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The memo sent to congress, it was declassified. congress will do whatever they're going to do but i think it's a disgrace what's happening in our country. when you look at that and you see that and so many other things, what's going on, a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that. so i sent it over to congress. they will do what they are going to do, whatever they do is fine. it was declassified and let's see what happens. lot of people should be ashamed. thank you very much. >> reporter: are you not concerned the fbi didn't want the memo out? >> thank you very muc...

Politics tainting the process on the investigation end, and maybe that's part of the plan. maybe that's okay with the president. maybe that's all about trying to just make this look like a political exercise, not a national security investigation. so tactically i get what they're doing, but i think it only lessens the impact of the memo itself, because the whole thing just smacks of a partisan exercise. how they wrote the memo, how they released the memo and even now, how they, you know, it's being released to the public, but some people get the memo first, from friendly media outlets. again, ...

Photo opportunity with the president just now. what did he say? >> reporter: we will hear those remarks momentarily. we are cueing up the tape right now. but after he was done introducing some political prisoners from north korea, i asked him specifically about that memo, why he thought it should be made public. he said that he viewed the political biases here in his words as a disgrace, he said a lot of people in his words should be very ashamed of themselves. he would go on to say that he has declassified that memo, so there's the real headline, the memo has been declassified, that he says i...