it wasn't me. as well. >> that's why he doesn't make the shaggy references. >> you're awesome. have a great time. >> thank you. >> reporter: thank you, guys. congress has declassified. i think it's a disgrace what's happening in our country. >> the president of the united states is willing to trash his intelligence community. >> there's clear evidence of collusion with the russians, it just happens to be with the hillary clinton campaign and democratic national committee. >> it's about a distorted memo that the republicans decided to put forth. >> serena williaious concerns a department. >> this is a red herring, an attempt to confuse everybody. >> there's a lot of fear in washington that the president is gearing up to fire the deputy

attorney general rod rosenstein. he was ask good it today. >> you figure that out. >> the firing of rod rosenstein in my view would be an act of injustice. ♪ this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. >> good morning to you and happy saturday. we're so glad to have you on board here. some new words from devin nunes leaving a lot of questions this morning. one of the big ones is will the leaders of the fbi and the department of justice, officials who were previously held in high esteem by members of both parties, will any lose their jobs over this heavily hyped document. >> the president refuses to say if he still has confidence in the man supervising shoot probe after the release of the controversial memo yesterday. >> jessica schneider with more on the fallout at the fbi and justice department. we want to start with cnn's abby phillip who's live in washington. because of the memo we're seeing pushed by conservative groups to

oust rod rosenstein, how far, any indication as to how far that might go? >> reporter: well, this is all a decision that lies with president trump ultimately. and he made it clear that he's leaving it open with b what he's going to do -- open about what he's going to do when reporters asked him about the fate of rosenstein after the memo was released. this is what he had to say -- >> does it make you more likely to fire rosenstein? >> you figure that one out. >> reporter: vague response from president trump. that underlies what we know based on sources that the president has been actually angry with rod rosenstein. he is the person who is responsible for overseeing the russia probe and is also implicated in this memo that suggests that he improperly approved surveillance of trump campaign associates. now these conservative groups are targeting rosenstein in the

wake of the memo and trying to build momentum for his firing or resignation. ultimately it's clear that there are others within the white house think that's a bad idea. deputy press secretary raj shah was on our air last night talking about president trump's comments and actually pulling his boss back. listen. >> i'm saying it on behalf of the white house. that's that no changes are going to be made at the department of justice. we fully expect rod rosenstein to continue on as the deputy the gentlemen from. rou >> reporter: ultimately president trump is the decider. we'll have to wait and see what he ends up doing. clearly there's pressure on him from both sides. >> thank you very much. it's possible that morale at the top law enforcement agencies could suffer because of the republican memo. fbi director christopher wray telling his staff, though, not to be swayed by the political

fallout. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider is following that. what did the director say? >> reporter: we saw the fbi director clashing with the white house this week over the release of this memo. so once it was put out there, director christopher wray made sure to get the messages of support out to the 35,000 members of the fbi. so director wray, he addressed fbi employees in an internal video. and in it, we know that he said this, he said, "the american people, they read the newspapers and watch tv. but your work is all that matters." he continued by saying, "actions speak louder than words." wray also continued in the video saying that he knows it has been tough this week. an unsettling time. he said that he is inspired by the men and women of the fbi and of the work they do -- and all of the work they do. earlier, white house aides were concerned that fbi director chris wray might quit after the memo's release. of course this address that he gave to all the fbi employees

via video, it does seem to indicate that he is staying on the job. >> how about the man who leads the department of justice, jeff sessions? we're hearing from him in relation to rod rosenstein. >> reporter: we are. it was interesting as the memo came out yesterday, the attorney general was front and center at the department of justice here in washington. it was for an unrelated symposium. when he was introducing both deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and the associate attorney general rachel brand, both speaking at that symposium, it was the attorney general who did seem to come to rosenstein's defense. take a listen. >> rod's had 27 years in the department. rachel's had a number of years in the department previously. and so they both represent the quality and leadership that we want in the department. >> reporter: so quite a juxtaposition there. as the memo came out, it was the attorney general standing side by side with his deputy attorney

