what we're seeing is a complete abregation from devin nunes. obvious ga obligation to conduct appropriate oversight over the nation's intelligence agencies but to support in the end their strengthening as institutions that are necessary to protect us from foreign threats. including from the russian federation that beyond certainty interfered in the united states election process and maybe in a way that materially benefited the president. there's an investigation under way that has already indicted three top trump advisers, and we know that there have been a series of dishonest statements from the president, the vice president, the attorney general, discounting their relationships with russians, and we've seen the political smearing, attack, and firing of the deputy director of the fbi or his resignation precipitated by these political attacks. this is not normal in a democracy, in a republican democracy, with fidelity to the rule of law. we have traditions of independence in h these agen agencies. the reality is the fbi, the concept of the rule

what is devin nunes talking about? >> well, look, these kinds of rhetorical battles between members of congress and the administration, even within one political party are not unprecedented, right. it's the role of congress to conduct oversight over the department of justice, the fbi, intelligence community. what is inof unprecedented here and what is so far from normal is the fact that they have invoked this little -- never-before used house rule to actually force the release of classified information. it's hard for those of us who cover this stuff to convey to the public just how outside the norm this is. i was speaking to an attorney named jeffrey smith who has worked for both the cia and the hill over the years. he was talking about how there's been this system of congressional oversight of intelligence that has grown up over 40 years and it's based on trust. the executive branch shares some classified information with the hill on the premise that it's not going to be released unless everyone agrees that doesn't ha

wouldn't you like to know devin nunes? wouldn't you like to see confidential interview transcripts and fbi reports from meetings with confidential human sources? our reporting indicates tonight that nunes was poised to get documents tonight in response to his letter demanding they hand over this sensitive fbi investigatetory material right in the middle of the mueller investigation. but surprise we believe that justice department was poised to hand that over but surprise, didn't hand over anything to devin nunes tonight. and 4:30 this afternoon in walks the justice department to paul ryan's office. deputy attorney general and head of the fbi walk into the office of the man who could be construed to be devin nunes's boss in congress. paul ryan is head of the house. top officials in the doj and fbi went directly to paul ryan tonight. we're told they were there to talk about the russia investigation and devin nunes in particular. wow. that's something. and i say it's something because i have no idea what that is. really don't

julia: here is reporter devin leonard. devin: everyone knows penn station is a mess. many trains, too many people, too many trains. underneath the station is even more worrisome. there are two tubes, one tunnel with two tubes that go under the hudson river and they basically date back to 1910. and they are literally falling apart because they were flooded during hurricane sandy. but if they fail, the whole northeast corridor shuts down and that will cost $100 million a day. there are all sorts of economic statistics about why that's a problem, not just for new york, but for the whole country. carol: i've gone to washington, boston, when you go into the tunnels it gets black. and you're like, in a hole, like i don't know where i am. you throw some numbers out there, 45,000 travelers every weekday in penn station. it is more than laguardia, jfk and newark airports combined. this is a crazy busy station. devin: 650,000 people a day and that's, it's about, it's not what the station was designed for. about a third of that many people. essentially, we are dealing with a sys

devin nunez was on the transition so how do you trust devin nunez. >> this is quite the test and perhapsth the president. and some republicans are characterizing this as a case of transparency. let the american people know. but you have the republican -- the trump justice department saying it would be extraordinarily reckless to release this and by republicans who have -- like most americans and officials concerns about revealing information that really ought to be kept secret. this is become a very leaky town. so i think this is a big fight and the president has signaled he will probably -- we should not expect the president to act against you the house decision to release the memo if that is what they choose to do. >> hold that thought. taye with us. we'll be back in a little bit. >>> ahead, the daca deal dilemma. are lawmakers getting any closer to an immigration plan that could actually pass? david. what's going on? oh hey! ♪ that's it? yeah. ♪ everybody two seconds! ♪ "dear sebastian, after careful consideration of your application, it is with great pleasure that we offer our congra

