now the house intel girl chan says he's not going to recuse himself, even though he admits he met with a course on white house grounds. >> so there is a growing list of democrats demanding deven nunes step down. president trump dismissing the russia story as a "hoax." and the meeting of president's son-in-law and a russian banker with ties to putin raising questions. let's begin live on capitol hill. >> there is a growing kor rou i calling for -- there are some allies saying he should talk about and tell his committee members who gave him that classified information is, what it is. in the meantime, the house speaker paul ryan telling me he has no appetite to replace the chair. >> the chairman ought to recuse himself. leading democrats calling for the chair to step down, arguing that congressman deven nunes is too close to the administration to conduct an impartial investigation into the trump campaign's potential ties to russia. >> we have reached the point where it would be very difficult to maintain the credibility investigation if the chairman did not recuse himself. >> the uproar c

he is the former chairman of the house intel committee, now chaired by mr. nunes. talk for a moment what happened today. senate intel committee chairman and co-chairman, the republican and democrat coming out. a lot of people said they looked much more than adults than the house committee on intel. that they were getting along. let me play sound bite from the democratic head, senator warner. play that. >> outside foreign adversary effectively sought to hijack our most critical democratic process, the election of a president, in that process decided to favor one candidate over another. david: favor one candidate over another. of course the big question that democrats have alluded to time and again, is whether there was any cooperation with trump administration officials when they were campaigning for the presidency. do you think eventually the rancor we now see in the house intel committee is going to happen in the senate intel committee? >> well, sounds like the senator has already reached a conclusion before the investigation is even started. david: it does. >> but

>> absolutely, especially if the house intel committee comes out and says that the white house missedheir deadline. i think there is one possibility here where the white house may have information that we haven't seen, which is what they have suggested repeatedly, because he has access to classified information the public doesn't. they could give that to the house intelligence committee, which could come back and say that they have received it, but because it's classified, the public can't see it, but there is one date that you need to circle on your calendar, and that is march 20th, because that is when fbi director james comey will be going before the intel committee in the house in a public venue, and this will be a huge topic on that day and there will be many questions about th this, and i suspect that is the first opportunity we'll have to get the answers we've been seeking on this matter. >> so when we think about that, pema, between now and then, how many people on the hill and folks that you've had access to really feel that this is going to be, as francesca points out, a piv

were you concerned that the house intel chairman held a press conference, ran to the white house, heldonference outside of the white house with intel information that he had without first going through all of the proper channels and talking to the ranking members and other republicans on the house intel committee? >> i have not spoken to devin about it. i intend to. all i can say is that i was former chairman of the house ethics committee and i have conducted some very sensitive investigations on a nonpartisan or bipartisan basis. the way i always operated is i always worked with my democratic counterpart because i never -- didn't want any surprises and i guess that is probably what i guess raised some concerns is that there was not that dialogue with the other side of the aisle prior to him going to the white house so why i need to talk to devin to find out exactly what happened. but as i said, when i ran investigation, they are very nonpartisan and i really didn't do anything without talking to my democratic counterpart because i couldn't resolve the issue without them. >> does the m

the letter we wrote wasn't to the house intel committee. the letter we wrote was the department of justice and to the fbi. for the good of the country i think we need a response from the department of justice from the fbi so we can move on. finally about a criminal investigation, director of national intelligence, the former director, mr. clapper, said that during his time he saw no evidence of collaboration between the trump campaign and the russians and he didn't believe a warrant was issued, and if one had been he would have known about it. all i'm saying i'd like to get to the bottom of this one way or the other. if there is an investigation covering time periods mr. clapper was not in charge of or something new came up, i want to know about it so we do not run afoul of it. we're not trying to impede an investigation. we're trying to make sure that one can go forward without congress getting in the way. in the next hearing will be how to protect an investigation from political influence if there is one. so i would imagine most americans

