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Only is misleading, but could jeopardize an underlying investigation and could jeopardize national security information, and he was point blank ignored by the president. >> i would just reiterate one other thing. the originating agency usually has the controlling power over what is declassified and what is not. we saw that with the clinton e-mails where much to her distress, it was cia that was dictating to the state department what could be or could not be declassified. >> they have broken that rule here. normally when you are declassifying something, the agency that collected that informatio...

Transmitted from the committee or at least printed. as well, we have a statement from judiciary committee democrats in the house. judiciary democrats saying republicans are complicit in efforts to obstruct justice with the release of the nunes memo. joining us now, chris matthews. host of "hardball." we have been watching and listening as this is all going down and the conclusion by the democrats and some republicans in the senate, certainly, is that this is very partisan, cherry-picked and is, in fact, undermining long-standing, decades long-standing rules of oversight for intelligence to be ...

Incomplete. that's the first point. the second point is that the letter accompanying this return to the house of its own document from don mcgahn, the white house counsel, answers one question that we had wondered about that we had heard about, but makes it clear that the director of national intelligence and the justice department weighed in with the white house on whether this should be released and thirdly, the memo in essence questions what happened in the foreign intelligence surveillance court. it doesn't criticize the court, but it says the court should have been told about steele's bac...

Women. mike -- i mean matt miller, you know so well the dedication, the sacrifice and the danger with which these men and women deal every day. >> yeah. that's right. one of the things that i think they have to be worried about is that the release of this memo jeopardizes their intelligence relationships, jeopardizes the work they do, and that kind of brings us to this sham process that the president has run here in deciding to declassify this. look, i participated in declassification processes, of course john has. usually what happens is the intelligence community will look at something, make...

President did not answer the question, do you still have confidence in rosenstein. that of course is rod rosenstein. chuck todd, you heard him commenting briefly about north korea with big disputes there. we can get to that later. so importantly, he has declassified the memo, it's been sent to the house. they are about to release it. we know it has been described as cherry-picked, inaccurate, of grave concern to the fbi. >> well, i have to say, the house republican intel folks are actually making their partisan case look even worse right now, because they are releasing excerpts of the memo alr...