devin: sure.n stanley, very bullish on -- and there is idiosyncratic companies, specific drivers where they are executing in wealth management, where we think that they are going to have big expense savings rolling off in a year, retention loans go down. there are idiosyncratic elements. we are more bullish on some of the boutique advisory firms, where m&a, in my opinion, is set to accelerate over the next year in the u.s. i think we will see that also happen in europe, where in europe it has been a lot more depressed than in the u.s. we are seeing a bit of a bit of rising tide lift all boats and a mean reversion in europe will be a big deal, and that will be big for firms like lazard, evercore, and that is keeping us bullish on that group as well. vonnie: the idea that we have synchronized global growth and three fed rate hikes, maybe 4, maybe 2, this year, how will that impact banks from a morgan stanley to jpmorgan, given that goldman has had a tough year in commodities, and commodities look to

but devin nunes says nope, that deal does not prevent them from doing anything. as for paul ryan, well, the speaker's office sent us this statement. quote, as previously reported the speakers only message to the department was that it needed to compile with oversight requests and there were no terms set for its compliance. which i think means paul ryan is saying sorry justice department, he's siting with nunes again. there is one other person that got access to the cloassified documents under the deal. that is the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee adam schiff and he sent us this statement. quote, access to the underlying materials used by the majority to produce the talking points memo was limited to the chairman or designation. the majority doesn't dispute this but makes the claim the agreement did not preclude them from sharing information with other members of congress. if that were true, there was no point to limiting access. the majority is in clear violation of the commitment to the justice department. so this is pretty remarkable, right?

they walk into the office of the man who could be construed to be devin nunes' boss in congress. devin nunes is the head of the intelligence committee in the house, but paul ryan is the head of the house. so, the top officials in the doj and the fbi went directly to paul ryan tonight. we are told they were there to talk about the russia investigation and devin nunes in particular. wow. that's something. and i say it's something, because i have no idea what that is. we really don't know what happened there. speaker ryan's office is referring people to the justice department and the fbi, the jus disdepartment and the fbi are saying nothing about what happened here, but this was a surprise meeting. and those documents that were supposed to go to devin nunes tonight did not go there and conceivably those documents could have been opening up very sensitive stuff from the middle of the mueller investigation while it's under way. drama. and that brings us to the last thing i want to get to off the top of the show tonight. which is the first direct effort by anybody in the orbit of presi

you have democrats on the opposite side criticizing devin nunes.et's filter out democrat and republican and go right to the agencies here. you have the fbi, headed by christopher wray, who was appointed by the president to run the fbi, saying this is a fundamentally inaccurate document. you have the department of justice. jeff sessions issued a letter to devin nunes saying, one, not only is it extraordinarily reckless to release this but that the doj is unaware of any abuse of the fisa program. in addition to that, i've spoken to current and former intelligence officials in the intelligence community who say that this document, in addition to being misleading, because it doesn't show all the intelligence involved in this decision also runs the risk of exposing details of how the u.s. gathers intelligence on surveillance targets. so, separating out the partisanship of party, you have these institutions run by trump appointees who are defying the president of this that's fairly remarkable. i think folks should be aware of that as they watch this stor

devin nunes is playing. they push to release a memo that is distorted by what's in it, and what's distorted by what is not in it. and they know that will misinform the public but they also know this, mika -- they know that the facts that would actually allow americans to know the entire truth about what happened, are so highly classified, that guess what, the public will never get to see those details. and for good reason, because we don't want classified information out. so ryan and nunes want to release a half-truth that turns out to be a whole lie. a twisted and distorted lie. since ryan thinks the public will never learn the full facts, he and nunes can skate by on their lie. they can smear the men and women of the fbi. they can smear the professionals at the justice department. who said this would be really reckless to put out there. they can smear distinguished fisa judges and they can smear the entire intelligence community by extension. all to take part in a sleazy political purge that we've been see

