what we're seeing is a complete abregation from devin nunes. obvious ga obligation to conduct appropriate oversight over the nation's intelligence agencies but to support in the end their strengthening as institutions that are necessary to protect us from foreign threats. including from the russian federation that beyond certainty interfered in the united states election process and maybe in a way that materially benefited the president. there's an investigation under way that has already indicted three top trump advisers, and we know that there have been a series of dishonest statements from the president, the vice president, the attorney general, discounting their relationships with russians, and we've seen the political smearing, attack, and firing of the deputy director of the fbi or his resignation precipitated by these political attacks. this is not normal in a democracy, in a republican democracy, with fidelity to the rule of law. we have traditions of independence in h these agen agencies. the reality is the fbi, the concept of the rule

deemed so sensitive chris wray opted to personally show it to nunes himself and apparently what nunes then proceeded to do was to take in all of those classified documents about an ongoing counterintelligence investigation and turn around and put that information into a set of talking point, a memo, laying out a supposed conspiracy inside the fbi and inside the justice department to undermine the trump campaign and the trump presidency. now, if you've been watching or listening to or reading any right-wing media over the pa week you know this is all anyone on the right has been talking or tweeting about, the secret memo that will bring down the whole russia investigation, reveal the conspiracy at the heart of justice department and blow up the deep state. republicans voted last week to make that talking points memo available to the entire house. now they're poised to vote to release it publicly. the justice department this week called that plan, quote, extraordinarily reckless and also charged that congressman nunes would be violating the terms of that deal they struck earlier this mo

what is devin nunes talking about? >> well, look, these kinds of rhetorical battles between members of congress and the administration, even within one political party are not unprecedented, right. it's the role of congress to conduct oversight over the department of justice, the fbi, intelligence community. what is inof unprecedented here and what is so far from normal is the fact that they have invoked this little -- never-before used house rule to actually force the release of classified information. it's hard for those of us who cover this stuff to convey to the public just how outside the norm this is. i was speaking to an attorney named jeffrey smith who has worked for both the cia and the hill over the years. he was talking about how there's been this system of congressional oversight of intelligence that has grown up over 40 years and it's based on trust. the executive branch shares some classified information with the hill on the premise that it's not going to be released unless everyone agrees that doesn't ha

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speaker ryan sited with nunes and when they emerged from that meeting, nunes announced the doj agreed to provide access for everything he requested. the compromise appeared to be the documents would not be handed over to nunes, instead, the chairman and a hand full of people from the house intelligence committee would go into a secure room at the doj to review them. there was one document that the doj deemed so sensitive, chris wray on theed to show it to devin neunes himself and what devin nunes proceeded to do is take in classified documents about an on going counter intelligence investigation and turn around and put that information into a set of talking points, a memo laying out a supposed conspiracy inside the fbi and justice department to undermine the trump campaign and presidency. if you've been watching or listening to right-wing media you know this is all anyone on the right has been talking and tweeting about. the secret memo that will reveal the conspiracy at the heart of the justice department and blow up the deep state. republicans on the intelligence committee voted to

devin nunes is playing. they push to release a memo that is distorted by what's in it, and what's distorted by what is not in it. and they know that will misinform the public but they also know this, mika -- they know that the facts that would actually allow americans to know the entire truth about what happened, are so highly classified, that guess what, the public will never get to see those details. and for good reason, because we don't want classified information out. so ryan and nunes want to release a half-truth that turns out to be a whole lie. a twisted and distorted lie. since ryan thinks the public will never learn the full facts, he and nunes can skate by on their lie. they can smear the men and women of the fbi. they can smear the professionals at the justice department. who said this would be really reckless to put out there. they can smear distinguished fisa judges and they can smear the entire intelligence community by extension. all to take part in a sleazy political purge that we've been see

he apparently asked nunes what has been a key question. did the white house have involvement in the drafting of this moemo. he's saying that the answer was unclear, that nunes did not answer negatively. what would it mean if the white house were involved in the drafting of this memo? >> take one step back which is why is devin nunes theoretically recused from the russia investigation? because he went up to the white house -- >> well, he was a trump transition official and then this. >> and then he went to the white house, he read documents before he even went back and briefed the intel committee he went to the white house and gave them a heads up about what all this is about. that's politics. >> kp thand then he went to the press. >> that's politics in its most raw form. if what we're finding out now is that process has been repeated with the drafting of this memo, and make no mistake about it, this memo is about the steel dossier and efforts to undermine its credibility. the steele dossier makes allegations with respect to president trump

