nunes: what are they going to look at? reporter: take over the investigation that director comey -- mr. nunes: take it away from the f.b.i.? i don't know. i would have to think about that. the f.b.i. is an independent organization. they should be suited to do this. if i sense any problems with the investigation, then i would recommend that. but i don't see that as of now. reporter: were there issues upset about, like an independent counsel? mr. nunes: an independent counsel isn't going to do anything less than what director comey said. until this gets cleared up, you guys are going to continue to have these questions and i just don't have evidence of people within the white house or the administration has any ties to russian intelligence services of any kind. that even hanging out there is bad for democracy, bad for america and clearly it helps r adverse our adverse areas. reporter: why was the reason director comey did not -- [no audio] mr. nunes: there is no reason and look, i don't think there is any written rules on wh

>> i like chairman nunes. to keep the credibility that he needs to commit our committee on nonrussian issues, i think he should step aside. i think this white house, its behavior, is consistent with trying to cover-up something that happened. i'm talking about michael flynn lying to the vice president. and jeff sessions misleading the senate panel. the president making a se seatful claim about wiretapping. and having chairman nunes come to the white house grounds to receive information. it would be easier for someone to take what he saw to the president, than to bring a chairman from the house over there to receive it. it just isn't adding up. >> what is the status of the investigation? it look likes it's at a stand still. >> it looked like the press conference with senators burr and warner. that's what an investigative road looks like when you have republicans and democrats going down it together. last week, it was stalled when the chairman went over to the white house. we can get back to that moment. but the

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nunes to see the documents, he was until a few weeks ago working for mr. nunes. and mr. cohen-watnick also served on this organization as well. so this very small group of people who sort of know each other. and they're in senior jobs at the white house. mr. ellis has been described as his boy scout. somebody who would definitely not be free lanting, we have questions about how far this goes, how high this went. were they doing this without permission? was this an organized effort by more senior people at the white house? >> is there any indication that either one of these two men at the white house that before going to nunes, and it sounds like ellis went to nunes best i can figure out, before they went to nunes they told anyone in the white house about any of the information that they subsequently told to nunes? or showed nunes? >> i have to be careful here because we have indications of that. we can't nail that down. so i want to be clear that right now we don't know. it certainly looks that way, but we don't know that for sure. >> is there anything -- do we know anyt

that afternoon, chairman nunes had bigger

chairman nunes said it's ongoing. i asked adam schiff the ranking member on the panel if this -- was broken. he didn't think it was. he thought he could work with chairman nunes on other issues, but when it came to this issue specifically, it was time for him to step aside, it's not just adam schiff that's requesting this. it's also nancy pelosi, the spokesman has declined requests for what his position was. and speaker paul ryan has consistently said throughout the day through his spokesman that he maintains full confidence in chairman nunes' ability to move forward. so this is a very partisan split with no kind of clear resolution any time soon. >> again, congressman nunes is standing by his decision to go to president trump with evidence no one else has seen. he's refusing to say if the evidence came from the white house. and nunes has cancelled the closed door session, he's already postponed the committee's second public hearing, which was supposed to be tomorrow, before he cancelled that in order to have a closed

nunes, no.nd i'm quite sure people in the west wing had no idea i was there, which suggests to me that these two aids may have been acting maybe on their own. did they have authority from general mcmaster, the national security adviser or the chief white house council to brief nunes on all this information? >> let's not forget one of these aids mcmaster tried to have removed and was rebuffed by bannon and donald trump. so this isn't exactly an individual that is someone that's really shining in the light of mcmasters to begin with. >> so the two choices are either they went rogue and they shouldn't have gone rogue or they were directed by their higher ups, which is worse. >> what do you think, jeff? >> directed by their higher ups. the question in all of these washington scandals if this turns into a scandal is who determined the course of conduct and the higher up the responsibility goes, the more troublesome it is. >> and it gets back to what you first said gloria on march 15th, the president

we're getting conflicting verses of whether chairman nunes for naturally invited nunes to testify inshort time ago, congressman adam schiff, that committee's ranking democrat says he will join comey tomorrow. gloria, you see the face-off between nunes and schiff on the committee, as we wait to hear from director comey, what do you make of,these key players, whether it's the director himself or sally yates have become sort of chess pieces for the house intelligence committee? >> their have, and they have become completely partisan, it's almost as if you can see that devin nunes didn't want partisan testimony that could potentially be damaging to the administration. we know that, sally yates, for example, who went to the white house council about her concerns about then-national security advisor mike flynn, saying he may well have been compromised in his conversations with the russians, we know that having her public testimony would have been really damaging. we know that comey's testimony publicly was already really damaging to the white house when he said, there is an ongoing investi

