Trump terms Little Adam Schiff as a Big Lier in Washington

The House Intelligence Committee unanimously voted Monday evening to release a Democratic-authored memo in response to the controversial GOP memo released by the committee last week.

President Donald Trump will have five days to review the memo and decide whether to approve its declassification or reject its release over national security concerns, Rep. Adam Schiff of

California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, told reporters after the vote.

Schiff said the Department of Justice and FBI will be consulted and have an opportunity to vet the memo and it would be sent to the White House Monday night.

"The vote was unanimous to release this," he said. "I think the Republican members understood that after calling for full transparency, they were getting hammered over the course of the week for trying to hide the minority response."

Democrats say the document is a point-by-point rebuttal of the memo declassified by President Trump last week that alleged abuses of government surveillance powers at the FBI and Justice Department in their efforts to obtain court approval to gather intelligence on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

The memo alleged that the dossier, authored by ex-British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, formed an "essential part" of the Page Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) application, and that DOJ officials did not disclose to the court that the Steele was employed by Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm that received funding for the effort, in part, from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

Democrats, including Schiff, have disputed that claim. The FISA court was made aware by DOJ officials of the political motivations behind the information from the Steele dossier, although the specific Democratic sources of funding were not named, sources familiar with the now-classified Democratic memo told ABC News.

"Every story has two sides. And I think it's only fair that Democrats get to tell their side," Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas, the senior Republican leading the Russia probe on the House Intelligence Committee, told ABC News after the vote.

Schiff said Monday that he was concerned the White House would make "political" redactions to the memo instead of doing so on national security grounds - a fear Conaway dismissed as "speculation."

On Monday morning, Trump took aim at Schiff, accusing him of being “one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington.”

“Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington, right up there with Comey, Warner, Brennan and Clapper! Adam leaves closed committee hearings to illegally leak confidential information,” he tweeted of former FBI Director James Comey, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. “Must be stopped!”