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And we don't get sort of favours in that front and that means we can be as critical. i mean, look, laura, i mean, i think you've got — you make a very good point. i think part of the problem is the age and affection of the sovereign. i think part of the problem is that, as chris says, it's an upbeat story. and it's seen as a sort of happy end point for a lot of bulletins, particularly tv. and i think part of the problem is a classification problem, which is if you are republican and i totally get this, if you are a republican, you see nearly every royal story as a political story and you thi...

The information that is available. you cannot make material omissions. that is an important distinction and an important difference. >> shannon: which of these things do you think would be most helpful? the democrats memo, the underlying fisa applications, the documents underlying the house intelligence memo -- some of this has to be classified material that we can't get. what do you think we can get and what you think will be most helpful to the whole picture? >> a mostly unredacted democratic memo, it will suffer from some of the same defects we have seen in the grassley memo and the nunes m...

The information that is available. you cannot make material omissions. that is an important distinction and an important difference. >> shannon: which of these things do you think would be most helpful? the democrats memo, the underlying fisa applications, the documents underlying the house intelligence memo -- some of this has to be classified material that we can't get. what do you think we can get and what you think will be most helpful to the whole picture? >> a mostly unredacted democratic memo, it will suffer from some of the same defects we have seen in the grassley memo and the nunes m...

Insisted on a whole being changed in terms of the classification problem. what you have here is opening the door to something we've never done. hyper partisanship for a process that was near sacred ground in terms of career professionals talking only to judges so you don't have the political influence left to right. and then finally, i think the objection is, it's wrong. it is not good work. it leads tow a conclusion that everyone i know who has been involved in this process. it is just incorrect. >> i want to get your response to the president's tweet. the to that investigators have politiciz...

Classification problem. the president can get involved in that and the other thing that's going to happen is the intelligence committee devon nunes is the chairman i did this when i was the chairman of the oversight committee. you can send a criminal referral to the attorney general so attorney general sessions what he does or doesn't do with this not just the summary but the body of the work will be interesting and you also have the inspector general whose preparing work after a year, 450 employees, i think it will be the most explosive and most revealing look at what was happening and not ha...