side and understand the plight of women who are trying to survive domestic violence. and the white house is filled with them. and so it actually wasn t a sock to me to hear the story. what s shocking is don mcgahn and chief of staff kelly sat on this information clearly for months and months and months. and allowed porter to have access to our most secret documents and to continue to work in the white house. and frankly, had he not been found out, he would still be there. 100% is clear. in kelly s case, this nugget i thought was interesting he appeared as a character witness in 2016 court-martial of a marine colonel accused of sexually harassing two female sub hjorth nats and praised him as a suburb marine officer. telly, there s conflicting will reporting of him offering to resign. is he lying. there s no other word to describe i try to be charitable
be declassifying a democratic house intelligence memo that was drafted to rebut a republican memo claiming the fbi improperly obtained an order to wiretap a former trump official. of course, after he left the campaign. white house council don mcgahn writing a letter saying concerns from are the fbi and doj and reads while the president is incollided to declassify the february 5th memorandum, is he unable to do so at this time. with mena tasha, from the atlantic, ned price former special assistant to president obama and former spokesperson and senior director of the national security council. natasha, are you surprised by this. not particularly. i m surprised the trump administration would take this kind of representational risk and do something so completely obvious. you had the doj come out with a letter that essentially said that the fbi and doj had grave concerns and the fbi had its own
how is it possible that so many people without full security clearance are working at the white house? washington post post provided a potential answer in a story that broke the last hour. those in don mcgahn s office feel they cannot take action on other people whose background collection dragged on because they did not take similar steps with kushner.
i ve seen seen speculation that the democrats have played the so festicated game in which they laid a trap by writing a memo that couldn t possibly be declassified there be cornering the white house into having to block it. with no offense to adam schiff, that may be giving the democrats too much credit. the blame lies with the white house, not the credit going to the democrats for some strategy that may be too clever by half. but i natasha is right. this is absolutely a study in contrasts. the president even before he saw the republican memo was 100% certain that he would declassify it and when he did, not a single word was re-redacted, chris. when you read don mcgahn s cover letter, he even states in there that the fbi and doj, the same entities that had vo sis tremendous warnings about the implications of releasing the republican memo, that it deemed portions of the democrats memo to be classified. the question is why not offer a
going to be redacted and why are we prevented from examining that information for ourselves. i think it s worth giving the fbi and doj the benefit of the doubt here. in that let, don mcgahn did say the fbi and doj have recommendations to make they will then send back to the committee and democrats will have to review those and essentially compare them with the recommendations that the fbi and doj have already given them. remember the democratic memo was already provided to the doj and fbi to review for potential redactions. they have to see if any political redactions were made by the white house in an effort to conceal something that the white house perhaps doesn t want to get out. ultimately, this has become a completely politicized game. that s made all the more clear by the fact that the white house is blocking its release tonight. ned as someone who worked at the cia and nsc what, do you make of what has happened to one of the two main oversight bodies for the intelligence commu