you were the chair of the house intel committee. devin nunes replaced you in that role.t of sense thif information about the president while you were investigating the president's associates, would you have gone to the president to tell him that? >> i have to tell you it is time for an adult-only swim at the hotel pool here. is a little concerning to me on both sides. this duelling press conference deal is no way to answer a very serious investigation. if that material was pertinent to the investigation, then i think you need to stand with the committee's investigation and do it through the regular order of that. he said something interesting, one, it had nothing to do with russia, that will raise more questions that it was legally obtained and likely proper and had some intelligence value. all of those raises more questions, doesn't answer questions. i was scratching my head a little bit on why he took this particular tact to do it. of course now they're both being partisan about it and i worry about the voracity of the investigati investigation. >> very quickly, is tha

trey dowdy, one of the members of the house intel committee this morning, on what to expect from its wide ranging investigation. >> i would encourage all of your viewers -- we're going to start the evidentiary process on march 20th. so have an open mind on all facets of this from the interference to the influence to our american response to it but also the leaks. >> want to go to the white house. kelly o'donnell is standing by.

the house intel committee russian investigation grinding to a halt. ls to stop down. >> a troubling allegation. did nunes conform with the white house with sally yates? the intel committee will begin the hearing on russia tomorrow. the president says it will be easy to get a deal on health care and we are doing well in iraq. for getting the u.s. just killed 100 civilians. what does day 69 hold for president trump? let's start with sara murray. >> reporter: a beating in the house as they stumble with how to move forward with the russian investigation. one thing is clear. the white house is in defensive crouch. >> are you going to stay as chairman and run the investigation? >> why would i not? >> reporter: devin nunes defiant amid calls for him to step aside on the russian investigation. >> are you going to recuse

after nearly two weeks, house intel committee chairman david nunez took a stronger tone on the president's claim. >> we don't have any evidence that that took place. and, in fact, i don't believe just in the last week of time the people we have talked to, i don't think there was an actual tap of trump tower. president obama wouldn't physically go over and wiretap trump tower so now you have to decide as i mentioned last week do you take the tweets literally and if you are, then clearly the president was wrong. >> fbi doctor james comey will testify before the house

>> nope, never. >> the house intel chair devin nunes still not revealing his sources. in "the washington post" raising questions about coordination with the white house. here is what we know. march 15, in the evening president trump tells fox news this. >> we will be submitting things before the committee very soon that hasn't been submitted as of yet. but it's potentially a very serious situation. >> five days later, march 20th, the day of the house intel committee hearing, the new yorker's ryan lizza reporting before the hearing starts that the white house gives him a tip about incidental collection. the white house clearly indicated to me that at noon nunes would highlight this issue. it's a back door surveillance where it is not just incidental, it is systemic. the white house official said watch nunes today at 10:00 a.m., the hearing begins, here is nunes in his opening statement. >> the intelligence community has extremely strict procedures for handling information pertaining to any u.s. citizens who are subject even to incidental surveillance. it's still possible

house intel committee as to whether or not there's actually evidence for the president's claims. what are you hearing what's in the letter? >> reporter: well, two key members looking at this letter, devin nunes, the chairman to have house intel committee, adam schiff ranking democrat. both of them do not expect this letter will not verify what president trump has been saying that he's been wiretapped under the orders of president barak obama. i should caution these two men still have not reviewed this letter because actually the justice department gave one copy to the house intelligence department, i believe it's a classified copy, a hard copy and adam schiff was leaving town and devin nunes was going into the read the let ter as well, but h too said i do not believe this letter is going to back up president trump's claims. just moments ago, from angela merkel. take a listen. >> i'm not sure that we need in writing that which we are all too aware of and that is there's no basis of what the president has said and what the president repeated today and i have express my mortificatio

