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Clearly they had reason to believe he was a suspected russian agent. and they were able to get four different federal judges to sign-off on first applying for and then extending the surveillance of him. >> we have learned to have a lawyer present for all of our discussions now. counselor, you are it. what stood out to you today? >> first of all, as a lawyer always looking for facts -- >> that's a funny habit. >> it's amazing, and this memo had virtually none. i think ken has just mentioned what i think was also the biggest fact, which was a true sort of statement of how this investigation star...

More interesting, frankly, than the memo itself, because i don't think the memo does anything the republicans claimed it was going to do. and i think the media and public opinion are increasingly settling on that opinion. like, what is this really all about? but i am worried about the tweets coming from the president who is somehow using this by way of vindication and what that might mean. let's be very clear. the republicans have voted to release this memo. they're engaged in a complicit act with the president to attempt to dismember an ongoing criminal investigation by the special counsel. t...

To run for cover to protect this president and certainly this memo suggests that. if you were this president you might get the sense that you can do almost anything and get away with it. >> my opponent on that, this is an unnecessary trauma on the country. if you look at the memo itself, there is zero grounds for letting go mr. rosenstein. there's absolutely nothing here. he's exercising his discretion as a career public servant within the executive branch headed by the president of the united states. the way we oversee that is not by jumping the fence, the way congress did with this political...

A reference to watergate there. let's bring in the panel. byron york, susan page, and matt schlapp. >> well, the first thing on the memo itself, there are two big points. one is said the memo was an essential part of this effort to get a wiretap warrant on carter page. two it said andrew mccabe number 2 at the fbi said without the dossier there would not have been a warrant. >> one clarification. it's not a quote in that part. i asked nunes about that. he said there was a process to put out the transcript of mccabe. they would have to go through that to get the transcript put out. but he said ...

Not the memo itself, what it represents in terms of -- additional attacks on fbi. john mccain, the senator, chairman of the armed services committee, the former standard bearer for the republican party issued a strong statement saying these attacks on the fbi serve nobody's interest. not the president or any political party. only vladimir putin. and that is what we hear on the democratic side. all of the time invested in the memo, the month long release, the hashtag we've had here is time that could have been spent looking back not only at what was supposed to be the underlying purpose of the ...