But first, memo mutiny. A growing number of republicans are pushing back against the president and his assertion that a controversial memo has, quote, totally vindicated him in the russia probe. That part of the story with we go live to cnns Boris Sanchez in west palm beach. Boris what are those republicans saying . Reporter some of them outright contradicting President Trumps stance that the nunes memo vindicates him. Hes been on twitter saying this essentially proves that the russia investigation say witch hunt. At one point he tweeted the wall street journal editorial that supposes that there are political actors within the department of justice and fbi that are antitrump. We also saw donald trump jr. Last night on fox news saying that the release of this memo is sweet revenge for him and his family. Republicans are not going nearly as far. Many of them stopping short of saying that the memo has anything to do with the russia investigation. I want to listen to three republican lawmakers now. The memo has no impact on the russia probe. Not to me, it doesnt and i was pretty integrally involved in the drafting of it. There is a russia investigation without a dossier. This memo has nothing to do with the speshlg counsel. I dont believe this is an attack on bob mueller, i dont believe this is an attack on the men and women in the fbi. The memo is about the special counsels investigation. Its not about trump. Reporter those are actually four republicans, forgive me. We should note some of the strongest words that we just heard come from Representative Trey Gowdy of South Carolina and its significant because even according to Devin Nunes Trey Gowdy is the only republican on the House Intelligence Committee that has actually looked at the underlying intelligence at the raw intelligence that led that fisa court judge to allow for the surveillance of carter page. If anyone knows the validity of the nunes memo and the implication of the russia probe its trey gowdy. In the meantime let me ask you about democrats and their pushback. We now know there is a democratic memo that rebut gop allegations against the fbi. What can you tell us about this . Reporter the socalled schiff memo that adam schiff the ranking democrat on the House Intelligence Committee has put together as a rebuttal as you said of the nunes memo. This memo has more context and paints a much more accurate picture of the circumstances regarding the fisa courts and theyre potential impact on the russia investigation. Any potential abuses by the department of justice or the fbi. House committee can vote as early as tomorrow to declassify this memo at which point the white house then has five days to potentially object to its release. Its a similar process to what we saw to the release of the nunes memo. We did get a chance to ask raj shah if he believed the president would be declassify the schiff memo. He said he believes the president would, the question of course because the president has based so much on the devin nunes memo is what political incentive he might have. Democrats are pushing hard. Heres a statement from Chuck Schumer released earlier today. I believe it is a matter of fundamental fairness that the American People be allowed to see both sides of the argument and make their own judgments. This is not the only showdown well see in congress this week. Lets not forget that funding for the government wraps up on friday and we may potentially see a second shutdown. All right. Boris sanchez well be watching and waiting. Thank you very much. I want to bring in our panel tim neff tally. Patrick healey and former kgb agent and author of the book deep undercarjack barski. Let me start with you. The president says this memo is vindication for him in the russia probe now we hear republican lawmakers pushing back against that. What does that mean for the president . This memo is disinformation. The memo itself makes clear that the fbi had to undertake a counterintelligence investigation of the associates of the Trump Campaign because of george papadopoulos, not because of carter page. So regardless of the steele memo which is what trey gowdy says, regardless of that memo steel dossier just to not confuse people. Regardless of the steele information, you would have to have had an fbi investigation. So whatever you think of the legitimacy of the fisa warrant regarding mr. Page, regardless of that, you can have this debate you still would have to have an fbi investigation and you still would have to have an Mueller Investigation so the president couldnt possibly be vindicated by this mepo because its a red herring. It does not have to do with the basic reason why were investigating russia interference in the 2016 election. I see you will nodding your head. Before you respond, patrick, i want you to also listen to what donald trump jr. Is saying about this memo. He too seems to be taking a victory lap. Listen. There is a little bit of sweet revenge in it for me and certainly probably the family in the sense that, if they wouldnt have done this, this stuff would be going on. This would be going on at the highest levels of government. Theyd be continuing to do it to my father, trying to undermine his actions. He called it sweet revenge. It goes to how personal this has become for the trump family. They have seen the Mueller Investigation as a personal concerted effort to take down not only President Trump but also donald trump jr. Who is the one who arranged the meeting in trump tower with the russians who came in who, you know, with other members of the trump family. This is very personal and you heard that. It was a revealing comment by donald trump jr. , the problem here President Trump talks about vindication, donald trump jr. Talks about sweet revenge. Theyre kind of talking to each other in terms of the family and the hard right but what youre seeing is the republican establishment in a way is sending a real signal to the white house which is saying that, you know, you can talk about sweet revenge and vindication all you like but were saying this is not, you know this is not connected to the Mueller Probe and if you were to take action like firing Rod Rosenstein or making any kind of overreach to really derail or problemize the Mueller Investigation were not going to buy that. Theyre protecting the white house and sending a signal and say you can spin all you want but dont take any actions that really, you know, put yourself in jeopardy. I suppose theyre not saying we dont support the president and if there is nothing to hide then let the investigation play out is what i get from some of that. Jack, being a former kgb spy, i want to get your take on what senator john mccain said about this whole memo battle. Quote, the latest attack on the fbi and Department Justice serve no american interests, only putins. Our nations elected officials including the president must stop looking at this investigation through the warped lens of politics and manufacturing partisan side shows. If we continue to undermine our own rule of law we are doing putins job for him. Do you agree . God bless him. Before you asked the question and quoted mccain, i was thinking to say exactly what he just said. Seriously . Not even whatever question you might have asked because what with im seeing here is the