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>> he feels he's on the righteous side and he's the smartest guy in the room. when it comes to the memos, you want to compare those memos. also -- compare them to what he's actually said in these interviews, what he's done. we don't know that, it hears the other thing. he claims he handed out, gave out the d classifying, the declassification authority but he sitting with the president who is a higher classification authority, and executive privilege and he signed the paper when he became fbi director, whatever you do in the context of your job is not your property. >> i will say this, not that...

House in order to vote that memo out and in order to override the president's declassification authority. >> jon: why would democrats want to do that? one of their complaints about the then imminent release of the republican version -- the republican memo is that it would reveal sources and methods. if you're saying that your understanding is this one goes into even more depth, why? >> i think that john roberts hit it on the head before me. the fact that the democrats are eager to have the president have to make some redactions here so they can claim there is a political motivation behind thes...

To get an a. i think what he fails to appreciate or maybe he just is incapable of, is that by releasing this memo, that by itself is, i believe, an obstruction of justice. if he doesn't believe his national security team that it's inaccurate and not confidential, he should fire them. but obviously he keeps them in place, so he must believe what they're saying, so it's misleading, so it's intentionally damaging to american security, but i'm going to release it anyway because i know it's going to do damage to the national security team. >> one point is, he is constitutionally a declassification ...

-- now we're getting somewhere. we you know who did it. i understand it is classified, but you know president trump could make it unclassified like that. you can tell me who ordered it. let's hope he does that. >> the president does have that kind of declassification authority. i have suggested that some members, leaders of the intelligence community, might want to make some kind of public statements, but i understand the reluctance of them and particularly president trump as well, because this kind of statements, those kind of disclosures, do threaten -- >> bill: i get that it has to be done ...

Okay. i understand it is classified, but you know president trump could make it unclassified like that. boom. he could say it is not classified anymore, and then you can tell me who ordered it. let's hope he does that. >> the president does have that kind of declassification authority. i have suggested that some members, leaders of the intelligence community, might want to make some kind of public statement, but i understand the reluctance of them and particularly president trump as well, because this kind of statements, those kind off disclosures, do threaten the collection method that we had...