general, of course. the deputy attorney general has drawn the ire of the president. we've reported this. that's because rosenstein oversees the probe, is mentioned in the memo as having reauthorizes e-- reauthorized te warrant. while the president may seem wishy washy as to what his stance is toward rosenstein, clear that attorney general jeff sessions is standing by his deputy. >> all right. important words. thank you very much. some republicans spent weeks claiming the memo showed abuse by the fbi and doj. the release has raised more questions about the purpose. for one, it came from house intelligence chairman devin nunes. nunes admitted last night that he never read all of the information that the memo's based on? how could he fully understand what it claimed? does the republican memo present all the facts? it's 3.5 pages long. a former national security adviser tells cnn just one surveillance application could

be up to 60 pages long. what about the democrats' memo which challenges some of the allegations? why are republicans blocking that release? does the memo undermine itself? republicans claim the fbi and justice department used a dossier originally paid for by democrats to start surveilling former trump campaign official carter page. they claim the surveillance is the base of the russia investigation. the document actually admits the russia investigation started months earlier based off comments by george papadopoulos. and does the memo show anti-trump bias as some republicans are alleging? remember, the fbi is currently led by a trump appointee. the man supervising the russia investigation is a trump appointee. and why would james comey reopen the clinton e-mail investigation if he was so anti-trump? >> joining me, cnn contributor and writer at "the new yorker" adam entis, and coness

reporter politico rachel bay. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> let's start here with this narrative about the potential that the president's using this as an entree to fire rod rosenstein. the president said that what's happening is a disgrace. he said that at the white house yesterday. he tweeted that the leadership at the fbi has politicized investigations. the sacred investigations. we heard then from raj shah from the communications office that the president is not going to fire rosenstein. reconcile the two, adam. if he's doing such a bad job, how do you keep him on and say he should continue as he is? >> yeah. i think the real goal by the president and his allies is to undercut what mueller and the special counsel is going to find. he's trying to underfine the investigation. i -- undermine the investigation. i think the deputy attorney general is secondary to that.

we could see developments in the future because of rod's role in re-upping this surveillance that was done. but at this point from sources that i've talked to, it doesn't sound like there's any change m imminent on the front. >> rachel, let's talk about the 3.5 pages that were declassified by the white house. according to the memo, it exposes that christopher steel's dossier, as it's phrased, an essential part of the surveillance application. to what degree we don't know. that will be in the underlying documents of the application. i want you to listen to the house intelligence chair, den r denvdenver -- devin nunes, who wrote the memo. this was on fox news. >> did you read the actually fisa applications? >> no, i didn't. this is one of the bogus news stories that have been put out. the agreement we made with the department of justice was to

create a read could room and allow -- reading room and allow one member and investigators to review the documents. i thought the best person on our committee would be the chairman of the oversight committee, stratrey gaudy. >> he called it bogus after saying he did not read them. to what degree does he not know what he doesn't know, and the importance -- we shouldn't have to say this -- of reading the underlying documents before sending out this memo? >> not a good look. it's like when republicans were asked if they read the full tax bill or the full obamacare repeal bill and a lot said they hadn't. obviously doesn't look good. i will say that nunes is not quite the legal brain as clearly trey gaudy is. trey gaudy is a former federal prosecut prosecutor, and they have been looking at gaudy to take the lead and n terms of making the legal arguments that they're trying to lay out in this memo. now i think it's important to note that democrats are saying that it wasn't just the dossier that they used to sort of justify these warrants against

carter page. that that's not the full story. and i think one of the big things is that republicans have undercut themselves perhaps unintentionally when they went out and put out their own memo instead of waiting for the democratic memo. now folks are saying we don't have the whole story, perhaps there was something else in the phase application that -- feesa application that we don't know about. there's another thing they undercut themselves with. senate republicans were not ever fully on board with releasing the memo, right? a lot of senate republicans at the retreat over the week, a couple of days ago before the memo came out, were saying we want to see the memo, too, before you release anything. we want to make sure sources and methods are protected. you have the fbi saying do not release this. they don't look unified here. that does hurt them a little bit. >> adam, this memo focuses on the surveillance warrants and the renewals three times for carter page, a former volunteer, foreign policy adviser for the trump campaign. left in september.

