i put my confidence in deven nunes. i know him well. i understand his integrity and his pay trytism. i want him to stay on. >> you are referring to what the president tweeted about this morning. do you think that president trump ever shoots from the hip. >> occasionally he does, but some of these we have to let them pay out and see how accurate that was. >> okay. jared kushner. why would jared kushner be meeting with a russian banker with ties to vladimir putin a couple of weeks before the president assumes his role in the white house. >> i am not familiar with any business ties that jared kushner might have through russian banks. but we shouldn't be surprised that those ties do exist. i understand he's volunteered to speak to a senate committee. let them dig into this. if it gets to be the foundation of evidence they would like to go into it further and ask him to come forward under oath, i think that's appropriate. but i think the democrats should be careful because if they want to big into these things, we have an obligation to dig m

deven has to do it.here are whistle blowers and other people who have relevant critical information and they want to share it. you protect your sources. deven is protecting his. he's not telling us who it is. i would say this, alison, wouldn't he be more interested in the authenticity and reliability of the underlying information, whether it's the gardener or the cook or someone else is secondarily important. the authenticity and reliability is what is most important to me of the underlying information. >> well, sure. and, so, what is the -- that's what you're trying to get to the bottom of, right? what are the connections? are there these ties between the trump campaign, the trump team and russia? so how are you getting to the bottom of that? >> two separate lines of inqu y inquiry. what deven went to the white house about has nothing to do with russia. so put that in a separate trakt. i was ready yesterday to start interviewing witnesses, all of them. i want to sit down with adam schiff and say adam gi

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. >> em battled house intelligence chairman deven in nunes facing reports. >> i briefed the president on the concerns that i had. >> a bizarre development considering that nunes went back to the white house the next day to brief president trump on material he allegedly got from the president's own staff. >> was this an attempt to find post facto justification for the president's tweets? we don't have any of those answers because, as usual, the white house doesn't really answer questions about this. >> nunes's previous statements contradicting this new report. >> by holding the meeting on the white house grounds it makes it appear that someone in the administration was coordinating the release of this information to you. is that not the case? >> no, that's not the case. >> "the new york times" and the washington post also reporting that one of the individuals who let nunes into the white house was brought on by former national security advisor michael flynn. both newspapers also reporting that flynn's successor wanted to fire the staffer, but steve bannon and jared kushner stepped in t

. >> reporter: in a statement, a spokesman says flynn, the former head of the devens intelligence agency notified and briefed the dia before his trip to russia and again upon his return. >> and that just wasn't acceptable to me. >> reporter: president trump fired flynn after just 24 days as national security advisor when it was revealed flynn lied to vice president pence about conversations he had had with the russian ambassador to the u.s. and it's not just his connections to russia that have raised questions. just last week flynn retroactively registered with the justice department as an agent of a foreign government. he had a 600-- 600,000 dollar lobbying contract with a company with ties to the turkish government. in addition, flynn received over $11,000 from a russian cargo airline and, anthony, was also paid 11,000 from kaspersky labs, a well-known cybersecurity company with ties to russian officials. >> thanks, jeff. now to the battle over the republican replacement for obamacare. congressman correspondent nancy cordes is following that. >> reporter: mr. brett. >> no. >> mr. bratt

. >> for the first time a republican congressman has called on devin kne deven nunese himself.came under fire for canceling a public hearing of the committee. critics say the white house demanded the cancellation because they didn't want former acting attorney general sally yates to testify in public or private. >>> philadelphia police union boss was one of those invited to the white house this morning. john mcnez by sat at the table with the vice president and attorney general. trump thanked the police for supporting his campaign and pledged to help make america safe again. >> district attorney seth williams left court today with three days to get a new lawyer. he was charged with 23 count in a bribery case and his current attorney diamondstein wants off the case because williams doesn't have the money to pay him. >> the eric frein trial shifts to opening statements. the jurors were picked from chester county because of intense media exposure to the ambush of two state troopers. trooper dickson was killed. another was injured. frein led police on a manhunt before being capture

yownd the i had i don't see -- i don't understand the i had i don't see logical deven chaition considered by the republicans. because all of us is now going to be done without your consent, without your permission. if they wanted to document now how many times you search online for heart disease, breast cancer, opioid addiction treatments and then sell that information to an insurance company, they're going to be able to do that. you're giving them permission just by subscribing. and you know what they say? the marketplace will work. you can just go to the other broadband providers in town. oh, there is no other broadband provider in town? you're in rural america. oh, i'm sorry. sorry. oh, you have to use our company? oh, there's no rules if you want to use our company. no rules. so let the marketplace sort it out. what marketplace? in most places there's two companies you can have broadband service from, and they're both going to say privacy protection is voluntary. so there is no privacy. it's all going to happen without your consent. and they will just say e -- it's just so we can harm

is on preventing the entry of new foreign nationals from the six devens -- the sixth designated countriesortant to note that nothing in this order affects existing lawful permanent residents or persons with current authorization to enter our homeland. unregulated unfettered travel is not a universal truth -- universal privilege especially when national security is at stake. the white house worked closely with the department of homeland security, department of justice and department of state to create an order that addresses previous concerns and protect the homeland and every one of our citizens. the men and women of the department of homeland security, like the brothers and sisters throughout law enforcement, are decent men and women of character and conscience. there are no less so than the governors of our states and territories. on our senators and members of congress. these men and women are sworn to enforce the laws as passed by the united states congress and would be in violation of the law and their sworn oath's if they did not do so. we do not make the law but are sworn to enforc

house intelligence chair deven nunez added another wrinkle in the russia connection question.e suggested the president and the aids were monitored by russian spies. new nez says he cannot be sure about that. the ranking democrat told chuck todd on "meet the press," he has no idea what nunez is talking about. >> i am totally mystified. i have talked to my chairman. he doesn't know. i talked to democrats, republicans on the committee. i think it is outrageous to make these claims. then goes down and briefs the white house. and i know adam chef, the lead democrat wants to keep the investigation bipartisan. i don't know he knows today what those documents are. >> so adam schiff demands congress hand over the russian probe. agree or disagree: is it time for an ind depen den investigation of russia's alleged interference in the 2016 electi election? let's bring in political reporter, also the co-author of hrc, state secrets and the rebirth of hillary clinton. you heard senator warner who says he's now open to an independent commission and really casting a lot of shade on what is nun

what deven did is received some very classified information, some highly secretive information that heery important. number one, he's been criticized for going to the speaker of the house. i'm sorry. he works for the speaker of the house. he is the speaker's designee to lead that committee, which makes that a very different responsibility. so going to speaker ryan was the right thing to do. i haven't seen the information, so, you know, i can't make the judgment whether it was appropriate for him to go directly to the president. but, you know, he is the chairman. >> i hear you. >> he has the responsibility to make that call. >> here's what he could have done and we know from what paul ryan said, paul ryan told him take it to your committee. but here is what nunes could have done. he could have said to adam schiff, hey, someone wants me to look at some important intel. come with me. meet me. we are going to hop in a cab and look at this together. isn't that what you would have done? >> i'm not sure. i think, you know, number one, you got to -- you got to take a look and you say i'm going