break in between shows. tonight we have to get after it and get beyond the headlines. we know the president wants to release the memo and the pushback with that decision is growing. the real deal is to get deeper into the motivations and what's going to happen. let's get after it. i'm chris cuomo. welcome to prime time. breaking news, a bipartisan plea from senators urging president trump to hold off on releasing the republican intelligence memo and any effort to undermine robert mueller and his russia investigation. objectively this president has great interest in doing exactly that. you will probably release the memo in the exact hope that it makes his base distrust anything that comes out from any branch

of justice that's critical of him. once it's maybe in the minds of the american people, how much holds us together. that's the question. we're about to go one-on-one with senator joe mansion. a democrat on the intelligence committee. he's going to give us an insight. we're also going to go one-on-one with a advisor. facts first. there are concerns inside the white house that fbi director christopher ray. trump's pick for being a cleansing agent that he made quit if the memo is made public. that's raising hell among the trump team. he's trump's guy. why would he defy trump if he didn't really believe in his position? deep state.

he just got there. the real question is why are these republicans willing to push trump's personal political interest at the cost of undermining the department of justice. listen to paul ryan, speaker of the house. >> the more transparency the better so the people of this country can see their civil liberties are being protected. that's why we think sunshine transparency and accountability is the correct antedote. >> they aren't doing any of that. none of them have the seen actual basis for the conclusions in it. none have seen the fisa application they say was manipulad by fbi. think about how backwards that is. conclusions you agree with before you know the facts those conclusions are based on. you heard paul rye wran say the want transparency. why has he not called on the president to release his taxes?

why not say open your books, mr. trump. open your private holdings so all these questions about money movements can be disinfected by the daylight of transparency. why should you believe their intentions are in the interest of transparency when they ignore the president's profound lack of transparency. now, the larger question, could there be problems with how the fbi conducted surveillance on trump folk or investigating clinton? absolutely. this isn't how you root them out. why not wait on the inspector general's report showing what was done and release it to all of us. why don't they do that? it seems because they want to control the message. that is not about oversight. those are the facts. that's the situation. let's take the breaking news. one-on-one with democratic senator joe mansion of west virginia. a member of the intelligence

committee. i know there was bad weather. thank you for making your way through it to be with us tonight. >> it's worth it, chris. i'm gload to be with you. >> you're a good man to do that. first, is it true that the house members on the intel committee from the gop did not let you guys see the memo, not even ranking members senator byrd, republican? >> that's true. we have not. no one has seen that memo on this side. chris, the way the intelligence committee works on the snaenate with we know it does not work on the house side. he was sanctioned to be off the russia investigation. he comes back and starts this own investigation on his own and he won't even reveal his sources. we have nine different intelligence agencies that we cross check with to make sure that we're all in sync before anything is said, released or

agreed upon. we don't come from the senate side unless we have agreement in a bipartisan way. they're working in the house intelligence strictly on partisan. on a partisan participation. that is not how the intelligence committee on either side has been set up. devin nunes, pardon the pun, he's neutered the confidence people could have in the house intelligence committee. the senate committee are working together. they will work together. we will come out with our findings working together. not trying to defeat each other individually. i cannot believe how they are operating trying to come to the facts. the findings that we have released to the people. they have confidence in.

it's just absolutely unbelievable to me. >> dysfunction, one sided, power play. it's not going to be new to people. however, what will be new is whatever is in that memo. once it is opened up like pandora's box, you're not going to shut it up again, not by fact findings from the senate intel committee. what happens when the memo comes out you have a sizable portion of people who will identify as having voted for president trump who say i don't trust the fbi. they were in cohoots to help clinton and hurt my president, i doesn't trust the administration of justice. >> i am so thankful of the intelligence committee, judicial system, fbi, cia and the people that protect us every day and do up and beyond what anyone can

imagine that they do to keep us safe. i would just say if you don't then you haven't spent enough time with them. if you don't believe the professionalism that that have is real, then go out and spend some time before you start talking and degrade him. these people do not do this for fame or fortune, chris. i can assure you. they can all do an awful lot better financially if they go into the private sector. these are true patriots. i respect them. bob mueller is by far the most respected be earn that we have in the judicial community that both sides will agree upon. i pray to the good lord that the president or his administration does not move on bob mueller, does not try to remove him any way shape or form. you'll see democrats and republicans coming together as americans and doing their job in the senate and in the house. i really believe that. >> look at how the dominos are lined up here.

