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intelligence committee and the congress for me to have representative mike conaway, with assistance from trey gowdy and rooney take charge of the russia investigation while the house ethics committee looks into the matter. kasie hunt joins me now. this has been wild in the way it's unfolded this morning. recount it for us. >> it has been wild indeed, ali. actually, i just was chasing -- i apologize if i'm a little out of breath. we did track down devin nunes. he is here in the capitol. he was in the cloak room. he was going into a meeting in the leaders office. leader mccarthy. he is in there now, we believe, at this point. he refused to comment at this point beyond that statement that he put out earlier today. he would not tell me -- i asked if he believed that he was in legal jeopardize because he ma have broke tennessn the laws ar providing classified informion. he wouldn't say. he asked me how i was doing. they're heading out on easter recess, so tempted levity if you see that video later. that's what's going on.

here is him talking to trey gowdy. >> would have to get a warrant. a warrant application, a fisa cord. foreign to foreign is a separate analysis. u.s. to foreign, it is still a separate analysis and one that would require going to the fisa court. >> tucker: what is the truth about all this? we asked him to come back and explain it to us. mr. binney, thank you for coming on. >> i just don't think that representative trey gowdy is aware of what the intelligence agencies are doing. he has been kept in the dark by these agencies. even representative nunes who is a member of the gang of four and the gang of eight is supposed to be exposed to everything the intelligence community is doing. in including covert programs. you only need to notify at most the gang of eight in congress. even nunes who is a member of the gang of eight and the gang of four also did not know about the programs that were being exposed through the conversations the president was having with other members of other governments. reading about people who were not involved in rush at all

reporter: there was crit civil f trey gowdy and will play a enhanced role. ms. pelosi: he is on the committee. how he proceeds. he is a member of the committee and he understands his responsibilities and see how it goes forward. it is like a trio. one person would take the chair and two others would be involved in it. we'll see. yes, ma'am. reporter: what do you think about high risk pools, does it improve it, the bill? ms. pelosi: this is with re-insurance, what the republicans have done and what ne richards, you could put lipstick on a sow but still call it a pig. this does nothing to address the rising cost or the lower number of people insured, the age tax and the undermining of medicare as well as what it did to the essential benefits. as -- re-insurance is something we have in our bill and taking a page out of our book in that respect. they have some version of it now. but that doesn't do anything to diminish the horror of their bill. reporter: getting a sense they would do that and guarantee coverage for pre-existing coverage. ms. pelosi: they aren't guar

handing responsibility to, the next highest ranking republican on the committee, mike conaway, trey gowdy and rooney, are they taking over his job as chairman of the committee or just taking over the investigation. how does this all work mechanically? >> they will not be taking over the committee. devin nunes is going to remain for now the chairman of the house intelligence committee. but they are going to be taking over this russia investigation. now, the republican spin they're putting on this is this allows the investigation to move forward while the charges wind their way through the house ethics committee. but, of course, this is a ifican i think, step back for his role as chairman generally, because this investigation has become a huge part of what the entire committee is focused on right now. ali, i want to underscore one thing about what is going on here, the reason why the chairman recused himself here. that is the house ethics committee investigation. it can be confusing, how the committees and boards actually work. i know we had a big flap over what's called the office of congr

also helping them though trey gowdy, the person who chaired that select committee investigating benghazi. david. >> cecilia vega back at the white house. after that moment on capitol hill. thank you, cecilia. >>> now to the showdown over the supreme court tonight and to that historic move in the senate. republicans triggering the the republicans triggering the so-called nuclear option, that sets up a vote tomorrow. now to confirm supreme court nominee neil gorsuch by a simple majority. the republicans won't need any votes from democrats. abc's mary bruce tonight on the fallout. >> reporter: the republican leader today emerged from the partisan battlefield with a thumbs up. the top democrat, his head hung low in defeat. left behind, the casualties, a senate and a supreme court fundamentally altered. >> the yeas are 48 and the nays are 52. >> reporter: with democrats blocking the president's nominee neil gorsuch, republicans making a controversial play, changing the senate rules to confirm supreme court nominees from now on with a simple majority vote, lowering the threshold from 60 votes

