yates had come and warned the white house that in previous calls with russians, with the russian ambassador, he may have done something inappropriate, and then had lied to the vice president about it. so the next day, the president s concern is not about that aspect of flynn s behavior but that he wasn t acting quickly enough to make vladimir putin happy. david ignatius, you re here to elevate us, save us from ourselves. what, to me, the most striking things are what s not in the memo. at no point does the incoming president or the president because the memos cross both periods of time, ask jim comey about russia s attack on america s democracy. at no point does he ask whether comey is part of an inneragency process to make sure that doesn t happen again. he doesn t suggest taking a hard-line on vladimir putin and russian hacking. and so it seems like the enduring gut punch from the memo release, which was all put in motion by republican enemies of the department of justice, the muel
it doesn t undercut the serious questions raised by the nunes memo. eric: holly henneberg is live on the front lawn of the white house. adam schiff led the democrats push to get the memo release. the president called schiff a quote bad guy. schiff says he s proud to be one of the president s bad hombres and claims the president us still annoyed with what happened to his son when he testified in front of the house untell jones committee. if witnesses refuse to answer questions and make bogus claims of privilege, we call them out on that. that s not at look, that s a
fisa court process, and i ve appeared before fisa court over 20 times in my career, signed off on hundreds of fisa court requests, you know the process. it s loaded with attorney review at doj, at fbi, local field office. it doesn t get through the system without being proper and containing probable cause. so it sounds like we have a refutation of the nunes memo. now the public gets to read this and decide what they will. all right. i wanted you guys to listen to something. i think we were just able to turn around some sound here. devin nunes at the cpac convention just outside d.c. commenting on this new memo release. listen. we actually wanted this out, so this has been held up for over two weeks. the fbi and doj had right away had told the democrats what was wrong with their memo, or their response to our memo. and they waited for two weeks before they actually did the redactions that were necessary to get this out. we wanted it out.
devin nunes, gowdy is the only republican on the intelligence committee that has seen the raw data and intelligence that allowed the fisa court judge to go ahead and issue the warrants to surveil carter page. if anyone knows about the validity of the nunes memo or the implication on the russia investigation it is trey gowdy. despite that, the president tweeted portions of the wall street journal editorial that there are actors within the justice department and fbi that are anti-trump. we heard from donald trump jr. who said the memo release is like sweet revenge for him and his family. democrats are pushing for the schiff memo which contains more context and contradicts portions of the nunes memo. we could see the intelligence committee vote to declassify that as early as today. what is unclear is whether the
and scream right at you. sir, can you really back that up? absolutely. if you don t watch that segment, all those people who miss it when they get to church this morning the pastor is going to scream at them and call them out. that s why it s embarrassing. that s why they should watch fox & friends every day. if the president watches, why shouldn t the rest of america. todd: someone screaming this morning leon panetta says he has never seen anything like this in his lifetime like the memo release. let s listen to him and then we will get your reaction. when the president distrusts the justice department and the fbi, our primary law enforcement institutions in this country, they re the primary law enforcement agencies under our constitution, and when the president distrusts the fbi and the justice department as he did in this matter, i think it does create a crisis in our system of government.