weekend and muffles some of the talk, and this mimo coming out at 5:00 or 4:45 on a saturday, i think does that same thing. and you know, if we re disappointed that the statement doesn t make a point by point ref uitation from the white house this afternoon, that s not their strong suit. what they are good at is essentially saying politically, these are not thedroids you re looking for, so we know that whatever we re talking about tonight, we may be talking about something else tomorrow morning. certainly by tweet time monday morning, we ll be on an entirely different topic. it s absolutely no coincidence that it came out at precisely the moment that devin nunes was addressing cpac, where donald trump just got 90-plus percentile approval rating from the crowd there. right. very good point. thank you so much for both of your perspectives. obviously, a lot more to unpack with the release of this democratic rebuttal memo to the devin nunes memo.
failed to provide a full context, a full picture of why the russia investigation was launched. despite that, the president said he would rely on the fbi to determine if the schiff memo should be released. there s definitely a contrast there, even as the president is pointing fingers, calling the schiff memo a partisan document. the nunes memo in many ways stands as a document that to the president proves that he has been unfairly persecuted by this deep state, this group within the intelligence community and other aspects of the government that do not want him in power, that are seeking to delegitimize his presidency, ryan. all right, boris sanchez, thank you for your reporting on this. obvio obviously, this news just coming in. the democrats have officially released their rebuttal memo to the nunes memo. there are some redactions in it. our justice team is now combing through that document to pull out the important aspects of it to share it with you. we re going to take a quick
process. people like devin nunes have an oversight function and if they have concerns with the fisa process let s go through the inspector general of the department of justice which is what was recommended to president trump for the last memo and he chose to ignore that. right. and i wondered your thoughts too on the strategy of all of this. i remember when the nunes memo came out, i spent a lot of time on capitol hill. i remember democrats kind of quietly having debates in the halls of congress as to whether or not it was worth it for them to put up some of a rebuttal memo. to just, you know, offer up their condemnation for the initial memo and plow on. does this hurt the arguments that they re making because again all of the things we re talking about, the lack of clarity as to how this process went forward, the potential risk that it provides us from the national security perspective. was this in any way potentially a political miscalculation by democrats in the house intelligence
carefully researched memo that, paul, to your point, underscores the fact that carter page was surveyed because he was suspected to be a foreign agent. that was a long-standing allegation, which is why there are multiple fisa warrants that were offered, that were approved. and secondarily, you know, the largest point in the nunes memo was that this dossier was the basis for all of fisa. when again, multiple fisa warrants, and we can see just on page one, there were multiple sources that were used for the october 2016 fisa warrant other than the steele dossier. i anticipate nunes will make a lot of conspiracy allegations because his memo was so poorly written, such a misrepresentation. we re going to pause for a moment, give you an opportunity to take a look at that document a little bit more. we re going to continue with this breaking news. the democrats release their rebuttal memo to the nunes memo. we ll have more with our panel of experts and our reporters
occurred. his entire focus. he is speaking about that and really shoring up his thoughts on the memo in the release. even as we wait for the democratic memo, the rebuttal memo to eventually come out. now we listen to our correspondence, if you have any news we would love to hear it. thank you. good afternoon. we have been in a holding pattern over the last 24 hours. waiting for this democrat memo to be transmitted by the white house of the house intelligence committee. we can now report that the transmittal has occurred. we understand that the memo has now gone up on house intelligence committee website. just to recap, this memo is in response to a republican staff member that was released earlier this month and there were a number of key findings about surveillance abuse by the fbi. the justice department during the 2016 presidential campaign. and the targeting of trump