i guess perhaps brings about distrust when looking at congress. you re right. look, it s a political place. i m not going to lie to you about that. people point back and forth. i think that s what s happened with the schiff memo. just remember, what i tell people all the time, look at the source you trust and follow what they re saying. what i m telling you is mr. schiff and the democrats were saying initially don t let the republican memo out because there s nothing to it. it s lies, et cetera. arthel: the fbi said it was also it also had inaccuracies in it as well, the gop memo. right. they haven t substantiated any of those. arthel: who hasn t? the fbi or the democrats. arthel: well, listen, the time on the clock here turned red which means we have to stop. i have a suggestion for you, congressman biggs. here s the deal. you get some frozen pair margaritas, freeze it, ship it to d.c., everybody gets a round
democrats and mr. schiff. it s got some problems to it and then they get to embarrass and say now they re mistreating us. so it s a two-fer on their side. i want the democrat s memo released. we all do. arthel: you just called the democratic memo a nothing burger, the gop memo was called a nothing burger. if you re asking the american public to see through the shade cast by the democrats, how do you convince them that the republicans aren t doing the same thing, making decisions that seem to benefit party and not necessarily the american people? well, i think you get the democrats memo out as quickly as possible. i think where redactions have to be made, you ask them to make the redactions. it s going to get to the intelligence comet a commit at .
democratic counterpart, congressman schiff, to make the changes necessary so the democrats memo, quote, can be declassified as soon as possible. eric. eric: molly, thanks so much. arthel: for more reaction on this, we go to arizona congressman andy biggs, a member of the house judiciary committee. thank you for being with us this afternoon. thanks, arthel. arthel: let us work backwards on this. we ll get to the meat of the democratic memo in the end. if i could start here. listen, the justice department and the fbi is saying hold off on releasing the democrats memo to give lawmakers time to comb through, recheck for items that might be a threat to national security. as you well know, the fbi emphatically advised against releasing the republican memo for fear of threats to national security and grave concerns about its accuracy. so here s the question, congressman. why is the warning from the justice department and fbi
transparency. told them to redo and send back in proper form. the republican s memo released last week says the fbi got the okay from the secret fisa court to spy on former trump campaign advisor, carter page, based largely on evidence from a dossier that was paid for by the democratic national committee and the hillary clinton campaign. eric: what happens next with this. reporter: the memo goes back to the house intelligence committee where it will be reviewed and redacted even more. congressman alan schiff challenged the president today. he tweeted, mr. president, what you call political are actually called facts and your concerns for sources and methods would be more convincing if you hadn t decided to release the gop memo 100% before reading it and over the occasions of the fbi. republican congressman devin nunes, the republican chair of the house intelligence committee, is urging is
two, two and a half months. that s enough. he s moving home. listen, it was a good idea to try to find a way to try to commit to the chinese to go along with a policy in north korea. we didn t know if it was going to work. it s not going to work. so what we re looking at is. if we can get to maximum pressure, then we can find out if the north koreans are going to move. if they re not going to move, okay, we went through this prots process, maybe the trump administration learned something about the chinese regime. hopefully they learned that the chinese regime don t want the same things that we want. the goal is entirely different. now we can start from that understanding. is that going to work? we ll have to wait and see. when congressman schiff mention aid few moments ago when we were speaking with him. to be at a point now where north