nunes under fire.intelligence committee chairman reveals a secret meeting over at the white house complex, the day before his bombshell statement about possible surveillance of the trump team. this hour, i'll speak to devin nunes about his mysterious moves, his controversial claims, and whether his panel's russia investigation has now been compromised. >>> family affair. the russia probe reaches deeper into mr. trump's inner circle, with his son-in-law now preparing to face questioning by the senate. why did jared kushner offer to testify? >>> jailing the opposition. the kremlin responds to mass dwibs by arresting hundreds of protesters, including a top critic of vladimir putin. we'll have a live report from

as devin nunes is. if devin nunes can lose his chairmanship over it then paul ryan can lose his speaker ship over it. speculation among staffers on the intelligence committee is that michael ellis is the source of the intelligence information nunes saw. this report says that he's a lawyer that works for him on the intelligence panel and who was recently hired to work on national security matters at the white house council's office and spokesman for nunes declined to comment on whether he was involved in providing information to nunes. so now we have a name to ask devin nunes about. was your source michael ellis? >> we're not going to ever talk about any of that. >> former acting director of the cia and jeremy bash, msnbc national security analyst and former chief of staff to leon when he was director and the defense department. john, your reading on where this story stands tonight, what makes sense to you in this story if anything and what doesn't make sense to you? >> well, there are more things that d

for republican congressman devin nunes.mered for his mysterious conduct and close ties to the trump white house from both sides of the aisle. >> mr. nunes has simply disqualified himself. >> he's gone off on a lark by himself. sort of an inspector clouseau investigation here. >> something's got to change otherwise we'll lose credibility. >> that outrange from d.c., just noise to much of tulare, california. it's his home district. >> i know devin personally, his integrity. if he was something i didn't know, i'd be wondering, too, but knowing him personally all these years, his family, his background. he's a straight shooter. >> his constituents believe in him. they watched him grow up from skinny teenager to now washington, d.c. he won a whopping 58% of the vote. danny grew one him and doesn't believe he will recuse himself. >> he's very direct. he'll not stand down. if he believes in something, weezhe's going to pursue that and make it right. >> reporter: the sharpest criticism, is that he's doing the bidding of the white h

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a nunes spokesperson has declined to respond to congressman schiff's allegation that nunes was working with the white house instead of the house intelligence committee that he chairs. it's that same committee that is charged with probing russia's meddling into the 2016 election and any ties between russian officials and trump associates. kate? >> athena jones, thanks so much. "out front" now, democratic congresswoman jackie spear. she sits on that committee. thanks for your time. >> thank you. >> congressman schiff, the top democrat on the committee, called this a body blow to the investigation. he says he now has basically ruled out that chairman nunes can run an impartial investigation into the trump campaign and the ties to russia. do you have confidence in chairman nunes? >> i would agree with ranking member schiff. we can't have a presidential whisperer running the independent investigation by the intelligence committee on the russian interference in our elections and what relationship if any trump associates had with the russians. >> something else he said, to your point, you sai

why did nunes do that? i still don't get why nunes put us through this drama. it's been suggested by congressman schiff, although he doesn't say exclusively. >> we don't know if the information he saw today is the same information that congressman nunes saw. >> other than he says that he was told it was. >> and we still don't know if the same information that he saw was the information that congre congressman nunes saw. only congressman nunes knows what he saw unless the white house staffers compiled this information for congressman schiff are the same ones who gave the information to congressman schiff which begs the question, why didn't they give it to the entire community? why was it given to him and him alone and why is the white house not saying that? are they just being transparent about it? >> if it weren't so serious the thought of russia meddling in our election, i would be more inclined to keep saying who's on first, as that whole comedy. this continues to be so bizarre. thank you both. >>> ahead, it's not just the russia controversy from failed healt

