investigation. he continues to participate in the gang of eight, which is the speaker, the leader of democrats and then the members the chairs of the two committees, both armed services and intelligence. but once again he sitsen in on those briefings even when it s about russia. so i guess the obvious question is do you believe it s possible to have a fair investigation if he continues to involve himself that way? well, that s a good question. i will say that congressman conaway, the chair of this investigation has worked very closely with ranking member adam schiff, and the committees have worked together. if the intention here is for devin nunes to sabotage the investigation, he s done that and that would be regressable. you obviously you and the
bipartisan way. that has not been the case since really since devin nunes had that extraordinary press conference where he talked about unmasking, went to the white house, told the white house that he had to tell the president about this extraordinary thing that he had seen only to for us to fine out later whatever he saw was initiated by somebody in the white house in the first place. it was because of that completely bizarre situation that he stepped aside to begin with. and at the end of the day, clearly what adam schiff is trying to do is to return the public pressure return pressure to the public. on the house leadership, on the speaker himself. to say come on, you know, this is not what we re supposed to be doing here. nunes stepped aside and stepping aside should mean that he should grant subpoena power to congressman conaway who is sort of taking control of this. that s what the hope is i know
himself, a lot of people wrote him off. many senateors, they re hoping they will run this and they almost used you as a punching bag to say we ll run a responsible investigation. what have you and mike conaway who has taken over, what do you plan on doing to bring credibility back to your investigation? well, it the history is this. we went into this investigation in a very deliberate noartisan way. it was blown up with the chairman s trip to the white house and all the subterfuge about the documents reviewed there and then returned to there. nonetheless, i think the members of the committee wanted to do a thorough and independent job. set out to do that. and we had that cloud over the committee as a result of that white house trip. that cloud, i think, is now being removed.
cooperation voluntarily but we are prepared to subpoena as necessary to get materials and information we need. so we ve agreed to the process. we ve begun in terms of our witness list, to actually invite those people before the committee. and i think it is important, we re going to try to do as much as we can agree on in public. i feel very strongly about that. i think if we conduct this investigation wholly in a privately closed session, and then tell public to believe what we ve come up with, that s not likely to have public confidence. so i m very pleased with where we are. i think we re back to moving forward again. have you and congressman conaway, are you still actively reviewing the requests by mike flynn to essentially trade testimony, trade immunity for testimony? i think it is really pre mature for us to be considering that flynn request, before we ve had a chance to interview a lot of other witnesses. find out what we can learn
mike conaway is doing a good job. we re working together very well. we ve rescheduled one of the hearings. we ve already invited witnesses to come before the committee. we are vex full speed ahead. exactly where we should have been if we hadn t had the whole white house blow things up. cnn reported that there s a witness list of 36, between 36 and 48 people. is that correct? and are all of these going to be invited witnesses? or are you going to have to subpoena anybody? i don t want to get into the specifics of how many witnesses or the names of people we ve invited. we ve certainly invited a considerable number to come be interviewed, deposed or appear before the committee in a hearing. we ve also agreed to the process for this. how we ll request documents from these witnesses. so we ll seek to get the