Watch. The American Public wants on memo about political edits, they want us to move on and end to these attacks on process and get back to listening to witnesses and receiving evidence. Harris in our moment we will be joined by a Top Republican critic of the fbi. First, lets go to chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge, shes been working the story since day one. Catherine . Speak of the expectation has been that the democrats memo will be released as early as today and the president will deh redactions. But there is simply no guarantee and it remains a waiting game at this hour. A white house spokesman told reporters the review was ongoin ongoing. The review process is ongoing and as we have said previously, we are using the same standards in the same process by which the republican drafted memo was evaluated. Its going through both a legal and National Security review. The president , i think we previously mentioned the president was briefed by the Deputy Attorney general the other day. When we have more information we will make that available. A longstanding congressional rule to make the democrats memo public, the president has five days to voice objection with technically brings us to today or monday if you are counting business days. The democrats version drafted by the ranking democrat on the Committee Adam Schiff is more than twice as long at ten pages versus the republican staff version at four pages and we understand that counter memo has more detail and gets in depth into sources and methods and will likely call for redaction redactions. What to watch is whether democrats make the case that Christopher Steele, the former british spy who researched the dossier had a track record for credibility. Countering that is the republican position that the fbi cut off ties because of his Media Contact and that information was never shared with the Surveillance Court. Democrats argue the Surveillance Court was told the trump dossier was a political document. Before the first application in october 2016, to that end of the republican chairman of the committee has sent this letter to the head of the fisa court asking for the transcripts of the representations made by the fbi and the Justice Department during those hearings to get the warrant on carter page. Harris catherine herridge, thank you much. Moments ago the press pool was told to convene inside the white house. We cant tell you the president has been talking but also, he brought up that now the now departed white house staff secretary who has been accused of Domestic Violence. We know he is there with a photo op, we know he talked about some other issues the White House Press pool was asked to assemble very quickly moments ago and now we have the first time we can see whats been going on via tape thats come from that press pool. The president of the United States has been dealing with questions about rob porter, the departed staffer. Lets watch. Thank you very much, i appreciate it. We wish him well, he worked very hard. I found out about it recently and i was surprised by it. But we certainly wish him well. Its obviously a tough time for him. He did a very good job when he was in the white house. We hope he has a wonderful career and hopefully he will have a great career ahead of hi him. It was very sad when we heard about it and certainly he is also very sad. He also as you probably know says he is innocent and i think you have to remember that. He said very strongly yesterday that he is innocent. You will have to talk to him about that. We absolutely wish him well, he did a very good job all he was at the white house. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. Thanks everybody, thank you very much. Harris all right, you saw the president to their and to his right we believe is a supporter, he didnt say very much and that little video clip that came from the press that was given to us there and we rolled it for you to see as much as weve seen. You probably could hear a couple of things going on in the background. We heard mention of that democrat memo thats coming out in addition to the comments of the president first started with that we showed you about that now departed staff secretary rob porter. He said he wished him well. You heard that shouted question, what about the memo . When is it coming out . Lets talk about that now. Republican congressman matt gaetz is with us. To get your thoughts about the white house and the handling of this departure with the staff secretary. A lot of americans recognize that here on capitol hill, we have hr challenges that require decisive action. I am proud the president took that action and ensuring mr. Porter wasnt still involved at the white house and as the facts unfold im sure we will learn more. It shows that even here in government, we deal with these hr issues that every day americans deal with. Harris i know you dont have a lot of insight detail so we will move on. The memo situation that the president was just asked about end of the timing of this and what we will see, what do you know . I expect the president to release the democratic memo today. The one thing to keep in mind is republicans have been consistent fighting for transparency. Every republican on the House Intelligence Committee voted to release the memo. Democrats have only been consistent in their partisanship. They voted to release their memo but against allowing the American People to see the information collected by the majority staff. It is important to know i read the democratic memo, there are sources and methods in these pages drafted by adam schiff and we need those redacted just like the information would have been redacted from the republican memo so we dont put americans at risk down range. Harris even if we just sort of set the memos aside, the bottom line is the way fisa looks at americans and how it is possible for one Political Party to leverage its power against the other by potentially using the fisa court and the fbi. What do we do about that . It doesnt even matter which memo went where, thats horrible. It doesnt matter and it also doesnt matter which Political Party. This should be an opportunity for bipartisanship. We never want to live in a country where cash and a Political Party is convertible into a government sponsored warrant to spy on your political enemies. Democrats and republicans will be in power in this country and we have an american concern to have her form to this process with more transparency, more oversight, perhaps a more adversarial process so this never happens again to republicans or democrats. Harris i want to scoot from the memo with the reporting on this second dossier and what we know about that and how that fits into this whole picture. You are absolutely right. Here you have a circumstance where democrats werent just paying for the dossier, they were telling Christopher Steele and others what facts they wanted included in the dossier. That undermines its credibility. Its a credibility that is already on shaky ground. The only way the first dossier was validated was from a yahoo news article planted i should say by the very author of the dossier. You have circular facts, circular logic and proof that this is false information and should never have been presented before a fisa court. Harris the timing of this memo, its been about a week and went to the same process, are we expecting it to be redacted when we see it . I would expect them memo would be released today. These arent reductions for political reasons. We simply cannot disclose sources and methods. I think the white house will be responsible in that respect. What credibility with the democrats have two these material and political actions. Thats obviously proven to be all sanded undermines their argument. Harris i remember in the