credentials has said through an official statement that the fbi has grave concerns about the memo's accuracy. the memo alleges that the fbi abused his surveillance power. let's go straight to the man breaking the news here evan perez. evan, beginning with you, tell me everything you know. >> reporter: brook, i think what is happening is that the white house folks are getting a sense of the frustration from chris wray the fbi director. he certainly made that abundantly clear in his meetings with white house officials and certainly with the justice department because he believes that he obviously was picked by the president and yet his advice to the president to not release this memo certainly not in the version that devin nunes has prepared shouldn't be done and he believes that that is -- that his advice is being disregarded. in fact, the republicans are sort of casting this as some kind of partisan fight including sort of tarring the reputation of christopher wray.