>> we are going to speak with another member of the house intelligence committee. we have more information. stand by. i want to go to phil mud who worked with the cia, served in the cia and served with the fbi. what is your reaction when you hear what the ranking democrat said? >> what a pit full democracy. 330 million americans said we trust congress to answer a question. about whether a foreign power intervened in an american election. we cannot rely on this committee to give us an answer that's not broken up between democrats and republicans. not on health care or taxation. on a foundational issue, whether russia interfered, we are not get an answer. there's history on how to do this. the most sensitive i have seen the past ten years, the release of a document of al qaeda prisoners and secret prisons, the majority put out a report and the minority did. all three different. they agreed the american people should see the full story. we can't see the full story here. that's american democracy? i don't understand. it's not hard. >> it's extraordinary when you think

. >>> also breaking, steve bannon appears about the white house intelligence committee. "the new york times" reports that he's been subpoenaed to testify before robert mueller's russia investigation. our correspondents and specialists are standing by. white house correspondent jim acosta, the immigration talks are clearly a hot mess. >> reporter: they're running out of time, wolf. we had the white house doctor announce the results of trump's physical exam. he told reporters the president is in excellent health. the president attempted to do some surgery of his own, cleaning up some comments he made last week about immigrants coming in from certain countries, comments that were described as racist. president trump tried again to clean up his comments on immigrants coming from what he referred to as shithole countries. visib visibly annoyed, the president snapped at the president's remark that he would like to see more immigrants from norway. >> reporter: is that true, mr. president? >> i want them to come in from everywhere. everywhere. >> reporter: just caucasian or whit

and the house intelligence committee over this memo. the devin nunes memo, the house intelligence committee could vote as soon as this afternoon to make this memo public and the revelation is that among other things it goes after rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, for extending -- for recommending the extension of a fisa warrant on carter page. i'm not sure i understand for republicans why they like this fight. >> let me quote john berman and say, i don't understand why republicans like this fight. i think it is a very dangerous place for republicans to go into regardless of what is in the memo itself. a, demanding that something that is classified be released presents a problem, b, we have seen more and more republicans go out there and attack law enforcement. if you go back two years ago, six, ten years ago, law enforcement and the military were two bedrocks that were places that republicans always stood beside and stood behind. what we're seeing with these investigations is more and more republicans are calling into questio

ed the house intelligence committee meeting right now deciding whether to release the memo that exposes fisa abuse. embattled deputy fbi director andrew mccabe was get removed from his postal the bureau just weeks before he was to leave in march. what's the underlying meaning of all this? let's ask byronork. byn: good to be her charles. charles: yre the main specifically wanteo have here. it's a lot of twists and resigng early? what do we make of it? byron: we don't know. there are a lot of people on capitol hill in the dark about this as we are. we knew he was going to leave. so there are a couple of innocent reasons that might be possible or a couple not so innocent reasons. one innocent reason is he got to the point where his pension and pay is set so he left. another possible innocent reason is the fbi director christopher wray had been planning on putting in his own team. a none innocent explanation, it has something to do with that house intelligence committee memo which christopher wray read last night sunday in the house representatives. or it could have something to do with tho

the house intelligence committee is meeting at this time. let's bring in our correspondents. first to you. what's the latest on this intelligence committee meeting? >> right now they're meeting behind closed doors with republicans and democrats on the house tense committee. the members going in are sort of in the dark. sever of the members including republicans like trey gowdy who are helping with the russia investigation said they didn't know if there would be a vote tonight. if they did vote to release the memo, it would give five days to object to the release. and if they didn't, it would become a that be document. we do expect the there is a vote, would it probably be successful. along party lines, the republicans would vote to give the president the opportunity to decide whether or not to object to the release. the top republican who is running the russia investigation did tell me that he did believe that probably there will be this vote tonight and he said there will be discussions happening between justice department and devin nunes. the chairman of the staff who draft

intelligence committee in the middle of his meeting with the house intelligence committee because he was refusing to answer the questions of the house intelligence committee. "the new york times" revealed that steve bannon had already been hit with a subpoena by special prosecutor robert mueller. steve bannon is now the first person from president trump's inner circle to receive a subpoena from the special prosecutor. "the times" reports that mr. mueller is likely to allow mr. bannon to forgo the grand jury appearance if he agrees to be questioned by investigators in the less formal setting of the special counsel's offices. the subpoena came davis michael wolff's book "fire and fury" was released. in the book, steve bannon is reported as harshly criticizing president trump, his family and members of his staff, and speculating about their legal culpability. bannon called the trump tower meeting between donald trump jr., jared kushner, paul manafort, and a group including a russian lawyer, a group of russians including a russian lawyer, he called that meeting treasonous and unpatriotic

