>> house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes has been pushing for information on this confidential source, the president and the white house have talked about it being an informant, but this morning, he said nunes, he will not attend any more meetings from the doj until he gets the documents. so tell us about how this is influencing, disrupting congress, i mean what does this do when devin nunes makes statements like that and essentially imply that he is working in the interest, solely of the president? >> yeah, it's worth noting this whole fight over the informant, it began with a subpoena from devin nunes, who was looking for information about this confidential source, and it's not the first time we have had nunes and other house republicans demand information related to the start of the russia investigation. there were fights over the fisa memo, a two-page document that actually kicked off the investigation itself, and nunes

but first, a look at the word nunes used today, games. nunes knows them well.en playing them on behalf of this white house for some time, including this latest misinformation campaign. here's randi kaye. >> reporter: the house intelligence committee working to investigate alleged ties between russia and donald trump's campaign started out as a bipartisan effort. devin nunes on one side and adam schiff on the other. >> the chairman and i are doing everything that we can to keep this investigation bipartisan and nonpartisan. >> reporter: but the notion the two sides could work together was torpedoed in march of 2017, when nunes made his now-infamous so-called midnight run. that's when nunes disappeared for a night, then turned up breathlessly to report he had just briefed the white house on some new information he had learned about surveillance during the campaign. but it turned out to be a scam. it was the white house who had actually given nunes the information in the first place. the whole episode led nunes to step aside from the splenlintele committee's russi

and the infamous nunes memo. now house conservatives, with the aid of the white house, seem to have successfully badgered d.o.j. officials into giving them a briefing on sources and methods of an f.b.i. investigation. that's unprecedented and so very wrong. everyone knows what they're doing. they are hunting desperately for any scrap of information for innuendo that might help them sully the investigation or to provide them a sneak peek at any evidence the f.b.i. may have against the trump campaign. if they have -- if they have to distort and spread falsehoods about what is revealed in any meaning, they will, and for the president of the united states to pressure the justice department to reveal details and documents pertaining to an active investigation of the president's campaign for the purpose of denigrating it is a gross and unprecedented abusive of power, unlike any we have seen in a very long time. that's why so many people don't trust this president. the only thing more outrageous than this meeting occurr

lou: it's important to give devin nunes and his commit its due. compare him to any other chairman, any other member of leadership of the republican congress and he stand head and shoulders above them in his integrity, energy and intellect and perseverance in pursuing the truth behind this wall of frankly misinformation and disinformation emanating from the fbi and the justice department. >> devin has been right about a lot of this from the very beginning. where you had people in the house, even on the republican side saying mueller has an important job to do. we are not going to question he stocked his team with democrats. devin said there is something that's not smelling right about this and the more digging that's been done, the more wrongdoing has been exposed. lou: your reaction to t.s. ellis, the district court judge in virginia. smacked around mueller's attorneys. giving them two weeks to produce the memorandum. and they were condescending to that judge. i have got to tell you, this district court judge student and called them what they are,

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the department of justice is saying that they have responded devon nunes.n fox & friends earlier saying that his latest classified letter to the doj was ignored. the letter from the doj which they are sending spells out the administrations written response says the doj. now basically, devon nunes said that two weeks ago, that he sent a letter to the attorney general jeff sessions a classified letter per usual this is from devon nunes it was ignored not acknowledged completely ignored last week we sent a subpoena and on thursday we discovered they are not going to comply with our subpoena. nunes told fox & friends this is information we need, we need to move quickly to hold the attorney general of the united states in contempt. that is what i will press for this week. also, right now, we want to talk about what's happening with texas congressman john ratcliffe he sits on the house judiciary and homeland security committee and also a former u.s. attorney good to see you sir congressman thanks so much for joining us. hi maria. maria: your response to what the

