on thousands of hotels, cars and things to do. like the papaya playa project for 49% off. everything you need to go. expedia. the white house is now reviewing a democratic memo responding to republican allegations about the fbi s actions in the russia investigation. the memo was sent to the president after the house intel committee voted unanimously last night to release it. trump has until the end of the week to decide whether or not to make it public. the ten-page document directly challenges the claims made in the memo from gop chair devin nunes that the fbi and justice department abused their surveillance power when they sought an order to wiretap former trump campaign adviser, carter page. and even if the white house decides to release this democratic rebuttal, the ranking democrat on that committee says he s concerned they could first redact unflattering information.
stories better economy and abuse of power on the other side. republicans release that memo accusing the fbi and the justice department of abusing their power, their surveillance power in investigating a former trump campaign advisor. democrats are saying the memo is misleading and leaves out pertinent information my next guest says congress should create a non-partisan commission , joining me is alan dershowitz harvard law professor and a fox news contributor alan always a pleasure your thoughts on what we know so far, based on this memo? well we know a lot of things. we know that the fbi exaggerates the national security threats when they refuse to declassify memos that might embarrass them and that has to stop. the public has the right to see material unless the national security is in danger and we heard the phony argument recently to try to stop this memo there coming out now we see the memo and there s absolutely nothing in it that in any way affects national security that s
into something more. and that is why we need to watch things like this. we talked about that. you never know who is fighting who, who is your enemy or friend. thank you. live on the story from london. net back to the nunes memo. the former fbi director james comey calling this dishonest and misleading. saying this destroys trust with the intelligence committee. the memo written by devin nunes alleges the fbi abused its surveillance power. republican congressman jenny is not. thank you for talking to us. good to be with you. this is sent out by the s fbi director james comey. principal slammed the memo on twitter writing, that is at current dishonest and misleading memo? back to houston subcommittee, destroy trust with intelligence, damage relationships with fisa court and inescapably expose classified information of an
surveillance power. i want to talk to the former adviser of president obama, david axelrod. is it not fishy that there was something that won t when the fbi went to the fisa court to get a warrant on carter page? is it not possible they used political opposition research. they weren t up front with it and that would be troubling? look, i can t answer that question because we ve only gotten a partial account of what actually happened. all i know is that you talked to the prosecutors and lawyers who are familiar with the operations of the fisa court. and they would be very, very dubious about that. that that is even possible. because of the standards that are required by that court. and because of the nature of the people who serve on that court. so i am very, very doubtful
credentials has said through an official statement that the fbi has grave concerns about the memo s accuracy. the memo alleges that the fbi abused his surveillance power. let s go straight to the man breaking the news here evan perez. evan, beginning with you, tell me everything you know. reporter: brook, i think what is happening is that the white house folks are getting a sense of the frustration from chris wray the fbi director. he certainly made that abundantly clear in his meetings with white house officials and certainly with the justice department because he believes that he obviously was picked by the president and yet his advice to the president to not release this memo certainly not in the version that devin nunes has prepared shouldn t be done and he believes that that is that his advice is being disregarded. in fact, the republicans are sort of casting this as some kind of partisan fight including sort of tarring the reputation of christopher wray.