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chairman nunez is falling down on the job. and it seems to be more interested in protecting the president than in seeking the truth. you cannot have the person in charge of an impartial nation be partial to one side. it is an inherent decade of bipartisan cooperation on the intelligence committee. which handles such sensitive information paramount to national security. it undermines congress as a coat equal branch of government. and until the executive branch accountable for its actions. and it corrodes the american people's confidence in our government. mr. president, if speaker ryan wants the house to have a credible investigation, he needs to replace chairman nunez. congress was meant by the framers to be separate and equal. i sincerely worry that under his direction, mr. nunez is pushing the committee into a direction of obsequious nest. and not one that is asking the hard questions and getting the important answers. there is always been a grand tradition of bipartisanship. on the intelligence committees. when members go i

nunez and others upset because they got a private briefing from comey -- nunez and schiff had a privateng, they know with a lot of detail with the fbi information is all about. i think nunez was miffed that comey when asked questions wouldn't rule out subjects of the investigation and nunez couldn't say what he knew. i think that's what you're talking about jack right? how does that justify what he did today? >> someone on the transition team, someone trying to lead a nonpartisan investigation, made him look like a shill for the white house. >> i believe that devon nunez is a man of honor. and say the same for adam schiff. but i believe intel committee has been way to public with this whole thing. political bait is out there. opportunity to go out and talk about something. i know how it is. seen it go on over and over again in all kinds of committees. i think they should be sequestered in some private room. >> do these guys come back? okay. i'm wondering if the timing is a bit shifty too. let's talk about this when we come back. this is going to come out in a couple fr weeks. what is go

does that say anything about the status of devin nunez? democrats have been calling for him to step down. i know paul ryan gave him some sort of endorsement there, but does the fact that they're now postponing all these hearings say something about his status? >> well democrats have been calling for him to recuse himself and there's been one two or two who want him to step down entirely as the chairman of the committee. i asked the speaker this morning should he recuse. speaker ryan said no, implying and if you ask his spokesperson they'll give you a little longer one sentence instead of a one word statement about the fact that they still have confidence in him, but the reality is, this investigation is not proceeding as it was. nunez's has been insisting today this is going to keep going forward. they've canceled all not just anything related to the investigation but reagan meetings. this is a committee that meets once or twice a week as a matter of course and all of that has ground to a halt. this committee usually is bipartisan. the top

, but congressman adam schiff, nunez' democratic counterpart is calling on nunez to recuse himself. the house speaker earlier today, reiterated his full kfz on the chairman. on the senate side, jared kushner has volunteered to answer questions about the moscow relate d meetings according to the russian news agency. lester? >> hallie jackson, thanks. >>> in the meantime there is fallout over the collapse of the gop's plan to repeal and replace obamacare. the white house says the president now wants to work with democrats and he may need to to make deals and get things through congress, but there are serious big fights ahead over taxes and the supreme court, just to name a couple. now the question is can the parties find common ground on anything? here is nbc's kristen welker. >> reporter: trying to reset after his stinging defeat over obamacare, president trump put the focus on back jobs today meeting with women in business. but behind the scenes mounting urgency for a win, the target now tax reform an already daunting task made more difficult after members of his own party the conse

today they include jerry nunez on the left and shawn starke on the right.rrested within an hour of each other. they have been connected to a shoot out with hackensack. the man was walking with a gun and opened fire on a cop car barely missing the officer inside. the shots caused another patrol car to rear end the first car. >> they chase the gunman to the corner. that gunman has been identified as 22-year-old report leonardis. he received a total of 14 bullet wounds. he's been charged with several crimes. the most serious being three counts of attempted murder. >> face the camera right here, don't move. >> starke was not arrested for any direct involvement in the shooting but because he owned the unregistered handgun that leonar leonardis used. he said he was a good friend and taken the weapon without him knowing. >> he came over my house and he told me he had this thought of killing himself. i talked to him about this is not his last chance. there are things he can do to better his life with that knife. he took my gun. >> i never thought that he would shoo

now we learn this morning that chairman nunez was at the white house a day before that event. doing what? we don't know. mr. president, it could very well be the case that chairman nunez was briefing members of the administration about an investigation of which they are the subject. chairman nunez is falling down on the job and seems to be more interested in protecting the president than in seeking the truth. you cannot have the person in charge of an impartial investigation be partial to one side. it's an inherent contradiction, and it undermines decades of bipartisan cooperation on the intelligence committee, which handles such sensitive information paramount to national security. it undermines congress as a co-equal branch of government, meant to hold the executive branch accountable for its actions, and it corrodes the american people's confidence in our government. mr. president, if speaker ryan wants the house to have a credible investigation, he needs to replace chairman nunes. congress was meant by the framers to be separate and equal, and i sincerely worry that under

