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Rh symmetry, which I heard the chairman endorse, the minority memo will be released to the public in unredacted form.

Two things will happen: An immense amount of classified information will be made available to the public. You have already heard what the FBI and DOJ -- love them or hate them -- what they would consider that. I think the word was "extraordinarily reckless."

Secondly. when all of this information is made available, there will be an accounting for all of us based on what is true. And I was in a terrible position. as I think we all are still, in that I was asked to vote on the majority memo never, despite being the second-senior Democrat on the committee, never having reviewed the underlying intelligence. I think all of us, perhaps, but two remain in that position.

So if that is true -- and I think it is true -- there is absolutely no way for any of us to game out what the outcome is 3 weeks from now when the press has done their thing, when the DOJ and the FBI have made their arguments, about who gets tarred for being imprudent. But it is going to be somebody.

So I am trying to step away from the partisanship here and just support the ranking member's secondary motion to, before we jump into something, before we jump off a cliff without the ability to see what is there -- because none of us have seen it -- and decide that we are going to hinge our political careers -- there are lots of other equities at stake. But believe me, if it turns out that the majority memo is wrong, there will be hell to pay. If it turns out that the minority memo is wrong, there will be hell to pay. And, right now, there are two people sitting here who have any sense at all over whether it is right or wrong.

So I would support the ranking member's not on a partisan basis but just in