he serves on the house intel committee. thank you so much for joining us. >> you're welcome. >> calling a meeting between the white house and leaders and congress that it be bipartisan to look at those documents. do you think that's going to happen? >> no. zero chance, probably, in all likelihood. if we use the last 14 months of the investigation as any guide, if we use what has happened in the senate, it would be bipartisan. but i really don't have any confidence that will l be the case whatsoever because i believe that this isn't about substance. this is about whac-a-mole, and it's monthly whac-a-mole. this is the latest, and we'll have another one next month when this one kind of peters out. >> another distraction? >> sure. >> one distraction after another. >> sure. because as general hayden said earlier, what this is really about isn't the substance of this, isn't about the counterterrorism or the criminal investigation. this is about coalescing and galvanizing the republican base in the event that director mueller has f

but quite frankly, and historically, the house intel committee is one of the most bipartisan committees in the house of representatives. this is critically important and it is why the house intel committee findings has gotten us this far and why we have to continue with our investigation on the behalf of the american people and it is an election year but we cannot put our political ambitions ahead of the american people. >> and i'm intrigued when you say stay tuned. >> absolutely. >> can you tell us whether you know who the blocked phone call was to? >> i can't speak to that. >> but without telling us -- without telling us the identity of that blocked phone, do you personally know who it was? >> i can't say, sir. >> you can't even say that. >> no, sir. >> because it raises all sorts of possibilities. do you believe the special counsel robert mueller knows the identity of that blocked phone call? >> i can't say either. but i know that director mueller is an accomplished investigator and having him on the case gives me great comfort. >> i'll assume he knows and i'll try to assume that you

because you were the chair of the house intel which is what devin nunes is and it involves the house intel committee and an fbi special agent for many years. okay, so you are the perfect nexus for this story. explain to me how the fbi using a confidential source to investigate a crime is spying? how can they even make that leap of logic? >> yeah. so here is where it could be a problem for the fbi. so, the source -- again, this is all from public reporting -- but if the source actually paid money and that money had some origin from the bureau and was tasked, meaning that an fbi agent probably his handler said i need you to go to these people and ask them these questions, that is a very different scenario than i'm a guy that stumbles around. i hear something and i go, i pick up the phone and go, hey, guys. you need to know this. you won't believe what i just heard. it doesn't sound like a lot, but that is a significant difference. what the trump administration is trying to say here is he was tasked to go meet these people and elicit information. >> you call that spying? >> i wouldn't call it spying. i

the house intel committee disagree was the intelligence community that vladimir putin was trying to help trump. republican congress member mike conway ran the russia investigation. he supports the conclusion and downplayed the differences. >>> and president trump acknowledging for the first time he repaid his lawyer michael cohen more than $100,000 for expenses during the 2016 election. mr. trump does not specify the repayment and the lawyers have confirmed cohen was reimbursed for the $130,000 payoff to stormy daniels. >> the president's representatives say they listed the payment in an issue of transparency. you may find the disclosure relevant. any inquiry you may be pursuing. he revealed the repayment on fox news a few weeks ago to get ahead of the financial disclosure. >>> the president hosts secretary-general at the white house this morning. nato's web site says there is a joint news conference as 3:00. there has not been a white house briefing since monday. >>> former secretary of state rex tillerson taking a not so subtle jab at his former boss. telling cadets at the virginia mil

directed by president putin himself to elect donald trump however just three weeks ago the house intel committee also a bipartisan republican led committee found that there was no collusion the committee found no evidence that meetings between trump associates and official representatives of the russian government reflected collusion coordination or conspiracy with the russian government now the democrats completely dismissed the committee's assessment saying that it was incredible that republicans couldn't see collusion. throughout the investigation committee republicans chose not to seriously investigate or even see when in plain sight evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia and guess what democrats have pledged that they'll continue to investigate this collusion so now there's three separate investigations all contradicting each other and we're not even taking into account investigations conducted by the department of justice homeland security other congressional committees and of course the infamous muller investigation all of those who found collusion or something whoeve