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where nunez is going seems more interesting and pregnant, if you will, then the russian connection. neil: the media, democrats, having a tough time understanding where nunez is going with this, some advocating he should go. is that fair? after this. yo out the tube and you spit in it, which is something southern girls are taught you're not supposed to do. you seal it and send it back and then you wait for your results. it's that simple. yeah, 'cause i got allstate.? if you total your new bike, they replace it with a brand new one. so, kinda like your second husband. kinda. it's good to be in (good hands). neil: last week at this time the chairman of the house intelligence committee was a rock star hero saying he saw no evidence nor did his ranking member that donald trump's phones were tapped by barack obama. a few days later indications it is possible donald trump was swept up in a widespread surveillance effort to show that he and others in the administration to come were being looked at for potential ties to the russians. now, with that revelation and potential far-flung implicat

devin nunez does not report to me. i am going to as a fellow member, i will leave it up to him to do the right thing and i'm sure he will. >> okay. what is the right thing? >> that's for him to decide. >> let me move on to the agenda. paula page said something earlier today. it was about health care. he said this on the idea of letting obamacare fail. you are telling people let it fail so the american people can get hurt more. does he have a point that the idea of leting it fail is actually -- it may be a good political idea if you believe it's going to fail, but it's harmful to the public if you think this is going to harm the public and that is not good public policy? >> i am not on the page of letting something fail to hurt the american public. and i don't believe my conference is either. unfortunately today obamacare is failing under its own weight. i'm not going to pile on in any way to suggest anything should be done to expedite the failures that we are seeing with insurance saying economically. i have so much un

as a result of what chairman nunez did. but the whole point is to try to find the truth, find the facts and determine exactly what happened. not speculate, not listen to the statements that are coming out of all sides as we go through this investigation but what are are the facts. what is the evidence. and what is established in truth in terms of what happened here. >> mr. secretary, we have a lot more to discuss. i want to take a quick break. we will resume all of it right after this quick commercial break. when did you see the sign? when i needed to create a better visitor experience. improve our workflow. attract new customers. that's when fastsigns recommended fleet graphics. yeah! now business is rolling in. get started at fastsigns.com. yeah! now business is rolling in. he's a nascar champion who's she's a world-class swimmer who's stared down the best in her sport. but for both of them, the most challenging opponent was... pe blood clots in my lung. it was really scary. a dvt in my leg. i had to learn all i could to

chairman nunez. and it's important to separate the two and look at them that way. >> maggie, in the last hour, you said it's a low-grade fever for the white house, not going away anytime soon. is there anything the administration can do to more effectively deal with this? or, you know, i mean, they could very easily say, look, we embrace this investigation, but we've never heard those words from them. >> that's exactly right. among the things that they keep doing to carl's point is they keep saying, you know, it's not us, it's you. it's the leaks. it's this, it's that. and it's hard to know that certainly is frequently the type of response you see when there is something to hide. however it is something, having covered trump a long time, that is his reflexive knee jerk response is to turn it back on whoever raised it with maximum heat lamp response going in the other direction. so i don't know what it indicates. i do know carl is correct, it is infective and people are vastly more people have heard a

