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Ken, let's talk about the background here as we wait for the memo, the full memo, to be released, not just the sections of this cherry-picked memo that have been selectively released to a couple of media outlets around town. your concerns, talking to all of your sources about how the intelligence community is responding to this now. >> well, one of my long-time sources, former cia officer, called it soul crushing. the way john mcloughlin described what this could do to the congressional oversight process. but i want to go back to something, let's be very clear-eyed about what's going on here. ...

Parties to comment on it more freely. and one last point on carter page. carter page sat before the house intelligence committee in november. he spoke on the record. there's a transcript of that interview for hours. and through the course of questioning from democrats on that committee, he detailed his interactions with russians, travels to russia and said he has a moscow sim card which would be able to use when traveling overseas. so the idea that carter page -- that there's no evidence beyond the simpson memo, the steele memo, to underscore why he might have been subject of scrutiny, it's be...

Answer that question. so that is a question without an answer right now. what role did the white house play in the production of this memo. we know how it played out several months ago when devin nunes made that midnight run to the white house and was getting help from people inside the white house. i think that's critical. another point i would make is how striking it has been for me covering this story over the course of this week. speaking to those officials here at the white house and how haphazard this process has really been. just yesterday an official, multiple officials told me that th...

From a separate reporter from the associated press was very simply, do you still have confidence in the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. to which he responded you figure that one out, which would appear to be an indication that he doesn't have much confidence in rosenstein given what is a part of this memo. rosenstein was not a part of the justice department in the current position as deputy attorney general, obviously, in 2016 but did play some role obviously according to this memo in extending that surveillance warrant thereafter, and the reason that rod rosenstein's so important here...

Mission. so the fbi agents association is reiterating that they are determined not to be caught up in politics. >> yeah. it's ridiculous to think that they would be. this is an organization that if it was between the two, it's more conservative than liberal but i never once saw people's political biases, whether it was the doj, fbi, department of defense, any of the intel agencies, move in when it was about the greater good of the american people. the fbi always works in collaboration. there's lots of discussions about what the best way forward is for the country. i have never seen anyone say ...