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viewers in the united states and around the world. you are watching "new day." it's tuesday, january 30th, 6:00 a.m. here in washington, d.c. for our special coverage of tonight's speech. so, here is our story line. president trump will deliver his first state of the union address this evening. he is expected to tout his tax cuts and the strength of the u.s. economy while calling for bipartisan action on immigration and infrastructure. but a political fire storm is also consuming the nation's capital. president trump and his allies, last night the house intelligence committee voted to release the much-debated classified memo written by republicans alleging surveillance abuses by the fbi. the president is now a showdown with his own justice department over releasing that memo to the public. >> the efforts to counterthe russia investigation could not be more obvious. republicans may be opening a probe into the department of justice. this comes as yet another top

official overseeing the russia investigation is out. fbi director andrew mccabe abruptly retiring. the fbi director hinting mccabe's departure may be connected to an inspector general report about fbi actions during the 2016 campaign. so, for all the robust moves on our own department of justice, no small irony, the trump administration is going easy on russia again. declining to impose new sanctions on that country. why is the u.s. government refusing to punish the kremlin for interfering in the u.s. election? we have it all covered. let's begin with abby phillip live at the white house. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, chris. the president is about to do his first state of the union address before both houses of congress, but that's been overshad bied by this escalating campaign by the president and his republican allies to undermine the russia

investigation. all is happening as controversy over the release f a republican-written memo is brewing right now. that memo alleges fbi misdoings on surveillance. the president now has five days to decide whether he is going to allow that memo to be released to the public. the house intelligence committee voting along party lines to publicly release a secret partisan memo spearheaded by trump ally devin nunes. accusing the top law enforcement agency abusing its surveillance authority. committee republicans ignoring that it could be extraordinarily reckless. criticism that enraged president trump aboard air force one last week. the four page memo is based on classified intelligence that nunes and the majority of the committee have reportedly not even seen. >> you've seen the memo. >> i have. >> you have not seen the

intelligence that it's based on. >> we're not permitted to see that. >> doesn't that concern you that something with so heady, so provocative and you don't get a chance to see it. >> that's why i say it should be footnoted inside it. i do think the memo will speak for itself. >> reporter: the house intelligence committee also voting against releasing the democratic memo rebutting the allegations, insisting they are following protocol. >> why not release them both at the same time? >> well, the house hasn't had a chance to look at the minority report nor have we. we voted to send it to the house and we need to read it as well. >> reporter: the decision prompting scathing criticism from democrats. >> they have crossed from dangerously and recklessly dealing with intelligence to a coverup of an investigation that they don't want the american people to see come to fruition. >> this is a continuation of the effort to protect the president's hide, push out a misleading narrative,

selectively declassify information. >> reporter: ranking member adam schiff telling that they refused a briefing from christopher wray. this coming after months after riterring criticism over the president and allies over mccabe's handling of the hillary clinton e-mail and political donations his wife received from a super pac associated with the clinton ally. >> shouldn't mccabe go? >> he got more than $500,000 from essentially hillary clinton and is he investigating hillary clinton? >> reporter: last beak, we learned that jeff sessions said to fire mccabe. wray told mccabe he's bringing in his own team that mccabe could not be a part of, prompting mccabe to leave ahead

of his expected retirement in march. wray suggesting that a upcoming general election report was a part of the process. >> we refer you to the fbi. >> now, all of this is happening as the white house is declining to impose sanctions mademanded a congress last year on russians. they are putting russia on notice. meanwhile, the senior white house official tells us that the president is not expected to address the russia investigation in his state of the union address tonight. >> abby, thank you for all of that background. let's discuss it. okay, we have a lot to talk about. let's start with this mystery memo that the republicans wrote that they voted last night to

release. there's so much that's so strange. they're not going to release the republican memo but not the democrat rebuttal. but the department of justice and the fbi has not had a chance to vet it. so where are we? >> the justice department very pointedly criticize what had the committee was doing for releasing this classified information, which is at odds with the trump justice department. i think a couple of observations that i have, one, why is it that the administration is launching this assault on the investigation, on the fbi? why do they keep looking like they have so much to hide? why does the president reportedly threaten to fire mueller. he looks like he's hiding something. my first observation is this investigation ought to with stand scrutiny and criticism, that includes mueller and the fbi and the dossier. it ought to be able to with

