news national political reporter heidi przybyla and joining the table we have msnbc chief legal correspondent and host of the beat on msnbc ari melber. the white house is preparing to release that controversial memo authored by house republicans that accuses the fbi and justice department of abusing its surveillance powers particularly against an associate of president trump. a senior administration official told nbc news late last night that the white house counsel and security officials will review the memo and decide on additional redactions. they have five days to decide. republicans on the house intelligence committee voted to release the memo which, according to reports, alleges research bankrolled by anti-trump republicans and democrats during the 2016 campaign was used in a fisa application to surveil trump foreign policy adviser carter page. a memo written by committee
mccabe was widely praised for saying the russia investigation would not be derailed. quite simply put, sir, you cannot stop the men and women in the fbi from doing the right thing. andrew mccabe s departure means the new director, christopher wray, has everything in place. the white house is preparing to release a controversial memo authored by white house republicans accusing the fbi and the justice department of abusing its surveillance powers, particularly against an associate of president trump. a senior administration official told nbc news late last night they will review the memo first and decide on official redactions. republicans on the house integ committee voted to release the memo which research bank rolled by anti-trump republicans and democrats during the 2016
the fbi and the justice department of abusing its surveillance powers, particularly against an associate of president trump. a senior administration official told nbc news last night that the white house counsel and security officials will review the memo and decide on additional redactions. they have five days to do that. republicans on the house intelligence committee voted to release the memo, which according to reports, allege research bankrolled by anti-trump republicans and democrats during the 2016 campaign. was used in a fisa application to surveil trump foreign policy adviser carter page. a memo written by committee democrats described as a point-by-point rebuttal of the gop memo s flaws was voted down along party lines. though it had been cleared for other house members to read. last night the republican running the house russia investigation, mike conway and ranking democrat adam schiff
houses. lisa: i think more transparency is important here because there was a lot of distrust in these institutions. you have a letter to the head of the doj, attorney general sitting down with bill clinton on the tarmac of a plane while his wife was under investigation. you have james comey, head of the fbi who leaked classified information and broke the same protocol that he was criticized hillary clinton for doing and did so because he wanted to spur a special counsel investigation. so there s been a lot of distrust in the fbi as well as the doj so i do think it s important to release us memo and also we saw under the obama administration, it s not like they were against abusing their surveillance powers. the court condemned the obama administration for fourth amendment abuses. they spied on senators, they spied on reporters does not like the obama administration didn t abuse their power. harris: so the way that guy laid it out, i do kind of understand why you d want your own me
fact reporting the classified four page memo names is specifically the first week on this memo, we ll probably get it out for the state of the union next week fired and disgraced former fbi director james comey, the deputy fbi director, andrew mccabe, the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, and deep state officials, they abused are parked on my powerful fisa surveillance powers, they are mentioned. we don t know what the memo says about these three corrupt officials and what they did but here is what we do know. top ranking officials at the doj, at the fbi, they used in the abused the powerful, unmatched tools of intelligence that we give our government to protect us, but they used it in this case to spy on members of a presidential opposition party in a campaign year and then a president-elect, and the reason why they did it is to influence first the election and then undermine the choice of the