surveillance can be upheld, if that target were carter page, he can sue the government in court. we know that s the solution because it s in the same law the republican congress just reupped last month. even if there were a mistaken warrant, it wouldn t be a crime. none of that would impact the russian probe, i wouldn t impact unless it did show carter page linked to other crimes, and of course the theory is he was innocent from the start. and this brings us back to devin nunez, that he s been so committed to trump than his own committee that he had to step back from his own probe, tonight he goes further. honestly it s hard to support nunez s defy the surveillance laws he passed just last month is so craven is a town known for petty partisan hypocrisy, nunez may have defined a new,
breaking news tonight. a series of major developments that take russia out of the cross hairs and replace it with the fbi. the first is the gop memo alleging fbi abuse of surveillance laws during the 2016 campaign. also, fbi deputy director andrew mccabe a frequent target of the president trump suddenly stepping down months before his planned retirement. which could have several different explanations. except the fbi director recently appointed by trump suggested to staff that the departure has to do with inspector general report on fbi practices during the campaign. let s take all of the serious developments up with republican congressman jim jordan of ohio. member of the house judiciary committee. couldn t have a better night to have you on. thank you for making the time. the memo. all right. it s been voted onto come out. you believe it should come out. there are all the concerns about
we are learning more and more about this memo from devin nunes, alleging abuse of surveillance laws to monitor some trump campaign associates. carter page is reporting that rod rosenstein, while the president had just taken office, extended the surveillance of carter page, believing there was concern there tied to russia. the president wants this memo out. nunes wants this memo out there. the justice department said it would be reckless to do that. where does this go? i don t see the white house backing down on this. because inside washington, we re looking at this every day. we know how extraordinary it is that you would have is a white house arguing to have this released when the trump justice department is saying, no on, you can t do this and fighting with capitol hill. but i don t see the white house he letting down on this. the effort has been to undermine this investigation to suggest there is a deeper conspiracy
reporter: tonight tension between the white house. christopher wray was on capitol him to release a classified and controversial memo spearheaded by devin nunes which his committee is now publicly deciding whether to release. there was an extreme warning it would be extraordinarily reckless for the committee to make the memo public without such a review. the four-page highly politicized report drafted by staffers alleges the fbi abused surveillance laws when it used the steel dossier as part of the dice obtain a secret surveillance warrant on the foreign trump campaign adviser carter page, saying that page was acting as an agent for russia. the fisa judge who signed off on the wampblt wasn t told the dossier was paid for in part by democrats. the public to release the classified memo has ignited a
playing field looks like in a moment. if the president were to make this kind of move, remember his attorney general is still conflicted out of this investigation by his own decision. so rod rosenstein, assigned a special prosecutor, i m sure would resign. the question is, who do you put in that place? there are folks who work within the justice department all over the country who are not political appointees who will not be used in the way rosenstein was careful not to be used in a political fashion who would come in and presumably do the right thing. but there s no question this would create a crisis. john avlon, just moving on to this very controversial four-page memo written by devin nunes about what he alleges are violations of fisa surveillance laws. all tried to trump. interesting news from the new