the republicans, chairman nunes, want to share this information. that just didn't happen six years i was there. we fought about obamacare, a woman's right to choose, gay rights. we fought about a lot of things but not national security. several months ago, group of colleagues and i authored articles of impeachment. i think this is all evidence, continuing pattern of obstruction of justice. let's remember that the current fbi director, as you have stated so clearly, chosen by the president of the united states, he is having trouble. but the former one was fired by the president. and if you remember the circumstances, the president was there, vice president was there and he said the fbi director was collateral and then he asked comey to stop the investigation into flynn. >> we have reported on that. i do want to ask you about something new that we have, reporting that in december -- >> sure. >> -- the president asked the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein where the special counsel russia investigation was headed. >> sure. >> he asked rosenstein i

with devin nunes having to recuse hils. and the senate was on a better trajectory to produce a bipartisan report. and release finding that would be acceptable. i think this is further evidence the house process is not going as planned. >> does this concern you the memo would be released without the source documents? and the justice department it would be quote extraordinarily reckless. for the house intelligence committee to release this without giving the fbi and justice department time to review it. >> i have a lot of reservation about releasing this four page document. i was chair of the house ethics committee. like the intelligence committee we have to deal with sensitive issues. in my case a personnel matters. dealing with national security secrets. i can tell you when you do the investigations and you have to do them in a bipartisan manner. better behind closed doors where you can have honest and open dialogue. when the cameras are on you'll be guarded in what you'll say. in that setting you want to do this behind clo

therefore, they'll put up with trump and nunes and the rest of this. >> it's not even that. they're afraid he will cannibalize him. that they will go down with him in the next election. >> you have to remember the republican party at the base level, there's a shrinking pool of people who obviously call themselves republicans. what's left, seven in ten of them believe trump is a good role model for their children. >> whose terrible poll was that? >> quinnipiac university. >> it's not the minnesota multifamultfacic test. >> the republicans understand it's his party. we're moving in the direction where you have a coequal branch after government that has subordinated itself. >> if you think of your 7-year-old or 10-year-old and your parents say be like donald trump. don't button your coat, stick your stomach out, have your tie eight feet long and walk around like you own the world. is that what you're supposed to act like? what do they mean by that role modelling? >> what they mean is the thing that got him elected ultimately that had such a cross section of americans that we th

wouldn't you like to know devin nunes? wouldn't you like to see confidential interview transcripts and fbi reports from meetings with confidential human sources? our reporting indicates tonight that nunes was poised to get documents tonight in response to his letter demanding they hand over this sensitive fbi investigatetory material right in the middle of the mueller investigation. but surprise we believe that justice department was poised to hand that over but surprise, didn't hand over anything to devin nunes tonight. and 4:30 this afternoon in walks the justice department to paul ryan's office. deputy attorney general and head of the fbi walk into the office of the man who could be construed to be devin nunes's boss in congress. paul ryan is head of the house. top officials in the doj and fbi went directly to paul ryan tonight. we're told they were there to talk about the russia investigation and devin nunes in particular. wow. that's something. and i say it's something because i have no idea what that is. really don't

this was written by devon nunes himself. his office wrote it and he and republicans and conservative media and lots and lots of russian bots online are all now insisting with increasing ferocity that this memo that devon nunes wrote, it must be released, even though it contains classified information, because if this memo is released, that will bring down the fbi. devon nunes has written the memo that reportedly says the fbi behaved badly somehow when it obtained search warrants from a court to collect evidence in the russia investigation. this, this memo that he wrote has been an all-consuming thing in republican congressional politics and technically in conservative media and at the fox news channel for the past week. they like didn't notice there was a government shutdown because they were so excited that devon nunes wrote a memo that he then demanded must be released. well, tonight, big new development on this. steven boyd, assistant attorney general at the justice department who is no liberal snowflake. he has now writt

has devin nunes seen that document? >> no. this document that he wants the american people to believe has discredited the fbi, he hasn't even seen it. he's submitting a book review to the american people on a book he's never read. >> they shot down the opportunity to have the nunes memo vetted by the fbi, by the justice department before they released it. why did they do that? >> devin nunes told us, again to our surprise today in the hearing, that the fbi and the department of justice are now under house intelligence committee investigation. something that we had never heard of, but they are now under investigation. this, again, seems to parallel what the president and conservative voices in the media are doing. they're attempting to torch every floor at the fbi building to protect this president, and it's going to have lasting effects on the rule of law in our country. >> so there have been reports that the nunes memo is part of -- in part focuses on the actions of the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein. do you think th

