. >>> also breaking, steve bannon appears about the white house intelligence committee. "the new york times" reports that he's been subpoenaed to testify before robert mueller's russia investigation. our correspondents and specialists are standing by. white house correspondent jim acosta, the immigration talks are clearly a hot mess. >> reporter: they're running out of time, wolf. we had the white house doctor announce the results of trump's physical exam. he told reporters the president is in excellent health. the president attempted to do some surgery of his own, cleaning up some comments he made last week about immigrants coming in from certain countries, comments that were described as racist. president trump tried again to clean up his comments on immigrants coming from what he referred to as shithole countries. visib visibly annoyed, the president snapped at the president's remark that he would like to see more immigrants from norway. >> reporter: is that true, mr. president? >> i want them to come in from everywhere. everywhere. >> reporter: just caucasian or white

adam schiff, the top democrat, the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee with two major headlines, pretty extraordinary headlines, i must say. along party lines, the republican majority and memorandum on alleged fbi abuses. they voted in the house intelligence to release that memorandum, send it over to the president. he clearly wants it released. the same time they voted against releasing the minority memorandum thar memorandum that rebuts. that's a headline there. pretty extraordinary how the house intelligence committee usually a source of bipartisan cooperation has divided strictly along party lines and the house intelligence committee opened up a formal investigation into both the department of justice and the fbi. our team is here. it's pretty amazing to hear that from the ranking democrat on the senate side they are cooperating. but it's collapsed completely on the house. >> it has collapsed. the news is stunning, given the fact that the fib didn't want this done. the fbi director, we were told, said let me come to you. before you do this, let me brief you. let me

and i think a lot of the thinking in the house intelligence committee was this memo is about alleged wrongdoing at the fbi, i don't think we'll show it to you. but we know devin nunes and trey gowdy and another republican member of the house intelligence committee did show this memo to the director of the fbi, chris fare wray. he has had a chance to read it. charles: there is speculation carter page at the request of rod rosenstein, that's what emerged today. what are your thoughts on that? byron: i think this needs some explaining. when the government seeks a warrant to wiretap an american, if they win such a warrant, if it's granted, it's granted forward an finite period of time like 90 days. the thinking is perhaps the obama administration, the obama justice department originally got a warrant on carter page. then when that period expired and they sought to renew that, the period overlapped between the end of the obama administration and the beginning of the trump administration so possible new trump officials asked for a renewal of that surveillance. if that were the case, then yo

senate republicans have no say whatsoever and the house intelligence committee can vote to send it to the president for declassification, the full house doesn't have to vote on that. we'll see if the house committee will decide that today. >> the president says he wants this release, so every reason to believe this will go public. manu raju, thank you very much. >>> joining me now, asha rangafa. let's talk about the latest reporting that seems to be inside this memo. republicans very upset for some reason, the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein extended the fisa warrants to surveil carter page, carter page obviously this foreign policy adviser to the trump campaign, somebody on the fbi's radar before the trump campaign because of his contacts with russia. help me understand what would be controversial about the deputy attorney general who, again, has oversight over this investigation, extending those warrants. >> well, john, this is exactly an example of how this memo is inaccurate and misleading. so deputy attorney general rosenstein doesn't have the authority to extend any kind

intelligence committee meeting? >> right now they're meeting behind closed doors with republicans and democrats on the house tense committee. the members going in are sort of in the dark. sever of the members including republicans like trey gowdy who are helping with the russia investigation said they didn't know if there would be a vote tonight. if they did vote to release the memo, it would give five days to object to the release. and if they didn't, it would become a that be document. we do expect the there is a vote, would it probably be successful. along party lines, the republicans would vote to give the president the opportunity to decide whether or not to object to the release. the top republican who is running the russia investigation did tell me that he did believe that probably there will be this vote tonight and he said there will be discussions happening between justice department and devin nunes. the chairman of the staff who drafted the memo. this after the fbi director came to capitol hill to review the memo after the jarlt itself said it would be reckless to release it without getting a chance to review th