directed by president putin himself to elect donald trump however just three weeks ago the house intel committee also a bipartisan republican led committee found that there was no collusion the committee found no evidence that meetings between trump associates and official representatives of the russian government reflected collusion coordination or conspiracy with the russian government now the democrats completely dismissed the committee's assessment saying that it was incredible that republicans couldn't see collusion. throughout the investigation committee republicans chose not to seriously investigates or even see when in plain sight evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia and guess what democrats have pledged that they'll continue to investigate this collusion so now there's three separate investigations all contradicting each other and we're not even taking into account investigations conducted by the department of justice homeland security other congressional committees and of course the infamous muller investigation all of those who phoned. or something whoever found

directed by president putin himself to elect donald trump however just three weeks ago the house intel committee also a bipartisan republican led committee found that there was no collusion the committee found no evidence that meetings between trump associates and official representatives of the russian government reflected collusion coordination or conspiracy with the russian government now the democrats completely dismissed the committee's assessment saying that it was incredible that republicans couldn't see collusion throughout the investigation committee republicans chose not to seriously investigate or even see when in plain sight evidence of collusion between the trim campaign and russia and guess what democrats have pledged that they'll continue to investigate this collusion so now there's three separate investigations all contradicting each other and we're not even taking into account investigations conducted by the department of justice homeland security other congressional committees and of course the infamous muller investigation all those who found. or something who ever found there

directed by president putin himself to elect donald trump however just three weeks ago the house intel committee also a bi partisan republican led committee found that there was no collusion the committee found no evidence that meetings between trump associates and official representatives of the russian government reflected collusion coordination or conspiracy with the russian government now the democrats completely dismissed the committee's assessment saying that it was incredible that republicans couldn't see collusion throughout the investigation committee republicans chose not to seriously investigates or even see when in plain sight evidence of collusion between the trim campaign and russia and guess what democrats have pledged that they'll continue to investigate this collusion so now there's three separate investigations all contradicting each other and we're not even taking into account investigations conducted by the department of justice and homeland security other congressional committees and of course the infamous muller investigation all those who found. or something who ever found

that intel committee now says they agree with the intelligence community that russia interfeared in the 2016 election to help candidate donald trump. that announcement contradicts the conclusion of house intel republicans last month. their report found there was not enough information to definitively claim that vladimir putin had a clear preference for donald trump. congressman chris stewart is a republican on the house intel committee. he joins me now. congressman, what do you think of the two pretty different conclusions that are coming out of this? one from the senate and one from the house? >> yeah. well, i respect the senate's work, and i would just respectfully disagree, at least with one part. if i could make maybe a larger observation -- i said this earlier, by the way, many times. when it comes to was russia trying to hurt hillary clinton or trying to help donald trump, that's nearly impossible to know. you actually have to crawl inside vladimir putin's head to really answer that question. i think our committee's focus wasn't necessarily on that question. our concern was mostly, did the cia and other intelligence agencies go through the proper procedures, did they vet their o

that's not sitting well with adam schiff, the ranking member of the house intel committee. >> it's inconceivable that the white house could expect that they can brief only republicans on anything related to the russia investigation. that can't happen. >> sources tell cnn the trump legal team is looking to limit questions from special counsel robert mueller in a potential interview. their goal is to take the president's actions after he won the election off the table. that would include questions related to possible obstruction of justice. more from dana bash in washington. >> reporter: my colleagues, evan perez, gloria borger, and i have learned that the president's legal team is trying to narrow the scope of any potential interview with the special counsel to russia-related matters that occurred before trump's election. also, they want an audio recording made to make sure that there's no question about what is actually said. now because mueller clearly want to talk about issues occurring since trump has been in the white house like potential obstruction of justice and firing james comey, our so

and so kerry, where are we with what the congressional investigators on say the house intel committeeike devin nunes are going to be able to get out of the doj and the fbi? >> well, that's the real difficult thing for the public to discern is what the house intelligence committee is doing. are they exercising their lawful and appropriate oversight under the national security act? or are they doing political favors or potentially legal defense favors for the president? and so it's difficult to decide. i really put this latest quote unquote scandal because i think it's a contrived scandal with respect to the source same category of the unmasking of the situation. it was handled proently but that the house intelligence committee tried to make into a political scandal with going back to march of 2017 when the president tweeted that former president obama had, quote, wiretapped him. the effect that that had, that particular tweet, is that it energized congressional investigators to ramp up their investigation. it also energized reporters to start digging to find out whether or not it was t