the chairman of the house intel committee doing a 180 saying there was no substantiated evidence of wiretapping. then he went and did his press conference. then he went to the white house. then he came back. then he said no, actually, there wasn't this evidence butunmaski and the saga continues. this is more than technically whether the white house intervened -- which, by the way, this are things that are executive privilege, both partie parties' presidents claim that from time to time. other thing that's getting lost i would like to add for contest -- the most interesting things sally yates knows as acting attorney general would not be said in an open hearing anyway, anything that would touch on classified or on aspects of a criminal inquiry. >> they are not going to be invoking privilege? >> no, that was made very clear today. sean spicer said he wants to see sally yates testify. that's the position of the administration. >> the white house seems like it's in a bunker right now. it feels like sean spicer came out in a very antagonistic way ready to push back forcefully against the press. is t

the house intel committee expect today bring james comey and mike rogers back for another hearing this one behind closed doors to offer classified information. >>> hundreds of peaceful protesters arrested in russia including a noted critic of president vladimir putin. live in moscow next. . >>> the state department is condemning the kremlin for the arrest of hundreds of russian protesters including a key opposition figure to vladimir putin, thousands of people hit the streets in moscow sunday and nearly 100 cities and towns, ale alexey navalny detained. you yourself got caught up in this over the weekend, huh? >> reporter: yeah, we certainly did. and you know the authorities here in moscow really tried to do everything they could to try to stop these protests from even getting underway, they started at a railway and you could see a lot of cops arresting some of the protest leaders even as they got off trains and taking them into detention. the protests were certainly a lot bigger than most anticipated and that was also some of the things that really led to some scuffles going on. here

it seems that both sides like trump, and that's good. >> a new warning this morning from house intelember adam schiff amid his

and he figured out who these people were. >> he was part of the transition team and head of the house intel committee. >> is it legal for him to reveal this information? it was just so remarkable to see him rushing to the white house to inform the president about the intelligence reports he has seen. presumably the president could order up and have delivered and go to the media to talk about it. >> it is questionable. you know, we don't know all the details. he has some degree of basically leverage in the area where he can reveal some things. he really shouldn't have done this. he should have coordinated with the democratic counterparts before doing this. >> procedurally this was very hard to wrap your imagination around. short game may have given the president political cover. he feels somewhat vindicated. this is what john mccain would like to happen now. >> what i think the reason why i'm calling for this select committee or a special committee is i think that this back and forth and what the american people have found out so far that no longer does the congress have credibility to handl

he is a member of the house intel committee.congressman. >> good morning allison. >> so chairman nunes apologized? is that it? problem solved? >> not problem solved. it was interesting and odd to hear the apology because of course he is pretty close with the president who at the very core of his being celebrates never apologizing. but the democrats have been saying this and we have been joined by republicans and senators and this is an investigation of a degree of seriousness that requires that it be done by an outside bipartisan commission. as much as i appreciate him and consider him a friend so once again we are showing why this should be done by an outside commission. >> do you think that chairman nunes should step down? >> at the end of the day that's a decision that no one other than speaker ryan could make but that's certainly an alternative and as i pointed out as much as i have a friendship with congressman nunes it was just a couple of weeks agatha he and the chairman on the senate side were admitted to working with th

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the other big story we're following this morning as new reports identify the sources behind gop house intel chairman devin nunes' claim that the president was, quote, incidentally surveilled during the transition. "the washington post" reporting overnight it was, in fact, three white house officials that played a role in nunes' stunning allegation nine days ago when he claimed the president was surveilled. >> it was a claim the president later said he felt vindicated by. "new york times" then identifying two sources sciting several u.s. officials. it came just in time for sean spicer's daily press briefing in which he deflected questions about the report. >> sean, are you saying that "the new york times" report today was not correct -- >> i'm saying in order to comment on that story would be to validate certain things i'm not at liberty to do. >> nbc news has not confirmed both of the reports, however, spicer did announce this letter inviting bipartisan leaders of the intel committees to the white house to review new evidence that may show information collected about americans with quote mi