that means that he will be working with nunes and others to get the documents that nunes has demandingut this confidential informant, nunes saying there needs to be transparency as democrats like adam schiff object. >> this is a dramatic end to new and destructive loaf for the congress of the united states, basically to ignore the warnings of the fbi and justice department and potentially risk people's lives. what they would like this information for is clearly to be of service to the trump defense team, and further any narrative they have. >> we don't know if there is one informant or more informants because there is so much out there now, it is really getting tough to follow. all we are asking for, give us the documentation that you used it to this investigation. >> fox news also learning tonight that the long-awaited justice department inspector general report looking at the fbi, justice department's handling of the hillary clinton email investigation, has found among other things i james comey and andy mccabe, his former number two at the fbi, who was ousted, acted improperly by no

devin nunes has acted as the defense attorney for president donald trump.thrown every variety of spaghetti on the wall and it goes back to trying to help the president prove that obama wiretapped him in trump tower to the unmasking scandal, to the steele dossier the start of the investigation. all of that stuff turned out the be 100% false. what's scary about this, alisyn, first of all, most importantly, we're talking about sources here, right? so today in my home state of connecticut, there are law enforcement people at the fbi who are going to drug gangs trying to get people to be informants. they're telling people, we might pay you, you'll do the right thing. we will protect your identity. of course they're cia officers all over the world in places like baghdad going around helping keep us safe by recruiting sources. what devin nunes is doing and a couple of my republicans are doing is they are sending a signal around the world that some quirky, completely factless investigation may cause you as an informant or you as a cia asset to be exposed. that is g

that means john kelly will be working with nunes and others to get the documents that nunes has beenanding for weeks about this informant. adam schiff objects. >> this is a dramatic and destructive low for congress of the united states to ignore the warnings of the fbi and the justice department and potentially risk people's lives. what they would like this information for is clearly to be of service to the trump defense team and further any narrative they have. >> we don't know if there's one informant or more informants because there's so much out there now that it's really getting tough to follow. all we're asking for is give us the documentation that you used to start this investigation i. >> fox news also learning tonight that this long-awaited justice department inspector general report looking at the fbi and the justice department's handling of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation have found a james comey, andy mccabe, the former number 2 that was ousted, acted improperly but not moving quickly enough on the e-mails that appeared in september of 2016. they didn't look into

one at noon for nunes and the second two hours will lair congressional gang of eight which includes nunescalifornia democrats who sits on the intelligence. moments ago we learned about this mee meeting happening tomorrow. what do you think, why not one or two? >> whiy whiny meeting at all? of course, if a meeting's going to take place, you should have republicans and democrats there so there's no distortion of the facts. we've seen time and time again chairman nunes and aided vice speaker ryan, a perversion of what's been happening in this case. the claims to trump tower -- i prefer to see one meeing so the democrats can ensure there's no misinformation put out to the public. >> so, earlier today in the day your colleague represented joaquin castro atroeched nunes on the floor and said the -- was ready to go. he said i'm not going to play this game. are democrats the one playing games? >> no, what we're trying to do, don is to stand up for the rule of law. america is an idea. the idea where you can work hard and become anything, no matter where you come from. you have a rule of law to mak

i got off the phone with devin nunes. he's fired up. he believes the justice department's playing around with these different meanings to try to may be make it like there was daylight between nunes and some of his colleagues. maybe different information would be discussed. he told me the last minute change by the justice department was "weak and pathetic." he said you can quote me on that. he added "i will be there at 2:00 p.m. to watch what they say to make sure it is the same intel, same interpretation of the facts of whether or not they were spying on president trump's campaign." he wants to find that once and for all. he added "this is why americans no longer trust these guys, meaning at the justice department, see you at 2:00 p.m.." at noon, newness and trey gowdy meeting with the fbi director chris wray, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. other top officials dig deep on whether there was one or more informant trying to penetrate the trump campaign. at 2:00 p.m., the gang of eight, four democrats and four republicans will go b

