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Today felt a little more like we moved towards crisis. it feels that there is a war happening of the government against itself. that there is an investigation happening with the president, and the president sort of in name i guess supervises that investigation, because he is the chief executive of the country. he runs the executive branch. but it is independent of him. and he and his allies on capitol hill essentially teaming up to destroy, discredit, disrupt, and subvert that investigation. are there boundaries for what you think they would not do at this point? >> i don't think there are any...

And they voted that down as well. now, what this means is that the spin memo will go out to the public within five days unless the president says otherwise. of course the president who thinks this is beneficial to him isn't going to say otherwise. it won't necessarily take five days if before that time he says go ahead and publish that memo. this is an act which the department of justice called extraordinary reckless. and this is done quite by design. there's no circumstance or error or mistake here. this is very deliberate. and as the department says, extraordinarily reckless. >> now, when th...

Has never happened in my experience in the committee, so we're in uncharted waters, but if the president expresses the view short of five days, hey, i'm perfectly copacetic i don't flow that th know that they have to wait five days, and the white house has made it abundantically clear th they want it published even without having read it. even without reading it, without the intelligence agencies, what damage it might do in terms of public release, it's clear they already want it released. i think, as one of my tea party colleagues said all too candidly, he was sure the president was going to ...

Republican memo, alleging misconduct over at the fbi, the memo you talked about. what are the big takeaways from your sper spperspective? >> it's confusing events for the public, but in summary, chairman nunez produced a distorted memo he voted to release the members of the house that would bias their impression of what the fbi was doing, and he did that not having read the underlying materials, and vote the down a motion i made to both allow his own members to read the materials and to allow the fbi and department of justice to tell us what the security and other risks of release of this info...

Exposing security, something they called extraordinary reckless. that's exactly what it would be. it would mean that the pret prettization of the classification process to protect the white house even when the tea party leaders admitted they discussed it with the president and sure the president would concur because the spin memo was so good for the president. >> congressman, thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks, wolf. more breaking news in the situation room. the white house revealed president trump supports a pathway to citizenship for nearly 2 million immigrants including hundreds ...