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Completely unrelated items that have nothing to do with funding the government. casey? >> would you urge the president to declassify the minority memo in. >> again, it is all about sources and methods. what is ironic about this issue is the republicans on the intelligence committee voted to declassify their memo and the democrats memo. the democrats voted againsted declassifying the republican memo but not their memo. what you see is republicans are for letting all of this information out there,...

Democratic memo goes through the scrubbing process. >> is that the speaker being responsible, or is that the speaker saying he sees cause for the president if not to completely withhold the memo, at least redact some of it? >> that is him telling him not to let the democrats tell their counterstory. i think there will be some in the memo disputed. i want to show how bifurcated this issue has gun. 54-39 that the russia probe is legitimate and not a witch hunt. among republicans its a very differe...

The republican memo was written to make sure -- >> were learning this hour that the president met with deputy attorney general rod rosenstein to discuss the democrats rebuttal memo. the house intel committee voted unanimously yesterday to release the minoritys memo. now the clock is ticking for the president who now has just four days to decide whether or not to declassify it. house speaker paul ryan would not respond directly about whether the new memo should also be declassified. >> the republ...

With funding the government. >> reporter: would you urge the president to declassify the minority memo? >> again, its all about sources and methods so we -- you know whats ironic about this issue is the republicans on the hpsci committy voted to declassify their memo and the democrats memo. the democrats voted against declassifying the republican memo but not their memo so i think what you see here is republicans are for letting all of this information out there provided that we scrub for source...

So maybe theres a reason the democrats, they say, we are pulling back and not release our memo. two wrongs dont make a right? >> exactly. i think if they want transparency and their side to come out and sort of correct the record or expand some of the things in that 3 1/2 page memo republicans put out, but it goes through the scrubbing process to ensure sources and methods werent released in the release of the memo. which i think is important to include. >> what about the presidents travel plans...

Judge information that indicates that they believe that the surveillance was yielding fruit, was yielding valuable information that supports this idea that carter page or whoever you would have in a surveillance is acting as an agent of a foreign power. again, today the president tweeted about the sacred investigative process. and wolf, what were seeing from this document is a little bit of a picture of how messy investigations are. yes, sometimes you use information from informants that are not...

President trump, in effect, that he had an agenda against president trump. but now some context. one, we know, and cnn has previously reported, that the fbi had its own corroborating intelligence to call for this warrant to surveil carter page. we also know that the way this process works in the fisa court, former director of national intelligence james clapper said this on the air this morning. they do not base warrants just on outside information. there would need to be warrants to back up thi...

>> there is a gang of eight process. i was in the gang of eight, so was mike when he became chairman, allow us to see information that the rest of the committee cant, so i assume that was the process that was followed. weve done careful oversight over the fisa process for years. in fact, until about 1990, i was not in congress yet, but each fisa application was reviewed or at least shown to the house and senate communities. we remanded fisa in 2008 to set up section 702 and there is sophisticati...

Heard it, is that they almost always authorize what the fbi and the justice department, as they rarely reject a request. >> so thats really inaccurate. we went through this process and we went through the very careful process, by the way, in the committee a few years ago to bring in a fisa judge not as a witness. this was all negotiated, to come in and talk through how all of that process worked. we kept getting these allegations that as an fbi guy, i know it wasnt true. i sign the application a...

To make their case as does, i might point out, the fbi if they feel like there is something in this memo that isnt accurate. i hope they do make their case. but i tell you once again, whether this is released simultaneously or a few days apart, youre going to be able to compare them side by side and draw their own conclusions. >> so many of your colleagues, former members, current members, they say what you did -- you voted against releasing the democratic report. all the republicans did along s...