House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., blasted President Donald Trump for his approval to release a memo that contains allegations about FBI surveillance in the Russia investigation.



Pelosi said Friday in a statement:

.@realDonaldTrump has surrendered his constitutional responsibility as Commander-in-Chief by releasing Nunes’ unredacted, classified memo. His decision undermines our national security and is a bouquet to his friend Putin. pic.twitter.com/kdUgIrCE6l — Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) February 2, 2018

She also took aim at Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., House Intelligence Committee chairman, who oversaw the memo. "Nunes' partisan spin memo distorts highly classified intelligence in a cynical attempt to discredit our national intelligence and law enforcement agencies and the special counsel investigation … releasing the memo is a desperate attempt to distract the American people from the truth about the Trump-Russia scandal," Pelosi said.

The memo claims that the FBI used the dossier created by Christopher Steele to get the initial warrant against Carter Page, a former adviser to the Trump campaign.



"We have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy," a Wednesday statement from the FBI said.