kennedy: trey gowdy was speaking to f.b.i.ector james comey saying you and i both need section 702. we want this to function correctly. but there is something problematic here. what will it take for republicans to join some of their civil libertarians within the party and liberty-leaning democrats to say we have to close this stuff. this is part of the mass spying problem that was ex posed in 2013. it appears the government has gotten better at it. >> republicans will have to come home to their constitutional roots. recognizing chairmen and chair women should work for their constituents and not working for the intelligence community or the white house. they need to require searches and seizures. including data searches require a warrant. i think this experience makes it clear that's good advice. kennedy: i think the contents of your conversation and phone and devices, i think those all constitute effects as they were seen and laid out in the fourth amendment. >> absolutely right. they serve the same purpose as papers did. they

florida no congressman trey gowdy asked whether susan rice would be able to obtain unmasked names. >> national security advisor susan rice have access to unmasked names? >> ? general as an stordy course of their business. charles: jim, you have been on top of this probably more than most folks. this latest revelation. let's walk through this. apparently the nfc noticed a pattern where susan rice was making these requests, specific requests specific to donald trump's transition team and any incidental contact. is it clear she was able to get these names and unmask them to the media and others? >> they sure got out there, so apparently yes. i think they have been doing it for a long time. there is a pattern of doing this if you go back to the iran deal. they were spying on congress by look at intercepts from congressmen to see which ones were leaning against the iran dean. john brennan got caught lying about whether they were spying on congress. there is three instances of them using our intelligence apparatus to spy on domestic political opponents. this is going deep. charle iis going

he said as a distraction he'll step aside and trey gowdy will step forward to lead the investigationng member, adam schiff looks forward to going forward and said they'll continue their work and get to the answers in a bipartisan and productive way. >> the insurance market get get lower premiums and more comp competition. those are the kinds of debates we're having and it's closer towards the final goal and agreement. >> bill: that was 30 minutes ago and republicans in the house making moves overnight trying to come together on health care. the speaker announcing a new amendment to create a special high-risk pool. republicans saying it brings them closer together to a consensus as you just heard. a former communication director and marjorie clifton former consultant and dr. siegel here in new york city. now, alex, it does not appear you'll have a deal before the easter break but i don't know a lot of people expected that. do you truly believe based on what we've heard so far they are moving closer to getting a consensus? >> i think what they've done is recognize that this is the repu

texas republican mike conaway will take over for nunes with assistant from congressman trey gowdy andim rooney. adam schiff says it was, after all, the right thing to do. >> i think it is the best interest of the investigation. it will allow us to have a fresh start moving forward, this investigation is of such critical important that we need to get philippe back on track. it is, i think, worth noting that the investigation never went into hiatus, so we've been continuing to develop our witness list, work out logistics in terms of how we bring people before the committee, but the process will be. >> the white house says nunes' temporary recusal doesn't change the substance. president trump says he thinks nunes is a good and honorable person. cagey, there are whispers that nunes decided to step aside after speaking with paul ryan, paul ryan didn't answer that question when asked. >> it seems like there's something there, many people that felt nunes didn't do anything wrong, he received this information and there for was not transparent and disclosed it. it seems the main objection was

reporter saying the most likely contender to replace japheth on oversight is former benghazi chairman trey gowdy. we are waiting for the discussion to get underway. we will stay here live on c-span. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> ok, if we can ask for everyone to take their seats, our next panel will focus on the first 100 days of the new administration in congress. this is a milestone that it's back to the roosevelt era. we used the first 100 days to launch the new deal program, so the first 100 days has become a nomenclature we use. i don't know how relevant it is they are going to tell us how relevant it is. i'm pleased to introduce this panel. it is a politically balanced panel and we are pleased to have david wessel moderate the panel. he is the director of the hutchins center on fiscal and monetary policy at brookings. after three decades at the "wall street journal" where he was economics editor and chair, two pulitzer prizes. thank you for being here. we have the president and ceo