again, statement against self-interest. i'm in the business of checking the fbi and calling out when they do things wrong and their choices and methods. we do it all the time. it's possibility of it being not done the right way in all cases. but, once this memo comes out and says they were chaeating on fisa and that falls. if that process was manipulated and those people were involved in the mueller mueller investigation, how can we trust that? look at those lawyers who donated money to clinton, he put together a clinton committee there. i can't trust them. anything that comes out is tantsed. then what. >> as soon as mr. mueller found out anybody had any connection or ties they were eliminated.

who's trying to sway each other, the facts are pretty direct in what we have in front of us to work with. you can't make this stuff up. you really can't. i tell people you're entitled to your own opinion. i know the theories that people have and the paranoia going on. >> they fixed it, joe. that's what this memo is about. they can have their own facts. they have gowdy and a couple others look at a beside of evidence. they close off opposition. they get it to the president and release it to the people. you have a narrative constructed by them for their own purposes. >> if anything comes out of intelligence or armed services that's not bipartisan, don't believe it. if we can't come to agreement in those very, very restricted

confines that we work in, that the public never gets to see and we can't -- we're not worried about the cameras. we're if you see something coming out of a committee and i will say three committees almost. you have foreign relations. you have armed sfrs a eed servi intel. something happened and they are playing politics. that's what i would tell you. >> people have heard that. that's what the show is about is giving you the chance to speak to people. i know you from your time as governor.

you tried to bring that to congress in the senate, bipartisan. standing against your own when you need to. standing with your side when you have to. you stand up and tell the democrats shay should have respected the president. you have to be able to see what works and what doesn't. the vice president of the united states goes down where you are going to be in a knife fight for your seat and this is what he says. run this sound of vice president pence. >> i looked him in the eye and i told him, i said joe the people, the mountain state are counting on you. i said let's get this tax cut done together. owe vo joe voted no. joe voted no to give your families money. >> forget about the fact that's not true what that tax bill will do for your people. i've done my homework. that was your reward for standing up and saying democrats should respect the president.

the vice president goes down there and undercuts you in your home state. what does that tell you? >> it tells you the leadership we have in the vice president mike pence. he's been a governor. i was a governor of my state. never once did i attack a republican because i was a democrat governor. i looked at them as west virginians. we work together and fix our fate and we always did that. mike pence comes to west virginia two days after the president gives the state of the union speech talking about how to get together in a bipartisan way. he did not vote to repeal the horrible affordable care act.

why don't we sit down and fix it in a bipartisan way. there's nothing you've done since being vice president to work in a bipartisan way. you talk a good game. they couldn't even get 51 republicans. they lost three republicans on trying to repeal the affordable care act. as soon as that was defeated, chris, we had 12 democrats and 12 republicans co-sponsor a bill with lamar alexander fixing the health care bill. mitch mcconnell has held that up. we haven't been able to vote on it. help was there mr. vice president. let's fix something. i worked with them through this

entire process. i spoke to my friends the night before. i said before we throw caution to the wind, we have never in the history of the united states started out thinking we have an extra one and a half trillion tl dollars of debt. you put the important tax cuts for the wealthiest americans. you left the average west virginia working person with a temporary tax. on top of that to add insult to injury, you went ahead and repealed the mandate which was unravelled the whole health care. you're still determined to throw all these west virginians, hundreds of thousands off health care. i did not vote for that because it's not good for west virginia. you should not come to my state saying that you know what is best for my sex when you would do everything to harm my state. >> we'll split the difference,

senator. it's hard for me to agree that reaching out to the other side will get anything done in this current tri ball environment but i do agree with you 100% when you said that this type of behavior going there undercutting somebody who wants to work with you, that is what makes washington suck to borrow your fraez. thank you for coming onto address the american people. >> if i can say just one thing. i worked with my friend susan collins. in 2013 they shut down government. i thought it was wrong then. susan and i got the common sense coalition. we opened it back up. they shut it down. the democrats were wrong to do what they did. they did it. woeped it back up. we're working together. the vice president should be working with us in a bipartisan way and coming down here and attacking the person, me, who voted more as far as in the

interest, 54% of the votes i voted with republican administration because i want to get things done. >> i remember 2013. it was joe mansion walking tall and susan collins carrying the talking stick. thank you very much for being with us senator. we have more breaking news in the russia investigation. the old legal team is out. the new team was seen at the building where the special council works. we take you inside, next.