do you trust nunes?> well, he has violated the first principle of doing an investigati investigation. it has to be independent. if you become a white house whisperer, you are not independent. anything he told the president, frankly, and not telling ranking member, it violates one of the first preaccepts of a committee supposed to be bipartisan, supposed to be working together in an investigation of the white hou house. this all started to explode last week after director comey said not only is he doing an investigation but he's doing an investigation with the russian connections with the trump campaign. that was the first time that had come out. that was very explosive. originally it was just looking at the russians meddling in our election process. so the whole tenor of the committee changed dramatically after we had that hearing. then all of a sudden there was a cancellation of our hearing today, a hearing that should be something the american people have an opportunity to hear about the russians plans

chairman nunes went to the white house to get something. then told the president later on about that something. >> the president said that there was illegal spying and he was wiretapped at trump tower and laid it at the feet of president trump. that's criminal activity. he was alleging that no one supported on. there is no substantiation for that. now, you have the intelligence committee chairman making contact with white house officia officia officials reportedly someone in the nsa staff office handing him this intelligence of contact. i bring jeff in right away presumably there is a fisa warrant and names that are swept up into that that were not redacted and revealed. that's what they're claiming for justification of something proper. that is where the timeline fits together. it strikes me as irregular and improper for white house staffers to be engaged in this. the chairman is undermined the investigation. he achieved that point which is to try to change the subject to an area that a lot of people will be upset about. that is the leakin

seems to be saying -- >> nunes says it was lawful. >> totally lawful. then why is he running to the white house? if there were something really bad about the way it was done and the intelligence agencies had overstepped, why would he be running to the white house? >> joining us right now is the head of the house of intelligence committee congressman adam schiff. thank you for joining us. >> you bet. >> your basic charge is the chairman of your committee acted totally inappropriate by going to the white house, going to the president, sharing this information even before he spoke with you or any other member of the committee. so, is any cooperation on the house intelligence committee really possible now or is it over? >> well, i wouldn't declare it over, but i want to certainly have a chance to sit down as a committee and discuss what just took place because we can't conduct a credible investigation this way. and the chairman really has to make a decision about whether that's his intention and that's what he wants to do. or whether he's still acting as a

i mean, nunes is in an interesting position. does he say, look, the reason i went there was because we have leaks, and i went there because it was the most secure place to review these documents? fair enough. but you know, not talking about it just makes the story draw out, you know, and create more questions rather than answers. so, i think that's his biggest challenge. i thought it was interesting that he didn't say if he would recuse himself or not. people give us hints all the time of what's going on. i feel like that was a bit of a hint that maybe he will recuse himself? >> maybe, but it's confounding, as sara murray was reporting, that the white house could give answers, like who from the white house signed him on to the property? and he could answer simple questions like why didn't you review this in a skiff on capitol hill instead of the white house, which he essentially in his answer to that yesterday said, patrick healy, i couldn't get the information over to capitol hill, essentially saying it's from the executive bra

nunes disclosed was classified. he has gone on about leakers and the illegality of disclosing classified information. and he got up today and talked about things that are still classified, as far as i understand. >> well, we're going learn a lot tomorrow morning. rajesh de, mieke eoyang, and matthew rosenberg, thank you all for joining us tonight. >>> reports that trump's former campaign chairman was paid millions by vladimir putin's confidante. that's just -- that news just broke today. the battle has begun. ♪ soldier versus soldier. ♪ army versus army. ♪ nation versus nation. ♪ evony: the king's return. download now and play for free. doctors recommend taking claritin every day distracting you? of your allergy season for continuous relief. claritin provides powerful, non-drowsy, 24-hour relief. for fewer interruptions from the amazing thingsou do every day. live claritin clear. every day. >>> paul manafort has done an amazing job. he is here some place. where is paul? paul manafort. paul manafort has done a fantas

chairman nunes himself saying he is not going anywhere. anderson. >> jessica, thanks for the update. >>> more from congressman schiff who spoke with wolf blitzer. >> an fbi official, as you may have heard tell cnn that james comey hasn't received an official frs request from your committee to testify. chairman nunes -- a spokesman says director comey would not come to testify before the committee without a formal request that has to be signed not just by him but also by you. nunes says you refused to sign that invitation. is that true? >> well, it's certainly true the chairman wanted me to agree to a hearing on tuesday at 10:00 instead of the open hearing. and we were not willing to do that. in fact, we found out about the cancellation of the open hearing in a round about way when the agencies reached out to us and said, what do you want us to come talk to you about on tuesday? and we had to say what hearing on tuesday? >> was there a stalemate now? he will not let this open hearing take place with clapper, brennan and yates, that was sche

