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Richard: oh! ernie: was that too hard for yo? richard: no. is this too hard for you? ernie: woo! we're playing catch now! richard: ugh! ernie: sorry, sorry, sorry ! and breaking news tonight, fallout from the release of the explosive nunes memo which alleges that fbi and justice department officials abused their surveillance authority. president trump approved the memo's release. democrats called it an attempt by republicans and the white house to discredit the ongoing russia investigation. so let's talk more about this with congressman steve king and iowa republican he joins us on the phone...

The materials they have, they can't declassify without the help of the white house. so what's the fbi supposed to do now? how can it tell the american people, look, we've been -- our work has been mischaracterized? we've been discredited. it's not right. it's not true. >> they've gone public with exactly -- i mean that rare statement from christopher wray earlier this week. >> they can't talk about the specifics because it is classified. >> they can't talk about the specifics. they can't -- in an earlier segment, you had this discussion as to whether or not the deputy director -- former deputy...

The white house and some of the gop painting the so-called nunes memo as a smoking gun with its allegations of abuse of fisa warrants. democrats slamming the memo as inaccurate and misleading. so which is it? let's ask david ripkin former legal adviser to the counsel for president reagan and cnn legal adviser mukhammadzoir kadirov michael zeleny, former assistant to robert mueller at the department of justice. first question to you, michael, considering the fact you worked with robert mueller, what kind of impact do you think all of this will have on the russia investigation? and also, how do ...

Do that, that they can survive that politically. i think that maybe it has helped in that cause. >> earlier tonight the author of in memo, devin nunes, the house intelligence chairman, he was on fox news. he was asked about the prospects of more memos coming out. have a listen to his answer. >> this completes just the fisa abuse portion of our investigation. we are -- we are in the middle of what i call phase two of our investigation, which involves other departments, specifically the state department and some of the involvement that they had in this. that investigation is ongoing. and we cont...

In fairness to him we have to emphasize that. >> four people have been charged in the probe not carter page. thank you guys so much. coming up the battle raging in washington tonight over the nunes memo and what it could mean for the russia investigation process. we'll get reaction from a top republican and a top democrat. stay with us, we'll be right back. harry's meeting clients...