real fire in there because otherwise the republicans have overplayed their hand. scaring people. it s, you know, they are going to be big things revealed. well, you know, look, i think that s the expectation gages, i have been writing about it have you had overheated statements on both sides. one side as you point out is trying to destroy chairman nunes. i think poor chairman nunes his problem is he doesn t understand the way the game works in washington. what he should done is leaked this to the media. then he could have cherry picked the version of events he wanted out there. that s the way it s done in washington. instead he played by the rulings so he is getting friday. on the othefry you had. other people saying this is worse than watergate nutty thing to say until we see what it is. put the thing out there and let it speak for itself. ainsley: andy, i want to ask you about timing because we have known in the media, sometimes if it s bad news they will release it like on a holly
brian: andy, a lot of people are saying if chris wray resigned this would not have been worth it. after all he has been on the job six months and picked by the president. there is some nervousness at the white house that he might do that. i sense is he standing um for the department. this is not his fight. this happened before he got there why leave now. what is your sense? i think he is defending his agency. i really wish once the president decides what he should do, the agency, which are his subordinates salute. they have had their chance to have their say. but what i hope director wray will do is remedies have to be made here. things went wrong and they have to be fixed. i think he should be part of the solution not chatter walling about it. steve: andy joining us from i believe his home library in new jersey. thanks for joining us live. thank you. ainsley: 29 minutes after the top of the hour. president trump expected to release that fisa abuse
steve: 7:16 in punxsutawney, pennsylvania. looking live at gobbler s knob out there right now. ainsley: that is in punxsutawney, pennsylvania at any moment america s most famous groundhog is going to determine whether or not we have six more weeks of winter. brian: if he doesn t see his shadow we will have an early spring. bring back live to the real life situation. we will go back to that when he comes out shortly. brian: andy mccartney is sitting on deck. schiff slammed that memo that could be released any time today which abletion fisa abuse. that is the number one topic right now on the tip of everyone s tongue. ainsley: schiff calling on republican devin nunes to step aside. actually, i m being told. steve: it s show time. let s go out. will phil see his shadow? let s go live. this guy is going to be able to decipher all that.
unbelievable. you would think between and that the blubber. steve: look, the groundhog lives at the library in town. it s not from the wild. so, maybe it s a little chilly. ainsley: it s 12 degrees. everyone is shivering. i don t care how much if you are have you on. brian: i m ready to leave the groundhog. steve: we can leave the balance of the show and the interrupted for phil. brian: back to the country we were talking about. former assistant u.s. attorney and contributing editor of the national review andy mccarthy. andy, please try to put the six more weeks of winter behind you and forge ahead with memo gate. first off, from the legal perspective, from everything have you been through and we have been reading your writings you have been ahead of the curb the whole time. does the righ concern about conclusions in the memo. they have a right to be concerned about it they also have an opportunity to fill in with context anything that they say is misleading. i think one of the misco
also saying they took this edited version and showed it to five fbi individuals at the white house and they walked away and said they were satisfied with the edits that were made. that s right. ainsley. i think actually, director wray got to see it even before the committee voted. ainsley: correct. what they have said about it they can t contest now that they have made these minor edits, whatever they are, they can t contest the accuracy of whatever is in the four corners of the document. they will have an argument to make, i suppose, that there were other things that ought to be considered. but, again, i would just underscore that that means that if we need more disclosure, we should get more disclosure. steve: absolutely. but, what you have been watching on television, andy, over the last couple of days is it s not about whether or not the fbi and the department of justice used a single sourced opo resourced document to essentially spy on americans that shouldn t have been, but,