schiff's memo, the ranking member of the house intelligence committee. the political pressure may have changed. now it would look rather heavy-handed on the part of the republicans on the intelligence committee given all the noise out there to not release the shift memo. frankly, it is more likely than not at this point that the democratic memo that some would see the light of day. again, it will still be he said, a said until folks are in position to evaluate the underlying application for themselves. that is why, from my perspective, the republicans and senior republicans in the house would be more directive in thinking it is the underlying application that either does or does not vindicate the president and prove this was or was not a scandal. first call for stephen vladeck comes from cedar rapids, iowa. independent line, david, you are first up. that in thed read dossier, the much-maligned dossier, that mr. paige had been offered a 19% share in the russian oil company in return for his influence on trump to lift sanctions. the person who allegedly rep

president trump says he's been vindicated by that house intelligence committee memo. what do you think? >> no, he has not been. as you pointed out in the earlier reporting in the segment, there are a number of republicans, including people on the house intelligence committee, like trey gowdy, who also disagree with that assessment. it's a three and a half page memo, which doesn't say a whole heck of a lot about a lot of things, but one of the things it does say is that the investigation we're talking about here on tv all week was not the dossier, but the meeting that george papadopoulos had. so to say the dossier is appropriate or improper, it doesn't help turt the president it doesn't vindicate him. >> after he watches a bit of fox tv, donald trump called the representative devin nunes, quote, a man of tremendous courage and grit, may someday be recognized as a great american hero. he also went after the top democrat in the house committee, little adam schiff is one of the biggest liars and leakers in washington. what do you think of the president's attack on adam sch

that's what the intelligence committee was saying and that seems to be omitted in what the republicans are aputting out today. the white house has been working with basically the intelligence committee in putting this out and accommodations were made, but it doesn't appear at this point that will rise to any kind of level that will satisfy anybody at the fbi, and you have the president disregarding pleas from his own hand-picked director of the fbi. i think one of the big questions moving forward is what will happen with chris wray? what does he do next? that is certainly uncertain at this point, and wolf, i think the other thing that needs to be stressed is as we're looking into this all day long today, that when the president says there is no collusion with the russians, there is no obstruction of justice when it comes to the russia investigation, there is more to it than just this nunes memo. when the president's own son has a meeting at trump tower that involves the campaign chairman at that time, the president's son-in-law and a russian attorney promising dirt on the hillary clinton campaign, none of that is really at i

thank you. >> the ranking member, the top democrat in the house intelligence committee, adam schiff, saying the full committee, republicans and democrats, have voted unanimously to release this democratic rebuttal of the nunes memo and send it to the white house. they want the justice department and the fbi to vet it to make sure there's nothing there that would compromise u.s. national security, releasing information about sensitive sources and methods, for example, and they're hoping the president will release it. the president as of tonight has five days to make his decision. let's get some reaction from sheldon whitehouse, a democrat who serves on the senate judiciary committee. senator, give us your reaction, first of all, to what we just heard from congressman adam schiff. >> well, i think it's good news. i've been a prosecutor, i've obtained wiretaps, i have reviewed the underlying materials, i'm one of the senators that's been given access. and i concur with representative schiff's view that the nunes memo was sorely misleading. so to get out the full story i think will be ver

it could be damaging to the country. >> so if -- the next time the house intelligence committee wantssified sensitive information either from the fbi or from the cia, from the intelligence community, the law enforcement community, they are going to be reluctant to share that information. >> well, i would certainly if i were head of the fbi or cia be worried about this. that's why what's needed now more than anything else is working together. in some places, congress does a great job working together, but today, times are so political, difficult, and tough, it's made much more complicated by presidential interference into the situation, that it's very difficult for them to do their job, and, again, the point that congressman swalwell made, all the problems in the world, north korea nuclear threat, everywhere in the world, we lose authority to prove we know what we're doing. it's not just picking a fight with members of the committee, but picking a fight that hurts america. >> why should the average american watching now care? it sounds complex. >> they want trust their government knows