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questions, why did former trump aid rick gates change lawyers. why did his attorneys only offer their reasons for withdrawing under seal meaning privately. is this memo going to make things better or worse? great topics for great debate. let's bring in cnn contributor white house ethics czar. norm, you heard those questions. gates changing his legal team, what's your theory? >> well, chris, thanks for having me back again. my theory is that there's a

smell of a plea bargain in the washington air tonight. there could be a lot of other explanations. >> what are the other ones? >> sometimes lawyers and their clients don't get along. they see these strategy differently. they have a difference on a question of ethics. gates, we know, got a little bit of trouble for appearing in a video to raise money for his defense. maybe he's running short on cash. he has a new lawyer, tom green. one of the toughest negotiators of plea deals in washington. he's been seen going in and out of the special counsel's headquarters and just like we had these signs with michael flynn. when flynn's lawyers were seen at mueller hq. i think there could be plea tacks going on. >> what do you think, jim. i only smell my floor manager kevin. he's got like a jasmine thing

going. what the you think this means? >> norm is right about three of the issues. one is there's sometimes the client doesn't have the money to pay the bill. doesn't have the green to do it. two there's some disagreement between the lawyers between the lawyer and the client on strategy. three, there's some conflict of interest or some issue that prevents the lawyers from going forward. this is all under seal. we don't know what it is. it could also mean that the strategy is to two harder and not make a plea deal. tom green is known as a very, very tough trial lawyer as well. i think it's purely speculative whether a deal is in the works because they could just be going into mueller and saying no deal. we're going to court. >> i hear you both. very reasonable. i'm unsatisfied. we don't know enough to make this interesting. the memo, if it's true the reporting the president has been looked at it or been briefed. when this memo comes out, does it make the situation better or

worse. >> this will be a gigantic belly flop in the potomac. when people come out and see as we have been hering details because so many members of congress have seen it. there's no basis for the allegations. they haven't examined the underlying evidence. mr. trump's own fbi saying that the memo is misleading. the let down is going to be so severe. i think people are going to be disappointed and angry at playing political games to try to lash out at the russia investigation and this pattern over and over again, unfounded allegations. >> why are you so happy?

>> i'm just entertained by norm. this is oversight. this is what the executive branch and the legislative branch of government do all the time. the fbi is part of the executive branch. no one has ever accused paul e haiyan, speaker ryan of doing president trump's bidding. he agrees the transparency is necessary. he's seen the memo. >> first that paul ryan thing, that threw me. i was kind of zoning out but now i'm back. paul ryan is all oobt transparency. he won't tell trump to release his taxes. this isn't oversight, this is out of sight. they wouldn't let the democrat vs their memo come out. they won't show it to the senate republicans. it just wreaks. huh does this not wreak of political opportunism. trump's own guy saying don't do

this. how is that disinfecting transparen transparen transparency? >> the fbi and the rest of the some of the intelligence community coming out against the release of there memo. what you have is the intelligence committee on the republican side in the house. >> just the house. they won't show it to senate colleagues in their own party. >> it's still the intelligence committee. they have credibility. the staff has credibility. if they determined it's the right thing for the american people that the american people see this then that's well within their right to do in their role as an oversight role. >> the signs didn't line up the way they are right now. we never seen the congress go around the intelligence community to force one version of something that they haven't

seen. >> chris, it's shocking. i don't even know if the majority will be allowed to keep the name intelligence in the title of their committee after what they've done here. if they have credibility it was shot long ago when devin nunes took his first midnight run to the white house to coordinate stories with the president. he's acting as as much of an advocate for the president as jim was when he was his lawyer in the white house. refer it to him. he'll come wac with a straight up answer. the igs are independent. best of all the's a fisa court. there's a court thatoversees these warrants. go to the court. make your claim to the court. why aren't they doing that? because they know they're going to get booted from both of those

independent reviews. they are taking the cheap shot here. it's going to have huge blow back on them. it's a disgray and a sad day for our country. >> go ahead, final point. >> i wonder if it was a different topic if norm would be saying the same thing. if we were talk about some other issue in the executive branch that the democrats want to have oversight on and we're seeking information and trying to publish information. if he could do it and say the same thing. >> hold on a second. i don't disagree with that. it's right now in this instant circumstance it's on the republican side. i'm not saying that both sides aren't camabe capable of this. he was working on the constitution and we respect you for your service to the country. i appreciate you for being here with us. norm, i say you ever the best