, chairman nunez needs to be more and impartial actor. he has not been cooperating like someone who is interested in getting to the unvarnished truth. >> reporter: republicans like trey galliano rallied around the chairman. >> senator schumer giving republicans advice on what to do. i wish senator schumer and the other democrats would be more interested in the authenticity and reliability of underlying data and not the means by which it was required. >> nunez had to look at the information because it couldn't be transferred to capitol hill. speaker ryan held a press conference, this comes up. >> nice to see you this morning. abby: the president's senior advisor questions on his ties to russia. jared kushner vowing to testify on meetings with the head of state run russian bank and russian ambassador. it came from this meeting during the presidential transition and he wants to be transparent. >> the white house declaring a week of action. president trump is signing an executive order over so-called job killing epa regulations marking a dras

meanwhile, today, the criticism that nunez has been getting continues to mount. the house speaker, paul ryan, sticking by his colleague. let's get right to our team of correspondents following the latest developments. peter alexander in the briefing room, kasie hunt is on capitol hill and justice correspondent pete williams is in the washington bureau for us. pete, let's start with you. what do we know about the white house actions as they pertain to sally yates' testimony? >> here's the sequence of events as we understand it. in late january sally yates and another government official went to talk to the white house counsel and said we're concerned that michael flynn may not have been completely candid about his contacts with the russians in the view of sally yates this could open him to possible blackmail by the russians, and then she, as you know, was eventually fired by the president in her position as acting attorney general because she had instruct federal government lawyers not to defend the first executive order on travel. okay. so in march, mid-march, sh

director nunez, the chair of the committee mr. nunez saw some information.e then apparently according to kasie hunt told speaker ryan who evidently we don't know what speaker ryan said and we will find out today. he then held a press conference after talking to speaker ryan to lay out these anonymous source he he heard about. he was then asked was the president specifically targeted? his answer was we will have to wait nell the end of the week to get information on that. i don't want to respond to that because that is sensitive information and while he is doing a press conference stating what he learned about anonymous sources relating to the president's comments he might have been wiretapped and gave no info to the community. this is the intelligence community. not the education or ways or means or commercial committee but the intelligence committee. he then traveled to the white house to share with the president an anonymous sources he had seen or read and had not shared with anyone else that suggest that the president communications might have been interc

it was house intelligence devin nunez that evidence may have accidently captured communications involving trump staffers but where did he get the information? the congressman's whereabouts the day before he dropped the bombshell are fueling suspicions among democrats. nbc's hallie jackson with what we know tonight. >> reporter: tonight, a new plot twist in the surveillance saga consuming congress and the white house. >> if this was a movie, you turn it off because you wouldn't believe it's believable. >> reporter: the latest bombshell coming from devin nunez, the republican head of the house intelligence committee that revealed u.s. spies may have swept up communications involving the trump transition team. it's called incidental collection and while nunez said there is no evidence to back the president's claim trump tower was wi wiretapp wiretapped, president trump felt vindicated anyway. >> i somewhat do, i must tell you i somewhat do. i much appreciated the fact they found what they found. >> reporter: turns out, one day before he briefed the president, nunez was on white house grounds

and i think that what representative nunez did, chairman nunez did today undermines that. >> john mccain says -- >> in administratiseparation of. >> why are you more concerned about the process than the substance of his claims? are you concerned at all -- >> i don't think they were spying on donald trump. >> so you think devin nunez lied? >> he didn't say that they were spying on donald trump. >> no, on u.s. citizens. >> but not donald trump. >> it doesn't matter if it's donald trump. a u.s. citizen has fourth amendment rights. >> he's not saying they were spying on u.s. citizens. >> to believe the congress member confirmed that. [ talking simultaneously ] >> we don't know who his source is. i'm just supposed to take his word? >> maybe he doesn't know about the fourth amendment? >> it also, i mean, just for the full picture, devin nunez was on the transition team for president trump. >> yeah. >> this just isn't how you handle it if you want to be seen on the up and up. it just isn't. it's so unusual. you're down there, kayleigh outraged over everything. you're not outraged over the fact