those three are congress and mike conaway, congressman trey gowdy, and congressman tom rooney who are all going to work together to guide the investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 election. we caught gaudi getting on the elevators this morning. all he would say was have a nice weekend. the reason nunez said he is stepping down is "several left-wing activist groups outside have filed against me." the office of congressional ethics now says in a statement that the charges against nunes are of the improper handling of classified information. house speaker paul ryan came to the microphones to say that the investigation would be a distraction from the proceedings, but that nunes still has his trust. >> chairman nunes must make sure this is not a distraction to a very important investigation, so he wants to go clear himself while this investigation continues on without any kinds of distractions. >> just minutes after the speaker expressed confidence in nunes, the top democrat on the committee, adam schiff, stepped out of the intel committees meeting room and told us this. >> i jus

attorney now congressman trey gowdy who really knows how to cross-examine.nd that is what is going to happen to her. simply stated, her credibility is shot before she even takes the oath and says a word. ainsley: will it just be a public embarrassment to her? we have have seen trey gowdy drill people or. >> or will there be consequences? unfortunately the government is allowed to lie to us even as lodger clemens or sammy sosa martha stewart we could be prosecuted for lying to them. there is another crime whereby you can actually tell the truth but still be convicted of misleading if the answer technically correct is misleading. that's called misleading congress. they are probably going to try to trap her into that. would she be prosecuted? i think. so i think the trump administration is so furious at what she did they will lay a trap. ed: tv talk show. get under your point trey gowdy and ask her specific questions about surveillance and other matters and see if she tells the truth then. >> in roger clemens case they forgot to administer the oath which was wh

. >> meghan: i'm happy to hear that trey gowdy is taking a larger role because i think he's fantastic. >> harris: that was always apparently the plan. >> meghan: we are waiting president trump to depart shortly for florida where he'll have a high-stakes meeting with the chinese president tonight. this amid warnings from north korea's nuclear threat. it can the president pushed china to help with the problem? plus, president trump says he believes susan rice committed a crime in her efforts to unmask members of the campaign team. some democrats saying president from across the line with his comments. after the show, you can join us on our live chat by clicking the overtime tab. of course, you can tweet us. we'll see you there (vo) when i brought jake home, i wanted him to eat healthy. so i feed jake purina cat chow naturals indoor, a nutritious formula with no artificial flavors. made specifically for indoor cats. purina cat chow. nutrition to build better lives. mait's a series ofar is nosmart choices. like using glucerna to replace one meal or snack a day. glucerna products have up t

and i think trey gowdy, no liberal snowflake, by the way, when he took over, he noted susan rice didthink the bigger story here is -- one, donald trump just has a disregard and administration has a disregard for the truth. and what does it say when the commander-in-chief and his administration is so hell bent on twisting things to, to meet his, the president's point, as owe pose e opposed to the real truth. we are in deep doodoo here. >> the story went from president obama wiretapping him to whether susan rice had the right to mask, unmask. so far there has been no evidence of any of it, none of it has been proven true, mostly it has been proven false. so, one wonders why the president with disposal of every single intelligence agency and asset at his fingertips, will continue to go on with this. with no proof. and if he wanted to show the proof, he could do it. so obviously there is none. he doesn't do it. >> no, i think we have to be careful in our die leg alogue u large terms and phrases like the entire administration and this, this president, and things of that nature, talking ab

i've got two terrific former prosecutors in trey gowdy and tom read that will be leading the questioningf witnesses and those kinds of things. this is going to take a while, but we are going to get it done as expeditious as we can, but we intend to get to the bottom of all these issues. >> in terms of potential witnesses, you heard some discussion about it there. i did ask congressman conaway, now chairman if he plans to call the susan rice into testify before the committee about her role in allegedly unmasking members of the trump transition team. he said that he does not want to basically come up with a witness list through their press, but that he will let us know when he works with the democrats on the committee to come up with a final guest list of people and to let us know if susan rice is on it. >> julie: probably best they keep that to themselves. the press has been meddling in these stories plenty. peter doocy, thank you very much. >> jon: history in the making on capitol hill. democrats filibuster to block a full senate vote on judge gorsuch just nomination to the supreme court

