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Was helping the president plot the fake electors. >> the spin memo we all read about. >> there has been a search warrant executed eastman. there has been a search warrant executed against jeffrey clark, the official who trump tried to install as the acting attorney general. >> these were quite recent. they were after the testimony -- >> first of all, recent activity is a sign that the investigation is alive and doing its work. if you had said there has been a recent activity, that wouldnt bother...

Ill-fated committee he ran chasing benghazi conspiracy theories but i do agree with him here. and it is clear this spin memo doesnt discredit muellers office at all. although that is the intention. while i appreciate these comments, we voted not to release such a distorted memo. at the same time, the chairman has made it clear. this is part one to enter gear the mueller investigation. he intends other chapters as well. he may go through repeatedly where the republicans on our committee as well a...

Democrat one eventually after a couple more weeks go by, more extended review, and additional vote by the house of representatives. the whole idea is to get just one memo out, the nunes memo, the republican spin memo, have that set the narrative and have as an after thought the democrat memo come out a few days or couple of weeks later. this goes to show why this thing is not on the up and up. lets take jacks concern at face value. lets let the ig investigate it or put the memos out at the same ...

Revolution of sources and mets and they voted that down, as well. now what this means is that the spin memo will go out to the public within five days unless the president says otherwise. the president that thinks this is beneficial wont say. it wont necessarily take five days if before that time he says go ahead and public the memo. this is an act which the department of justice proper recalled extraordinary reckless and for people who criticized hillary clintons handling of her e-mails, this i...

Today felt a little more like we moved towards crisis. it feels that there is a war happening of the government against itself. that there is an investigation happening with the president, and the president sort of in name i guess supervises that investigation, because he is the chief executive of the country. he runs the executive branch. but it is independent of him. and he and his allies on capitol hill essentially teaming up to destroy, discredit, disrupt, and subvert that investigation. are...

And they voted that down as well. now, what this means is that the spin memo will go out to the public within five days unless the president says otherwise. of course the president who thinks this is beneficial to him isnt going to say otherwise. it wont necessarily take five days if before that time he says go ahead and publish that memo. this is an act which the department of justice called extraordinary reckless. and this is done quite by design. theres no circumstance or error or mistake her...

Has never happened in my experience in the committee, so were in uncharted waters, but if the president expresses the view short of five days, hey, im perfectly copacetic i dont flow that th know that they have to wait five days, and the white house has made it abundantically clear th they want it published even without having read it. even without reading it, without the intelligence agencies, what damage it might do in terms of public release, its clear they already want it released. i think, ...

Republican memo, alleging misconduct over at the fbi, the memo you talked about. what are the big takeaways from your sper spperspective? >> its confusing events for the public, but in summary, chairman nunez produced a distorted memo he voted to release the members of the house that would bias their impression of what the fbi was doing, and he did that not having read the underlying materials, and vote the down a motion i made to both allow his own members to read the materials and to allow the...

Exposing security, something they called extraordinary reckless. thats exactly what it would be. it would mean that the pret prettization of the classification process to protect the white house even when the tea party leaders admitted they discussed it with the president and sure the president would concur because the spin memo was so good for the president. >> congressman, thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks, wolf. more breaking news in the situation room. the white house revealed pr...