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here now to react is utah congressman chris stewart, a member of the house intel committee.essman, thanks for being here. what should the u.s. do if iran now ramps up nuclear missile technology? >> well, i think they need to do what they promise to do. to increase the sanctions to bring allies in to reimpose the sanctions and use diplomatic and economic levers to convince him not to do this. i think the president was very thoughtful on this. we went from three-month increments, we're looking at it, looking at it. he made a thoughtful decision but it was the only thing he could do. anyone who is fair about this looks at this agreement and realizes it was devastatingly, the foundation of this thing was just unyielding and impossible to implement and it was really the only choice he had was to take a look at this. david: the question is if the sanctions are not enough, if they defy the sanctions that we put on and continue to build their nuclear arsenal. some people are saying that israel, which has showed enormous fortitude in terms of getting intel out of iran, last week benj

joining us now is democratic congresswoman jackie speier, she's a member of the house intel committee. why do we need two meetings? >> we don't need two meetings. it should have been a gang of eight meeting, but because this has become a pure political antique we are now have two meetings. what will be interesting though is more information will be able to be shared in the gang of eight meeting because they have a higher classification in terms of being able to receive top secret -- >> is that right? that's interesting. in other words, the information might not be jt an exact duplicate one meeting to the other and, in fact, you're saying that devin nunes and trey gowdy won't get as much information as the following meeting? >> so devin nunes is one of the members of the gang of eight, so he would be able to sit in on both meetings, but trey gowdy doesn't have the same ability to receive information as does the gang of eight. >> listen, why weren't democrats just invited to the first meeting? why didn't devin nunes want democrats there? >> because this is a charade. this is a paranoid

it is an appropriate request. >> questions at the house intel committee are mixed in with questions ae because it puts more weight on, most people think the stakes are higher for bob mueller. you cover the justice department and the fbi. what does this do to the constitution of those buildings? >> the thing that nunes has done that has been done that has been helpful to the president was on the comey memos. they know the contours of the russia investigation. they know witnesses that have gone in and they know about the documents. theyston know what was in the comey memos. they knew if the president was going to have to answer a lot of questions he would have to answer a lot of questions about them. they were able to get the memos out. now the president's lawyers have a road map about what the contours of what mueller knows on that specific issue of the memos are. it's very helpful to the president. i don't think we have ever -- you know this better than me -- seen a federal investigation like this where we have so much real time information about different pieces of evidence. we talk

closed-door hearing with john brennan today the senate intel committee says the russian government did interfere to help donald trump win the election. the house intel committee you might remember had already concluded that russia did interfere, but not in an effort to help donald trump. martha. >> martha: mike rogers was one of those. he felt that that was not conclusive in terms of whether or not they were trying to help trump over clinton. a former nsa director. thank you very much. joining me now with more on this tonight, john solomon, opinion contributor to the hill who has dug into the story very deeply over the past year. good to have you with us tonigh tonight. interesting timing how this piece dropped and sort of shed light on all of these things. what do you make of this story and what it aims to accomplish? >> there's a lot of speculation that maybe this is an effort by brennan to burnish his image or corrective story or the new york times to get right with its early reporting. i have a different theory. next week or the week after the ig report is going to come out and it's going to excoriate the fbi's handling of both the hillary

house intel committee released 1300 facebook ads bought by russian companies between 2015 and 2017.he vast majority were issue-based like immigration on gun control aimed at storing operational and political division. thanks to facebook targeting tools, the russians were able to deliver phony information to specific groups, white, black, hispanic, lgbt, even fox news viewers. next, the goal was to entice american voters into liking our following russian facebook pages and ads. they were getting almost real-time feedback. for example, a liberal ad got 50,000 views and an ad for a phony black activist group got 10,000. popular ads often made their way into facebook's news feed and were shared million more time. some lawmakers believe the russians might still be added, and facebook least a statement reading, "this will never be a solved problem because we are up against determined, creative, and well-funded adversaries, but we are making steady progress." facebook has implemented a number of oversight measures. in hindsight, some of the ads were dead giveaways. they were bought with ru

