want intelligence to be leaked to the new york times and other publication that s may damage national security. democrats are so partisan. they switch positions because they re trying to attack the president of the united states on this. this is not the republican party. i don t disagree with that. that s why i start calling things a circus. that becomes the answer to a lot of weird questions we have. a january 11th by the way was the president s fisa tweet. before that. the circus thing, i think it is an important thing to remember because i do think that part of the strategy of the white house is to try and turn the entire discussion into a partisan circus. so, if there is a bad result from the special counselor if he wants to fight against a request the request to sit down with the special counsel, he can say i m not going to do this because it s all part of a partisan circus. they re amateurs in this white house compared to the clinton white house was going after ken st
the fbi put out an extraordinary statement saying that it s the omission of facts that basically create a misleading picture. if that is, in fact, true, and to your point, the public deserves the right to be educated about what s going on, if it is, in fact, a misleading picture, and the democratic response is not being released at the same time, is that appropriate? well, it s entirely appropriate for them to express their views. it s a free country, but this decision is the president s. he has the ultimate classification authority. and i think if he decided for whatever reason, whether it should or should not be disclosed, he s within his rights. clearly he s within his rights under the law. as a matter of principle, if the president s making that decision, which according to our reporting, and, first of all,
investigation. this is a very high-stakes game. we had an intervention in our election by the russians, we had apparently collusion clearly collusion by some people in the trump campaign with that. starting with the president s son and manafort, going to a meeting for the purpose of getting negative information on hillary from the russians. that was why they went to the meeting. we know that the e-mails that are public. there was that. it s got to be investigated to make sure to find out exactly what happened to make sure this doesn t happen again and also know all of our intelligence agencies are telling us the russians will do it again. our next election. they will sabotage our next elections. we have to protect ourselves. we know from sessions, we re doing nothing to protect ours ourselves. we can t to anything to protect ourselves because the president won t admit the possibility this is happening. david? i know you can t disclose what s in the memo you raead, could you see i
without giving us particulars about what you saw, would you say it s a bombshell, would you say the public would react in a with outrage? i mean, how would you i think, my own personal opinion, is that people when they see this memo, a lot of people are going to react by saying, that s what it is? gloria, you have new reporting about the lead-up to this. there are people that are familiar with this process that are worried about exactly what you re saying which is this could be overhyped and that that s probably why the white house will send it back to congress and let congress release it. that the process has been so messy that it may not be as clear-cut as the people who originally talked to the president about it would have liked. congressman, do you believe that devin nunes or his staffers have had contact with the white house or direction from the white house? because i don t i don t know, but i certainly suspect it. he was asked this question pointblank, he sa
own appointee as director of the fbi, when you have his justice department and you have his director of national intelligence all urging the president not to release this memo, then it s more than a partisan scrum. it s a national security concern. right, but that s why you would think democrats would want more oversight and, yet, schiff tries to stop oversight of fisa abuses over and over again on that committee for partisan reasons. and that s a fact. that s beside the point of what we re talking about. we re talking about whether or not in the application and the renewal of a fisa warrant on a specific individual there was an abuse of process. that s what this is about. what their we think. that s what nunes has said publicly. what we re really faced with is the reality they don t like the steele dossier and want to try to discredit it because that has implications for the mueller investigation. the one point that we need to understand about the fisa court