congressman, always go ahead to have you. thanks. start with this breaking news, this new york times report that it was two white house officials that actually gave congressman devin nunez, of course, as you know, the chair of the house intell committee, these two white house officials that actually provided the intel that revealed that president trump and perhaps his associates, were incidentally swept up by this surveillance by u.s. spy agencies. what do you make of that? well, here, first i was on the intelligence committee for six years, so i can tell you, that we can walk right downstairs and we have a secure room there where the information could have been given. but then we would have known it was information from the intelligence community. i don t know about you but here s what i was led to believe, someone had given this information to the chairman of the intelligence committee and then he felt compelled the next day to take it to the white house. but if he got it at
the white house in background conversations with me today, is certainly threatening that. i have not seen a coherent plan or some kind of action blueprint about how they re going to go after different people but they re talking about it. kasie, another senate intelligence committee hearing, what did we learn this morning? craig, this is the sort of back half of what we started to see this morning where they have experts testifying as the senate investigation rolls under way. before we talk about that, we have some new information in from this house side, the congressman adam schiff who met with devin nunez as they try to unwind this kind of partisan feud that the two of them have engaged in and that has really cast questions about the credibility of their investigation. take a look at what schiff had to say earlier today. i m determined that this investigation go forward, whatever obstacle we may encounter. it s just too important otherwise.
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 th
rule the day in the lower chamber when it comes to this investigation. do we expect that the senate is going to be able to maintain that spirit of cooperation? it seems like they are for now. i think it s nice to see some adults actually taking over here. if you go back a few weeks, remember that chairman burr and chairman nunez both kind of touched a hot stove at the same time. they both had this incident where at the white house s behest they were getting on the phones with reporters to squash stories in a way a lot of people saw as inappropriate. chairman burr touched the hot stove and decided he didn t like being burned and has changed the way he s conducted the investigation. chairman nunez touched the hot stove and for some reason decided to stick his head in the oven. and you ve seen chaos result in the house. it s nice to see the senate partly because of what happened to senator burr, and partly watching the disarray in the house, conduct a different investigation and they re
white house about troubling information about american intelligence incepts, there s been explanation and wondering since then, a lot of unclear and contradictory information as to where he got that troubling information that he rushed straight to the white house with once he got it. today chairman nunez confirmed that where he got that information from was, quote, the white house grounds. hu h? on the light before his breathless press conference where he insisted to that he had to bring this to the white house, he went to the white house grounds to receive that information in the first place. if that sounds absurd to you, you are not alone. there s nobody on either side of the aisle in washington who says they have any idea what devin