the nunes memo delivers to the white house tonight. the president has five days to decide whether to let it go publicly, to put it out in the public. i don't know if you heard chris' guest, the republican congressman who was on earlier who said oh, the memo is going to be released tomorrow. i don't know if that was a slip, if he knew something, i don't know. we'll talk about that. in the latest proof that if the president doesn't like your involvement in the russia investigation, you don't probably have a whole lot of job security, there is a surprise resignation today, fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. mccabe stepping down in the wake of months of criticism from the president, lots of tweets, pressure there. the fbi director christopher wray hinting in an e-mail to staff that mccabe's resignation had something to do with an investigation of the 2016 handling of the clinton e-mail probe. now, republicans in congress were supposed to be meeting tomorrow with the doj inspector general about that investigation, a meeting that was abruptl

the fbi makes its concerns public to keep the nunes memo from going public. but the white house seems ready to release it and nunes is firing back too. >>> plus, the democrats dilemma. >> so let's come together, set politics aside, and finally get the job done. >> could they pay a hefty political price for working with president trump on immigration? >> our country will be judged by the promises we keep. >> and the amtrak accident. a train with top republican lawmakers on board collides with a dump truck. >> we're going at a good clip and it was a hard impact. >> we'll have a report from the scene. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. ♪ ♪ >>> good evening and welcome to "mtp daily." i'm chuck todd right here in washington. republican members of congress have just arrived by bus to the retreat in west virginia. after the bit of a harrowing day. the train they -- they were riding crashed into a garbage truck today. the driver of the truck was unfortunately killed. no one on the train was seriously injured. although some people were treated for minor

>> i want to ask you, i have you about this nunes memo, the nunes memo, which is by the chairman of the house intel committee, alleging fbi abuses seen by democrats as very political, an attempt to give president trump cover as he's investigated by the special counsel. but you know your republican colleagues are saying democrats haven't read this, even though they had the opportunity. have you -- you have the opportunity to read it. have you been able to read this memo? >> i have an appointment at 2:00 today to read both the nunes memo and the -- look, here's what we do no -- >> the nunes memo and what else? >> the democratic memo. >> rebuttal. okay. >> the republicans would not allow to be released. but, look, let's be clear about this. this is not an intelligence document. this is a document prepared by a partisan republican, a person so partisan in fact, he was removed from leading the investigation. this is his summary of documents that he has never even read. so i'm certainly going to read it so i understand the debate. but let's not make any mistake about it, this is a partisan do

it is be devin nunes alone. it is not clear the other republicans on his own committee endorsed the findings so you have to ask yourself. if you were a congressman who had found evidence of surveillance abuses that you were really concerned about, what measures would you take? those would include informing the chair and ranking of the senate intelligence committee. >> and he is deeply irritating adam schiff and the democrats. >> that goes without saying. >> he released, he says he's toward release his own memo countering the memo. if the nunes memo is released. >> they have a war going on for quite some time. which is why the committee has dug itself kind of into a hole where people aren't taking it as seriously as they are the senate committee. and one thing that susan was talking about during break, is that if nunes said to burr, here's my memo. burr as chairman of that committee in the senate has access to the same level of intelligence that nunes has access to, a lot of the other committee members don't have

but the third piece is the crazy nunes, devin nunes released the memo. nunes's speculation, his statement that he alone as has the information follow expose the fbi appear hillary clinton is somewhere in there. right now nunes won't share it with senate republicans and the assist attorney general for criminal i believe at the department of justice has essentially sort of publicly shamed nunes to say if you release it you're going to -- first of all it's lies because it's only half a story. and secondly you are going to undermine sources and methods. >> a trump appointee from the doj, a republican. >> yes, yes, right. >> go on. >> it's a hot mess, don. >> it's a hot mess as one would say. i have to say one ning giving me hope about what's going on is a story that we kind of -- we just sort of -- it happened two days ago. now it's old news. which is that ray someone let the fbi know that the director ray was willing to resign. how that happened was willing to resign because of the political pressure. >> yeah i got to go juliette. >> some people criticized

