he also said that there may have been malfeasance at the fbi. chris stewart, republican congressman from utah, has been watching this with me. he sits on the house intelligence committee. and i know you have to run, so let me ask you about one of those things that he said, which was pretty startling, there may have been malfeasance at the fbi? >> yeah, no question about that. that's why we feel it is so important to release this information to the american people. and it doesn't matter who they're targeting, a political figure, private citizen, we all have those -- the expectation of privacy and our civil rights would be defended and, again, that's why we want to share this with the american people. >> what is this malfeasance? >> well, we see the memo, i think it will give you some insight into that. by the way, this memo isn't the last you're going to hear about this. we're going to have to report to the american people more broadly as well. i think this is the first installment of us being able to say to the american people, these are our con

there may have been malfeasance at the f.b.i. by certain individuals. so it is our job in conducting transparent oversight of the executive branch to get to the bottom of that. sun shine is the best disinfect ant. we want information to come out to transparency can reign supreme and accountability can occur. a fourth point. the institution of the d.o.j. and f.b.i. is very important institution for american life. it is a very important institution for keeping the rule of law intact. the men and women -- the vast number of men and women there are professionals doing their jobs and doing them well. the people over in the field office in milwaukee at the f.b.i. office are helping keep heroin and opioids out of our schools. we want the people of the f.b.i. to know we respect their job and respect who they are and what they do. and all the more reason why we need to have transparency and accountability to hold people accountable if they violated the rules. if they acted in a wrong, improper way. that's what we're doing here. >> all the other conclusions that

. >> there may have been malfeasance at the fbi by certain individuals. sunshine is the best disinfe disinfecta disinfectant. >>> new details of a russian fighter buzzing within five feet of u.s. recon plane over the black sea. >>> and could three corporate titans be setting the stage for the future of america's health care? "early today" starts right now. >>> good wednesday morning. i'm frances rivera. it was the third longest state of the union address in history. president trump delivering remarks before a joint session of congress. he spoke to the american people as the shadow of the russia investigation looms over his administration. looking to strike strike a conciliatory tone. this despite 13 democratic lawmakers boycotting the president's speech altogether. the congressional black caucus taking to the house floor witha their shoulders in protest of mr. trump's alleged shole comments against haitians and african nations some weeks ago. mr. trump using the occasion to tout the accomplishments of his first year in office. >> the state of our union is

point number three, there may have been malfeasance at the fbi. >> reporter: was it -- >> let me finish my point. there may have been malfeasance at the fbi by certain individuals so it's our job in conducting transparent oversight to get to the bottom of that. sunshine is the best disinfectant so we want this information to come out so that transparency can reign supreme and accountability can occur there's a fourth point i want to make. and that is the institution of the doj, of the fbi, is a very important institution for american life. it's a very important institution for keeping the rule of law intact. the vast number of men and women at fbi and doj are doing their jobs well. the people over in the field office in milwaukee, the fbi office, are helping keeping heroin and opioids out of our school so we want the people of the fbi to know we respect their job, we wlopt they are and what they do and all the more reason why we need to have transparency and accountability to hold people accountable if they violated the rules, if they acted in a wrong, improper way, and this is what we

he suggested there could be quote, malfeasance. and it was up to the american public to review this themselves when and if this comes out publicly. when i had a chance to ask paul ryan about the decision tonight release the democratic memo at the same time, he said they were following the rules. >> this memo talked about yesterday, unlike the democrats who voted to deny access to the memo to the broader members, republicans supported doing so. so he made the motion. it will go through that 11 g process like the other memo did. >> as he was mentioning, the chairman went to the fbi to go through the memo. to make sure that we were protecting any sources and methods and we are confident that we are. none of that work has been done on this new memo. but the republicans voted to allow the rest of the members to read it so it can go through process. you've asked enough. >> is there some reporting that the president wants to fire department a.g. rod rosenstein? >> i think he's doing a fine job and i have no reason to know why he would do

