contents public. today congressman jim jordan on msnbc suggesting the memo could be the reason deputy fbi director andrew mccabe stepped down. fbi director wray reviewed the memo yesterday and then today suddenly he s stepping down. there may be something to it. i just simply don t know. you ve seen the memo. is andrew mccabe named in it? i can t tell you that until it goes public. what i tell you is it should go public. you seem to imply he is named. director wray saw tfrmt those two things happened. is there some relation, there may be, maybe not. would you be surprised if there was a relation? i m not going to get into that. you brought it up, sir. until this goes public i will tell you this. if americans are curious about how the dossier may or may not be used, they re going to want to see this. joining the conversation now is associated press white house reporter joel colvin, rick steng l, msnbc analyst. elise jordan, former aide in the george w. bush white h
of sorts, if you will, who was talking about how he had been jumping up and down. there is precedent for intelligence that becomes part of a political food fight being declassified. listening to eric swalwell on our air, it sounds like republicans are so impatient and so zealous to smear the fbi and get ahead of that process that they ve got the trump-run d.o.j. sending out a letter saying it is extraordinarily reckless. where do you think, sort of the ar bitter of all that is true and all that are hyperbole, where do you think things stand now for the justice department? is that me, by the way? you are. you throw all the flags, you know, on reporting. so, okay. as the arbiter, both can be true. i accept the argument that they are besmirching the fbi that has nothing to do with the principles why we serve. at the same time there can be information in that memo that is worth the public knowing.
president s eye are and what he has he tweeted four times he hates andy mccabe. there is reporting, the washington post reporting trump still wants to fire rosenstein. trump recently revived his complaints that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein was ng properly supervising mueller s probe and suggested that he should fire rosenstein. i m not even sure what that looks like. ongoing discontent with jeff sessions. and while they carve out christopher wray and say the fbi is his to run, they certainly didn t defer to him when questions about the nunes memo came to light. the justice department had to send over a very strongly worded memo calling it extraordinarily reckless to do what we know the president wants to do, which is to release that memo. that is absolutely right, nicolle. i think, look, it s obvious donald trump is angry with these people because he views them as in some way participating in what he sees as a witch hunt, which is the trump/russia
republican chairman of the senate intel committee. [ inaudible ]. review what s going on here. republicans and donald trump spent a year lamb basting hillary clinton for allowing classified information to leak into her private e-mail server and her state department e-mail. now they are talking about voting to release a memo that is about one of the most classified things the government does. you know, conducting surveillance on u.s. persons suspected of being foreign agents. it s just incredible that this is even being contemplated and without the kind of justice department and fbi review that you would hope to have to prevent from compromising sources and methods. there s already been a series of leaks that may have been deeply damaging to the investigation including the new york times story, that he reupped the surveillance of carter page during the trump administration, during the spring. what i m told is you would never get approval from a fisa judge to reauthorize surveillance o
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