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The department of justice and fbi redact anything from our memo. [ inaudible question ] >> that was not the subject of the motion today. the last thing i'll mention is that i also move that the transcript of the open proceeding be made available to the public tomorrow. the chair committed that would happen as soon as possible because i think you need to read the transcript to see my colleagues on the one hand argue for full transparency and then vote down a motion to make public the minority memoranda. i think you need to see them express concern about possible compromise of sources and method...

Materials so that the committee could make a responsible judgment as to whether or not it should be made public. that motion was voted down by the majority. majority expressed a concern that something in the minority memoranda or otherwise could compromise sources and methods. for that reason, we asked both memoranda be vetted by the fbi and the department of justice. but, that was voted down. i spoke with the director of the fbi earlier this afternoon. he expressed his strong interest in being able to brief our committee prior to any release of the materials about concerns that the bureau and...

Memo. ranking member schiff spoke to the director after he reviewed the memo. he told ranking membership i really need to come in and talk to you about this. ranking member schiff schiff made the motion. imagine if you were accused, we swroulds the right to face our accuser. if motion today to allow the fbi and the doj to come in was voted down on a straight partisan, unanimous no basis by the republicans. that should tell the american public all they need to know about whether this is a search for truth or if this is an ignorant, no nothing attempt to put the national security at risk and the...

That the republicans decided to do all these things without any support from the minority. >> reporter: remarkable events. partisan briefing. there are a number of motions put forward and they got rejected everything from allowing the full house to get briefed by the doj and fbi before releasing the memo as well as their own democratic memo released alongside the nunez memo. this was rejected by the committee. we have to wait for the republican rational as to why they stood in front and blocked the schiff motion to release the memo. clearly, it shows how partisan this investigation has become....

I think we have crossed a deeply regrettable line in this committee where, for the first time in ten years or so i have been on the committee, there was a vote to politicize the declassification process of intelligence and compromise sources and methods. i made a couple motions this afternoon or this evening. first, we scheduled a hearing today or the business meeting so that the minority memorandum could be made available to the members of the house that have been mislead by the majority's memorandum. we expected that vote to be noncontroversial and it was. the house members will have access ...