look, i think the -- devin nunes is close to the white house, we know this. he was apart of the president's transition teamnd wenow this. the president is assuming that devin nunes will send out the information that he wants. we know -- this is important to note every time we talk about the president and leaks and his obsession with leaks, there is a reason that on the campaign and in the white house he has been known as the leaker in chief. he's opposed to leaks unless he's the one putting out the information. the main thing for him is control and control about his image. as long as he has it i believe in his mind -- >> it's really confusing to figure out where this all goes. they have this inspector general horwitz who's an obama appointee, dropped the hammer on mccabe, made a criminal effort of him lying and now if he's going to refer to him included as the criminal deep state, the ig, when they come out with their investigation of here's what happened in the email scandals and here's why these people had to be removed, why should anybody believe it? they'

lou: trey gowdy, devin nunes, nunes, the head of the intel committee, gowdy the head of oversight, now going to trapcc oveceover to the justice depart. congress wants to assert his responsibilities and authority of overnight. >> rosenstein has been obstructing congress' constitutionality of overeight. oversight. and it wasn't until the threat of impeaching rosenstein did he finally, late today, capitulate and say, okay, you can come over and look at this classified unredacted information. rosenstein had no basis to reject to nunes looking at this because nunes has security clearance to see it. and so, you know, it's a sad day in the department of justice when you have to threaten somebody with impeachment to get them to do their duty. lou: these are not only sad days, these are days of anger. this is a justice department leadership that doesn't deserve any regard whatsoever. they should be flushed out of that corrupt department and i mean now. there is no -- to me, there is no excuse for any one of these acts. can you think of an execution for than excuse forthe way in ws acted, jeff s

i have to give devin nunes credit. he's actually the good defense attorney that donald trump has been desperately looking for. the house intelligence committee under devin nunes has become a joke. it has no credibility. i give credit to the senate intelligence committee that at least has been acting like professionals and adults under their republican chairman and democratic ranking member. it is embarrassing to me as a house member i can't say the same about the house intelligence committee. devin nunes and some of the senior republican leadership on that committee has been more interested in playing political games and protecting this administration than actually getting to the truth. >> let's talk about politics then, real and perceived. the conversation up until now has been how can republicans avoid talking about the russia investigation as they face their midterm elections and on the flip side, how the democrats are going to capitalize on it, which has me wondering this morning what then is the president trying t

curiously it did agree to sit down with chairman nunes.bably they have the order to accommodate him in some way. they are trying to do it without handing over the actual documents but if that is what nunes and others are after, it seems it's what they have to hand over to fulfill the request. >> jason: as one who has been to the department of justice and sat in the meaning and listen to the blow-hards tell me how congress has no right to see this stuff. it is offensive. at what point does the constitution come into play? they give lip service to oversight but they are leaking -- it's pretty well documented that they are leaking. what is it they think they can't and shouldn't so to congress, which is essentially the american people? >> look, you know this better than anyone. we have processes in place whereby congress gets to oversee the executive branch. they can't just say give us everything. they have to have specific cause, reason, things they are looking for. as this piece we ran today made clear when the cases came up, the department

nunes can be beaten. >> reporter: here's his most likely challenger. >> devin nunes, i believe, wholeheartedlyto our national security. >> reporter: andrew janz, prosecutor, democrat, political rookie who's raised over $1.8 million for his campaign, nearly $500,000 since april 1st. does andrew janz have a snowball's chance in hell? >> maybe what's most important is the voter registration. so 42% republican, 32% democrat, 20% decline to state. maybe in that third group, ja sometime z can pull some votes. >> reporter: he's talking about education, veterans' affairs, health, and water here deep in farm country. here in his campaign office in visalia, it is obvious what the number one focus is of this campaign. >> he's forgotten us, he hasn't held a town hall since 2010, a real town hall. >> reporter: nunes disputes that. janz slams him on russia. >> i don't know if he himself has some potential liability or if it's out of some misguided attempt to protect the president of the united states. >> reporter: it's just possible robert mueller's report into russian election meddling might provide califo

