let me read something that your fellow republican in the house, congressman devin nunez said. i prefer to be in an arena voting than to placate a small group of phony conservative members who have no political strategy to stop obama s lawlessness. it s talking about you calling you a phony conservative. i don t call say things about my colleagues. what i do know is this last november there was an election. this was an important issue in that election. the voters spoke loud and clear. they gave us an overwhelming majority in the house of representatives. they gave the united states senate majority to the republican party as well. we know this is unconstitutional. beyond that it s not just that it s unconstitutional. it s a bad idea because it s unfair. i m going o say, you re not saying anything that the house republican leadership they agreed with you on this. they re living in the reality of the process in that they can t
house, congressman devin nunez said. in a statement they put out yesterday. he said i prefer to be in an arena voting than to placate a small group of phony conservative member who is have no political strategy to stop obama s lawlessness. he s talking about you calling you a phony conservative. i don t call say things about my colleagues. what i do know is this, last november there was an election. this was an important issue in that election. the voters spoke loud and clear. they gave us an overwhelming majority in the house of representatives. they gave the united states senate majority to the republican party as well. we know this is unconstitutional. beyond that, it s not just that it s unconstitutional. it s a bad idea what the president did because it s unfair. i m going o say, you re not saying anything that the house republican leadership, they agreed with you on this. they re living in the reality of the process in that they can t do anything about it because they don t
okay? and that upsets me and i think it should upset you. that s the way they feel. if that s the way they feel it upsets me. so here s another problem with this. as it relates to the personnel, so the cia personnel, they have the right to make a complaint with the oig. uh-huh. right? there were oig complaints filed as related to these benghazi attacks, weren t there? i m not aware. you re not aware that there, that there were complaints filed to the oig? jon: well the fireworks continue on capitol hill. congressman devin nunez of california there, talking with mike morell, the former cia director, about what happened the night of the benghazi attacks. a night when apparently cia officials on the ground in benghazi said this was not caused by some kind of a
state department, from the administration who were there and he is doing very well with them. whether or not that is the reason i don t know. maybe he just wanted to endear himself. maybe he thought he had a chance to become the next cia director. during this time general petraeus was under investigation as we found out later. could be well that michael morell thought he could have a chance to become the head of the cia, the fact of the matter is the cia was not listening to the station chief and peel on the ground last night who said this had nothing to do with the video, is that correct. absolutely. everyone on the ground, everyone on the ground including the cia station chief in libya said clearly this was a terrorist attack. this was an attack did not arise out after demonstration. they made that clear several times during that week. congressman nunez brought out, every person on the ground at every level in the defense department, and the cia said that this was an attack. there
mike morell in the hot seat after new allegations surfaced he was whitewashing the benghazi talking points. so will morell be brought back to capitol hill to explain? joining us now, republican congressman devin nunez. thank you, congressman, for joining us. tell us exactly give us in your opinion, did mike morell, lie when he testified the first time? well, we don t know if he lied or not. i actually went back through the testimony last night down in the intelligence committee because it was all done in a classified setting. the senators do believe he lied. i went back through and actually re recollected, kind of as i ve said in the press, which is the story is just not believable. so i think what we need to do is there are analysts that originally that wrote the original talking points that work at the cia. i think they did their job. somehow from what the analysts