mike rodgers was on the house intelligence committee. we overlapped by two years. et chairman. i saw him friday and hopefully we will write a piece together about the sad demise of the house intelligence committee. >> what does it do when the president this morning attacks the ranking member adam schiff of that committee as you were saying calling him little adam schiff and says along with james comey, mark warner who's the chair of that senate intelligence committee, brennan who was cia director and james clapper dni, he calls them all leakers and law breakers? >> the damage -- they're big boys and they will handle it. if you're in politics and even brennan if you're at that level, you're in a glass house, but what about the people who work for them? what about someone who is deciding whether or not to join the fbi or the cia and what about our foreign liaison partners in intel agencies and criminal investigative agencies who have tipped us off over the years to a lot of the plots that could harm our country and those plots have been foiled. the intelligence commun

just released by the house intelligence committee, tell us what the white house is saying. >> wolf, there indeed. the president left the white house a short time ago. he did not answer our questions about his decision for the deputy attorney general, which he left that question hanging. the white house press secretary, sarah sanders, has release d a statement, giving more of a window into the president's rationale for releasing this. it says this decision was made with input from the president's national security team, including law enforcement officials and members of the intelligence community, for whom the president has great respect. he is especially grateful to the hardworking rank and file public servants. again, rank and file public servants who work every day to keep merg safe, uphold our laws and protect the rights of americans. she does not answer the central question here, wolf, what is the fate of the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. we saw the president in the oval office a couple of hours ago and said you figure that out when asked about the fate of the deputy attorne

the house intelligence committee released a memo last week on the fbi and the russia investigation and possible abusive surveillance. we heard about the potential effect of the memo on national security earlier today on washington journal. we will show you as much as we can before the house gavels in. host: our first guest, stephen vladek of the university of texas at austin. he covers national security issues. good morning. guest: good morning. host: could we get your sense of the assessment of the republican memo? guest: after all of that sound and fury, i think the release of the memo was a bit anti-climactic. the memo really doesn't include much beyond what was already leak doubt. there are the questions about the provenance of the steel dossier. the goal of the memo is to provide the proof that the investigation by mueller is -- or the deputy attorney general rosenstein is somehow ultimately part of this controversy. i think it failed on both accounts. folks are still going to accept it as a conspiracy theory perpetuated, but the fact the conversation has moved on to other possibl

the memo prepared by the house intelligence committee -- house intelligence committee's democrats must be expeditiously released after review and appropriate redax of sources and methods by law enforcement officials, the justice department, the intelligence community. the president must declassify the memo without any redactions based on any political considerations. this is an urgent matter of national security and intelligence.

first, only two members of the house intelligence committee have seen the underlying source material, nobody else in the house intelligence committee has seen the underlying source material. that's why look at my public comments from the hearing, i prefer neither republican memo or democratic memo released unless the public can see the source materials and make a decision for themselves, and that really is ill-advised because you are compromising sources and methods, but based on everything i've seen at least, there's -- i have not seen reason to think that processes were violated. >> a senator earlier today, i believe it was democrat of oregon, suggested he thinks all of this is just the president trying to create a pretext, put out this memo, and then use that as an excuse to fire the special counsel robert mueller. do you agree? >> it's quite possible, yes. the president seems to be taking different steps to protect himself. that seems to be his priority, and he's got folks like the chairman of the house intelligence committee who are helping him on that, so i think the senator cou

least some kind of back-and-forth cooperation and discussion between senior members of the house intelligence committeed white house. pedro, there are strong norms about it. it is hard to be an effective overseer as the house intelligence committee is supposed to be, if you are running over to those you are overseeing on a regular basis, to plot strategy. the more coordination there was between the white house and mr. the house majority on intelligence committee, the more alarming is from a political perspective. there is no obvious legal perspective, but further underscores how this whole episode has not been about getting to the bottom of a potential abuse of the fisa process but rather about trying to vindicate the president's own narrative, frankly, as the president himself suggested on twitter saturday morning. preparesn mr. nunez the memo, does he work with an enclosed group of people, does he have to work with republicans on the committee? guest: the question is how is he going to get the memo through a majority vote under section 11 g to get it moving down the chain to release. is that he repor