he is going to appear before the house intelligence committee. corey lewendowski, former campaign manager, will appear. steve bannon was fired, corey lewendowski was fired. what could they bring, what kind of expertise or knowledge could they bring to the russia probe investigation? >> a whole lot. the real question is whether the intelligence committee is willing to stand up to this entire issue and gather the information that we desperately need to protect ourselves. bannon was very, very close to the president, not flu tthrough entire campaign but certainly through the last half and into the presidency itself. lewendowski was at the meetings. let's see what he has to say. >> he was at trump tower. >> absolutely. >> he was there earlier on when he was campaign manager, then he was fired and bannon was brought in. but you say they have inside information? . >> i'm sure they do. they were very close to this campaign. get the information out there. there's two things here. one is how do we write laws to protect our democracy, to protect our electi

committee, in reality was between the white house and members of the intelligence committee. perhaps a little overdramatic to say that bannon is a pawn in this situation. but he is not a character whose acting. he see not making the decisions about what he can and can't tell people. and that's why i this executive privilege question which again is something the white house invokes is such an important one. one person i spoke with pointed out to me that executive privilege, an important part of how executive privilege works is based on the constitutional separation of powers theory. the idea that the executive branch should be walled off from the legislative branch. of course the house intelligence committee is part of the legislative branch while president trump is the white house and bob muler are all part of the executive branch. so one thing that a person who i have been chatting with over the evening highlighted is if the white house were to try to invoke executive privilege in a way that is related to bob mueller, the legal argument could be harder than it is for vis-a-v

committee, in reality was between the white house and members of the intelligence committee. perhaps a little overdramatic to say that bannon is a pawn in this situation. but he is not a character whose -- who is acting. he see not making the decisions about what he can and can't tell people. and that's why this executive privilege question which again is something the white house invokes is such an important one. one person i spoke with pointed out to me that executive privilege, an important part of how executive privilege works is based on the constitutional separation of powers theory. the idea that the executive branch should be walled off from the legislative branch. of course the house intelligence committee is part of the legislative branch while president trump is the white house and bob mueller are all part of the executive branch. so one thing that a person who i have been chatting with over the evening highlighted is if the white house were to try to invoke executive privilege in a way that is related to bob mueller, the legal argument could be harder than it is f

he got a look at the house intelligence committee memo. in the case had been planning to retire in march though not that far away and now he's got a little earlier. president trump has repeatedly criticized mccabe repeatedly criticized the case and accused them of bias in the past because of his political connections with the clintons and an fbi investigation that produced no criminal charges against hillary clinton and her e-mail server scandal could the white house said the president had nothing to do with the ouster of mccabe. cheryl: well, tonight is the big night here president trump to layout the two and 18 agenda in his first state of the union address. he's also expect it to tout his big achievements. >> i think you hear this speech most presidents hope they can give, which they can get, which is we are doing well with a lot of things we've accomplished in 2017. unemployment is at a 17 year low. we just overhauled the entire tax system for the first time in 31 years. a great justice on the supreme court and so the president will ta

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the top democrat on the house intelligence committee accuses the white house of putting a gag order on steve bannon. congressman adam schiff is the one making that accusation. we're going to talk to him in just a moment about what happened behind closed doors. but first the mandate of this special series is to start with facts first. here is the fact of the day. someone is lying about what president trump said during that immigration meeting. democratic senator dick durbin doubled down today, telling jake tapper that, yes, the president called certain nations shithole countries. republican senator lindsey graham has all but confirmed it is true.