stand all that and still get to the truth. what's disconcerting to me is i think some republicans in all of this are using the same intellectual rigger they used in the benghazi conspiracy mindset, which is not a lot of intellectual rigor and it's hurting the process and unfair and makes the president look worse. >> look, you're no stranger to how the law enforcement works. one thing that sticks out here, devin nunes, these reports that his name is on this memo and he didn't even look at the classified information it's based on, lawmaker, after lawmaker, hasn't read the memo, they have read the memo but haven't read the supporting documents. they're in a rush to get it out. how unusual. >> it's not unusual if you're making something a political effort as opposed to a law

enforcement effort. this is a political effort here. these guys really don't care about the underlying intelligence. they want to make a report that says the steele dossier is not to be credited because they are afraid of it being proven to be true because that sets out a relationship between the russians and the trumps that goes back a decade and sets the predicate for the relationship that forms the basis of the collusion theory. so i think this is much about sort of discrediting the steele memorandum as anything else. that's why i don't think they care about the facts. they don't need to read the facts. they know what they want to say. they know what their narrative is and they're pushing it out. the reason they with held the democrat counterreport, they want their narrative out there first so they can sort of assess if it was cement, they want it to set and have a counternarrative, but by then they're hoping that there's

already stuck. >> anything that congress does is a political process including impeachment. this whole business about the dossier is not as relevant to what the special prosecutor is looking at which is why it's useful to have a special prosecutor when there are some leaks, just like the starr, that you have a process that's under way. there's so many questions on that not just on substance but why it is that the president makes the investigation worse and more intense around him because of actions he takes which comes back to the original point. forget all this nonsense with the politics over the memos. why is the president acting this way? i get he feels it's unfair, but he acts in a way that makes it seem like he's done something wrong. >> so to my point, i think if you really distill what they're focussed on, it is so much about the dossier. and the dossier is -- >> the republicans are focussed

on. >> and the president. >> yes. >> because there's so much about the president's prior financial dealings with the russians. >> yes. >> and that is the heart of the money laundering allegations and that is the heart of the theory that gave rise to how did the trumps come to have relationships with the russians that might provide them dirt that will the end -- and this is maybe a segue to the next section -- in the end, what do the russians want out of this, sanctions relief. we find ourselves in a sanctions relief environment. that's the quid pro quo. maybe we're seeing it play out. >> the thing that's confusing about the dossier, we were told many times and our reporting bares out, only part of the predicate. >> we have it from so many different sources. there's a lot of stuff in there because they started with the really salacious stuff. there was a reason to doubt it. but their theory is simple. jim jordan, congressman from

ohio, republican, is really one of the paul revere of this movement. and he says, david, listen we know that the russians were paid to interfere, but it was done by the democrats when they paid for this dossier. and one of the dangerous things in politics and it's usually rare in abundance right now is belief. these men mostly -- i don't know how many women are advancing it on the republican side, they believe that the democrats cooked this all up to malign this president. they believe it. and that belief is motivating a jim jordan to sit next to me and say, you know i haven't read the stuff in the memo. that's okay it speaks for itself. that sa nonsensical statement. we're hearing it echoed at all levels of the party. >> it's so reckless to have elected members doing this. you know what, let the memo come out. let perhaps supporting intelligence come out. >> what if we don't get the

supporting stuff. you get the memo with conclusions but you don't get what it's based on. >> this is not going to be perfect because we're not getting to the truth of the matter. but there's a special prosecutor at work looking at these issues. there's an inspector general with the fbi. by the way, it's okay if christopher wray wants to clean house and criticize part of what his predecessor did or how the clinton e-mail thing was handled. that was a fiasco on a lot of levels, but it is not just one way or the other. and you can't say it's a fiasco because she wasn't charged criminally. that's not helpful and it's reckless on the part of the republicans who are advancing that. but right now you have a president and his allies leading the charge on this, but you have an fbi director and a deputy attorney general who are holding the line on the all-important independence of the institution of the justice department and of our state police of the fbi. that's what has to be respected. boy would i be shocked if the

grand old party wants to lead the way to undermine our law enforcement institutions. that would really turn my head upside down about what i thought they stood for. >> but they are already doing that because the effort to have congress declassify something, which classification is an executive branch function. so they're already sort of on a separation of powers interfering with that. and then releasing classified information, which they've now declassified and the president goes along with it because it's in his personal interest not necessarily the national interest at the expense of what the intelligence agency wants, what the fbi wants and the what the doj wants is unacceptable. no one should accept this. it's just not acceptable for political purposes. >> can i just say one other thing, in the full context of this discussion have to assign some blame at some of the