hair in the business. jim, you have a beautiful head. why are we pushing back on jim's record in here. there's an intelligence to his position but the facts lead us in a bit of a different direction. our sources say president trump has been calling friends saying the memo would expose fbi booia against him. that's the motivation, not just oversight. the balance against grave concerns from his own fbi director. what does that mean? up next we go one-on-one with a trump insider. he's looking like he's the anchor of this show. he has seen all of this. can he make the case to you that it's the right move?

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let's get more on the breaking news. president trump moving closer to releasing the gop memo he hopes will undermine bob mueller's russia investigation. that's despite dire warnings from the justice department of the damage that such a move might do. speculative as well. let's go one-on-one with former trump campaign senior advisor,

michael caputo. good to have you. nothing intimidating about a skull ring on your finger. the president wants to do this. he doesn't like that investigation. this will show some of the i investigating done at the fbi was engineered against him. >> i don't think it's true what you're saying. i've been called to testify before the senate intelligence and senate judiciary committee and senate intel twice. there's a lot of us are trying to figure out what's at the bottom of this. i worked and lived in russia in the '90s. somehow i'm being called in front of these committees that cost 20 to $30,000 you go

because you can't go unrepresented even if you're just a reasons. there's a lot of us, not just those of us in the jackpot but people who have been following this department of justice since the obama administration. we watched, for example, the former secretary of -- former attorney general on the tarmac of the airport with bill clinton. there's a litany of things that look bad and smell bad. if this memo exposes this as crime, i want prosecutions. i want to lock them up. >> there's a basic if. here's the first problem. if that's what you want, this isn't the way to two about it because it's so yunilateral. when this comes out, this isn't going to lead to that. it's going to lead to push back and political warfare.

tactically, that's why it draws criticism for me. >> i've been in front of one. >> no reason and it's not right the to talk to you about that questi question. those are politicians. i do not see a potential for oversight. those are the politicians. on the fbi level that's the suggestion they are making right now. the fisa application. none of them have read the application. >> do you find that unusual that

a congressman wouldn't read something? >> 100%. in this kind of context. >> the underlying documents dozens and dozens of documents. they read the summaries. in the intelligence, i met with them. i met some of their staff. on the republican side. i have complete confidence in the people. >> why won't they show their senate colleagues. >> if you think that's the first time they wouldn't show on their own political side. these guys have always been, i worked in congr they were arguing amongst each other. >> i think they will. >> they just voted to put it through a process so it doesn't come out. >> you're talking about timing.

>> i want to see both. >> i understand there's a timing process. i find it rather interesting that people are up in arms about there's a damage to national security. the one sided nature of this when the media and the democrats have been living on leaks that are filled with national security information and one sided information for over a year now. for some reason, this memo is over the top compared to really important intelligence information that's been spilled out in the media in way to attack the president. >> i would ask you to point out an example of something that's leaked out that's tantamount to what they'll say about a fisa proceeding. nothing has come from mueller except crumbs that are meaningless. when ever people say we see no evidence of collusion, that's a true comma but. i haven't seen any comma but i don't think that mueller has.

>> mueller's reputation is and i believe he's still that way. he thinks leaks are just, the crime of century. >> you're fortifying my point. >> i have a problem with people around mueller in the past who have been a part of this thing. even with chris ray who dissembled and avoided questioning and stone walled congress on the senate side. you saw he was dancing around and trying not to answer questions saying he didn't think he could be a fisa warrant to discuss it with them even though they were the chief oversight committee. >> he's respecting the protocols of that particular procedure. >> this has been stone walling. >> why would christopher ray have any inside to stone wall when he was put there as a cleansing agent?