the house intelligence committee, as you mentioned, wof wolf, has been criticized by both parties forartisan, as serious as the senate intelligence committee investigation. it is significant. it shows they're still working on this, they're not simply giving into partisan urges and not giving in also to pressure from the president. >> one thing, wolf, i would be interested to see too is whether or not she invokes any sort of privilege or says -- >> because she is still working in the white house. >> exactly. >> as opposed to a former official. >> perhaps she is not going to discuss private conversations with the president because we've seen other officials say similar things, like attorney general jeff sessions most notably. we will see if she does the same. >> they will appear before the committee, behind closed doors. will they release the transcriptions of those sessions? >> we're not getting an indication of that. it only happened for carter page and prince when they agreed. initially going in they cut a deal with the committee, said we will only do it if you release a transcript.

in the middle of his meeting with the house intelligence committee because he was refusing questions of the house intelligence committee. "the new york times" revealed that steve bannon had already been hit with a subpoena by special prosecutor robert mueller. steve bannon is now the first person from president trump's inner circle to receive a subpoena from the special prosecutor. "the times" reports that mr. mueller is likely to allow mr. bannon to forgo the grand jury appearance if he agrees to be questioned by investigators in the less formal setting of the special counsel's offices. the subpoena came davis michael wolff's book "fire and fury" was released. in the book, steve bannon is reported as harshly criticizing president trump, his family and members of his staff, and speculating about their legal culpability. bannon called the trump tower meeting between donald trump jr., jared kushner, paul manafort, and a group including a russian lawyer, a group of russians including a russian lawyer, he called that meeting treasonous and unpatriotic. he told michael wolff, th

starting at 8:30 this morning, steve bannon went in to speak behind closed doors with the house intelligence committee. it was reported by fox news that the white house told steve bannon at this testimony today that he should not answer house intelligence committee questions about his time on the transition or his time working in the white house. after he refused to answer questions on those matters apparently based on the instruction, the committee reportedly issued him a subpoena on the spot in the room. compelling his testimony despite his initial refusal to answer questions. that reporting has now been backed up by sources. adam schiff came out of the room tonight and said after the subpoena was issued to him, steve bannon continued to refuse to answer questions despite the subpoena. if all this is is true, i have more questions. can you refuse to answer questions in the face of a subpoena? is it unusual for the white white house to have told a white house adviser not to answer questions from congress? is it unusual the committee in congress had a subpoena for him ready to go in the room as soon a

house aterritorying that he should not testify to that committee. his lawyer that he has retained for this russia stuff who was with him today at house intelligence, his lawyer is also the lawyer on russia matters for the white house counsel who was the person who is presumably advising steve bannon not to talk to that committee today. having somebody on those two different sides of the story both represented by the same attorney? that's weird. that does it for us tonight. we'll see you again tomorrow. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. so that's weird. >> yeah. >> that's the weird thing. >> i found one weird thing in the news today. >> no, but it really is. i remember commenting on that and talking about it when it was revealed who this lawyer attorney burke is representing. reince priebus, don mcgahn, and steve bannon. there was bound to be a conflict very soon. and here we had it today. >> and it's interesting. because he was representing priebus and mcgahn for a long time before this. and that alone seemed like a strange potential conflict. now he is representing bannon as we

and the house intelligence committee, i think, is unlikely to follow up on a lot of the leads, unfortunately because of the resources committed to the committee, the politics of it. but i do think it's something that bob mueller should and will look into. >> so, it's not something your committee would actually look into? >> i hope that we will, but unfortunately, it's something that i would not be surprised if the committee does not. >> i want to ask you about hope hicks interview with your committee getting delayed. was it out of concern about the white house and what she might actually be able to say, whether the white house would be trying to invoke executive privilege? >> that's impossible for me or for other members of the committee to know, but we definitely want to speak with miss hicks. she's somebody that we want to interview. there's still many people that we think need to be interviewed in order to fill out the pieces of this puzzle. you know, so, i'm sure that we'll have a chance to talk to her at some point in the near future. >> john kelly on fox news last night said that the w

