. >> they destroyed one of the last islan of non-strident partisanship in washington which had been theg of eight. the gang of eight, judy, are the ur leaders of the congress, two in each party, and the four ennking members and chairs of the intell committees. that has been historically a ratheremarkable abberation from the strident partisanship that has possessed our city, sadly, and that's now desoyed. the idea that this could not have been done in regular order, there were doubts about how the f.b.i. and their sources, they didn't question the substance, now they're going back to the source, you know, on steele, which really is sort of a reach. we've learned today that devin nunes, the author -- and i put that in quotes -- of this memo, because there are strong suggestions that he was not unaided in this effort, that the may have been collusion with those other places in government, that it's actually never en read the basic material. >> woodruff: he said that in an interview. in fox news. he subcontcted that to tre gowdy, a colleague in the. house so i think it does nothing but dama