. >> this is probably one of the more stunning examples of presidential malfeasance i have ever seen. put aside your partisanship. not only has the united states been attacked, but it is being attacked. we are under attack right now by the continued cyber efforts of the russians to undermine our institution, to undermine our electoral process. this isn't a question. we know factually that this is happening in the united states of america. there is a consensus upon our intelligence community about what's happening. so to have the president of the united states not sound the alarm which republicans have said, orrin hatch called this akin to a pearl harbor-like attack. for the president of the united states not to recognize that and not take every measure to do something about it is unacceptable. when putin is not met by power, it is almost like he is given an invitation to continue his assaults. we have not matched his assaults with our own pushing back. and the way to do that is the tools we've given the president which he claimed are not necessary and he has not used. that's tantamoun

there may have been malfeasance at the fbi by certain individual s.s the job of the executive branch to get to the bottom of that. >> what is paul ryan's role in all of this? >> similar to kevin mccarthy, and what jim was saying, it seem as though the role is to try to give a nonpartisan bend or spin to what devin nunes is doing as a real partisan. >> are you buying it? >> no. no, no. but that clearly is what his role is here. what about the larger role of paul ryan, sort of dealing with a divided conference, encountering problems that john boehner encountered, who is no longer on the job because he encountered it. does he give cover the right wing element that wants to join the fox news crowd on this and drum this up or does he try to present a truly more bipartisan or unifying approach to the investigation instead of undermining it? i think the evidence is clear, he's going with where the energy is. >> he tried to straddle the fence in noble fashion. i don't know who actually buys it to say it raises legitimate questions and please don't use this me

. >> there may have been malfeasance at the fbi. >> after monday's vote behind closed doors, committee staffers took the memo to the white house. source familiar with the discussions tell fox that president trump told aides he wants the memo out as soon as possible but not before a state of the union. the committee's senior democrat warned of national security implications. >> there was a vote of politicized the declassification process of intelligence and potentially compromise sources and methods. >> a source told fox the memo was drafted to deliberately eliminate national security information. in a recent interview, the oversight committee chairman's had great care was taken. >> there's a way to communicate what i think we need to connect it to the american people without jeopardizing sources. >> after a fair speech when ron reviewed the memo sunday, two senior fbi officials, one from counterintelligence on the other from legal, followed up. source familiar said they could not point any factual inaccuracies. the fbi had no comment. justice department official disputed the characteri

you talked about fbi malfeasance. can we talk a little bit? >> bill: that was paul ryan's words. >> harris: but you said it. >> bill: i did. >> harris: can we talk about reputational harm to the fbi right now and what rights the ship? >> bill: that's what got to get it right and if it takes a little longer, then so be it. i for one want to get past the stuff and i want to figure out what's true and what's not. i want to know what was going on. i went to know though whether or not you plan on bad information to go ahead. doing what is the economy look like to you. were any of these criminals? >> bill: was a little bit of that yesterday. andrew mccabe now admits his resignation occurred 24 hours after his boss went up to capitol hill. and i think that's the accountability. >> lisa: was and that also in to the inspector general saying it's in response to what horwitz had found in the doj, special counsel? spector general . i am just on my game today. but that's also another thing that is really important to look at here and what we are going to b

there may have been malfeasance by certain individuals. in the executive branch to get to the bottom of that. what we want is all of this information to come out so that transparency can reign supreme and accountability can occur. adamant itpeaker was be released -- robert mueller's investigation be allowed to run its course. a military campaign in syria heckled sergey lavrov opposition groups boycotted the -- tocalling it the assert the role in geneva. al-assad's regime. john j sullivan says "there is not a change in u.s. policy on afghanistan. kabul -- condition based. it sends a clear message that the taliban cannot wait us out, because our commitment to afghanistan is not based on a timeline. an in during partnership and will work with the afghan government to ensure that afghanistan is able to prevent terrorists. mark: trump ruled out talks with the taliban. pope francis has decided to send the vatican's most respected covering up for the most notorious pedophile priest. it was announced that multis of would travel to chile about the