pair that with house republicans, many of these members on the house intelligence committee who are known to be trump awill lies and tried to support him during a wiretapping drama last year that was unsubstantiated and it does look like there's a concerted effort being headed by the white house to undermine this investigation. >> patrick healy, i'll let you weigh in on this. one other thing, the incredible development with om arosa. we just learned -- we're all laughing at the this. >> are we shocked? >> this person was a senior adviser to the president is going on big brother. she's going to be part of an actual reality show. going from a apprentice to the white house to big brother here. you could talk about the cultural moment. if i'm in the white house and om arosa has said things that concern me. she said she saw things and heard things about race that upset her. how worried are you about this platform? >> she's very mindful about her cashing in opportunities, she is made a decision to go to cbs and go to big brother to do it there. she could have tried to get a book deal and could

joaquin castro sits on the house intelligence committee and joins us now. these allegation that the trump organization may have been involved with money laundering with russian nationals, can you explain what glen simpson said about that? >> sure, you can see from the transcript that he had this concern basically on a year's worth of research and not just cursory stuff but going into court filings and corporate filings. he had this concern about the possibility of money laundering, this idea that you might have, for example, russians who have acquired money illegally and they're needing to cleanse that money, and they're investing it in trump properties, but, as jim mentioned, and as you see notice transcript, he said at the end of the day that he couldn't provide hard evidence of that. he only saw signs of that, and the reason he couldn't provide hard evidence is because fusion gps is not a governmental entity that can subpoena different entities for information. and the house intelligence committee i think is unlikely to follow up on a lot of those leads

same information that the house intelligence committee saw before drafting its summary memo. our committee does not have the same authority to release classified information that the house authority -- that the house committee has. we have to rely on the agency to review and potentially declassify our memo. based on what i know, i agree that as much of this information should be made public as soon as possible through the appropriate process, and i don't just mean the summary memos. the government should release the underlying documents referenced in those memos after deleting any national security information that needs to be protected. but most of this story can be told, and the part that can be told should be told. the american people deserve the truth. stale, recycled media spins from journalists and pundits who do not have all the facts is not enough. the country is filled with frenzy and speculation, but the people are very hungry for facts. however, i cannot release this information on my own and near the should anyone else. -- and neither should anyone else. classifie

>> coming up, former white house strategist steve bannon is back before the house intelligence committee tomorrow after refusing to answer questions yesterday even with a subpoena. his attorney said the white house told steve bannon to stay quiet. a gop senator has slammed president trump attacking him on the floor. but a new study shows network news coverage of the president is 90% negative. so he have is just giving as good as he gets? that's the question. all that plus our "outnumbered" guest at the top of the hour. hump day, sizzle baby, see you then. >> julie: new information on tech giants like facebook, google and amazon which dominate their markets in much the same way standard oil and at&t once did and we all know what happened with the two on the latter side. they got broken up and regulated. now some are making the antitrust case against the tech titans. brett larson is joining us and contributor. should we be worried about our privacy when it comes to facial recognition for all those that got the fancy new iphones? >> the new thing. looks at your face and knows everything abo

joining us, adam schiff, ranking member of the house intelligence committee. thank you for being with us. can you just explain why republicans voted to release their memo and not the democratic response which according to democrats kind of poked holes or pointed out things which were incorrect or factually untrue? >> it's a good question. when mr. king made the motion to release the republican memo, i offered a couple secondary motions. one to allow the fbi and the department of justice to read it. >> they have not read this home moe? >> no. the director has, but he's the only one i think who has been able to see it along with an intelligence analyst. we haven't gotten the feedback about what impact it could have on sources and methods and the pending investigation, and the fbi director wanted to come before our committee or have the bureau come before our committee and express concerns or answer questions. they weren't willing to entertain a briefing for the members of either the committee or of the house. so why do they release one and not the other? these a

now the house intelligence committee has voted to release the four-page memo. i believe we are witnessing the stench of the swamp actually worsen as would be expected as a result of what is noticeably a slow draining. as the swamp drains, there is discomfort among some office holders and we think lost sight of the folks they serve. this is no time for anyone in washington to think themselves beyond criticism. and no time for americans in any capacity to ignore the intelligence they protect. andrew jackson said, there are no necessary evils in government. evils exist only tonight abuses. up next the heritage foundation ranging president trump above president reagan. we'll take it up with kay coles james, the new heritage foundation president. how do you win at business? stay at la quinta. where we're changing with stylish make-overs. then at your next meeting, set your seat height to its maximum level. bravo, tall meeting man. start winning today. book now at lq.com start winning today. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ smile dad. i take medication for high blood pressure and cho