they put trey gowdy in charge of the investigation. the benghazi investigation and leaking a number of things that were damaging to hillary clinton. i think the democrats are skeptical in the house, the investigation will be bipartisan. i think we have more faith in the senate investigation. i also think we need a special prosecutor and independent committee set up so we can truly have faith when they look into what happened in terms of the russian intervention, we can get to the bottom. >> zerlina maxwell and rick tyler and joe watkins. thank you. i'm dara brown. thank you for watching. and the crisis in north korea. how did it play out with the summit with the chinese leader? thomas roberts takes up our coverage next. (vo) introducing tidy cats lightweight with glade clean blossoms. our newest odor fighting scent! gives you the power of choice plus... the power of pleasant. exclusively in lightweight! every home, every cat, there's a tidy cats for that. there's nothing more than my vacation.me so when i need to book a hotel room, i w

in fact, at one point, republican congressman trey gowdy asked rogers a series of questions about trump who had been named or unmasked by intelligence agencies as having contact with russians. and seemed to imply that former obama officials might have been the ones who leaked that information. >> would national security advisor susan rice have access to an unmasked u.s. citizen name? >> i think any -- yes, in general. >> would former attorney general loretta lynch have access to an unmasked u.s. citizen's name? >> in general, yes. >> did you brief president obama on -- i'll just ask you -- did you brief president obama on any calls involving michael flynn? >> seth: dude, you think obama was the leaker? have you seen what he's been up to? that dude hasn't even been near wifi for two months now. [ light laughter ] even crazier, while the hearing was still happening, trump tweeted -- trump tweeted from the president's official account, "the nsa and fbi tell congress that russia did not influence electoral process." but that's wrong. they didn't say that. so later in the same hearing, comey

that puts trey gowdy, who knows a great deal about investigations, and a key position on the russianng. nunes is still chairman of the full committee. probably not what i would have done, but i respect his reasoning and why he didn't. he did it to protect his fellow republicans. >> bill: the pressure on him was enormous, though, i think the left would claim a victory there, will they not? >> sure. it is all garbage. the trickle group that filed against him, one of them was moveon.org. i think they have filed or absurd. i i think somebody frankly shoud cut them off and not allow them to ever file because what they are doing is so pointedly political. i think in that sense, nunes probably would have been better off historically to just shrug it off and keep moving. i don't think republicans can afford to recuse themselves every time some left-wing groups smears them. i think with the attorney general recusing himself, with nunes recusing himself, this is not a good habit to get into. >> bill: the susan rice story. again, were you surprised when that broke? how do you assess it as it st

. >> woodruff: three other republicans, mike conaway, trey gowdy and tom rooney, will take charge of the russia investigation. nunes will remain as chair of the committee. on wall street today, stocks managed small gains. the dow jones industrial average gained more than 14 points to close at 20,662. the nasdaq also rose 14 points, and the s&p 500 added four. john glenn, the first american to orbit the earth, was laid to rest today at arlington national cemetery. his flag-draped casket was wrapped in plastic, under a steady rain, as it was carried on a horse-drawn caisson to the graveside. the former ohio senator died in december at the age of 95. his wife annie, now 97, and family scheduled the burial on what would have been the glenns' 74th wedding anniversary. and, the grandmaster of insult comedy, don rickles, died today at his los angeles home. from standup stage to late shows, rickles used everything from ethnic humor to sex jokes on everyone from presidents to fellow entertainers, including sammy davis, jr. in 1975. >> i love the italian people. i'll never forget the words of

>> certainly more than if it was a trey gowdy or some of the other names that have been in -- peopleve been involved in controversial investigations. it does give me hope. i think we need an independent commission and i don't know that anything that republicans are directly involved in, will actually get to the bottom of what happened with russia, if they keep saying we work for the president and keep defending the president on this issue and every single capacity. >> lindsey will take this very seriously. >> i'm hopeful. >> i have spent a lot of time with him and he was tough on the president when it came to michael flynn, being in the national security adviser's office. he was skeptical of tillerson on the russia issue and really, you know, held tillerson to account on that and we've seen i think the tillerson has not been as pro-russia as maybe the rumors were before he was appointed. so i think that lindsey will take this extremely seriously. >> i'm going to chime in with breaking news. the market opened just six minutes ago and the nasdaq is now officially topping the markets. t