wait till you hear what devin nunes is up to today.r in chief at the law fair blog and betsy woodruff political reporter with the daily beast. let me start with you, dan. he subpoenaed the department of justice for information on a person that the department said if it was revealed would essentially reveal sources and methods and nunes said no, no, no, i was never interested in any individual. and then the washington post got its hands on the document. it's very clear nunes was looking for an individual. today he went over and met with the doj. what's going on here? >> well, i mean, i guess the latest is that it does seem that maybe he is backing down. although, it's always premature to say that about devin nunes. look, this is an extremely upsetting situation. every time you think that there is -- you've reached the low with the chairman of the house intelligence committee, you know, he finds a way to knock at you from below that. and, you know, going after information about an intelligence source is a violation of the most sacred tru

that's what devin nunes is all about. he has destroyed the reputation of the house intelligence committee and continues to destroy the reputation. his own reputation. as acting as partisan henchman for donald trump. >> they got pressured into having that. max just nailed it. he's out to do this to have a private meeting with the sort of his cocon speet tor on how to defend himself. getting help from people in congress leading the fight. i think there's a limit to how far the people can go on capitol hill. legislative immunity has a limit. if you start interfering with witnesses or disrupting the process in some way. these people can be charged with obstruction of justice. this is going to play later. if this is ever tried. the president will hear about his behavior and these meetings. >> i want to talk about again about the gaslighting that's going on. and what i said in the opening. especially about. >> that's the right word. >> you heard the president distort his words. it has a cost. here's more from clapper. >> what d

everybody wondering what's next from devin nunes at this point. andrea: the concern fromorr intelligence officials who serve both democ rtic andublican white houses is that this is a terriblerecedent, intrusion into a classified process that should not be partisan. the gang of eight are the bipartisan oversight leaders of intelligence and the speaker and the my and minority leaders and that it never should have been put in this context and initially was not going to include adam schiff. so for the white house to order this to take place, to demand it, really, through devin nunes, on his behalf, when he is a subject, if not a target, but a subject of a criminal investigation of which this is a material part, is just so inappropriate that lawyers who worked in the justice department in the past, as wein as lligence officials, are very, very uncomfortable and think of i size a terrible revers of decades of precedent. robert: right before we went to r, the a.p. reported mayor st forni will req documents and is urging the president to push on this issu

curiously it did agree to sit down with chairman nunes.bably they have the order to accommodate him in some way. they are trying to do it without handing over the actual documents but if that is what nunes and others are after, it seems it's what they have to hand over to fulfill the request. >> jason: as one who has been to the department of justice and sat in the meaning and listen to the blow-hards tell me how congress has no right to see this stuff. it is offensive. at what point does the constitution come into play? they give lip service to oversight but they are leaking -- it's pretty well documented that they are leaking. what is it they think they can't and shouldn't so to congress, which is essentially the american people? >> look, you know this better than anyone. we have processes in place whereby congress gets to oversee the executive branch. they can't just say give us everything. they have to have specific cause, reason, things they are looking for. as this piece we ran today made clear when the cases came up, the department

but seriously, it didwn agree to sit down with chairman nunes.nk probably they have the order to accommodate him into se way. still trying to do it without getting out of having to hand out actualth documents. that is what chairman nunes and others are after, it would seem that is what they will need to hand over to fulfill that request. >> jason: as one who has been over the department of justice and sat in those meetings, and listened to these blowhards tell me how congress has no right to see this stuff, i got to tell you, it really is offensive. at what point does the constitution come into play? they give lip service to oversight. but here theyey are, leaking. it's well documented they are leaking. what is it that they think they can't and should not show to congress, the american people? >> you know this better than anyone. we have processes in place whereby congress gets to oversee the executive branch. they can't just say, give us everything. they have to have so specific cause, reason. this case, when those cases came up, the department

let me go to contempt issue that we spoke to devin nunes about.avid, get your take on that. >> this is government working for devin nunes to go forward with this. we wish a constitutional crisis but not the constitutional cry six that senator schumer and others talked about. when we have a rogue special prosecutor run amok and a justice department not responding to legitimate concerns from the article i body of congress we risk a constitutional crisis. there must be cooperation. i'm sorry if it has to come to contempt. i think we maybe need to look to changing people in positions. >> sean: either they do their job now -- this has gone on for well over a year. this is when jason chaffetz will join us later. he was asking for this information. sara, i read all 50 paces of what happened in the manafort case. now four times. i have read it all four times. i showed our audience just the highlights. this was the biggest judicial beat-down. i used to read scalia and his scathes defense. this is a far bigger beat-down to mueller or weissman who we warned