this was approved in october. for months now, the president and members of his administration have really worked to muinimize his role an involvement here. let's listen to what the president and his staff have said. >> educator page -- carter page is an individual that the president-elect does not know. >> he's not part of the foreign policy briefings that we do at all. >> to best of my recollection, i don't know carter page. to the best of my knowledge, carter page never had a donaldtrump.com e-mail address, had no formal role in the campaign. >> i don't think i've spoken to him. i don't think i've met him. >> since the release of the memo the narrative is that a surveillance program or warrant focussed on page is a proxy attack on the president and the president-elect, the candidate himself. which is it? >> right. i mean, i was part of the "washington post" team that broke the story that carter page

was the subject of fisa. frankly, at the time i was baffled. what it underlined to me was in the early stages of the investigation how little the fbi seemed to know if they thought that this particular individual who had done this trip to moscow and had been in the press reports regarding that was somehow a central figure. i think what was surprising to a lot of us a year ago when we were trying to figure out who was the subject of a fisa was that there weren't more of them. we had suspected that there would be ones against main characters like paul manafort and others like that. we were surprised that page who did play a rather minor role by all accounts in -- you know, in the campaign itself would be the target of the fbi. >> rachel, you brought up an interesting point about why the two memos, one from the republicans on house intelligence and one from the

democrats, was not released at the same time, it's important to point out as we wrap up that this is not the mode of the house intelligence committee. this type of partisanship. we would have to expect that the president would declassify the democrats' memo and release that independent of what we've seen from the republicans. are you expecting that's going to happen? >> i do expect that. one of the reasons is because speaker paul ryan has essentially guaranteed it. he has been saying this whole time this isn't an attempt to try to undercut the fbi, not an attempt to try to undercut the doj and has nothing to do with mueller and the russia investigation. of course not all republicans agree. some are obviously using this memo to try to undercut that probe. speaker paul ryan has said he wants the democratic rebuttal to be out there. it's a question of when. i think if the president tried to keep that from coming out, that would look absolutely

terrible and overtly partisan. i expect a number of republicansrepublicans , more establishment type, in the name of transparency to put something out there. >> we'll see if it happens. thank you. >> thank you. the u.s.-russian relations might have gotten colder. the pentagon is planning to increase its nuclear capabilities to counter russia. plus, the emergency worker that hit that missile alert button in hawaii and sent thousands into panic, we're hearing from him. hi his explanation ahead. >> i was 100% sure that it was real. how do you chase what you love

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fbi supervisory agent. thank you for being here. we appreciate it. walter, i want to listen with you here to representative adam schiff yesterday as he was talking about it is common protocol to release the democratic memo as well as the republican memo simultaneously. that didn't happen. here's what he said -- >> could they have put both of them out at the same time? yes. that's not the goal. the goal was simply to get a misleading piece of information before the public, help support the president, help discredit the mueller investigation and fbi. help do the bidding of the white house. and that's all that's going on. of course the damage they're doing is going to be very long-lasting. >> want to touch on two things that stands o out. had the two memos been released

concurrently, do you have confidence that there would have been, walter, any more clarity about this whole situation, investigation? >> there's nothing normal going on with the memo. i think if both had been released at the same time, you would have had at least two competing stories. they're two competing stories that some of the authors from the memos didn't see. neither is going to paint a completely full picture. and both would be written with motivation to make a particular case. the whole idea of releasing a memo that summarizes national security information is obviously a transparent attack on the department of justice, fbi, and ultimately the mueller investigation. i don't think anybody should put

credence in anything that comes out. i think part of the problem with both memos is because they have to be a summary and can't state the underlying evidence, they're both going to be a set of conclusions. both sides will decide which they want to believe which doesn't advance our understanding of anything. that's part of the problem with the whole memo is that you're forced to accept conclusions because we aren't in the position to be analyzing it. i think one thing congressman schiff said is correct. i think there's going to be long-lasting damage to the organizations that are under attack and the relationship between congress and the agencies that they have to rely on for information. now those agencies can't trust congress to safeguard sensitive information. >> james, that's what i wanted to ask you. as a former fbi agent yourself, part of the fire family, do you feel -- of the fbi family, do