visit dexcomnow.com to learn more. >>> new this morning, the house intelligence committee could voteoday within a few hours to release the controversial memo written by devin nunes. talking to us now is someone who's actually seen that memo, the republican congressman johnson. you have seen the memo. i know you want it released. let me ask you about the latest revelation that we are hearing from the "the new york times," that this memo says that the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein authorized the surveillance of carter page, moved to have it reauthorized last year. can you confirm that to be the case? >> i can't talk about the contents of the memo, john, because we had to sign nondisclosure agreements and i think that's important. what i will say is, i think the american people deserve to make decisions about the contents of the memo themselves and that's why i support it being released to the public. this can be done in a responsible matter that doesn't sacrifice our national security interests or our national security apparatus, but, look, if we're going to have a government

he got a look at the house intelligence committee memo.n the case had been planning to retire in march though not that far away and now he's got a little earlier. president trump has repeatedly criticized mccabe repeatedly criticized the case and accused them of bias in the past because of his political connections with the clintons and an fbi investigation that produced no criminal charges against hillary clinton and her e-mail server scandal could the white house said the president had nothing to do with the ouster of mccabe. cheryl: well, tonight is the big night here president trump to layout the two and 18 agenda in his first state of the union address. he's also expect it to tout his big achievements. >> i think you hear this speech most presidents hope they can give, which they can get, which is we are doing well with a lot of things we've accomplished in 2017. unemployment is at a 17 year low. we just overhauled the entire tax system for the first time in 31 years. a great justice on the supreme court and so the president will talk

steve bannon is going to be called back for another interview before the house intelligence committeeorrow. that's because after 10 hours of closed door testimony yesterday he refused to answer many of their questions about president trump. and his time working with the trump white house. even after he was subpoenaed. now a top democrat is accusing him of complying with what amounted to a white house gag order. this is outnumbered. i'm sandra smith. here today harris faulkner, the editor of town hall.com katie pavlich. co-host after the bell melissa francis and joining us today on the couch is the host of the next revolution and former chief strategist for british prime minister david cameron steve hilton is here all the way fro

house to see anything in that regard. i mean, if the house committee that controls the classified information which is the intelligence committeeis particular case, decided that they wanted it released, they would vote on it at the same time. >> and when the congressman says, well, the fbi director looked at it and didn't have any changes, does that mean the fbi reviewed it? >> no. the director reviewed it and said i'm going to have to take it back to the folks who do this every day to look at it. that's why you want to give the people who do the classified restrictions on all of this type of material, bring them in and have an opportunity to look at it. again, what frustrates me most about this, and i think republicans a making a serious mistake here. getting an order is a complicated process. it involves a lot of people. you the agents working their sources and their sources of investigation. could be signals or a human source that brings this together. they may or may not have used some of the dossier. that's a factor, but there's lots of corroborating information in there. then it goes to an fbi senior. then another senior

the top democrat on the house intelligence committee accuses the white house of putting a gag order on steve bannon. congressman adam schiff is the one making that accusation. we're going to talk to him in just a moment about what happened behind closed doors. but first the mandate of this special series is to start with facts first. here is the fact of the day. someone is lying about what president trump said during that immigration meeting. democratic senator dick durbin doubled down today, telling jake tapper that, yes, the president called certain nations shithole countries. republican senator lindsey graham has all but confirmed it is true.

i am told that the house intelligence committee voted today to make the democratic memo available to all members of the house in the secret room setting which is the process that they went through with the republican memo. >> martha: that's what they are saying. jason, we allowed everybody in the house to read the republican memo. we won't release the democratic version unless we go through that same process. what do you think is going on here? where are we on this? >> we will get to a set of facts. there has been a lot of political barb. now we will have facts. the most definitive view will be the inspector general and horowitz. when the fbi says we can't find a month's worth of text messages, in less than 48 hours the inspector general found those. it gets shared with the white house and the department in advance. the last point, i think it's naive to think this is just the fbi and the departments. -- dependence. department of justice. >> martha: and the obama administration? >> most goes back to the campaign and election of 2016. you talk about people that were there. some are care

