room. ahead of this daily briefing. and this is something that mr. spicer is most certainly going to be asked about, peter, this report that's surfaced in "the new york times" it was two white house officials that actually helped give devin nunez the intelligence reports. what more do we know? >> yeah, craig, you're right. this scoop first coming from "the new york times" moments ago, what sean spicer will certainly be pressed on through the course of this news conference coming up right now. it's important because when chairman devin nunez came to the white house a week ago and met privately with these individuals in one of the secure compartmentalized locations here on the white house grounds, he then came back the next day to brief the president. all of this has raised questions about his impartiality, about his independence from the white house right now. sean spicer at this very podium just a matter of days ago said it didn't pass the smell test to think nunez would come here to the white house to get that information and then come back to brief the president if the president had already known about it.