distractions in the investigation into russia s role in trump s election. the president needs to know that these intelligence reports are out there. and i have a duty to tell him that. reporter: he s also become a voice for the president. i always like to say, whatever the left accuses you of doing, they re doing themselves. reporter: in february this year, nunes released a controversial memo alleging conspiracy against trump involving surveillance under false pretenses. political dirt was used by the fbi, and they knew it was political dirt, to open a counterintelligence investigation into the other campaign. reporter: that claim was never established. but nunes has never been cut short my a lack of evidence. long before he entered politics, when he was just 22 and a recent college graduate, he reportedly became convinced his school was secretly planning to close its campus farm. farming was his family s business. turns out, according to the new york times, the school wa