genesis. president obama's attorney general loretta lynch creseededl this. jim comey was trying to finesse this so the fbi seemed clean in the whole thing. there were a lot of mistakes made. >> she was in a box when she met with hillary clinton. >> absolutely. there's a lot of mistakes made that made these issues incendiary and politicized so we're moving through that. >> andrew mccabe is one of the casualties. he leaves. his departure was expected but it was earlier than anyone thought, so he follows in the footsteps of james comey who also we remember was fired and rod rosenstein and robert mueller are leading up the investigation. so michael, maybe the inspector

general will find something incriminating or concerning. we don't know. that's what christopher wray seemed to suggest to the fbi rank and file of why andrew mccabe had to leave so suddenly. >> right except the week before we heard through the news outlets that he was going to quit, wray, if they moved on mccabe. >> that was before he saw the report. >> maybe. but i still think two things, one is christopher wray has the right to bring in his team, as david said. however, this was a hostile work environment. there's no question that he was pressured out of this position. if you look at the classic employment law definitions of constructive firing, this was that, creating an environment where it was untenable for the person to stay. so, any allegations by sanders huckabee, huckabee sanders that pressure wasn't imposed on the white house is unavailable. it is not acceptable. >> jim comey did a lot to create

that work environment by deciding to put his thumb on the scale in an election with this clinton investigation. that doesn't justifies him being fired. he got fired because the president didn't like how close he was getting on the russia investigation, but he did that in a way that created a political fire storm and mccabe got caught up in that. >> maybe. but the point is if you look at it since the election and you see what the president, his allies have been doing, which is anyone who makes an allegation against the president seems to be in jeopardy in a purge-like sense. from a law enforcement standpoint, that is very chilling. if i'm a special agent in charge of new york or florida or california and i'm going to now look at the president? >> right. that's why chris wray is the keeper of the gate. >> do i think my career is now in jeopardy if i make a move like this? >> stephen boyd a trump appointee, he sent the message

saying it would be extremely reckless to release this. but the timing the same day they vote to release this memo the white house decides not to sanction russia after congress voted 98-2 to do so. >> thank you. we have a lot more to talk about. luckily we have many more hours. we have a very big program for you today. we will speak with the counselor to the president kellyanne conway will be in our 8:00 a.m. hour and we have lawmakers throughout the show to talk about all of these issues from both sides of the aisle. >> it's much easier to get them when you go where they live it turns out. president trump, determined to deliver a unifying state of the union address, but will he stick to the script? we discuss. this is the story of green mountain coffee roasters dark magic told in the time it takes to brew your cup.

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♪ big night, big night. the president giving his first state of the union address tonight. remember, last year he was just at a joint session of congress. this is really the real deal. he's expected to stick to the script. that will be the easy part. the hard part will be for this president to sell a unifying message to america on the heels of some of the ugliest politics we have seen surrounding efforts to undermine the fbi and the

russia investigation. as for topics, all the obvious are expected, economy, trade, infrastructure, immigration reform. so, let's bring back david gregory and bring in cnn politics reporter, editor at large chris saly sa. so stick to the prompter that would ordinarily seen easy to do. for whatever reason the president is able to read what is there, he has an 80% chance of people saying he comported himself in a good way. >> it's unique. the president gets unbelievably high ratings for doing presidential 101 which is acting normal and reading from his script and pitting out policy prescriptions, but i think it's actually a bigger deal in this case. the president has two very different sides of his brains, two different sides of his presidency. i think tonight is about saying, here is what we've done. we've had real accomplishments. the economy is doing well. we got this tax reform through. this is why you put me here.

we're actually achieving something and we have the prospect to achieve a lot more. the idea that america is back. america is winning, this is what he does and wants to do and argues very well and very persuasively. it's not going to reach everybody. that's still the challenge which is how does he reach out to people who are making a determination about him that they don't like him and say, you know what, maybe there's a shot here with this guy. i still think that people are open in that way. >> so, i'll be the more cynical view on that which is i think that the speech he gave last year, not called the state of the union but effectively same thing addressed to both house of congress, that speech was certainly good by his standards. again, it's a lobar. he reads it off the teleprompter, it's not bad because he's not doing all his freelancing. i think the issue is fast forward to this year. if nothing that had happened in the past year had happened, i think that sale of, look, the economy is doing better, we're