stone, one of president trump's former advisers just days after offering to testify before the house intel committee for its investigation into possible ties between the trump campaign and russia. >> i have requested that that be in a public section -- session. let's have this testimony, george. in other words, you have a bunch of congressmen here who i believe have defamed me. i saw demagoguery, fearmongering, red baiting and half-truths, in many cases just flat-out lies. in america, we're supposed to have a chance to see the evidence against us and face our accusers. i'm very anxious to do that. if mr. page and mr. manafort do the same thing, frankly, i think the whole russian thing that starts as a clinton press release is finally put to bed. there is no collusion, at least none that i know about in donald trump's campaign for president. >>> now ranking member adam schiff made no mention of stone's letter to the committee but ramped up his criticism of chairman devin nunes. >> the chairman has to make a decision whether to act as a surrogate of the white house as he did during the campa

new reaction from house intel committee ranking member adam schiff on whether he expects fbi director james comey to flat-out reject president trump's wiretapping claims during a closely watched hearing tomorrow. >> director comey will say that definitively tomorrow? >> i expect that he will and i hope that we can put an end to this wild goose chase because what the president said was just patently false and the wrecking ball it created now has banged into our british allies and our german allies. it's continuing to grow in terms of damage and he needs to put an end to this. >> tomorrow's hearing on russia's alleged interference in the u.s. election kicks off a very busy week on capitol hill. also on tap, senate judiciary committee begins confirmation hearings for neil gorsuch, president trump's supreme court nominee and on thursday the house will vote on the republicans' health care bill, a proposal president trump is confident will pass and he's even burying the hatchet with one of his biggest critics, senator rand paul. >> i like him. he's become a friend of mine, and he's a good g

chair. >> we don't have any evidence that that took place. >> the top democrat on the house intelmittee. >> thus far we have seen no basis for that whatsoever. >> now fbi director james comey will testify before the house tomorrow on spy claims and on russia's role in the

lou: former house intel committee chairman pete hoekstra joins us. kim jong un appears to have given the go ahead to his scientists to conduct another nuclear test, this as the white house and china prepare to meet next week. part of that discussion may well be how to best combat north korea's nuclear ambitions and threats. >>> good evening, everybody. tonight we begin with breaking news, the "wall street journal" reporting president trump's former national security adviser michael flynn has offered to testify about the trump campaign's alleged ties to russia in exchange for immunity from prosecution. flynn, of course, was directly involved in discussions about the lifting of sanctions on russia imposed by the obama administration. again, the president's former national security adviser, michael flynn, reportedly offering to testify in exchange for immunity. officials with knowledge of the matter say flynn made the offer to the fbi and the house and senate intelligence committees through his attorney, but so far there have been no takers. >>> and new

now we have the house intel chairman saying the president is wrong on this. paul ryan, house speaker, saying this tap didn't exist. so has the president damaged his credibility? >> well, look, let me say this too, kate. first, the easiest thing to do to verify whether or not there was surveillance is to check the fisa orders. in order for any american citizen to be surveilled, candidate trump or anyone else, there would have to have been a warrant, go before the fisa court, and somebody can go check those fisa orders fairly quickly to determine if such an order was ever granted. i suspect there wasn't one. >> it seems that the house intel chairman says definitively there wasn't one. paul ryan today said the same thing. he says we've cleared this up. so it seems that they are saying that the president was wrong on this one. do you think this is now -- do you think this damages his credibility? >> it certainly doesn't help. sure, it's important, i always say, when you're president of the united states, your words are policy. so any time you make an utterance, t

information was to white house officials, do you believe that she should stay on as chairman of the house intel committee? >> i have no problem. that's one of the house -- it is a house committee decision as long as he feels he's effective, i think it's okay for him to stay on. and we have found out information from that. we have found out, for example, that the obama administration tapping russian officials swept in, if you will, american citizens. we also understand that the identity of some of those american citizens was revealed. that's against the law. that is against the law. that's wrong. and although it's been kind of an odd way to get there, nunes's revelations have revealed that. next we also know that adam schiff, as well as the senate intelligence committees are going to see the information. it wasn't done ideally, but nunes has moved the ball forward in what the committees are going to learn about what has transpired. >> if the identities were just revealed to the intel community, is that against the law? >> well, first, we know that flynn's identity was revealed to "the new york t

