we just want to publish our memo. and so clearly this is not about oversight. this is about a narrative that they wanted to tell that they want to get out in the public do main. this is the latest chapter in an effort to distract attention from the russia probe and try to put the government on trial. the memo also notes those fisa warrants were signed off by officials who had run-ins with the trump white house, former acting attorney general sally yates, former fbi director deputy director andrew mccabe, and current deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. rosenstein is robert mueller s direct supervisor on the russia investigation. that puts him right in the president s cross hairs. asked about the house intel memo today, note how the president spoke, not about facts, but in vague, dark, almost threatening terms, and offering no support
of the fbi. especially using salacious information, paid for by a political campaign like this dossier was, about mr. page. did you write it? myself, tray gowdy, our two investigators and obviously checked by the lawyers and the rest of our committee members. did you read the actual fisa applications? no, i didn t. more on all of that in a bit. democrats on this house intel kpl committee are outraged at the memo s roadway lease. they have accused the republicans of cherry picking. tonight, the top democrat on the intel committee appeared on this network. when they raise this memo, which they raised with no notice to us, we said let s bring in the fbi, bring in the department of justice and hear what they have to say and look at the full fisa applications, go through them and see what s being left out of this memo. we took a vote on it and they voted no, we don t want to know.
don t stop now, it s easy to add to the routine. join energy upgrade california and do your thing. i think it s terrible. you want to know the truth? it s a disgrace, what s going on in this country, i think it s a disgrace. do you still have confidence in you figure that one out. the man robert mueller reports to at justice, this rod rosenstein is someone to watch this weekend, and pretty much every day because of this widely held belief that the release of this memo was aimed at him. an attempt to give donald trump the grounds to fire him. here was the top democrat on house intel, adam schiff. i think there s a grave concern that the president who is looking for any pretext to
york. this was day 379 of the trump administration. tonight the president has arrived in florida. here s a number for you while we watch that. the president has now spent 123 of his 379 days as president at a trump-branded property. tonight we now know what s in that top secret house intelligence memorandum that s been used to accuse federal law enforcement of political bias and discredit the russia investigation. the three and a half-page memo was released earlier today despite, as you know, strong opposition from the fbi and justice. house intel chairman, devon nunez, a trump ally who once worked on the transition helped to write the document, has been pushing for it to be made public, a party line vote in the committee set the release in motion. and the president who had the power to prevent it signed off on it. the core of the memo raises questions about the fbi surveillance of former trump campaign adviser carter page,
where the borough claims a technical problem was updating software that caused a failure to preserve these messages. are you saying, is just like when we get stuff on our iphone and we want to update, we always say no because we don t want the phone to slow down, is that what happened? it s ridiculous. it s the fbi. can you believe their explanation here. i have a thing i want to tell you. by the way, i love my pet rock when it came out. attorney general jeff sessions have to step in now. he recused himself and that was frankly not necessary from the fbi-russia investigation. but now we need an independent review of all of this monkey business. there s too much to explain away. by the way, we have a lot more on that coming up. you do not want to move because it s hot tonight. including the gradual push to release the house intel memo and the fbi warned us of what we are talking about days on the show, there s new news on that. there s other huge economic news