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Time. let me hear you speak again. >> can you hear me? >> i got you now. congressman, you chair the house democracy reform task force, and you saw the nunes memo before it was released. i understand you have called it misleading and distorted. but of course, house speaker says it's about transparency. which is it in your view? what does it establish in your view? >> well, it's anything but transparent. you don't release a memo that has material inaccuracies, that's misleading, that has cherry picked information in it. and it's not just me saying that. christopher wray, head of the fbi, express...

Process? >> i think it very much clarifies the process. how many of the american people do you think had any understanding of the process before this? they have a keen understanding -- >> i don't know if anyone has a clearer understanding as a result of the memo released because it only has a few elements of the entire investigation, the process. but there are accusations that it really just cherry picks. >> here's a couple things. in this entire process. one, let's be clear. how we went about this, we developed this memo on the information we were allowed to see, and not all of us were lowed ...

I'm also interjecting with questions because some of what you're saying needs to be challenged, because there are other people who are watching who need clarity from what you're saying. >> might answer your question if you let me finish. >> plenty of time, 0. >> what i'm saying, i would be curious to know what the judges knew and would it have changed their opinion in this case. this is about having oversight and doing what's right. i will tell you, i would be doing the same thing if the political roles were switched because it's about bringing transparency of a process that our taxpayers pay ...

To his rank and file. which was, you know, essentially that somehow the fbi and by extension people around robert mueller, had essentially sort of muddied the waters of this investigation, that it couldn't be believed. but it really is -- it seems like days of smoke and then the release of this, not real fire. >> even james comey said, you know, that's it? it was a conclusion, but it's not all inclusive, and perhaps there were some inference that the memo would be all inclusive, but it's not that. most people agree on that. let's examine for a minute the former trump campaign aide carter page ...

If it turns out as democrats on the committee are suggesting now, that this nunes memo was cherry picked and there is an explanation and that the fisa warrant was based on more than the steele memo and the detail about whether, where the steele memo came from is more incidental, then the onus is back on nunes and the white house to explai why they were so worked up about the memo and why they threw this out to sort of chum the waters and get us away from the bigger issue, which is the investigation about why members in president trump's orbit were meeting add various points in time with people...