intelligence community that russia had a clear preference for donald trump and sought to influence the 2016 election. the senate intelligence committee is a far more serious consequential panel looking in the issue of russia s election hack and attack as compared to the house intelligence committee led by devin nunes, even though he had to recuse himself. glen, as we heard from charlie at the top of the show, it s extraordinary to see this thing. i want to get your perspective as swb who was a federal prosecutor. what changes now? now that we have more insight into this process, your reaction to this thing being made public? well, david, this thing being made public i think in the short term may be good because it does sort of debunk some of what we ve heard by way of the critics. but in the long run i don t know that it s a good thing because these sort of methods that the government uses, and i know it s a highly redacted document at this point, appropriately so, but we may actua
i don t think he s getting the counsel he should. we need that office to succeed. the counsel you take and the counsel you get are two very different things. i have to be honest, one of the iron i didn ts here, i spent 15 years taking a look at what you guys do at the fbi and the doj and applying scrutiny when due and we ve always been pushed back by politicians saying don t asale the democratic institutions of the government, don t do those kinds of things, you hurt the administration of justice and now we have the president of the united states doing the same. what kind of information do you think they will see tomorrow? that is the question, chris. as we talk about this potential showdown as its been build where you have these two competing factions. you have the house intelligence committee led by devin nunes who has been accused of politicizing the intelligence process and those who are holding the line at the fbi and doj who are trying to allow robert mueller to do his job an
u.s. house of representatives are running their own kind of covert investigation into alleged corruption at the justice department and the fbi. writing, a group of house republicans has gathered secretly for weeks in the capitol in an effort to build a case that senior leaders of the just department and the fbi perhaps criminally mishandled the contents of a dossier that perhaps alleged ties between donald trump and russia. a subset of the republican members of the house intelligence committee led by chairman devin nunes of california has been quietly working parallel to the committee s high profile inquiry into russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. they haven t informed democrats about their plans, but they have consulted with the house s general counsel. you ll recall the president himself has slammed the fbi in recent weeks saying it was
kyle cheney and john brez that han at politico.com broke the news there s a working group of republicans in congress using documents obtained by intelligence committee about the russians and trump and the attack. this subset of republicans meeting for weeks, secretly using material, including the classified material obtained in the russia investigation, using it for something else. running their own secret working group designed to show that the fbi is corrupt and criminal and can t be believed when it comes to investigating the russia scandal. quote, a subset of republican members of the house intelligence committee led by devin nunes of california working parallel to the high profile inquiry into russian
calling again for investigations of the fbi. and of hillary clinton again. now trump lawyer jay sekulow is getting into the game after fox news reported a justice department official was demoted for having connections to including his wife having worked for the research firm that hired the former british intelligence officer christopher steel to compile the dossier on donald trump. fox reported the house intelligence committee led by devin nunes has evidence the demoted just did it department official met with steel during the election and met with the founder of the company that hired him to produce the dossier. fox reported yesterday that the wife of the demoted official work the for the opposition research firm last year. now trump attorney jay sekulow tells ax yoes the department of justice and fbi cannot ignore the multiple problems that have been created by these obvious conflicts of interest, these new revelations require the appointment of a special counsel to investigate just