for by the democrats, but nonetheless, the democrats say in their response to the nunes memo, the court was told that anti-trump political factions were involved in his work. so they say the court was a red flag about his bias. and. building on that summary, over to you, jeff. in addition to that in the memo, nunes saying that republicans are, quote, now part and parcel to an organized effort to obstruct mueller s probe. again the nadler s analysis that representing really the democrats most e detailed public response so tar. has there been a response to the response tr the white house. we re only an hour in to jerry nadler s six-page memo. not to the memo itself. i have reached out to officials and haven t received a response yet. but white house officials were echoing the president s own statement, his tweet this morning, which effectively laid the groundwork to discredit the
robert, we ll start with you. and you heard from the ohio representative there, they did not let them know that this was politically funded but that is not true according to our sourcing as well as other representatives who are privy to the information that indeed they were made aware of the political contributions made to this very report in the beginning. but all said, robert, when we have the nadler response and now we re good to get the official democratic response from the house intel committee, this is the middle of a very busy week. one would think. one would think. this is post-state of the union. this is post record high on on the on wall street. one would think this is a good week for the republicans when the president tried to pivot to bipartisan issues, but the republican party, my party, put its foot in the mouth when it comes to sticking stepping on its own message in many ways.
savage, washington correspondent for the new york times. alex, let s start with you on this. one of the points being made here about the nunes memo is it is jerry nadler trying to put his flag in the ground. that s number one. but number two, this has got to have the eyes on one of the few four, had his eyes on the actual fisa warrant. right, so this jerry nadler memo let s you start by saying what it is and isn t. this is more of a legal analysis. he s the ranking member of the judiciary committee. he s not on the intelligence committee. there s a separate document that democrats on the intelligence committee are hoping to put out, but so far have not been able to because it contains classified information and has to go through a process where president trump will have approval over that. nadler is new. this was a post that was held by cornyn, excuse me, john conyers