you know what nunes did. he went down to the executive office building and got dirt and came back to the west wing of the without and delivered what he got from his own people. >> when the intelligence community last year put out the final assessment of the russia operation it, said one of its goals was to sow chaos and discord in america. nunes and the others are trying to do exactly the same thing, make it confused and chaotic. people don't know what to think. whether they believe it or not, they're in leaguing with vladimir putin to confuse us what to look at. don't look at this or that. look at the guy juggling mon kis over there. look at me. turning into a circus. >> so many republicans in congress are doing their parts in the circus. is there a ringmaster? who obviously says nunes, you do this, you do this. you do this. all these guys seemed to have assigned roles. who is doing the assignment? >> i don't know if there's a central brain in the middle of all this. i think they're all trying different thin

they walk into the office of the man who could be construed to be devin nunes' boss in congress. devin nunes is the head of the intelligence committee in the house, but paul ryan is the head of the house. so, the top officials in the doj and the fbi went directly to paul ryan tonight. we are told they were there to talk about the russia investigation and devin nunes in particular. wow. that's something. and i say it's something, because i have no idea what that is. we really don't know what happened there. speaker ryan's office is referring people to the justice department and the fbi, the jus disdepartment and the fbi are saying nothing about what happened here, but this was a surprise meeting. and those documents that were supposed to go to devin nunes tonight did not go there and conceivably those documents could have been opening up very sensitive stuff from the middle of the mueller investigation while it's under way. drama. and that brings us to the last thing i want to get to off the top of the show tonight. which is the first direct effort by anybody in the orbit of presi

the third piece is this crazy nunes. devin nunes release the memo. speculation that his statement that he alone has the information to expose the fbi. and whatever. and clinton is in there. right now nunes won't share it with senate republicans. and the assistant attorney general for criminal i believe at the department of justice has essentially sort of publicly shamed nunes to say if you release it you'll first of all it's lies. because it's half a story. secondly you'll under mine sources. >> a trump appointee from the doj. a republican. >> yes, right. >> go on. >> it's a hot mess. >> i have to stay one thing that gives me hope about the what's going on. is a story that we sort of it happened two days ago. it's old news. that someone let the fbi know that the director wray was willing to resign. and i think how that happened was willing to resign because of the political pressure. >> i have to go, julia. >> not being publicly against trump. wray was signaling to his people i have a bright line. and i'm sticking to it. that's a good thing for the f

they have to know -- devin nunes, again i will say to paul ryan. why is devin nunes still in charge of the intel committee when he made an absolute fool of himself several months ago claiming he had information that he didn't have, going to the white house being spoon fed. he's discredited himself. he's recused himself from the russian investigation and yet here he is in the middle of the russian investigation. paul ryan if you're listening or somebody in your staff is listening and i know they are, listen, the intel community, the justice department said it would be incredibly reckless to release this memo. go back and see all the things you said about hillary clinton and her server, all the things i said about hillary clinton and her server, all the things republicans said about hillary clinton and her server and how she mistreated classified information. hillary clinton never had a letter saying if you do x, then that will lead to y which will subvert american national security. paul ryan, devin nunes, kevin mccarthy, house republicans, you have

that is a deeply regrettable state of affairs >> the nunes memo will come out. i want to give you context here. the republican memo was written for the chairman of the committee devin nunes. shocking facts he just allegedly uncovered about the russian investigation. facts we later found out he had just gotten from the white house. the white house he claimed he had to rush to to brief them on facts they already had. it amounted to a smoke screen. democrats say that is what today's memo is about today. that brings us to tonight's other breaking story. andrew mccabe is out. you have heard his name before because the president has singled him out for criticism. the kind of public service he targeted the ones investigating him. why did mccabe abruptly leave his job? some describing as a mutual decision and some saying he was forced out. he becomes eligible for full benefits on the 18th of march. so in some ways although the precise timing took official washington by surprise, the fact that it happened was not a shock. >> say definitively that the president did not pl

in fact, classified information nunes reportedly has not even reviewed. so in effect, they're asking you to accept their conclusions without revealing the basis. odd? just wait. the panel deeply divided along party lines, but the republicans control, say they were also able to blong a countermemo by democrats. just last week the justice department warned that releasing the gop memo without review would be, quote, extraordinarily reckless. why? the obvious. it might expose sources and methods that could compromise u.s. intelligence work. reportedly, the republicans have since shown the memo to fbi director christopher wray, and it now it goes to the white house, where the president has five days to approve or deny the release. the top democrat on the intelligence committee says nunes, as i said, didn't read the information, this memo is based on, the memo that bears his name. to the democrats, this is proof that this is all about politics of the worst kind. >> we had votes today to politicize the intelligence process, to prohibit the fbi and the department