it describes a first meeting with john kelly, devin nunes, and gowdy. and a second meeting with the department of justice and the same individuals and all gang of eight members. the white house putting this out through the doj quite late at night. let's get to it. mimi roker, john allen, and kimberly, an msnbc analyst. what do you think of the news and why is it coming out so late at night. >> why would it be so different than breaking news that breaks on another day. i think there has been a bit of a scramble to put together exactly how this meeting that the president has demanded and which was apparentlyset up by rod rosenstein to placate the president who seemed ready to take a more drastic action against this investigation. this is something that is not normal. normally when there is an ongoing investigation by federal authorities, the oversight doesn't come in the middle. it comes once it's complete, once there's conclusions, and then if there's questions about the process then the folks go in and take a look at it so the investigation itself is no

this is a stunning statement by devin nunes. that is on top of of course the fbi, doj lying, misleading fisa judges, multiple times in order to get a fisa warrant to spy on a trump campaign associate in the weeks leading up to an election and for an entire year, four judges lied to, they never would have told the truth, they never were told it was a bought and paid brooklyn to dossier that was not verified, not cooperated. now there is a new dynamic to this massive scandal. now the possibility of an fbi mole that was inside the trump campaign? chairman nunes is now investigating this huge development. take a look. >> you had fusion gps that was hired by the democratic party and the clinton campaign to draw up a dossier on the president -- or when the president was running for president. what happened with that, in his testimony, he mentioned that there was a source within the campaign. >> glenn simpson runs fusion gps. >> glenn simpson said that enclosed testimony, now it became public, he confirmed he was telling congress the t

intelligence committee chair chan devin nunes. he's calling for a contempt citation against jeff sessions and possibly rod rosenstein. he has had a belly full of their stone wall and refusal to acknowledge the constitution and the oversight responsibilities of the u.s. congress. >> you are exactly right. chairman nunes has not only done an outstanding job, i had a conversation with him a few hours ago. he's meeting with his intel committee members as we ramp up the pressure. we have one real problem right now. we have a department of just its under this administration that's saying they will not give documents to congress that's we are entitled to constitutionally. and we have a department of justice that's trying to write a narrative that suggests the american people don't need to sight. i'm not seeing a lot of

for congressman nunes? did. >> reporter: and this year? >> i'm not going to. i've already made that decision. his allegiance to donald trump seems to be overwhelming and that's one of the things in my own mind, you know, politicians shouldn't be doing. >> reporter: do you feel that he's more aligned to the president or to republican voters such as yourself? >> well, i would say i think he's more aligned with the president and feels responsible somehow to -- to protect him as much as he can. >> reporter: registered republicans outnumber democrats by 10 points in this heavily agricultural conservative district. we found a rare democrat unleashing on nunes. >> i think he is a liar and a propagandist that will say anything. >> reporter: one growing resentment is that nunes's rising star and controversy has meant he's not as visible to his voters, one noting he doesn't remember the last time nunes was here in his clovis district office or held a town hall. but that may not matter. nunes won by more than 30 point

or is nunes' sources that are talking about nunes trying to stir the pot? >> devin nunes and the house intelligence committee and the senate intelligence committee are responsible for oversight. but it's oversight of the intelligence community, not of an ongoing criminal investigation in the department of justice. in fact, i'm on the judiciary committee. we have oversight responsibility over the fbi and the department of justice. there is no evidence, none, of any spy placed by the fbi in the trump campaign to benefit hillary clinton, nor any other improper activity. >> have you had conversations with republicans on your committee? is it a bipartisan statement you're making, that you're saying in the senate we don't see what devin nunes says he sees? >> that is a really good point, erin. in fact, my republican colleagues are embarrassed and alarmed by this whole spygate episode and by the president's in effect voicing on them some seeming responsibility to look into something that is nonexistent. a product of his imagination and fantasy. but more important,

