the russian attack, as bob mueller characterized it involved illegal activity releasing them and taking over parts so on a op-ed. and this is an op-ed. we have just now, all three of us, fallen into the trap. year discussing and trying to explain what s there and isn t there and get nothing to dedetails. and i sat through this all week. devyn nunes on the republicans on the panel and others, all they do is try to string together in a nefarious way, terms and names. steel, ukraine, meddling, tweets and they try create an impression. unfortunately it s something you can t yet get away from bec it s in the it mainstream. and they re trying to create an alternative reality people
i ve known fiona hill for several years. this is one of the most professional, scholar russia expert. and very cleverly, almost a post modern analysis. she takes different arc types and studies them and takes them in isolation and create a composite. the capitalist, the statest and so on. this is not somebody who gets ahead of her speed with allegation. unfortunately we re out of time for this discussion.te thanks for being with us. coming up. they have made it to the impeachment investigations. and now says lev has evidence relevant to the investigation about devyn nunes. that is next. nu that is next cologuard:
president, george washington, directed his own diplomatic channels to secure a treaty with great britain. the washington post was quick to fact check the ranking republican member, writing quote no, devyn nunes, trump in 2019 is not like george washington in 1794. they go on to point out that our first president sought a deal on behalf of u.s. interests, the interest being not getting into a war, while the current inquiry is looking into whether trump was trying to nefwoegsiate a deal not for u.s. interests but his own political gain. as democrats have tried to build their case, it has ocan considered to a whole bunch of people who have watched this week s hearings that some of the most eloquent and patriotic testimony has come can from imgrpi immigrants to this country who consider it an honor to serve for our country. my service is an expression of gratitude. i m grateful.
we have to have a vote whether to allow other committee members to come into our scif and view materials. whether people on the committee that view classified information can use it for other purposes, if we re doing investigation and uncover things that concern us about performance of agencies, yes that can be considered. the problem here is not that gop members came across information of a certain ilk but rather there s been a concerted effort from the very beginning to try to build a case, any case, against mueller, the fbi and the department of justice. much of our leadership unfortunately has never stopped being a surrogate for the white house. we had that problem at beginning of the investigation when chairman went on midnight run to the white house. but that problem has continued and taken different forms after that white house incident, then had an effort to basically focus on unmasking. after that was unsuccessful,
campaign and elections, chairman and others in the committee were focused instead on trying to build a case that obama administration was illegally wiretapping the trump administration or were illegally unmasking people. when they found nothing there, moved on to try to discredit christopher steele and the fbi and we re seeing intensification of that effort. i think it s driven by the idea if they can discredit the dossier and christopher steele, that somehow they can make the russia investigation go away or impeach the results that bob mueller comes up with, regardless of whether it has nothing to do with the dossier. i will say this to underscore what my colleague mark warner said, this is a precarious moment for our democracy with two categories of republican members of congress, one saying and acting the part that if this investigation gets too close to