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True. in this case, we have the spectacle of inevitably dueling views on something of extraordinary national importance, which is protection of the american people, which is what the fisa act is all about, created in the 1970s for precisely that purpose, and they have now turned this thing on its head. >> more on that point, chuck todd, here you have an echo chamber where people who go to one news organization or another are going to be reaffirmed, the president will watch fox news and say you see, i really was being victimized, and by the time the democratic memo, if they do decide to release...

Republicans, something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago. rank and file are great people. matt miller, this is completely out of context. >> yeah. look, andrea, motive matters here. the president has been clear for weeks now privately with friends, with allies and aides, what his motive is in both releasing this memo, declassifying it, and with interviewing at the justice department to try to get them to back down when they were opposing its release. that is he wants to undermine the investigation into himself and into his campaign. that's what this is all about. that's w...

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 ...

Judge decides there's probable cause, the warrant is granted. so by just demeaning some of these people and saying that they are biased and who paid for the dossier, even though carter page was under surveillance before the dossier was even written or presented, this does not diminish the factual basis for a warrant on carter page. >> three points. one is, the central thesis of the memo is that the fisa court should have been told about the questions about carter steele, that a lot of his work had been financed by the clinton campaign, there were questions about his credibility. that's the poi...

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 ...