devin nunes.dent's stooge on the house intel committee for reasons unknown to all of us. is there anyone in the administration who wants to get to to bottom of russian interference in our democracy? anyone? >> i think they actively want to interfere with the investigation because they fear it's going to bring down the president. the justice department does not turn over materials that relates to ongoing investigations because it could jeopardize those investigations. they have walked over that line several times. the current dispute over what they turn over to devin nunes refers to information that the justice department said would jeopardize a classified source, put their life in danger. that is usually when the congress says enough, they stop. paul ryan -- nunes couldn't do this without paul ryan's backing. >> let's show everybody what we are talking about. the speaker today making abundantly clear when he had to choose sides he chose devin nunes. >> i think this request is wholly appropriate. i

you know, you've got devin nunes as the guy -- we all know that devin nunes is compromised. lindsey graham in march of 2017 said that nunez has lost his ability to lead. what argument can be played that it's only these guys in the room? >> it won't be convincing arguments for sure. >> maybe it doesn't have to be convincing as long as it works for trump. >> rudy giuliani gave an enter rue to help post among evening, saying in his point ever view, this oversight is most useful because it provides discovery. they're finding information about what mueller has, which he wants to know, as he's negotiating the terms of what gets asked and what doesn't get asked if they have a conversation with mueller and the president. i think that's is what's happening here. the problem with the republicans and trump here with the spygate comments and stacking the deck with people like nunes and the republican party, he's creating pressure on something he can't possibly deliver. we've seen that with the memo. >> remember that nonsense nunes memo. oh, my goodness, it's coming and he looked like a

nunes is the head of the committee.the committee that has gone on in a nonpartisan way, even through the worst of times, but in terms of our interaction with the intelligence community, the intelligence community's confidence they can share information, which is essential to functioning, it's broken vis-a-vis the chairman. after the nunes memorandum saga where there was a blatant declassification of intelligence, they are wary of sharing things with us. but the members of the committee and myself included continue to do our jobs, recognizing the additional hurdle we have given the chairman we have. >> congressman schiff, it's casey hunt. i have two questions for you. the first is this, do you have full confidence that the justice department in launching this counter intelligence investigation dotted every "i," crossed every "t" in a political manner? >> everything i have seen tells me yes, they acted appropriately, they did their job. indeed, given the information that was coming to their attention, it would have been n

what the house intelligence says is that nunes is trying to underminot only mueller investigation, but rod rose rosenstein. it's not here what the doj ask goi -- is going to do. >> this reporting from our laura jarrett, saying the white house has consulted before, the house intel chairman devin nunes and declining to turn over documents on the source and the white house agree the documents should not be disclosed so that only makings it that much more confusing in terms of why the president would tweet out what he did, jeremy. >> yes, it shows a shift and it also shows a divide perhaps between the president's views and those of his white house staff, john kelly was involved, the white house staff in the -- they had some negotiations to try and find a resolution to this. so far that resolution hasn't materialized as to what has prompted the president to get involved himself and accuse doj of basically trying to implant this informant. >> with the president's demand and how this complicates the hierarchy of the department of justice, in terms of who would acquiesce, rosenstein overseeing

it's much like the nunes men mo.l recall the release of the memo was supposed to bring about the downfall of the republic and then surprise surprise, everyone read the three-page memo and confirmed what people suspected all along, and somehow we're still all alive and breathing. lou: well, we are. but there is -- our airways are constricted by a justice department and an fbi. >> they want to strangle it. lou: so corrupt that it is extraordinary. >> they want to strangle it. believe me. lou: i want to turn to, again, the mueller legal team. judge ellis, t.s. ellis, the district court judge in virginia. >> right. lou: basically being con d con a scended to by the special counsel attorney present at the hearing not recognizing that the judge is handling contemporaneous espionage cases, has the highest clearance as much judges in point of fact. and the judge was with great humor and patience, i thought, reminding him of the fact that he has available to him secure lines and handles classified material all of the time. ye