devin nunes was supposed to be recused from all of this.in the center of all of this in the memo? >> well, what he recused himself was from the russian investigation. this is, i think, somewhat different in that this memo, which we do hope is released here very shortly, is speaking more about other things going on, the bias in the fbi. >> about the russia investigation. this is about the surveillance of people who had contacts with russia. it's all part and parcel of the same thing, isn't it? >> well it's a little different. i've read the dmemo. i can't go into details. it speaks to something different than the russia investigation. >> how can americans trust this memo once it's released? >> well, the memo will speak for itself. >> how can we trust his take on it? he's not an objective person. he's not impartial. >> it is the intelligence committee and they have connected certain dots that perhaps have been rumored. again, i just can't go into the details. >> but it's the republicans connecting the dots, it's devin nunes connecting the dots

with devin nunes having to recuse hils. and the senate was on a better trajectory to produce a bipartisan report. and release finding that would be acceptable. i think this is further evidence the house process is not going as planned. >> does this concern you the memo would be released without the source documents? and the justice department it would be quote extraordinarily reckless. for the house intelligence committee to release this without giving the fbi and justice department time to review it. >> i have a lot of reservation about releasing this four page document. i was chair of the house ethics committee. like the intelligence committee we have to deal with sensitive issues. in my case a personnel matters. dealing with national security secrets. i can tell you when you do the investigations and you have to do them in a bipartisan manner. better behind closed doors where you can have honest and open dialogue. when the cameras are on you'll be guarded in what you'll say. in that setting you want to do this behind clo

and yet, devin nunez is not listening to justice. listening to the law enforcement officers. he's following the russians. and their bottoms. >> three republican members of congress, each of whom share powerful committees on capitol hill, ran to the cameras earlier this week seemingly in a panic over secret societies. missing text messages, and allegations of wrong doing in the justice department. >> it is no coincidence in my opinion that we're missing text that run from when the russia investigation was launched right up to the point where you have the mueller investigation being launched. >> what's missing is important, but also what's there is important. it is manifest bias. not just against trump, but against his kids, against his business interest. there's a text where they hope the trump hotel fails. that is a level of bias that you rarely see and you never see from law enforcement officers. >> what this is all about is further evidence, more than bias, but corruption at the highest level of the fbi and credit society. we have

has devin nunes seen that document? >> no. this document that he wants the american people to believe has discredited the fbi, he hasn't even seen it. he's submitting a book review to the american people on a book he's never read. >> they shot down the opportunity to have the nunes memo vetted by the fbi, by the justice department before they released it. why did they do that? >> devin nunes told us, again to our surprise today in the hearing, that the fbi and the department of justice are now under house intelligence committee investigation. something that we had never heard of, but they are now under investigation. this, again, seems to parallel what the president and conservative voices in the media are doing. they're attempting to torch every floor at the fbi building to protect this president, and it's going to have lasting effects on the rule of law in our country. >> so there have been reports that the nunes memo is part of -- in part focuses on the actions of the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein. do you think th

they have to know -- devin nunes, again i will say to paul ryan. why is devin nunes still in charge of the intel committee when he made an absolute fool of himself several months ago claiming he had information that he didn't have, going to the white house being spoon fed. he's discredited himself. he's recused himself from the russian investigation and yet here he is in the middle of the russian investigation. paul ryan if you're listening or somebody in your staff is listening and i know they are, listen, the intel community, the justice department said it would be incredibly reckless to release this memo. go back and see all the things you said about hillary clinton and her server, all the things i said about hillary clinton and her server, all the things republicans said about hillary clinton and her server and how she mistreated classified information. hillary clinton never had a letter saying if you do x, then that will lead to y which will subvert american national security. paul ryan, devin nunes, kevin mccarthy, house republicans, you have

about the people investigating the trump's campaign possible collusion with russia put together by devin nunes who obviously has spent the past year acting like a paid employee of the president. the justice department sent a letter to nunes calling the release extraordinarily reckless and said the department is the unaware of any wrongdoing related to the fisa process, one of the central claims of that memo. republicans and democrats today were sharply divided on his committee's decision to release that memo. let's watch that. >> this has been his mission, protect the white house, throw up distractions. the fundamental problem remains, and that is he is a proxy for the white house. you can't run a credible investigation that way. >> i read the memo. i believe it should be released, yes. >> why do you think republicans released the memo from the committee? what was the purpose of it? >> i don't know. i don't know if this is some kind of sick game. >> i think nothing would be better, harris, than if the president of the united states tonight walked down the hallway right behind me, stood o

