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About or fails to investigate. >> the top democrat on the committee says the memo was not meant to help the investigation, but rather to hurt it. listen. >> the goal was simply to get a misleading piece of information before the public, help support the president, help discredit the mueller investigation and the fbi, help the white house. that's all that's going on here. >> adam schiff there. he called the memo a reckless abuse of the classification process and will result in long lasting damage. >> we hope to explain this to you. to do that, we bring in stephen, the chief diplomatic correspon...

He may be right for different reasons than somebody else would have. this is a political argument. what's happened is that what is normally a pretty objective and decent system, the classification process, has deteriorated into almost a shouting match, and that's not good for the country and it's not good for the intelligence world. >> sure. why not go through the regular process? why not hear the fbi? why not hold off on doing this if the intel chiefs don't want this out? >> fine to hear the fbi, but if you go through the regular process, the person whose authority this is statutorily to make...

Doing will be very long last go. why should the fbi and the intelligence committee trust our community or congress with sensitive or classified information if they think we're on a party line information, going to vote to cherry pick and disclose parts of it. it is a completely reckless abuse of the classification process. and one other thing i'll say, this house rule that they used has never been used before. and it contemplates, it gives the president five days to review and veto this. it contemplates having a chief executive, a president of the united states, who is a responsible actor. who...

And what does it tell you that the white house is not going to heed their warnings? >> hopefully, john, what it tells us is they believe the type of material that's in that memo should remain classified, should not be released to the public because it may reveal sources and methods which is the main purpose of classifying documents in the first place. however, the classification process in general is not supposed to be used merely to classified information which may be embarrassing. and that's the question here. is the material in there just so embarrassing, let's say, to the democratic party ...

Exposing security, something they called extraordinary reckless. that's exactly what it would be. it would mean that the pret prettization of the classification process to protect the white house even when the tea party leaders admitted they discussed it with the president and sure the president would concur because the spin memo was so good for the president. >> congressman, thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks, wolf. more breaking news in the situation room. the white house revealed president trump supports a pathway to citizenship for nearly 2 million immigrants including hundreds ...