well, just a short time ago, republicans on the house intelligence committee ignored that warning and ignored the request. they ignored that as well. and voted along party lines to release the memo. they voted not to release a memo released by democrats pointing out the false hoods in the memo. spoke out a short time ago. >> votes today to politicize the intelligence process. and to the house and to selectively released to the public only the majority distorted memo without the full facts. a very sad day i think in the history of this committee as i said to my committee colleagues during this hearing, sadly, we can fully expect that the president of the united states will not put the national interest over his own personal interest. but it is a sad day indeed when that is also true of our own committee. today this committee voted to put the president's personal interest, perhaps their own political interest above the national interest in denying themselves even the ability to hear from the department and the fbi. that is a deeply regrettable state of affairs >> the nunes memo will com

and the house intelligence committee, the top democrat is saying this. in a statement about their new memo. they stay majority steeks selectively and misleadingly characterize classified information in an effort to protect the president at any cost. they say it has been necessary to draft our own memorandum setting out the relevant facts. so the members of the house are not left with an erroneous impression. and this is all leading to some members including chuck grassley saying, the underlying intelligence so the full public knows what happens. not just the memos themselves. >> meanwhile, some republicans are suggesting that there's some sort of secret anti-trump couldn't spearcy within the fbi. this is related to the text messages between peter strzok they are talk about a secret society on the day after trump's election. they say there's a secret society according to trey gowdy. another republican was also characterized this exchange was ron johnson. a senate homeland security cheryl. and he made these remarks about a secret society and said he was ba

now the house intelligence committee has voted to release the four-page memo. i believe we are witnessing the stench of the swamp actually worsen as would be expected as a result of what is noticeably a slow draining. as the swamp drains, there is discomfort among some office holders and we think lost sight of the folks they serve. this is no time for anyone in washington to think themselves beyond criticism. and no time for americans in any capacity to ignore the intelligence they protect. andrew jackson said, there are no necessary evils in government. evils exist only tonight abuses. up next the heritage foundation ranging president trump above president reagan. we'll take it up with kay coles james, the new heritage foundation president. ooooooh snap!! every truck guy has their own way of conveying powerful. yeeaaahhh boy. kind of looks like a monster coming to eat ya. holy smokes. that is awesome. strong. you got the basic, and you got the beefy. i just think it looks mean. incredible. no way. start your year off strong a new chevy truck. get a total value

the house intelligence committee voted to release the fisa memo. it's been described by some as revealing kgb tactics by the obama administration and even as a watergate party ii. here's the back story. >> critics of the president are paintball andrew mccabe's ouster as part of the pattern of the president attacking people who investigate him. also mccabe may have seen the hand writing on the wall himself about his own conduct during the obama administration that may be about to spill out because of that memo. we learned chris wray came up to capitol hill on sunday to view that republican memo about the obama administration surveillance of trump officials. republicans suggest mccabe and others like the number 2 at the justice department rosenstein used that dossier paid for by the hillary clinton campaign to get fisa warrants to spy on a former trump advisor. and text messages between peter strzok and lisa page talking about an insurance policy of a trump probe if he won the election. quote: today the white house insisted they had nothing to do wit

the house intelligence committee has been criticized for politicizing their investigation. the justice department has criticized the committee for possibly releasing this information because they fear that it's going to show methods, show how the fbi and others collect their data. that one too is going to be yet another point of contention. points of contention at a certain point are distractions from the message that the white house and that the republicans wish to convey to the electorate going into these very important mid-terms. >> shepard: john bussey, thank you. >> pleasure. >> shepard: the removal hoff deputy andrew mccabe has happened as president trump gets ready to make his first state of the union address. we're getting a preview of what the president is expected to say tomorrow night. we'll bring you that next. it's ok that everyone ignores me while i drive. it's fine. because i get a safe driving bonus check every six months i'm accident free. and i don't share it with mom! right, mom? righttt. safe driving bonus checks. only from allstate. switching to allstat

he urged people on the house intelligence committee to follow that plan. that didn't happen, of course. they decided to release this memo to the public in the coming days. and now you see people in the intelligence community and law enforcement community they wonder if this intelligence is so susceptible to being released to the public, it could raise questions in those different orbits. >>> two prongs when we come back after a quick break. our guests will stay with us. new reporting on the russia front, and new reporting in "the new york times" about the first lady's role tomorrow night. that right after this. >>> the state of the union address is still most of a day away and they are already dealing with their first crisis. that would be the state of the uniom, the misspelling was discovered with enough time to get them reprinted. this one is not on the white house, rather on the house of representatives. it's their chamber after all. it was announced today the first lady will be in attendance tomorrow night. all eyes have been on her of late since the r

