the white house danced around a report in the "new york times" that two white house officials provided information to house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes, intended to bolster president trump's claim he was wire tapped by former president obama. >> i'm not commenting on the reports, not getting into it. >> reporter: the white house press secretary sean spicer revealed the administration sent a letter to the intelligence committees offering what the west wing sees as helpful details. >> we have sent a letter within the past few hours to both of those committees that there was surveillance that occurred during the 2016 election that was improper and that we want people to look into this. >> reporter: just last week spicer pushed back on the notion white house officials would be involved in assisting nunes when he made the mysterious trip on the white house grounds. >> it doesn't seem to make a ton of sense, so i'm not aware of it but it doesn't really pass the smell test. >> reporter: spicer was pressed on those comments today. >> i was very clear that i said based on what c

now the white house flat out denies this, 100% denies. ays it did not stand in the way of sally yates testifying. have you seen any evidence that the white house got involved? >> well, it depends on whether you call the department of justice part of the white house. i believe the department of justice was trying to silence her. >> well, but -- >> they wrote -- they wrote a left saying that you need to check with the white house essentially to see if the white house is going to invoke executive privilege. the white house didn't do that, so as far as i can tell by reading the letters, i'm not sure that anyone tried to actively stop it. >> well, i believe that there probably was an effort that is not reflected in the letters. i don't know that for a fact, but i -- i believe that there probably was an effort to discourage her from participating, but, you've got to the remember, that this was an agreement made by both the republicans and democrats of the committee to have these three parties come before us today, so it was a cooperative effort,

the white house is refusing to say who signed him on to the white house grounds. is that problematic? >> it is for a couple reasons. one, we have to acknowledge we're going to find out who signed him into the white house. it might not happen tonight. look, it's washington. nobody keeps secrets in washington anymore. especially when you're a political official. why it's problematic is just the appearance of it looks like they're trying to hide something. they don't want to give up information. this has been their problem all along. with every turn and development in this russia investigation, the white house has not been forthright or willing to work with the jury present of justice or with capitol hill, specifically the democrats. they have not been as forthcoming as they should have been. >> do you think we'll figure out who let him onto the white house grounds? do you think we'll get answers? >> eventually. there was a lot of speculation about working for nunes who went to work at the white house on national security matters and so he would seem to be a natural s

also tonight the ranking democratic in the house intelligence committee has a ve skeptical tonight to this new white house offered a review documents. once again as we just heard congressman adam schiff speaking out about ttnd his very tense meeting today with the committee chairman devin nunes. let's go to our reporter on the hill. what did we hear from congressman schiff. >> reporter: mr. schiff's raising questions about how the national security council staff apparently was the source of this information, at least helped devin nunes get access to this infortion at the same time as they came across this information, the quote ordinary coursef business and now is allowing mr. schiff and other leaders of the senate and house intelligence committee to review this information at the earliest date. if this is coming forward now, does that mean that this was the same information that you provided to mr. nunes in that privacy briefing that he had before briefing the president of the united states on the surveillance information suggesting the president may have been iidentally collected the communication

and for the white house to say this is all a media creation. the president put russian salad dressing on his salad -- which is a clever line. michael flynn lost his job. >> the white house has said all along there is nothing there. i would point out that a midnight run to the white house that puzzles republicans and democrats alike by our chairm that doestant -- that's not a republican or democrat thing to do. and there's an active fbi investigation underway. that is not a partisan thing. >> has your work ground to a halt? >> the veinvestigation certainl has ground to a halt. we ordinarily have a meeting when we come back. that was canceled. and the word in the committee is now that we will not get together as a committee. we're charge would oversight of profoundly important and potentially scary things. we're apparently not going to do anything until this closed door meeting occurs. >> any idea when that's going to happ happen? >> no. >> how deep do former campaign manafort's ties to russia go? grown man now. i don't want to pry... dad. but hav

that came from the white house in the first place. have three named white house officials named who may have been involved in that. "the wall street journal" broke the story that mike flynn has covered to testify on this subject if he's granted immunity from criminal prosecution. if you're a member of the intelligence communities conducting these investigations right now, how do you deal with a news day like today? not a rhetorical question. jim heinz, congressman from connecticut joins us now. thanks for being with us. we really appreciate it. >> hi, rachel. >> a lot to deal with. a lot on your plate right now. what can you tell us about general flynn reportedly offering to testify in exchange for immunity? >> well, interestingly when i last checked in which was a couple hours ago, actually nobody on the intelligence committee had received a communication from general flynn. we'll need to wait to see if that comes in. and then of course what we're going to need to think about is it is true that congress or a congressional committee c