. >> there may have been malfeasance at the fbi by certain individuals. sunshine is the best disinfectant. >> reporter: democrats accuse devin nunes of trying to undermine the russia investigation. >> the fundamental problem remains. he is a proxy for the white house. >> nunes today dismissing questions. and tonight even as the cia director warns russia will try to interfere in this fall's midterms, the trump administration is not ordering any new sanctions now, instead, ahead of a deadline mandated by congress, publishing a name of russian oligarchs, largely lifted from forbes magazine. >> they have no beef with the russians about what they did in 2016. and they need to know if they do that again there'll be consequences. >> reporter: peter alexander, nbc news, the white house. >> let's bring in two members of our state of the union team. savannah guthrie and chuck todd. chuck will have a narrow calendar with the mid term elections to get it done. >> the big challenge is how does he make tonight seem special. we hear from this president all the time. so

. >> there may have been malfeasance by people at the f.b.i. >> reporter: today, house speaker paul ryanshed off questions about whether republicans are intentionally railroading the investigation. >> first, there are legitimate questions about whether an american's civil liberties were violated. >> reporter: democrats responded angrily. >> i don't know if this is some kind of sick game. >> reporter: for now, the bitter partisan divides that threatened to sidetrack the investigation into whether the trump campaign coordinated with russian operatives during the 2016 aections. >> russia - if you're listening. >> the four-page classified republican memo was voted out of the house intelligence committee along party lines. the document alleges surveillance abuses by the f.b.i. on members of the trump campaign in 2016. ismocrats have written their own ten-page memo to counter house republicans' claims. isn't transparency a good thing, especially with an investigation pake this one? >> transparency is always a good thing, but this is not transparency. this is a misleading document where they're

. >> so i'll ask you because obviously we're at a moment when there is a big spectrum of malfeasancend wrongdoing. >> yes. yes. >> so what is the responsibility of a boss right now in any profession to figure out and to define what is a suspendable offense, what is a fireable offense, what is not an offense? >> i think the first responsibility is to your employees. the other employees. it's to ask whether the person -- let's take glenn out. whether the person creates a work environment that's uncomfortable for other people and in these cases uncomfortable for women. if you're a journalist, if you run a journalistic institution, you have another responsibility which is to your readers. how do you make sure that what happened does not make your readers think less of you? and then you have a responsibility to a larger society if you're a mission driven organization like "the new york times" or cnn which is how does this fit into the larger discussion of punishment? but i don't think all -- i don't think all punishments should be the same. i don't think that's -- some people would disagr

. >> there may have been malfeasance by people at t so, it is our job in conducting transparent oversight of the executive branch to get to the bottom of that. >> reporter: the memo was written by the staff of republican intelligence committee chairman devin nunes, one of the president's top allies. according to "the new york times," it claimshe justice department acted inappropriately when getting a surveillance warrant for former trump campaign advisor carter page, who they suspected could be a russian agent. the request to renew that warrant made by deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, the man overseeing the russia investigation. trump supporters say it calls into quest like a snickers bar. >> reporter: but democrats say it's nothing more than a political hit job, and accused republicans of cherry picking the raw intelligence. >> this committee voted to put the president's personal interest, perhaps their own political interest, above the national interest. >> reporter: democrats produced their own memo with their side of the story, but republicans say they need more time to review

. >> there may have been malfeasance by people at the fbi. >> reporter: but democrats on the intelligence committee say the republican memo is misleading, because it cherry-picks the facts. deputy attorney general rosenstein and fbi director christopher wray met with chief of staff kelly at the white house earlier this week to urge that the memo not be released. it's highly unusual for the fbi to publicly contradict the white house, but wray made it clear in his confirmation hearing that he is willing to stand up to the president. >> you have to be willing to quit or be fired at a moment's notice in order to stand up for what you think is right. >> so, let's get to jon karl, live at the white house tonight. and jon, we know that president trump fired former fbi director james comey. he hand-picked the new director, wl christopher wray. now, this battle between the president and his new director. all this playing out in public. how is this good for the president to be at odds with an fbi director all over again? >> reporter: it's not good, david. and people close to the president take wray