but when pressed by a democratic member of the house intelligence committee about whether any of his staffers had contact with the white house, he didn't have an answer. and sarah sanders apparently had no answers either. >> did devin nunes work with anybody at the white house on the memo? >> not that i know of. >> he wouldn't answer that question. i just don't know the answer. >> he has worked with the white house before when it comes to intelligence and the russia investigation. >> look, we have certainly coordinated with members of congress as is appropriate, as to specifics on this, i just don't know the answer. i'm not aware of any conversations or coordination with congressman nunes. >> in a moment two of the chairman's house colleagues join us, a republican and a democrat. first cnn's jeff zeleny at the white house with the very latest. jeff, so just to be clear, the president has been telling his associates, what, this memo is going to discredit the russia investigation? >> reporter: anderson, we did learn that today. talking with some friends and associates of the president t

but it will be coming, of course, from the house intelligence committee. so we are likely only to see the president simply sign off on this, he may not even speak about it here at the white house. he's likely to send a letter to the house saying he approves the release of this, and then it is likely to be released by the house intelligence committee. again, likely later today but the timing is still a little bit up in the air here. brianna, in terms of the tweet this morning, the president clearly putting politics in this, saying that the top ranks of the fbi have been prejudiced against him. it is part of his ongoing argument he's been making privately and publicly that he hopes this will discredit the russia investigation. this is exactly opposite from what republican house speaker paul ryan said just yesterday. he said this should not impugn the russia investigation. now, in terms of the top ranks of the fbi, the president talked about that this morning, let's take a look at those men who are in those positions. they are all republicans as you said. chri

earlier this week, house intelligence committee republicans voted along party lines to declassify the memo, which had become a rallying cry for president trump and his supporters. in a highly unusual statement issued wednesday, the fbi said it was "provided a limited opportunity to review this memo the day before the committee voted to release it. as expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy." speaking wednesday, the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee, adam schiff, echoed the concerns. >> this is not about the facts. this is about a narrative that the chairman wants to put out, misleading narrative, to undermine the fbi, undermine the department, and ultimately, undermine bob mueller. of course, the danger in all of this besides the obvious one politicizing the intelligence process, is that it's an a message to the white house that he can fire rod rosenstein or fire bob mueller and there are gop members who are so vested in his presidency that they will roll over. and tha

he is throwing in the towel on behalf of the house intelligence committee. i think in the long term, this is damaging for everybody. this is damaging for the fbi, damaging for the house intelligence committee. keep in mind, going forward with any future investigations, it's going to be hard to listen to anything they have to say with any degree of confidence. and also hurts the american people, innocent bystanders to all of this. >>chris: let me pick up on one of the points you made. it's not just the house intelligence committee and its role. you have the president in thisc as you pointed out, at odds with his justice department and the fbi. the director of the fbi.his he's appointed by president trump and rod rosenstein who was also appointed by the trump administration. came over this weekend begged for the white house not to release the memo. what does that do when you've got a president who was at such odds with his own law enforcement? >> i don't know how that bond or the ties that bind to the president to the fbi director can be healed. i hesitate to s

we're waiting to hear from members of the house intelligence committee. they've been behind closed doors now for hours trying and sometimes failing to get answers from the white house communications director hope hicks. let's go to manu raju up mono manu, we're told hicks has refused to answer some questions. what's going on? >> she first came to the house intelligence committee at 10:00 and there was a back-and-forth after she initially refused to answer questions about her time during the transition and her time at the white house under the direction of the white house, that generated significant pushback from members of both sides of the aisle, particularly after she answered questions about the transition period in a separate meeting with the senate intelligence committee. so late in the day wolf we are told she started to answer some questions about topics in the transition but she still is not answering questions but a time at the white house. tonight white house communication communications director hope hicks refused to answer question, frustrating

nbc news has confirmed now that democrats on the house intelligence committee have released a declassified version of their russia memo. it's their response to the republican memo released earlier this month that questioned fbi surveillance practices. we're joined now by nbc white house correspondent jeff bennett and nbc's mike mamoly. >> the white house has sent both to the chairman and to the top democrat on the house intelligence committee a declassified version of the memo that democrats wrote in response to the memo that the republicans had written that was released three weeks ago yesterday. this is important because the devin nunes memo this has to all do with the carter page a former trump foreign policy adviser, the fisa warrant application that was submitted and approved in order to surveil on him. republicans claimed in their memo that there were not enough evidence presented to the fisa court about the political sources and the possible political motivations behind. democrats tried to have released at the same time rebutting some of the key claims, that did not happen. the whit

