chief of staff john kelly addressed the president s meeting with rod rosenstein earlier today. had a great conversation, help the president understand the differences between the first memo, second memo. are you leaning toward releasing it? no, i would say, this is a different memo than the first one. it s lengthier. it s different. so not leaning toward it, it will be done in a responsible way. but at the end of it all, it will be guys like rod rosenstein, chris wray from fbi, certainly the national security attorneys at the white house given the president s recommendation on it. remains to be seen if all that will hold, if those recommendations will effect the outcome. doj and fbi, you ll recall, strongly advised against releasing the first memo, the republican memo. trump did so, anyway, a decision he appeared to reach before he read it. meanwhile, one of president trump s former allies is getting ready to testify to the mueller investigation. nbc news has confirmed steve ba
discredit this russia investigation. as we mentioned, president trump met today with the man overseeing the investigation about the controversial house intelligence committee dueling memos. chief of staff john kelly addressed the president s meeting with rod rosenstein earlier today. had a great conversation, help the president understand the differences between the first memo, second memo. are you leaning toward releasing it? no, i would say, this is a different memo than the first one. it s lengthier. it s different. so not leaning toward it, it will be done in a responsible way. but at the end of it all, it will be guys like rod rosenstein, chris wray from fbi, certainly the national security attorneys at the white house given the president s recommendation on it. remains to be seen if all that will hold, if those recommendations will effect the outcome. doj and fbi, you ll recall,
we ve seen from the white house, from the president, an effort to try to undermine the credibility of the independent investigation being done by the department of justice under mr. mueller. by attacking the justice department and the fbi, the president is attempting to discredit the russia investigation and protect himself and his family. from connecticut, maryland, and hawaii, democrats in the senate today expressing concerns over republican attempts to discredit this russia investigation. as we mentioned, president trump met today with the man overseeing the investigation about the controversial house intelligence committee dueling memos. chief of staff john kelly addressed the president s meeting with rod rosenstein earlier today. had a great conversation, help the president understand the differences between the first memo, second memo. are you leaning toward
extensive review of the initial fisa application and three subsequent renewals failed to uncover any evidence of illegal, unethical or unprofessional behavior by law enforcement. instead revealed both the fbi and doj made extensive showings to justify all four requests. it is unfortunate that the weekend release of the democratic memo by the white house was delayed beyond what was necessary and to the advantage of those seeking to mislead the american public. still devin nunes is standing by his original memo. the congressman was speaking at cpac as the news broke of the second memo s release. we wanted it out. we wanted out because we think it is clear evidence that the democrats are not only trying to cover this up, but they are also colluding with parts of the government to help cover this up. what you are not going to see is anything that actually rejects what was in our memo. president trump also