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Cooked up, she says, in london over the course of weeks that got dhart somehow lewded the fbi, cia and mi 6. this christopher steele years out of service and brought it all to james comey, and james comey declared this person was, quote, reliable and thats why they sort of bought what he had to say. you know, do you feel -- kim strassel has been writing about this quite a bit. how would you characterize the coverage of how much scrutiny james comey and fbi gave christopher steele over the course...

Then congress had the ability to decide to release it so, essentially, the president could say it cant be released so he could potentially punt it back to the congress and, you know, say to the committee, release it or dont release it. >> well, thats actually has he what happened. its the same process. it was five days. it was on a friday of last week in the same way. thats why that last paragraph is really key. they are encouraging them to keep working on a version of the memo that can be made ...

Republicans and the democrats, are constantly giving information out to the white house. so they now know the information that both parts of the committee are dealing with and in many ways is helping them make their case and build their defense. so i think the fact that i read mollies assertion that the white house offering to help the democrats write this memo, it looks a little more nef nefarious than maybe she presented. he is thats the problem here. >> martha: you know what in the bottom lin...

The republican memo lays out a series of factual conclusions. the democratic memo is heavily footnoted but the actual text of the memo, largely deals with analysis and editorial opinions. those very footnotes are likely what the white house is having to redact because some of them cite to specific sources and methods that we use to collect intelligence. very different memos, very different styles, but in both circumstances, republicans have been fighting for transparency. democrats voted against...

Has. and no doubt we will in the next few months. >> martha: molly, what do you think? >> when the nunes memo was about to be released they said it had sources and methods. we all know now it wasnt filled with things that had to be kept secret. what people on both sides of the aisle do say is the democratic memo has sources and methods that are in there that might make it truly impossible to be totally revealed. i think at this point just get it out. just get it all out. even if it has sources a...

>> martha: i interviewed congressman gowdy and we talked about this earlier in the week he said, he suggestioned that the democrats, he said, i think he said were smart enough, i think that was part of his quote to put things in this memo that would make it difficult to release. and that that would make the white house potentially look bad for not releasing it mollie, what do you think about that. >> yeah. the democrats are very open about doing that and having that be part of their strategy, i ...

The trump campaign. this as intel committee chairman devin nunes has a new request today. he wants to see more of the background how the court arrived at their decision as this thing gets more heated by the day. last night fox correspondent ed henry brought news that mark warner texted with a lobbyist for a russian oligarch in an effort to contact trump dossier author christopher steele. he attempted to do that without initially letting the rest of the members on his committee know about it join...

Moment late tonight or tomorrow from this democratic memo. whats interesting is the president himself indicated to reporters earlier today that he is not going to block it. instead, he said he will soon release a letter with what needs to be blacked out. presumably on national security grounds. because good chunk of this 10-page memo from democrats is going public. it was put together by democrat adam schiff largely aimed at pushing back on republican claims that fbi and justice department offic...

Released. it wasnt generated until a few days later. so the process went through its own process and now they are at the point where white house yes or no. >> i think the reality here, martha, they could have produced it at the same time. it could have been released at the same time. what you see now is the first memo by the republicans and nunes did not work the way donald trump had hopes it did. he thought it would end this entire investigation. instead now you you have the democratic memo and...

Specific political actors paying for uncorroborated information that formed a substantial dissemination of this information and failed to correct the errors in the subsequent renewal. nunes is setting a deadline in fact of next friday for the court to turn over those transcripts because he believes those documents will show the obama administration abused its power. in fact, some republicans who have seen the democratic memo say part of it actually is an attack on nunes, focusing on that instead...