the campaign. there was no evidence that he spoke to anybody in the campaign about the trip to russia. why did they go to this effort several we...

Thats pretty serious accusation, congressman. how would you respond to that? >> yeah. you have to remember unfortunately we lost our chairman when -- the day after james comey told congress the presidents campaign was under investigation. he went over and showed his loyalties working with the white house. thats unfortunate because we needed an independent investigation not to work with them. so i think his credibility, you know, has been lost on this. i hope that mike conaway is able to return a...

Do you think that happened from your perspective? >> no. i dont. i think he was all over the place. page, he didnt meet with people like on the stage when he was over there. and this was a -- if youre involved in espionage, youre not announcing youre making a speech. and he was involved in a case back in 2013 when he worked with the fbi against a russian operation and the fbi also knows that their investigation in that case said that carter page is an idiot and can never be used for any type of ...

Majoritys memo went through with almost no analysis by the intel community, and clearly not from the white house. and our memo, which rebuts their memo, point by point, and actually enhances the integrity of the investigation, was not released by the white house. its my understanding that were still in discussions with the intel community to redact portions theyre particularly concerned about. i would go along with that process. i just want a fair shake from the white house. >> yeah. do you -- w...

Protect from future attacks. the presidents intransigence and obstruction has not only protected himself, its actually made us more vulnerable to the next wave of attacks by the russians. >> another question before i get to todays guilty plea. i have to ask you about the democratic memo for house intel. what is the status? when might we see it? >> yeah, its sad that the majoritys memo went through with almost no analysis by the intel community and clearly not from the white house. and our memo, ...

They can from the fbi and essentially from mueller. so the only way they can do that, again, is to hobble the whole effort and fire rod rosenstein. thats why the republican memo was designed to do that, was designed essentially to give the president an excuse to get rid of him. the democratic memo points out, point by point, essentially, why the republican memo is essentially one big paper effort to give the president cover. >> and then with the recent resignation now of rachel brand, who would ...

>> president trump doesnt vote here. we are running our campaign. we are going to burn the state with the same message. he can have his message that we are not going to worry about that. we are not going to worry about somebody campaigning in our state. we will campaign in alabama 24/7 between now and december 12. >> a brand-new "washington post" calls the race to mackinac. jones had a slight lead 50-47. this is close and within the margin of error for point by point. jones had an eight-point le...