chairman nunes is a pawn. he is a puppet. as soon as he confirmed that his meeting took place in the white house grounds, we knew one of two things. the white house was either the source of his information or they played matchmaker, pairing chairman nunes with his -- with the source who provided him this information. you do not gain access to the white house compound without a white house staff member clearing in i don't in. you do not gain access to a secure facility on the white house grounds without a staff member escorting you in. and you do not gain access to a white house electronic network as chairman nunes claimed he did without a staff member logging you in. you know, sean spicer said today 72 hours after he was first asked that he still didn't know who cleared in chairman nunes. it would take about 120 seconds for a white house staffer to look into that matter. look, i know the team there is new. so i will tell them exactly how to do it. you go into the waves database, a database that most people at the white house

not only is the white house not denying it, neither is devin nunes as well. in fact, michael ellis that you mentioned is one of the sources in that "new york times" report who is suggested, i actually asked devin nunes earlier this week specifically was michael ellis, who is a former aide on the house intelligence committee to devin nunes, was he a source. he would not say, said i'm not going to talk about my sources and methods. i also asked him can you rule out there's anyone at the white house involved at all, in any way either to give you the information oraa lou you on the grounds to review this information. he said, i'm not going to answer that question. i have answered these questions over and over again, i am not going to go there. he has not suggested that. now, the question that adam schiff raised at his press conference is why did the white house apparently allow chairman nunes to come and review this information, apparently from white house staff, and have mr. nunes brief the president the next day, and before even talking to the committee about i

nunes.d it to him at the white house, or he went to the white house, then went to capitol hill the next day, had a press conference, and went back to the white house to brief president trump the same information he had got at the white house. it doesn't make any -- it is kind of bizarre at this point. and this is raising a lot of questions. you have two people who seem to be using intelligence for political ends, there are questions about did they do this on their own, were they asked to do it by others, was this an attempt to find post-facto justification for their actions? we don't have any answers, because the white house doesn't really answer questions about this. >> and one of the people was basically brought to the nse by flynn. and when -- according to your reporting, i think, when the new national security adviser wanted to remove him, actually president trump intervened, specifically at the request, i guess of bannon and kushner to keep him? is that right? >> that's accurate, yes. >

nunes' actions have raised question. can he be impartial in this investigation or is he a white house schill? worth sides have called for an end investigation and democrats have questioned as he's served as a surrogate for the white house itself. john roberts live on the north lawn. starting to make more sense now. >> the pieces are slowly starting to come out, shep. you can call it a drip, drip if you'd like. every day we learn something more. i'll be honest with you, the names of ezra watnick and michael ellis have been known to us the past few days. we've had nobody to corroborate that information. nobody to say they were the people that were in fact involved in letting chairman nunes into the eisenhower executive office building on march 21. now "the new york times" says that it has a couple of sources in government, american officials, who have confirmed that those were in fact people that were involved in getting chairman nunes the information. here's why the process is important in this particular case. it's the k

nunes. it's shameful. >> go ahead, matt.nt to hear from you before we go. >> a couple of points here. first of all, if you run an ethics organization, you ought to wait until all of the facts come out. i want to see what director comey and the senate and the house says. we don't have to make partisan defenses on either side. if the trump team has made mistakes or chairman nunes and others, that's just all part of this. i think the secretary part of this is that we keep using this word incidental surveillance. let's unpack that word, brooke. what we're really saying is that obama officials were able to look at the conversations of the trump team. now, let's just let that sit in. i know that we don't know that to be a fact yet, but that is what is alleged and through this process of the house and senate and the fbi, we're going to find out what is true and not true there. if that's true, that's also very serious. i would encourage everybody that knows about ethics to make sure that all of the guidelines were followed on that,

what news did nunes give you about sally yates and this hearings? >> reporter: the answer to that is to have a private meeting, after a lot of unanswered question, they wanted to have this private classified meeting today, that's why he cancelled that hearing today, but that private hearing was cancelled, all meetings in fact of the house intelligence committee were cancelled today and it's showing just how gridlocked this committee is. and nunes was asked by both me and other reporters, this question, did the white house ask you to prevent sally yates from testifying? this is how he responded. >> look, you guys are just speculating, i'm sorry, whenever there's time, we'll do a press conference. >> reporter: did they ask you to cancel the hearing today? >> come on, guys. >> reporter: why did you cancel the hearing? >> nothing has been cancelled. >> reporter: so after that, chairman nunes' spokesman actually put out a statement suggesting that they either had no discussions with the white house, saying that no one at the white house spoke whatsoever