trump and that supposedly qualifies as russian collusion however just three weeks ago the house intel committee also a bipartisan republican led committee found that there was no collusion rush's active measures campaign achieved its primary goal of inciting division and discord among americans for more than a year us politics have been consumed by bitter recriminations charges and countercharges about the attacks. democrats completely dismissed the committee's assessment same that it was incredible that republicans couldn't see collusion. throughout the investigation committee republicans chose not to seriously investigate or even see when in plain sight evidence of collusion between the trim campaign and russia. well democrats have also pledged that they'll continue to investigate alleged russian collusion so now there are three separate investigations all contradictory contradicting each other and we're not even taking into account investigations conducted by the department of justice homeland security other congressional committees and of course the infamous smaller investigation so here's

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california representative adam schiff, the ranking democrat on the house intel committee, criticized trump's decision, saying zte poses a major cyber security threat and he should care more about our national security than chinese jobs. >> new fissures have opened up on hawaii's big island as the kilauea volcano continues to erupt. the hawaii county civil defense agency now says 18 fissures have split open spewing lava and gas and threatening nearby structures. residents in the immediate area of the fissures have been told to evacuate. nearly 2000 have fled their homes since the volcano started erupting more than ten days ago. geological sperg geological experts warn the eruptions could get worse with possible explosions that could send rock and ash miles into the sky. >> in a possible nationwide first, new jersey has released near real time data on gun tracking in the state. using gun-traced data from the bureau of tobacco firearms and explosives, 70% of guns used in the first quarter of 2018 came from out of state. the state plans to release at f's data on a monthly and quarterly b

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ainsley: this morning the house intel committee demanding answers about the possibility that someone to the fbi. steve: or somebody close to the campaign. house intel committee chairman devin nunes joins us now. good morning, chairman. >> good morning a lot easier than live hookup. brian: why is it important to find out who was possibly on the inside of the trump camp informing people on the outside? >> let's talk about how did this get started? you had fusion gps that was hired by the democratic party and the clinton campaign to draw up a dossier on the president as the president was running for president. what happened with that is that in his testimony he mentioned that there was a source within the campaign. brian: glenn simpson runs fusion gps. >> glenn simpson said that in closed testimony and became public he confirmed he was telling congress the truth which is probably a good idea. we believe he was telling the truth. what we are trying to do is get the documents to figure out did they actually have what methods were used to open this counter intelligence investigation? ainsl

a house and a senate divided. the senate intel committee concludes russia did interfere in the 2016 election to help donald trump, breaking with house republicans. >> i've got no reason to doubt the intelligence community's finding and i think the senate intel committee's report makes sense to me. >> art of the deal. critical trade talks with china about to get under way after two of the president's lead negotiators reportedly blow up at one another. >>> and an american dream out of reach? well, is it? unemployment is low, profits are very high. but a new study finds more than 40% of u.s. households cannot pay for the basics of a middle class life, even if they have a job. >>> we begin this morning with a bob mueller milestone. appointed exactly one year ago today. the russia investigation has hung over the trump administration ever since. now, the president's attorneys say mueller needs to wrap this thing up. so here's the question. is it time for special counsel to show his cards? i have a great team here to break all of it down. first, i

through all the examples, but there are examples of members of the intel committee in the senate, members of the intel committee in the house who were briefed on exactly what the c.i.a. was doing, exactly what they were doing with these enhanced interrogation techniques, and that's where the amnesia comes in. you see some members say, whoa, whthat was horrible. there are reports that many members said, do more, find out who did this. so that was the order that the c.i.a., the members of our clandestine services were given. and there are numerous quotes from this time. let me give you one from former senator nelson, john d. rockefeller, west virginia, was the ranking member on the senate intel committee in 2003 on cnn's late edition, he was talking about how we had captured cal lid sheikh mohammed, k.s.m., as he was known, known to be the mastered mind of 9/11, and it was very clear that senator rockefeller was saying, make sure we get as much info as we can from this guy. here's what he said. happily we don't know where he is, meaning he was off-sight, not in the country. he's in safe keeping under american protections. he'

