jeff merkley is a democrat who serves on the foreign relations committee. thanks for joining us. >> you're welcome, good to be with you. >> looking at the number of redactions in this ten-page democratic memo, could house democrats have revealed sources and methods if their memo had been released unredacted? >> not having been directly in the loop to review it i can't say specifically but it won't through the appropriate process and makes the points that need to be made which completely discredits the republican effort to sabotage the fbi's work. it's clear what a political hatchet job the republicans were up to and i'm glad we got the facts out there. >> do you have any concerns, senator, about how the clinton campaign's financing and the democratic national committee's financing of the so-called dossier was represented to the foreign intelligence surveillance court? >> my understanding is the way it was presented, saying that, in fact, it was initially funded through a political organization