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ca kacie, you spoke with representative nunez. >> the pressure is increases for devin nunez to speak more about what she doing and the pressure is to rescues himself. they all go to the heart of this question about the redability of the house intelligence committee. the ties into the russians and the trump can people or the transition, as well as that broader investigation and devin nunez came under increasing pressure and fire as we have been reporting. the new information from yesterday that he viewed this intelligence into a press conference on the white house grounds. he said there was incidental election collection of communications between, it's not clear, but the family, the associates, and other people who were talking about those people. so they have been willing to say that so far about that mefgs. he did not talk o other members on the committee initially, and that violated the traditional bipartisan way in which the house intelligence committee others. he didn't say whether or not he would rescues himself, but he said the investigation would continue as it has. >> this we

eduardo nunez gave a long run for it. quite. >> mike: on the hill tonight for the giants, the 11-year veteran, matt cain. his fifth start. the spring has not gone the way he wanted it go. 10 1/3, given up 11 earned runs. tonight is taking on a more important start for him. he needs to start getting better command of his fastball. he will be around the 90s with the fastball. curveball, cutter and change-up. they are trying to get him to extend out around 75 pitches tonight. four, five innings. this is a big outing for matt cain. not often you say that about an 11-year veteran, cain knows the deal. he needs a good outing. >> jon: that curveball tapped foul. dropped down and in, out of the strike zone. 0-2 to charlie blackmon hitting .462 in the springtime. this is a guy who's established himself as a very fine lead-off man. hit 29 home runs hitting lead-off last year. up the first base side foul. handled by tony diaz, the first base coach for the rockies. matt cain in his st. patrick's day cap, which we modeled during our o

nuÑez said it was clear to him.'t know if we are talking about picked up transcripts of phone calls between members of the trump team and foreign agents, we don't know if we are talking about two foreign dignitaries whose conversation was picked up, we don't even know if we were just talking about a cable that was sent and picked up by surveillance and happened to mention the president or a surrogate in the aftermath of the election. novemberened between and january. we don't know exactly what we are dealing with, quite how serious it is, and specifically who or whether the source was revealed. there are lots of swirling political anger really happening in the wake of nuÑez making this announcement. many democrats are saying he's trying to distract from the fact that last week's hearing with the fbi and nsa directors did not go well, and trying to make sure no other public hearings could be complicating for the administration. remember, that is the hearing that we heard the fbi has been looking into these allegation

it's starting to look like that house intelligence investigation under the leadership of devin nunez is blowing up. there are screaming calls today from democrats that chairman nunez should recuse himself from this investigation or that house speaker paul ryan should replace him as chair of that committee. after he called two dramatic press conferences last week saying he was rushed to the white house about troubling information about american intelligence incepts, there's been explanation and wondering since then, a lot of unclear and contradictory information as to where he got that troubling information that he rushed straight to the white house with once he got it. today chairman nunez confirmed that where he got that information from was, quote, the white house grounds. hu h? on the light before his breathless press conference where he insisted to that he had to bring this to the white house, he went to the white house grounds to receive that information in the first place. if that sounds absurd to you, you are not alone. there's nobody on either side of the aisle in washington

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. >> reporter: devin nunez said he had seen about a dozen intercepted communication about members of the trump transition team. that may mean either trump associates or trump himself were in contact with foreigners under surveillance or the foreigners were discussing the trump team. >> i believe it was all done legally. >> reporter: nunez's committee is involving russian interfering in the election, but the reports do not involve russia. after briefing the president nunez said he was concerned that president trump's name and name of the team were not properly redacted from the reports thus unmasking the identities. your issue is the unmasking, not that there was this monitoring. >> there's additional unmasking of names which i think is totally inappropriate. >> reporter: a short time later president trump was asked if the new information vindicated his claims that president obama wire tapped his phone. >> i somewhat do. i must tell you i somewhat do. i very much appreciated the fact that they found what they found, but i somewhat do. >> reporter: but nunez himself said the president

the republican chair of the house intelligence committee devin nunez charges u.s. spies surveilled president elect trump. >> the president elect and his team were, i guess, at least monitored. >> reporter: now the times identifying those officials as 32-year-old michael ellis a white house lawyer who form early worked on a white house intelligence staff and 30-year-old ezra watnick. a protege of michael flynn. nunez repeatedly refused to reveal his source but said even though he reviewed the information on white house grounds, white house officials were not involved. >> in fact, i'm quite sure people in the west wing had no idea i was there. >> reporter: if the source was a white house official, it would be a twist in what critics say started an effort to back up the claim he was wiretapped by president obama. last wednesday nunez comes under fire when he shares the new information not with committee colleagues but the press and president who said he felt somewhat kin ka vindicated. sean spicer dismissed suggestions nunez got the information from the white house. >

