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T them he doesn't talk to the press. there he is on the news this morning. is this dwigoing to be perceives partisan document? >> talking about these duelling memos is a win for nunes. the objective was to say that russia investigation was tainted because it began with a partisan opposition research document. it acknowledged the russian investigation began months earlier and had nothing to do with the documents. the fact we are still talking about this, there are two sides to the story, is a victory pour republicans who wanted to muddy the water over the situation. >> questioning the president...

Going to be in government and in power the foreseeable future and i think it's appropriate that the investigative processes don't get tainted with these political considerations like they clearly were in this case. >> you say like this type of thing, you say political considerations are part of this cas case. >> fusion gps hired christopher steele, who wrote the dossier and knellie orr's husband, bruce orr, valeted that into the justice department. they had to use a yahoo! news article to validate. that yahoo! news article was planted by christopher steele, the very author of the dossier. this...

And it may allow donald trump to say, for example, i'm not going to speak to robert mueller. i'm going to assert the fifth amendment because this whole thing is an unfair, cooked-up investigation. that seems to be the motive behind this document and by breaking all these norms of congressional oversight, by releasing, using a house rule that has never before been invoked to release highly classified information about a pending criminal investigation, house republicans and the president have succeeded in getting out this one-sided message. >> chuck rosenberg, you worked closely with jim comey, ...

Itself. we are going to be putting it up onscreen as well. we are going to start going through this point by point. we are talking about first of all, a white house cover letter written by don mcgahn, white house counsel, and he points out that the constitution does vest in the president the authority to protect national security secrets from disclosure but he has the responsibility also to as well as classifying, he can declassify so it's very clear he has taken this step today to declassify this memo, send it back up to the hill and the hill has now distributed it. of course, it is only the ...

Fbi, was in fact for hillary. look at the way he wrote it. he said the application does not mention steele was ultimately working on behalf of and paid by the dnc ultimately. in other words, they are continuing to be the parents of this whole investigation. it just makes it look scurrilous. i think it's a political document. i think that i have great questions whether it was actually a document that you could argue is even sourced from the legislative branch. i am very suspicious that this is a staff written by somebody who is very much involved with the trump people, hangs out with them, who ...