nunes has no credibility. feel as though the american people should focus on the senate investigation where we see mark warner and his republican colleague working together and they're not taking secret trips to the white house. >> may i respond? >> sandra: nunes response is he did this at the white house to have a secure environment in which to view these documents? >> i don't know if he was meeting with somebody that would only meet at the white house. i don't know what those particulars are, richard. he'll have to explain them in a public forum and make his case. but the question is, it has nothing to do with where he heard the information. it has to do with the information. congress will handle this in a bipartisan way. all this information will be relaid in the appropriate way. what i'm sad at is we're not covering the fact that what he is finding out that is more troubling revelations about the politicalization of this intelligence process. i think it's gross. we should all be against this. you should jo

that's that chairman nunes needs to recuse himself. >> reporter: fellow republicans are calling on nunes to provide answers. >> there needs to be a lot of explaining to do. i've been around quite a while and i've never heard of any such thing. obviously, in a committee like an intelligence committee, you have to have bipartisanship. otherwise, the committee loses credibility. >> should chairman nunes reveal his source? >> absolutely. i can't imagine why not. >> reporter: another controversy swirling around the nunes committee investigation emerged just today as "the washington post" obtained a letter regarding former acting attorney general sally yates, who was fired by the president and was scheduled to testify before the house intelligence panel. the letter from the justice department to yates' lawyer appeared to advise that yates would need to consult with the white house before testifying stating, she needs to consult with the white house, she need not obtain separate consent from the department of justice. the white house insisted it would not stand in the way. >> i hope she testifi

devin nunes's judgment call. he knew and paul ryan knew that that would be the headline toy, thadevin nunes says it was just a judgment call, sometimes those decisions are right, sometimes they're wrong, clearly suggesting there that his decision was probably wrong. especially since he apologized for that decision to his committee behind closed doors today. what devin nunes did yesterday might have begun as an attempt to help donald trump get out of trouble. but after his press conference in the white house driveway yesterday where he let it slip that he went to paul ryan first, he had a more important mission, to get paul ryan out of trouble. he apologized to his committee today because paul ryan wanted him to. paul ryan needed him to apologize to his committee today, to calm the insurrection against chairman nunes, to quiet the demands that paul ryan fire the chairman. and he needed devin nunes to claim that what happened yesterday was just his judgment call and to imply that it could have been the wrong judgme

. >> clearly devin nunes has accessed information others did not. the fact that ranking member schiff, the democrat on the house intelligence committee, as well as members of the senate committee will have access to the same information is a good development. part of what's been going on is what does devin nunes know and what does he not. we need more transparency, as much as our intelligence sources will allow. the american people need to be reassured our election process is above board and that russian involvement is not kind of too important in terms of our national decision-making. >> absolutely. now that we have reporting this morning that chairman nunes, the source for his 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 admini

nunes. we're told it was mr. ellis who allowed mr. nunes to view the information. >> while msnbc cannot confirm this, we can confirm from multisources, web confirm that ezra cohen watnik. the new national security adviser at one point did try to push hill out saying that he was in over his head. but that ezra cohen watnik complained to steve bannon and donald trump ended up securing his role there above the head of h.r. mcmaster. that's nbc news reporting. we haven't confirmed "the new york times." talk to me about the defense sean spicer was making. he is talking about -- he's not talking about process. he doesn't want to talk about it as in who got devin nunes information. now they have a new argument about why they think the obama administration was actually spying on the white house. >> well, the second argument involving it is complete nonsense. they've taken a clip of her speaking on morning joe about a story that was published in the new york times previous day where there are anonymous officials talking about how they endefrd

that's now been cancelled. >> the shift at nunes and after monday's hearing, nunes said wait a second, maybe i made a mistake here. these guys just killed us, killed the republicans and they're talking a criminal investigation of trump. maybe i need to put the genie back in the bottle. everything he's done since monday has been to dismiss everything in that hearing. >> we're going to take a quick break. we're going to continue this conversation ahead. schiff now calling for nunes to step aside. will congressman schiff told natalie just before we went on-air. the blame game they're playing sounds familiar. details on that. take 5, guys. tired of your bladder always cutting into your day? you may have overactive bladder, or oab. that's it! we really need to get with the program and see the doctor. take charge and ask your doctor about myrbetriq (mirabegron) for oab symptoms of urgency, frequency and leakage. it's the first and only oab treatment in its class. myrbetriq may cause serious allergic reactions. if you experience swelling of the face, lips, throat or tongue, or difficulty bre