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devin nunes has decided it is no longer the case. and they believe he there have been abuses so you have the justice department which works for donald trump in the middle here trying to figure out how they can navigate all of this. >> thank you. we'll get back to you. joining us now, ted lue of california, a member of judiciary and foreign affairs. thank you for joining us. >> what role do you believe president trump's criticism, rather lively over many months, played in his departure? >> i think it had a significant role. the president has been repeatedly attacking those investigating him. not only is it unseemly and wrong. it is demoralizing. andrew mccabe who i interviewed behind closed doors, i believe he is a good man who gave his life's work by the fbi and to have the president criticize him is enappropriate. >> you've read the classified memo. the they're voting to determine that it should be made public. does it raise questions about andrew mccabe's behavior? >> i can't discuss the contents of the memo but i can say it is wor

devin nunes having to recuse himself early. it seemed the senate was on a much better trajectory to produce a bipartisan report and release findings i think that were going to be more acceptable. i think this is just further evidence that the house process is just not going as planned. >> does this concern you, that this memo would be released without the source documents? the justice department warned it would be "extraordinarily reckless" for the house intelligence committee to release this without giving the fbi and justice department time to review it. >> well, i have a lot of reservations about releasing this four-page document. i was chair of the house ethics committee. like the intelligence committee, we have to deal with very sensitive -- had to deal with very sensitive issues. this my case, we were dealing with personnel matters, in the case of intelligence committee, dealing with national security secrets. i can tell you, when you do these investigations, you have to do them in a bipartisan manner. better behind close

objections to allowing the american people see information related to abuses at this agencies, and devin he is claims he's been investigating the fbi and d.o.j. for months now. so we know the day-to-day developments in the russia probe could be overwhelming to follow and keep track of it and this memo which we still haven't even seen, we think we know what is in it or the subject of it but we're not 100% sure and all of it -- it has its own complicated side story but legal experts tell my colleague delanian that all of the actions by this justice department are not formal. it is not normal to publicly object to the white house release of a it is not normal to give congress these kinds of sensitive classified documents in the first place. it is not normal for the house intel chair to refuse to share the information with his counter part on the senate intel committee. this is a fellow republican. and it is not normal for the house intel committee to vote to make classified information public. it is also not normal for the fbi and d.o.j. to be excluded from the declassification process and

devin anyone's, trey gowdy. it's taken months for the department of justice to provide these documents. they had to threaten a subpoena and get the speaker involved. now supposed lire they are going to turn over -- supposedly they are going to turn over the documents. judge jeanine: let's assume the fake dossier paid for and full of absurd allegations against the president was created for the purpose of bringing in fisa surveillance. why don't we have the application for the warrant? who do we have to go to to get the application for the warrant? >> well, it was jim jordan in the house judiciary committee that asked the attorney general and rod rosenstein to provide it. judge jeanine: they said no. my viewers want to know, now, where do we go? how do we find out? enough of this stuff and going on and on about this thing. let, finds out what the application for the fisa warrant looks like. is there anyone other than sessions and christopher wray and the fbi? >> you have to have mitch mcconnell involved with the c

