Trump embarked on his first trip to asia as president. The 12day five country vits it could be the most crucial yet. While the white house would love to focus on that, there are renewed questions about russia and having russia stealing the spotlight, once again. My mother is mum bling today. Before boarding air force one the president who has on more than one occasion said he has the best memory had this to say about former adviser George Papadopoulos and the picture of that march 31st 2016 Foreign Policy meeting. Mr. President , do you remember George Papadopoulos during that march meeting . I dont remember much about that meeting. It was very unimportant meeting. Dont remember much about it. Do you stand by your claim that you never the Campaign Never talked to anybody from russia . Do you stand by that claim . All i can tell you is this, there was no collusion. For days the white house insisted that papadopoulos was a low level adviser with little to no contact with the president. I
More fisa applications on on behalf of the doj. Is this a big nothing burger . George papadopouloss information triggered the opening of an fbi counterintelligence investigation in july 2016 by fbi agent peter strzok. Hes also a favorite target of republicans because of his Text Messages with fbi attorney lisa page showing bias against trump. But we should also note that strzok also favored opening the clinton investigation. Democrats allege the memo compiled by republicans cherry picks information. Former fbi director james comey weighed in on the memos release a minute ago tweeting, thats it . Dishonest and misleading memo where he could the House Intel Committee, destroyed trust with the Intelligence Community, damaged relationship with fisa court and inexcuse bly exposed classified information of an american citizen . For what . Doj and fbi must keep doing their jobs. We have got the best folks in the business to break this down. Joining me now is the host of msnbcs hardball, chris
Wray is ready to release a rebuttal. Its an unprecedented showdown that puts the president and republicans at war with the fbi. This is what we know right now. And bear with us because things are changing fwhin. Trump has three days to make a decision whether or not to release congressman nudevin nun memo, a memo that the president has now read. The fbi requested redaktions to the document but those have not been agreed to. The white house says the memo is still in review. According to sources inside the Intelligence Community a formal declassi declassification is under way. They have grave concerns of the memo being out in the public because of its inaccuracy. Grave concerns is about as alarmist as the fbi gets. This is a pretty big deal to them. And now there are new charges that congressman nunez secretly changed the memo before it reached the white house doors. Adam schiff says that makes the memo null and void. Nunez claims the only changes that were made were grammaticalal. Chuck