law enforcement agencies conspired against him for more on this let's bring in scott lucas professor of american studies at the university of birmingham thanks for being with us this morning a first off can you tell us why this memo is proving to be such a lightning rod for both republicans and democrats. well the memo is the culmination of more than a year of efforts by donald trump and his allies to discredit the f.b.i. and justice department and thus try to undermine and even halt the trump russian vesta geisha remember that even before his inauguration donald trump compared his intelligence agencies to nazis because of information that linked the truck campaign or allegedly linked it to russian officials and that campaign is continuing with the dismissal of f.b.i. director james comey trops attempt to dismiss special counsel robert moore last summer what has finally happened is that this memo is compiled by devon who knows who is a representative who's been allied with with the white house has been coordinating with them since last march he was supposed to step away from the truc

scott lucas professor of american politics at the university of birmingham thank you all for joining us now scott i want to start with you the reactions to other mass shootings in the past seem to follow almost script you would have the shock and horror and grief you would then have politicians offering thoughts and prayers to the families of the victims and the wounded you would have demands for action but then ultimately no action looking at this from the outside things seem different this time is that the case. certainly is from my perspective i mean if you'd asked me a week ago just after the shootings in portland florida at this high school i would have said it's going to groundhog day that won't go through grief we'll go through regret will go through statements that something must be done and then a month maybe even two weeks from now there be a mass shooting and it starts all over but for me it's been different this time and i think it's the conjunction of two things i think the first is social media and what it can do in terms of a message threading very quickly and then seco

let's get context with scott lucas, professor of international politics at university of birmingham live via skype from birmingham, england, good to have you with us. let's talk about what the democrats will be pressing to do this week to get that memo released of their own. to offer counterpoints to the nunes memo. the house intelligence committee will consider whether to declassify it. but at the end of the day, scott, it's up to the white house to release this memo. it comes down to the president. how likely do you think it is for the president to give this okay? >> well, he and his allies are in a bit of a jam. because they've overplayed their hand. let's be clear. the nunes memo was an attempt to end the russia investigation. that's what donald trump said on saturday when he called it witch hunt. when he said the fbi was a disgrace. republicans yesterday were scrambling to walk that back. because secondly, the nunes memo is so badly flawed, even without being the democratic rebuttal. it is so riddled with omissions and mistakes that if i had a student present it to me as an essay, i

we'll be live in washington shortly — but first let's get some analysis from scott lucas — who's professor studies at the university of birmingham. thank you very much indeed for joining us. the people here in the uk who have not followed all the twists and turns of this very complex affair, just tell us exactly what is memo says, what have we learned from? well, put simply, there is a political attempts, through this memo to discredit the fbi, and to hold the trump russian investigation before it reaches donald trump, which could be quite soon. now, to do that, it's claimed the fbi was biased in getting surveillance of a tramp campaign adviser, a man named carter page, in 0ctober adviser, a man named carter page, in october 2000 adviser, a man named carter page, in 0ctober200016. the problem for the memo, and for the trump cab, is that it rests on a flawed assumption, it argues that the fbi can appealed to the top secret government courts to get the word, resting on a private intelligence dossier, and collected bya intelligence dossier, and collected by a former mi6 agent, christopher ste

lucas scott knows some might call his extreme. >> the head is kind of a unusual place, i guess. >> why, yet no one can doubt his pride, one look inside the pennsylvania convention center saturday night the depth of emotion eagles lovers feel for their team and their city is hard to miss. fifty-five year old david sanderson spent months designing his super bowl artwork. some might say it took years. >> my while life bleed green. surprised blood isn't coming out green right now. >> i want to a test to the fact that did he not bleed any greener than that. and, all the time that we have been here, chuck here, doing this tatoo for hours now. i mean, i, joyce, dawn, i had the opportunity to talk to some of the eagles yesterday. which i had asked them how they feel when they see something like this. and like that jason kelce tatoo, what is it like for the players to see their face tatooed on their fan's body. chuck, thanks so much for letting us hang out with you. back to you guys. >> all right, thanks sabina, i'm sure she has an eagles tatoo somewhere in there. thanks, sabina. >> well, you s

scott wallace is running for congress just outside philly, member of patriotic millionaire's group, living out of south africa. i reject the silver spoon allegations. democrat primary in maine involves lucasod for him and good for her but interesting that the heirs to capitalist fortunes should enter politics as leftists. the political world has been turned upside down by donald trump, it was going on for years before he came along but he rebelled in his wealth, loved it and we wanted to spread it, not by taxing the rich, but by encouraging growth. my question is this, how long will ranking file democrats stick with their wealthy leaders, there's nothing getting rich and into politics but everything wrong with politicians being out of touch, the third hour of varney & company is about to begin. ♪ ♪ stuart: happening this hour, president trump meets with the nations governor as at the white house as we speak, in fact, they will be talk about guns an school safety, also talking about trade, he call it is world trade organization a catastrophe, we will by you the video from that meeting as soon as we lay our hands on it. also supreme court wrapping arguments on a supreme court where a -- whe