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>> and they said the entire thing was inaccurate. >> well, i'm telling you it's not inaccurate. i'm telling you that you can take thousands of pages and reduce it down to the essence. that's exactly what they did. i would challenge anyone, tell me anything in the republican memo that is not true. >> if the president doesn't release it, will you vote to override it? >> i can't. i can't vote for that. >> why can't you? >> because it contains 47 elements of highly classified information. >> i understand what you're saying, but congressman, your entire memo says the justice department says that it...

They allege porter abused them. the scandal and how the white house has mishandled it with conflicting explanations has some staffers facing some awkward changes. take a look at this exchange today. it was between my colleague, jeff zeleny, and press secretary, sarah sanders. >> in an op-ed this morning in "the washington post," the first wife of rob porter said specifically of you, i expected a woman to do better. based on what you know, do you believe you were personally misled and do you have any regret for how you have explained this to the american people? >> look, as i said, we do the ve...

And theirs had every right to be released. how do you respond to that. >> well, don, let's reconstruct the chronology. democrats uniformly opposed release of the nunes memo because we thought it was gravely misleading. a point of view shared with the department of justice who warned that to release it would be reckless and that it it contained serious mistakes and grave omissions. we were against that. once it was determined it was released we asked it to be subjected to department of justice review. that was declined. once that was defeated by the republicans we said we have to tell the whole...

Taking a more forceful stand against violence against women? >> because she is the voice of the president. and that is his sentiment. and generally for most people around the world, what's in your heart comes out of your mouth. and the fact that the president can't say these words that he condemns domestic violence is quite troubling. but it's part of a pattern that he does when we're talking about domestic violence or sexual harassment, what he always does, is if it's someone that he associates with or someone that he likes and supports, he will downgrade the allegations. he will support the ...

Release it, will you vote to override it? >> i can't. i can't vote for that. >> why can't you? >> because it contains 47 elements of highly classified information. >> i understand what you're saying, but congressman, your entire memo says the justice department says that it gave away sources and methods. you're not applying the same standards to other people as you apply to yourself. >> of course we're applying the same standard. we're saying don't release anything classified. look, you've surely read the memo. >> i have read the memo and i have concerns about it, because -- listen -- but i al...