you feel there's a brief of trust or fracture of trust in the relationship between congress and the intel community? >> well, i think in the history of the fbi -- and it's been around since 1908, there have been a number of times in history where congress, the oversight committees and fbi have butted heads, or the white house and fbi senior executives have butted heads. tribalism is alive and well in washington. what we're witnessing now, i think to walter's point, i think is more the way that congress is handling this with the two competing echo chambers. i think most people within the fbi 435,000 employees --not all because it's not a monolithic society -- but most recognize the president's attacks and gop's attacks are aimed at senior leadership. very few people that made some dubious decisions. let me say this -- let me unpack fisa quickly. the way that fisa applications

work, generally speaking, 99.999% of the time they get approved. in the year 2016, the last year of the obama administration, to be fair about the scrutiny that the applications are under, the most ever phase applications we rejected -- fisa applications were rejected or returned for modification. this suggests this wasn't just a rubber stamp. i am troubled by the fact that there doesn't appear to have been a disclosure that the dossier was opposition research. i know it began with the "washington free beacon," but that was opposition research, too. that was during the primary campaign. that part troubles me. it doesn't negate the information and fact that there was underlying evidence that compelled them to get the application approved and renewed three separate times. i'm troubled by that. >> okay. quickly, i only have a couple of seconds. i did want to get to something that devin nunes said last night, saying he believes additional memos will be released. walter, do you think that would do any good?

do you expect nature memos to be re-- more memos to be released? >> i think we need to stop down this path. i don't see how more memos will contribut contribute any greater clarity. we have to remember that the fisa process is a multilayered process with multiple checks and levels of review. the statistic about how many are approved is misleading because there's many that don't go forward because they don't make it through the scrutiny of the review procedures to get submitted in the first place. and you have two branches of government who are not going to collude. the judges are not dumb people. they know the level of scrutiny they need to apply. and tours, it was -- and of course, it was pretty much well known by the time the last was reapproved, the source of the material. the idea that the judge didn't know that this was from opposition research memo or that parts of it were or the idea that that's all that was relied on. again, this is cherry picked information that we're looking

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arsenal including a torpedo that could allegedly reach the west coast. barbara starr fills us in. >> reporter: while president trump navigates the political minefield of the russia investigation -- >> there's been no collusion. there's been no crime. >> reporter: pentagon and state department unveiled the toughest line yet against vladimir putin's military in a report on nuclear threats and the trump administration solutions. >> russia has increased its reliance on nuclear weapons and its capabilities. and as we've pointed out, it's building a large and diverse nuclear arsenal. >> reporter: the pentagon detailing 2,000 russian nuclear capable weapons that could hit europe including missiles, bombs, torpedos. for the first time confirming russia is developing an underwater drone that can potentially travel thousands of miles and strike the u.s.

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supporter, and house of "america trends with dr. gina," and political commentator and republican strategist, alice stewart. good morning to you both. >> good morning. >> alice, let me start with the question, are there political costs with the release of the memo? it was billed as bigger than watergate, billed as shocking. did the nunes memo deliver to the president's base? to republicans? >> to the base, sure. they wanted to hear what was in the memo. they wanted to hear that there were abuse by the fbi and -- abuses by the fbi and department of justice. they wanted to show that the fisa memo was a direct result of the dossier which was spearheaded by the democrats in the hillary clinton campaign. they heard exactly what they wanted to hear. however, some may feel that it oversold. it was oversold and didn't deliver on that. critics, specifically john mccain and lindsey graham, their