it was nunes and gowdy that asked for the meeting.mocrats say they want to be part of that meeting. the whole gang of eight will be there at the second meeting. >> when you say that we've been getting stonewalled, is it not true that you had officials from the fbi and the doj say there was no implanted spy in the trump campaign? is all the reporting wrong on that? haven't they already said that? >> let's see what the evidence shows because -- >> you think they're lying about it? >> i think they've been certainly not telling the truth throughout this, that's for sure. i don't think there's any basis for this investigation in the first place. all they might be able to hang their hat on is this unnamed person and if as little evidence from him as there's been from the others then it shows this whole investigation should never have been started from the start. >> you don't think there was good reason for suspicion about russian interference in the election? >> absolutely not. this was based as far as we know so far -- it was based on cart

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the house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes is back in the news.s congress to hold attorney general jeff sessions in contempt. nunes says the doj is holding classified materials related to the russia meddling investigation. the doj says, yes, it is holding information with the help of the fbi and other intelligence agencies. quote, disclosure of responsive information to such requests can risk severe consequences, including potential loss of lives. to that nunes said this. >> we're just not going to take this nonsense of every time we peel something back, every team we need information we get ignored, we get stalled, we get stonewalled, and then lo and behold, we get accused of we're going to destroy the nation's ability to keep it secure. >> so a champion of truth, justice and transparency or shell man for the president on television? >> the interesting part here, to not directly answer your question, is there is an element of truth to this. when it comes to the justice department national security side of things in general, when it comes to respo

well, in this case, republican congressman devin nunes, the head of the intelligence committee in the house, his subpoena for information about the confidential source that talked to members of the trump campaign, his subpoena reportedly demands all information that the justice department has related to that individual, which means what devin nunes has demanded from the justice department is not just the identity of that source and what actions he has taken on behalf of the u.s. government while operating in a covert capacity, that subpoena would also appear to be an effort to pry out of the justice department whatever evidence he turned up. whatever information and evidence that informant was able to turn up when, in fact, he talked to people on the trump campaign about russia, what russia was doing. the justice department has been sliding down this slippery slope for months, handing over the kind of information they never release about ongoing investigations. but the identity of a confidential source, all justice department records about that source? the evidence that source was abl

careman nunes is going -- chairman nunes is going to win this fight. >> paul: the disclosure fight. >losure fight. the justice department is a creation of congress. if congress wanted to, they could abolish it. if congress acts as a body, acts together collectively, not as an individual member, they have a lot of power to do this. and mr. nunes is supported by speaker ryan, by the contenders for the leadership, steve scalise and mr. mccarthy. it looks like the republicans are behind this. as long as they stick to their guns, i think they're going to get it. it's clear now, you know, kim would say, i have no inside information on who this might be but twitter is full of speculation of a lot of people. so it has to be more than just the identity, one would think, that they're trying to keep quiet. in other words, the circumstances of this individual. >> paul: what happened and -- >> and where he fits in the puzzle of all this. >> paul: dan, you i want to ask you, michael cohen, the president's lawyer, we have reports this week that he received money from a lot of -- from companies and i

congressman nunes was dismissive of the fbi's concerns on that front.washington post" posted they are citing spurious national security concerns to evade congressional oversight. we will succeed in getting this information regardless of whatever fantastic stories the department of justice and the fbi spin to "the post," "the washington post." >> but it should also be note said as a member of the intelligence committee devin nunes, the chair has not come in front of the committee and explain why he wants or needs this information. on the week we were off, we were all back home and still has not come forward to explain his actions. >> just late today, the senate intelligence committee revealed more about russia's penetration of state voting systems around the country in the lead up to the 2016 election. catch this, while they say saw no evidence that the russians were able to change any vote total, nice cyber actors were at a min wrm able to delete or alter data. they concluded the underlying aim was to disclude the results. real democracy, they've got no