committee has steeks the same information -- has access to the same information that the house intelligence committee saw before drafting its summary memo. our committee does not have the same authority to release classified information that the house authority -- that the house committee has. we have to rely on the agency to review and potentially declassify our memo. based on what i know, i agree that as much of this information should be made public as soon as possible through the appropriate process, and i don't just mean the summary memos. the government should release the underlying documents referenced in those memos after deleting any national security information that needs to be protected. but most of this story can be told, and the part that can be told should be told. the american people deserve the truth. stale, recycled media spins from journalists and pundits who do not have all the facts is not enough. the country is filled with frenzy and speculation, but the people are very hungry for facts. however, i cannot release this information on my own and near the should anyone else. -- and

intelligence committee. when you see what is going on with the house intelligence committee, is this politics. >> i haven't seenhe memo out either. we have tried to focus in on the senate intelligence side. to see us all working together is important. we have to put out a common set of facts and agree on those facts. >> is it important for the fbi, for the department of justice to review this memo. >> sure it is. any time information comes out. it is important that everyone has a chance to look at it and we need to delete this. an individual reading it may look at it and say i don't have a problem with that. and the person that it was gathered from will know how that is. >> one of the republican congressman on the economy says director wray on the fbi had a chance to look over the memo and didn't have factual changes. former chairman rogers saying that is not the way it looks. >> again, the amount of being changed on the facts of it. how those facts are derived and check sources and methods at the end of the day. >> in terms of mccabe leaving, how much of a surprise is it. and ha do you think went on there. >>

>> it certainly looks like -- it looks like they're working together because the house intelligence committee will see leaks come out that advance the white house narrative, and then the president will tweet about it and it's become kind of a feedback loop. again, they are seeking to protect the president, but the collateral damage really affects the line fbi agents who are out there toiling away to plrotect s from terrorism and homicides and money laundering and corruption. they have to go to court every day and ask judges to believe in what they're saying. if you have the president and his aides on the house intelligence committee working to discredit law enforcement, that hurts the work that they're doing. >> so, what happens today? take us through the next couple of hours on your committee. what will happen today? >> the democrats are seeking, as i said, to correct the record, to put into focus what is really going on with what the republican memo asserted. just for the body of the house of representatives. now, we hope our republicans will vote in favor -- republican colleagues will vote

when i say this, no pun intended, but what congressman nunes has done basically to the intelligence committee on the house side, he's neutered it from having any confidence of the american people. any confidence in the house intelligence to come out with something in a professional matter, unbiased. >> based on the congressional roles, our contacts believe the committee must wait five days after tonight's vote, which seems to be a near certainty that they're going to vote in favor of a public release. even if the president waives objections, several days of waiting before we have a chance to read it, this is the news cycle where anything is possible, shep. >> shepard: thanks, catherine. >> you're welcome. >> shepard: team fox coverage continues. john roberts is live on the north lawn. hi, john. >> shep, good afternoon. mccabe's resignation seemed to take the white house by surprise. when we heard about it, we contacted the com shop and they said they just heard about it. there was no advanced notice given by the fbi or the department of justice that mccabe would soon be stepping down. the president not sh

charles: house intelligence committee voting to release nunes 4 age memo that now goes to president trump, now next lou dobbs, keep it right here on fox business. lou: good evening, breaking news, house intelligence committee has just voted to release the controversial 4-page memo that exposed we're told, the obama administration's abuse of its surveillance powers. the intel committee voting on party lines to make that 4-page memorandum public, congressman ron desantos among the republicans that read the deeply disturbing memo, as it has been described, he is calling for its release, he is joining us. also, major victory for effort to clean out corruption at highest levels of fbi and justice department. it appears, it appears that process may have begun. fbi deputy director andrew mccabe has been forced out after inspector general report examined his handles of clinton e-mail scandal. we will have a full respect for -- report for new moments, president trump is preparing to deliver his first state of union tracyaddress, his theme is safe, strong, and proud america, that is what president