is he too close to the white house, even as committee chairman? is he doing too much, they ask, in the course of my reporting to engage with white house people, white house personnel in pursuit of information. >> julie pace, my clue tonight that this had gotten too much even for the most loyal trump surrogates was when jack kingston, the former member of congress from georgia, said on cable

people at the white house who had access to the secure intelligence information. nunes is close with top people in the white house. he's close with president trump. he shares the belief there's a deep state that's angling against president trump. he believes people are leaking from president trump from the intelligence community. this is his position as chairman of the intelligence committee, so he's working with a lot of different people within that community to try to get information, figure out more. some of his sources are within the white house, and that raises flags for his critics. is he too close to the white house, even as committee chairman? is he doing too much, they ask, in the course of my reporting to engage with white house people, white house personnel in pursuit of information. >> julie pace, my clue tonight that this had gotten too much even for the most loyal trump surrogates was when jack kingston, the former member of congress from georgia, said on cable tonight, quote, i don't think they're organized enough to orchestrate this. in effect calli

we believe from the east side of the white house. he made it all the way up to the south portico entrance which if you're looking where i am, i'm on the north side of the white house. it would be on the complete opposite end. this is a well-known entrance into the white house. this is where the president would exit and enter if he were leaving on a trip to get on marine one. it's also a place where presidents often greet guests that come to the white house through that entrance. it's also very close to the white house residence where president trump was at the time that this man was arrested. we're told the man did have a backpack with him. we don't know the contents of that backpack. we also don't know what his motivation was. the white house was put on a orange level security which is one of the highest security levels that the white house can go to. but after the man was apprehended and the grounds were searched, the security situation was put back to normal. i can tell you i've been here since about 9:00 this morning and there was

this happened at the white house and according to "the times," if it's two white house officials, includingnior director on the national security council, how would the white house not know and not have the information to at least pass along some of it to the public? >> yeah. look, all i can tell you, i worked in the white house for four years and a lot of people come in and out and that's part of the process. i don't think we should assume that's anything inappropriate with those meetings. all of this information in the end is going to come out in these investigations and if anybody did something untoward or inappropriate, we're going to find out. i think the bigger question is for chairman nunes is clearly the person or people he talked to, they demanded to have as much confidentiality as they can in order to pass over the information that's often called a whistle blower who does that. i don't know if that's the case in this situation but it has all of the appearances of that. >> mr. ambassador, as an ethnics czar, let's say there was nothing nefarious or maybe with regard to what happene

does the white house know what can happen? we have issues that someone from the branch shared information from the white house grounds. or someone on the white house staff to provide the information. >> so i obviously all of what i know has been available through public comments. >> i know they confirmed he was on the white house grounds tuesday. i have seen the kmnts about who he met with. i would refer you to his comment it is a he's made. i'm not going to get into who he met with or why he met with them. that's something that it he has been very clear and i'll let him answer. he is the one who has discussed what he is reviewing and so i will leave it up to him and not try to get in the middle of that. >> i'm asking a different question. does the white house know what happened beyond public accounts and are you satisfied you don't have a leak in the executive branch? >> we're not concerned about that. i know he's -- again, everything i know about what he has done is through public reports that he's made on the record. as part

number one, the white house did not stand in the way of the white house testifying. irman of the committee, and you have said that. i checked with devin nunes' office. they said they had no communications with the white house about cancelling it. seems to me she'd have a tough time testifying because here was a woman who he wwas a prosecuto. she was looking into the russian wiretap. she apparently knew about general flynn's conversation with the russians, and now she's a witness. i don't exactly see how she shifts gears and wears two different hats. >> what sort of wiretap was she looking to? >> i don't know, but she felt like flynn had been compromised, so she had that information from some source. then there's -- >> would that make her a more credible witness if she has all this knowledge of the investigation? >> i don't know because i don't know how you switch between, hey, i'm on your team to now i'm just a bystanding witness. we have to remember this is a very political set of hearings, so i just think she would be a very -- an interesting witness to put it mildl

