think is good strategy. i m not so sure it will work for them. presidential harassment, is that what all of this is? you know, within a cabinet, let s take the president s c cabinet so far where you have had as many members have to resign under scandal and more under question at this point. i don t think that s harassment. i think that s appropriate oversight. in terms of the issue i have been so focused on, the russia investigation, let s let the mueller investigation finish and get facts out. we don t know what manafort, cohen, what all these figures who are now working with the mueller investigation, what sdo do they add to the investigation. let s let that come out and we ll see what the house does. very quickly, now that adamship is the intelligence chair, what does that do to the senate intelligence committee working with the house intelligence committee? is that going to improve that? or because the rank iing member
prosecutions or other future national security prosecutions that involve information that was obtain eed under the foreig intelligence surveillance act, there is now a greater likelihood that judges in those cases might reveal the applications to defense council. now, some might see that as a good thing, in terms of transparency. but the way in which this particular case became public was driven by, for political reasons. in other words, the allegations that the house intelligence chair and the president were making about this case were alleging abuse. and that is what set in course the chain of events that led to the release of these documents, which happened under appropriate ways. these documents were not leaked. they were released after foia, free of information act litigation. so i don t have a dispute with that. but i do think that the way in which attention was brought to these carter page surveillances
highly classified and other information they have requested. the decision means congressional republicans like intelligence chair devin nunes can access information on what, if any use the fbi made of the secret source during the russia investigation. yesterday morning at cia headquarters, trump praised nunes. a very courageous man, he s courageous. congressman devin nunes, thank you very much, devin, for being here. i mean, define courageous. what s courageous about lying about having information and going over the white house and pretending that you got new information when you re nothing more than the president s courier. eugene, in your latest piece, you say stop talking about the coming constitutional crisis. you say the constitutional crisis is here. explain. well, look, what is it but
we could see developments in the future because of rod s role in re-upping this surveillance that was done. but at this point from sources that i ve talked to, it doesn t sound like there s any change m imminent on the front. rachel, let s talk about the 3.5 pages that were declassified by the white house. according to the memo, it exposes that christopher steel s dossier, as it s phrased, an essential part of the surveillance application. to what degree we don t know. that will be in the underlying documents of the application. i want you to listen to the house intelligence chair, den r denvdenver devin nunes, who wrote the memo. this was on fox news. did you read the actually fisa applications? no, i didn t. this is one of the bogus news stories that have been put out. the agreement we made with the department of justice was to
president, is under real pressure now. the democrats have no leverage, they are just complaining about devin nunes, who is still the house intelligence chair. but have you ever seen anything like this, where a committee that has always been bipartisan is completely ripped apart in the fight over this memo? no. this is an extraordinary moment. i think that it s notable that not just mr. nunes but the speaker, the armed services chairman, are calling for the release of this document. i don t understand why it s not possible to share it with the senate. i don t know if that jeopardizes senator burr s bipartisan investigation with senator warner. i can t explain that. at the same time, it s very clear at this point that it s a matter of when, not if this document becomes public. the president clearly has signaled, as has john kelly and now the vice president, that they all want it to be released. jim, you had a deal with security, you had to have clearances to work in the white house a