devin nunes was supposed to be recused from all of this. why is he still in the center of all of this in the memo? >> well, what he recused himself was from the russian investigation. this is, i think, somewhat different in that this memo, which we do hope is released here very shortly, is speaking more about other things going on, the bias in the fbi. >> about the russia investigation. this is about the surveillance of people who had contacts with russia. it's all part and parcel of the same thing, isn't it? >> well it's a little different. i've read the dmemo. i can't go into details. it speaks to something different than the russia investigation. >> how can americans trust this memo once it's released? >> well, the memo will speak for itself. >> how can we trust his take on it? he's not an objective person. he's not impartial. >> it is the intelligence committee and they have connected certain dots that perhaps have been rumored. again, i just can't go into the details. >> but it's the republicans connecting the dots, it's devin nunes co

>> you put it on nunes but ryan. because he picked him. >> he has a major responsibility in a cover up of what they are doing. it's very sad. again it's a cover up and a distraction. what we're trying to do is keep government open. they have a problem with that. the because they're ineffective. >> you think they don't want the government to be open? >> whatever they do is a distraction. you never know. >> that's what they say. help me understand. you can't reveal classified information. ooichl not going to push you. it is hard i have to believe it's hard for the american people to have faith that anybody in this city where we are now is out for the truth. and not out for politics. i can understand why they want it released. congresswoman, i can understand why they want it out. we can't trust you. let us read it. you can make it safe enough to look at. they say the russia investigation there's no collusion. you are pushing the ball to political advantage to stymy. president. and they talk about this memo like this sho

i want to talk about the nunes memo. president trump has made it clear that he wants this released even though the fbi director, christopher wray, said he didn't want it released. listen to the marine attorney general ask about this memo. >> it will be released here pretty quick and the whole world can see it. >> do you think things changed the next day? >> i'll let all the experts decide that when it is released. this president, again, it is so unique that he wants everything out. so the american people can make up their own minds. >> so that means he is releasing his tax returns. the tax returns are central to this case. was the president compromised. i'll say this. this memo better be big. this better be mt. everest. this better be cataclysmic. the wind up here is amazing. there had better be a hell of a pitch. >> i will agree my esteamed colleague here, in that the juice better be worth the squeeze. there's a big build-up. whatever is coming out of it. this is six news cycles on the memo and it will be about a 15-min

nunes can and cannot do. if paul ryan wanted to clamp down on this he could. but if you ask paul ryan's office what they feel about this memo, they are largely deferential to what nunes wants to do here. >> they're more deferential to nunes than the justice department or the fbi who say this would cause considerable damage? >> as of yesterday when the daily beast was talking to paul ryan's office they were deferential to how nunes wanted to handle this. they called it his jurisdiction. now you can make the case he's being differential to the intelligence committee chairman. but you know having served in the house that if the speaker wants to put the clamps on something, he can. >> donald trump can. look, the steven boyd memo is very important. this is the justice department officially saying this. he's the assistant attorney general but he only sends that memo if it's cleared by the attorney general himself and run by the white house chief of staff and counsel. that's a major statement by the administration t

devin nunes having to recuse himself early. it seemed the senate was on a much better trajectory to produce a bipartisan report and release findings i think that were going to be more acceptable. i think this is just further evidence that the house process is just not going as planned. >> does this concern you, that this memo would be released without the source documents? the justice department warned it would be "extraordinarily reckless" for the house intelligence committee to release this without giving the fbi and justice department time to review it. >> well, i have a lot of reservations about releasing this four-page document. i was chair of the house ethics committee. like the intelligence committee, we have to deal with very sensitive -- had to deal with very sensitive issues. this my case, we were dealing with personnel matters, in the case of intelligence committee, dealing with national security secrets. i can tell you, when you do these investigations, you have to do them in a bipartisan manner. better behind close