the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee reveals he met with a source inside the white house complex just a day before briefing the president on intelligence he says points to surveillance of the trump transition team. did anyone on president trump's staff know what was going on just steps from the oval office? what classified information was disclosed? we're standing by to talk to chairman devin nunes who will be joining us live. >>> kushner to testify. the leaders of the senate intelligence committee now say president trump's son-in-law jared kushner, one of the president's closest advisers, will testify about newly disclosed meetings he had with a russian diplomat and a controversial russian banker. he'll answer questions as part of the senate investigation into senate meddling in the presidential election. tonight, new questions about why these meetings were not revealed until now. >>> changing the subject. still smarting from from his defeat on health care president trump gets busy with bill signings, business roundtables and promises of tax reform, but after his s

what's going on between the white house and which elements of the white house and the speaker. >> on service, the relationship is cordial and professional between the white house and the speaker. the president had a 4:00 call today with speaker ryan. there are a lot of forces. we talk about the freedom causes and congress. my colleague really zoned in tonight of the populist. >> all the different people that we detail in our article tonight are telling the white house and trump himself to back away. >> ali velshi, is the head lain of this plan we know it is dead and that's the effort to name it ryan care on its way to the grave. >> it is interesting how this did not play well. the white house thought it would go over better with conservatives. the problem is healthcare is something that you have to think about ideologically. either you believe everybody should have healthcare and every developing nation in the world would believe. >> or, you believe that it is a market made system. you pay for your healthcare and if you cannot afford it, too bad because it is not all right. you are st

adam schiff is the lead democrat on the house intelligence committee. received an he invitation of the white house to review the classified documents. congressman schiff has criticized the intelligence committee chair, devin nunes, for discussing the documents with the media before showing them to democrats on the committee. the news briefing is 20 minutes. rep. schiff: good afternoon. this afternoon, i received a letter from white house counsel inviting me to review materials at the white house that pertain to the issue of incidental collection. the letter asked that the committee look into whether these materials were properly gathered, whether they were properly masked or unmasked and properly disseminated, all matters which are within the course of duties of the committee. we have sent the white house a reply. i'm more than willing to come to the white house at the earliest opportunity to review the materials. i did make clear in my letter, however, that it will be ultimately necessary to share these materials with the full committee and we will need their cooperation as well to work wit

when he came to the white house the first time? if that's the case or if that's not the case, is it your position that the white house is not going to look into where he got the information from or who gave him the information until his investigation is complete? >> i think that -- i'm not aware of where he got it from. i know in his public statement, he talked about having multiple sources. so i don't know how he derived the conclusion that he did. i think that at this point, the goal would be to wait until the review that he is undertaking is complete. >> why would nunes need to brief the president on documents he viewed on white house grounds? >> that's a big assumption that you're making, that that's the on thing. as i said a second ago, he had multiple sources on multiple topics. we don't know what he briefed him on in totality. to jump to that conclusion is irresponsible. >> when will the white house resume releasing visitor logs? >> we are reviewing that now. alexis? >> just to follow up. last week you were in the press corps

are the white house, if you disagree with the the white house, but if you put yourself in their shoes, why would you want sally yates to testify? she's not going to say anything that is going to be helpful. so that is -- that is taking a look at what would be happening. but also looking at what -- let's take a look at what sean spicer said. he sort of blew this off. like oh, the hearing wasn't notified. actually, yes, the hearing was notified. he said this is 100 % false. it's not. it is well reported out. so just his defense of this. and then the other thing is we've seen manu raju, senior congressional reporter here at cnn asking nunes about the cancellation of this hearing, what happened, and was this something you did at the behest of the white house. come on, guys, is what nunes said and blew it off. there's no denial coming from nunes ats that what's happened. >> how do you see it? >> well, where is this going? he said today when he said that the post piece was 100% false, he talked about what those letters meant and that the white house technically did not evoke executive privi

the white house didn't object. so it sounds like the "washington post" article is dead wrong. >> that's incorrect because the nonresponse from the justice department from the white house came on monday. nunes had arranged for the hearing to be canceled last week, so there was nothing for them to cancel. >> because the hearing was already canceled, you think this was just the white house playing the yates. >> if they hadn't canceled, she would have testified today. as that he say in the law, the thing speaks for itself. if she were testifying today, they wouldn't have canceled it. the fact she didn't, means they did. >> i buy that. that's persuasive. all right, what is it that they want from sally yates? >> it's about 17 days, greta. the days between the time that she warned white house counsel who then turned around and told the president that mike flynn had been talking to the ruggen ambassador about sapgss, the time between that date and february 13th. what happened or was fired i should say. what happened during

