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Criticized in this memo, be given an opportunity to come in and talk to us about these allegations. if that had occurred you would say, golly, we've learned something and maybe we wouldn't -- congress wouldn't spin-off the rails with a bunch of poorly founded allegations. the committee refused to provide an opportunity for the department of justice or the fbi to answer these charges. this is not oversight, anderson. this is a political hit job. >> chairman goodlatte said he doesn't know of any other example, though obviously he doesn't know the entire history of all committees and oversight, b...

Committee has an incredible vital oversight roll. if there's an investigation of wrongdoing that's incredibly serious, but if there is an investigation why wouldn't one of the first steps before going public be to bring the fbi leadership, including director ray or anybody who may have done something wrong, in front of the committee, the house intelligence committee and grill them? wouldn't that be the next step rather than releasing a memo? >> well, first of all, the director, in my opinion, has not done anything wrong. it's not about him. but it is about several other people in key positions...

Examples where there hasn't been an investigation but intelligence was examined by one group, republicans or democrats on a committee and then decided to release a memo. and they had to get the president's sign-off to do it? >> i don't any of any example of a memo being released. and frankly, anderson, as i think about the history of this country and the many investigations done in the national security realm, very serious charges, that a work product would be produced without actually talking to the entity being investigated, that a work product wouldn't be produced with every attempt to make...

Feinstein handled it. but the way the president at the time handled it was very different, and that's a key pivotal difference here. >> i agree. >> because president obama took the memo which was sent to him from the intelligence committee, asked the dni to run a process. which took months and months so it wouldn't put national security at risk. this is being rushed out of the door. i want to make that point. >> look, the precedent we're making is there's no precedent exactly for this in terms of how trump is handling this. and the question of does it matter if devin nunes was involved in the ...

To get the president's sign-off to do it? >> i don't any of any example of a memo being released. and frankly, anderson, as i think about the history of this country and the many investigations that have been done in the national security realm, i can't think of another example as when something -- very serious charges, that a work-product would be produced without actually talking to the entity being investigatored. that a work-product wouldn't be produced with every attempt to make a bipartisan conclusion. not only can i not think of a memo being issued on a partisan basis out of any review,...