abuse topic. and the other thing that i ll point out is that in certain respects they are talking past each other. like if, for example, i offered you a dollar and you wanted to sell me lemonade, then you gave me lemonade and i don t know like how it tasted, and i said i offered you the dollar and you say you never received the dollar, maybe it s both true, but kind of talking past when you get everything out for the mern public, they can decide for themselves. the two memos don t directly rebut each other. the shif memo talks past the majority memo at some points. which frankly might be fine. that would make sense that deferent people see different things that are of importance. before you go, you are in west
this investigation began independently of the steele dossier. that s as important a statement as i can make. if the minority memo is released and the public or at least congress is allowed to read that, it is a more scholarly report with actual footnotes which will point by to point rebut every aspect of the four-page majority memo. and i believe it will bolster the integrity of the entire investigation. but this is a rush to action. it is not a rush to judge this, it is instead of a delivered attempt to judge the totality of circumstances. we would like to see this turun the light of day where members of congress are allowed to do this. but instead, we rush some material that is basically a lie and it s misleading and it s inappropriate. and it hurts our national security. let s get some perspective now from phil mudd, former senior official at the fbi.
going to show fisa abuse took place and there was misconduct at some of the highest levels of both agencies. when you talk about feist f abuse, there is a memo saying there wasn t abuse. i know you believe in trance par antsy. i assume you also want the democrat memo to it be released, right? yeah, i think we need to be able to get both memos out. as it relates to the shift memo, which is a little bit more about damage control, and kwh it comes out publicly you ll be able to see it yourself. the memo has certain things added to it that there is going to have to be a discussion as to whether or not the dems are calling for certain sources and methods to come out. the majority memo is a little bit shorter. it doesn t go into certain
it s counter to the majority memo. it s been prepared. important facts, though, jim. they voted not to let it out. it s been prepared. but they re not letting it out. then it goes to the white house, and it s now the white house s determination as to whether this thing goes or not. and there s going to be folks who have spent their careers in the intelligence, you know, legal community working on these issues, reviewing that document, and making a determination. and they re going to take into consideration what the fbi director had to say. are they in. they re going to make a judgment as to whether things are redacted or not? are they, because they fudged ultimately a decision will be made because that s the process, right if that would be the process that takes place. if you hear the white house statements, they keep talking about process, right? i know you re going to say, well, the president said last night. yup. the white house said today they were going to
classified information that american people deserved to see. are you worried he might be wrong? this fight over this one thing can start this flood put this out there and all of a sudden you do have a real compromise in the system? well, i mean i ve read both memos. the majority memo that was written, by the way, you just referred to it as the nunes memo. he didn t read it. it was drafted by another member of the committee with staffers, but chairman nunes did not write this particular memo. that s why it s more majority memo. as far as the contents of the memo, it is not revealing any good sources and methods. in the schiff memo, if they want to change any of the wording around to make the same exact point, but without revealing, there are certain details, by the way, the scope of the schiff memo, this is beyond the fisa