designed to rebut republican claims of fbi bias and misconduct. let's bring in our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. what more can you tell us about the memo and this meeting tonight? >> these members, they're members of the same committee, the house intelligence committee, they're part of the same investigation into russian meddling but you couldn't have more contradictory opinions on what sparked this. republicans saying it was a dossier funded by democrats, this democratic memo released over the weekend by the white house on a quiet saturday afternoon offering a very different view. tonight the house intelligence committee is meeting for the first time since the release of the democrats' response to gop claims of fbi surveillance abuse. after weeks of debate, the trump administration approved the memo's release with redactions on saturday afternoon, leading the committee's ranking democrat adam schiff to accuse the white house of deliberately burying it. >> i'm not surprised, frankly, that the white house tried to bury this memo response as long