that's not what nunes told reporters. he's now pointing the finger, blaming his democratic counter part adam schiff said the invitation went out last night. the investigation is in shambles tonight. no more hearings scheduled now. at the center of the stalemate is nunes himself and who he's working for. democrats asking if he doing the president's bidding. he said this about nunes. >> the chairman is going to have to find a way to lift this cloud. otherwise, we're going to need someone else to preside over this. i think we really do need someone else to preside over this if we're going to do this credibleably. >> this is a crucial question for the country, this investigation. with the investigation in turmoil, the senate intelligence committee trying to step up. there you see the democrat and republican on that committee sading they're going to conduct a comprehensive investigation. but is it too late? evan perez is out front tonight. evan, i want to start with what's going on between the fbi director and the chairman dev

nunes swapped cars and slipped away from staff. it goes on to report it's in that stretch of time when the chairman appears to have reviewed the classified intelligence files, files brought to his attention by sources he will not name. chairman nunes in an interview on cnn today defended his actions. >> i've read a lot of reports that aren't true. >> well, tell us what is true. >> number one i wasn't sneaking around at night. it was in the middle -- the sun was out and i actually stopped and talked to people along the way, all the reports i saw had nothing do with russia which is why i thought it was completely appropriate for me the next day to talk to the president about this and why i thought this needed his attention. >> nunes told bloomberg his intelligence was not a white house staffer. nbc news has confirmed that aspect that while on white house ground chairman nunes used what is called an sciff it's an acronym for sensitive compartmented insulated facility. sometimes it's the size of a shipping container, they guard outside

they still certainly have questions about the source of nunes's information.e chair mark warner. >> i and, i know both chairman burr on the senate side and democrats, republicans, we don't know what mr. nunes is talking about, what kind of information. we've queried the intel community. i don't think they know what he's talking about. it seems more than suspicious he's somehow going to the white house, and anybody who knows anywhere in the white house complex, whether the eisenhower building or the white house itself, you have to be escorted. who was he meeting with? was it a source or somebody from the administration? >> how nervous are senate republicans about all of this? i mean, what are weearing from mitch mcconnell's office, if anything, at this point? is there any way to gauge the temperature? >> i think today mcconnell will be asked about this on the hill. i think senate republicans feel like their own investigation is going much better. richard burr has not been accused of kind of going on a fishing expedition. i think it's also interesting that curre

congressman nunes at this point.ere is something he doesn't want to come out, it is probably going to come out anyway. if there is nothing to see then why not -- >> he is clearly concerned that whatever the three witnesses say will be bad news for the president. >> clearly. it doesn't help his case he is being political. there is a political concern here. here is the difference between the senate and house side. everyone in the house is up for reelection next year. they are going to have to explain to their constituents why they did what they did. nunez as republican running has to explain why he either went after donald trump or didn't. burr and warner not up for reelection, that makes big difference. >> all right, everyone stand by. hillary clinton is back and she is on the attack with her most political remarks since losing the presidential election. >> we need to resist action tlaes s that go against our values as american. whether that is attacking immigrants and refugees, denying climb a climate change or passi

devin nunes has gone rogue. and not only should he not be engaged in this investigation, he should be -- he should be replaced on the committee. we have very small quarters in the skiff where we do our business. i can't feel confident that he will not be attempting to influence the investigation or hearing about things that he's then going to run to the white house. i actually have a theory that this has all been orchestrated in conjunction with the white house. obviously, it has to be. how does he -- he's not talking to some mole on the white house grass. he is -- he is very engaged with the president in trying to deflect the focus which has been on russian meddling in our elections. now, that hearing last week was a -- a bomb went off. when director comey said not only are we investigating the meddling by russia in our elections but we are investigating those associated with the trump campaign and what relationships they had with russia. that was -- a fire went off. we all looked at each other thinking oh, my