but republicans on the house intelligence committee voted monday to block its release. the president wouldn't answer whether he would release that memo though the white house issued a statement saying, the administration stands toward work congress to accommodate oversight requests. the white house has avoided it all week. when you're attack fbi agents because you're under criminal investigation, you're losing. and in the last several minutes a white house official has told cnn, as for the fate of rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, that there is no consideration of or conversation about firing rosenstein. you have to ask the question, has anybody told the president? >> good question. thanks very much. jim acosta at the white house. let's bring in our legal experts. we're just learning that there was a message recently or just delivered by the fbi director christopher wray to the team. >> our colleague reports that he said he knows they're going through a tough time especially in the unsettling last few days, he said he was inspired by the fbi and the work that

a member of the house intelligence committee. democratic member of the house intelligence committee. let's get reaction from our panel. joining me now political analyst, a cnn security analyst, and cnn legal analyst. sam, we'll start with you. it appears that my interpretation of how congressman schiff is responding is not completely accurate. i got the sense that one -- from the one tweet they seemed to feel that too much was redacted. that's not the sense you're getting? >> my sense is that schiff along with the members of the house intelligence committee want to see the same process applied to this memo, to the nunes memo and any others that come out. the president chose to listen to the doj and the fbi in this case. various things were redacted. he did not listen to the doj and the fbi on the previous memo. they said that releasing it would cause grave damage to -- >> there were no redactions in the initial e-mail. >> it just went out. so i think the issue is we have to apply the same process to memos coming from whomever. loo

knows it's never going to be okay to take dirt from a foreign actor. >> reporter: the house intelligence committee will have another high-profile witness tomorrow, white house communications director hope hicks. the question of course, wolf, is what questions she answers, does she answer any questions? some previous witnesses including steve bannon have refused to answer most questions citing white house claim of executive privilege. we noted today that adam schiff the ranking democrat said they still have to issue a contempt order for steve bannon for refusing to answer those questions. >> we'll see what she does tomorrow. jim sciutto, thank you very much. >>> let's get reaction, senator jeff merkley is a democrat who serves on the foreign relations committee. thanks for joining us. >> you're welcome, good to be with you. >> looking at the number of redactions in this ten-page democratic memo, could house democrats have revealed sources and methods if their memo had been released unredacted? >> not having been directly in the loop to review it i can't say specifically but it won't through the app

let me tell you, the house intelligence committee, we prefer to stay out of the press. r at least the republicans do. we prefer to just be down in the basement, helping out intelligence agencies. only making appearances when there is an issue of national emergency. where we need to go out and talk about whatever it is the american people need to know. that was traditionally how we did our work. let's talk about russia. in 2013 and 14 and 15, the republicans had been warning the obama administration that russia was a problem. and vladimir putin was a problem. this was an administration who and a lot of people talk about what the administration, the current trump administration doing against the russian threat? let's talk about how what the obama administration did with the recent policy that actually created and emboldened vladimir putin to be in a position to be such a threat. [applause] just a few facts that people forget. number one, we went through, we did a reset. we had a reset button. with hillary clinton. then, we said that we were going to pivot to asia because w

a call to force two former key players from the trump team to testify before the house intelligence committee's russia investigation. let's bring in our analysts and experts. dana bash is with us. the top democrat on the house intelligence committee, you want steve bannon, corey lewandowski, to come back, to force them to testify on sensitive issues. will they be able to do so? >> not in the house. it is not likely that he can force that without the support and backing of the majority. you know, it is certainly true in the senate, as well, but in the house in particular, the majority rules in a big way from -- from the house floor all the way to key committees. and we have seen what has happened inside that committee. so without support from republicans, from the chair, and maybe other rank and file republicans who can push the chair, it's going to be hard for adam to achieve that. >> jeffrey toobin, why is it so important that lewandowski, campaign manager for at least part of the campaign, and steve bannon actually back and testify before the house intelligence committee? >> well, their testi

committee when the house intelligence committeeoted on monday to release the memo publicly. that has caused calls from democrats, mainly adam schiff and members on his committee to have another vote and the house intelligence committee on the memo actually being reviewed by the president right now. that is something, however, wolf, that republicans are resisting, including members of the house intelligence committee. republicans are saying, we don't need a revote on this, including trey gowdy, one of the top republicans on the committee whose house just told me they oppose the notion of revoting on this memo because they said there were changes made before that revote and before that monday vote happened. he did not even know that it was the memo reviewed, apparently asking the speaker to stop this memo and even removing nunes from the chair committee. we'll see what happens when he meets with the president later today. >> president trump's plan to release that controversial memo puts him on a collision course with the fbi director

