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Completely politicized institution. >> well, it's a great tragedy for the committee, but this is the direction mr. nunez decided to take us. and in terms of the minority, we can go along for the ride or fight this abuse of the committee process and we've chose tone fight it. they have, as the department of justice said quite aptly decided to start declassifying information without regard to the investigation or source of methods. to make a political point that is, as they said, extraordinarily reckless, but that's what they're doing. now this whole crowd that was pushing to release the memo ha...

Right. get a better understanding of what's doing on. i think that's what's probably happening right now is members are trying to get information, trying to get a better understanding before they do comment on something. i think people have commented and i think people have hesitated to comment before they get the information so i don't think that's much of a story. >> since we have you here commenting, you've been a defender on the president on a lot of things. other things like wiretapping. can you defend? he said look, i have the absolute to do this, discuss terrorism and humanitarian issue...

To say we're never going to share information with any intelligence community members of the united states because they are doing to give it to the president and he's doing to share it with our potential adversari adversaries. >> in this bizarre reality the one player that doesn't seem upset about this at all is russia. they couldn't come out defend, mocking it, minimizing it, reminds lavrov laughing at the measure media when questions asked about comey. so the president says you guys are huffing and puffing but there's no house to proceed down, phil mudd. he says it was an openly scheduled wh...

Post"? >> absolutely not. >> did you authorize somebody to leak to the "washington post"? >> absolutely not. i did not and would not leak classified information, no. >> the president seems to suggest that you were behind this "washington post" article. the morning before you testified he tweeted ask sally yates under oath if she knows how classified information got spoke newspapers soon after she explained it to white house counsel. >> uh-huh. >> it does sound like he doesn't -- he seems to believe that you're the leaker. does that -- when you heard that, what did you think? >> there have been...

Attitude. it's not that i disagree with what jen says. am i concerned about our allies and the implication of this information going out there? of course i'm concerned about it, but i think it is manageable. >> we have to leave it there. but jen, i'm sure you're reminded of all of the times that the president talked about hillary clinton and how she handled classified information. we will have you both back. we're out of time. thank you very much. >> thank you, poppy. coming up in our next hour republican senator ben sasse weighs in on all of the latest from this firestorm. tonight john kasi...