now the house intelligence committee has voted to release the four-page memo. i believe we are witnessing the stench of the swamp actually worsen as would be expected as a result of what is noticeably a slow draining. as the swamp drains, there is discomfort among some office holders and we think lost sight of the folks they serve. this is no time for anyone in washington to think themselves beyond criticism. and no time for americans in any capacity to ignore the intelligence they protect. andrew jackson said, there are no necessary evils in government. evils exist only tonight abuses. up next the heritage foundation ranging president trump above president reagan. we'll take it up with kay coles james, the new heritage foundation president. it's easy to think that all money managers are pretty much the same. but while some push high commission investment products, fisher investments avoids them. some advisers have hidden and layered fees. fisher investments never does. and while some advisers are happy to earn commissions from you whether you do well or not, f

the house intelligence committee tonight has voted along party lines. they are releasing to the public that classified 4-page memo that details massive fisa abuses against the trump campaign. no democrats voted yes. the reason is they don't want you to know the truth. president trump has 5 days to approve the release so you the american people can see it. my sources tell me the matter is being taken very seriously at the white house. it will be reviewed in the next 48 hours. while the president believes in transparency he will deliberate this process. the daily beast reported that andrew mccabe, james comey and rosenstein are all named in this memo. rod rosenstein was the official that approved the warrants to spy or extended hem on the trump campaign into the pretext of looking at carter page. members of congress that have seen this memo call it shocking and said it mirrors kgb type tactics. it could lead to the end of the mueller investigation. that's that serious that we are being told it exposes severe and massive consitutional violations of our 4th

the intelligence committee with the support of the white house says the justice department can just stand down and relax. and continues to block doj and the fbi from seeing the house intel blockbuster memo. congressman andy biggs and judicial watch president tom fenton among or guests tonight. they join me to discuss the corruption at the highest levels. >>> as the drama in the swamp rages on, president trump above it all, elbow to elbow with elites meeting in davos. president trump taking davos by storm, arriving this morning as you see this on marine one. he is the first sitting president to attend the and gathering of world leaders, globalists and would be elites in nearly two deck sides. the president greeted with a rock star reception from the business executives and world leaders as he's set to promote his america first message in a smee r speech tooh speech to the tomorrow. >> there's been a lot of warmth, a lot of respect for our country and a lot of money, billions and billions of dollars is coming into the u.s. and people are very happy with what we've done, not only on the tax

that's where bannon spent nearly ten hours with the house intelligence committee. but the former chief strategist refused to answer questions about his time inside the white house because he says the white house told him not to citing the potential for executive privilege. that privilege allows confidential conversations with the president to stay that way. >> executive privilege is something that goes back decades because it's something that needs to be protected. >> reporter: bottom line, the russia investigations are not over yet as the shadow of the special counsel creeps closer to the oval office. and another familiar face to donald trump is also talking with house investigators. former campaign chair corey lewandowski. but the top democrat on that committee is now slamming lewandowski's appearance yesterday, saying he was uncooperative and unwilling to answer even basic questions about the president. frances, back to you. >> all right, hallie, thank you. >>> overnight the white house chief of staff john kelly disputed claims the trump administration told stev

quote, contrary to a published report, there are no current plans to release the house intelligence committee's memo. the president has not seen or

intelligence committee by steve bannon, the white house former chief strategist. we've learned that testimony has been amended and to the fact that bannon's attorney told the committee the white house has directed him not to answer any questions about his time in the white house or during the transition. bannon apparently did not invoke any sort of legal privilege including executive privilege to support this refusal but fox is told lawmakers grilled bannon and his return he over their refusal to answer. steve bannon testifying behind closed doors to the house intelligence committee has now informed that committee and his attorney he will not be taking any questions about the white house or the transition. we will talk about this more as it develops the sour with our power panel coming up. for now, my next guest. national security advisor h.r. mcmaster, held secret meeting with japanese and korean officials over the weekend. they talked about talks between north and south korea and agreed north korea's decision to send athletes of the winter olympics is a diversio

