interests of this country at heart. and every one of them will live up to their oath and defend and protect. i keep saying wait until the country need them in a big way and this conversation will change dramatically. thank you all very much. more on that partisan vote tonight from house intel when we continue, as we approach our first break. we ll get reaction from california democratic congressman eric swalwell of house intel. plus the russian shadow hanging over the state of the union address, trump s first as president. we re just getting started on a monday night.
just like andy and jim. it really is, it s a good thing they re out dispersed around the 56 fields and offices around the world because that s where they should be. and we ll weather this. we ve weathered other crises before. this one is a little different and intense. but the country is in good hands. the fbi is a great institution. it has the interests, the best interests of this country at heart. and every one of them will live up to their oath and defend and protect. i keep saying wait until the country needs them in a big way, and this debate will change dramatically. thank you all very much. more on that partisan vote tonight from house intel when we continue, as we approach our first break. we ll get reaction from california democratic congressman eric swalwell of house intel. plus, the russian shadow hanging over the state of the union address, trump s first as president.
very unlikely if the president of the united states blocks the release of the memo, that the full house would then vote to override that decision. so if they decide to block the release, then theoretically it might not appear, it might not be released. and jennifer, we saw schiff come out. and schiff said that in their meeting today they bleed, the democrats did and the minority, for the minority remarks about this to come out. everything they wanted to say to counter the points in this edited memo, that s been rejected until this memo comes out. would something lake that be leaked and find its way to the public domain anyway? well, one would hope not. if it contains classified information, you would hope it would not be leaked. and this is part of the reason why the intelligence community was willing to share this information. they allowed members of congress to view classified documents, about a thousand pages and gather the information that was used to write these dueling memos.
you don t use them to attack your enemies. and this is falsely attacking the fbi to protect the president. it s a line that we just cannot cross, and i m still hopeful that we don t go there, but i think we re as close as wave ever been. i know you re not able to speak to the contents of the memo. it s the point of the argument. but if you re able to even if it calls for speculation, what s at work here? why is this being pushed out? what s it toward? i ve read both memos, the republican one that will go to the public as early as tomorrow and the democratic one that they ve prevented the public from seeing. what this does is it really seriously discredits bob mueller and his investigation by putting out facts just not supported by the evidence.
house for review. the president has up to five days to block its publication. but that seems unlikely. jennifer jacobs of bloomberg news who joins us in just a moment, reports, quote, the president erupted into anger traveling to davos when steven boyd warned it would be extraordinarily reckless to release a classified memo. just hours before that house intel vote, one of the president s key targets at the fbi, deputy director andrew mccabe, stepped down. mccabe has been under relentless attack from the white house and many republicans on the hill. mccabe was expected to retire soon, but as we learned from the new york times and writer matt michael puzo, he told friends that he felt the new fbi director chris wray was pressuring him to leave. mccabe briefly ran the bureau after the president fired his boss, then fbi director james