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Republicans on the senate intelligence committee, they were simultaneously released so you could at least look at both sets of facts. >> well, it goes to what john mcloughlin talked about earlier when he lamented the fact that this is probably permanently going to change -- i say permanently, it's going to take a good decade, i think, frankly, for the relationship between the legislative branch and the intelligence community to get repaired. this is going to be the partisan skepticism that's going to be there for frankly for some time now, i think. it's going to be something that it's going to...

This document. mike is on the hill where it has been released. mike? >> i just got off a conference call with members of devin nunes' staff. they went through what they consider to be their key findings from the memo. i can read some of them to you now. it's largely what i should say we have been led to understand by some of the members who have read the memo, i wouldn't say there are two new surprises but let me hit a few points. the first and most important they cited was that the steele dossier formed an senessential t of the fisa application targeting carter page. we knew and have been hea...

Trusting evaluation of it. and they have broken that trust. so i think that's the main thing we will remember here, and it's been broken before but not to this extent. now, to your specific point, if you are in the intelligence community now, you might think twice about what you are going to write down on a piece of paper. you might think twice about what you are going to share. you may share it, but you may worry about whether in sharing it, it will be taken and used for partisan political purposes out of context. that's what these committees were set up to avoid. that's precisely what they w...

And they believe this does damage to the whole fisa process. as of late yesterday, early this morning, i don't think there was a plan to say anything more about it. they certainly knew what it was going to be. i think the feeling was they had their say and they didn't want to keep this sort of back and forth going between the fbi and the white house over this. so i don't know, i think the justice department is considering whether to say anything but there's been no decision about that. i think they want to sort of see how this plays out. but i think that the feeling was pretty strong at the fb...

Court what has happened since the last extension, but remember, it's just probable cause. where does that standard come from? from the constitution, the fourth amendment. so it's not beyond -- proof beyond a reasonable doubt type of finding. it's probable cause, and did the court have probable cause, regardless of the source of funding, did it have probable cause and the answer appears to be clearly yes. >> pete williams, your take on how the justice department, the fbi, are going to be reacting to this given the fact that it is a selectively released memo which gives only one part of the evid...