it has to go through the same process, voted on by the house and intelligence committee. let's be clear about this, no one is saying that republicans on the house intelligence committee are blocking anything. they are working it through the same process. the nunes memo was made available to be viewed in a classified setting by all members of the house of representatives. the schiff memo is going through the same process, just a little bit later on the calendar. but no one is voting to block it. it is moving through the process. and it will be voted on by the full intelligence committee at a later date. >> do you believe, or do you wish that the president hadn't made the mistake he made when he said all this was used to spy on the trump campaign? because carter page didn't work on the campaign whether this happened. >> well, look, i think that the memo has raised very legitimate questions about how and in what ways the fisa process may have been abused by using campaign political opposition research. i will tell you, right, if in the heart of a political campaign an attorne

we just got word that a source on the house intelligence committee has received that memo. ey are reviewing it now. we don't know exactly what the next steps will be for its release, but obviously, the white house has now approved its release alongside some of the nation's intelligence agencies. to give you background, we can say president trump was less than enthusiastic about the release of the schiff memo compared to his enthusiasm behind the release of its republican counterpart, the nunes memo. you'll recall even before reading a word, the president was encouraging its release. at one point, he was caught on a hot mike during the state of the union telling lawmakers he would 100% back the release of the nunes memo. he essentially went against the advice of the fbi and others who urged him not to release it because of what they called inaccuracies or depictions that were taken out of context. in other words, a feeling from the intelligence community that the nunes memo lacked certain clarifications. after it was released, the president said it vindicated him, that it pro

if the house intelligence and senate intelligence committees just become more political vehicles?etary panetta talked about a breakdown of rule of law being the primary concern. i agree with him on that, on that front, and to answer your question, chris, this kind of involvement on the part of the house intelligence community is highly unusual. i also want to make the point that in this political hullabaloo surrounding the memo, in the showdown between democrats versus republicans, i think washington has lost sight of the fact that this is actually a classic executive branch versus legislative branch dispute in the sense that it is pitting the department of justice, and executive branch agency, against a congressional committee that oversees it. the key differentiator here is of course that president trump is weighing in against his own team. he's thrown in the towel on behalf of the intelligence committee. i think in the long term that will be damaging for everybody. this is absolutely damaging for the fbi. it's damaging for the house intelligence committee, because keep in mind,

and she is scheduled to be on capitol hill tomorrow answering questions from the house intelligence committeeit is an open question if she takes any questions. what i mean by that is steve bannon, the former chief strategist of the white house, was also appearing before the house intelligence committee several weeks ago, essentially declining to answer questions, citing executive privilege there. so it's unclear if hope hicks will answer questions tomorrow or simply show up to this meeting and say she can't answer questions. so that is something that we will find out tomorrow as the day goes on. don, it's important to point out a closed hearing. this is not a public or open hearing, we won't see her face the members of congress. but we are expecting her there. we'll see if she answers these questions, again about the original meeting that was happening in 2016 in trump tower with the russian operatives and some campaign officials. >> the white house held its first press conference today since the former trump campaign deputy rick gates agreed to cooperate with the special counsel. what did th

and that is where it begins. >> reporter: the house intelligence committee meets tonight at 5:00 p.m. where top on the agenda will be whether to release that democratic memo, this rebuttal memo that you referenced, that ten page memo. democrats on the committee have been arguing since last week since the release of that republican memo from devin nunes that it mischaracterized everything, took too much out of context and was too partisan in nature and they want this democratic memo to in essence correct the record, give a actualer picture with context. ranking member on the committee, adam schiff, the author of this democratic memo really blasting that republican memo over the weekend. >> the interest wasn't oversight, the interest was a political hit job on the fbi in the service of the president. >> reporter: the committee will be voting tonight to release the democrats memo if they do -- if that motion passes then it goes to president trump where he gets to make the decision on what happens to the memo next. we heard from senate minority leader chuck schumer over the weekend. he sa