stands with you™ liberty mutual insurance. >> harris: some breaking news coming out of that house intelligence committeesteve bannon, the white house former chief strategist. we've learned that testimony has been amended and to the fact that bannon's attorney told the committee the white house has directed him not to answer any questions about his time in the white house or during the transition. bannon apparently did not invoke any sort of legal privilege including executive privilege to support this refusal but fox is told lawmakers grilled bannon and his return he over their refusal to answer. steve bannon testifying behind closed doors to the house intelligence committee has now informed that committee and his attorney he will not be taking any questions about the white house or the transition. we will talk about this more as it develops the sour with our power panel coming up. for now, my next guest. national security advisor h.r. mcmaster, held secret meeting with japanese and korean officials over the weekend. they talked about talks between north and south korea and agreed north korea's decision

then at any moment, the members of the house intelligence committee could release a controversial memo alleging the fbi broke surveillance laws in the russia investigation. releasing it would be extremely reckless and the fbi director went to check it out this weekend. will it show bias or a hand fisted political stunt? and fact checking the president's bizarre claims about climate change plflt president, despite what you may believe, the polar ice caps are not growing to new records. good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead." stunning even his colleagues, deputy director mccabe resigned today. president trump asking who he voted for. according to the "washington post." by noon today, mccabe had exited the j edgar hoover building in downtown washington. sources say he had been at the fbi for 22 years and was set to retire in march, had no plans to leave today as of last friday. one source saying he was removed by the trump administration after public pressure by the president. that is a charge white house press secretary sarah sanders denialed this afternoon, saying the white hou

quote, contrary to a published report, there are no current plans to release the house intelligence committee's memo. the president has not seen or

why would the house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes who prepared this four-page memo, sheing with it other members of the house, refuse to share with it members of the committee and refuse to share it with either the fbi or the justice department. >> we're just talking aboutett over the break. that he doesn't want his intelligence to be questioned. only a handful of people have ever seen the information that it is based on. so if you were to release it to the public, let alone to the type of congress members, you're saying please. i'm offering this up for debate and whether it is truthful, whether it is enough for me to have this counter attack to the otherwise solid fbi investigation that no one knows what's going on. he doesn't want to be challenged or questioned. he wants it in his back pocket in the event he may have to use it. >> unusual that the house intelligence committee and nunes' team oh there, they don't trust what the fbi or the senate intelligence committee to appreciate what they've done. this is not a memo of the majority of republicans. it is be devin nune

start with vote in house to release this memorandum to american public, have you been calling for. i am cheering you for doing so. lou: a great. >> intelligence committee did the right thing to make this public, consistent with house rules, memo will answer a lot of the questions that we've been asking for months about jen session ogenesisof thes did yort will raise new questions that will require more investigation and perhaps appointment of a special counsel, this is important, i think that there will be more accountability went the bureaucracy, this is not the end game this is one more step. lou: among others, one of your colleagues trey goudie, saying that he did not want to see this memorandum released. doug collins another of your colleagues from georgia, saying he didn't think it was appropriate, and wanted to be careful. i am stunned when folks who are talented, death penalt capable,s and goudie and others say, they believe that priority should be caution rather than the public a right to know, i think there is a measure of delusion about how serious this crisis of credibility is on the institution of the house of representatives, and agents of

he says that the republican memo produced by the house intelligence committee, he is in favor of releasing it. this memo, of course, alleges fbi abuses, but in a twist, the house speaker says he wants members to keep it separate from the special counsel's investigation. don't use it to criticize robert mueller. the memo now in the hands of the president, who made it very clear, he wants this memo released. this morning, a source familiar with the president telling cnn it is very likely he with will release it, no surprise there. this is happening in the midst of the former deputy fbi director andy mccabe announcing he's leaving. the democrats in the house may be briefed very shortly by the justice department, inspector general, michael horowitz, who was investigating fbi activity in the 2016 election, both the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and the early stages of the russia investigation. joining me now, cnn's kara skinell for an update. >> we're waiting word to see whether the ig will meet with democrats on the house oversight and judiciary committees following the meeting that was

