these are political memos written by what should be a bipartisan intelligence committee, which that is very partisan, but it should be something that they re working together on to get to the bottom of what russia did and what happened in this country, particularly as we re just nine, ten months away from another election. that s a little too level-headed. come on, dana. i want to read this. democrats sent a political and long response memo which they knew because the sources and methods and more would have to be heavily redacted where upon they would blame the white house for lack of transparency. told them to do and send back in proper form. given the president s track record with the truth, this is hard to judge without seeing it because you have to go in and do fact checks and research every
republican argument as our memo was shorter. the democratic memo was longer and more detailed. the president claimed on twitter the democrats sent a political and long response memo which they knew because of sources and methods and more would have to be heavily redakt cted. they would claim the white house or lack of transparency. i wonder if you think that argument holds water or this was a democratic plan to make it longer or they the process. that argument is totally bunk. not exactly a legal term. i think very appropriate here because it is ten pages as opposed to three and a half. it s not like a lengthy detailed thesis. it does refute some of the key claims and in fact, jim, as you know, some of those claims in the nunes memo are refuted by nunes himself who acknowledged the source of this information
and is totally focused on the abuser. one of his ex-wives got a restraining order against him. so there is plenty of evidence. regarding the democratic response memo, what is the status of it now, can you say? so the status of the memo is that the fbi and the department of justice now are going to meet with the minority members of the committee and particularly adam schiff is the ranking member. the president issued the memo and redacted nothing and yet there were sources and methods that were actually made public. so you are saying in the republican memo, there were sources and methods and the white house was paying
house. should they resign? that s a decision for the president to make but i think that they re playing fast and loose with who they re giving out temporary security clearances. what action if any should be taken now that we know that jared kushner and dozen of other trump administration staffers haven t been able to obtain permanent security clearances? well, whoever is in a role that requires a security clearance and cannot be granted a permanent one should be out of that role. they should have to leave that role. and they shouldn t have any access to that level of classified information. what if anything can do know about it? that s a great question. congress should investigate and look into what role they should play. over the weekend, the president tweeted this. let me put it on the screen. the democrats sent a very political and long response memo
favor of sexual abuse of women. but it s fair to say that an allegation is an allegation until they know that this actually happened. this is absolutely true. however, the white house is not a court of law. we re not having a trial here, where someone is innocent until proven guilty. you re talking about someone who had access to the highest classified information. operating on a temporary security clearance. someone had to ask or should have asked what s going on here? let s get to that memo. the white house says it can t release it because of national security, and i m going to show the president s tweet from earlier, he said the democrats sent a very political and long response memo, which they knew because of sources and methods and more would have to be heavily redacted whereupon they would blame the white house for lack of transparency. told them to redo and send back in proper form. this is the white house position. take out the stuff that might jeopardize national securit