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About the fbi going after the president. even more disturbing is that you have director wray and deputy attorney general rosenstein who were both picked by trump coming out against the release of this memo, and as i do a quick glance of it, it's got to be hard for anybody serving in the government right now to feel confident about who has their back moving forward. >> this statement, the full statement from the fbi association that i now have, just to reiterate your point, the men and women of the fbi put their lives on the line every day in the fight against terrorists and criminals, because ...

Release of this highly disputed classified, now declassified memo as it was compiled by staffers of devin nunes, the house intelligence committee chairman. >> and ken, i want to just circle back as we are waiting for the tape of the president momentarily to be released within a minute, the memo is going to report, we understand, that this fisa extension of the warrant was broadly based on the dossier, but all of our information, our own independent reporting and what the democrats and other republicans have been claiming, is that the warrant which approved the eavesdropping of carter page, pre...

The memo, as officials are telling us as well. >> yeah. it leaves out far more than it includes. i think it's a selective cherry picking of information that's extremely damaging for the country moving forward, in particular. imagine if you are an investigator on a fisa application going in now or even a public corruption case that's a title iii application in the criminal courts. if you were putting your name, if you were putting evidence in there, now you don't know if today, tomorrow or three years from now, a politician might cherry pick that information and use it to attack you, the invest...

About a year ago, he was a trial attorney working on counter terrorism cases in the doj's elite national security division. since then, he had some communication about going over to the national security council. that didn't pan out. then later on in 2017, he moved over to the house intelligence committee, where he worked under nunes. even though nunes himself took a big step back from the russia investigation, cash was very much involved as soon as he started there, and he really deserves a lot of i guess credit for the fact that we have this memo now. this is in large part his project. >> an...

You used to as acting and deputy director of cia, be intimately involved with fisa warrants, applications, signing off on them. tell me how this affects our allied intelligence service, intelligence sharing, the confidence of fbi and cia officials to share information with house and senate committees. >> that's a very important point, andrea. in fact, we'll have to look at this memo and absorb all the details, but in truth, i think a couple months from now, we are not going to remember this memo. what we are going to remember is the way, i think chuck todd put his finger on this when he said t...