Ed Henry: Nunes Will Release FISA Abuse Memo to Pressure Sessions to Appoint Special Counsel

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HENRY: "Martha, good to see you. Breaking tonight, closes source to the house Intel chair Devin Nunes told fox that he and some other key Republicans are now moving to begin the process to release that four-page memo that is at the center of these allegations that top Obama officials at the FBI and the Justice Department for conducting surveillance of top trump officials. These Republicans include Nunez who I mentioned, but also trey Gowdy and Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the house judiciary Committee. That’s important because he has oversight of both the FBI and the Justice Department. What they’re doing I’m told is going through the steps they have to take to release that memo to the public by early February. The FBI just put out a statement a few moments ago under pressure say they want a copy of this four-page memo, they requested it from the house Intel committee but so far they have declined. The FBI says they will take appropriate action if they see the memo. These Republicans on the House Intel committee and elsewhere say that the FBI knows what’s in the memo and they think that by releasing it will put pressure on attorney general Jeff Sessions to appoint a second special counsel beyond Robert Mueller to probe these allegations that during the campaign and the transition Obama officials were basically spying on trump officials. Nunes and the other Republicans involved were compelled to act because they were angry about learning this week and the FBI is claiming it did not retain text messages between Peter strzok and Lisa page from December 14th 2016 to may 17th of 2017. That’s an amazing coincidence is that covers a good chunk of the presidential transition, the early days of the trump Administration, but also because may 17th happens to be the day that deputy attorney general rod Rosenstein appointed Mueller to take over the Russia probe. The attorney general just put out a statement warning “We will leave no stone unturned to confirm with certainty why these text messages are not now available to be produced. We will use every technology available to determine whether the missing messages are recovered from another source.” Republicans upset because this is reviving those suspicions about emails wiped from Hillary Clinton server on top of the fact that some of the new text messages between strzok and page may cause trouble for former FBI director James Comey."