The dni and the rest of the National Security establishment . A question a lot of people are asking this hour. Were going to take you through the much balihooed memo release, what it means for the russia investigation and discuss potential resignations or firings of senior d. O. J. Or fbi leadership. Lets get right to it with our experts. Jeremy bash, former Chief Of Staff at both the cia and pentagon. Now an msnbc National Security analyst. Matt miller, former chief spokesman for the Justice Department in the Obama Administration, now an msnbc justice and security analyst. Chuck rosenberg, a former u. S. Attorney who has worked on the staffs of both Robert Mueller and james comey at the fbi and is now an msnbc contributor. And with us onset, nbcs ken delanian and republican strategist Steve Schmidt. Jeremy bash, let me start with you on this idea that carter
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That would be Rod Rosenstein. The memo is being used by the president to smear the fbi and Justice Department. I think its terrible. You want to know the truth . I think its a disgrace whats going on in this country. I think its a disgrace. The memo was sent to congress, it was declassified. Congress will do whatever theyre going to do. But i think its a disgrace whats happening in our country. And 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, and much worse than that. So, i sent it over to congress. They will do what they are going to do, whatever they do is fine. It was declassified. And lets see what happens. But a lot of people should be ashamed. Thank you very much. Are you not concerned the fbi thank you very much. [ inaudible ]. You figure that one out. Well get to that, which is a disgrace later. But a former top intelligence official under democratic and republican president s telling me today
let s bring in the rest of our panel. robert trainer, former bush/cheney senior advisor. joan palmieri, former clinton campaign communications director. and donny deutsche is back. donny? my leg is shaking. i know, go. let it all out. here s what s going on here. i want to talk about the memo. we have a dozen instances of clearly the russians colluding in this election with top trump official. two have already been convicted. we have a guy, a president who clearly is owned by putin. we have an investigation going. that s good news. we basically now have a press release that s been put out, that s been twisted and mangled that now we ll give this president permission to fire rosenstein who will now take over this investigation. our democracy is under siege. people need to start taking to the streets. this is a dictator. this is not something to analyze any more. this is not oh, well, good day for trump. this is frightening stuff. if you are an american, if
bush/cheney senior advisor. joan palmieri, former clinton campaign. and donny deutsche is back. donny? my leg is shaking. i know, go. let it all out. here s what s going on here. i want to talk about the memo. we have a dozen instances of clearly the russians colluding in this election with top trump official. two have already been convicted. we have a guy, a president who clearly is owned by putin. we have an investigation going. that s good news. we basically now have a press release that s been put out, that s been twisted and mangled that now we ll give this president permission to fire rosenstein who will now take over this investigation. our democracy is under siege. people need to start taking to the streets. this is a dictator. this is not something to analyze any more. this is not oh, well, good day for trump. this is frightening stuff. if you are an american, if you re somebody who is 80 years old and sitting at home and you ve watched the greatness of