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the trump-russia program has broken down for now amid a growing divide over whether house intel chairman devin nunes should recuse himself those calls coming from a growing number of demonstrate and now even from the ranks of nunes own party. cummings points to a claim made by nunes he was on white house grounds to read classified material but no one on the west wing was aware. the claim by nunes no one knew in the white house knew about a visit could not be true. >> now there's a republican house member saying nunes should recuse himself. walter jones of north carolina. nunes is scoffing at the suggestion he might step aside. >> are you going to stay as chairman and run this investigation? >> why would i not? you guys need go ask them why these things are being said. >> can this investigation continue as you as chairman? >> why would i not. am i not keeping you up to speed? >> they say it can't run with you as chairman. >> it sounds like their problem. >> before the investigation resumes the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee adam schiff want republicans to reschedule

house intel chair, devin nunes continuing to fend off charges of collusion with the white house and refusing to answer questions about the probe. >> what's been the hold up about the specific information you saw on white house grounds? >> it's just trying to get the agencies in order for them to get the information to us in a timely manner. >> there seems to be this fascination with the process. it's how did he get here? what door did he enter, as opposed to what is the substance of what we're finding. >> i just don't know how to conduct a credible investigation in you have let alone one person but the chairman of the committee who is saying i've seen evidence but i won't share it with anyone else. >> this after schiff refused to sign on to a closed door hearing unless nunes also agrees to reschedule the public hearing he canceled this week. comey defending the fbi's impartiality atten event last night. >> we're not on anybody's side ever. we're not considering who's ox will be gored by this action or that action, who's fortunes will be helped. we just don't care and we can't care. >> all th

if you're doing a good intel committee hearing which i think the senate is and the house is less so, telligence professionals that have looked at all this come to you and say this is what we're really focused on in the investigation and the intel analysis and this is what's gotten merit to it, an incidental collection that doesn't have merit is going to be pushed away. we did the reverse of that. we dug for a nugget of gold to justify a tweet somewhere and instead bypassed a good bipartisan non-influential process. >> all this chaos -- we have to underline this fact. all this chaos, including the trashing of our greatest allies, to justify a tweet that everyone still says is a lie. >> clint watts, thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> jim himes of the intel committee joins us live -- >> wait, wait. what did they call watergate? third rate burglar? >> this is like a fourth rate tweet. will it take down the president? >> such a huge ego. >> at 25% now in the gallup poll, most of that from the tweet. >> he needs help. >> we'll be back. we all need help. various: (shouting) heigh! ho! (

>> another bombshell according to "the new york times" two white house officials gave house intel chairmanevin nunes those intelligence reports the president trump backed up his claims about being wiretapped. the senate intelligence committee opened its first hearings as the house intel committee is simply crippled, bipartisanship. more from manu raju. >> reporter: another day of wild turn of events when devin nunes source potentially revealed in a "the new york times" articles, that a white house official allowed him on white house grounds to review i understanci collections -- now after the revelation of the two name it is white house not commenting on that report. neither devin nunes will either. he will not say whether the white house had any role whatsoever when i asked him multiple occasions now. adam schiff yesterday raised concerns, i asked him specifically do you think the white house was involved the effort to under cut your committee? >> what's the best route to doing a credible investigation? if there's been a substantial question about whether we can do that we need to take wh

