the committee on a formal or informal basis, and i awaited r response but based on the responses so far, it s going to be stonewalling. kirsten? i think it s an incredible thing what you just said, devin nunes is essentially lying for the president, and, but it s not just him. it s all these other members of congress as well. that s why i said that the republican s have crossed the rubicon and become accomplices and complicit in this huge cover- cover-up. you re saying, they basically led everyone to believe there s going to be something in this memo that s going to show that there s some sort of bias in the fbi and you re saying there s just absolutely nothing in the underlying documents that would suggest that i m saying the underlying documents, you will see that i m not saying there s nothing in the underlying documents. if you read the underlying documents, you would see that is profoundly misleading. if you would, like, describe
campaign and are the president as the subject of a criminal investigation that s ongoing that relates to this. he s personally very invested in the outcome of all of those things. and so it does feel to me as, you know, in addition to compromising national security and intelligence, it also does strike me as, you know, we re not the way the director described it made it seem like it was sort of the president was an objective arbitrator in this and really it s not. he s judge and jury. and he s personally invested in the outcome of this. i think you add the two points of, one, the devin nunes staff seems to have been coordinating with the white house on the drafting of the memorandum, and to gloria s point, the president has been, to our reporting, telling friends that one of the by-products of the release of this is going to be that it provides a basis to tarnish the mueller investigation. so, to exactly your point, he doesn t come into this with clean hands. it s a personal dec
if his colleagues don t agree with mr. nunes, they could try, i suppose, to vote to replace him as chairman. there are measures that can be taken in the congress if a member is not behaving properly. they re complicated and they re not easy, but i don t think you depart from them because somebody has said they are troubled. there has to, i think, be some type of serious problem with respect to sources and methods before you come in, try to come in from the outside and it s not clear where that would be from. yeah. and say, okay, you don t get to be chairman anymore. or whatever. director woolsey, thank you. coming up, we re going to expand on this with the panel as well as the breaking news from the washington post about the president s eagerness to put the memo out. we ll be right back. when the weather has its own plans for date night, cozy up with marie callender s chicken pot pie. stuffed with white meat chicken,
interest above national security interests and as much as i love the president, i just can t as a career intelligence officer accept that. that s what he should have said. i have to take a quick break. coming up, why the house speaker paul ryan is going along with the release of the memo chorus. what he said today. and our panel weighs in. you won t see these folks they have businesses to run. they have passions to pursue. how do they avoid trips to the post office? stamps.com mail letters, ship packages, all the services of the post office right on your computer. get a 4 week trial, plus $100 in extras including postage and a digital scale. go to stamps.com/tv
national security and now it has turned into a completely partisan committee where there is fighting, partisan, that was one of the shocking things about the torture memo. republicans put theirs out, democrats put theirs out. it hasn t happened that way before. mike, why didn t the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee, why was he not willing to share the memo with the republican chairman of the senate intelligence committee? you and i neither one of us knows the answer. i know. it does president seem like a partisan dispute. sure. what i m telling you is we are in a zone where there are leaks, where this is being used as a partisan football where democrats seem to want to get a political advantage so, perhaps the chairman said, you know what, this is something we need to get out there before i start handing it to other people and they turn it into something it s not. we ll find out when the memo you don t think a guy of his own party would do that or th