someone that works in the white house, no one else in washington. not someone that works with the cia or dni. only someone at the white house, it's clear, although he doesn't want to admit it yet, whatever information he has, he got from the white house. >> that's right. >> the whole thing is a little of a farce. this is one of the most incompetent coverups in history. it's almost silly. >> all right. robert costa and matthew miller. thanks, for making time. >> thank you. >> up next, congress woman maxine waters. she called the russia-trump investigations to be taken outs of that house intelligence committee weeks before the currently unfolding nunes debacle. she joins me to talk about that and why hillary clinton is coming to her defense after an attack from fox news after this two-minute break. >> i think we have to do everything that we possibly can, to take the investigations out of the house and even out of the >> i think we have to do everything that we possibly can, to take the investigations out of the house and even out of the senate. even t

is doing that need to be answered and i have asked the white house their assistance in answering those questions as well. the third point i want to make, to what will be necessary to answer the questions the white house has us to look at in terms of will look res, we into that. we want to find out also if, in these are the same materials or a subset of provided to lier he chairman why that secureittous method, to use a diplomatic term, was provided to the committee. finally, i want to make one issue will l, this not distract us from doing our russian investigation. if that is the object, we will be successful. we are going to look into everything the russians did to we are e our election, not going to be deterred or distracted. important and part of our ordinary oversight and we will oversee them. we will get to the bottom of just what the russians did and how they did and whether there or any coordination collusion with u.s. persons, including those associated with the trump campaign. going to go on regardless, and i'm happy to your questions. >> ca

was housed in the white house. according to a bloomberg report, he met with a source in the intelligence community and personally a white house staff member to view records that were only on the system of the executive branch. now, questions have been raised as to why he couldn't see this information up there on capitol hill. one reason is because this was on white house commuters, the executive branch computers and not transferrable to congressional computers. also according to a states spokesman for congressman nunes, the information comprised of executive branch documents that have not been provided to congress because of classification rules. the source couldn't put documents in a backpack and walk them over to the house intelligence community space. the white house was the best place to keep chain of command so the chairman could review them in a legal way. what is interesting about this and the question i raised at the white house press briefing today to sean spicer is that the white house was looking for some

. >> we got some guidance from the white house earlier about a meeting on the white house grounds. i wanted to ask you a slightly different question, which is does the white house know now whatever happened? do we have issues with the idea that perhaps someone in the executive branch shared information on the white house grounds without you knowing about it, are you investigating this? do you believe it was a leak? or was it perhaps someone on the white house staff who provided the information and therefore it's not a leak? >> obviously all of what i know has been available through public comments. i know that chairman nunes has confirmed he was on white house grounds tuesday, and frankly any questions regarding who he met with or why he was here should be referred to him. i've seen some of the comments he's made to your outlet in particular about who he met with, and i would refer you to his comments that he's made. i'm not going to get into who he met with or why he met with them. i think that's something that he has made very clear and i'll let him answer it. he is the one who ha

who granted nunes access on to the white house grounds. who led him into the secure room at the e reob and who accessed e computer system to view the vials. white house press secretary, sean spicer, not providing answers. >> i'll be glad to check on that. i'm not sure that that's how that works, but i'll follow up on that point >> reporter: nunes still hasn't shared the information with committee members and democrats are questioning nunes' ability to be impartial. >> without further ado, speaker ryan should replace chairman nunes. >> reporter: house speaker paul ryan, standing by the chair. speaker ryan has full confidence that chairman nunes is conducting a thorough, fair, and credible investigation. this as president trump's son-in-law and top adviser, jared kushner has agreed to face members of the senate intelligence committee, as new information emerges about his meeting with prominent russians. the white house previously disclosed kushner's december meeting at trump tower, with russian ambassador, sergey kislyak. now the white house

