in a social way like george bernard shah said you can t show a gun in the first act of the play and not have it go off in the third act. people have to see it now. now, the other thing is these customs that we all abide by are not recognized by the trump government. you know, the preet bharara christy todd whitman, they are norms and traditions we have obeyed for decades and generation that s this white house is just ignoring. these things have to become codified into law. so, even this idea that there s a classified memo that goes between two branches, it has to be reviewed by the fbi or the justice department. you can t just release it. something like that should be codified into law. it s not even, ken delanieian going between the brarch much. they have refused to share this memo even if it does satisfy what rick is talking about, sort of a public interest in knowing some of these facts. it s so either sketchy, shady, or political that they haven t shared it with richard burr, the
aware of those concerns and make that stick. or is the white house going to simply overrule them, make this memo public for political reasons then what will be the blow back and the implications of that, nicolle. hallie, let me bring you back in on that and ask you. there was a new york times reporting the secret memo hints at a new republican target as we ve been talking about, rod rosenstein s job may be on the line, not just for the management or mismanagement in trump s view of the mueller probe, but also reporting over the weekend in the washington post that the president had his chief of staff, john kelly, call over to the justice department not once, but twice i guess once was in person and once was on the phone, and express the president s desire for this memo to be released. really an unprecedented break with his own justice department. right. how does the white house explain the policy or the politics there? that it s ultimately, in their view, the president s decis
seeking fisa surveillance. and the court can reject or send the application back and ask questions or ask for more information. and so, again, this is i think in concert with what the president said in early 2017 when he first accused the obama administration of wiretapping trump tower. they continue to make baseless attacks against the fbi and without going into contents of this memo, this is just more efforts to really just torch the entire fbi building. not caring what it does to the importance and independence of the rule of law. why is chairman nunes involved in this at all? i had understood that he had recused himself. what is his role? he had been recused, i guess in name only. he was still signing subpoenas up until this point, but he did preside not only in spirit, but in body at the meeting where they allowed the memo to be released to the house.
with the people inside that west wing and you ve also seen this publicly. the white house says, hey, d.o.j. is not involved in this process. now, here s what could happen. let s say the house intelligence committee goes ahead and makes a move to release to go ahead and move forward with making the memo public. that doesn t mean this memo is going to go public. the president, as you know, still has to sign off on that. i would be extremely surprised to see anything from the white house on that before the state of the union. just from a message and optics standpoint it doesn t make sense. it doesn t preclude anything, that s the sense i m getting. it is possible over the next four-day period again, if house intel decides to move forward with this, the white house may, in fact, decide yes, the d.o.j. should come in and perhaps review this memo, take a look at t. but right now you have, again, and nicole, it s like deja vu, a break between the white house and the department of justic
i think that really defies his recusal. paul ryan can intervene. as you know, the chairman of the intelligence committee is not appointed by the house, but the only position that is appointed by the speaker and the ranking member or the minority leader of the house. and so paul ryan can intervene and i think it s necessary at this point. but it seems like he continues to give him the green light. devin nunes was caught, i don t know, there was some mystery uber ride where he ditched a staffer where he went over to collude at the white house on masking caper. what is your hunch on the level and degree of coordination with the white house between nunes and the white house? it certainly looks like it looks like they re working together because the house intelligence committee will see leaks come out that advance the white house narrative, and then the president will tweet about it and it s become kind of a feedback loop. again, they are seeking to