Washington journal, what is next after the release of the House Intelligence Committee memo. First, were from university of texas law and also a Judicial Watch. Host the House Intelligence Committee meets at 5 00 to consider if they will release the democratic response released by republicans last week. If they do, the white house would he given five days to object. It will gojects it, to the house for a vote. Trump said the release of the memo vindicates him in the investigation being conducted by Robert Mueller. Several republicans disagree. For our next hour, we want to get your thoughts on if you agree with the president possible assessment on the release of the memo. Heres how you can let us know. Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. You can post thoughts on twitter, cspanwj. On our twitter page twitter. Com cspanwj. The memo, from the president , it totally vindicates the president in the probe, but the witchhunt goes on and on. Collusion and obstruction. After one year of looking and leslie finding nothing, collusion is dead. This is an american disgrace. Today this morning, these are the editors saying the men not saying the memo does vindicate the president. It raises potentially troubling questions, there is another side the public should be allowed to see before drawing conclusions. To classify it as anything other than an attempt to muddy the waters. With the inquiry gathering speed , the memo helps the president timehonored defense of prosecuting the prosecutors in the court of public opinion. This is from james robbins. The headline, republican memo exposes the abuse of power. He is writing we see a network of government abuse, seeking to the electoral process and failing that, to sabotage a president. Washington officials do not have the final say on what we see. They work for us. We have the right to know everything they have done purportedly in our name. You can give your thoughts in our first hour this morning. Go to republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. One of the republicans on a sunday show talking about the release of the memo and what it does to the investigation by Robert Mueller was trey gowdy. Here is what he had to say. [video clip] memo tweeted the totally vindicated trump in the memo. We sat down with trey gowdy. We asked if he saw the president had been vindicated. I dont think it has impact on the russia probe. Not to me. I was involved in the drafting of it. There is a Russian Investigation without a dossier. The dossier has nothing to do with the meeting at trump tower, and email sent by Cambridge Analytic a, nothing to do with George Papadopoulos meeting in britainen in great or obstruction of justice. If you agree with , or the president , that he has been vindicated, you can give your thoughts online at twitter and facebook. At 5 00, the House Intelligence Committee will meet to see about the memo that was produced, 10 pages in total. If they vote, it goes to a process. That hearing will take place at 5 00 this afternoon. Talk about these and other matters, john bennett. Now, what is the white house thinking on whether this memo should be released . Guest it would be a long shot clearnk trump is going to the democratic memo for release. The wildcard is what his legal team, his Government Legal Team and hishite house personal lawyers, what they democratice with the memo, and his political advisers. There is a school of thought that others have urged the president to fully cooperate. Ith the russia probe they may argue releasing the democratic memo, they said last in parte president released the Republican House intelligence memo because he wants everything to be transparent as it relates to the russia investigation. That faction may argue he needs to release the democratic memo as well as if this is about transparency. Is using the republican memo to try to discredit the special counsel probe, discredit bob mueller, discredit how senior fbi and justice officials went about the earliest phases of the russia investigation in securing the pfizer warrant the fisa warrant. What the clear yet white house would do with the democratic memo, if, as you alluded to, if the panel even votes to send it to the white house. Process as for the republican memo. It would have to be voted on and then it would go for president ial review. Is it even gets to the white house. It has to get out of committee first. Host you talk about a story on the nunez memo. What is at stake here. The government shutting down on thursday. Government funding runs out. They are talking about a six or seven week stopgap funding measure. I talked to some formal officials former officials and a democratic aides and the warning from democrats on the hill, it it is not that there is memo willthe nunes cause a Government Shutdown. The worry is what happens if the president uses the republican rosenstein . Rod democrats have the ability to grind the senate to a halt in protest of anything the president might do here. The ball is in trumps court. Firing rosenstein could lead to overnment shutdown parent Government Shutdown. The Government Shutdown and daca negotiations are ongoing. Officials said. His does not help things dealmaking was not going that well. This creates more bad blood. We have a fight over this democratic memo. The president does not know what he is going to do, how he is going to use this republican memo, how he might react to seeing the democratic memo. Neither party, nobody wants a Government Shutdown. Deal nowat thin ice and we dont know how things are going to play out the next day or two. By wednesday, we will have a good idea about a Government Shutdown or if all of this other stuff, these other issues are put aside in they are able to weekthis six or seven continuing resolution, which is what leaders want to do. They dont want this lingering into the weekend. Host that is john bennett. Reports on the events of this week. You can find his work on the roll call website. Again, to your calls on the president s thinking about the memo. If you agree or disagree, you can call on the lines. Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. We will start with our democrats line. I am impressed with trey gowdy, a republican with courage. There are so many who are spineless cowards and boldfaced liars, including the Republican Leadership. Went to the west wing of the white house, received documents he then told the press he was giving to the white house, was providing them with information. He seems to be the perfect person to do trumps bidding. If trump was innocent, he would whowant to fire the people are doing the investigation. Transparency, it would be laughable if it was not so tragic. Jenny, lancaster, ohio, republican line. Such a mess. Is comprehend think i what some of this is going on, i get confused again. I am a republican and voted for donald trump. He is not a politician. A lot of people get upset with him because he is not. He talks in layman terms. Of people, if you ask them, democrats dont like donald trump and if you ask them why, they cannot come up with an answer. The point we are talking about, he is thinking about vindication in the release of the memo. Do you agree or disagree . Caller i agree. I think he is innocent and dont winky has done anything. I dont think he has done anything. New york. S go to independent line. Caller the lady saying she likes donald trump, he cannot do any wrong, he has done a lot of wrong to this country. Fox news is partly responsible for that memo being sent out. They act like an arm of the government, like putin. This memoays vindicates him. What do you think . Caller how many guys were in the courtroom have brought out a letter and said this vindicates me . Would that work in a reallife courtroom . No. Just farting in the wind. Thats about it. Host the House Intelligence Committee will meet today to see about the democratic response. That will be at about 5 00 this afternoon, on if that memo will be released. The New York Times talks about role inrney generals all of this. The headline saying silent as trump attacks his department. What is unusual, with the president leading the charge and the attorney general missing in action. Why isnt he sticking up for the department . It is a duty previous attorney generals embrace. John ashcroft allowed his acting to defy the Bush Administration during confrontation in his half little room over a Surveillance Program that the Justice Department lawyers deemed unconstitutional. The president has critiqued the work of the Justice Department and complained about mr. Perceived acts of disloyalty. When it comes to the pro by rob or molar, he is vindicated by the release of the republican isu by Robert Mueller, he vindicated by the release of the republican memo. You can agree or disagree. If you remember, trump said the same thing last year, said he was vindicated when nunes went to the white house and took that document over there. Trump lied and said the same exact thing with the same exact hook he uses. Evenrepublicans have not read the underlying documents. The thing they are supposed to be using that caused them to start the russia investigation, none of those people read the underlying documents. How can they say what happened . They do not know. They are trying to full people and lied a people. And lie to people. If people are calling in and think trump is vindicated, they are lying. Hear from gary, alabama, republican line. Vindicates memo trump. Are totallyrats transparent, why do they not want an investigation into alleged abuse by the f dei and department of justice the fbi and department of justice that undermines. Documentt about the gives the president vindication . Legal we may have had a things done by the department of justice and the fbi in obtaining the fisa warrants. Rue, there would be no investigation at all. We need to investigate the to be that are supposed the caretakers of this country, in this case, the fbi and department of justice, that they are following the rule of law. Host that is gary in alabama. On twitter, absolutely not. If this were to stop moreturely, it would cause investigations and investigations of those investigations. Twitter, anyone would agree it is a hoax. We will hear next from john. Is in eastern North Carolina on our independent line. What do you think about the president s claim . Caller thank you for taking my call. Again, there is so much going on with everybody secondguessing every body. We are divisive in the country. I am 63. Nts out thank you for taking my call. It is a Wonderful Service you do. Have been messing with our country since world war ii. War,uban crisis, the cold and the nuclear arms race. Through a reagan, the rest of history, and they are still messing with our election. That did not change the fact that hillary had the dnc rigged against bernie and the Clinton Foundation collected about 4 million before the election. Thank you again for taking my call. There are too many millionaires in the senate and the house. Host to the point of the memo, do you agree with the president or not . A wholewe are making lot of about nothing on 24 hour news channels to sell sensationalism and commercials and to make names for ourselves. We are missing the peoples business. Texas, david is next. , trump is right. When you asked the republicans, they say there should still be an investigation. You are not getting clarity. The investigation should be into the meddling of the russians into the election. I dont think anyone is denying it happens. Sick of hearing 17 agencies said it. It is really three or four. It is not 17. Back, what do we know about anything . If you start with what you know about the document, a political organization, the clinton campaign, the democratic , theyal committee laundered it through an this cameas soon