, they have to go through the secret service. and those white house visitor logs while they are maintained by the secret service, it is the white house who basically keep the keys to the castle here, they are the one who is can decide whether or not this information is going to be made public, and as we have been saying all week, the obama administration made these visitor logs public, you wouldn't be able to search this information in real time, but you would be able to go back and look at that information later on. the trump administration is just not doing that. >> now on today's hearing on the senate intelligence committee and how sharply different it appeared, in terms of everyone surrounding the house committee. for that let's go book to the hill and cnn's jessica snyder, what details did the senate lay out about their investigations because their meetings are going to be behind closed doors? >> reporter: they are, anderson, but the intelligence committee moving full steam ahead on this, the chairman saying he has a full staff already knee deep

the sudden willingness by the white house to share classified information beyond the sneak preview giveno a republican committee chairman. let's begin with our senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny. what is t latest? lay it out for us. >> reporter: wolf, you increasingly need a timeline to keep track of all of these developments. now, it was nine days ago this afternoon that the republican chairman came over re to the white house to look at that classified information. of course, we didn't realize he was here for several days. the white house said, in fact, he wasn't. now the white house today is opening its doors to the oth leaders of the intelligence committee, saying the too should come over and look at some type of classified information. but that has democrats tonight wondering if it is just another distraction. under fire, the white house abruptly changing crse today, inviting republican and democrat leaders of intelligence committees to view classified material as part of the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. >> we have and will invite the senate

>> first it was the sort of dead of night meeting at the white house and then the returning to the white house with whatever information he got at the white house. but more than that, to the degree that what he's claiming now goes to weather there was incidental collection on members of the transition team, that's a different issue than we were looking at before. particularly if he says this doesn't involve the russian involvement in the transition team. so in those two areas i think it makes sense for him to recuse himself. >> reporter: and, anderson, you notice the relevant question is that congressman nunes was on the transition team, and we have been hearing from the ranking members and adam schiff moving forward on it. and this idea that what the chairman has uncovered, what the chairman only knows himself actually ties him into this because of his role in the trump transition and so what adam schiff is asking for is not just that congressman nunes removes himself just from the russian investigation, but everything he has concerns about, the trump unmasking because of the trump san

but if you have a chairman who is interacting with the white house and sharing information with the white house when people around the white house are the subject of the investigation, and doing so before sharing it with the committee, it may -- it throws a profound doubt over whether that can be done credibly. >> did chairman nunes reveal any classified information today? >> well, it certainly -- it certainly inappropriate for us to be discussing whether specific people were the subject of collection or incidental collection to any degree that can divulge who the targets of that surveillance may be. so i'm not prepared to say that what the chairman said was classified or unclassified. i can say that it is beyond irregular to receive any evidence that's within the scope of an investigation and clearly if the chairman is right about the content here, it's within the scope of the issues we're looking at whether masking procedures are followed and whether things are being leaked. and i -- i would say that the most profound concern here i have is that these actions simply raise enormous doubt

how and when did the white house encourage her to testify? >> the letter that her attorney sent literally says, that if we do not receive a response by march 27th at 10:00 a.m., i will conclude that the white house does not assert executive privilege over the matters with respect to hearings or otherwise. i don't think you can be any clearer than that. >> and so you're saying executive privilege does not -- >> i'm not saying anything. i'm literally -- that's what she wrote, the action was, if you don't act we will assume the following. great. i don't think that you can read that any other way. it was very -- she's i'm sure a very talented -- he is a very talented lawyer and wrote it specifically for her. we read it that way and chose not to act because we have no problem with her testifying. >> executive privilege is not an issue for sally yates, would not have been an issue for sally yates' testifying. >> that's correct. >> you want to add? >> you're -- i don't, it's interesting. this is very clearly worded and yet somehow you're asking me ho

the white house's response? >> it doesn't seem to make a ton of sense. >> yesterday, march 30th, the new york times reported two white house officials played a role in providing chairman nunes with the evidence he is describing. within minutes of that report hitting, the white house invited the highest ranking members of the house and senate to view news classified materials recording the 2016 election. let's discuss with this norm eisen and former george w. bush vice other. gentlemen, what did the president know and when did he know it? when did the white house know it? why is it relevant? >> good morning. thanks for having me. the questions about the president matter because since the russia scandal broke, during the campaign, my bipartisan colleague, professor payne and i said donald trump has a disturbing mystery at the middle of his finances. he denies russian financial connections, but his son before mr. trump ran for president said, they see a lot of russia money in their businesses and russia is very impo

