Me Nick Ackerman News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

With that story because they had no way to corroborate that information. they needed at least two sources to print the story. today, we have a whistleblower statute. we didn't have a whistleblower statute then. if we had, that person could have gone through the normal channels and basically filled out the forms and written a memo just like this whistleblower has done, and what's interesting here is, that this information came out about five months before the election in 1972 when nixon was re-elected. you have to wonder if we had a whistleblower statute back then, and this information had come...

Telling him about any national security concerns about releasing this memo, the president, according to our sources, was pretty determined to see it come to light. >> kellyanne conway was out talking about it this morning, nick. i want to share with you guys what she had to say. >> how concerned is the president that the fbi director will quit because of this? >> the president has not expressed that concern at all. this particular investigation has taken a lot of twists and turns and it's led us to a few bad actors who had direct responsibility for an investigation about his political opponent...

Would either read it from the floor of the house or submit it for the congressional record. and that gives them some immunity from being prosecuted for releasing this information. we heard a republican congressman say yesterday if that's the process that they go through, they could talk about it on the house floor but he couldn't even answer questions about it to us, so that's where we are right now. >> mike, i know you're going to be watching and waiting and tethered to a camera in case this does get green lit and we may see you later this hour because timing unclear as to all of this. i want...

If this -- how far does wray go, i guess is the question? >> that's a great question. you know, many of the concerns that the fbi and by wray have to do with sources and intelligence methods that this memo would somehow reveal classified information about how the intelligence community does its work and that that's pretty sensitive. it's unclear if the memo is going to have any redactions at all, if the white house is going to demand those. the last i had heard, the white house was not going to be demanding such redactions. but it really leaves chris wray, the head of the fbi, in a bit of a pi...

Fbi's toolbox. so the fbi director should be expected to come out and be compelled to publicly rebut line for line, bullet for bullet, this memo. not for political reasons, but because he needs to explain to americans that the fisa technique is real, it's vital to our safety and he's going to stand up to anybody who's challenging that technique. >> that's really interesting because there have been questions about what chris wray does after all of this. our sources are telling us that he's not considering resigning. there's been some discussion that maybe he would, there's been some reporting o...