devin nunez did not have concern. roger stone, i'm not sure who he is. adam s ad adam schiff said he wanted to learn more about what occurred during elections. they had not spoken to michael flynn who admitted to have contacts with the russian ambassador around the type that president obama's administration was imposing new sanctions on russia. at the same time they would not confirm the question that a lot of senators are asking today whether or not there's actually a criminal investigation ongoing in the fbi over russia. they say this wouey would not t about private discussions. this comes as james comey is on capitol hill to talk to the judicial committee at the time where they are looking for confirmation to determine whether or not there is this active criminal investigation ongoing at the fbi. we don't know yet, wolf, if we'll get that answer. that's something that the members will be asking comey in his classified briefing later today. >> very serious questions. jim sciutto, what are you hearing about this suggestion that there may have been some

jeff pegas is on capitol hill with pressure on nunez to step aside. >> good morning. house speaker paul ryan has full confidence that congressman nunez can conduct a fair and credible investigation but pressure is building on the congressman to explain his actions and reveal his source. >> there was no sneaking around. i walked on to the grounds, said hi to people. i did not go to the west wing, did not talk to the president. >> reporter: the chairman of the house intelligence committee, devin nunez, said it was not a secret that he visited a secure location at the white house last tuesday to review classified documents. >> i needed a place that i could actually go and find this information and review it. >> reporter: the congressman, wouldn't reveal his source, but says there is evidence that agencies under the obama administration had intercepted communications involving members of the trump transition team, but he dismissed president trump's allegations that president obama wiretapped trump tower. >> that never happened. >> reporter: nearly a week after nunez brief

when cotton and nunez. >> said point blank -- >> i understand that. where was your passion and concern when they all said no connection to russia. >> wiretapping trump tower -- >> hold on, making a point. it's interesting how when evidence comes out and people briefed on the russia connection come out and say there was nothing they've seen that proves connection, you choose not to cover that, don't stop the narrative, continue to perpetuate a false narrative. when he came out and said i see no evidence this happened, very possible. don't cover that part. let's go through what we do -- >> -- >> i'm trying to answer your question if you can calm down. "new york times" january 2017, in the final days obama administration expanded power of the national security agency to share -- with other intelligence agencies before applying privacy. relax long standing limits that the nsa can do. unregulated by wiretapping laws. when sarah carter reported by the start of the new year brought with it unexpected politicizing of the intelligence gathered in secret. and o

chairman nunez touched the hot stove and for some reason decided to stick his head in the oven. and you've seen chaos result in the house. it's nice to see the senate partly because of what happened to senator burr, and partly watching the disarray in the house, conduct a different investigation and they're committed to getting to the bottom of what they can. >> always good to have you, sir, thank you. >> thank you. >> thanks. >> death to repeal. the north carolina legislature voting on that repeal of the controversial bathroom bill. it has passed the upper chamber, passed the state senate a short time ago. while many gay advocates aren't happy about it. just a few moments away from white house press secretary sean spicer holding that daily briefing. ♪ let your reign begin. evony, the mobile game. download now. he's a nascar champion who's she's a world-class swimmer who's stared down the best in her sport. but for both of them, the most challenging opponent was... pe blood clots in my lung. it was really scary. a dvt in my leg. i had to learn all i could to help protect myself.

nu devin nunez is a former transition official of president trump's. the premise that that can be the foundation for a nonpartisan education. >> democrats will say, ah-ha. >> because of the fact who devin nunez was and how he behaved in the early stages of this administration. so, we're going to be moving forward like this. this is the ball game. this is literally what democrats and republicans want. democrats want to be out there every single day talking about how a real investigation isn't happening if they can push this into a special, you know, a special investigator, that would be a victory for them. but even having the conversation. >> a real banner week for democracy. >> a lot of people have been baffled as to why nunez has beenhaved the way he has the last few days. part of the explanation, not the whole explanation, which is a little hard to follow. part of the explanation is this is all partisan. everything here is partisan. the democrats are partisan and why are you blaming devin nunez for appearing to be partisan. there is an answer to your