this was written by devin nuness for devin nunes in an attempt to distract from the mueller investigation.foshould be very concerned about that. >> tucker: how do you know that? before you make that charge, how do you know? h >> oh, because we have known devin nunes' motives from the very beginning when he changed cars from being followed to the white house so that he could screw up this investigation. >> tucker: hold on a second. >> devin nunes is the reason why we have a special counsel. >> tucker: i'm not here to defend devin nunes or any member of congress, i'm just here as a citizen who is concerned that there may have been influence. fill in the blanks. i don't care, democrat, republican, i don't care, that subverts our government. why wouldn't i have a legitimate claim on knowing what the hell happened? i don't understand. >> i don't disagree with you on that point, tucker, not at all. usually when the intelligenceh committee tries to get to the bottom of this thing, these kinds of things, they do it in a nonpartisan way.mm the fact that this was done in the dark by republican staffer

in effect republicans led by devin nunes want to jump-start that process. they can use somewhat obscure rules to do that, in which case the white house would then have by these rules five days to object to that. and of course, if this is in the president's interest, to get this out there, perhaps the white house wouldn't stand in the way. in other words, there are tools that could be used to jump-start this and put out what is otherwise classified information. and it appears that there is some political will behind that. we'll see if it happens. >> but, phil, if the fbi did indeed, and i understand what your explanation was. you're saying this involves hundreds of people. a loft people. >> yeah. >> but if the fbi did improperly use a feiss have a warrant, that's critical information, right? doesn't the public have a right to flow about it? >> they do. but there is a couple basic questions you have to answer first before you have some congressman corresponding to his people across the aisle. before the person releases this to the public. let me give you a co

devin: i know.rically, there have been worse storms than sandy, factorse are always that made sandy really powerful, but it was not the worst storm new york has ever seen. if those tunnels fill all the way up, there is a possibility that they might crack and collapse. there is a level of sediment above the tunnels. a lot of that has washed away because of the building of back downtown, a change to the channels of the water. that is a concern, but even if that does not happen, these tunnels, amtrak says within 70 years, one of the tubes might have to be taken out of service. that might slow -- practically down then -- shut whole system because you are running a fraction of the train through one tunnel. introduction to new york when i arrived. derailments, and that was sort of my entry. that was the critical question, and you chart through the attempts to do something about this. difficult?been so whose response ability is it, and why has it been so difficult to enact essential upgrades? carol: amtrak

highly classified intelligence that the fbi has gathered and devin nunes knows this. so this is an issue for the fbi. this goes to the heart of what their complaints are. that it is not. these memos do not accurately portray the entire picture. >> let's talk about the breaking news, the allegations, the story that sources are telling cnn in december. rod rosenstein who oversees the russia investigation goes to the white house, tries to beat pact with the nunes request for information. but president trump instead seems more interested asking him where the russia investigation is going and asking rosenstein if he is on his team. are you on my team. i'll give you a chance and then david irving. >> first, one wonders, did mr. rosenstein make notes of that conversation. after jim comey was asked by the president for his loyalty, comey was so disconcerted by that he made notes. i have no idea if rosenstein did but that's something mr. mueller will want to know right away. did mr. rosenstein or anyone in that meeting make contemporaneous notes. second, does this fit a patter

. >> this is the latest chapter in devin nunes's now nine-month campaign to back up the president's wildest charges. >> i think it will speak for itself and will answer a lot of questions. >> president trump's first state of the union being overshadowed by the escalating campaign against the russia probe. >> it may be a surprise that andrew mccabe left today. i don't think there's any surprise. this administration had no desire for andrew mccabe to work within it. >> the white house denies that president trump had anything to do with his departure. >> you can think they're shameful and disgusting, but they're working in his favor. >> announcer: this is "new day." >> beautiful the capital looks despite all the chaos within. good morning. welcome to your "new day." we're here in washington because the president is going to deliver his first state of the union address tonight. he's expected to tout tax cuts, the strength of the u.s. economy and calling on lawmakers to strike a deal on immigration and infrastructure. but, in the midst of all of this, there is a political storm consuming this ca