more respected around the world subjective measure u think that could work. the problem is charlottesville, nfl, attack on the fbi, attacking our institutions. that's the issue. i already think there's probably too much water under the bridge. democrats were never probably going to give him a chance given our polarized times. they're kind of the middle independence, moderates i think they might have. to david's point, the country is economically looks like we're more robust, stock market -- >> he won't talk about the other things that you're talking about. >> you're right. >> so the speech on its own contained will be about what we just said the economy, infrastructure, all that stuff. if you just dissect the speech you won't get into all that. >> i just don't think that you can't -- i think that he is -- i don't know you could ever take it -- there's too much but the context. that's the issue. >> you have to also admit that there's another part of that backdrop that there are enough people watching who may not be

tuned into what we're tuned into everyday and they'll say, you know what, boy, this guy is getting a rough ride. that media is obsessive and they overdo it and they're biased and he has to deal with all of that. i know he does some stuff i don't like, he has all these enemies it's unfair. that's part of what's baked in his favor. >> he has two other things going for him slash against him. one is the last 24 hours. okay? this is really ugly stuff that's going on down there. and nobody believes that trump doesn't love it. this memo, the idea he doesn't release this memo, you owe me a tattoo on the head. i will put another one whatever you want if he says i'm not going to release this memo because it might be reckless and hurtful to our intelligence agency. this memo is all about that. a big part of the message tonight, we're told i could be wrong, is a unifying message. who is going to believe that somebody who succeeded through division all of a sudden wants

to be a unifier when he just refused to sanction russia. >> not only that you have to look at the stage craft of who they're bringing as guests. you know, when you're bringing sort of victims of illegal immigrants to sit with you, that's not a unifying message necessarily. >> no. look, david is right. he is capable of -- we have seen at times donald trump give the sort of salesman in chief, cheerleader in chief the sort of i'm not partisan. we've seen that moment in that immigration public forrum. hey, look, i want to make a deal that's good for america. whatever he says and does tonight do not assume it's indicative of what he will say and do tomorrow because it just isn't. >> the d.r.e.a.m.ers is a perfect example of he's not going to change minds he might work to take an issue off the

table if the left will work with him. if he can get to that place and not be so self destructive. >> chris, david, thank you both very much for all of that. cnn's primetime -- >> there are more. >> i heard you say -- >> i'm just happy to be on television. >> she's never once called me -- >> thanks, david. >> she calls me stacy. it is what it is. >> thank you, ladies. cnn's primetime coverage of the state of the union begins at 5:00 p.m. eastern. stick around. all right. probably shouldn't be laughing. i don't know what i'm about to say but it probably won't be funny. president trump is expected to tout progress in the war on terror in tonight's address, but what about the deadly violence raging right now in afghanistan? why aren't we hearing about it? next. need a change of scenery?

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very big night for the country. and when president trump delivers his first state of the union address, he's expected to call for more military spending and likely discuss achievements in the war on terror. what will he say about america's longest war, the one in afghanistan? that country is reeling from a series of deadly terror attacks. it is hard to make the case that there is victory on that ground. cnn's barbara starr live at the pentagon with more. barbara? >> good morning, chris. if the president wants to say he's winning in afghanistan, that may be a tough sell right now. three attacks, as you say, in kabul in a week, devastating to the people there. raising real questions about whether that government can provide real security to its people. this now comes as an independent auditor for the u.s. government has been told by the pentagon it

can no longer publish data about how that war is going. crucial data about how much of afghanistan is under taliban insurgent control or influence. it's data that's been published for years. it's a key indicator of how the war is going. the pentagon now says no more. the american taxpayer people cannot know that information, so we went to a different pentagon report. and what we found was that at the end of last year, 40% of afghanistan's population, 13 million people, still after all this time under insurgent control or influence data very hard to come by in the coming weeks about afghanistan. the pentagon does not want to have it published, but here is some data for everybody. america's longest war it is now reaching $1 trillion, 2,000 americans killed over 20,000 americans wounded in that longest war. >> oh my gosh, it's important to be reminded of all of those

numbers. thank you very much for the reporting. so the house intel committee voting to release that controversial republican memo that alleges surveillance abuses by the fbi. will president trump make this report public? that's next. why create something

