particular trump campaign guy who didn t turn up in the dossier. a guy christopher steele said he never heard of when the fbi went to him and asked him if he knew anything about this particular trump guy. that was the first big problem. we re going to prove this thing and here is our memo that disproves that thing. field at that level. then the memo claimed out right in black and white that to the extent the fbi had sited the steel dossier in this application for a search warrant on a different advisor to the trump campaign, republican memo said to the extent they referred to the steel dossier, they said the fbi hadn t told the judge at the time that dossier came from a political source, it was opposition research on donald trump. well, as soon as the republican memo came out on friday with that claim in black and white, democrats started crying foul insisting that that specifically was not true. they said the judge was told
question as to whether the white house itself was involved in coming up with this scheme. the scheme to release classified information to try to exonerate the white house and indict the fbi in the russia investigation. so far, neither the house republicans who created this nor the white house will answer directly when asked if there was white house involvement in this whole scheme in the creation of this document, and the whole idea behind it. democrats are starting to realize they are on to something with this line of questioning and into this evening they are continuing to push it. i also want to say that my colleague again and repeatedly asked the chairman whether he or any of his staff had consulted with, coordinated, conception this memo in combination with the white house. we know after all the chairman embarked on a similar effort to coordinate a campaign early on in the investigation and once
risk move for this white house. particularly given this other new outstanding issue they created by trying to pull off this stunt and that is legal president. when the president decided to e declassify that memo, he would be able to fire everybody. everything. when the president made this decision to release this classified memo, that may very well have created a new legal precedent around the release of classified information of this type. the president personally may have essentially set a whole new standard for the public release of fisa related information and classified information of this type on the basis of the president s decision friday to declassified that republican memo, the new york times today has already filed a motion requesting the public release of the information on which this
you were a kid? did your parents tell you was the most dangerous thing playing with fireworks? your protection. my dad always told me about fireworks, be ware of the apparent dud because it might not be a dud, might be slow. and sometimes more dangerous to have something not go off initially than it is just to have a big exciting firework where you know what it s going to do. this wasn t so much a dud. it was a firework with a faulty fuse. so it didn t provide the show it was supposed to when you thought it was going to but it did end up posing a danger to the people who were trying to set it off. democrats now say they plan to use the republican memo fiasco from friday against republicans, against congressional republican incumbents when they are all up for reelection. congratulations, you released the memo. it will be used in a million attack ads against you. it remains remarkably an open
today the republicans on the committee changed their mind and voted it should be released. all right. so it was a unanimous vote on the intelligence committee. democrats and republicans voting to send the democratic memo on the same subject as the ones the republicans released on friday and voted unanimously to send it to the white house where president trump has five days to announce whether he has any objections to releasing the memo the same way he released the republican one on friday. it would be awkward for him to refuse to release the democratic memo. he made the decision to release it based on the same classified information. he promised somebody at the state of the union he would release it before we now know he had even read it. if the president nevertheless decides he wants to block the publication of the democrats document, which is based on the same classified info, that will be awkward. i don t think the president minds awkward. what could the democrats do?