now to capitol hill where the house intelligence committee is expected to vote soon on releasing a democratic memo defending the fbi against republican allegations. it used surveillance laws to target the trump campaign. let's go to manu. the white house won't commit to releasing. at least not yet. >> the house intelligence now meeting behind closed doors to decide whether or not to vote to release this democratic memo provides a rebuttal to that nunes memo there last week. a point by point rebuttal. roughly ten pages in sxlenlth several members going into the meeting made it clear that they'll vote yes to release the memo and there will be enough votes to send this to president trump's desk. and then you'll have five days to decide whether or not to object to the release or allow it. this comes after last week's vote saying they had just been presented with it instead of allowing the house to review it in a classified setting. now they're ready to send it to be reviewed publicly pending the president's approval. now this comes as some members are raise go concerns about some of the president

the house intelligence committee voted to release the mstery. the president gave the okay to declassify the republican last. we report from the white house. >> reporter: president trump s the public should see another classified congressional memo. >> i think hard for the white house like it was hard for republicans on our committee to block release of th tt they make political redactions, not redactions to protect >> reporter: the house intelligence committee voted unanimously to release a democratic rebuttal to the gop t of justice and fbi ofsi the russia investigation. congressman adam schiff autmemo. on twitter monday, president trump called him "little adam schiff," and "one of the biggest liars and leakers in washington." in another tweet, the president called the committee's republican chairman a man of tremendous courage and grit. >> we had to use this process in order to make it public because doj and fbi were refusing to investigate themselves. >> reporter: president trump, who cleared the way for the release of the classified gop memo,

we are just being told that the house intelligence committee has in fact voted unanimously to vote out the democratic memo. top democrat on the committee adam schiff. let's listen into some news if we can. >> coordinated conceptualize this memo and culmination with the white house. we know the chairman embarked on a similar effort to coordinate a campaign early on in the investigation. once again, mr. nunes refused to answer the questions. at the end of the hearing he gave a very lawyerly written response to saying that the white house had not been involved in the actual drafting of the memo. in terms of whether it was coordinated with the white house or they were consulted or strategized, the whole concept, refused to answer those questions. obviously that's a very important question for our committee. the reality is that as the investigation has progressed, our own perhaps most significantly our investigation by bob mueller, as more and more individuals have pled guilty and the evidence has mounted in terms of the issue of collusion as well as our obstruction, there is a rising sense

everybody knew that the house intelligence committee was going to vote on the memo this evening. it's now in the president's hands. he's got five days to make a decision whether or not to block that move. >> does he have the guts to declassify the republican one and not the democrat one? >> i was asking that question of the republicans on the committee, and no, they think he's going to have to let it go. he just may heavily redact it. that's the question. even if -- that's another thing, if it's heavily redacted, democrats want to see what the fbi ordered redacted and what comes out of the white house redact. >> 40 black lines and two names? >> to see if it's political or sources and if there's a difference. they're going to try to potentially have a next round of pushing to get this out there more than comes -- >> right. >> that's a possibility. >> thanks so much to the panel. i appreciate it when you come in late to join us. >>> president trump repeatedly attacks the russia investigation as a hoax once again and slams the fbi's role in it. up next, we're going to ask an fbi age

house committee. if you look at what this house committee has been doing and compare that to the senate committee, what are the differences? the house intelligence committee and their investigation of the potential coordination between the trump campaign from associates and the kremlin, their investigations has essentially devolved into a partisan slugfest. behind the scenes, they are doing serious work. they have gotten tons of documents, they are brought in powerful witnesses who are on hand for many of these controversies. the enormous, dramatic fight between devin nunes and adam schiff has overshadowed that threatened some ways to potentially delegitimize it. on the senate side, the senate intelligence committee, headed by a republican, working in tandem with mark warner, the top has not had that whatsoever. richard burr has kept his head down through this, he has not publicly sniped with mark warner, the two of them appeared together when they are talking about matters related to the investigation. in any investigation like this there is always tension between republicans and democrats trying to work together, publicly we have not seen that

the house intelligence committee approved its release monday, giving the president five days to make that decision. white house deputy press secretary raj shaw was asked about yesterday. >> the review process is ongoing and as we have said previously, we are using the same standards in the same process by which the republican drafted memo was evaluated that was voted in the house intelligence committee. it is going through both the legal and national security review. i think we previously mentioned the president was briefed by the deputy attorney general the other day. when we have more information or announcement, will make that available. >> sandra: chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live from washington. what is the latest that you hav have? >> the expectation is the democrats counter memo will be released today in the president will declassify the ten page memo with redaction's but there are no guarantees and basically right now, the waiting game continues. under long-standing congressional rules after monday's votes to make the democrats memo public, the presi