process, democrats were able to make some different changes. I know they were called minor, i really didnt see the original, i dont know. They were not big changes. Were you allowed to do the same thing with republicans and their memo . We are simply trusting the white house to make rude actions on National Security sources. I can assure you one of the changes was the movement of two, was. You are talking about very minor things. Democrats arent even talking anymore. The republicans are altering and changing a memo, now that its come out its obviously proven that we are putting them before the American People and it shows how incredible not credible ths are. Harris the democrat one is ten pages long, its more than twice as long. Its large of the footnotes that i suspect reveal sources and methods. Many of the claims in the democrat memo, we can debate those and have those in the Public Square but the democrat memo is heavily footnoted and some of those footnotes could put americans lives in jeopardy and thats why we need some basic, simple redactions and i suspect the president will do that today. Harris what will be the next step . Once the American Public has this information, what do you do then . My fear is this can become the next benghazi. Congress finds a a bunch of facts that exposes them and no one faces any consequences. Dozens of republicans have joined me in a call for a Second Special counsel. When he Jeff Sessions to step up and put people in charge who can investigate these abuses because the fbi cannot investigate themselves. We need someone who is not a swamp creature to find out what happened and hold people accountable. Harris always appreciate you on especially as this news is coming together ahead of a potential release. Congressman matt gaetz of the great state of florida, great to see you, have a great weekend. White house chief of staff john kelly is facing some questions about what and when he knew about Domestic Abuse allegations against a former top aide to the president. We started out this hour with the president having a final word on that from his perspective, saying we wished that departing staff secretary well. How the administration is handling this controversy or i believe the departure of a staff secretary. Ari fleischer joins us next to weigh in stay close. People would stare. Psoriasis does that. It was tough getting out there on stage. 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The white house has already said through their Deputy Press Secretary yesterday at the press briefing, because he took over for Sarah Sanders for the first time he was at that lectern, he was asked all about this and he said the white house made mistakes in how they handled it. The white house acknowledging that end of the president coming on board and saying they wish this now departed staff are well, innocent until otherwise proven but we do know those two exwives got on the record with the fbi over a year ago telling their version and their stories and their experiences if you will to the fbi about what happened and of course that was fortified by photographs of one of those exwives with a black eye which rob porter has admitted he did take. There is a lot on the background of the personal side, questions for the chief of staff as to why he wouldve left him in an important position with access to the president of the United States in a very important manner for his job. Why they would not have sent him aside while investigations were being looked at, rather. We will talk more about this with Ari Fleischer coming up, former White House Press secretary. We are going to move on to talk about the budget deal. The budget deal to fund the government now has President Trumps signature and is back open. Congress voted to end a very brief shutdown early this morning, casting a bill to fund the government through march 23rd. Also listing spending caps. The measure faced opposition from the left and from conservatives on the right, including republican senator rand paul. He took control of the senate floor for a while, voicing some concerns about spending which delayed the vote for ours. President trump tweeted this. Republican congressman of nebraska, member of the House Armed Services committee and Homeland SecurityCommittee Just arrived back from his home state after being up all night for that vote. We appreciated that, thank you. The military is such an important component, talk to me. This is critical for the military, to cut 18 going back to 2010 with 36 continuing resolutions all we are fighting two wars, we have to deter north korea, we have russia taking land from ukraine, its what weve done with these budget cuts and the crs, we really hobbled the military. Only half the navy can fly. We have the Smallest Navy since world war i, the Smallest Army since world war ii end of the smallest and oldest air force ever in the history of the air force. What we did with his budget, we put 10 increase into the military funding. Of the 18 reduction, we bought back 10 of that and its going to give our first pay raise to the military going back a decade that matches inflation. The first pay raise that matches inflation going back ten years. Every other pay raise was under inflation. Then we worked on cyber, missiledefense, this is really the first good news the military has had in over a decade when it comes to a budget. Harris this was such an important part of the president s platform. You have scandals at the Veterans Affairs scandal is not a big enough word. We had people dying on the waiting list at the va hospital. You have these issues with the military and the president ran on some of this in terms of making America Great again. Yes does this conservative and democratic response to wow, we are spending a ton of money overall, whats your answer back to the critics . I am also concerned. If i wouldve voted against it it wouldve been because of the deficit. I think this is the best we could have done with the senate divided 5149. We had a filibuster, we had to get nine democrats to come over. If we voted against it we wouldve had a shutdown, a longterm continuing resolution and our men and women in uniform wouldve been left to pay for that while we are fighting in iraq and afghanistan. Whos to say whats going to happen six months from now with north korea . It wouldve been negligence not to get the military funded the way it needs to be so we can be prepared for whatever comes down our path. I think the alternative wouldve been a continuing resolution and wouldve probably taken into the next election and that wouldve been bad for the military. Harris for some people this may be the first time they are hearing the dire straits are military was in. I would imagine the committees you sit on, you wouldve heard from members of the military. Tell me what the conversation has been like up until now. Weve been in continuing resolution mode for quite some time. We just did four of them before we talked about possibly shutting the government down this week. When you do a continuing resolution, you cant give a pay raise, you can do increases of the budget you want to do, you cant buy more aircraft. You have to stay at the same rate you did the previous year. Weve done 36 of those over the last ten years. Theres been no other country no other enemy thats heard our militarys readiness as much as congress. Sequestering those continuing resolutions. The army said if we did another continuing resolution it would be gross negligence. By congress. In the end we lost 80 servicemen and women in training alone, four times more than we did in combat. Many of those are because they didnt understand their navigation year, we had collisions, we had Fighter Pilots in the navy that fly 11 hours a month. That is onethird of what they should be flying. Th