is not going to be subpoenaed and should not be, so if he s not a target, why did they have to send this letter? [laughter] well i agree with you, right? so this is the difference, so mr. gowdy believes that he s been told by the department of justice on several occasions that mr. trump s not he s not part of this; however i don t think that s the case here i just think that it s impossible to believe in normal america, if you open up into the trump campaign, you absolutely are opening up into donald trump himself. that s my opinion. mr. gowdy doesn t think so. he s a lawyer, he s worked with doj, i don t know whose right
nunes put his name on it. congressman schiff with some strong words for the president tonight about really saying the opposite of what you just said. i want to play congressman schiff for you. sadly we can fully expect that the president of the united states will not put the national interest over his own personal interest. this committee voted to put the president s personal interest, perhaps their own political interest above. in denying themselves the ability to hear from the department and the fbi. your response. i m shocked that congressman schiff has bad things to say about the president. this is a congressional matter. this has nothing to do with the executive branch other than the fact the president can stop the release. after five days the president doesn t have to take action at all. it becomes declassified. this is over at congress. this is their issue and we ll act accordingly. what you re saying is after five days they can just release it any way and he can say he
the memo and the highly class y classified information and i asked him about the danger of releasing it publicly. let s be clear about this. the memo was derived from information that the department gave us. it s not like there s new information. everything in the memo they already have. what they don t know specifically is what are their complaints. i m fine to share them with them but you can t say a memo is reckless if you haven t read it. they re not allowing them to read it. they re not allowing them to review it. they re not letting them read it. obviously that s pretty circular logic. gowdy doesn t think the public should see the information this is based on. the justice department doesn t know what s spin or take on all that information, that real source data the republicans took. democratic new york congressman told me the memo is this. a list of republican talking points designed to discredit the fbi and the russia