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Dueling memos. ainsley: house committee voting unanimously to release the democrats rebuttal. now its up to the president whether or not that will be made public. brian: so there is a memo, there is a memo and a follow-up memo. griff jenkins is live in washington because he got the memo that we needed to start the show today. hey, griff. >> good morning, guys. memo battle is on. the committee voting unanimously to release the democrats counter memo. now the president has five days to decide whet...

Boltons views are so extreme. is it fair to call them extreme? >> thats right. there were people like george voinovich, lincoln chafee, lisa murkowski. while they didnt take overt steps, they had real problems with bolton and how he was known to sort of take raw intelligence, not intelligence that had been processed through the system, and try to use it to justify the ends. he was cooperating with dick cheneys office in leading probably the more renegade parts of the administration. and that was...

>> the knights telemunmplar. >> the frierery is a myth. sire isaac newton himself. >> emperor. >> a skull above any other. >> i cant believe this. this is like intelligence. >> [ bleep ] i work around the world for espionage agencies. >> raw intelligence. >> but, sean, you dont. >> but i do. >> and theres these other files that are just like numbers. >> latitudes and longitudes. >> numbers and numbers, and -- dates. >> its precisely the time someone would be hatching a conspiracy meeting with th...

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We make sure that every committee member has said theyve got to see or know some of this information of before they can sign their name on a finished product. theres some healthy tension there. >> for any of you that have been any at the confirmation hearings, one question you have heard of every person who was nominated and eventually confirmed, would you ask if the committee provided raw intelligence data. this is rarely a time a committee would ask for that. well test some people to see if th...

Transcripts of conversations or the emails that the nsa has gotten their hands on. in that story, charles, the overwhelming feeling is that there were do-gooders, that is how they saw themselves, we have to make sure the country knows what the administration was up to. if we didnt leave these tea leaves and open these doors, it was all going to go away, and they would never know. that is a pretty big assumption to say, we are going to change these rules because we have decided that this is what ...

That information is ever shared throughout the community or the white house or wherever, there has to be a compelling reason for national security, for why this information has to leave. if you collect on americans, foreign intelligence agencies, that information should be deep-sixed and thus there is a compelling reason. if there is a compelling reason, you can share it, but it has to be masked. what it appears happened here, these transcripts were shared and went all the way to the white house...

The question is, where they are abusing statute by using the foreign is driving as an excuse, an avenue to get in, and that the real purpose was to listen in on americans. thats the larger charge. that would be a pretty big violation of what youre supposed to do. the lesser charge is, they overshot on flynn or perhaps they improperly unmasked the name of somebody else. but the question is, was there an intent to abuse the listening in on the foreigners as a way to get inside and improperly is th...

Transcripts of conversations or the emails that the nsa has gotten their hands on. in that story, charles, the overwhelming feeling is that there were do-gooders, that is how they saw themselves, we have to make sure the country knows what the administration was up to. if we didnt leave these tea leaves and open these doors, it was all going to go away, and they would never know. that is a pretty big assumption to say, we are going to change these rules because we have decided that this is what ...

This information and free flow. actually, what do you think? democrats in the past, including al franken, have complained about this 702 rule, that it can easily be misused and abused. >> there are two issues, we have late-breaking news this afternoon and early this evening that chairman nunes conceded that it may not even be that there were any trump transition members on these interceptions, that is may have even been as little as foreigners discussing the trump transition. >> martha: just to ...