The White House, the Justice Department and the FBI were very clear that it would be, in their words, extremely reckless to release it.

Again, remember that the Department of Justice and the FBI -- again, their words, said it would be extremely reckless to release the Republican, the Nunes memo, and the White House said, we don't care. We're doing it anywhere -- anyway.

I quite frankly would have been surprised if the White House had let our memo go out at all.

This is very obviously a strategy to time in that we move on to other things.

Trey Gowdy, who is not exactly thought of on my side of the aisle as, you know, kind of one of the guys who reaches across the aisle, he said this in no way vindicates the president or damages the Mueller investigation in which he has 100…

I will be astonished, it may happen, I will be astonished if the Trump administration does something that it's never done before, which is voluntarily allows a fact pattern that is not necessarily conducive to the president's interests out…

So, when the president comes to my office and I ask him to release the memo, and he says 100 percent, I'll agree that the process is exactly parallel.

These are all faux scandals that are thrown out there for the sole purpose of causing some Americans to say, golly, I wonder whether the FBI is on the up and up because at some point Bob Mueller may come through with some conclusions. And…

Character matters. And in this administration, we see over and over again excuses being made for bad behavior.

Well, you know, it feels like just a week ago, I was standing right here talking about how sad it was that a United States senator would trade his legacy and his dignity, his integrity, for this crazy idea of a secret society, which, of…

It's important to the president's supporters to have that uncertainty out there.

anybody who knows anything about FISA warrants applications know that they are very, very rigorously vetted. They are based on multiple sources.

What is sad in this instance is that a small group of -- actually not a small group but a meaningful group of Republicans are seizing on things like Struck's text back and forth.

Like the Nunes memo, that's a complete misrepresentation of the facts because FBI has been keeping our eye on Carter Page long before Christopher Steele was in the picture.

A congressional committee acting to support the president's notion that this investigation is a hoax declassified without any review by the agencies concerned.

the notion that they hoodwinked the judge which, of course, is the core here is -- is just not supportable by the evidence.

I will tell you that that part of the Nunes memo is just flat out wrong. It is not true. That is not what Andrew McCabe said.

the notion that the judge was not told the context in which this information was developed is incorrect.

This is part of a much larger effort in which the White House says -- either explicitly complicit or certainly the President has made his desires known.

This is not oversight, Anderson. This is a political hit job.

I would side with the speaker on that. I've read the memo, I studied it very closely, it makes absolutely no mention of Bob Mueller or of the Russia investigation.

Well, Anderson, it's painful for me to watch an otherwise honorable man like Chairman Goodlatte trade his historical legacy as he retires in order to cheer-lead this second rate hit job, which the American public is about to see is…

There is zero proof or evidence that there is political bias in the FBI.

This is a memo that is based on highly classified information. The public's not in a position anymore than the committee was, Anderson.

The fact that they're not making it available to the FBI should tell you something.