that's incompetence or malfeasance in office to sit on that information. kennedy: while we were having those honest conversations about how to confine the powers that be and discussions about the surveillance state in this country, they knew about these abuses of power. devin nunes was selling this reauthorization. >> devin nunes said there have been instances in which they have abused the intelligence materials we have let them have, but let's give them more authority and gather more information from us. it shows a disdain for constitution pal norms which is minds boggling. no one is saying the government can't spy on foreigners in foreign lands. but to spy on americans on the basis of area code or zip code. remember this a fisa warrant that aloud them to spy on every customer of verizon which includes the pentagon and langley. that's a profound violation and they don't seem to care about it. kennedy: have you heard what's in the memo? >> no. kennedy: what are they protecting us from? >> they are treating us like children. i'm look for a courageous member

ryan: there may have been malfeasance at the fbi by certain individuals. it is our job in -- to get to the bottom of that. we want all of this information to come out so transparency can reign supreme. ryan says it is unrelated to robert mueller's investigation. hawaii agencyhe that sent an alert for an incoming missile, -- global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i'm alisa parenti and this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: i'm emily chang and this is "bloomberg technology." coming up, apple under pressure. reports of leaked iphone x sales and a new u.s. department of justice probe. the new alliance take aims at health care. jpmorgan and -- join forces. onebook cross the lines running cryptocurrency promotions on its platform here it the selloff continues for u.s. stocks with most declines since august. a u.s. rate decision, the president's address to congress in the state of the union, let's bring in cory johnson in new york. walk us through the highlights today. y: there are a lot of the factors that lead

. >> there may have been malfeasance by people at the fbi. >> today house speaker paul ryan brushed off question as the but whether republicans are intentionally railroading the investigation. >> there are legitimate questions whether american -- >> democrats responded angrily. >> i've don't know if this is some kind of sick game. >> for now the bitter partisan divide is threatened to side track the committee's investigation into whether the trump campaign coordinated with russian operatives during the 2016 election. >> russia, if you are listening. >> the four-page classified republican memo was voted out of the house intelligence committee along party lines. the document alleges surveillance abuses by the fbi on members of the trump campaign in 2016. democrats have written their own 10-page memo to counter house republicans claims. >> isn't transparency a good thing. >> transparency is a good thing. this is a document hiding underlying materials. >> ranking democart on the committee says republicans are trying to undermine the special counsel russia probe. >> there is a real fear as m

doesn't feel didn't at a time when -- distant at a time when economic inequality and corporate malfeasance are once again shaking people's faith in the american experiment. most of all, i wrote about arthur because i think he has an amazing story that deserves to be remembered. he was born in vermont in 18 9:00 the son of a rigid ab abolitionist preacher. even in the north, abolition was not popular, and arthur's father was so outspoken and uncompromising in his beliefs that he was kicked out of several congregations, forcing him to move his family from town to town in vermont and upstate new york. arthur graduated from union college in schenectady. he did what many ambitious young men do, he moved to new york city. once there he became a lawyer, joining a firm of a friend of his father who was also a staunch abolitionist. he started out on the right path. as a young attorney, arthur won the case that desession regated new york city's streetcars. during the civil war when many were enriching themselves on government contract, he was an honest and efficient quartermaster for the union army.

. >> dana: do you think there was malfeasance in the loss of the text messages or was it innocent and technical. >> i don't know, dana. it's possible it was innocent. that it was technical. the problem is it's a strange coincidence it involves a period of time and texts that relate to the mueller investigation. when you layer that on other strange and you know fortunate coincidences like the same agents appearing in investigations involving donald trump and hillary clinton with a extreme bias against trump and for clinton, that would cause any reasonable person to question the objectivity of the folks involved. >> senator ron johnson was talk about the text. >> there is so much smoke here. so much indication of unbelievable corruption, you know with some individuals at the highest levels of the fbi. >> dana: one of the text that's he told ryan about was strzok said there is no there, there when it comes to the allegations of russian collusion somewher. i guess finding these texts could help the trump administration. >> there is a real question here. when you look at the texts in aggre

