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Tweet and heres what it says. the democrats sent a very political and long response memo which they knew because of sources and methods and more would have to be heavily redacted, whereupon they would blame the white house for lack of transparency. told them to redo and send back in proper form. lets talk about this now with natasha bertrand, staff writer for the republic magazine. do you think the democrats expected their memo to be blocked? >> the democrats never thought that the memo would ...

Different memo than the first one. its lengthier. its different. so not leaning towards it. it will be done in a responsible way. but, again, the first one was clean, relative to sources, methods, my initial cut is this one is a lot less clean. >> of course they are already setting it up as not clean. and here is donald trump this morning. the democrats sent a very political and long response memo which they knew because of sources and methods and more would have to be heavily redacted whereupon...

A very political and long response memo which they knew, because of sources and methods and more, would have to be heavily redacted, where upon they would blame the white house for lack of transparency. were going to get into the headlines with correspondent kelly odonnell, maya harris, ali stuckey, and california deputy district attorney andrew jans. kelly odonnell at the white house, another good day to you. what is the president saying in that tweet, kelly? >> reporter: well, its a stormy day...

Of a company that was being paid by hillary clinton and the democratic national committee. so it was the merger of those two things that created the controversy were witnessing today and that has put christopher steele squarely the crossfire. >> how well sourced is he or was he in russia? >> so because hes so much in the news and is really the subject, if you will, of the house intelligence committee nunes memo and the response memo that the white house is considering releasing today, authorized...

With this. the same people xlaeng about the unmasking of names were complaining that it was not unmasked. so this would be in our response memo which we expect the majority will have to vote to make public. >> congressman schiff, thank you for joining us. a special agent quits. ill ask two former fbi bagts the dangers lurking in the presidents language.

What do you think is the central thing at this stage we should be focussing on. >> whats interesting is this is as much a political discussion as much as the justice department investigation. we have one party really fighting this with one arm tied behind its back because chairman nunes was able to put out his memo. its now in the public space. democrats have written their own response memo here. were expecting them to vote in the house intelligence committee monday night whether to make that av...

Good to have you. >> good to have you here, congressman. im curious with whether you agree with the front page of the "washington post," four remembers are saying that this memo does absolutely nothing. four republicans on the intel committee saying that this does nothing to undermine robert muellers investigation and any suggestions otherwise by the president isnt true. >> in fact, municipalthe nunes the case in pointing out the investigation of the russian issue preceded the fisa application f...

This memo. >> the president is always welcome transparency and accountability. that is what he has believed all along. those who have been cutting occlusion, with this is been for over a year. they should really appreciate the process of transparency and accountability. even if it is closed on this case he testified that without the dossier it would be no fisa warrant. >> the president said this vindicates him but democrats say not so fast. >> of course it is not. and the republicans refused to ...

Once we get a chance to read this memo, everyone those in a classified setting or the general politublic, the it is released tomorrow. well have a better sense of what this thing really is. i can imagine in the scenario where fbi director looks at us and say i am furious. this may not have happened. once it is seen in context and the democratic response memo is also reviewed by folks in the senate or release to the public that ultimately this will glow over and it would be clear this was nothing...

Biased in surveillance of trump campaign staff. the document is a rebuttal to the republican memo that the president said completely vindicated him in the russia investigation. the white house now says the democratic memo contains classified information and is sending it back to the house intelligence committee for changes. trump tweeting this, the democrats sent a very political and long response memo which they knew because of sources and methods and more would have to be heavily redacted, whe...