national security and now it has turned into a completely partisan committee where there is fighting, partisan, that was one of the shocking things about the torture memo. republicans put theirs out, democrats put theirs out. it hasn't happened that way before. >> mike, why didn't the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee, why was he not willing to share the memo with the republican chairman of the senate intelligence committee? >> you and i neither one of us knows the answer. >> i know. it does president seem like a partisan dispute. >> sure. what i'm telling you is we are in a zone where there are leaks, where this is being used as a partisan football where democrats seem to want to get a political advantage -- so, perhaps the chairman said, you know what, this is something we need to get out there before i start handing it to other people and they turn it into something it's not. we'll find out when the memo -- >> you don't think a guy of his own party would do that or the