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#drafted by devin nunes. the memo was delivered to the white house starting a five-day period for the president to decide to release it or not. >> this would bolster the efforts of the investigation and escalate a battle with the justice department. this is a serious concern to two former national security offici officials. >> this is bad all the way around. this is a very negative development for lots of reasons. it represents an assault on the institutions and it is certainly bad for the fbi and the department of justice. i shudder to think of the morale of the organizations. >> i actually didn't think it would happen because of the affects that jim described. this crosses threshold that we have not done before. >> chris wray was allowed to review the memo and raise concerns. one source says the president erupted last week when he learned of the justice department efforts to stop the release. publishing it would be extraordinary reckless. for more we turn to manu raju on capitol hill. >> reporter: good morn

instead, chairman nunes has acted like a stooge with the speaker -- >> a stooge? >> a stooge of the white house the at the acquiescence or maybe the guidance of the speaker of the house. this is not about one thing or another. this is about the integrity and the safety and our national security. >> that's what he says too, though. >> they have crossed -- they have crossed from dangerously and recklessly dealing with intelligence to a cover-up of an investigationhat they don't want the american people to see come to fruition, and that is most unfortunate. now, i have probably longer standing than anybody in the history of the congress on intelligence. i've served there as a member. i was a ranking member in my time there, and then in the leadership as a member of the gang of eight. so i've had access to all of the intelligence, which mr. nunes could have access to, but has not. >> so you've seen it? >> i've seen it. i've seen not only the memo and the basis for the memo, but the underlying documents. >> and? >> and what they're putting forth is a total misrepresent

there's a deal and nunes is looking forward to seeing new documents. what kind of deal do you think this is, documents, no testimony or both? >> this is the congressman who has recused himself from this investigation, right. i just want to make sure that we're talking about -- >> he's still the chairman but yeah. >> i say that, you know, with certain irony in my mouth because it seems that his interests here is on the collateral matters not material matters. if he was really serious about conducting an inquiry of this, then the majority of the witnesses who come before his committee should be compelled to come before his committee and offer testimony under oath and by subpoena so that they can be held in contempt if they don't answer the questions. to your question, it seems to me that what he is interested in is this collateral matter of the dossier and how it was prepared, and did the fbi have any role in paying for it, and all of this is a side show, for the fact that i think that they're going to find that the dossier is more valid than invalid whe

you have democrats on the opposite side criticizing devin nunes. let's filter out democrat and republican and go right to the agencies here. you have the fbi, headed by christopher wray, who was appointed by the president to run the fbi, saying this is a fundamentally inaccurate document. you have the department of justice. jeff sessions issued a letter to devin nunes saying, one, not only is it extraordinarily reckless to release this but that the doj is unaware of any abuse of the fisa program. in addition to that, i've spoken to current and former intelligence officials in the intelligence community who say that this document, in addition to being misleading, because it doesn't show all the intelligence involved in this decision also runs the risk of exposing details of how the u.s. gathers intelligence on surveillance targets. so, separating out the partisanship of party, you have these institutions run by trump appointees who are defying the president of this that's fairly remarkable. i think folks should be aware of that as they watch this st

is this just a way, as his critics, devin nunes' critics are suggesting that nunes is trying to muddy the water? >> potentially i don't know wolf, again, he's following the president's lead. because president trump remains popular among republicans, even though he has a historically low approval rating jovial, you're going to continue to see republicans in congress following the president's lead. he has suggested that this dossier is proof that this is a political witch-hunt, has he has alleged. of course there is a "new york times" report that came out over the weekend that said it wasn't the start of the investigation at all, that the conversation george papadopoulos had in london with an australian ambassador was the start of the investigation, the dossier came later. but the fact that devin nunes is continuing to look into this thread just shows how much power the president has to set the tone and set the agenda for republicans. >> bianna, is the house investigation in trouble? >> well, you're starting to see the divide even among republicans or what are the long-term implications

ryan reportedly sided with nunes over the doj. now nunes says that he will have access to all the documents he requested. the dodj has not commented on that characterization. joining me is malcolm nance, sarah kendzior and scott dworkin. scott, nunes briefed the trump campaign on intelligence matters, he was on the transition team and he fielded calls from foreign leaders trying to reach michael flynn, so it's possible that nunes's conversations were recorded. how is it that he now gets access to all of these documents with which he can pursue his investigation of fusion gps? >> trump opens up the door for corruption. so it becomes more normalized. even though this is not normal. it's tough to believe that somebody like speaker ryan, who i used to have respect for, would step out and defend nunes when he came out and said nunes said he would recuse thihimself and now it turns out he's a liar. i used to trust him thachlhim. that trust no longer exists. i'm not sure where we will find a patriot within the party, i'm not sure any are

