MISCONDUCT.
JEFF: THANKS FOR JOINING US I'M
JEFF VAUGHN.
ELSA: AND I'M ELSA RAMON BETA
RELEASE OF A PARTISAN CLASSIFIED
MEMO RETICLE OF THE FBI IS
IGNITING A CONTROVERSY AND
BITTER DEBATE.
JEFF: LAWMAKERS ON BOTH SIDES OF
THE AISLE ARE WAITING TO SEE
WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP DOES WITH
THE INFORMATION OUT LIGHTING
SURVEILLANCE OF ABUSES.
POLITICAL REPORTER DAVE BRYAN
HAS BEEN WATCHING THIS
THE LAST FEW DAYS AND HE JOINS
US WITH THE LATEST.
REPORTER: IN SOME
BOILS DOWN TO THE CLASH OF TWO
CALIFORNIA CONGRESS MEMBERS WHO
ARE PROMINENT ON OPPOSITE SIDES
OF THE POLITICAL BATTLE LINES
HAVE BEEN DRAWN ON THIS ISSUE
FOR WEEKS IN TODAY'S RELEASE OF
THE SECRET G.O.P. MEMO BASED ON
CLASSIFIED INFORMATION IS NOT
LIKELY TO CHANGE THAT.
THEY ARE NOT SHOCKING SURPRISES
ARE DRAMATIC NEW SMOKING GUNS
COMING OUT OF IT BUT WHAT
HAPPENS NEXT MAY BE THE REAL
HEADLINE.
ONCE PRESIDENT TRUMP GAVE THE
GREENLIGHT TO RELEASE IN THE
CONTROVERSIAL CLASSIFIED
REPUBLICAN MEMO THE DEBATE WAS
ON.
PRESIDENT TRUMP CALLING IT A
DISGRACE.
I THINK IT'S TERRIBLE.
I THINK IT'S A DISGRACE WHAT'S
GOING ON IN THIS COUNTRY.
A LOT OF PEOPLE SHOULD BE
ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES AND MUCH
WORSE THAN THAT TO THE MEMO
CLAIMS FBI AGENTS RELIED ON A
POLITICALLY MOTIVATED DOSSIER BY
BRITISH SPY CHRISTOPHER STEELE
WHEN THEY SOUGHT PERMISSION FROM
CARTER PAGE JUST BEFORE THE 2016
ELECTION.
THE MEMO SAYS AGENTS WENT BEFORE
A SECRET VISOR COURT JUDGE THEY
DID NOT MENTION STEEL WAS
ULTIMATELY WORKING ON BEHALF OF
AN PAID BY THE DNC AND CLINTON
CAMPAIGN TO THE TUNE OF
$160,000.
PROOF REPUBLICANS CHARGED THE
SURVEILLANCE OF PAGE WAS
POLITICALLY MOTIVATED.
TO MY KNOWLEDGE THIS IS THE
FIRST TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY
THE FBI INJUSTICE TO DEPARTMENT
HAVE BEEN WEAPONIZED OF THE
ACTIONS OF A POLITICAL PARTY
PER.
BURBANK CONGRESSMEN ADAM SCHIFF
THE RANKING MEMBER ON THE
INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE SAID
REPUBLICAN PARTY LEADERS HAD NO
INTENTION OF DOING A CREDIBLE
INVESTIGATION.
THE GOAL IS TO GET A
MISLEADING PIECE OF INFORMATION
BEFORE THE PUBLIC TO HELP
SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT HELP
DISCREDIT THE MUELLER
INVESTIGATION OF THE FBI HELP TO
DO THE BIDDING OF THE WHITE
HOUSE.
THEY WOULD HAVE DONE WHAT WE
USUALLY DO WHICH WAS LET'S BRING
IN THE F. WERE THEY OF THE
SACRED AND OTHER CALIFORNIA
CONGRESSMAN CHAIRMAN DEVIN NUNES
TOLD "FOX NEWS" THAT DEMOCRATS
ARE THE ONES WHO HAD BEEN
OBSTRUCTIONIST AND UNCOOPERATIVE
ON THE FISA INVESTIGATION FROM
THE VERY BEGINNING AND HAVE NO
ONE TO BLAME BUT THEMSELVES.
DEMOCRATS BLOCK THEIR
SUBPOENAS OR TRIED TO BLOCK HER
SUBPOENAS IN AUGUST THAT THESE
ARE NOT HONEST ACTORS AND THEY
NO THEY ARE NOT BEING HONEST
ACTORS.
I GET TIRED OF PLAYING
WHACK-A-MOLE EVERY DAY WITH THE
DEMOCRATS OF THIS COMMITTEE.
SOURCES SAY PRESIDENT TRUMP SEES
THE MEMO AS A WAY TO TEASE
DISCREDIT THE ENTIRE FRESH
INVESTIGATION.
FOR NOW THE PRESIDENT ISN'T
SAYING IF HE WILL FIRE AT THE
TOP JUSTICE DEPUTY ATTORNEY
GENERAL ROD ROSENSTEIN BUT HE
DIDN'T SOUND SUPPORTIVE OF
ROSENSTEIN WHEN ASKED BY
REPORTERS TODAY.
YOU FIGURE THAT ONE OUT.
REPORTER: HEARING THAT HOUSE AND
SENATE DEMOCRATS FIRED OFF A
LETTER TO THE WHITE HOUSE
CHARGING THE FIRING WOULD SPARK
ANOTHER WATERGATE TYPE CRISIS.
IF THE PRESIDENT USES THIS FAKE
HORRIBLE
INTELLIGENCE AS AN EXCUSE TO
FIRE
ROSENSTEIN OR MUELLER IT COULD
LEAD TO A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS.
REPORTER: FORMER FBI DIRECTOR
JAMES COMEY TOOK AIM AT WHAT HE
CALLED A DISHONEST AND
MISLEADING MEMO CHARGING THAT IT
WRECKS THE HOUSE INTEL
COMMITTEE, DESTROYED TRUST WITH
THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY,
DAMAGED RELATIONSHIPS WITH FISA
COURT AND INEXCUSABLY EXPOSE
CLASSIFIED INVESTIGATION OF AN
AMERICAN CITIZEN.
NOW ON THE OTHER SIDE AT LEAST
ONE CONGRESSMAN FROM ARIZONA
SAYS THE MEMO CLEARLY MAKES THE
CASE THAT DEPUTY ATTORNEY
GENERAL ROD ROSENSTEIN WHO THE
MEMO POINTED OUT WAS ONE OF THE
COSIGNERS FOR THE SURVEILLANCE
WARRANT IS A TRAITOR TO HER
NATION AND SHOULD BE CRIMINALLY
PROSECUTED.
ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF SESSIONS
SAID TODAY THE ISSUES RAISED BY
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