when you ask devin nunes why, he would say no, i am still involved. he was involved in scheduling witnesses. he would not appear in witness interviews. he was cleared last year, late last year and perhaps one reason why he's reinserting himself aggressively into the investigation going forward. he's been the driving force behind this memo, behind what he views as doj, fbi abuse during the campaign season and over the russia investigation. democrats say it's to undermine bob mueller's investigation. nunez says he needs to investigate what's happening with doj and the fbi. he's getting support including the house speaker who said paul ryan. it will be behind whatever nunez decides to do. wolf? >> we are going to speak with another member of the house intelligence committee. we have more information. stand by. i want to go to phil mud who worked with the cia, served in the cia and served with the fbi. what is your reaction when you hear what the ranking democrat said? >> what a pit full democracy. 330 million americans said we trust congress to answer a

and the second thing is devin nunez who is paul ryan's attack dog. speaker of the house, devin nunez works for paul ryan. the department of justice know this is. they said call this guy off, and they told him to go pound sand. again, paul ryan is not being splashed on the front pages of these stories. >> you put your finger on it when it comes to this memo dp t fight. the speaker of the house, has a constitutional role, second in line for the president, on the gang of 8 for intelligence, and he could have taken the position that while nunez can say what he wants, paul ryan is not going to back this unprecedented use of classified information. you're saying by doing that, he's a more powerful version of nunez? >> that's right, he's nunez's boss, he serves at ryan's pleasure. ryan is the speaker of the house, the speaker of the house has almost unlimited say in what the house does. they used to say in the czarrian area, if the czar only knew what the cosak's were doing, nen they would say the cosa ks work for the czar, it's really paul ryan, it's paul

republican, this began with devin nunes, the same devin nunes that last year made white house surveillance claims, stage add rush to the white house to share surveillance information with the chairman but took information from the administration and staged a report of it. at its core, it was p.r. and it was bogus. devin nunes wrote the memo currently in question. he will not share it with investigators. the trump justice department wants to see it. he won't let them. the same trump department says it should not be made public as it would damage the nation. it's classified. it could reveal sources and methods. the republican trump appointee, the assistant attorney general, stephen boyd says releasing the memo would be extremely reckless. richard burr, the republican of north carolina, chairman of the select committee on intelligence, has requested a look before any possible declassification. look denied. in who have seen the memo say its misleading, distracting and lacking context. the memo itself is in the conservative discussion mix while the special counsel investigating russian interfer

devin nunes, courier to the white house monday night, kicking off a five-day window for the president to review the memo and decide whether or not to release it. sources say the memo alleging that the fbi did not disclose to the judge who signed off on a secret surveillance warrant for foreign trump campaign adviser carter page that the dossier relied on, in part, was partially paid for. imminent release of the memo has sparked concern in the intelligence committee that sources and methods could be compromised, according to multiple sources. >> the president says 100% i'm doing it. we haven't vet it, i haven't read it but 100% i'm going to do t the sad reality of this is, this doesn't surprise anyone about this president. because no one has any doubt that the priority is the national security, interest of justice. it's just the naked, personal interest of the president. >> tonight republican devin nunes is responding a terst response, saying they've stonewalled congress by withholding documents over the past year and if they want the record to be straight they should release all the i

a spokesman for devin ne nunes s this.gencies under investigation by congressional committees don't typically get access to the committee's investigative documents about them. and it is no surprise these agencies don't want the abuses we found to be public. joining us tonight, judicial watch president, tom fenton, now suing the department of justice to retrieve the strzok and page fbi texts sean first of all, it's great to see you. i'm calling point blank devin nunes a hero in this episode. he's now doing so with great wit. i thought that response was absolutely perfect. what did you think? >> i thought it was great too. and the disturbing aspect is the justice department is acting like hillary clinton is ft as opposed to president trump. jeff sessions has put himself in a box because of the russia recusal and it appears that special counsel mueller is running the investigation. and all of this fight about the dossier, back and forth about the fbi text messages and the modified limited hangout of text messages, it's about