i think that's what the house intelligence committee should be doing right now. >> evan, can the house intelligence committee override the president on this if the republicans were on board? >> yeah, exactly, but, again, if the republicans were on board. you know, we're told -- my colleagues manu raju and jeremy herb who are covering this on the hill say republicans aren't exactly eager to override the president on this. they have redactions, according to the letter that rod rosenstein and chris wray have sent, they have identified specific parts of the memo that are problematic, so perhaps they can work through that, but at this point, i mean, i don't see devin nunes leading the charge to override president trump. after all, you know, devin nunes has been kind of playing almost like quarterback for president trump on the hill there. >> yeah. everyone stick around. after a quick break, we're going to hear from a democratic member of the intelligence committee. >>> later, the president's defense of fired white house staff secretary rob porter and his complete nonmention of the women who

intelligence committee a much more rigorous investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 investigation, it has been bipartisan on the part of chairman burr and senator warner on the democratic side. this house intelligence committee really has been, unfortunately, a very political and partisan affair. and what i should point out, adam schiff says at the end of his memo, pointing out again that he didn't even want to have to do this in the first place, that with this memo now public, that he hopes the committee can turn back to its more bipartisan work here and try and get to the bottom of russian meddling in our elections here. >> mike and geoff bennett at the white house for us, thank you both. we do want to share with you the full statement that we received from the house intelligence committee chairman's office, devin nunes' office, saying, quote, the american people now clearly understand that the fbi used political dirt paid for by the democrat party to spy on an american citizen from the republican party. furthermore, the fisa court was misled by mr. page's past interactions with the fbi in which he helped build the case against russian operatives in america that were brought to justi

we are look at house oversight committee, the intelligence committee being treated disrespect any by the agency over which it has oversight responsibility. this is stunning, stunning stuff this evening, and it's headed toward taken outright collision. our next guest here tonight has viewed what he says is the disturbing document that the american people deserve to see, and he wants that memorandum released straightaway. joining us from the republican retreat in west virginia, congressman mark meadows, a member of a number of key committees. and he's chairman of the house freedom caucus. these latest developments here, this is getting uglier by the moment when we thought we were on the way to transparency, the release of the memorandum straightforwardly. >> well, it is getting you lire. but the other part -- it is getting uglier. i have been calling on it along with a number of my colleagues. jim gordon has an obligation to inform congress when there has been fisa abuses. he is following his constitutional duty to advise us of that. the fbi had to come under subpoena and threat of con

the house intelligence committee voted to release the memo yesterday. the president gave the okay to declassify the republican version last week. the report from the white house. >> reporter: president trump will soon weigh whether the public should see another classified congressional memo. >> i think it's going to be very hard for the white house like it was hard for republicans on our committee to block release of this. i am more concerned that they make political redactions, not redactions to protect sources and methods. >> reporter: the house intelligence committee voted unanimously to release a democratic rebuttal to the gop memo that accuses the department of justice and fbi of abusing surveillance powers in the russia investigation. congressman adam schiff authored the democratic memo. on twitter monday, president trump called him "little adam schiff," and "one of the biggest liars and leakers in washington." in another tweet, the president called the committee's republican chairman a man of tremendous courage and grit. >> we had to use this proc

intelligence committees were set up. the whole process worked for decades until it didn't. and this -- you know, i was -- i had adam schiff's job as the ranking democrat on the housentelligence committee for four years. i served on the committee eight years. i was in the so-called gang of eight. we had disagreements. but the committee somehow got through them. this is the first time i have seen the absolute you know, destruction of the house intelligence committee. and it's heart breaking. and it's a huge loss for the country. >> i want to take a step back, look big picture. because you know we were just talking about this. democrats claim there was bias in the fiv during the clinton investigation. they blame the cia during the iraq war. you know saying that the basically the intelligence was cherry picked. so in light of that, do republicans have a point that, look, we need to keep our intelligence gathering in check as well? like we have a right to do that? >> we do need to keep it in check. and we have had two massive intelligence failures in centerry. one was the 9/11 and one was the wmd when the intelligence got it wrng. we reformed our system in 2004 on a bi

