assertions that would poison the well of public sentiment, that would hurt bob mueller s investigation, and how the fbi is perceived. we actually thought, well, why don t you at least let us put out a counterer memo putting this into focus. our memo is ten pages with footnotes, goes into great detail about who occurred, and the republicans voted to block the american people from seeing that. you have to ask yourself, what are they afraid that the american people would see? what the american people would see is new, unseen evidence that rebuts their points and bolsters the fbi s credibility and seriousness of the vision. what do you say to the speaker, palm ryan, insisting this republican memo does not imp kate rosenstein or mueller? what this memo does is it seeks to torch every floor of the fbi build ping to protect the president. that s what it will do.
we re back with more on this breaking news tonight involving both the house intelligence committee s vote to release a controversial memo disparaging the fbi. with us to talk about what happened today california democrat, current member of house intel congressman eric swalwell. congressman, you said earlier this afternoon on this network that this memo should never see the light of day. and i want to ask a question that sounds flat but not intended to be. what s the worse that could happen? good evening, brian. the worse that could happen is it would falsely poison the well of public opinion of the rule of law, of the independence that we are supposed to have at the fbi. you know, people ask me, you know, what s the big deal about this? in first world democracies you don t attack the police when they re investigating you, and you don t use them to attack your enemies. and this is falsely attacking the fbi to protect the
that sounds flip, but it s not intended to be. what s the worse that could happen? good evening, brian. the worse that could happen is it would falsely poison the well of public opinion of the rule of law, of the independence that we are supposed to have at the fbi. you know, people ask me, you know, what s the big deal about this? in first world democracies you don t attack the police when they re investigating you, and you don t use them to attack your enemies. and this is falsely attacking the fbi to protect the president. it s a line that we just cannot cross, and i m still hopeful that we don t go there, but i think we re as close as we ve ever been. i know you re not able to speak to the contents of the memo. it s the point of the argument. but if you re able to even if it calls for speculation, what s at work here? why is this being pushed out? what s it toward? i ve read both memos, the republican one that will go to the public as early as tomorrow and the democratic one
we re back with more on this breaking news tonight involving both the house intelligence committee s vote to release a controversial memo disparaging the fbi. with us to talk about what happened today california democrat, current member of house intel congressman eric swalwell. congressman, you said earlier this afternoon on this network that this memo should never see the light of day. and i want to ask a question that sounds flat but not intended to be. what s the worse that could happen? good evening, brian. the worse that could happen is it would falsely poison the well of public opinion of the rule of law, of the independence that we are supposed to have at the fbi. you know, people ask me, you know, what s the big deal about this? in first world democracies you don t attack the police when they re investigating you, and
have that released at least to the membership of the house. and i hope that some of the more reasonable minds on our committee on the republican side allow that to go forward. can you explain or do you understand yourself why republican devin nunes won t share the memo with his senate counterpart republican richard burr? i can only conclude that richard burr knows the true underlying facts here and that it would be counterproductive for devin nunes to show it to him because senator burr would not allow it to stand, knowing what he knows. again, chairman nunes has put us in a position where we can either right a wrong with another wrong, disseminate classified information which we re not going to do, or remain silent and have to talk around classified information. i can only tell you, nicolle, it is a brain washing memo. it is its only purpose is to poison the well of the members