the republican memo was written for the chairman of the committee devin nunez. the same man who temporarily shrank from the pot slight months after he rushed the white house to brief the president on the allegedly shocking facts he had just allegedly uncovered about the russia investigation. facts we later found out he had just gotten from the white house. the very white house he claimed he had to rush to to update them on facts they already had. it amounted to a smoke screen. democrats say that is what today's memo is really about as well. a smoke screen, an attack on the intelligence and law enforcement communities involved in the russia investigation. that brings us to tonight's other big breaking story, the number two man at the fbi, andrew mccabe is out. you probably have heard his name before because the president has repeatedly singled a handout for the criticism. the president tends to criticize a certain kind of career public servant. the ones investigating him, his team, and his campaign for possible collusion with russia and/or possible obstruction of

#drafted by devin nunes. the memo was delivered to the white house starting a five-day period for the president to decide to release it or not. >> this would bolster the efforts of the investigation and escalate a battle with the justice department. this is a serious concern to two former national security offici officials. >> this is bad all the way around. this is a very negative development for lots of reasons. it represents an assault on the institutions and it is certainly bad for the fbi and the department of justice. i shudder to think of the morale of the organizations. >> i actually didn't think it would happen because of the affects that jim described. this crosses threshold that we have not done before. >> chris wray was allowed to review the memo and raise concerns. one source says the president erupted last week when he learned of the justice department efforts to stop the release. publishing it would be extraordinary reckless. for more we turn to manu raju on capitol hill. >> reporter: good morn

tonight, fox news has obtained a letter from the justice department to house intelligence chairman devinunes, warning him about dee classifying the much talked about four page classified memo penned by his staff, which allegedly outlines government surveillance abuses. you know the hashtag, "release the memo.

kpix5's devin fehely is life in the man's community in san jose. devin? >> reporter: fernando coreo's wife and daughter say he is a dedicated family man that doesn't deserve to be locked away in a federal detention facility awaiting deportation, but i.c.e. say it's more complicated than that. they say he has been deported repeatedly and returned without permission to this country and they say he has two prior convictions on his record. this picture was posted of the man's wife and three daughters christmas day with the caption one elf short. it had been nearly two months since her husband fernando was detained by i.c.e. agents after dropping their daughter off at daycare in mid- november. >> i've been left to be a single mom of three girls. financially we are devastated. >> reporter: the father of three has been held at the west county detention center in richmond the past three months. today activists rallied outside the i.c.e. office in san francisco. they say the trump administration's immigration policy is capricious and cruel and gives little regard

is this just a way, as his critics, devin nunes' critics are suggesting that nunes is trying to muddy the water? >> potentially i don't know wolf, again, he's following the president's lead. because president trump remains popular among republicans, even though he has a historically low approval rating jovial, you're going to continue to see republicans in congress following the president's lead. he has suggested that this dossier is proof that this is a political witch-hunt, has he has alleged. of course there is a "new york times" report that came out over the weekend that said it wasn't the start of the investigation at all, that the conversation george papadopoulos had in london with an australian ambassador was the start of the investigation, the dossier came later. but the fact that devin nunes is continuing to look into this thread just shows how much power the president has to set the tone and set the agenda for republicans. >> bianna, is the house investigation in trouble? >> well, you're starting to see the divide even among republicans or what are the long-term implications

release of a classified memo written by staffers of the house intelligence committee and chairman devin nunez. in today's statement the bureau said, quote, as expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about the material omissions of fact that fund. ally impact the memo's accuracy. this mirrors complaints that democrats on the commity have had to say there is cherry picking going on in this memo. this is not a legal document. it is a memo by the staff of the committee. republicans on the house intel committee voted to release the memo. saying it shows that corruption in the fbi is, quote, worse than water gate. but democrats say the memo is a political attack that does cherry pick facts to undermine robert mueller's russia investigation. the fbi's warning comes after last night when a hot mic caught the president saying this about the memo.

