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Chairman of the house oversight committee. trey gowdy sent a letter valentine's day to the white house giving chief of staff john kelly two weeks to answer questions on why rob porter, the former white house staff secretary and accused spouse abuser, was allowed to work with an interim security clearance for so long. last night the talking points, the white house just refused the request. a move that prompted the top democrat on the house oversight committee eli outcummings topping ask gowdy to issue a subpoena or step aside to allow the rest of the committee to vote on it. i want to bringing ...

Oregon state university and host of the majority report with sam seater. what do you make of the michael cohen statement? >> it's possible a guy like that knew my job is to go and expend $130,000 and if you don't believe the trump people would necessarily win the election, maybe he thought that money would come back later. it also occurs to me that maybe this was pretty good timing. i mean, to announce something like this. i don't know what the stakes are of stormi daniels. if it's not porter, if i was the trump people, i'd rather be talking about stormi daniels than porter. >> the way they tr...

The manager saying everything is off now and stormy is going to tell her story. jason johnson, professor at oregon state university and host of the majority report with sam seater. what do you make of the michael cohen statement? >> it's possible a guy like that knew my job is to go and expaen $130,000 and if you don't believe the trump people would necessarily win the election, maybe he thought that money would come back later. it also occurs to me that maybe this was pretty good timing. i mean, to announce something like this. i don't know what the stakes are of stormi daniels. if it's not p...

Memo that accurately portrays how the fbi went about getting a surveillance warrant. trump's reaction is the same, right? not so much. late yesterday trump refused to declassify the democratic memo. it will not be published as it is now. though the white house did offer democrats the opportunity to have it redacted by the justice department. joining me now are paul butler and nick akerman, and frank figliuzzi. frank, i'll go to you first. i don't think many people are surprised this memo was withheld. the white house has always used two different standards to talk about these two, the majority...

Decades, why not release them simultaneously, the majority report and the minority report? >> two points on that. number one, every republican voted to release the democratic memo to the house. i suspect every republican -- i know that i will -- will vote to release that to the american people as well. >> why not do it simultaneously -- why not give the american public the opportunity, congressman, to look at both at the same time? >> i'm trying to tell you why. because it hadn't been scrubbed yet. i can tell you the democratic memo is much longer -- >> why did they have to rush to release the...