if you look at what chairman nunez has done. they met to review classified investigation. that's how it is supposed to work. i understand that when things are leaked out in the media, that is a standard that is acceptable. they discuss classified information, that somehow that is wrong because it is not being leaked. he is conducting a review that we are supporting on both sides of the chambers. i think to start to prejudge where this thing is going, we have been as supportive as you know. and i think that let's let that process bear itself out. i have seen reports in the media that the nsa has documents they are supposedly trying to get to the house intelligence committee that have been requested. we think that is a great thing. but again, i think part of this all gets back to that there is a process. and i get that sometimes it is frustrating to us. we believe we want this over as much as, i think, some of you. we recognize there is a process that must take place. i know that senator burr and senator warner are talking about the process. some of these things take time. s

the president spokesman still refusing to reveal who cleared nunez in. >> i asked preliminary questions and have not got answers. >> reporter: information would be easy to obtain through visitor logs, dismissing growing calls to recuse himself, nunez is accusing democratic colleagues of stalling. the committee's leading democrat firing back calling for a postpone hearing with top officials to be rescheduled immediately tweeting what's the hold up. also tonight, a bipartisan group of ethics experts urging the independent office of congressional ethics to discuss whether nunez went too far disclosing classified information. >> i've seen intelligence reports that clearly show that the president elect and his team were, i guess, at least monitored. >> reporter: revealing secret details about surveillance of foreign targets. >> they should not be disclosing classified information and there is concern he did just that. >> reporter: nunez later backtracked. tonight, the senate's republican chair is declaring his independence from the white house despite supporting trump. >> i'll do something i

nunez has said a similar thing.e went on fox news and said that part of why he felt the need to rush over to the white house or intelligence or whatever you'll call it is because the president was taking a lot of heat in the news media, and i do think that it seems as if this week was more spectacle than substance. >> david, we have nunez back peddling and james comey saying there's no information to suggest a wiretap. is the path clear to focus solely on russia and possible trump connections now? >> you know, i don't think a path is cleared anywhere. i do think what we've got is a situation that really truly -- we don't have any new revelations here. we have known for a long time that american intelligence agencies doing their job monitor russian officials. we have known that trump administration officials despite their denials have had contact with some russian officials. we don't know the substance. we don't know what they talked about. they don't know what it was about. that's what the fbi is going to be looking

it's in the speaker's hands and he believes nunez should recuse or remove nunez as chairman of the committee, but at this point republicans are all standing behind devin nunez as there have been the series of investigations looking into russian medaling in the election. anything that may have been improper. he went to the white house grounds on tuesday and he wouldn't say who the source of his information was. a lot of speculation. he wouldn't rule out that it was somebody inside the white house who provided this information. the house speaker said he doesn't know where nunez got the information. this led us to where we are. there are a lot of questions about the credibility of the investigation on the house side. even republican senators are saying that there are questions that nunez should answer. lindsey graham and john mccain raising questions about where it is coming from. this is also underscoring that what we may learn about russian meddling, it is more likely to come from the senate side where they are proceeding and where there seems to be bipartisan cooperation. we'll will hear mor

. >> let me first ask you about chairman nunez. the head of the house intelligence committee. you were among the first that he briefed. what did he tell you? >> he had told me that, like a whistleblower type person, had given him some information that was new, that spoke to the last administration and part of this investigation. he briefed me about it. didn't know the content of it. only knew the nature of it and that he was going to brief others. >> did you ask to see the documents yourself is. >> he didn't have the documents so i didn't. >> did you encourage him to then go tell the president about it? >> no. but i told him just to add it to his investigation. >> you at no time said, whatever you find out you should probably tell president trump about it? >> he was going to brief everybody. i knew he was going to go and brief. so the -- what chairman nunez said is he came into possession of new information that he thought was valuable to this investigation and that he was going to go and inform people about it. >> but he hasn't. he hasn't even informed republicans on the comm

it was a big gamble for nunez. >> that's right, chris. with a federal investigation underway and the eyes of the nation focused on how the congress is handling this, the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee appearing to do an end run around established committee procedures raising new questions about the ability of this committee to conduct a fair and impartial investigation. >> house intelligence committee chairman stunning washington. >> it was important for the president to know this. >> rushing to the white house to warn president trump that communication involving members of his transition team may have been picked up through normal incidental surveillance. apparently all legally conducted. >> his name and people and others ended up into intelligence reports. most people would say that is surveillance. >> nunez himself a member of the president's transition team underfire for going to the media before briefing democratic members of the house intelligence committee. >> we can't have a presidential whisperer. >> the

