You tweeted about that, saying the curious thing about the memo is it does not accuse the fbi or justice with any particular law. There are legal standards for warrant applications, but it does not reference them. Why is that important or do you think this memo is just meant to make a statement . Mr. Heath i do not know what the intention is. I am wary of anybody, including the authors of this memo, who are trying to make assessments about peoples motives. But it is interesting to me that there is a pretty clear Fourth Amendment standard. There are hundreds of fairly recent cases on this about what kind of information the government has to put into a warrant application. And the memo does not really say how, leaving out the fact that steele was a paid opposition researcher would violate the standard. It is a hard thing to do. The memo talks about what was left out of the fisa application, but not what was included. We do not know what other evidence the fbi had. Do not know what the fbi said about steele to begin with. When the committee decided to release the republican report, they at the same time did not agree to releasing the democrats report. Will that happen and what is expected to be in the democrat memo on this . Mr. Heath you can see representative schiff, the ranking member, has taken exception to the way republicans staff characterized this. We have seen from the white house and the speaker that there is some willingness to make the democrats memo public. There was a transcript released today of the Intelligence Committee meeting where they decided to release this. There was some description of the democrats memo that is 10 pages long that includes 36 footnotes. The trick with that is that if you want to talk about the legal side of this and leave the political bit alone, the way you look at whether a warrant application is valid, whether this information about steele needed to be disclosed is by looking at Everything Else the fbi put in that warrant application. So to have that conversation, youre going to start bringing a lot of other facts, resume ugly presumably about a lot of other intelligence sources, out into the light of day, and it is not clear the fbi did not want this out, which does not say a lot about other sources. So if this gave the Intelligence Community heartburn, it is hard to imagine what the schiff memo might do. There is an investigation in this senate committee. The vice chair, mark warner, democrat from virginia, said earlier today unlike almost every house member who voted in favor of this memos release, i have read the underlying documents on which the nunes memo was based. They simply do not support its conclusions. Do you think there will be an impact in that investigation in that second look at russian interference . Mr. Heath this hard to know. Every committee that looks at this seems to have a slightly different focus. The House Committee may be more than anybody else is looking at the Justice Department and the fbi wrote in the early stages of the trump investigation and their handling of matters related to secretary clinton, too. But it is hard to know how tied together they are, and at some point that political currents become unalterable. The one thing this case has reminded me of and maybe especially the special counsel side of it, there is some capacity here force apprise. Here for a surprise. Brad heath covers issues of law and justice at usa today. Thisollow his reporting on and other issues on twitter. Thanks so much. Mr. Heath my pleasure. Cspans washington journal live every day with issues and policy matters that impact you. Saturday morning, the washington examiners criminal justice reporter will be with us to talk about the mueller investigation. Managingtrategies director Michael Allen will nuneshis opinions on the memo. Join the discussion. On saturday, watch the 18 the 2018rage watch Rancho Mirage festival. And then Bret Stephens on u. S. Foreignpolicy. Dave barrysatirist talks about his writing life. Followed by Margaret Mcmillan on theirmitt favorite historical figures. At a Justice Department summit, attorney general Jeff Sessions talked about efforts to combat Human Trafficking and how the department was collaborating with mexico and local u. S. Law enforcement. This portion also included remarks from the associate deputy general