As most of the media focus on the relentless drumbeat of Trump/Russia, things are brewing in Washington that could be explosive. A memo that first got public notice late last week on what has been happening at the FBI and DOJ is starting to break into the mainstream, albeit ever so slightly.

After ignoring the story for days, CNN posted late Tuesday that President Donald Trump may be interested in releasing the memo, drafted by Rep. Devin Nunes, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee. The memo lays out allegations of wrongdoing at both organizations, wrongdoing that some who have seen it claim to be worse than Watergate:

The memo has become a conservative rallying cry, with Republicans on Capitol Hill demanding that the documents be released. Democrats argue the effort to declassify that memo is the latest attempt by conservatives to damage special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.

The White House disputed to CNN that the President has made a decision. White House principal deputy press secretary Raj Shah said there will be a full interagency and national security review and the President will be advised before making a decision.

There have been repeated calls from Republicans to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate whether the FBI and DOJ have abused their powers or sought to influence the 2016 election themselves. The news of a top FBI investigator on the Hillary Clinton email case and then later tasked to the Mueller investigation was exchanging anti-Trump texts, discussing a "secret society" and an insurance policy to stop Trump from winning the election certainly has many people questioning the agency.

Now a poll shows that just shy of the majority of likely voters in America back appointing a special prosecutor to look into potential abuses by the FBI. A full 49% of likely voters say they agree with that and the poll by Rasmussen Reports shows that not all of them are Republicans:

Sixty-two percent (62%) of Republicans are calling for an outside prosecutor to investigate the FBI, as is a plurality (49%) of voters not affiliated with either major political party. Among Democrats, 38% favor a special prosecutor; 40% are opposed, but 22% are undecided.  

In a statement posted to Facebook, Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) said that a vote to release the memo could take place next week, if the vote were to pass the House Intelligence Committee, President Trump would then have five days to decide whether the classified material should be seen by the American public.