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Cause mueller and everything else. we are headed -- there are dark clouds there. we're headed toward a real storm this spring in this government. i'm al sharpton, not al roker, but i can forecast that. [ laughter ] >> reverend al, thank you very much. elizabeth bumiller, final thoughts. what do you think the focus will be today. >> the focus will be on the memo. there's talk it could be released today because the president wants it out. he has five days, five days is friday. we were talking you could say 5:00 p.m. on friday but that's when they want to release bad news, the president want this...

Information, he was a courier for donald trump, held a press conference, gave information, ended up lying about a masking controversy that didn't exist. any self-respecting speaker of the house would have dismissed him from his duties as intel chairman at that point. now he's coming forward. as you said, they have cooked, they have cooked facts in a memo. devin nunes didn't even read this memo, the underlying details to the memo. republicans didn't. can't vouch for its accuracy. and yet, because donald trump wants to put out a memo that the fbi and his own justice department says would be dang...

Department of justice, and the fbi. with regard to the house intelligence committee's memorandum, the fbi is provided with a limited opportunity to review this memo the day before the committee voted to release it. as expressed, during our initial review, we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy. justice department officials told nbc news that the issues raised in the memo are so highly classified that they may not be in a position to point out errors or misleading statements. let's bring in washington correspondent "new york times" ...

And what looks to be going on here is that this memo shows that parts of the steele dossier may have been cited by the fbi as part of the justification to get this warrant and that drives republicans crazy because the christopher steele dossier was, in part, paid for as a democratic opposition research project. but the bottom line here, nicole, is that when you're applying for a warrant in front of a judge, the standard is probable cause. >> right. >> so, the fbi talks about what they believed to be true, not necessarily what they've proven to be true. they cite information from all kinds of s...

Dossier because they're unable to interview the author of it. >> do they want to know who paid for the memo and want to know who the sources were for the steele memo, christopher steele who worked for american intelligence in the past not willing to testify to them and he's not an american and they can't compel him to. >> exactly. >> john king, the big question is not whether the russians attempted to do this. we've known they did and to a degree succeeded. the big question is did anyone in the united states help them in that task. here is what chairman burr had to say about collusion and how ...