this is a vulnerability that has been found, but it is aimed that there are hacks and malfeasance thatg on. apple uses intel chips inside its mac computers. in its ios devices, iphone, ipad, eight makes -- it may design its own chips but it uses an architecture from arm, so this gets a building block of the core of what a lot of modern computers are built on top of, thought to be something more secure than software, but at this rate, it is questions about the design of some of the hardware and whether or not vulnerabilities can be prevented in the future. vonnie: how does apple's response compared to google or microsoft? they have all been similar. apple is slower in coming out with its response but the company said that they have put out the first wave of updates for their software that will fix some elements of it, and they will be coming out with others implementing for the safari web browser, and that could slow down the performance of the web browser by 2% to 3% the company said. these things will be coming in. it is going to get into future design of these sort of chips to preven

much swept schis of the american people because of the text messages that we've seen and other malfeasancei think it's a desire for the truth. and if the doj and the democrats are concerned about this not being true, democrats can release their own memo and the doj quite frankly doesn't really have a say in the memo going out or not. >> what's undermining people's faith in our dsm ik institutions is the constant barrage, the attacks coming from the republican party. are they horrified of what mueller might find when it comes to the trump investigation? who knows. but it seems as if they are actively pursuing an aggressive campaign against the fbi at this point. melissa: ben, is congressman peter king somebody who strikes you as someone who generally says outrageous things? he's a stoic guy for for him to be upset about this saying that the american public needs to see this, doesn't ma make you nervous about your own privacy and what the fbi could be doing to jeopardize your right? >> peter king has misspoke an time or two. but sure, if they want to take the unprecedented step of a house in

. >> there may have been malfeasance at the fbi by certain individuals. in connecting transparent oversight of the executive branch to get to the bottom of that. best is infecting. what we want is all of this information to come out so that transparency can reign supreme and accountability can occur. mark: speaker ride was adamant that the release of the four-page memo is unrelated to special counsel robert mueller's investigation which he says should be allowed to run its course. environmental protection agency scott pruitt's distancing himself from his 2016 statement that then presidential candidate donald trump is a bully who, if elected, would abuse the constitution. rhode island democratic senator tried to use his words against him today during an oversight hearing. made the comments while appearing on a conservative talk radio program in oklahoma. he said he appeared on the show several times but did not recall making those specific comments. huge crowds gathered in a park to witness kenyon opposition leader being sworn in at eight mock inauguration

. >> there may have been malfeasance by people at the fbi it's our job in conducting transparent oversight of the executive branch to get to the bottom of that. >> the memo was written by the staff of republican intelligence committee chairman devin nuns, one of the president's top allies according to the "new york times" it claims the justice department acted inappropriately when getting a surveillance warrant for former trump campaign adviser carter page who they suspected could be a he shall rayen agent. the request to renew the warrant made by deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, the man overseas the russia investigation. trumps supporters say it calls into question the sbeg of the russia probe. >> this makes watergate like stealing a snikers bar from a drug store. >> but democrats it's say it's a political hit job. and accuse the republicans of cherry picking intelligence. >> this puts the political interests above the national interest. >> democrats produced their own memo with their side of the story. but republicans say they need more time to review it before it can be released.

with the flood of damning news exposing malfeasance they want to create as many distractions as possible and discredit anybody telling the truth like us on the fox news channel for daring to report on the truth. for those wanting to advance false narratives, we never have been and never will will talk about rank and file members of the fbi, doj and the intelligence community. they're honor us with their service every day and there's no show on television that has and will continue to support these hard-working people that do such a service to their country. but the criminal wrongdoing we're exposing has only to do with a few select, obama administration, top bureaucrats who thought they knew better than you did about who should be your president. the liberal media is engaged in a total smear campaign and they want to shut up people like me and gregg jarrett and tom fenton and so many others. they want to conceal the truth. now, we've always had the utmost respect for the fbi, i have family in the fbi and intelligence community and police officers and firefighters and military. now, can t

