Officials tried to convince the white house not to release the memo. Here is chief of staff john kelly on the documents release. Our National Security lawyers in the white house they work for me and work for the president. They are slicing and dicing it and looking at it so we know what it means and what it understan understands. Did you see it . I did. What did you think . It will be released here quickly and the whole world will see it. President trump was overheard after the state of the union telling a Republican Congress member he will 100 reelilease memo. Chairman nunes accused of making significant changes to the classified memo. The ranking democrat on the House Committee adam schiff said nunes sent a memo to the white house that was quote materially different than the one the Committee Approved along party lines. Congress member schiff demanding the Committee Vote again on whether they should release it. Saying in the increasingly strange attempt to thwart publication of the m