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Cooked up, she says, in london over the course of weeks that got dhart somehow lewded the fbi, cia and mi 6. this christopher steele years out of service and brought it all to james comey, and james comey declared this person was, quote, reliable and that's why they sort of bought what he had to say. you know, do you feel -- kim strassel has been writing about this quite a bit. how would you characterize the coverage of how much scrutiny james comey and fbi gave christopher steele over the course of all of this? >> i don't think so there has been enough. i have had the feeling that the steele ...

Then congress had the ability to decide to release it so, essentially, the president could say it can't be released so he could potentially punt it back to the congress and, you know, say to the committee, release it or don't release it. >> well, that's actually has he what happened. it's the same process. it was five days. it was on a friday of last week in the same way. that's why that last paragraph is really key. they are encouraging them to keep working on a version of the memo that can be made public that level of transparency is good to hear. it's not just that they get shut down. they ...

Republicans and the democrats, are constantly giving information out to the white house. so they now know the information that both parts of the committee are dealing with and in many ways is helping them make their case and build their defense. so i think the fact that i read mollie's assertion that the white house offering to help the democrats write this memo, it looks a little more nef nefarious than maybe she presented. he is that's the problem here. >> martha: you know what in the bottom line is the measure people want to know whether or not this process worked the way it's supposed to w...

The republican memo lays out a series of factual conclusions. the democratic memo is heavily footnoted but the actual text of the memo, largely deals with analysis and editorial opinions. those very footnotes are likely what the white house is having to redact because some of them cite to specific sources and methods that we use to collect intelligence. very different memos, very different styles, but in both circumstances, republicans have been fighting for transparency. democrats voted against even starting an investigation. now we will see what their argument is this evening. >> martha: see...

Has. and no doubt we will in the next few months. >> martha: molly, what do you think? >> when the nunes memo was about to be released they said it had sources and methods. we all know now it wasn't filled with things that had to be kept secret. what people on both sides of the aisle do say is the democratic memo has sources and methods that are in there that might make it truly impossible to be totally revealed. i think at this point just get it out. just get it all out. even if it has sources and methods. democrats felt comfortable putting it all out there. they can take responsibility for a...