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Porter. he said he wished him well. you heard that shouted question, what about the memo? when is it coming out? let's talk about that now. republican congressman matt gaetz is with us. to get your thoughts about the white house and the handling of this departure with the staff secretary. >> a lot of americans recognize that here on capitol hill, we have hr challenges that require decisive action. i am proud the president took that action and ensuring mr. porter wasn't still involved at the white house and as the facts unfold i'm sure we will learn more. it shows that even here in government, ...

Selective process which, if mishandled could complicate and compromise an american civil liberties, we should care about that. so this is about making sure that our civil liberties as citizens are protected in the fisa court and that it is not politicized. >> reporter: last week, you made the case that the nunes memo was separate from the mueller investigation. >> i continue to say that. >> reporter: yet over the weekend the president claimed total vindication. was he vindicated in any way? >> let me go back to what i said. this is about fisa abuse and holding our government accountable and th...

Nunes, or anyone else in congress. >> i want to ask you about -- you mentioned nunes. why did the house intelligence chairman nunes draft this controversial memo that everyone is talking about. who was the intended audience here do you think? >> you know it's no secret at this point that republicans having a bad year politically. and most folks expect a democratic wave in 2018. some people handle that differently than others. many republicans including many chairman have decided to retire rather than run for re-election. and others have tried to put up i think what are major distractions and o...

And i include this memo situation. and other tactics as well in the basket of thinkings that have been basically doing. >> he's previously raised concerns about the russian investigation not fair to the president. schiff called for nunes to recuse himself from any investigation. you have the top house republican and democrat on the committee sniping at each other. schiff is drafting a competing memo. how is any of this getting -- how is anything getting done? >> the investigation continues. we have accelerated the pace of reseeding witnesses and documents. and so the investigation fortunately ...

Clapper. several republicans are dismissing the argument that the memo vindicated the president, and the white house allies publicly now caution that the memo did not contain convincing evidence of a conspiracy, and that it does not vindicate president trump or discredit the mueller investigation. >> certain to see, peter, the gop split we'll talk about. thank you. see at the white house later today. the president is headed to cincinnati and there's a moment to shout questions. >> yes, in the next hour. >> see you then. msnbc -- we are on capitol hill, garret, apologies, tough to talk today wi...