last night republicans on the house intelligence committee voted to release a classified memo alleging improper use of government surveillance by the fbi and justice department. and this morning washington is abuzz after the abrupt departure of fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. mccabe was a frequent target of the president who frequently accused him of bias. the white house says mr. trump was not part of the decisionmaking process that led to mccabe departure. >> reporter: sources tell cbs news fbi deputy director andrew mccabe was strongly encouraged to step down, and the investigation into the clinton private e-mail server may have played a role. in a message sent to fbi employees, director christopher wray mentioned the results of a review by the inspector general and said the fbi must perform at the highest standards. >> i fully complied with every rule that i was governed by. >> reporter: mccabe oversaw the clinton investigation but became a lightning rod for critics, especially president trump, after it was revealed his wife received almost $700,000 from democratic party sources

intelligence committee memo floating out. stephanie asked it be disclosed. i assume stephanie would like all of the facts, all of the truth, to be disclosed by whomever, whether it be mueller, the senate intelligence committee, or whomever. do i have that correct, stephanie? >> yes, absolutely. of course we want to have all the facts. i hope that you want the memo released too, it's democrats that, again, are obstructing the release of this memo. >> there's no democratic obstruction. we agree that we all want the facts. then i have a problem with you suggesting that nothing is true, "the new york times" has to constantly retract, none of that is true. remember, in an interview you gave on camera several months ago, actually a couple of years ago, you pushed this idea of the pizza gate, that somehow hillary clinton was involved with pedophiles in a pizza store in washington. it was so severe that the host of that show asked you to retract it. so i have no confidence in your facts. >> peter, i'm glad you did some research. if y

of course, now he's the central figure in another drama engulfing the house intelligence committee this hour about whether to release a memo that the department of justice warned would be extraordinarily reckless to intelligence gathering, that is central to protecting the nation's security. we'll be joined by eric swalwell for that breaking news story. reporters covering all of this. nbc news chief white house correspondent hallie jackson. ken delanieian, nbc national reporter carol lee has breaking news for us this hour. plus paul butler, former federal prosecutor, msnbc legal analyst. let me read the first couple paragraphs and you take it from there. you write, trump's gripes against mccabe included wife's politics and comey's ride home. the day he fired comey, he became furious watching television footage of the ousted fbi director boarding a government funded plane from los angeles back to washington, d.c., that he called the bureau's acting director andrew mccabe to vent. trump demanded to know why comey was allowed to fly home on an fbi plane after he had been fired, these peopl

house intelligence committee delays the interview with top white house aide hope hicks with concerns about what she would be willing to discuss after a former white house strategist refused to answer dozens of questions from the panel. russian spy ship loaded with e electronic gear, and on the latest mission to track u.s. subs and intercept u.s. communications. what can the u.s. navy do about it? you're in the situation room i'm wolf blitzer. ♪ >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> breaking news, president trump tonight is facing a chaotic effort to keep the government running, his own mixed messages have left lawmakers scratcing their heads about where he stands. the government will grind to a halt tomorrow night, looking at the clock, counting down with 31 hours to go unless congress passes a spending bill. let's go to our chief white house kcorrespondent, jim accosta. can they stop the shutdown? >> we'll see, wolf. the shutdown is more than 24 hours away, and despite the need for urgency, gop leaders are deciphering tweets in search of clarity of what he wants. republicans may be i

he sits on the house intelligence committee. and i know you have to run, so let me ask you about one of those things that he said, which was pretty startling, there may have been malfeasance at the fbi? >> yeah, no question about that. that's why we feel it is so important to release this information to the american people. and it doesn't matter who they're targeting, a political figure, private citizen, we all have those -- the expectation of privacy and our civil rights would be defended and, again, that's why we want to share this with the american people. >> what is this malfeasance? >> well, we see the memo, i think it will give you some insight into that. by the way, this memo isn't the last you're going to hear about this. we're going to have to report to the american people more broadly as well. i think this is the first installment of us being able to say to the american people, these are our concerns, these are the individuals that we're concerned with, and this is how we think it should be fixed. >> we're talking abou

have you ever seen the house intelligence committee or the senate intelligence committee release this kind of classified information without first allowing the intelligence community to review it? because they're not sharing this four-page memorandum, basically, with anyone outside the house. >> well, no, i haven't, and i think the fears are very well-founded. and that's why i'm saying that if they made the decision to release what the republicans said, they ought to release the democratic response for balance. you know, it's really shocking, wolf, that there is just such an attack again on the fbi, on the justice department. when the president first took office, he attacked all the intelligence. there seems to be a continuing miscoddling of russia, this not going after the russians. there is a bill which we passed back in august of last year with over 400 votes in the house. it was bipartisan demanding that some of the sanctions be imposed on some of these russians for interfering in our election. the president blew past the deadline, and about a month later came forward with the nam