there may have been malfeasance at the fbi the by some the. we want this to come out so accountability can occur. >> what's his role in all of this? >> rod rosenstein, we know that the president has vented frustration about the deputy attorney general from four different sources. the president has floated this idea of firing the deputy attorney general. rod rosenstein oversees the yaush probe, the special coun l counsel. we know he is also at the centerpiece or one of the centerpieces of this nunes memo. it talks about overseeing this investigation and also reports have been that it talks about the fact that rosenstein did, in fact, reauthorize this secret surveillance on the former trump campaign foreign adviser carter page. could it further draw the ire of president trump and could it make for ramifications for rod rosenstein or other members of the justice department? >> she brings up a good point. what are the legal ramifications of this? >> there's a problem with how this memo has been unfolded. the question is whether the justice departm

the person shouldn't have been here to begin with and but for, you know, the gross malfeasance of theseicials that don't enforce the law, their loved ones would be alive. >> jesse: some of these officials may be facing jail time. department of homeland security secretary has her way. i think harboring or concealing illegal aliens in the country against federal law or right. >> greg: this shows you that citizens must deal with the criminals while the politicians get to deal with the cause. they get to do these symbolic sanctuary cities but they are not living in areas where they will be victimized. what you can do, this has to be news. you have to focus on the consequences of these symbolic gestures to persuade citizens that their politicians are accountable, again, because a politicians don't feel the effect. the scripted hollywood treatment with good versus evil. you have defined heroes protecting these innocent illegal, undocumented immigrants. but that's attached you will be the evil government agent, jesse watters. i'm not sure arresting officials is the visual you want. what you ne

he thinks there was, quote, malfeasance within the justice department. he thinks it's possible american civil liberties may have been violated. he said there is a reason they did not release the democratic memo at the same time as the republican memo. he chalked it up to the process the white house is undergoing to release the memo. i tried to press him on that and asked why not hold back the republican memo and release the democratic memo at the same time to give the public both sides of the argument. here's his response. >> this memo, which just got put onto us yesterday, is going through that process. unlike the democrats in the intelligence committee who denied access to broader memb s members, republicans supported them. now it will go through that 11-g process just like this memo did. >> why not hold back and release them at the same time? >> as kevin was mentioning, the chairman went to the fbi to go through the memo to make sure that we were protecting any sources and methods, and we are confident that we are. none of that work has been done on t

there may have been malfeasance at the fbi by certain individuals. so it is our job in conducting transparent oversight of the executive branch to get to the bottom of that. >> now, the only roadblock to the memo becoming public would be an objection from the president. sources at the white house say that's not likely to happen. let's get straight to cnn's senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny with more on that. jeff, what are you hearing from your sources there about how this memo is going to be dealt with? >> dana, you're absolutely right. white house officials tell me it's almost certain the president will authorize the release of this memo. in fact, if he will not, that would be a big departure from everything he has said publicly and privately, indeed. the question is when will he do it? i'm told by a white house official that will not come today. they believe that would come in front of the state of the union address the president is focused on. they believe it would be a distraction for him. it's unclear whether the president has actual

if in fact the republicans are saying is true that there is malfeasance at the top then you have to proceedtects the institution. what is happening is a circus inside of a zoo next to a train wreck because you are trying to politicize this whole thing. >> you are saying you don't believe they should release the memo. i do believe there are legitimate reasons for republicans to investigate. >> a responsible way. >> is it disingenuous for republicans to be saying, well, chris wray looked at the memo and didn't have factual changes. reporting from the washington post is chris wray and rod rosenstein were in the white house saying don't release this. that just seems like not factually correct. >> we thought when trump came in, we were concerned that he might use the fbi to weaponize or go after the opponents. >> organization was held -- >> that was mine. >> one memo can come out and suppress the democratic memo. >> the democratic memo is going to come out. give it a week for members to look at it. >> unless the republican memo doesn't come out. >> then you have the nunes memo, an inspector gene

