done improperly but that information ended up coming directly from the white house. he recused himself. how can he do this if he s already recused himself from the russia investigation. well, clearly, he didn t recuse himself and clearly he s taking his marching orders from the white house. during the meeting in which the republicans voted to release this memo, he was asked by one of his colleagues, have you or your staff been in contact with the white house. have they been a part of this and he wouldn t answer the question which tells you everything we need to know about this memo, its origins and intent and how political this is. the fact he wouldn t answer that he s been getting his marching orders from the white house. his staff has been in contact with the white house. i worked on a congressional oversight committee that dealt with depositions and subpoenas and e-mails. no way a staff would put together this kind of report without the explicit knowledge and direction of the chai
did not happen in this case and as a consequence, americans civil liberties may have been violated. i also have the serious concerns with using political documents to make law enforcement and counterintelligence decisions. amid all the political rancor, we must be able to work together to ensure the fisa system works as intended and americans rights are properly safeguarded. with me now, a.b. stoddard for real clear politics. a female, welcome. great. nick comfosore and kurt bardell, a columnist for usa today, huff post and nbc s think. paul ryan is saying that the underlying decisions, the underlying documents make this very clear that this is a political issue. mark warner says he s seen the underlying documents and it s very clear it s not a political
so the democrats want to push back, the fbi wasn t happy about it. is the fbi going to end up coming out and saying something? we had a former fbi agent and lawyer say that christopher wray probably shouldn t. don t add fuel to the fire but what s the debate internally? with our understanding is this phi won t release something publicly. but there might be something internally, potentially a letter to the hill. there s certainly a lot of people who want to push back on this. nick, ken, ab, curt, thank you very much. much more ahead in the next hour. the 2:00 p.m. hour. we ll be right back. today we re bringing you america s number one shave at lower prices every day. putting money back in the pockets of millions of americans. as one of those workers, i m proud to bring you gillette quality for less, because nobody can beat the men and women of gillette. gillette - the best a man can get.