today the house intelligence committee heard from other key trump aides, former campaign manager corey lewandowski, deputy white house chief of staff rick dearborn. late this afternoon the top democrat on the house intel committee said this about lewandowski's interview. >> he came to testify, yesterday he said on fox that he would answer every question we had, today, however, he refused to answer questions, like steve bannon, that referred to anything after he left the campaign. this, in my view, is completely unacceptable. >> we have a member of the house intel committee standing by to talk to us tonight live. but first let's introduce our leadoff panel on a wednesday night. michael crowley, national security editor, senior correspondent for politico. we welcome to our broadcast barbara mcquaid, veteran former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan, currently a law professor at the university of michigan. and tom lo bianco, white house reporter for the associated press. tom, give us the state of play in what has been billed alternately as a white house versus house intel

then at any moment, the members of the house intelligence committee could release a controversial memo alleging the fbi broke surveillance laws in the russia investigation. releasing it would be extremely reckless and the fbi director went to check it out this weekend. will it show bias or a hand fisted political stunt? and fact checking the president's bizarre claims about climate change plflt president, despite what you may believe, the polar ice caps are not growing to new records. good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead." stunning even his colleagues, deputy director mccabe resigned today. president trump asking who he voted for. according to the "washington post." by noon today, mccabe had exited the j edgar hoover building in downtown washington. sources say he had been at the fbi for 22 years and was set to retire in march, had no plans to leave today as of last friday. one source saying he was removed by the trump administration after public pressure by the president. that is a charge white house press secretary sarah sanders denialed this afternoon, saying the white hou

also tonight here americans awaiting the release of the house intelligence committee mem gum that exposes the obama administration's abuse of power skying on american citizens including members of the trump campaign transition team and the trump administration. president trump now has four days to decide whether to release the memorandum to the american public. congressman matt gates has been urging the intelligence committee and asking the president to do so during his state of the union address tonight. congressman gates among our guests here and also two distinguished warning ton attorneys who have been instrumental in exposing corruption in the obama justice department, victoria tensing and joe dejenova join us here and will the president explain when that wall will be built, when will it start, when ill witness be completed? answers in his state of the union we'll find out all of that coming up here tonight. our top story, the much anticipated memorandum from the house intelligence committee, republican lawmakers who read the documents say it details shocking corruption and collusion

i've been told that the house intelligence committee is speaking with officials here at the white house to determine what the parameters will be moving forward. and it is anticipated that steve bannon will be back on capitol hill for some follow-up questions. but all of this underscores the bottom line which is the investigations on capitol hill and by the special counsel are zeroing in on the president's inner circle. >> getting closer to getting a final answer and determining whether or not donald trump is going to need to talk to anyone. thank you very much for that. kristin welker at the white house. >>> i want to bring in nick ackerman, a special prosecutor with boughter gate and an msnbc legal analyst and partner with dorsey and whitney. nick, for people who don't follow this as closely as somebody like you or we do, what is all of this parsing about whether he is speaking to the intel committee or he's being interviewed by mueller or going to speak to a grand jury, because my understanding is you can't lie to any of them. >> that is right. whatever he says to one, whatever he sai

the house intelligence committee, tonight, has voted along party lines. they are releasing to the public that classified four page memo that details massive fisa abuses against the trump campaign. no democrats voted yes. the reason is simple. they do not want you to know the truth. president trump now has five days to approve the release so you, the american people, can see it. my sources are telling me tonight that the matter is being taken very seriously at the white house. it will be thoroughly reviewed in the next 48 hours and while the president believes in transparency, he will be deliberative in this process. until that happens and we can see it all for ourselves, here is what we know about the document and why this is so important. remember "the daily beast" reported that andrew mccabe, james comey, rod rosenstein, all named in his memo. other reporting say that rosenstein was the official letter proved that warrants just by or at least extend them on the trump campaign, supposedly looking at carter page. members of congress that have seen this me

