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Them to go and do it. san francis some of these serious players arent going out there and put their entire reputations on the line if they didnt think this needed to get out and people need to see it. >> i wish i could share jasons optimism that no one is going to resign after this. but i think youve seen chris wray take a principled position. youve seen a rare move of the fbi agents association, the rank and file of the bureau putting out a statement standing shoulder to shoulder with the direc...

Didnt tell the court. and to me, that is critical, particularly when this all happened in the context ofs a, you know, campaign for i the presidency of the united states. so, that comes out tomorrow. and i think its important for every single journalist like to you see it and talk about it. but more importantly, it willou be important for every single american to read what took place. >> tucker: so i just want to make sure i understand you clearly. your concern is the pretext under which they go...

See legitimate security interests here you talked about counterterrorism being used as a pretext to violate international law so you would say even if there is a y p g p k k association and in other words between the militia and a group record. as a terrorist group still turkey shouldnt be embarking on this offensive well i mean international law is quite clear about the use of force against another countrys use of force against another country. well i should say very clear there are there are c...

Secret warrant and what they didnt tell the court. and to me that is critical, particularly when this all happened in the context of a, you know, campaign for the presidency of the united states. so, that comes out tomorrow. and i think its important for every single journalist like to you see it and talk about it. but more importantly it will be important for every single american to read what took place. >> tucker: so i just want to make sure i understand you clearly. your concern is the prete...

That he needs to fire the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein who is overseeing the mueller investigation. thats multiple news reports. i dont know if thats true or not. are you expecting that? >> um, i would certainly hope that wouldnt be the case. this memo is a transparent, political hit job. when it is released, if it is released, people like you and many other journalists and the people who are named, and the institutions that are named like the federal bureau of investigation and the j...

Control of the investigation. the release of the nunes memo may have been a giant step toward that goal. democratic leaders writing in a letter to the president today, quote, we are alarmed by reports you may intend to use this misleading document as a pretext to fire deputy attorney general rod rosen stein. in an effort to corruptly influence or impede special counsel bob muellers investigation. we write to inform you that we would consider such an unwarranted action as an attempt to obstruct j...

Telling associates the memo could help discredit the investigation by exposing anti-trump bias in the fbi, could and could give him a pretext to fire the man deputy attorney general rod rosen tine and allow him to replace rosenstein with a trump loyalist. >> its going to be showing misconduct on the part of top people at the doj and fbi. youre going to see a need for a change to certain practices up there. theres going to be a need for a change of certain personnel towards the top. >> memo emerg...

This idea that with a media -- a wing of the media -- state-run media essentially functioning to sort of obscure and cover up and distort the reality, how does an fbi -- how does the fbi protect the fisa process moving forward from a president totally willing to declassify and hand over to fox news -- by the way, fox news got this before any other news organization. so, there wasnt even a pretense of releasing the memo for the public good or for all citizens. simply to the viewers of fox news. >...

Republican memo will be treated like the bible by trump supporters and picked apart by experienced reporters and analysts and lawyers, including on this network. the republican memo will have little credibility left by the time the democratic memo comes along and blows the whole memo story away. unless the republican memo is used as a pretext for firing deputy attorney general rod rosenstein or special prosecutor robert mueller, a month from now, the great memo release will mean nothing. nothing...

That, but i would love to do it. >> as robert mueller closes in on the oval office, republicans and congresses are staging a desperate spectacle to distract from the poeb discredit investigators and give the president a pretext to fire the deputy attorney general supervising is the probe. were going to get to all of that coming up. first, lets address the actual events that appear to be at the core of the investigation, the core of the story, the core what we have been following for more than a ...