as out, the Podesta Group disappeared. They have been around for 20 years. More lobbying for in theesta interests ukraine than anything else. Back to the document, the scale of the political dirty tricks this represents, the thing trump spinning himself against are the same claims trump claimed he was being wiretapped and surveilled and the press made fun of him. Carter page, he went to russia. No one has said he has been accused of thing since 2013 for one reason or another, for somebodys purpose or another. He is an innocent victim who has had his name dragged through the mud. Illegal aboutng talking to a russian or using russian salad dressing. Host got you. This paragraph saying information regarding George Papadopoulos, there is no evidence of cooperation or conspiracy. Apples information triggered the opening of an fbi counterintelligence investigation. It goes on from there. That is giving some clarification from the nunes memo. The house meets today to see if the democratic memo will be put out as well. Until then, the president saying the release of the memo vindicates him. Paul, appleton, wisconsin, tell us what you think. God, that last caller. Workta and manafort together . What is wrong with the republicans in our country. My god. They are going after our fbi, our justice system, this is what putin wants. Host what was wrong with the last callers assessment . Caller he linked up john podesta with manafort. Manafort is a crook. They had business ties with the ukraine. John podesta did not have anything to do with manafort. Assessmentresidents about vindication, what do you think about that . Caller this is ridiculous. He is a russian mob boss and every body knows it. He launders money from russia for the last 30 years. Host ohio, independent line. Mike is next. This is ludicrous. The guy from wisconsin, we have to stop. Dont take parties in your backyard. You have to have an open mind. Rigged the election against bernie. If hillary is such a criminal, she was supposed to have been the president , this all would have been swept under the rug. Now that she isnt the president , it is coming out how crooked that building is right behind you. We need to open our minds and get independent lawyers in there and get a grand jury going and start throwing these people in jail. The president thinking he is vindicated by the memo. What do you think about that . Not guilty of anything. If Robert Mueller had anything, he would be up on charges, correct . Going from there, what do you think as far as the release of the democratic memo . Should it come out . They wantdont think more truth coming out from under the rug. Won theshould have election and everything would have swept under the rug. It is cia in washington cover your ass. Host democrats line, this is jesse. I love cspan. They made a believer out of me. Stay transparent. Everyone involved in the russia investigation from the beginning lied under oath. Withe, america, lets stay god and the scriptures. Thing, forportant donald trump, he is my president. He is driving the bus. S, ifhe said fire the sob you dont stand up, youre going to get fired host the memo itself, does it vindicate the president . Caller i dont know. Memo, why,r as the at the point of its release, why are you not sure . It is a smokescreen, a diversion, and an argument. They are still investigating and it is getting closer to our president. Lets stick with our president and try to get him to repent and lets go on with the country. Host washington state, republican line, alan. These racistf media people never said one word about obamas 2500 guns to using the irs to target his host that was the previous administration. What do you think about the memo . Does it vindicate him . Ller host bill. The president. He was in san francisco. There were 6000 people. I told him about solar energy. Does what he does better than anything else. He needs to be vindicated. It is a waste of our time. All of these people are talented. Which books you read. There are 100,000 books in the library of congress. I get to be in the middle of these all the time because i am a statistician. I get to deal with the government. The memo itself, does it vindicate the president . Something heemo is is reflecting upon. It is all he has to work with. Huge smile on his face. He is obviously an honest person, hooked up around the world with all kinds of people. Rothschilds had to finance the war on both sides to get the banks going. Host one of the republicans who went on the show, Brad Wenstrup was on cnn state of the union. Asked if he was in favor of a democratic memo coming out, asked about a memo coming out. If it is indicated the president. Heres what he had to say. [video clip] it is a different situation. We are dealing with a situation in our fisa court and it does not have anything to do with that. My concern is did the court know this was paid for by the Democratic National committee . I would be curious to ask a judge, do you know who paid for this and would it have made a difference . Within the agency, something we have oversight over. The way imo looking at it. That is why i wanted to move forward. Host that was from yesterday. We are asking about the memos release. The president saying it vindicates him when it comes to the larger role of the investigation being done by Robert Mueller. You may agree or disagree. You can call the lines. Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. , republican line, jerry is next. Caller good morning. Swamp, you can see it. You have hillary in the center of the wheel. The democrats had to find a way to allow hillary to run to be president. Have the head of the fbi and he says they changed the wording to make it not a criminal, to make it not a crime, and she used she paid ,or the dossier, and the dnc and they did not bring that to notfisa court and they did have the information, so they said we will investigate trump. It