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Rh word to be made public or will it be redacted or altered in any way?

THE CHAIRMAN: Well, as the gentleman knows, we will send the content over to the White House, and the President has 5 days to either agree with us that it should be made public, or the President could say that he does not want it made public.

And if that was the case, then we would have to move to the full House, have a vote of the full House to make it public, which we would intend to do if the President did say that he did not want it made public.

MR. SCHIFF: Mr. Chairman, I have a secondary motion.

THE CHAIRMAN: Okay. Well, we are on the -- we are on this -- we are on the -- we are on -- so the gentleman has a secondary motion as an amendment to this motion?

MR. SCHIFF: Yes.

THE CHAIRMAN: The gentleman is recognized.

MR. SCHIFF: First of all, I want to let the members know that I spoke with Director Wray today, and he expressed an interest to come before our committee and share the FBI's thoughts and concerns about this memoranda, as well as what public disclosure of the memoranda would mean, and urge that he be given -- that the Bureau be given that opportunity. And I hope the committee will acquiesce to that request of the FBI Director appointed by President Trump.

I will say this. I think we all understand what President Trump will do if we vote to release this document. He has already signaled his interest in it being disclosed even without having read it.

We cannot count on this President to put the national interest over his personal interest. I would hope that we could count on this committee, though, to