with partisanship. that s a committee historically operated in very bipartisan fashion. i continue to be puzzled by chairman nunes behavior with respect to this white house investigation. that wasn t a republican way of acting that way and when we questioned him, it wasn t base we were democrats. i want to give mike conway a lot of room. he may change the approach a little bit. as you saw in the open hearing the democrats did focus on what the headline was, there is an investigation into the mobility of collusion hand links of the trump campaign and the investigation much more focused on the leaks. and coming up, the turning point of congressman nunes and he said he saw no need to step aside.
unroutine as chairman nunes chose to react to those docum t documents. the chairman said his st stepping down was temporary. do you actually think he would reassume his position at some point leading the russia investigation? i think you have to play this out. there s an ethics investigation under way. hard for me to see any circumstances he would reassume leadership while that investigation is under way. if the ethics committee fully clears him and we all got some explanation again for the very strange way in which he dealt with these documents and that explanation made sense maybe then but seems like a long shot to me. i want to be clear. you viewed the documents chairman nunes had gone over to the white house grounds to view, you actually viewed the docum t documents? as of today, those documents were made available to the broader membership of the committee and i had the
people on his committee saying the scandal in washington is leaking classified information and he is now being investigated by the ethics committee for l k leaking classified information. if they say there s really nothing here, he didn t do that. i think he will be back running the investigation. do you agree with that? congress, when they investigate themselves, one of the irony, congress is a very small town. and mike conaway who is taking over is the former ethics chairman. either there is a quick investigation, small scope and nunes will be cleared and back at the full committee running the investigation or they will take a broader scope and investigate democrats and we will see this go on a lot longer. two republican members i spoke to today close to working with ethics staff they say the second scenario is very possible, democrats will be investigated.
opportunity to review them today. obviously, you can t talk much about the details of them but you say it basically confirms in your opinion what chairman schiff said, ranking member. maybe some day. i completely concur with adam s conclusion, there is nothing there for either one of us ju jumped off the page to say this has to be handle in some unusual foundation. what will change in terms of partisanship on the committee? we saw in the first open session, questions by republicans all seem to be about leaks, questions by democrats on russia connections and russia involvement in the election itself. it almost seemed like two different committees. would that really change? i think first of all, we shouldn t confuse the different approaches to this investigation
as chairman of the house intelligence committee he still has access to the top secret information, the gang of eight, top leaders in congress would get. that s made by speaker paul ryan and people in the white house to deny him clearance to get that information. we re not getting information he will get the clearance vote speaker ryan saying he is still chairman of the committee and have access to the information. still, whether this can proceed in a bipartisan matter and one big sign, whether mike conway can schedule a public hearing of the former obama justice official, sally yates, warned before michael flynn, the former national security advisor may have been susceptible to black meal by the russians. you will probably see a lot more