>> i don't know. i find these people unusual to begin with. >> trump picked them. said he's of high honor and integrity. >> the president had regretted some of his other picks as well. >> all of them? >> not all of them. >> rod rosenstein comes and say don't do it this way. if you don't want to engineer the politics, what are the reasons? >> i understand that. at this point in time i think there's so many things going on that are questionable and this investigation, in all these investigations. we need both memos. >> and then what? >> we decide. >> decide what? >> some are saying charges could be brought. >> on what basis? >> i don't know. >> there's no jurisdiction.

there can't be charges come from a memo that the department of justice doesn't accept as legitimate. it doesn't work that way. >> i understand. we can get closer and closer to what happened. in order to get a fisa warrant on somebody that work for the president and grew that out into a massive surveillance operation. i don't have any idea why i was unmasked. that means my wife was unmasked. my father was unmasked. >> we know the protocols were very relaxed. >> we do not know that. >> that's what samantha powers say -- we know that samantha powers did not do a lot of her own fisa -- unmasking. some of her staff did it.

>> you said it's not unusual that staff does the work. >> that's not true. the fisa court has not been around for decades and decades. this is a process that a lot of us are uncomfortable with. >> that's a different conversation. >> if the fisa process is being corrupted by political appointees because the department of justice is what and the fbi is politicized. >> why don't you want to know. >> you're motte going to tell me. there's a toxic conclusion and i'm not going to know the basis no matter what when this memo comes out. we're going to have to wait and see. thank you for being with me. appreciate it. >> there's more news for you tonight. this is breaking on our watch. the president's mind set on the memo. we're getting the washington post reporter who broke a story. he's going to be on the phone. that's up next.

we know a lot of what here. what's going on with the memo, what's being done to get it out. it's the why that's so con founding. breaking news tonight on president trump and what his thinking on the nunes memo is.

josh has a by line on this story and he's on the phone now. what did you learn in. >> we kind of trace back the arc of the memo in a call with some republican lawmakers who said listen president trump, you should declassify this memo. over time he repeatedly watched television shows where republicans like trey gowdy and others were on the air including on cnn talking about the need to release it and the president became convinced it would be god for him. as he said repeatedly, he thinks the investigation is a witch hunt. he thinks it's a hoax. it's going to paint him in a bad light.

the president this week has been warned by fbi director of the risk of releasing this memo and the caution he should take. he's been pretty resolute that he's going to release the memo one way or the other. >> josh, thank you very much. not only have we heard that the fbi director that trump chose, that he may quit over what's going on right now but now josh with the washington post and one of our analysts is reporting there's concern that what's in the memorial about rod rosenstrrose rosenstein may force him out. let's take this breaking news into tonight's great debate with cnn political commentators. jack, is there concern in your smile that the president has the fbi director on shaky ground about what's happening. that rod rosenstein both of

these guys, his choice, may with on shaky ground. is this memo worth about displacing his people? >> i don't know about shaky ground. i've spoken to many members of congress who have read this memo and they're not hot headed people. i understand their suspicion on the left about some of them but people like peter king who is one of your frequent guests, michael conaway, these are not the hard right of the republican party. these are people who frequently criticize and vote against president trump. they are absolutely appalling in what they have learned about the fisa abuses under a select few in fbi. perhaps to weaponize the power of the fbi for political reasons. they are not hot headed people. they are thoughtful people.

>> if i may? >> let me yield time to my friend. >> never yield. >> i think the real issue here is no one is saying they are hot headed individuals. these folks along with speaker ryan are aiding and abetting and doing donald trump's bidding. if the intel committee which used to be a highbrow, bipartisan committee that was interested in doing the real work of protecting our institutions against threats and working well with the intel community, if they are interested in doing the work, they will release the democratic memo as well. they're not doing that. if the fbi, the trump's justice department as he likes to call it, are all saying this should not be released, i mean i think folks play politics with our institutions. these are just republican talking points. >> no. i know you love that exregistration but lexpression. i've served in the legislative

branch. i have a bias. we routinely fight with executive branch over information, over direction of policy, over drug approval, over roads. >> that's fair. >> i can tell you the bush administration was of whom i also served. you could not get information from them. in this case, remember, the fbi ignored subpoenas and frankly -- >> there was a reason for it, jack, it wasn't -- there's no understanding of any deceptive intent by them. they were trying to protect protocols. here's my question. here's my question. jack -- >> we've gone through protocol, though. >> i get that they're requesting it the right way. i'm saying that that's why the doj says they were resistant. that's why wray went to the president to talk to him about them. so i don't see that as deceptive intent. i haven't seen proof o it, anyway. here's my question. i was actually thinking while you guys were talking.

