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What republicans said after the memo was released, after donald trump started talking about how it vindicated him from the witch hunt. they didn't think it did exactly that. let's watch. >> i think it would be a mistake for anyone to suggest that the special counsel shouldn't complete his work. i support his work. i want him to finish it. >> bob mueller should be allowed to turn over every rock, pursue every lead so that we can have trust in knowing what actually the russians did or did not do. >> you are in favor of the memo coming out. do you agree that it vindicates trump? >> i think this i...

Same methods, same mechanisms to go over that document just like he did over the republican memo. in fact, you'll remember we talked in great length about the president meeting with his team and white house counsel, also with members of his national security team to deem whether or not the contents of the republican memo threatened national security at all. he will do the same thing and take the same painstaking care to look at the democrat memo as he did the one from the republicans. >> you remember that process included the president putting the odds at 100% that he'd release it before he'd ...

And decide whether to approve it to be released publicly. but this is not the clear win that trump thought it was going to be. he tweeted over the weekend that he was -- it totally vindicated him from this russia matter. but we now from our reporting that chief of staff john kelly when he first read the memo late last week told the president that it just was not as compelling as it was being sold by trump allies out there, that it's just not the smoking gun. that a lot of trump allies and republicans are saying it is. >> frank figlusi, i don't know if you heard the sound at the beginning of th...

Recall a year ago when bob mueller was being appointed, one of the rationales was to take the focus of the russia investigation and put it over here on a quiet shelf and let republicans get back to the republican agenda. they have completely blown that. this politicization has undermined not the credibility of law enforcement but the credibility of the republican party. >> phil rucker, let me give you a quick last word. i know the president thinks this was a clear win but are you picking nip sense from anybopick i ing up any sense from anybody at the white house that they should have picked up...

Minutes? >> i'm pretty confident that the house intelligence committee will vote to release the memo. we've gotten that commitment from a number of republicans. so i do imagine that that happens. i was just chuckling there about the extensive and detailed process that the president undertook to do his part in terms of the careful evaluation. of course him saying he was going to release it before he'd even seen it. hey, if he wants to do that with the democratic memo i'm all in. what i do worry about, of course, is that it would surprise me frankly if this president looked at that memo, realize...