fight back fast with tums chewy bites. fast relief in every bite. crunchy outside. chewy inside. tum tum tum tum tums chewy bites. breaking news a source telling cnn president trump is inclined to allow the release of controversial memo from congressman devon nunes. memo alleges that the fbi abused surveillance laws. and it also contains classified information. now the source cautions that the house intelligence committee has to approve the release of the memo before the president will agree. out front in the white house, this is the big deal, hashtag republicans have been pushing to release this memo. and devon nunes wants it out there. but obviously this is hugely controversial. definitely. not everyone agrees it should be released. that division falls along party lines. republicans have argued that the details of this memo confirm their claims there is bias in
all this as president trump denies fbi director christopher wray threatened to resign over pressure from attorney general jeff sessions to fire or reassign mccabe. did he threaten to fire no, he didn t. he did not each a little bit. did not even a little bit. nope. he s going to do a good job. press secretary sarah huckabee sanders could not explain how president trump would know wray has not threatened to resign. she guesses he found out from conversations with the fbi director. president trump inclined to allow the release of the memo spearheaded by congressman devin nunez said to allege the fbi has abused surveillance laws. a person familiar with the matter is telling cnn the move is contingent on the house intelligence committee approving declassification. that could come next week. the white house insists no decision has been made on the release. conservatives have rallied around the memo, but democrats say it is republicans latest attempt to undermine special couns
all right. there is no question there is a republican-led push to release a memo spearheaded by republicans in the house intelligence committee. the chair there, nunez, had his staff put together a memo that alleges fbi abuses of surveillance laws. sources say president trump is inclined to allow the memo to be made public, but democrats are against the move. that shouldn t matter if the president wants to declassify. there are plenty other weiss to get it in the record. you have the memo. you have the missing texts, and you have the overall assertion that the fbi is dirty at its highest levels by the president of the united states. no matter how much he wants to back off when convenient, that s what he keeps saying. he had raj shah put out exactly that statement just the other
over the weekend as the senate wrestled with the government shutdown the chairman of the house intelligence committee was meeting with key allies in the house discussing the prospect of releasing a classified memo prepared only by republicans about alleged fbi abuses in the nation s surveillance laws. those abuses, republicans say, revolve around the so-called steele dossier and its impact on the overall russia investigation. chairman devin nunes wants some of the research behind the memo to be declassified. i will remind he he stepped aside from his own committee s russia probe last year after coming under investigation after reports he may have made unauthorized disclosures of classified information. earlier i spoke with democrat jim himes of connecticut who serves on the intelligence committee. you have seen this memo. i know there s only so much you can say because it s classified but generally, how would you characterize it?
to say it needs to be very narrow. it needs to address some degree of security. and the status of the recipients. donald trump in an open forum two weeks ago said we should do come presencive after we do daca. that s why people are confused about where he stands. everybody stand by. we need to discuss the growing controversy over an alleged abuse of surveillance laws during the presidential campaign. why haven t republican leaders shared their information with the fbi? and later, the porn actress paid to keep silent about an affair with donald trump years ago makes her first public appearance since the controversy became front page news. helped put a roof over the heads