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Say they have got a problem. >> martha: mary ann i bet you agree. >> on a friday night. yeah, of course. i would want to hear from the fbi and department of justice here about these redactions not just from the white house. the other possibility here is. remember, it was a 10-page memo with lots of footnotes. maybe this was just too effective at rebutting what devin nunes put out. so, i think it's a bad look for the white house. it's a bad look for devin nunes. i think the democrats one way or the other will make sure that information gets out there. i think we have to be really careful about ...

Done deal at all, guy. >> well, it's not, obviously. i'm a little bit confused as to why this has taken five days. they got the memo five days ago. >> martha: good question. >> the doj could have said here are our problems, x, y, and z. let's redact these parts and then release it. i don't know why they waited and then said well five days later now we can't do it. i'm inclined to agree with the president and with mollie, let's get it out there. obviously we don't want to put anything at risk in terms of national security. i would point out mollie referenced that letter, that referral from sena...

Guy? >> yeah. look, i actually want to see the democrats rebuttal to this. >> martha: i think everybody does. >> me too. >> i want to see the information that they are bringing to the table. but if they are are going to do it in a way that compromises national security in a way republican memo did not. that has to be dealt with ahead of time. get doj and adam schiff in a room and hammer it out and make it work. i don't think we have to cast aspersions on the white house here. there are two parties that can get this done and they should. >> martha: quick thought. i will go to mollie on this. th...

Clear the release of it, we sort of already know what's in the mellow. just as we knew what was in the nunes memo. because despite the lip service that congress pays to the rules for dealing with classified information, congress leaks. that's just a rule of politics and a rule of washington and so we've seen some of the very detail pushback against the nunes memo, including push back on the idea that in the fisa application, the original one, there was not a recognition and explicit tracing of the steele memo and the use of the steele memo, tracing of it back to a democratic opposition researc...

>> 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...