this is a really dishonorable act for devin nunes and a low moment for house republicans.speaker ryan who have not stood in his way but encouraged him and let him go forward. >> he's done more than that, steve schmidt. let me read you this from jennifer rubin. a house speaker would have stepped in and protect the integrity of congress. ryan must decide whether his water carrying for the president obliges him to indulge in committee chairman consumed with mongering who routinely gives support to white house allegations and who has failed in his obligation to exercise reasonable serious oversight and explore an assault on american democracy. >>> this, steve schmidt, to me, is a stain on paul ryan. and the fact that he ever, ever was on the ticket as a vice-presidential nominee blows my mind. >> yeah, he's demonstrated since donald trump became president absolute lack of toughness, of strength, in asserting the prerogatives of the institution that he leads. the house of representatives. he's a constitutional officer, third in line to the presidency. and what devin nunes is do

. >> democrats say the imagine behind the memo, devin nunes, would not reveal whether his staff would work the white house. >> i asked the chairman, did he work with, and i asked all the preliminaries, coordinate, discuss, and he said not to my knowledge. i asked, did your staff? he became quite agitated. >> he released a memo saying, having stone walled congress's demands for information for nearly a year, it is no surprise to see the fbi and the department of justice issue spurious tokss allow the american people to see information related to it. the ranking democrat argues releasing the ploim only encourage the white house to enter gear the russia investigation. >> the danger in thought besides the obvious one, politicize go the intelligence process, is that it sends a message to the white house that he can fire rod rosenstein or he can fire bob mueller and there are gop members who are so vested in his presidency that they will roll over. and that will cause a constitutional crisis if that's the message he takes. >> russia may be on the president's mind but it earned only a brief

devin nunes in my judgment is a hero.e is the only one in his committee to produce evidence of the -- first of all, it's excale president and any of the nonsense about collusion. but is also driving knowledge about what really was going on here and it's, i think at this stage it is a straightforward obvious attempt to subvert the president of the united states duly elected even before he got to the oval office. >> well, you're absolutely right. it's like the deep state got together to orchestrate a palace coup over our president. and chairman devin new nez has s been a fighter. without him we wouldn't know about the text messages when peter struck and lisa paige. in the house judiciary committee, i'm proud of our work. we had an interview of andrew mccabe under oath, sworn testimony and within hours of him giving that testimony he announced his retirement. i think one of the reasons may be the inconsistencies of his very testimony. we've got a series of investigations closing in on hillary clinton like a noose. lou: you k

it is be devin nunes alone.ot clear the other republicans on his own committee endorsed the findings so you have to ask yourself. if you were a congressman who had found evidence of surveillance abuses that you were really concerned about, what measures would you take? those would include informing the chair and ranking of the senate intelligence committee. >> and he is deeply irritating adam schiff and the democrats. >> that goes without saying. >> he released, he says he's toward release his own memo countering the memo. if the nunes memo is released. >> they have a war going on for quite some time. which is why the committee has dug itself kind of into a hole where people aren't taking it as seriously as they are the senate committee. and one thing that susan was talking about during break, is that if nunes said to burr, here's my memo. burr as chairman of that committee in the senate has access to the same level of intelligence that nunes has access to, a lot of the other committee members don't have access

adding to the mystery of this all is the controversial memo written by house intelligence committee devin nunes, republican of california, which alleges surveillance abuses by the fbi of the trump team. in all the back and forth between justice department and congress over this memo and between republican who's stay public needs to see the nunes memorandum sxoe democrats who say it is misleading, the fbi director, christopher wray, went to capitol hill yesterday to read the memo. the big question, did that have anything 22nd mccabe's departure today? president trump has for years expressed concern in speeches and twitter saying that mccabe could not be fair given his wife is a democrat in virginia and took money from then governor mccall you have, friend of the clintons. er his wife lost the race but that was not enough for president trump who publicly questioned why mccabe had not been fired. last month tweeting, he is racing the dlok reticlock with benefits. 90 days to go. democrats saying this is part of the president's undermining institutions. we have reporters to cover every angle o