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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 connecting the dots. >> you want to talk about what did and didn't happen, the democrats refused to even read the memo. when nancy pelosi directs her conference, to not even read the memo and they're out there talking about what's going on, they haven't read the memo. >> they obviously know what's in it since they wrote a ten-page rebuttal point by point it to. >> you're talking about the committee. there's 180 democrats who boycotted reading the memo. >> okay. but let's talk about the committee. >> right. >> the house intel committee votes to release the republican memo. they vote to not release the democratic rebuttal to the republican memo. how is that fair? >> well, i'm not on that committee. i'll just tell you that our conference has all the confidence in the world in devin nunes and when we met on this a week ago, we all encouraged him to release it. >> but do you think that the democrats should be able to release their rebuttal? >> well, i don't know what the

democrats are saying or not saying. i'm certainly -- we've heard them complaining about it from day one. >> they're saying that this is -- these are devin nunes's cliff notes, basically. based on his own impressions and he's not an impartial person. >> that is just not so. i wish i could tell you what's in the memo. >> i wish you could also. >> they are not devin nunes cliff notes. >> they are his take on this. they're his take on -- you tell me. >> they investigated this for months and months. it is factual. it connects certain dots. and he's not making this up out of thin air. >> should the democrats be able to release their rebuttal, to your mind. >> well, i would say they should. >> let's talk about andrew mccabe. he stepped down under pressure, obviously. the president has been tweeting about him. the president has been calling him out. here, as you know, i don't have to remind you that james comey was fired by the president.

andrew mccabe has now stepped down. rod ros rosenstein and robert mueller receiving heat. >> when you have the bias that we've seen in the fbi whether it's texting between two agents who were supposed to be impartial. >> who were then reassigned away from the investigation. >> well, they shouldn't have been there to begin with. they certainly didn't disclose the bias that they had. and let's just say based on other goings on right now, i'm not the least bit surprise mccabe decided to get out of dodge early. >> you think that this was his decision, it wasn't a hostile work environment? >> oh, i think this was his decision from a to z. >> are you suggesting that something -- that you know something about andrew mccabe and what the inspector general

might find? >> i'm just saying i am not surprised that mccabe resigned. i think he did this on his own and was not pressured. >> why didn't the president put more sanctions on russia? congress wanted him to. congress in a bipartisan move recommended that. that was their plan. they sent it to the white house. the president decided not to. >> it's the prerogative of the president working with his secretary of state to decide when and where on certain types of sanctions whether it's north korea, iran or russia. >> but why not? why not put more sanctions on russia? >> again, i'm not secretary of state. >> do you think he should have put more sanctions on russia? >> i'm not going to second guess the administration when it comes to what dealings are. >> did you vote for sanctions? >> yes. i would vote for sanctions on russia, iran, north korea. >> are you disappointed the president didn't follow through on that? >> i would say there are obviously some reasons he didn't. i won't second guess his

reasons. most of us in congress, when it comes to our adversaries, russia, iran, north korea, would say slap them hard and -- >> obviously we're talking about meddling in the election, so that's not what north korea is accused of or iran, it's russia. and so it's just sometimes confusing for the american public to try to understand why the president isn't using the full force of the white house to put sanctions. >> there's a lot of things going on on the world stage. when it comes to north korea, we need pressure -- >> yeah, what about russia? >> right now north korea is the biggest threat we have to world security. whether it's china or whether it's russia, there's a reason that rocket man is in the position he's in. >> you're okay with deflecting to north korea and not focussing on russia? >> north korea is the bigger threat and i would trust secretary tillerson and our president to do what's best to keep our country safe and strong

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officials in hawaii are set to release the findings of an internal information of the alert warning residents mistakingly of an incoming missile earlier this month. they are announcing today personnel changes at hawaii's emergency management after it took 38 minutes to send a second alert confirming that it was a false alarm. a russian fighter jet flying dangerously close to a u.s. surveillance plane in international air space over the black sea.

the russian jet came within five feet of their plane. one defense official tells cnn the unsafe intercept forced the navy plane to end its mission prematurely. the state department responding by slamming russia for violating international law. snow and rainmaking for a slick commute. >> it's not much, one to two inches but it's at the wrong time of the day. it is centered over providence and plymouth, massachusetts. it will be a slick morning. many school districts on a two-hour delay. this is brought to you by purina. this is a quick-hitting storm. it's not going to warm up today. so what you see is what you get. that snow will still be there tonight. if it melts with salt, it may refreeze as it gets colder later on this evening. not a lot of snow, one to two

