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Now today, we found out what happened right after that briefing. they tell obama and a small group of his top white house advisers that the incoming national security adviser is the subject of an fbi investigation, what happened next? what happened immediately thereafter? as of right now, we can tell you. quote, classification, top secret. and then you see top secret is struck through. it's because this has gone through a formal declassification process at the national security council. this has been partially declassified. this is an e-mail sent by susan rice, who was president obama's nation...

That was released. i will jump down to the third paragraph of this letter. which gets into this issue. it says consistent with the review of previous memorandum, meaning the g.o.p. one, the president asked the office of director of national intelligence and the department of justice to assess the declassification process and request rather and provide him recommendations. the department has identified portions of the february 5th memorandum. the disclosure of which is t. believes would create specially significant concerns for the national security and law enforcement interests. the enclosed l...

Against the white house with this explosive information. >> crazy tale. alan, my last question to you about where things go from here. you talked about the declassification process. we've seen a lot of information about the fisa warrant revealed in that last document. what damage has been done here, in your estimation? "new york times," get information on the underlying documents behind that republican memo. how much have things changed here as a result of the release of that first memo, how much do they stand to change here if we were to see the democratic one as well? >> yeah. so i think tha...

Memo in a way that it can't be released? >> you can tell by the way he's been answering questions with regards to the memo. he has not revealed the fact that his memo was filled up with different sources and methods that have to be redacted. i think the responsible thing would be for the drafter of the memo to prepare the memo for release because it obviously includes a lot of different sources of and methods that shouldn't have been in there in the first place. >> i mean the committee, which has republicans on it obviously in the majority, they unanimously voted to release the memo today. so ...

Possible, and that includes getting the schiff memo as well. as that second tweet went on, i said if congressman schiff wants to change anything that he's basically making the same exact point but without revealing certain sources and methods, i'm all for that. as it goes through this process of declassification, i'm confident we can get this out to the public. >> why do you think the republicans then unanimously voted on the committee to let it go forward? i mean you would think they would share your concerns about sources and methods. >> they do. they do. and as it's going through the declas...