according to "the new york times" it was two white house officials who gave house intel chairman devin nunes reports that allegedly backed trump's claims about being wiretapped. the senate intelligence committee opened hearings and senator marco rubio made the surprising revelation that he has been personally targeted by coordinated cyberattacks. >> 10:45 a.m. yesterday a second attempt was made again against former members of my former presidential campaign team who had access, again targeted from an i.p. address from an unknown location in russia and that effort also was unsuccessful. >> look, it shows that it's still on going and what's so critical here and that the russians are learning from this process and adapting an changing and still meddling. i want to bring in josh rogen. he's a columnist for the "washington post." let start with this. >> good morning. >>> let's start with sound from last september. about the kind of people who ask for immunity from prosecution. listen. >> her aides took the fifth amendment and her ring leaders were given immunity. and if you're not guilty o

, so if the commander in chief cannot be briefed by the chairperson of the house intel committee on a matter that has nothing to do with the fbi investigation, then i don't know what they can talk about, john. >> dickerson: all right. so here is -- >> he is the commander in chief. >> dickerson: so if this is an issue outside of the one they are investigating at the moment in the committee and that you are investigating, should it then be taken out of this investigation? have a separate investigation on both the issues that chairman nunes has discovered this week and then also the one you are quite concerned about which is the leaks that have been in the paper, some of them potentially illegal, get that out of this question of russia to keep things from getting mixed the way they appear to have? >> well, they are separate, and i heard my friend from california mention that independent commission, thank goodness we have one, it is called the fbi, the fbi has counterintelligence jurisdiction and they have criminal jurisdiction, and what we learned on monday, and it is about the only thin

. >> the ranking member on the house intel committee responded. >> good afternoon i know a lot of you are not from the u.s. congress so i haven't had a lot of chance to brief you in the past but to keep you awfully updated on what's happening with this investigation. today, i briefed the president on the concerns that i had about incidental collections and how it relates to president-elect trump and his transition team and the concerns that i have as i said earlier, they'll be more information hopefully by friday. the nsa is cooperating very, very well. lastly, i'll say that the reports that i was able to see did not have anything to do with russia or the russian investigation or any ties to the trump team. with that i'll take any questions that you have. >> why is it okay for you to give. >> because what i saw has nothing to do with russia and nothing to do with the russian investigation. it has everything to do with possible surveillance activities and the president needs to know that these intelligent reports are out there. i have a duty to tell him that. >> doesn't appear that you

the house intel committee wants all relevant documents about alleged wiretaps turned over monday. president trump leveled the explosive accusation in a series of tweets a week ago, one tweet reading, just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. nothing found. this is mccarthyism. the president has yet to provide any evidence to back up his claims. a ranking member of the house intel committee says he's concerned that if the president fabricated those accuse aations could damage the president and the u.s. credibility. >> there are one of two possibilities here. either the president quite deliberately for some reason made up this charge or perhaps more disturbing, the president really believes this. if six months from now the president should say that iran is cheating on the nuclear agreement, if he's making that up, it's a real problem. if he's not making it up and it's true, it's an even bigger problem because the question is would people believe him, would american people believe him, would people around the world believe him. and that has

only house intel committee chair has seen has lawmakers questioning the entire process on capitol hill. >> meantime, the senate intelligence committee is preparing to interview a member of president trump's own family. nbc bay area's jay gray is live in washington with the latest. what do we know about what's happening today? >> reporter: hey there, kris and sam. supposed to be on the house side a public hearing today with testimony from the cia, from the fbi. that was postponed or cancelled depending on who you ask and democrats as well as some republicans are calling on an independent committee to take over this investigation. >> we've had an investigation into russia. >> reporter: calls for house intelligence committee chair devin nunes to step aside. >> chairman nunes needs to rekues himself. >> reporter: are growing louder on capitol hill. >> it's time for devin nunes to leave this investigation let alone lead it. he should be gone. >> reporter: after a secret trip and sharing information with the press, the president and not members of his own committee investigating russian elec