have you ever seen the house intelligence committee or the senate intelligence committee release thisd information without first allowing the intelligence community to review it? because they're not sharing this four-page memorandum, basically, with anyone outside the house. >> well, no, i haven't, and i think the fears are very well-founded. and that's why i'm saying that if they made the decision to release what the republicans said, they ought to release the democratic response for balance. you know, it's really shocking, wolf, that there is just such an attack again on the fbi, on the justice department. when the president first took office, he attacked all the intelligence. there seems to be a continuing miscoddling of russia, this not going after the russians. there is a bill which we passed back in august of last year with over 400 votes in the house. it was bipartisan demanding that some of the sanctions be imposed on some of these russians for interfering in our election. the president blew past the deadline, and about a month later came forward with the names. today is the d

you have the house intelligence committee, they release the memo, it will not go to the white house.t the president, the white house, will be very deliberative, they will take this very seriously, there is no rush to get it out. they want to know exactly what is in this first. >> that's what the process calls for end of course there is always the possibility, sean, when the president and his advisors look atpr her, and they will probably hear from the department of justice that this information or the implications of this information coming out, the summary would contain, would be damaging to sources and methods of intelligence gathering and therefore should not be made public. i have a hound, however, that they look at it and say, this is not going to hurt anything. it doesn't contain the underlying raw intelligence upon which it's based. within a week or so, we'll see this memo and then we'll know what the real deal is. >> sean: you've been around washington a long time, brit. i'm in my 23rd year at fox, 30 years on radio, i have a lot of sources. every single person i know that so

ameritrade. >>> we're back with more on this breaking news tonight involving both the house intelligence committee's vote to release a controversial memo disparaging the fbi. with us to talk about what happened today california democrat, current member of house intel, congressman eric swalwell. congressman, you said earlier this afternoon on this network that this memo should never see the light of day. and i want to ask a question that sounds flip, but it's not intended to be. what's the worse that could happen? >> good evening, brian. the worse that could happen is it would falsely poison the well of public opinion of the rule of law, of the independence that we are supposed to have at the fbi. you know, people ask me, you know, what's the big deal about this? in first world democracies you don't attack the police when they're investigating you, and you don't use them to attack your enemies. and this is falsely attacking the fbi to protect the president. it's a line that we just cannot cross, and i'm still hopeful that we don't go there, but i think we're as close as we've ever been. >> i know you

steve bannon is going to be called back for another interview before the house intelligence committee tomorrow. that's because after 10 hours of closed door testimony yesterday he refused to answer many of their questions about president trump. and his time working with the trump white house. even after he was subpoenaed. now a top democrat is accusing him of complying with what amounted to a white house gag order. this is outnumbered. i'm sandra smith. here today harris faulkner, the editor of town hall.com katie pavlich. co-host after the bell melissa francis and joining us today on the couch is the host of the next revolution and former chief strategist for british prime minister david cameron steve hilton is here all the way from the west coast. we love to have you. >> steve: it's so great to be here. it's been a while. i was just saying i haven't been on the couch since you have had palatial new surroundings. >> harris: we haven't had a revolution since you left. bring it on a wednesday. steve: we will do our best. >> melissa: do you know he doesn't have a phone? i don't even kno

you have the house intelligence committee, they release this memo. it's going to the white house.me tonight that the president and the white house will be delibrative and take this seriously. there is no rush to get it out. they want to know what is in this first. >> well, that's what the president called for. there is a possibility when the president and advisors look at and they will hear from the department of justice that this information or the implications of this information coming out, the summary would contain would be damaging and should not be made public. i have a hunch, they will look at it and say this won't hurt anything. it doesn't contain the raw intelligence upon which it's based. probably in a week or so we will see this memo and know what the real deal it. >> sean: have you been around washington a long time. i am in my 23rd year in fox and 30 years in radio. i have a lot of sources and every person i know who saw this memo used explosive. a political earthquake. it's only the beginning. there is a lot more they know is coming that will follow. what are your so