i do support nunes' decision to let things cool down. i have never seen so many people run to the cameras on the intel committee. i will say it's happening on both parties. the ranking member -- i don't think he can make a meeting. for him or others to complain about process, devin nunes can go down to the white house and look at evidence any time he wants to. for hem them to worry about pro when they're comfortable taking leaked sources -- what about this evelyn farcus story? how did she know as early as last summer that general flynn was possibly compromised? which is disturbing. how did she know that? she was no longer with the state department. she should not have been in intel circles. how was it she was talking to her fellow clinton supporters, to the obama team and saying preserve the records and spread them around? if you want to talk about process, that's something that the democrats should be alarmed about, all americans should be. how is all that possible? why are they instead worrying about devin nunes going to the white hous

we are getting your thoughts on these calls per chairman nunes to step down, devin nunes of the intelligenceommunity over the information he received and how he put it out there. 202-748-8000 for democrats, 202-748-8001 for republicans, and independent, 202-748-8002. the lead story in "the washington post" takes a look at an upcoming action by president trump saying he will take the most significant step in obliterating his predecessors' e nvironmental today. remove the requirement that federal officials consider the impact of climate change when making decisions. the order sent an unmistakable signal that just as president obama fought to weave climate considerations into every aspect, president trump will rip that out by its roots "the policy in keeping with the president desire to make the united states energy independent." we are want to make our own course and do it in our own form and fashion. is up nexthirley from scranton, pennsylvania on the democrats line. caller: i think nunes should recuse himself and the reason is he never even went and told anything ending -- and he won't relea

all of the democrats on the committee saying nunes has to recuse himself. this is a commitittee investigation that is effectively stalled at this point. a makeover people who are not following this that closely, that revelation that he went to the white house the day after james comey gave his testimony that shocked republicans where he said they were investigating until that was not known recently. it was the -- >> until this week. amy: it was the next day when he publicly went to the white house to brief trump, to tell him that conversations might t have been swept up incidentally in some surveillance, that everyone knew he was at the white house. -- well,u explain let's go to devin nunes himself speaking on cnn on monday defending his previously undisclosed trip to the white house. >> here is the problem. the congress has not been given this information, these documents. and that is the problem. is executiveis branch it was distributed widely through the executive branch, november, december, january, and these were reports -- let me reiterate, this had n

how did chairman nunes -- >> she had four. >> how did chairman nunes end up at the white house this yesterday? this morning he said he invited himself here. that's kind of an uncommon way to end he up here. can you take us through it? >> no, i can't. i assume in a car. i also don't track him. i don't keep his schedule either. >> reporter: have you spoken addition. >> no. he said i'm going down to the white house after i brief the press. >> reporter: when was the first time the president was made aware of the surveillance- >> i believe the information he shared with the president was new. >> reporter: follow-up on health care. any plan on if the bill doesn't pass tonight? >> no. it's going to pass so that's it. >> reporter: now that you've been briefed, i know yesterday you hadn't been, everything had just happened, can you say if the information that nunes this is the same information that the president said he had that would be revealed this week? >> we're not -- there's -- my understanding, because i was not briefed on the contents of that, was that he spoke generally about what he had seen

you talked with chairman nunes. has he responded to this explosive report from "the new york times"? >> reporter: well, he has not responded to this report because the only thing they've said from his office is that they are not going to discuss any of the sources or comment on that. nunes has left the building. the house is out of session. sean spicer once again refused to say whether or not anyone from the white house authorized mr. nunes to come on the white house grounds, review this intelligence information which he later briefed the president on. i asked him repeatedly, can you just rule out, say was not way or another whether a white house official is involved and he would not respond. take a listen. why can't you answer that question? >> i'm not going to answer that question or any more questions, guys. unless you have something new, there's just nothing -- >> reporter: but there's a lot of questions still about what happened here. >> you guys are free to do all the stories that you want. and i appreciate th

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is devin nunes himself. what information did he give you about sally yates and the canceled hear sng. >> to have a private classified briefing with rogers and fbi director james comey. he has a lot of unanswered questions. they wanted this private classified briefing today but that also was canceled because of all the partisan acramony. all meetings of the houses intelligence committee were cancel canceled, showing how grid locked this committee is. nunes was asked by me and other reporters this question. did the white house ask you to prevent sally yates from testifying? this is how he responded. >> look. you guys are just speculating. whenever there's time we'll do a press -- >> but did they ask you to cancel the hear sng. >> come on, guys. >> why did you cancel the hear sng. >> nothing has been canceled. >> so after that, chairman nunes spokesman put out a statement suggesting they had no discussions with the white house saying no one at the white house spoke whatsoever with any members of the committee o