"I think the reality is that the White House will look forward to releasing that memo," said Marc Short, President Donald Trump’s legislative affairs director. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo White House: We'll release the memo if Dems work with the FBI to clean it up

A White House official on Monday said they are looking "forward to releasing" the Democrat's classified memo rebuking a GOP memo that claimed the FBI inappropriately spied on a Trump campaign adviser in 2016 once Democrats work with the FBI to clean it up.

"I think the reality is that the White House will look forward to releasing that memo," said Marc Short, President Donald Trump’s legislative affairs director.


Short claimed the Democrats "intentionally put sources and methods in the document knowing the White House wouldn't be able to release it."

"I think the president made the right decision to say, 'look if that's the game you play I'm going to send it back to you,'" he said. "You clean it up, you work with the F.B.I., and then send it back to us and we're happy to release it."

Trump last week denied to release a Democratic memo that counters claims of a Republican-orchestrated memo that alleges bias within the FBI and Justice Department.

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The Republican memo, which was created by Rep. Devin Nunes and released with Trump's blessing, claims the FBI obtained a warrant to surveil Carter Page by relying on a disputed dossier. Democrats have argued that Nunes' memo aims to undermine the probe being conducted by special counsel Robert Mueller to determine whether Russia colluded with Trump's 2016 campaign.

The FBI publicly stated that it had "grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the [GOP's] memo’s accuracy."

Short said that the White House has heard from the intelligence community that "there are sources and methods in the democratic memo that they do not want revealed."