serious matter and we need to get that cleared up through one means or another. >> the house intelligence committee would not comment on media reports. the memo identifies andrew mckaib, rod rosenstein and the former fbi director, james comey. lou? lou: thank you very much >>> house intelligence committee chairman devin knew innocence has denied richard burrstead access to that memo. only house members can view the memorandum. my first guest tonight, part of a group of 65 lawmakers who are demanding its immediate release. he says nothing within that memo would impair national security. joining us, congressman andy biggs. congressman, good to see you tonight. much has happened. and one of the most -- one of the fastest recovers of missing e-mails of that volume in the history of the digital universe. ururn fortunately it was the doj and fbi who has to do the scrambling. what do you make of it? >> it's a technological miracle, isn't it? what you have going on is a continued pattern of stone walling and hiding the ball and not letting congress get to the bottom of it because the fbi and doj leaders, n

today the house intelligence committee heard from other key trump aides, former campaign manager corey lewandowski, deputy white house chief of staff rick dearborn. late this afternoon the top democrat on the house intel committee said this about lewandowski's interview. >> he came to testify, yesterday he said on fox that he would answer every question we had, today, however, he refused to answer questions, like steve bannon, that referred to anything after he left the campaign. this, in my view, is completely unacceptable. >> we have a member of the house intel committee standing by to talk to us tonight live. but first let's introduce our leadoff panel on a wednesday night. michael crowley, national security editor, senior correspondent for politico. we welcome to our broadcast barbara mcquaid, veteran former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan, currently a law professor at the university of michigan. and tom lo bianco, white house reporter for the associated press. tom, give us the state of play in what has been billed alternately as a white house versus house intel

grave concerns over the expected release of a classified memo written by staffers of the house intelligence committee and chairman devin nunez. in today's statement the bureau said, quote, as expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about the material omissions of fact that fund. ally impact the memo's accuracy. this mirrors complaints that democrats on the commity have had to say there is cherry picking going on in this memo. this is not a legal document. it is a memo by the staff of the committee. republicans on the house intel committee voted to release the memo. saying it shows that corruption in the fbi is, quote, worse than water gate. but democrats say the memo is a political attack that does cherry pick facts to undermine robert mueller's russia investigation. the fbi's warning comes after last night when a hot mic caught the president saying this about the memo.

house intelligence committee delays the interview with top white house aide hope hicks with concernsbout what she would be willing to discuss after a former white house strategist refused to answer dozens of questions from the panel. russian spy ship loaded with e electronic gear, and on the latest mission to track u.s. subs and intercept u.s. communications. what can the u.s. navy do about it? you're in the situation room i'm wolf blitzer. ♪ >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> breaking news, president trump tonight is facing a chaotic effort to keep the government running, his own mixed messages have left lawmakers scratcing their heads about where he stands. the government will grind to a halt tomorrow night, looking at the clock, counting down with 31 hours to go unless congress passes a spending bill. let's go to our chief white house kcorrespondent, jim accosta. can they stop the shutdown? >> we'll see, wolf. the shutdown is more than 24 hours away, and despite the need for urgency, gop leaders are deciphering tweets in search of clarity of what he wants. republicans may be in ch

that's where bannon spent nearly ten hours with the house intelligence committee. but the former chief strategist refused to answer questions about his time inside the white house because he says the white house told him not to citing the potential for executive privilege. that privilege allows confidential conversations with the president to stay that way. >> executive privilege is something that goes back decades because it's something that needs to be protected. >> reporter: bottom line, the russia investigations are not over yet as the shadow of the special counsel creeps closer to the oval office. and another familiar face to donald trump is also talking with house investigators. former campaign chair corey lewandowski. but the top democrat on that committee is now slamming lewandowski's appearance yesterday, saying he was uncooperative and unwilling to answer even basic questions about the president. frances, back to you. >> all right, hallie, thank you. >>> overnight the white house chief of staff john kelly disputed claims the trump administration told steve

last night republicans on the house intelligence committee voted to release a classified memo allegingmproper use of government surveillance by the fbi and justice department. and this morning washington is abuzz after the abrupt departure of fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. mccabe was a frequent target of the president who frequently accused him of bias. the white house says mr. trump was not part of the decisionmaking process that led to mccabe departure. >> reporter: sources tell cbs news fbi deputy director andrew mccabe was strongly encouraged to step down, and the investigation into the clinton private e-mail server may have played a role. in a message sent to fbi employees, director christopher wray mentioned the results of a review by the inspector general and said the fbi must perform at the highest standards. >> i fully complied with every rule that i was governed by. >> reporter: mccabe oversaw the clinton investigation but became a lightning rod for critics, especially president trump, after it was revealed his wife received almost $700,000 from democratic party sources i

