Intelligence committee finally dropped. The big question tonight is, will another shoe drop . The president today declassifying the explosive memo, spearheaded by devin nunes, formerly of the trump transition team. Its the most explicit official republican effort yet to try to undermine the fbi and mueller russia investigation. It was released despite warnings from the president s own handpicked fbi director and Justice Department officials. The president touting it as evidence of antitrump bias at the fbi. I think its a disgrace whats happening in our country. When you look at that and you see that and so many other things, whats going on, a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves. Are we on the eve of a saturday night massacre . Will President Trump fire his Deputy Attorney general rosenstein, who is named in the memo as having approved one of the surveillance warrants of a Trump Campaign adviser . Ros rosenstein supervised things, too. Do you have confidence in him. You figure
Nunes, formerly of the Trump Transition Team. Its the most explicit official republican effort yet to try to undermine the fbi and mueller russia investigation. It was released despite warnings from the president s own handpicked fbi director and Justice Department officials. The president touting it as evidence of antitrump bias at the fbi. I think its a disgrace whats happening in our country. When you look at that and you see that and so many other things, whats going on, a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves. Are we on the eve of a saturday night massacre . Will President Trump fire his Deputy Attorney general rosenstein, who is named in the memo as having approved one of the surveillance warrants of a Trump Campaign adviser . Rosenstein supervised things, too. Do you have confidence in him . You figure that one out. Do you still have confidence in rosenstein . You figure that one out. A ringing lack of endorsement, especially from a president who has already fired fbi di
legitimate abuse of power. in order for this to be a legitimate abuse of power, you would have need the director of the fbi, the deputy director, as well as the lawyers who review applications and the judge to all have been deceived and to think that this dossier was enough evidence. or you would have needed a conspiracy on the part of all of those individuals to say to stand against president trump and to do that by surveiling carter page. let s be clear. the fbi has had a history of undermining civil liberties. google hoover and martin luther king junior and you will find a conspiracy that lasted 12 years. you are right about this sounding like a pretextual reason. we re talking about for a fisa court, for a renewal of an application, every 90 days, they had to show that the rubber met the road. they didn t just have to have hypothesis. they had to show what they found. he was never charged. the threshold is there s some basis to continue having this surveillance. you are hav
citizens. but this doesn t seem like that. this is coming in the context of what s clearly a partisan attack on an ongoing investigation. can i just to add, we have to think about what it would have taken for this to be a legitimate abuse of power. in order for this to be a legitimate abuse of power, you would have need the director of the fbi, the deputy director, as well as the lawyers who review applications and the judge to all have been deceived and to think that this dossier was enough evidence. or you would have needed a conspiracy on the part of all of those individuals to say to stand against president trump and to do that by surveiling carter page. let s be clear. the fbi has had a history of undermining civil liberties. google hoover and martin luther king junior and you will find a conspiracy that lasted 12 years. you are right about this sounding like a pretextual reason. we re talking about for a fisa court, for a renewal of an