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tonight, some democratic lawmakers plan to bring guests to the state of the union, whose lives have been unduly impacted by president trump's policies. joining us now debbie dingell and her guest for tonight cindy garcia. we told you about her husband jorge deported to mexico after living in the u.s. for 30 years. cindy and her husband were recently on "new day." and it is good to have you both. there's a lot of news to talk about. you know what, i don't care. how is your husband doing? >> he's sad. he's depressed. it's taken a toll on him because at least i have my kids with me. and he's by himself in a country he does not know. >> now, as you know, i know your story very well. just so people understand at home, well, why don't you go

join him. first of all, this is where you live. this is where you're from. second of all, you have health conditions within your family that require medical attention that you can't go and be with him, is that true? >> yes. >> so, where is his heart in terms of hope that there's some type of solution to his situation? >> we talked to the lawyer and she says that there is hope. because we're going to file a waiver which is called a pardon to try to bring him back. so when he does have his meeting down with the consulate in mexico that they're able to look at it that same day. they could say turn around and come back. but then again we still have to be worried about the three, five, seven or ten-year ban. it's all up to them now. >> you're going to be there tonight. obviously you want people to recognize your situation. what do you want them to know? >> i want them to know that it's not an easy situation. it's a nightmare and that we need to have our laws revised when it comes to immigration because they are broken.

and we need to be able to look at them and say, okay, we need to do an individual basis, not as a whole, because that's how my husband fell through the cracks. >> congresswoman, when cindy was on the show last, we allowed cindy and jorge to use the satellite connection just to speak with each other. we didn't use any of it on television. i will tell you, it is heart breaking. maybe it's because i'm still standing on the shoulders of immigrants myself, but it just seems so wrong that somebody in his situation gets thrown out of his country. >> you just make me want to cry when i talk about the two of them. talking by satellite, i've known them for a long time. cindy is a worker out of local 600, an american citizen. i know her two kids. i've known her husband. he's worked hard all of his life. he was brought to this country when he was 10 years old. he's tried to become a citizen. he's tried to do everything that he can. i think we need comprehensive

immigration reform so badly in this country because when you're married to an american citizen and you have two kids. he's never had a parking ticket. he's never done anything wrong. he pays taxes. this isn't who we are as a nation. >> so what can you do? because there is a feeling that is overwhelming what you say right now and it's being cast in the law and order. these are the laws. and if you come in and it's illegal, how you come in, then that's what it is and we have to respect that in this country. and you're going to keep hearing that throughout this entire immigration debate. what do you do with that? >> trust me, i hear it a lot. not only is cindy a friend and someone i've tried to help for some time, but i have the largest population of muslims in my district as well. we have to stop letting this nation be divided by fear and hatred. we need comprehensive immigration reform for so long. farmers aren't getting their crops picked. hospitality industry needs

people to help them throughout this country. auto companies like gm, ford and chrysler are screaming for immigration reform. we have to sit down at the table. we have to do something. this is not a war of words between two political parties. it's real people's lives. we need to keep this nation safe. i live on a border. i know what it means to keep the nation safe. we got to stop playing partisan games with national security. we needed to have comprehensive immigration reform for decades and we need to get it done. >> your words would be better received as passionate as they are if we weren't in the most bitter and ugly fight of a war of words between the parties regarding national intelligence right now. this memo, this attack on the fbi warranted or unwarranted it's going to be hard to tell, congresswoman. i'm getting a memo that's a bunch of conclusions and you don't show me the basis and facts, i don't know how i can judge it. what do you think this is all leading to up?

>> i don't know. but i'm scared because i don't like the direction it's going. we have never let national security be a partisan issue. i am scheduled to read the memo. i have not yet read it. but like you will not have access -- >> you didn't boycott reading it. >> it's my responsibility as a member of congress to know what's in that and what's in the democratic memo. >> you haven't had a chance to read it yet? >> once we voted on a budget, i went home. that last week was when we were able to read it. i went home and wen with my constituents. but i am going to read it because it's my responsibility to know what's in it. i, too, won't have access to the underlying memo. i think it's very -- one, i want the intelligence community to look at that memo and redact it. i don't want our national security endangered on any way. we all work together to not politicize our national security. and not the direction that this is going is not good for us. but i'm not afraid to go across

the aisle and sit and talk to my republican colleagues. >> the time is now. congresswoman, it's good to see you. mrs. garcia, i promise you, this story is not going to go away for us. >> thank you. >> as long as your situation is the way it is, we'll keep people's attention tonight and hopefully you are seen tonight. our thanks to you, our international viewers. for you, cnn "newsroom" is next. for our u.s. viewers, this is a big day. let's get after it. today this committee voted to put the president's personal interest above the national sbes. >> we wanted to ensure we have the most credible product for the american people to review. >> this is the latest chapter in devin nunes's now nine-month campaign to back up the president's wildest charges. >> i think it will speak for itself and will answer a lot of questions. >> president trump's first state of the union being overshadowed by the escalating campaign against the russia probe. >> it may be a surprise that