i get qulawhat you're saying, iw will herd, ro -- >> you complimented his hair. >> i don't return fire that way. i'm never in it for the hostility. i see it in weakness in argument when you have to come at me. here's my question. if the concern is valid, if this shows arguable breaches of protocol by people in the fbi, why would you go about exposing it this way when you have to know it will frustrate your very intentions of any action thereon? once this memo drops it's seen as a one-sided forced narrative. the doj is uncomfortable with it and believes it is inaccurate. the idea that charges will come from it, how? the doj isn't going to take this up. why do it this way if you have legitimate concerns? why not put out the i.g. report, independent, depth, time, let it come out, expose that, and then act on it politically?

doing it this way seems to frustrate the very intentions you're speaking to. >> well, i believe the i.g. report would have a lot of redacted information. people would not be able to understand that. therefore, the committee according to rules and procedures voted on it and now the president who, by the way, as you know, can declassify anything he want to. now we're going through the right process on it. i think they really believe that there were absolutely civil liberties that were violated and that's where things are going to change. i think when people, for example, one of the most famous democrats in the fruited -- >> why can't we not see the memo from the democrats on the committee? >> you know, simone, let me finish this sentence. i'll answer that. alan dershowitz who is a very liberal hillary clinton supporting democrat -- >> but that's politics, not his jurisprudence. >> symone -- >> hold on. >> dershowitz votes for democrats. i know the professor very whelp. he votes for democrats but argues for either side. he really does. >> i think what's kbroigoing to

happen, people who spent a career championing civil liberties. i want to say this to both of you, i'm always suspicious of the intel committee. we were told, for example, wie were not, there was no metadata that was being collected. >> chris -- >> you remember that. one of the heads of intelligence said that and the senate committee said it to senator ron wyden, said, no, we're not collecting that data. >> chris. >> let me say this. i think we could release the democrat memo. i'm not against that. >> it should happen and the fact that it didn't is really speaking that incentive i talked to you about, doing it this way undermines the intentions no matter how jgenuine you say the are. symone, final word. >> the "washington post" editorial is out tonight saying speaker ryan is aiding and abetting and the tarnishing of the united states house of representatives, the high bar of this committee. i just have questions. devin nunes recused himself,

what happened to the recusal, where is the democratic memo, and if this information is so egregious, why are so many people coming out and saying that it is harmful to our institutions, it's not helpful to the investigation? this looks like republicans on this committee are doing the bidding of donald trump, and that has issues. that's problematic. that's not bipartisan. that's not in the best interest of figuring out and combatting the fact that russia interfered in our election. >> fair points on both sides. let's leave it there. and unfortunately, we're not going to know more until this memo drops. and that will probably be very soon. lady, gentleman, thank you. all right. stick around. we have a special final fact next. guaranteed to tell you at least one thing you don't already know. new year, new phones for the family. join t-mobile, and when you buy one of the latest samsung galaxy phones get a samsung galaxy s8 free. yahoooo! ahoooo! plus, unlimited family plans come with netflix included. spectacular! so, you can watch all your netflix favorites

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sometimes. it always makes me think, that is perfect, that's all i want. popularity is a waste of time for a journalist. to put things out there that makes you think about what you know, that's a gift. that's a value. too in people are seeking an echo of what they already believe. i cannot give you that, and the truth is, you shouldn't want it. not only is the truth more complex than partisan pundits make it, but why be one of the folks who says, i couldn't care less what other people think. pop always told me, listen hard, really hard, to the other side. that's how you know for sure when you're right, and you know how to improve when you're not. also, i have a secret to tell you. i have worn the same thing every damn night of this series. only like a dozen of you noticed. why? because i dig the look. but also to make a point about what matters. i focus on what i ask, and the work is what matters. that's how we provide value to you. not by what we wear.

that's silly. so i want to say thank you to you for watching this. giving me the opportunity to burn the candle at both ends. i'm happy i did it to test power for you. i thank the people here who gave you the facts first. they worked very hard. and i appreciate everything that this opportunity brought us. so thanks for tonight. anderson cooper is back for a special edition of "a.c. 360." that starts right now. welcome to a special late edition of "360." we begin with president trump determined to release the so-called nu in, nes memo. the reporting comes from the "washington post." here's the lead of the story. "president trump was only vaguely aware of a controversial classified memo about the fbi's russia investigation when two house conservatives brought it to his attention in a january 18th phone call. the conversation piqued trump's interest. the "washington post" report goes on saying "over the