or transition in his appearance before the house intelligence committee. an appearance that left even republican members of congress trey gowdy frustrated. >> i am frustrated whenever people assert priferlings that do not exist i am really frustrated when witnesses are time to talk to people on and off the record and they can write books but can't talk to the representatives elected by their fellow citizens. picture that is he happy to tell an author about treasonous unpatriotic acts but he won't tell members of congress when he is pressed on it. i'm not aware of any privilege that let's you pick and choose who you answer questions for. >> bannon's attorney said yesterday that he had been instructed by the white house to not talk about his time at the white house or the transition or any of the conversations that he had with the president that could be covered by privilege. the white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders would not confirm yesterday that the white house indeed had had that conversation with bannon and/or his attorney. but did point t

just in that house intelligence committee. attorney general jeff sessions was interviewed behind closed doors and said he wanted to not answer their questions on the basis that the president may someday want to assert executive privilege to stop him from giving that testimony in the future hypothetically. that was a strange argument from the attorney general. corey lewandowski hasn't given any reason for why he refused to answer questions today from the house intelligence committee. when the president's son, donald jr. refused to answer questions about conversations he had with his father he said on the basis of attorney/client privilege. neither donald jr. nor donald senior is an attorney, and which one of you is the client? but in all of those instances, the republican-led committees in congress, the republican-led intelligence committee said no problem with those bull pucky, i mean dubious, even laughable attempts to avoid answering questions, to assert some pseudo legal rationale for not answering the committee's questions

intelligence committee and chairman devin nunez. in today's statement the bureau said, quote, as expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about the material omissions of fact that fund. ally impact the memo's accuracy. this mirrors complaints that democrats on the commity have had to say there is cherry picking going on in this memo. this is not a legal document. it is a memo by the staff of the committee. republicans on the house intel committee voted to release the memo. saying it shows that corruption in the fbi is, quote, worse than water gate. but democrats say the memo is a political attack that does cherry pick facts to undermine robert mueller's russia investigation. the fbi's warning comes after last night when a hot mic caught the president saying this about the memo.

as well as the house intelligence committee. congressman, i need you to stand by. there is some breaking news in the fight over immigration we're covering. the trump administration today announcing its ending what's called temporary protected status for nearly a quarter million people who have been in the united states for some 17 years. they came from el salvador after devastating earthquakes. they now have until late next year to go back home. all of this comes as congress gears up for a fight over protections for hundreds of thousands of young immigrant who's were brought to this country as children and know no other home. let's go to our congressional correspondent sunlen serfaty. sunlen, are we once again talking about the risk of a potential government shutdown? >> reporter: we are, wolf. lawmakers are at an impasse here over daca, which has been entangled into the negotiations over a spending bill, a spending bill they have to get solved before that deadline that's taken away on january 19th. here you have both sides entr

last night republicans on the house intelligence committee voted to release a classified memo alleged improper use of government surveillance by the fbi and justice department. and this morning washington is abuzz after the abrupt departure of fbi director andrew mccabe. mccabe was a frequent target of the president who frequently accused him of bias. the white house says mr. trump was not part of the decisionmaking process that led to mccabe departure. >> reporter: sources tell cbs news fbi deputy director andrew mccabe was strongly encouraged to step down, and the investigation into the clinton private e-mail server may have played a role. in a message sent to fbi employees, director christopher wray mentioned the results of a probe and said the fbi must perform at the highest standards. >> i fully complied with every rule that i was governed by. >> reporter: mccabe oversaw the clinton investigation but became a lightning rod for critics, especially president trump, after it was revealed his wife received almost $700,000 from democratic party sources in her unsuccessful bid for the

a federal judge has ruled that the house intelligence committee is entitled to fusion gps bank records linked to the funding of the dossier and to considerable mischief as it appears in the so-called collusion scandal. our first guest tonight revealing shocking new details concerning hillary clinton's e-mail system that illicit system identifying at least 18 classified e-mails found on anthony weiner's laptop. weiner of course once married to clinton aid huma abiden. joining us is chris farrell director of investigations and research for judicial watch the organization which successfully file a freedom of information act request to release these very documents. chris first of all congratulations on getting these documents and all of the work that judicial watch is doing. now, when we talk about classified, these are not up classified documents. these are in fact classified at the time they were transacting on the e-mail server of mrs. clinton at home. >> that is correct lou and thanks. it's very important that distinction be made. these records and documents were classified at the time