the house intel committee disagrees with the intelligence community that vladimir putin was trying to help trump. republican congress member mike conway ran the russia investigation. he supports the conclusion and downplayed the differences. >>> and president trump acknowledging for the first time he repaid his lawyer michael cohen more than $100,000 for expenses during the 2016 election. in a new financial disclosure, mr. trump does not specify the repayment and the lawyers have confirmed cohen was reimbursed for the $130,000 payoff to stormy daniels. the president's representatives say they listed the payment in an issue of transparency. the office of government ethics seeing it differently. you may find the disclosure relevant. any inquiry you may be pursuing. he revealed the repayment on fox news a few weeks ago to get ahead of the financial disclosure. >>> "the washington post" reporting that michael cohen solicited at least $1 million from the country of qatar in 2016 in exchange for advice about the incoming administration. the offer was delivered. the qatari official was appro

documents that have been requested and subpoenaed by the house judicialiary committee, by the house oversight committee, and by the house intelommittee are still being slow walked and withheld or massively redacted in what is a clear effort to impair the constitutional right and duty of congress to check the d.o.j. and the executive branch. now the intel committee chairman devin nunes will join us in a second. he is now actively encouraging fellow lawmakers to hold the attorney general jeff sessions in contempt of congress. earlier today, sessions responded. let's take a look. >> the department of justice has written him a letter and responded as appropriate to him. the request he has made is one that the intelligence communities and the department of justice feels is not grantable. we have explained that we would be willing to talk to him about it before. the details of which i couldn't discuss. >> sean: mr. attorney general, i say this with all respect. where is your urgency? you need to do your job. this has gone on way too long. these are legitimate, important requests. you are not impervious nor is the d.o.j. impervious

keep their promises and build the southern border wall and the russia collusion unraveled the house intel committee saying there was never credible evidence for the fbi to launch an investigation into trump campaign associates. and brand-new, more monumental setbacks for mueller's imploding witch hunt and the doj stone walling it further. they are meeting with house chairman to view classified russia probe material is no long are has been rescheduled for next week. more obstructionism. that and another major win for the trump administration. gina has now secured the escrows she will be the next cia director and the mine stream media's lie what is is going on with isreal and palestinians that and more in breaking news, opening monologue. >> the left are going insane over reports that the north korean dictator kim jong-un is threatening to pull out of the planned summit with president trump over u.s. and south korean military drills. now kim jong-un reportedly cans endeled talks with south korea now before all of you left wing liberal activists work yourself in a friendsy i will give you the truth an

thousands of documents subpened by the house judiciary and oversight and house intel committee are slow walked and with held or massively redakted in what is a clear effort to impair the constitutional right of duty to check the doy and executive branch. devin nunez will join us and he's encouraging fellow law makers to hold jeff sessions in contempt much congress. and earlier today sessions responding. >> the department of justice wrote him a letter and responded as appropriate to him. the request he has made is one that the intelligence communities and department much justice feels is not grantable. and we've explained we would be willing to talk to him about it and the details that i couldn't discuss. >> sean: mr. attorney general, where is your urgency? you need to do your job. this has gone on way too long. they are legitimate and important request. you are not impefshous to the rule of law and our federal system of co-equal branches of power. this is kwn their congressional authority and constitutional authority. and the doj is tone walling given their embarrassment and tracking o

contradicted what the house intel committee said, that in fact russia didry to meddle and did it on behalf of donald trump. do we have any sense of the timing of this, when bob mueller might have his report? >> look at today's headlines in the "wall street journal" and "the new york times" and say to yourself, boy, where are we? bob mueller -- i think at this point we're six months behind where the investigation actually is. what we know in the public domain, it always seems to be three to six months after mueller has learned it. we learned in "the times" and the journal there were some middle eastern interests offering assistance to the campaign and then bob mueller has been investigating this for months. yet it's new to us today. michael cohen raid, it happens, we find out they have been surveilling him for months. and it was -- it goes to the fall of '17 they have been circling around payments to michael cohen from various companies around things like that. the point is this. at one year, we don't -- we know a lot less than we think we know about this in