investigations continuing and Going Forward and its political here and there and we constantly battling with one another and Vladimir Putin just loves it. This is what it calls in our field, the field i was active in in our field, active measures, causing trouble and as long as were investigating this whole memo, your memo is better than my memo its it is insane. It muddies what the truth is. It gives people reason to grab on to one or the other rather than just knowing what the facts of the matter are, jack. The central figure in this memo is former trump adviser carter page and Time Magazine obtained a letter in which he brags about being an adviser to the kremlin. He says, the latest over the past year and a half ive had the privilege to serve as an informal adviser to the staff of the kremlin in preparation for their presidency. G20 summit next month where Energy Issues will be the Prominent Point on the agenda p. How significant is that . All right. I dont know carter page but ive watched his interviews and ive been watching people for all of my adult life and i tell you one thing this fellow is extremely impressed with himself. You take that characteristic and you take the ability to get close to where the money is, thats the oligarchs in russia, thats its a very explosive combination and very easy to imagine that he was trying to cozy up to the russians as much as he can to get a piece of the action. Would you be suspicious of him . Would well, counterintelligence has been suspicion of him and i wouldnt second guess these professionals. Not as an undercover type agent but as a sort of an agent who is acting on behalf of a foreign country and hasnt registered himself as such. This spying on carter page in 2016 is now a central argument in President Trumps defense that the fbi is biased against him but it wasnt long ago that team trump was downplaying any connection to page. Heres a reminder. Carter page is an individual who the president elect does not know. Hes not part of our National Security or Foreign Policy briefings that he with do now at all. To the best of my recollection i dont know carter page. He never had a donaldtrump. Com email address, had no formal role in the campaign that im aware of. I dont think ive ever spoken to him. I dont think ive ever met him. So tim, can they have it both ways . No. They cant have it both ways. Because the whole point of this memo is to undermine the public credibility of the investigation of russia involvement in our campaign. Thats the point of this memo. Why do you think so much there was so much noise about it before it came out . Why do you think the president got involved . Its because the sense was this could turn the conversation, that americans who are sitting on the fence now might say oh, my goodness, maybe the fbi is actually was actually led by democrats, maybe there was a democratic conspiracy. This is to undermine the our countrys ability to undertake an independent investigation of the powerful. Thats what this is all about. So the carter page story, lets debate whether the fisa warrant was warranted or not but it has nothing to do with whether the investigation of the russian interference and the possible collusion with Trump Associates is valid and important. Those are two different issues. Right. I believe the white house and some House Republicans want us to confuse these two issues. The Mueller Investigation would have happened regardless of a fisa court ruling on carter page. There are two different things. Whether the court ruling would have happened if they brought in the steele dossier, you know we dont know a lot of that information is still classified but the mueller information itself it would be happening based on so many issues that have come alive. Which even trey gowdy pointed out. I want to get your take on the president s super bowl message today. Though many of our Nations Service members are unable to be home with family and friends to enjoy this evenings american tradition, theyre always in our thoughts and prayers. Theyre sacrifice is stitched into each star and every stripe of our star spanning angled banner. We hold them in our hearts and thank them as we proudly stand for the National Anthem. Note the stand for the National Anthem line there. Right he has decided as part of his cultural war in america that going after the nfl and players in the nfl and particularly africanamerican players in the nfl plays well with one narrow slice of the republican base. You also note that its divisive. He knows that. He knows exactly what he is doing. He knows full well what he is doing when he chooses these words, when he chooses words like that. He knows what signal hes saying which is basically the guys who are standing, like tom brady, you know, my friends, you know, thats who we respect. Those other people who arent doing that were demonizing them. We dont know who hes voting for or rooting for i should say. Thank you for the conversation. You guys are back with me. Jack barski thank you for spending time with us. Coming up, full steam ahead for the special counsel and one key witness is a former trump insider. What head coach hicks is saying about a report that says shes trying to conceal emails at trump tower. Plus two trains collide in the Early Morning hours killing two and injuring dozens. What went wrong with South Carolina and those popular fitness trackers reveal a lot about us. How many steps we take . How many calories we burn . 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The the New York Times reports a former legal spokesperson for the trump team mark corallo plans to tell the special counsel he had concerns about hope hicks trying to obstruct justice because of a comment she made on a Conference Call with the president after donald trump jr. s now infamous meeting with russians at the trump tower. The times report that mark plans to tell investigators that hicks during the call emails written before the trump tower meeting in which the younger mr. Trump said he was eager to receive political dirt about mrs. Clinton from the russians will never get out. A lawyer for hicks denies this report. Cnns randy kay takes a look at what else we know about the president s young aide. Im 28yearold and the press secretary for the donald trump president for Campaign Reporter the president likes to call her hopy but to the rest of us shes hope hicks now White House Communications director. It was a swift rise for hicks who went from modeling and acting early on to handling p. R. For ivanka trump fashion line after college. By 2014 hicks was managing communications for the Trump Organization and soon her job would change again. Shes used to be in my real estate company. What do you know about politics . She said absolutely nothing. I said congratulations, youre into the world of politics. Reporter hicks told new york magazine, mr. Trump looked at me and said im thinking about running for president and youre going to be my press secretary. During the campaign, hicks reportedly had a note from candidate trump above her desk that red simply, hopy, youre the greatest. Hope get up here shes always on the phone talking to the reporters trying to get the reporters to straighten out their dishonest stories. Reporter though hicks was almost always by Donald Trumps side