problems, and i agree with it, we need to not look at this through as john mccain cars it a warped partisan lens. lindsey graham says we need to look at this investigation through a special counsel outside and absent of politics. in my view, the report, while it points out significant flaws that were used in part of this investigation, i don't think we need to paint the entire intelligence community with a bad brush. it does needs to be piecemeal. if the republicans put out their side, i think the democrats should have a chance to put out their findings at the same time. >> how about that? we should have seen the two reports at the same time, right? wouldn't you have looked to see the democrats' memo released at the same time, declassified at the same time as the republican memo? >> reporter: yes. i find it particularly interesting that i don't hear any republicans, maybe you know of some, i haven't heard from any corner of any conservative

groups or anything saying that any memos shouldn't be released. i think the general american public likes transparency. and i think that this president has made it clear that he likes transparency, as well. >> that would be the challenge of the view of the president liking transparency after the request to release the visitor logs at both the white house and mar-a-lago and his tax returns. as it relates to transparency and not releasing memos, why not wait for the scrubbing as it is to protect sources and methods of the democratic memo and release them together? >> i do think that both memos should and will be released. i think the american people should continue to demand transparency. i'm much more concerned about that than i am about the tarnishing of agency that's we've seen great -- agencies that we've seen great corruption in. not that there aren't lots and mostly good people in the agencies. we need to make sure, and they need to be accountable. we know that there has been

corruption. we do know that the collusion that did happen, that was discussed exactly as it came out in the memo. and so i think -- was it oversold? i don't think so. not at all. >> corruption and collusion are two words that i think that most people would have questions about me. i invited you here to talk about something else, but we had to talk about the news of the day. i wanted to put a pin in the words. specifically this week we order that trey gaudy, chairman of house oversight, also the house appropriations chair, rodney frelingheusen says they're leaving at the end of their terms, not running for re-election. 38 members not running. %-p. this is after the tax cut bill. this is after the legislative accomplishments that the president touted.

why are we seeing this continued exodus if, as the president says, 2017 was so good for republicans? >> everyone has varying reasons for doing so. of course, trey gaudy is an excellent leader in the legal community. he wants to get back into doing more legal work, and that suits him. everyone has different reasons. some want to spend more time with their family, but i think the good news is the -- bad thing is we have to say how many were leaving for personal scandals and others leaving for personal reasons. the good news is that many of these are in safe districts. republican safe districts. putting up a republican in the areas shouldn't be a challenge. and we'll retain many of the seats. another positive thing, too, is that the rnc, the republican party, has done a tremendous job this year raising money. almost $36 million compared to democrats' $6 million in an off year, off presidential year election. that money will go a long way toward hiring staff, putting

boots on the grounds in these districts. i think -- i don't see this as a bad thing for republicans. >> they certainly have raised a lot of money. the monmouth poll out shows president trump's approval rating up ten points in the last month. gina, finally before we wrap up, the white house said that there was going to be an infrastructure plan introduced in january. the president has said that he wants to revisit repeal and replace, unlikely before the midterm. paul ryan wants to get to entitlement reform. there's a lot to do in washington. daca, iran. but to what degree does this memo controversy kind of maybe feed that exodus that legislators aren't really getting to do the jobs that they were sent to dong do? >> there's only a memo controversy insofar as we sort of make it a controversy and give it wings and ask questions that maybe don't need to be asked until all the memos are released. i think we can be patient and demand the transparency that the

american people are demanding, i don't find it as that much of a distraction at all. the economy is flourishing. you know, more than two million jobs created just since the president took office. every economic indicator looks great. even with the slight dip this week, still the economic indicators are all doing super well. unemployment at record lows, the list goes on. we'll continue to see more of that out of the administration. i think the president is determined to turn around and revolutionize the economy of the united states. >> thank you very much. >> thanks. >> thank you. still to come, we want to show what happened with this dad. a dad who attempted to attack dr. larry nassar in court after the dad heard horrible details of what nassar did to his daughters. jumping out of bed,

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the memo was septembnt to congress. it is a disgrace what is it happening. >> the president of the united states is willing to trash his intelligence community. >> there is clear evidence of collusion with the russians. it just happens to be with the hillary clinton campaign and the democratic national committee. >> it is about a distorted memo that the republicans decided to put forth. >> serious concerns about the integrity of decisions made at the highest level of the department. >> this is a red herring, an