the democrats want release. but we begin with catherine herridge who was the first journalist to get excerpts of the memo what does it say and what does it prove? it all again confirming the president had used his authority as commander in chief to fully declassify the memo without chang changes. the memo paints a troubling picture. staff memo makes the case that the secret national security court was kept in the dark by the fbi and justice department when they sought and secured a surveillance warrant for trump campaign aid carter page. the former british spy who was paid by democrats to put together the trump dossier had a personal animus toward the presidential nominee. christopher steele admitted his feelings against then candidate trump when steele said he quote:
there are republicans would be publicly supporting that move. good evening loren. democrats want the chance to get their own counter memo out into the public. the top democrat says he believes the white house will have no choice but to publish their version. i think the president would be hard pressed to try to suppress this memo, particularly since they claim they re releasing the gop memo in the interest of transparency. so i think they re going to be forced to release it. the house intel committee democrats released a statement today detailing their plan to bring up their memo for a vote on monday. they want to layout the serious mischaracterizations in the gop s memo about the fisa applications. democrats say their memo would layout more context for why carter page was being investigated, saying the fbi would have good reason to be concerned about page. like the republicans, the democrats memo would have to be voted out of committee and then
the entire house of representatives for a vote. shannon: loren blanchard live for us tonight in dc. thank you. our next guest says what he s seen proves he s been right all along, it s built on congressman, great to see you tonight. good to see you shannon. let s talk about some of the reaction today. this is from richard house, a tweet from him. the it says: the memo fails to discredit the substance of the case or deal with other justifications for monitoring page. are we only hearing part of the story in this memo? absolutely not. you had a circumstance here where fisa warrants were reauthorized based on faulty information. this dossier was so uncredible they had to have the yahoo news article planted by christopher
memo. the president clearly believes he s got the political mojo at this point. so right? host of mornings on the mall and juan williams. good to see you both tonight. nice to see you, shannon. shannon: we ve heard from the democrats saying this is all about undermining mueller. i thought it was interesting that trey gowdy saw all the underlying intelligence said this, as i have repeatedly said i also remain 100% confident in special counsel robert mueller. the contents of this memo do not in any way discredit his investigation. juan are these claims about being discrediting just smoke? no, i think that in fact speaker of the house paul ryan said very much the same thing that he believes in the mueller investigation, thinks it should
gps briefed half a dozen media outlets in the fall of 2016 but the majority did not go with the story. one who did was apparently used to just identify fbi surveillance. the carter page fisa application cited a september 23rd, 2016, yahoo news article by michael isikoff which focuses on a jewel 2016 trip to moscow. page denied working with the russians. i have never broken any law or done anything untoward in russia or relating to any russian person. according to the memo an fbi counter intelligence chief said the corroboration of the steele dossier was in the early stages even as the initial fisa was submitted. comey later testified he told the president reflect at trump tower the dossier was quote salacious and unverified but it was used repeatedly to review