no, i would say, i mean, this is a different memo than the first one, it s lengthier. it s well, it s different. and so, not leaning towards it. it will be done in a responsible way. but, again, where the first one was very clean relative to sources and methods, my initial cut is this one is a lot less clean. but at the end of it all, it will be guys like rod rosenstein, chris wray from fbi, certainly the national security attorneys at the white house, giving the president a recommendation on it. so here s my question. before the president even got the memo and read it, he said he wanted to release it. why release the republican memo unredacted and against the urging of the fbi and doj, but not release the democratic memo in the exact same manner? what would the justification be for that? a couple of things. first off with the majority memo that was previously released, there was a change that was made
kelly says the democratic memo is lengthier than the gop, somewhere around ten pages, and claims the white house is not leaning in either direction when it comes to releasing it. he did offer this warning where the first was clean relative to sources and methods, my initial cut is this one is a lot less clean. but at the end of it all, it will be guys like rod rosenstein, chris wray from fbi, certainly the national security attorneys at the white house given the president a recommendation on it. remember the fbi advised against releasing the republicans nunes memo, but the president did it anyway. the president met tuesday with deputy attorney general rod rosenstein about the democratic memo. the president targeted rosenstein after the nunes memo was released. trump received the democrats document monday night and is working with a five-day window to make a decision. the inspector general of the justice department ending his investigation into the fbi s
says both sides could offer amendments as opposed to introducing a bill written behind closed doors exclusively by republicans. chief of staff john kelly says he expects recommendations by tomorrow on how to handle the democratic memo rebutting republican claims of surveillance abuses by the fbi. kelly says the democratic memo is lengthier than the gop s, around ten pages, and claims the white house is not leaning in either direction when it comes to releasing it. he did offer this warning where the first was clean relative to sources and methods, my initial cut is this one is a lot less clean. but at the end of it all, it will be guys like rod rosenstein, chris wray from fbi, certainly the national security attorneys at the white house giving the president a recommendation on it. remember the fbi advised against releasing the nunes memo, but the president did it
capitol hill whether he was leaning towards releasing it even just a little. and this is what he said. i would say, i mean, this is a different memo from the first one, lengthier, and it is different. so not leaning towards it. it will be done in a responsible way. but again, where the first one was clean, relative to sources and methods, my initial cut is this one is a lot less clean. but at the end of it all, it will be guys like rod rosenstein and chris wray from the fbi giving the president a recommendation on it. reporter: for comparison, the nunes memo was 3.5 pages. the democrat memo was ten pages. and today, rod rosenstein was here at the white house meeting
and chris wray from fbi, certainly the national security attorneys at the white house giving the president a recommendation on it. i guess i wonder why did he even weigh in on whether it s clean if it is going to be the fbi and the doj that decides this, because there will inhe have itably if there are redactions be this perception that the white house is not being transparent with what democrats want to counterpunch with. isn t it amazing the white house and john kelly are putting the onus on the justice department and fbi after they ignored their recommendation on the republican memo. i mean democrats are not going to let them good get away with that without bringing that up, that suddenly now they are concerned about potentially exposing intelligence sources and methods with this memo. but the democratic message we can expect, depending on what redactions we see with this memo, is going to be why did the white house feel that there were these dangers of exposing sources and meth