and the congress for me to have representative mike conaway, with assistance from representatives trey gowdy and tom rooney, temporarily take charge of the committee's russia investigation, while the house ethics committee looks into this matter. i will continue to fulfill all my other responsibilities as committee chairman, and i am requesting to speak to the ethics committee at the earliest possible opportunity in order to expedite the dismissal of these false claims." so just to underscore the point, he remains as chairman, but is stepping aside from this investigation. so kasie, he's casting this as one that is being driven by politics, at the same time there was some real questions about the way he handled this. what do you make what have we just heard from adam schiff? >> reporter: kristen, i think it was noteworthy that schiff was so positive toward the republicans who are going to be coming in and working on this, instead of chairman nunes. mike conaway, congressman from texas, going to be taking the lead along with two other republican congressmen who will be working with him, all o

congress michael conaway from texas with help from trey gowdy and tom rooney.these guys are all right wingers. nbc is reporting that nunes met last night with speaker paul ryan and they both agreed with the decision. isn't that nice? they both agreed he would step aside. however, ryan today said he doesn't believe the charge that chairman nunes mishandled the classified information is true. >> do you still have faith that he didn't do anything wrong? did he mishandle classified information? >> no, i don't believe so rmt chairman nunes has offered to step aside as the lead republican on this particular probe, and i fully support his decision. chairman nunes wants to make sure that this is not a distraction to a very important investigation, so he wants to go clear himself while this investigation continues on without any kinds of distractions. >> well, chairman nunes has been criticized as a pawn, especially since it was reported that top administration officials provided him those intelligence reports to defend the president. he was working for the president. h

intelligence committee and the congress for me to have representative mike conaway with assistance from trey gowdycharge of the russian investigation while the house ethics committee looks into the matter. so he'll continue to be committee chairman, but he's essentially recusing himself as had been asked by many on the left to no longer be in charge of that investigation into russian hacking of the presidential election. the influence that it has and potential ties between trump -- the trump administration -- >> an unreal situation. justice department, comey, you know, that's what actually -- that's who really -- >> well, this house investigation sort of has gone off the rails. >> yes, it had. >> remember nunes -- maybe it was during the day, reviewing intelligence. that raised some questions at least. anyway -- >> well, it obscures things and -- remember, everything you hear about the house takes the house's time. the house has a plan on tax reform. remember the white house does not. that was pointed by ryan, right? very clear that the white house doesn't have its act together. i remember -- >> w

trey gowdy, when he weighs questioning james comey gave us a clue that he knew something was going onen he came down that monday if obama officials including susan rice could have access to unmasked names that were leaked to the "the washington post" and "new york times." now, unmasking in her position, not a crime. leaking is a crime. ainsley: well, yeah. and james comey said yeah, she had access to it she could have been the one who unmasked. steve: sure. ainsley: in that sound bite she is saying it didn't happen. also went on tv on five sunday shows after bengals and said it happened because of that videotape that was released. we found out later that was not true at all. >> steve: we had dr. james mitchell on, he essentially wrote the book on interrogation. is he good at listening to people. he was good at analyzing what she said in that sound bite and here is his analysis. >> if you actually pars every single word she said in that interview that you played that i heard just before i came on the air, probably every single sentence she said, particularly given the pronounce referen

. >> do you want to respond with trey gowdy.you being less than forthcoming with documents at times. >> the irony during benghazi, i was urging we allow the white house and state department automate searches to use whatever terms mr. gowdy wanted and get documents more quickly. they didn't want to do. that i think they wanted to fight with the white house and the state department. i think mr. gowdy's chief argument is i don't want it to be run like the benghazi was, that was a political instrument. >> that would be the worst thing possible for this administration to come. >> congressman, richard haase here, do you think they can claim the legitimacy here and the perception they can carry out a investigation or do you think it's been taken out of the game and it's up to the senate or some other mechanism. >> it certainly hasn't been taken out of the game. we are fully one-half of the resources devoted to the russian investigation. so there is no way that we can walk away from our responsibility. there is certainly a cloud over it