that explanation makes no sense and needs a little probing because as far as we know from open source reporting, sally yates brought the white house the evidence that michael flynn was lying about that stuff nearly three weeks before they acted on it. why did they wait for three weeks? what was going on in those three weeks? again sally yates was due to speak publicly about this matter for the first time ever on tuesday morning. republican chairman of that committee acting alone cancelled that meeting. cancelled that hearing or rescheduled for half past never. there s no new date. i mean, i know there is a lot going on but this is a remarkable thing, whatever adam schiff, the top democrat on the house intelligence committee saw this week that made him conclude that there is now more than circumstantial evidence that the trump campaign colluded with russia in its attack on the united states, whatever he saw that made him say that, you know
a trump campaign official and trump transition official, today he abruptly canceled the next public meeting of the house intelligence committee and their investigation into trump and russia. this is the hearing, this tuesday hearing he just canceled today, this is the one where former cia director john brennan is due to testify. former national intelligence director james clapper and, importantly, the former acting attorney general sally yates. all three of them were confirmed and due to testify in an open session on tuesday morning talking about what they know. remember, sally yates is the one who reportedly brought to the white house evidence that the national security adviser was in contact with the russian government and was lying about it. she has never discussed those reports publicly. she has never said publicly what happened there and the timeline of how that went down is one of the biggest flashing red lights in the investigation into the white house and its russian government
evidence that investigators have uncovered about collusion between the trump campaign and the russians. and so it s been a bad week even before today and this whole thing was poised to get worse for the administration. the first open hearing of the house intelligence committee where the fbi announced the investigation, that was this past monday. the next open hearing of the same committee was scheduled for tuesday morning of next week. today without warning and without consulting anybody else on his committee, the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee, himself a trump campaign official and trump transition official, today he abruptly canceled the next public meeting of the house intelligence committee and their investigation into trump and russia. this is the hearing, this tuesday hearing he just canceled today, this is the one where former cia director john brennan is due to testify. former national intelligence director james clapper and, importantly, the former act
of those russian government conversations once they realized he had lied about them. that explanation makes no sense and needs a little probing because as far as we know from open source reporting, sally yates brought the white house the evidence that michael flynn was lying about that stuff nearly three weeks before they acted on it. why did they wait for three weeks? what was going on in those three weeks? again sally yates was due to speak publicly about this matter for the first time ever on tuesday morning. republican chairman of that committee acting alone cancelled that meeting. cancelled that hearing or rescheduled for half past never. there s no new date. i mean, i know there is a lot going on but this is a remarkable thing, whatever adam schiff, the top democrat on the house intelligence committee saw this week that made him conclude that there is now more than circumstantial evidence that the trump campaign colluded with
why did they wait for three weeks? what was going on in those three weeks? again sally yates was due to speak publicly about this matter for the first time ever on tuesday morning. republican chairman of that committee acting alone cancelled that meeting. cancelled that hearing or rescheduled for half past never. there s no new date. i mean, i know there is a lot going on but this is a remarkable thing, whatever adam schiff, the top democrat on the house intelligence committee saw this week that made him conclude that there is now more than circumstantial evidence that the trump campaign colluded with russia in its attack on the united states, whatever he saw that made him say that, you know what? as the ranking member on the intelligence committee, anything he has access to, devin nunes the chairman has access to as well. so whatever it is that made adam schiff start talking abouthis investigation in a different way, devin nunes has access to