nunes refuses to let them see the memo he wrote. today steven boyd, assistant attorney general who works for jeff sessions sent nunes a letter saying it would be extraordinarily reckless for him to release it without review adding we do not see why the committee would seek 0 disclose sensitive information without first consulting with the members of the intelligence committee. joining me now representative adam schiff of california. what is there memo? >>. >> it basically is something that chairman nunes had drafted to distort the facts to mislead the house members, and to carry political water for the white house. chris, it's a continuation of what we saw back in march of last year on march 20th, we had our first open hearing with comey in which can he revealed there had been an investigation ongoing investigation of the trump campaign. that the republicans considered to be such a disaster, that it was immediately the next night that the chairman went on this midnight run to the quhous white house purportedly got documents somewher

>> so written by chairman nunes. republicans viewed it say it demonstrates widespread abuse during the 2016 election. some of those republicans want it in turn released to the public. four year classified report. and it comes after devin nunes reviewed materials provided to him by the fbi and doj. but democrats are putting it this way, saying his findings are misleading and skewed and it's all part of the republican effort to help the white house underlecut the russian investigations. conservatives, they repeatedly accused the fbi of relying on the steele dossier in own investigations and want to know how they used the dossier to obtain fisa warrants on trump associates. and also an interesting note, it turns out not just republicans to make this nunes report public. tonight the twitter tracking teel hamilton 6, actually found that russian linked twitter accounts are blasting out the hashtag release the memo, trying to put some backing into this. and wikileaks is even offering a reward to anyone who submits the memo

>> i have not. >> shepard: you haven't read the nunes memo that nunes wrote? i haven't read it either. >> the classified? no. there's about 100 republicans in the house of representatives who have seen it and read it and that's about -- i think there may be a couple democrats. that's about it. >> shepard: that's about it. good to talk to you. thanks. >> shep, thanks. >> shepard: context matters. some conservatives are calling president trump's amnesty don. have you heard about this? after giving dreamer as pathway to citizenship. now the white house is clarifying the president's comment. we'll have a live update on the immigration negotiations. that's coming up. my name's dustinhey, dustin. grab a seat. woman: okay. moderator: nice to meet you. have you ever had car trouble in a place like this? (roaring of truck) yes and it was like the worst experience of my life. seven lanes of traffic and i was in the second lane. when i get into my car, i want to know that it's going to get me from point a to point b. well, then i have some good news. chevy is the only br

devin nunes has decided it is no longer the case. and they believe he there have been abuses so you have the justice department which works for donald trump in the middle here trying to figure out how they can navigate all of this. >> thank you. we'll get back to you. joining us now, ted lue of california, a member of judiciary and foreign affairs. thank you for joining us. >> what role do you believe president trump's criticism, rather lively over many months, played in his departure? >> i think it had a significant role. the president has been repeatedly attacking those investigating him. not only is it unseemly and wrong. it is demoralizing. andrew mccabe who i interviewed behind closed doors, i believe he is a good man who gave his life's work by the fbi and to have the president criticize him is enappropriate. >> you've read the classified memo. the they're voting to determine that it should be made public. does it raise questions about andrew mccabe's behavior? >> i can't discuss the contents of the memo but i can say it is wor

different and separate from the nunes report. it looks at mccabe's behavior, not just during the trump probe but the hillary clinton probe as well. >> right. first i'm glad that comey wasn't quoting himself. we can look forward to that in the future. i think the inspector general report might be important. it might be the final arbiter of what people can trust. generally we do have trust in inspector general process and it is that as touched as these things should be. even the mueller investigation. i'm hoping that we'll get some clear word. and the part where wray put this out saying i did see something in there. there's no there, there. >> stick around. we have more to talk about. the former campaign visor chris christie saying the president should not sit down with robert mueller at all. did he forget about his years as u.s. attorney? why would anyone not want to talk to the man at the top? ♪ when you have something you love, you want to protect it. at legalzoom, our network of attorneys can help you every step of the way. w

i asked dave last night, please call nunes and ask if this is true. if it isn't, he should get in front of it. if it is true, i don't know how he has any credibility. >> well, i think that train might have left the station a little while ago when he almost a year ago ran to the white house saying he had new information that it turned out came from the white house. i mean, that's a whole different story. look, i think that that speaks to the biggest tell of what we're talking about. how ridiculously political this is. and the good news is that other members have read it. other republican members have read it. i talked to a few who have. but the fact that the chairman hasn't is very weird. i have to say, you know, when you're looking at all of the characters in this drama, devin nunes is the one that surprises me the most because i remember like it was yesterday standing outside of then speaker john boehner's office when the government shut down because of ted cruz and obamacare and him going after his fellow republicans for being like lemmings because

