also saying they took this edited version and showed it to five fbi individuals at the white house and they walked away and said they were satisfied with the edits that were made. that s right. ainsley. i think actually, director wray got to see it even before the committee voted. ainsley: correct. what they have said about it they can t contest now that they have made these minor edits, whatever they are, they can t contest the accuracy of whatever is in the four corners of the document. they will have an argument to make, i suppose, that there were other things that ought to be considered. but, again, i would just underscore that that means that if we need more disclosure, we should get more disclosure. steve: absolutely. but, what you have been watching on television, andy, over the last couple of days is it s not about whether or not the fbi and the department of justice used a single sourced opo resourced document to essentially spy on americans that shouldn t have been, but,
says that congressman devin nunes altered it before actually sending it to the white house and after their committee voted along party lines to reveal it publicly. congressman adam schiff tweeted wednesday, quote, discovered late tonight that chairman nunes made material changes to the memo he sent to the white house, changes not approved by the committee. white house therefore reviewing a document the committee has not approved for release. chairman nunes calls the complaint strange saying the changes were, quote, minor edits including grasmaticcal fixes and to edits requested by the fbi and by the minority themselves. okay. let s just dive in. i have with me chris eliza and shawn turner. and gentlemen, chris, first to you, from what evan perez just told us, are we potentially
again on whether or not to release the memo. saying quote in the increasingly strange attempt to thwart publication of the marilyn monroe publications of the memo he the committee minority is now complaining about minor edits. what is not clear is what changes were made in the memo. why schiff s staff pushed for alterations and whether the white house had any hand in the changes. and where the republicans voted to publish the memo, nunes refused to say if his staff talked to the media. he is with a few staff, i think, acting as an agent for the white house. this is the president of the united states acting to defend himself legally and politically
is saying seriously, not to say this memo can t ever be released or couldn t be released in modified form. what is the option? are we going to pretend this hasn t happened? this national discussion is an ongoing and we are not going to see what is in this memo? reporter: into the question of transparency. democrats are alleging the memo was changed before it was sent to the white house. republicans dismissed those concerns describing them as minor edits. back to you guys. jillian: more to come. the public release of the memo divided on party lines, assistant director danny colson worked for the department for 31 years. todd: there s a lot at stake but if the fbi s politicized the american people deserve to know. what we are talking about is was there any effort or any attempt or any actual success in misleading the court?