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>> you take that to mean he was passionate about him not being president because in his view someone who was potentially compromised by the russians. >> this was all driven to be driven what he believed to be credible reports. he didn't enter this in a way to get donald trump would do him in, and there's a whole absurdity in here in that this memo. i spoke to him at the end of october. he did start providing memos in june of 2016, but the fisa application wasn't until sometime in october. and it was kept secret. so it had no impact whatsoever on the election. if the deep state was trying to us...

Judges based on a totality of circumstances so while allegations from the steele memo may have formed a portion of it, they certainly weren't the totality. and we know just from what we've seen on the surface of this investigation that there was a lot of reason to have concern about carter page. he'd been on the radar screen for a long time before he began to advise the trump campaign. it seems very unlikely that the fisa court would have granted this warrant and permitted this surveillance in the absence of very convincing information and the unfortunate situation we're in is exactly the one ...

Proceedings. if it had to do with national security, there was never a time that a conservative republican and a liberal democrat wouldn't get together and figure out how to do this in a way the entire committee could move forward together. this is so unprecedented. this could only happen in the age of trump. >> and that brings up an interesting point. we know we know devin nunes basically deflected when he was asked "did you work with the white house on this?" we know he's not working on the other side of the aisle but was he working with the white house and part of my question on why would h...

Members go up to the open mics and tell him to his face, release the memo. he's watching in the chamber as the president leaves the state of the union. members are leaning into the president the united states saying release the memo. this is the environment he confronts every day. that's, it's an explanation of sorts for how he's acting. he will have to answer to history happens all of these lawmakers will. regardless of what happens, but there is intense pressure, you sense it up there in the reporting from these members to keep moving forward in the house. >> there seems to also be a lot of ...

About devin nunes, this is the nunes memo and so forth. none of this would be possible without paul ryan's backing, he gave sort of an extraordinary press conference on tuesday, in which he said he wanted the memo out but was piously, it's obvious what this is about. the politics of this are just accelerating, and taking this country into a place where we haven't been before. one of the reasons i think we can discount the claim, including from paul ryan that this is just about worrying about civil liberties and americans about americans' privacy rights being violated by governments abusing the...