she's going to take it seriously and pursue it to find out if there was any kind of malfeasance, wrongdoing complicitous. >> dana: doj inspector general. the ig has wide latitude. we don't know what that person is doing because they have kept it secret and they are not leaking yet. i think that's good but i am not surprised that the attorney general and the fbi director would be talking to each other. that's one of the things that's alleged here to be wrong. i think when the history books are written that conversation between attorney general lynch and bill clinton on the tarmac that they will be seen as the linchpin of war all of these suspicions started even if there is nothing there. the appearance of it, as these two were saying in their text messages, the timing was terrible and it looked really bad and it has led to suspicion and cast doubt on the impartiality of the fbi, warranted or not. >> kimberly: go ahead. >> greg: you hear this argument. i noticed yesterday people saying it's bad because it feeds into the idea that something bad happened. or feeds into the idea that there might

there may have been malfeasance at the fbi by certain individuals. so it is our gualob conducting transparent oversight of the executive branch to get to the bottom of that. >> there's been some reporting the president wants to fire deputy ag rod rosenstein. do you think that would be a wise decision. >> i think rod rosenstein is doing a fine job. i have no reason to see why he should do that. >> joining me is eli stokols and joyce vance former u.s. attorney. this, i see this whole thing as an attempt to sort of impeach the impeachers, eli. anything they can do. first the guy sending his love notes to somebody else at the fbi and now this thing about fisa approval. it seems they're looking for anything they can to chip away at the credibility and integrity of this investigation so when they come out with something whenever they do, it will be impeached already. >> it's obvious ha that is what they are doing. paul ryan doesn't want to fully see that and basically saying today, yes, let the mueller investigation proceed. don't mess with it. let rosenst

indeed, in the small cases where there might have been malfeasance, the intelligence committee has self-reportedthe problem. i would just say as someone who spent a lot of time in uniform doing this work, while we had a very robust debate on it, i'm glad we finally landed on the reauthorization of the program, which is so critical. >> how did the president's -- his tweet today, watching fox news, echoing it, mimicking it, how does that undermine his credibility with national security members of congress, and in fact, with our allies? >> i think it did create a little bit of temporary confusion on the hill, but i would say two things. one, they had already weighed in saying the official stance of the white house was against the amendment and in favor of the bill. i think it's fair to say the republican caucus was divided on this issue. just this morning we had over an hour-long debate about where proponents of the bill like myself and opponents went head to head. then we ultimately voted. that's how the process should ultimately work. i know that doesn't fit the narrative, but from my standpoint,

i start with you, nick, four big stories, the one that has the most potential malfeasance would appear to be this highly unusual report of a new fbi director threatening to resign? >> i think that's right. again, it shows that trump has no regard for the rule of law, that he thinks he can run the fbi, he thinks there should not be independence between criminal investigations, the department of justice and the president of the united states, which is counter to our entire history of the president dealing with the fbi. trump still thinks that we're living in a pre-1776 world where there is a king and not a president and a constitution and laws that constrain the president from doing precisely what he's trying to do. >> the idea that the fbi director would resign over there, this ranks where in what's happened in the last weeks plus? >> it's right up there at a 10. it's absolutely outrageous, the fbi is not a political party. the fbi investigates crimes for the department of justice. i worked with hundreds of fbi agents, lots of investigations, we never once talked politics. the fbi is no

there may have been malfeasance at the fbi by certain individuals.b in conducting transparent oversight of the executive branch to get to the bottom of that. this is a completely separate matter there would be mueller's investigation. and his investigation should be allowed to take its course. >> "washington post" reports that the inspector on general is examining andrew mccabe's handling of the hillary clinton e-mail probe in the final weeks of the election. people familiar with the matter tell the "post" that the internal investigation has been asking witnesses why fbi leadership waited three weeks to examine e-mails found on a laptop belonging to anthony weiner. no new information was found, but the disclosure in late october 2016 rocked the presidential race. mccabe is cast as a central figure in that episode, though it is unclear if the inspector general has reached any conclusions. a message to employees from fbi director chris wray made it clear that the report led to mccabe being pushed aside. the doj declined to comment while mccabe did not