back to the white house grounds, this time to the actual white house to talk to the president about this material. all before he's spoken to democrats. now, when he does get on the phone or has a conversation with adam schiff, the ranking member, a democrat, he tells adam schiff, sorry, you can't see this information. i have to protect my source. so then they say to the intelligence communities, the fbi, the nsa, please produce this information in another way. i think it's important to note one thing that nunes said in the press conference on wednesday, was that fbi director comey, he was apparently unhappy with fbi director comey, while he was pleased with what the nsa did, i think that may help us figure out exactly where this information came from. but at this point again, nunes has raised more questions than he's answered here, chris. >> and you already have paul ryan not in the best situation because, obviously, he's still dealing with where do we go from here on the health care debacle. you've got to wonder now if there is going to be more pressure on him to do something about devi

they're very tight lipped into how they secure the white house and the way they secure the white housemes out. we are still working those sources trying to get all that specific information. just to give you an idea of the white house grounds where we are and how far this suspect made it on to the grounds, i'm standing here and right behind me is the north portico entrance or if you're here as a tourist, this is where you come down pennsylvania avenue. if you're taking a tour, this is where you'd exit from. the south portico is on the complete opposite end f. you're at the washington monument for instance and looking back over the ellipse towards the white house, the south portico entrance you'd be able to see from there. when we talk about the east side of the white house which is where we believe the suspect was ail to gain entrance, that's the area by the visitor center. if you were coming here on a tour, you'd enter on that side of the white house. imagine if you've ever been on the grounds here, 16 acres, there's quite a bit of distance between the fencing and before you can actua

she went and warned the white house council that mike flynn did not tell the truth and in turn, the white house did not tell the truth about that. the white house's answer when they were confronted with that -- and remember they didn't do anything, they kept him on board, and their answer was that she came and gave us a heads up, she didn't make clear what was being investigated, and i think when you look at these letters, it is clear they will contradict what the white house said. >> as someone that has been in the white house for a long time, are you excited about what you're seeing in the white house intelligence meeting. >> i'm surprised that chairman nunez is acting in such a partisan matter. they have skirmishes, but we see it time and time again. the other thing that surprises me is how enempt it has been. it makes it of he was just trying to get out of it. you can't get in, it's like a comedy act. >> i think it is very tough for chairman new tez to try to continue to lead this investigation. technically he can continue to lead it as long as his colleagues support him. it has to be

otherwise long-term effects are negative towards you, the white house and the president. o come out with anything, you've got to back it up in facts. i think that's important for people to realize moving forward in this white house. when you have the approval numbers where they are this morning, there's one underlying issue here. there's some people starting to believe this has gotten too far, this is my opinion instead of factual. let's also be clear. there have been many much harder on this white house and pushing the fact they cannot stand donald trump by attacking him every chance they get. that's a double standard. there's a lot of people who didn't push near as hard as they are pushing every day on donald trump as they did on the president. i just remember one issue you had come out and say in benghazi a youtube video that caused an attack. there wasn't near this kind of pushback. that was an international incident on 9/11. you have a double standard. >> months and months and months of coverage on that. you had multiple hearings. >> the media was covering it instead

he did tell cnn he was not at the white house itself and no one in the white house was aware he was there. the purpose of his visit, he said, was to quote confirm what he already knew. it was a disclosure that put the white house on its heels today, namely, who at the white house cleared him for his visit? >> clarification on your answer to margaret, you saidian that members of congress have to get cleared in. there is some question about that. who in the white house signed him in. >> i don't know -- i will check on that and not sure that's how that works but i will follow up on that point. >> reporter: we followed up on that point and members of congress do have to be cleared onto white house property. it seems someone in the white house knew devin nunes was there. who that is remains a mystery at least for now. >> randy joins us. fascinating to see that long timeline. congressman nunes speak out this evening. what did he say about who led him into the white house grounds. >> as you know, he was asked directly who cleared him onto the white house grounds and he refused to say about the p

why doesn't donald trump get it from the white house? the idea of using nunes is a cut-out to supposedly exonerate trump da-- by the way, another s aspect of the story, this doesn't exonerate the white house. this is the spin they are putting on it. it shows more evidence of how nunes is in way over his head and is not capable of running this investigation. shouldn't be involved and they should get another republican in there to work with adam schiff, the democratic leader or better yet, give this investigation to an independent investigator. they don't appear to do that. >> jeff, if they picked up other information, incidental to the wiretap, that is above board. >> that happens all the time. >> not if the names are unmasked. they saw something very troubling, devin nunes claims, that maybe names were revealed. that is what he thought he needed to alert. >> if names revealed in the documents, that would not be surprising. when let's say the nsa taps the russian government in the united states which is what the nsa does. sometimes the rus

