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About the fbi going after the president. even more disturbing is that you have director wray and deputy attorney general rosenstein who were both picked by trump coming out against the release of this memo, and as i do a quick glance of it, its got to be hard for anybody serving in the government right now to feel confident about who has their back moving forward. >> this statement, the full statement from the fbi association that i now have, just to reiterate your point, the men and women of th...

Release of this highly disputed classified, now declassified memo as it was compiled by staffers of devin nunes, the house intelligence committee chairman. >> and ken, i want to just circle back as we are waiting for the tape of the president momentarily to be released within a minute, the memo is going to report, we understand, that this fisa extension of the warrant was broadly based on the dossier, but all of our information, our own independent reporting and what the democrats and other repu...

The memo, as officials are telling us as well. >> yeah. it leaves out far more than it includes. i think its a selective cherry picking of information thats extremely damaging for the country moving forward, in particular. imagine if you are an investigator on a fisa application going in now or even a public corruption case thats a title iii application in the criminal courts. if you were putting your name, if you were putting evidence in there, now you dont know if today, tomorrow or three year...

About a year ago, he was a trial attorney working on counter terrorism cases in the dojs elite national security division. since then, he had some communication about going over to the national security council. that didnt pan out. then later on in 2017, he moved over to the house intelligence committee, where he worked under nunes. even though nunes himself took a big step back from the russia investigation, cash was very much involved as soon as he started there, and he really deserves a lot o...

You used to as acting and deputy director of cia, be intimately involved with fisa warrants, applications, signing off on them. tell me how this affects our allied intelligence service, intelligence sharing, the confidence of fbi and cia officials to share information with house and senate committees. >> thats a very important point, andrea. in fact, well have to look at this memo and absorb all the details, but in truth, i think a couple months from now, we are not going to remember this memo. ...

Application mentions george papadopolous, but then this memo says that they found no evidence of cooperation between the two. but if you think about all the information we have read on george papadopolous, all the back and forth he had trying to set up meetings between top level trump campaign officials and the russian government, the fact that page was mentioned in this might mean that theres more evidence behind what we are seeing. all along, we have talked about how this very skinny memo is g...

Faked. i think those are two things that if this memo had, it would make their -- it would actually give them fodder to make the case that this was trumped up in order to go on a quote, fishing expedition of carter page. but thats the fatal flaw, i think, in the pushback that republicans are having in trying to go after the investigators here. they are essentially trying to stir up questions about the motives of the investigators and yet, they have yet to be able to undermine any of the basic fa...

Peter alexander at the white house with all this comment on the nunes memo and its provenance and whether there wases now nsc involvement or whatever in the writing of it. questions about that and whether the president would agree to declassify the schiff memo. >> they are good questions. i want to get back to the point chris matthews was making about the providence of this. lets be clear about something that happened. nbc news obtained a transcript from that closed door house intelligence meeti...

Espionage case and was actually targeted for recruitment by russian intelligence officers. he has acknowledged that. so the fbi had reason to be looking at him, and then we know that there was other reporting in addition to the christopher steele dossier about trump campaign contacts with russians that was turned over to the cia from foreign governments. the cia brought it to the attention of the fbi. we dont know because we havent seen the memo exactly what went into the application to surveil ...

Serious, serious threat to the rule of law. >> and of course, he could also squeeze the budget. joining us, betsy woodruff, msnbc contributor. you have got some reporting on who actually wrote this memo? >> right. exactly. what i have learned, what we reported earlier this morning is that cash patel, a staffer for devin nunes on the house intelligence committee, played a central pivotal role in putting together the memo, and then moving forward, the effort to ultimately have it be dispersed. we ...