there was no wiretapping of trump towers, that didn't happen >> nunez has said he's seen evidence of intercepted conversations. he also said nunez has not shared any of his evidence with him or other member office house intelligence community, >> created quite the rift between erving on the intel community. politics out of it. clearly doesn't look like it was. >> we've heard from both sides of the aisle, john mccaine said the way this is handled is absolutely bizarre. he believes there should be some sort of independent investigation. >>> it is a story you saw first right here on fox 5, two teenagers accused of raping a 9th grader in a rockville high school rest room. the case caught the attention of capitol hill and the white house. the suspects came to the u.s. illegally last year. both were caught and targeted for deportation hearings that never happened. fox reports on the case and the system that let them remain in the country. >> reporter: in tan exclusive tv interview with fox news, the defense attorney representing accused rockville high school rapistist henry sanchez said hi

at least two of the how manies are calling for nunez to step down. >> chairman nunez is falling down on the job and seems to be more interested in protecting the president than in seeking the truth. >> reporter: nunez said monday the source of his information is an intelligence official. >> tonight president trump tweeted the house intelligence committee should look into the clinton's dealings with russia. he also called the trump russia story a hoax. >>> some are calling it leggings-gate, but united airlines says sorry, it's policy. >> three girls flying on employee travel passes are stopped from boarding a plane because they were not following the company's dress code. is the policy outdated or should the bar be set higher? >> plus going to a phillies game is about to get tastier. the spin they're putting on a ballpark classic. the hot dog. kate? >> and we are warming up as we head through the overnight hours into tomorrow but we are going to be tracking storms as they move through our area. i'll tell you just how warm it will get and when the sun finally returns. >> also the late

don, i like chairman nunez. i worked well with him in the past.but for the independence and credibility of this investigation he should recuse himself. the republican also is calling for that this evening. a lot of what we do doesn't involve russia and for him to be the chairman of the committee, i think italy also serves us well if he steps aside for the russian investigation. let's talk about the canceled testimony the former acting general, sally yates. they say they did not communicate about her testimony and they still want to hear from her. so why did the chairman cancel that hearing? >> we were supposed to be -- i should be here reporting what we yates heard from yates, brennan. that was supposed to be a continuation of the public hearing we had. no reason was given but we know sally yates had sought to testify, wanted to make sure the white house wasn't going to privilege and the white house never got back to her. a letter urged her to be cautious about what she said thp pis is what this is what you do when you don't want information in th

. >> meantime looking to head are hang onto his job is republican devon nunez. many democrats calling for his recusal after it was revealed that nunez secretly on the white house clouds after being showed surveillance on president trump's surveillance team. >> we go to the executive branch once or twice a week, not unusual. >> there is more questions after nunez canceled a hearing on russia where former attorney general sally yates was set to give testimony. >> what you see is behavior that is consistent with the cover-up. >> fired and the white house is denying the latest allegations reported by the washington post suggesting that administration was also trying to keep the former a gfrom testifying. >> the report in the washington post is 100% false. they specifically say if you don't respond we will go ahead and we didn't respond and we concerninged them to go ahead. >> house speaker ryan sees no reason to recuse themselves from the probe and senator mccain says congressman nunez has explaining to do. joe waldman fox news. >>> governor brown says abandoning pr

one, nunez is so far over his head, he has no idea what's going on here. you watched the interviews here, deer in the headlights. different stories and different people. this guy has no idea what he is doing. second point, donald trump is on more tapes with international figures. what's that about? who are they? it's just like the idea that this is something exculpatory for the white house, the whole thing is so bizarre. obviously completely unresolved. >> you heard ranking member schiff rip apart claims based on what the chairman told him. the need for an independent commission, where does it go from here? >> i find the commission hard to believe at this stage. and the investigation in the senate. i don't think that will stop democra democrats. he was at that hearing talking about it to you. at the end of the hearing with jim comey, he was the one. this ally of the trump white house said you put a great cloud over this white house. it was clear that his goal was to run down to the white house. he is under from the white house and what do you assess the cr