and that's all because of devin nunes. >> we have the -- what's going on with the house intel committee. there's what could be going on in the senate intel committee we'll find out more about. but michael steele, there's also this now renewed effort to potentially look at health care again, this after last week when everyone, including the president, said they were just going to let, in the president's word, obamacare explode. can they go back to health care and can they do it at the same time as doing tax reform and potentially infrastructure? >> that remains to be seen. my take on all of this at this stage, my top lip says we went to go back and get health care done, and the bottom lip says repeal and replace. and the two right now do not align themselves. so the house leadership in particular, the white house as well, need to just step back from the health care cliff at the moment, get their act together. understand exactly what bill they want to produce. write that bill. have it displayed publicly to get their membership on board with that bill. and then let's have the national conv

surveilled. >> and this comes as three 40 trump aides say they're willing now to testify before that house intel jessica schneider with what that means. >> christi and victor, the house intelligence committee has become the center of a partisan fight. the top republican and republican pointing fifthers at each other as they investigate russia meddling into the election. and president trump's wiretap allegations. now, the focus shifts to what new information chairman nunes has that he's not sharing and what the three trump associates will say. >> reporter: paul manafort, carter page and roger stone are already under fbi investigation for contacts with russians known to intelligence. paul manafort, donald trump's compare chairman resigned. a spokesman said manafort looks forward to those meeting forward to those conducting serious investigations of these issues to discuss the facts. campaign manage charter page denied allegations that he secretly met with putin associates. he told the committee i look forward tone gauging with you in the interest of finally ending this ruse. and stone is anxious t

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on the house intel committee. >> thus far we have not seen basis for that whatsoever. >> james is set to testify tomorrow on the spy claims and russia's role in the 2016 election. the ranking democrat on that committee adam schiff of california joins me this morning. plus the budget blueprint, sharp increases in spending for the military, sharp decreases in domestic programs for the poor. >> we want to give you money for programs that don't work. i can't defend that anymore, budget director mick mulvaney is here this morning and health care fight, can president trump win over enough republicans to get his bill through congress. i'll talk to one republican no vote this morning senator susan collins from maine. joining me for insight and analysis are george will, yamiche alsindor and anchor of world news america katty kay. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press" from nbc it's "meet the press" from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in washington, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning it was in the late '60s that the term credibility gap first g

i implore he chooses the latter. >> the house intel committee is expected to bring fbi director james comey and nsa director mike rogers back for another hearing. this one will be behind closed doors to offer classified information. >>> ahead, hundreds of peaceful protesters arrested in russia, including a prominent vladimir putin critic. live in moscow when we return. >>> the state department condemning the kremlin for protests of russian -- nearly 100 other cities and towns for anti-corruption. let's go live to moscow with the latest developments. fred, you yourself with caught up with these protests over the weekend. good morning. >> reporter: yeah, absolutely dave and the authorities in russia declared these protests illegal before they even started and tried to prevent people from coming out on the streets. the railway where it started was surrounded by police officers for a long period of time and yet more people than expected turned up in moscow, about 8,000 people on the streets chanting and many indeed were taken into custody and we got into one of those scuffles as well here

. >> we know that house intel chair devin nunes disappeared from his staff last tuesday night to delve into classified information on the white house grounds. what we aren't getting the answer to is, was this arranged by the white house. a former government intelligence official telling cnn that members of congress must be cleared to enter white house grounds by a white house staffer, saying it's just not possible that the white house was unaware or uninvolved. the white house, tonight, though, refusing to deny they knew nunes was nearby. tonight, new details about house intelligence committee chair, devin nunes' whereabouts the night before this unusual press conference. >> what i have read bothers me and i think it should bother the president. >> reporter: it turns out nunes was on white house grounds, his spokesman confirming, chairman nunes met with his source at the white house grounds in order to have proximity to a secure location, where he could view the information provided by the source. that's where nunes tells cnn he viewed information indicating incidental collection of th