if you are just joining us, the house intelligence committee has just released this dai-- now i would even say infamous memo prepared by house intelligence, and they allowed that to be declassified. i want to bring in evan perez, and evan, the warrant was extended multiple times. what does that mean? explain it. >> i think that's an important point for us to remind viewers that not only was it authorized by the fisa court in 2016, but there was renewed, every 90 days, three additional times. for you to do that, for the fisa court to do that, twooit would to be the fisa court released that it revealed they were getting something useful. so, you know, we don't know again what's the outlooig. they're not able to tell us here what the court was also aware of, but their point is this is fruit from a frozen tree. because this dossier was prepared by political activists, someone who was paid by the organization, that it never should have been used or granted. the key to remember is beyond the first time it was approved by 2016, and the way the justice department are able to get that is by sh

and i think it should bother the president himself and his team. >> that was house intelligence committeehairman devin nunes. with the president on intelligence reports that allegedly showed proof of improper surveillance of trump campaign officials. but that evidence has not yet emerged. what's more, nunes reportedly got his information from the trump white house itself. according to the "new york times," the night before those comments from nunes, he had secretly visited the white house where two officials had given him the same documents that he then returned to tell trump about the next day. nunes was forced to temporarily step away from the russia probe, but by december, the ethics committee cleared him of any wrong doing. now comes the nunes memo questioning the integrity of the fbi's investigation into trump and russia. that happened yesterday. so how did the california congressman's constituents feel about what has happened to date? his hometown paper calling nunes trump's stooge. i want to bring in bill mccune, currently news director for gv wire. thank you for joining us, bill.

committee member, will hurd explains why. >> there were references to ongoing intelligence operations. i believe they're working through that. >> i'm -- >> if the house intelligence committee votes to release the democratic memo, president trump then decides if and how it should be made public. portions could be redacted or kept under wraps entirely. elaine. >> errol barnett, thanks. >>> now some other stories we are following in the cbs "weekend news feed." a san francisco police officer is recovering after being runover last week by a robbery suspect. video shows the the suspect backing up his car and running over the officer and another suspect. both survived. other officers on the scene grew their guns but did not shoot as the car drove away. >> space x is counting done to liftoff for its falcon heavy rocket. it is basically three reusable rockets bolted together. the falcon heavy weighs more than 3 million pounds and stands nearly 230 feet tall. the middle booster wril launch a car. tesla roadster towards mars. test launch tuesday from historic cape canaveral pad used in apolo missions. it will be raining purple this week at an auction of prince

after that memo from congressional republicans, a short time ago, the house intelligence committee voting to release the president's response. will the president sign off on that? we asked him today. here's abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. >> reporter: less than a week after calling for national unity in his state of the union, the president today attacked the democrats who did not applaud, branding their behavior un-american, and maybe even worse. >> they were like death. and un-american. un-american. somebody said treasonous. i mean, yeah, i guess, why not? can we call that treason? why not? >> reporter: in ohio today, and in classic trump form, the president bragged about the economy, he bragged about the tax cut, he even bragged about his big win in ohio. and then, he said he's not one to brag. >> i am non-braggadocios. >> reporter: in a cryptic aside, the president seemed to allude to the republican intelligence committee memo, which claimed to show anti-trump bias in the justice department. >> oh, but did we catch them in the act or what? you know what i'm talkin

. >> brennan: we sat down with the only republican on the house intelligence committee who has seen all of the classified documents used in the memo, south carolina trey gowdy. we'll talk us through the complicated story that got washington's full attention. there's breaking news as well this morning as amtrak passenger train collide with a freight train in south carolina. we'll have the very latest. we'll have plenty of analysis on the national security implications of the memo and as always, our political panel weighs in on the news of the week. it's all ahead on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs good morning, welcome to "face the nation" i'm margaret brennan. we begin this morning with some breaking news overnight an amtrak passenger train collided with a csx trait train just outside of colombia, south carolina. cbs news transportation correspondent kris van cleave is in our newsroom. good morning. >> margaret, good morning, the amtrak train was heading south from new york bound for miami when around 2:30 it collided with that freight train at least two people are dead.