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Mueller? and is this the goal for bob mueller to get him to cooperate? >> i think people need to understand that prosecutors typically don't take an action like this with some sort of a goal-oriented outcome in mind. what happened was that paul manafort, who was on release pending trial, committed new crimes, and he happened to commit that in a way that was very obvious to prosecutors, that evidence was brought to them by one of the gentlemen who manafort tried to convince to testify in a way that wasn't necessarily truthful. so prosecutors did the right thing. they took prompt action to indic...

Redactions. the democrats make the case the former british spy christopher steele had a proven track record for credibility but the f.b.i. cut off contact with steele over his contacts with the media. this fact was not shared with the national security court that granted a surveillance warrant and renewals based on steele's work. democrats say the republican staff memo simply can't be the last word. >> it would be irresponsible to leave unanswered such baseless charges that have a collateral effect reducing the confidence the american people have in the f.b.i. >> the republicans voted unanimou...

The best unity is for us to -- the best shield for us is for -- for us to show unity and get our act together and start putting in reforms that will protect us from what happened back in 2016. >> what about what the republicans are claiming? that adam schiff intentionally put -- put intel into the memo having to be redacted that the white house is biased and only redacting the democratic and not the republican side. >> you can't have a counter memo unless there is a original memo and ours was only in response to what was put out there. it goes no further than that. but it would be irresponsibl...

The ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee adam schiff is ten pages versus the republican staff version at four pages. we understand the counter memo has more detail and gets into sources which will likely call for redactions. >> it will be irresponsible to leave baseless charges that have a collateral effect of reducing the confidence that the american people have in the fbi. >> so stay tuned, shep. >> shepard: thank you. we shall. we're many minutes away -- many minutes passed the white house briefing. we'll take you there when it begins. bush 43 says it's clear that russia med...

It's a brainwashing of the public, brian. and again what it risks is that it also has a collateral effect of the rest of the line, fbi agents who you referenced during the night, they have to go to courts tomorrow and put warrants and affidavits forward on money laundering cases, corruption cases. and if their credibility is undermined by this, that's going to affect their ability to do their job. >> another question i asked in the first discussion, what it it turns out we really need the fbi? god forbid a thousand times if the president is briefed on a domestic terrorist plot in this country,...