also tonight here americans awaiting the release of the house intelligence committee mem gum that exposes the obama administration's abuse of power skying on american citizens including members of the trump campaign transition team and the trump administration. president trump now has four days to decide whether to release the memorandum to the american public. congressman matt gates has been urging the intelligence committee and asking the president to do so during his state of the union address tonight. congressman gates among our guests here and also two distinguished warning ton attorneys who have been instrumental in exposing corruption in the obama justice department, victoria tensing and joe dejenova join us here and will the president explain when that wall will be built, when will it start, when ill witness be completed? answers in his state of the union we'll find out all of that coming up here tonight. our top story, the much anticipated memorandum from the house intelligence committee, republican lawmakers who read the documents say it details shocking corruption and collusion

she declared a few days ago in an interview, that people have a right to know about the house intelligence committee memo floating out. stephanie asked it be disclosed. i assume stephanie would like all of the facts, all of the truth, to be disclosed by whomever, whether it be mueller, the senate intelligence committee, or whomever. do i have that correct, stephanie? >> yes, absolutely. of course we want to have all the facts. i hope that you want the memo released too, it's democrats that, again, are obstructing the release of this memo. >> there's no democratic obstruction. we agree that we all want the facts. then i have a problem with you suggesting that nothing is true, "the new york times" has to constantly retract, none of that is true. remember, in an interview you gave on camera several months ago, actually a couple of years ago, you pushed this idea of the pizza gate, that somehow hillary clinton was involved with pedophiles in a pizza store in washington. it was so severe that the host of that show asked you to retract it. so i have no confidence in your facts. >> peter, i'm glad you did

the house intelligence committee is set to interview corey lewandowski and long-time aide hope hicks. congressional committees and robert mueller are looking into russian meddling in the 2016 election. the white house and vladimir putin says there's no collusion. let's turn to chad pergram with more. so this is not a difference without a distinction. a subpoena is quite a different thing than anything else we've seen so far, is it not? >> right. this is what everybody so unique about what happened in the house intelligence committee today. they called in steve bannon. this is mostly a democratic witness. democrats wanted to hear from him more than the republicans on the committee did as republicans on the committee told me they wanted to check a box. he told them that he was told by the white house counsel's office that he would not talk about his time while he worked at the white house or also on the transition. this infuriated members of the committee from both sides of the aisle. when you come before a committee, they went to hear from you. he was not citing any legal precedent or

happened yesterday on capitol hill, as you pointed out, he was answering questions before the house intelligence committee. and essentially his attorney determined that some of the questions were outside of the bounds of what the white house said it had discussed with the committee. based on my conversations with white house officials, those bounds -- that bannon couldn't answer questions that relate to instances after the election. so during the transition and while he served here. sarah huckabee-sanders was pressed about this earlier today. take a listen. >> this white house is following the same practice that many white houses before us have. that have gone back decades, that there is a process that you go through any time you have congressional inquiries touching upon white house, the congress should consult with the white house prior to obtaining confidential material. this is part of a judicial recognized process. we want to follow through that. we've been fully cooperative with the ongoing investigations. and we're going to continue to do so and we encourage the committees to work with us, to find

most likely the house intelligence committee meets. they have the ability if a majority votes to declassify that memo and make it public so that everyone can finally see what's in it. >> but not immediately. >> they the can declassify it and then the president of the united states has five days in which he can object. if he does not object it goes public. if he objects, the full house would have to meet to vote to override him to declassify it. paul: and the president could see side to say to the house intelligence committee, keep out this bit of it or redact certain things. could he also do that? >> i believe he has the ability to negotiate with them on some of that or simply ask that they take that into consideration. they would modify it and then go through the process again. but i think the bigger point is you're going to see a campaign -- you already are seeing a campaign by democrats, by the fbi and other intelligence services to try to pressure the president into objecting so that this memo never gets made public. paul: bill, wh