the information that nunez asked for in terms of surveillance and unmasking. the fbi has also been asked for that information and so far has not been forthcoming. as to flynn, if he ever gets up there and testifies on capitol hill, i'm sure we're going to learn a lot. tom. tom: that would be great. thank you. john roberts at the white house tonight. thank you, john. meanwhile president trump today signing two executive orders to reduce the trade deficit just days before holding his first meeting with the chinese counterpart. the first order gives the commerce department 90 days to write a report on what drives the trade deficit and the second one tightens import rules to ensure that the u.s. is collecting the duties that have been slapped against trading partners. now, the president today saying he's seen how bad trade deals can hurt american people. >> trust me the jobs in wealth have been stripped from our country. thousands of factors have been stolen bringing manufacturing and jobs be back to our country. tom: joining me now to discuss the trump agenda, th

i'll quote devin nunez. he said, i don't believe based on the people they spoke with, he said, i don't believe there was an actual tap at trump tower. those are devin nunez's exact words. now, what sean spicer continued to point to at that briefing was the comment that said, nunez said is it fobl trump communications could have incidentally been swept up by surveillance? nunez said possibly, we're going to look into it. he didn't say definitively, he didn't go as far as president trump did in his tweet obama ordered wiretaps of trump tower. nowhere near that has the house intelligence committee has gone, and speaker ryan today when i asked him, do you believe president trump, when he said that trump tower was wiretapped, he said no. he said that i don't believe any such wiretap exists. and also today, jake, adam schiff, the top democrat on the house intelligence committee, told me that he expects james comey to say at a monday public hearing that trump tower was not wiretapped. and schiff himself has had con

you were saying this before nunez said this.suggest that there is much more to look into in this area? >> indeed there is. when you have the transition from one administration to another, all of the intelligence gathering continues and people for the first time are looking at some of this top secret code word stuff and so, yes, it need to be investigated, but the core here is the russian connection and that has got to be investigated. as you point out, this is running off the cliff because the investigation in the house intelligence committee, they can't even agree on sharing information. so they have a big problem. >> they do. elise jordan -- bob woodward, first of all, thank you for being with us. >> thanks. >> glad we were able to clear that up. elise jordan, i've been hearing bob for about a month now sort of poking away at this, what we have been talking about the russians and we have been talking about the obama tweet and we have been talking about nunez. bob woodward continually keeps going back to the fact that the intel

the same day republican committee chair devon nunez cancelled the hearing. >> we have no problem with her testifying. to suggest in anyway, shape or form that we stood in the way of that is 100 percent false. >> reporter: controversy a meetn white house ground last week only added to democratic belief that is nunez cannot lead an impartial investigation. >> this is what cover up behavior looks like. >> reporter: still, nunez insist he won't step down. >> are you going to stay as chairman and run this investigation? >> why would i not? >> reporter: house speaker paul ryan istandg by nunez at least one republican, north carolina representative walter jones is demanding he recues himself, jones is calling for an independente russian interfen the u.s. election. hanna daniels for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> well, more than 100,000 people have signed a petition urging first ladyo the white hor at very lead flip bill for security cost to trump tower. change.org petition was started after a senior white house aid indicated president 's wife and son baron will remain in new york until school

is this a legitimate lawsuit gq >> vindicated by chairman nunez? >> i somewhat do.fact they found what they found. i somewhat do. abby: a brand-new smoking gun that could prove president trump did in fact tie -- president obama did in fact spy on team trump. the political panel weighing in on this moment. abby: the firefighter who went above and beyond to save a dog. affirmative. we have large quantities of excitement. goodbye. ♪ thrivent mutual funds. managed by humans, not robots. before investing, carefully read and consider fund objectives, risks, charges and expenses in the prospectus at thriventfunds.com. abby: welcome back to "fox and friends" first. bill diblasio, ducking out of the press conference after a judge ruled he must turn over emails with his closest advisers. >> what are you afraid of? abby: the emails between the mayor and jonathan rosen may show confidence of interest, clients with business before the mayor's office, they plan to appeal that ruling. a second florida va hospital, staff ignoring a national directive. days ago the va put up a portr