of course, you sit on the house intel committee.ause you do, congressman, do you have confidence that this can be addition that this investigation can be conducted fairly within your committee? >> well, you know, even as recently as yesterday morning, i was praising chairman nunes and other members of the committee for conducting what had to that point been a fairly bipartisan investigation aimed at getting to the trut of what happened in the 2016 election. but recent events, first his going to the white house before talking to the ranking member, speaking to the press before talking to the committee, and then today canceling the open public hearing on tuesday, these things are very troubling. they really just underscore why many democrats have argued we need an independent commission separate from the congress, separate from the politicians here. a group of -- bipartisan group of citizens to look into this rather than congress. >> let's look at the hearing from march 28th. it was supposed to include sally yates, and james clapper.

want to step aside, can't wear two team jerseys, you think he's on team white house and not team house intel committee. >> he won't tell us what he learned at the white house. we've canceled today's hearing. no further hearings this week and no sense of when the next will be. so all the progress we made with last week's open hearing is now stalled. >> congressman, hope you come back. especially when you get that letter. i hope you get it and come back and share it with us. >> i do, too. >> thank you, sir. >> there's so much mystery. what exactly do we know b about former attorney general sally yates and her testimony we were expecting today? here's a look at what went down leading up to those now canceled hearings. >> i hope she testifies. i look forward to it. the report in "the washington post" is 100% false. we encouraged them to go ahead, but to suggest that we stood in the way, that is 100% false. >> the white house denying claims it tried to block former acting attorney general sally yates from testifying on russia. "the washington post" publishing letters between yates' lawyer and the

so the representative devin nunes is under fire for actions as chairman of the house intel committee.en everything that we have learned about his conduct, do you think he has the credibility to lead the house investigation? >> well, just judging by the comments of so many congressmen and senators in the last 24, 48 hours i think his credibility is in trouble. and what congressman schiff in particular has said does, you know, have a big impact. and for me it worries me that this investigation may not be a serious enough one and it may get drawn out endlessly in time, timewise, and we'll just waste more and more months trying to get to the bottom of the whole hacking story. so if need be, a select committee i think will be a much better way to proceed, a truly bipartisan effort to get this done so we can get on with the business of defining a policy toward russia, which is what's lacking here. every time the administration trips over its own two feet we lose more time in getting the administration to focus on how are we going to deal with today's russia, which is a really challenge to u

. >> the republican house intel chair. >> we don't have any evidence that that took place. >> the top democrat on the house intel committee. >> thus far we have seen no basis for that whatsoever. >> now fbi director james comey will testify before the house tomorrow on spy claims and on russia's role in the 2016 election. the ranking democrat on that committee adam schiff of california joins me this morning. plus, that budget blueprint. sharp increases in spending for the military. sharp decreases in domestic programs for the poor. >> look, we want to give you money for programs that don't work. i can't defend that anymore. >> president trump's budget director mick mulvaney is here this morning. >>> health care fight. can president trump win over enough republicans to get his bill through congress? i will talk to a republican no vote this morning, senator susan collins of maine. joining me are syndicated columnist george will, yamiche alcindor of the "new york times," robert costa of the washington post and anchor of bbc world news america, katty kay. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the

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. >>> coming up, the house intel director announced house intel director james comey will >>> just moments ago the president of the united states addressing two of the day's most pressing issues, the decision by a federal district judge from hi -- hawaii to strike down a second version of the president's travel ban, a version that the president himself considered "water down" and expressed dislike for, said he liked the first one better, the one the courts struck down in jurisdiction after jurisdiction after jurisdiction. the president also defending paul ryan and his version of obamacare repeal and replace, although sort of expressing some equivocation saying he really wants to cut taxes but we have to do the health care thing first which if you're a nervous member of the republican caucus in the house is not the most reassuring signal from the president of the united states that he is ride or die from this bill. i'm joined now by a ranking member of the intelligence committee in the house, congressman adam schiff, democrat from california. i want to ask you about what happened in your co