. >> there may have been malfeasance at the fbi by certain individuals. it is our job in conducting transparent oversight of the executive branch to get to the bottom of that. >> as your guest just confirmed after that houseboat last night, our source says that how staffers physically watch the memo over to the white house for the president who has five working days to voice any reservations or objections. we've heard some of that from the fbi, the justice department and that january 24th letter. adding that they were unaware of any wrongdoing related to the national security courts when these surveillance warrants are obtained for american citizens. the memo was drafted in such a way to reduce even eliminate sensitive national security information. it was drafted in a way that they anticipated that it will be public and they try to streamline the process and eliminate things that may reveal national security. >> harris: you talk about two more officials talking about this since sunday night and that rare meeting, it's my understanding from our reporting,

. >> there may have been malfeasance at the fbi by certain individuals.conducting transparent oversight of the executive branch to get to the bottom of that. what we want is all of this information to come out so that transparency can reign supreme. >> so devin nunes wrote one memo, the republican memo. the democrats as a result wrote a memo of their own. but they voted on releasing it. because there's fewer of them, they'll have one of the two memos. the democrats are look like, this is insane. your memo is written by yourself to distract from everything else going on. leader pelosi says, americans should be deeply concerned by speaker ryan's sanctioning of this irresponsible decision and his complicity in allowing the committee investigation to devolve into a sad political spectacle. mike emanuel has been a witness of the spectacle and a spectacle it has been, mike. >> welcome to capitol hill, shep. >> shepard: it's fantastic to be here. >> paul ryan said a few people at the fbi, not the whole agency a few people at the fbi behaved improperly. cleanse t

. >> there may have been malfeasance at the fbi by certain individuals, so it's our job in conducting oversight of the executive branch. sunshine is the best disinfectant. we want this information to come out so that transparency can reign supreme. >> jesse: transparency, if there abuses in the doj and fbi, what's wrong with finding out what they are. >> juan: i have no problem with finding out what they are but this is written by devin nunes, head of house intel, who's been a total stooge, lackey for president trump. >> jesse: but it is based on facts. >> juan: it is based on cherry picked facts. >> jesse: based on actual raw intelligence. >> juan: no, it's not. if it was raw intelligence, it would be classified and you couldn't see it. listen, let me tell you something. this is a set up. you talk about transparency, and i offer government transparency but this is about muddying the waters, degrading the fbi, go after justice. i think this is a lead up to potentially trump going after rod rosenstein. >> jesse: if there are dirty cops, you want to know it on the streets and you want t

this goes to a wider problem we've been talking about, political malfeasance and bias in the highest ranks of the fbi and department of justice, this is a reason why the president nominated christopher wray as the fbi director, to clean it up and move us forward with an fbi that's above political bias and questioning. we think this development is good, we want to make sure that as many messages are recovered as possible and that the truth about political bias of the highest ranks of the fbi is made available to the public. >> harris: it's also an interesting detail that they are looking at other people's phones, we will follow the facts as they go. i understand that the president is looking forward to sitting down potentially with the special counsel robert mueller. he said that and then why did the white house counsel feel there was a need to come back behind the president almost two -- maybe not a clarification but a simple dictation of what they were looking to do. >> i don't feel like anything was inconsistent with what the president said he and i don't think what the president s

maybe there was malfeasance.that is true, if there was a conspiracy at the top of the fbi, to negatively impact the election, that is the most serious thing you can say about the top law enforcement agency. if that is true, you have to proceed with the utmost caution. the utmost care. to make sure you handle it and handle it well. don't call press conferences and throw stuff out. it's wrong. >> i'm not quite certain. there's been some a great deal of deliberation done in the house by the committee. i would like to see both minority and majority reports leased. that's probably if you have to do it that's probably the fair way to do it. and that's what i would urge in this case. >> can i say something? when we saw donald trump winning this election, those of us who are progressive democrats were very worried. we said oh my god you may have a weaponized politicized fbi going after progressive targets. you might have -- that was a big concern. or. >> like the irs did against republicans? >> you get a chance to talk.