. >> devin nunes created the memo. he's house intelligence committee chairman that recused himself from the russia investigation. he made that midnight dash to the white house last year and then staged a dramatic revelation news conference that turned out to be nothing. nunes is a loyal supporter of the president and served on his transition team. some republicans are claiming the memo revealed the feds misused government surveillance powers, but democrats say that republicans distorted information to make misleading claims so americans will be less likely to trust the justice department investigation. the fbi says its misleading and even inaccurate. robert mueller is looking into moscow's meddling in the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion by members of president trump's campaign and whether the president himself obstructed justice. president trump has denied those claims. our chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington, hi, catherine. >> thanks. the feud between the fbi, ju

nunes is now pushing to get these documents in the hands of all 435 members of the house. but the top democrat on the intel committee adam schiff will try to block that. he has said that nunes is acting as a proxy for the white house and this is an effort to shift the focus to the dossier and away from allegations of russian collusion in the 2016 campaign. meanwhile, tonight the group judicial watch has won another lawsuit. a federal judge ruling that by january 18th, the fbi has to give up the james comey memos. the ones that he wrote about one of his meetings with the president before he was fired. he has admitted that he gave those memos to a professor and a friend so that he could leak them to the media. allies of the president said that that was improper resulted in special counsel robert mueller being named in the first place. this is not the last that we have heard. >> shannon: great and interesting new insight. thank you very much. despite the tough week politically for the president, the economy is showing more increased strength. the dow jones industrial average

us. >> the battle over this nunes memo is heating up with the justice department now taking a swipe at house intel chairman, calling the controversial memo a, quote, staff-directed memorandum that purports to be based on classified source materials that neither you nor most, meaning most of the other members of the house intel committee, have seen. but a spokesman for nunes is hitting back against the justice department's concerns, saying in a statement, quote, agencies that are under investigation by congressional committees don't typically get access to the committee's investigative documents about them, and it's no surprise that the agencies don't want the abuses we found to be made public. yet, some of those on the left who have seen the memo say releasing it would be a mistake. take a listen to how top democrat in the house, jerry nadler, described it earlier today on "new day." >> it shouldn't come out, because i've read it, and i've read the underlying source material. it is profoundly misleading. sufficiee it to say, the docume is extremely misleading as compared to the unde

again, chairman nunes has put us in a position where we can either right a wrong with another wrong, disseminate classified information which we're not going to do, or remain silent and have to talk around classified information. i can only tell you, nicolle, it is a brain washing memo. it is its only purpose is to poison the well of the members who would have to hold the president accountable if he were to fire mueller by tainting their perception of the fbi. >> i know you can't talk about the fisa warrant process, but let me just read something that was in "the new york times" today and see if we can get in the weeds a little bit. i think our viewers understand this issue pretty well. so, "the new york times" reported today in a story called secret memo hints at new target rod rosenstein. "the new york times" reporting the memo's contention is fbi and justice department officials failed to adequately explain to an intelligence court judge. so, an fbi source stopped me right there and said, if someone failed to adequately explain to an intelligence court judge, they'd get thrown out

nunes has done this in a very republican way with schiff and the democrats not involved. when senator burr of the intelligence committee has seen it, they wouldn't share it with him although his committee has been run in a very bipartisan way. >> so there's a way to do this. i don't think we should ignore that maybe somebody's civil liberties were violated. the way it is going about is not the way it is done. >> we have seen this show before with devin nunes with the violations about unmasking. and done in conjunction the white house. he was reported to the ethics committee for possibly releasing classified information during that process. >> it seems there is another request for loyalty from the president. >> there was a request to block demands from the house intelligence chairman devin nunes. sources familiar with the meeting stay president had other things to his mind ahead of rosenstein's testimony before the house committee. the president asked rosenstein where he thought investigation of links between russians and his campaign was headed and he went on to ask wheth