. >> well, let's review these developments with house intel committee with nunez. we have a lot to talk about with him. it's good to see you. t.s. ellis i know very well. he is a senior judge in the eastern district of virginia. i think a long time ago i interviewed with him. very well respected, appointed by president reagan because in '87. but he was brutal on the counsel who was arguing the case, who is basically a deputy -- a general who's now in the mueller office. what were your thoughts on his comments about how this is really outside the scope of the mueller authority? >> i was astonished by the comments the judge made today, although it's not surprising. everything in this case has just gone off the rails. there's not a day that goes by that something new and crazy doesn't break. finally just today we were able to get the two pages that we needed that we now know that comey and mccabe did in fact say that general flynn -- that agents didn't think he was lying. so you have to judge saying that they're lying, the mueller team's lying. now you have the case w

the top democrat in the house intel committee who attended the meeting citing giuliani's remarks in a statement criticizing flood's appearance saying he expects to use information to glean from the justice department or the president's allies and congress to their legal advantage. whaeur man devin nunes, who attended both briefings, has been demanding documents from the justice department about the use of surveillance in the russia probe. we are not going to go to another meeting where we don't get documents. >> reporter: a source tells cnn that nunes and trey gowdy did not get the documents they asked. even nunes, nor trey gowdy have commented. house speaker paul ryan also refusing to comment but saying he looks forward to the completion of the house intelligence committee's work now that they are getting the cooperation necessary. both schiff and mcconnell say they did not see a smoking gun. >> were you surprised with what you learned? >> nothing particularly surprising. again, it was classified so no real reporting either. >> president trump travels up the road to annapolis, maryla

>> for a long time there was the spectacle of the house intel committee and devon new nose running uphite house, taking into capitol hill and running back to the white house to share with the president when he got it there to begin with. that process on the house side really fell apart. we know yesterday that the process on the senate side has really hung together as a largely bipartisan process. and at their conclusion, the house republicans came up with that on their own minus the democrats and minority on the house side. you see them at a green the intelligence community, not really a surprising revelation like the russians using the national rifle association. there are tons of things on the michael coincide, as you know -- michael coincide, as you know. >> bret: with cohan, there are two payments that they are trying to track down that they can't find. and that's part of the details you are talking about? >> michael: was involved as the president's lawyer, not in things that don't matter, but in business deals that involved clients overseas. and these suspicious activity reports,

so sadly, the majority on the house intel committee is now an outlier.t all surprising because they have from the beginning viewed their mission differently, not at getting at the truth, but rather protecting the president, whatever the costs may be. >> new transcripts and documents out today from the senate, from the judiciary committee in terms of their portion of the investigation into that trump tower meeting. i'm wondering as someone who was part of your own investigation on the house intelligence side, do you feel like you learned things today from the documents made public? >> you know, we're still going through the documents. on first read, a lot of the testimony in the senate very much tracks what we heard from these same witnesses in the house. we also see some of the same infirmities i think in the investigation in the senate judiciary committee that we've had in the house, and that is that when witnesses would make a statement, the investigators weren't allowed to progress and attest to truth or falsity of that statement and probe and find ad

an tag nist devin nunes, republican chair of the house intel committee. white house chief of staff john kelly and white house lawyer emmet flood were also present in both meetings despite white house assurances earlier this week that no west wing officials would attend. and raising alarm that trump's lawyer could gain improper access to evidence against him in the russia probe. one former federal prosecutor and trump ally said to me moments ago, quote, i would have kicked emmet flood out. the white house with a statement reacting to this uproar saying, neither chief kelly nor mr. flood actually attended the meetings, but did make brief remarks before the meetings started to relay the president's desire for as much openness as possible under the law. they also conveyed the president's understanding of the need to protect human intelligence services and the importance of communication between the branches of government. after making their brief comments, they departed before the meetings officially started. >>> joining us on a day of wild headlines, former f

to be clear, you have the president and the republican head of the house intel committee teaming up together and they want to see just that. they want to see and confidential source put forward. how do you spread the two? >> i think you cannot. you can't take gratuitous actions that will undermine the future of the fbi or investigative bodies. it is so critical. with actually need to have coordination between members of the public and people in law enforcement to be able to strategically advance our system. it's a dirty little secret, but we need each other. with gratuitous notion that it will help them now without looking forward to thinking maybe this person is informing on other matters is short sided and could be fatal and compromise a great deal. if somebody has been in that position, they may be compromised in terms of security issues. it's interesting to note that the president has already shown his hand how he feels about the exposure of somebody's identity when he pardoned scooter libby. he has overarching disdain for confidential information to be leaked is very different than what