we have and will invite the senate and house ranking members and chairman up to the white house to viewin accordance with their schedule. >> the house intel ranking member adam schiff saying today that he accepts the white house's invitation. >> if they're ready tomorrow, i'm ready to go tomorrow. the letter that i got from white house council certainly raises far more questions than any it answers. highly concerning to me that on the same day that this "new york times" story reports, and i don't know whether the "new york times" sources are accurate about whether the two people mentioned in that story, but the fact sean spicer yesterday had no idea who may have been involved in that review by the chairman. today they suddenly do. >> with me margaret carlson, e.j. di on, and bill crystal founder and editor of the weekly standard. margaret, i guess there's a best and worst case scenario for nunes and the white house, best case is this is sort of keystone cops and really bungled this and made us all suspicious. worst case scenario is what? >> well, that, you know, nunes sussed out a tweet

or on the white house grounds, that he later returned to the white house. in my view, there is not legitimate reason to withhold that from the committee. that is charged with the responsibility of overseeing these issues. there is nothing normal about what has taken place over the last week. it's certainly not normal to go and receive information that as the chairman of a committee you can share with your own committee members but you go and share with the president particularly if the investigation involves associates of the president. as far as i know none of the committee members have seen it. it's not just an unwillingness to share with the democrats. none of the republicans nor democrats have seen the information he was referring to. >> according to the "washington post" after taking a brief phone call congressman nunes swapped cars and slipped away from his staff, congressional officials said. the post goes on to report it's in that stretch of time when the chairman appears to have reviewed the classified intelligence files, files that were brought to

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 surrogate for the president. but he can't do

perha perhaps. >> it's not just within the white house, it's within the property and within the white house. many layers is my bottom line. which this person was able to bypass. >> exactly and as ryan said, we are getting our first look here at this police report from metropolitian police department and it gives a narrative to what happened. as ryan was saying, the person is reported to have said no, i'm a friend of the president. i have an appointment. and this officer asked him how he got there and the suspect said, i jumped the fence. the interesting part about this, is he was not seen jumping the fence. he simply bumped into by an officer on the south side of the white house. and this police report confirms for the first time that white house security footage shows that the suspect jumped the northwest courtyard fence o the treasury building adjacent to the white house, so this is confirming what our sources were telling us and cnn is reporting more so many morning, they h he jumped the fence between the treasury building and the white house kind of all part of the complex, but th

this is something the white house is denying. this is what sean spicer said about this yesterday. >> on the 24th, she sent a letter to the white house counsel specifically stating if they did not receive a response by march 27th at 10:00 a.m. they would assume the white house does not assert privilege other this matter. >> now, the white house says they are looking into a to be determined if if it actually happens things will grind to a halt. the senate investigation still continuing. we may get an update on what their next steps are at that press conference later today. back to you guys. >> all right. sara murray at the white house. joining us now is mike kwigly of illinois. congressman, your committee has canceled public hearing this week, private hearings this week. you have even cancelled your regular meetings. as it stands right now, 9 pn 03 a.m. on the east coast, is there a house intelligence investigation into trump ties to russia? >> there is. at this point in time, it is time for the chairman to take a step back, reasses

it was a disclosure that put the white house on its heels today, namely who at the white house cleared him for his visit. >> you said i don't know the members of congress have to get cleared in there. who in the white house signed him in essentially? >> i don't know that -- i'll be glad to check on that. i'm not sure that's how that works, but i will follow up on that point. >> reporter: we floridaed up on that point, and members of congress do have to be cleared onto white house property. so it seems someone in the white house knew devin nunes was there. who that is remains a mystery, at least for now. >> randy, joins us. i mean it's fascinating to see that long time line. congressman nunes spoke out this evening. what did he say about who led him onto the white house grounds? >> he was asked directly who cleared him onto the white house grounds, and he refused to say. we do know, anderson, that he would have needed a white house staffer to actually clear him to get through that ground. even throw he's not giving out a name, that is how the process wurkz. this is not some big secret o

