Sunday shows - Memo fallout takes spotlight in Washington

View in your browser     Gowdy: Memo has no impact on Russia probe By REBECCA SAVRANSKY   "There is a Russia investigation without a dossier. So to the extent the memo deals with the dossier and the FISA process, the dossier has nothing to do with the meeting at Trump Tower. The dossier has nothing to do with an email sent by Cambridge Analytica." Read the full story here     Surveillance warrant would not have been authorized without dossier, Gowdy says By MALLORY SHELBOURNE    "Would it have been authorized were it not for that dossier?” “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan asked Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.). “No.  It would not have been,” Gowdy, a former prosecutor, replied. Read the full story here     House Intelligence Dem: Use of Steele dossier in FISA application 'small and insignificant' By BRETT SAMUELS    “Just because it was opposition research doesn’t mean that it’s wrong. In fact, we wouldn’t pay a penny for opposition research if it is biased,” Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) said. “I think when the facts are out here, this will turn out to be a very, very small and insignificant thing.”  Read the full story here     Durbin: 'Of course' memo does not vindicate Trump in Russia probe By BRETT SAMUELS    “If House Republicans believe they’ve set the stage for the president to end this investigation, they’re basically saying that one man is above the law,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said. “No one, including the president, is above the law.”  Read the full story here     GOP rep: I don't think memo vindicates Trump By MALLORY SHELBOURNE    Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) said in a Sunday show interview that he does not believe the controversial GOP memo released last week vindicates President Trump in the Russia probe. Read the full story here     Gowdy: Trump should not fire Rosenstein By KYLE BALLUCK    House Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said in an interview broadcast Sunday that President Trump should not fire Rod Rosenstein, saying the deputy attorney general has had a “stellar career.” Read the full story here     GOP rep: Memo doesn't give Trump reason to fire Rosenstein By BRETT SAMUELS   “When I look at Rod Rosenstein and Christopher Wray, where they are, I know in their agencies they have tremendous patriots who do great work each and every day, and they should stand up for them. But, at the same time, this could be their finest hour. They should work with us in Congress to get to the bottom of what’s taken place,” Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Read the full story here     Scaramucci: I hope Trump doesn't testify in Mueller probe By MALLORY SHELBOURNE   “I actually don’t want him to testify because, as a lawyer, I don’t want him caught in a ‘gotcha’ moment where someone accuses him of lying where he may not remember something or something like that.” Read the full story here     Schiff: 'Very possible' Nunes's staff worked with White House on memo By MALLORY SHELBOURNE   “I think it’s very possible his staff worked with the White House and coordinated the whole effort with the White House because it looks so much like this earlier effort, which we know was coordinated with the White House by the same chairman, who had said he would recuse himself but of course hasn’t.” Read the full story here     House Intelligence Dem blasts GOP rep for failing to disclose key info in Nunes memo By OLIVIA BEAVERS   Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) said he does not know why Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah) and other Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are hiding context for the memo's claim that the Department of Justice (DOJ) abused critical surveillance authorities during the 2016 campaign. Read the full story here     Panetta on memo: ‘FISA judges are no pushovers’ By OLIVIA BEAVERS    "The [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] judges are no pushovers. They are responsible individuals in my experience who carefully review all the evidence that is presented to them," the former CIA director said on "Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace."  Read the full story here     Ex-CIA chief: Steele dossier played 'no role whatsoever' in intelligence assessment on Russian election interference By BRETT SAMUELS    “I was unaware of the provenance of it as well as what was in it. And it did not play any role whatsoever in the intelligence community’s assessment that was done, that was presented to then-President Obama and then-President-elect Trump,” John Brennan said on “Meet The Press.” Read the full story here     Priebus: Trump is doing better with black and Hispanic voters By BRETT SAMUELS   President Trump’s former chief of staff, Reince Priebus, on Sunday touted the president’s performance with black and Hispanic voters, saying Trump is following the plan set forth in the GOP's "autopsy report" from 2013. Read the full story here     Ryan is achieving goals with Trump he’s worked on 'since he was 21,’ Priebus says By BRETT SAMUELS   “He’s accomplishing the things that he’s worked since he was 21 on. They’re happening now under President Trump,” Reince Priebus said. “And as wild as that ride has been both for Paul Ryan and people like myself, you cannot escape the fact that the president is doing a remarkable job on the fundamentals of what being president is all about.” Read the full story here     Gowdy: ‘I’ve been a pretty lousy politician’ By MALLORY SHELBOURNE    “I'm really grateful for the opportunity to do it, but it's time for me to -- whatever time I've got left -- I want to spend it in the justice system because that's where my heart is.” Read the full story here     GOP NY Senate candidate rips Gillibrand: Her 'greatest success is self-promotion' By JOHN BOWDEN    "When she was in the House, she was known as Annie Oakley," Chele Farley said. "And now in the Senate people laugh and they call her Jane Fonda. That’s quite a change to the left." Read the full story here         Did a friend forward you this email? 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