but all of these deflective actions by the white house, in the form of the white house, in the form ofnes, are about abetting a cover-up and trying to keep the american people from understanding what the connections are or might not be, between donald trump and the russians. between his campaign and the russians. between his -- let me finish, please, jeffrey. between the campaign and the russians and between his associates and the russians. we are seeing impediments thrown out by the white house and by republicans on capitol hill, almost every day here, particularly in the house, to keep the truth from being known wherever it goes. this is an extraordinary situation. and the important thing is, that the leaders of the counterintelligence investigation inti tby the fbi, and other agencies, understand there's a cover-up going on. >> we have to take a quick break. we're going to continue this discussion. we're monitoring what director comey says tonight in case he makes news. we'll talk about that and more. i noticed it as soon as we moved into the new house. ♪ a lot of people have vertic

according to the "washington post," the white house then sought to block their testimony but the white house denies this. meanwhile, nunes is also continuing to face criticism over his actions last week when he traveled to the white house to personally brief president trump on allegations that he'd seen evidence e at u.s. intelligence may have incidentally swept up communications by trump's transition team after the november election. nunes, whoho served on trump's transition team, later revealed the evidence he saw was shown to him on the white house grounds the night before by a source he has refused to identify. no democrats on the house intel -- intelligence committee have seen the evidence. meanwhile, the senate intelligence committee is preparing to question jared kushner, president trump's son-in-law and a close adviser, about a previously undisclosed meeting he had with the head of a state-run russian bank currently under u.s. sanctions. on tuesday, white house press secretary sean spicer defended the administration's actions duduring a heated exchanange wih april ryan of ameri

the obama white house where i worked, enforced this rule and the bush white house held that nepotism law and it did apply to the white house. the better reading of the law it does apply. whether the law applies or not, it is not a good idea to have these two kids who have no government experience whatsoever. >> that's good. look what the political professionals have done? they skrucrewed up. >> this white house is a mess with jared at the helm. these two are reported to have been democrats or democratic lean in the past. i, like everybody, would prefer to have them rather than mr. bannon involved in decisions. but -- >> let me follow-up on that. first of all, ivanka trump and jared kushner are in their 30s. they are the children of donald trump. kids may be unfair in that case. jason miller, to norm's last point, you have been on the inside here. are they more liberal than the other members of the trump administration? people are the inside? do you think they will temper politically others in the administration? >> excellent question. its gives me the opportunity to talk about my spo

the white house appears to be tracking, listening in on, monitoring the fbi's investigation of the white house. the white house is tracking that investigation by listening in on intention intercepts, obtaining those transcripts and leaking that information to try to pervert the course of the investigations? if the white house has its clause into the fbi investigation of trump and russia, if they have penetrated it or tracking it in that way and taking parts of it and putting them out to throw smoke screens out there, if that's happening, how do you fix that? what's the remedy there? remember the house intelligence committee joins us next. member committee joins us next. member committee joins us next. amember committee joins us next. member committee joins us next. i never miss an early morning market. but with my back pain i couldn't sleep or get up in time. then i found aleve pm. the only one to combine a sleep aid plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. and now. i'm back! aleve pm for a better am. or how high the pollen count, flonase allergy relief keeps your eyes and nose

let's get right over to the breaking news, the white house denying that it's been interfering in the investigation of contacts between russia and trump campaign officials. let's gets to our senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny. what's the latest on this, jeff? >> wolf, the white house is trying to change the subject on this, even talking about trying to revive health care but that's done little to brush aside this russia investigation which tonight is hanging over this white house like a storm cloud. the white house going to new lengths to downplay a growing russia cloud hanging over the administration. >> if the president puts russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow that's a russian connection. >> reporter: and questions over russia are intensifying from the white house to capitol hill with the house intelligence committee investigation has erupted in a partisan fury. the administration refusing again today to say who invited the committee's chairman devin nunes to the white house grounds last week to review classified information. the white house also denying su

the white house. an nbc news and national security reporter. kris jansing, my colleague, is at the white house lawn right now. help us break this down. i guess simple question, why was the house intelligence chairman at the white house, meeting with a source at the white house and yet they can't reveal the basis of that information or why he had to go back to the white house to share this information after the fact should. >> first, we can talk about what devin nunes is saying. he was saying he had to go to the white house because it was a secured facility where co-view this intelligence. the question is why didn't everything to the comment where he has his own facility? where every day he is looking at highly classified intelligence. it raises the question whether his source was in the white house. if that's the case, this thing starts to look like a ruse. >> without getting into the weeds, they said information could only be brought up on servers that existed at the white house facility. >> that's ri