president, the justice department held two briefings with lawmakers yesterday to discuss highly sensitive information about fbi tactics in the russia meddling probe. the president s right hand man congressman nunes was in both meetings. nunes talks a lot for what the president says facts or no facts is considered gospel. but not a peep from the intelligence community chairman. that should help you tip the scales between fant city and fact and president s deep state spying allegation. it s rare for the feds to discuss tactics while investigations are still ongoing. even more rare is outrageous the word being used a lot the fact that one of the president s lawyers and chief of staff were on hand for these briefings. democrats say the presence of john kelly and flood is beyond appropriate. telling rudy giuliani flood presence was a prerequisite. if the special counsel still wants to interview their client
know, put the kibosh on dodd frank, that that gets pushed back to 2018. the president is remaining laser focused on the american people. we ve seen deregulation, talking about infrastructure. we ve seen him make great strides in helping to repeal and replace obamacare. we have to stay laser focused on that as republicans. that s what the american people deserve and want. the democrats like this distraction. they want it to remain a circus. they don t want to get to the business of passing legislation that will help the american people. but like paul ryan said, we can walk and chew gum at the same time and we need to get to work in washington. neil: you think this is going to just lead to more hearing? i think the senate intelligence community chairman and the ranking member had both talked about the fact there s been nine committee hearings this year. more could follow. this has even if it doesn t approach the watergate hearings in 73, it s the drama of the
in a closed hearing a week from tomorrow. our chief intelligence correspondent, catherine herridge is in washington. this committee is trying to pick up where it left off. that s right, shep. the house side is very complicated. devin nunes, as you mentioned, has stepped aside because of an ethics complaint and over two weeks recess, this completer complaint was filed against two democrats by the conservative watch dog group judicial watch. they revealed or discussed classified information on capitol hill. the members denied the charges and to our knowledge this has not been picked up with the full ethics investigation. the two directors testified last month and testified for a follow up session that was cancelled after the house intelligence community chairman found new
documents, ask the questions in a credible, serious way, which means, do our investigations away other serious investigation in the country is done, which is behind closed doors until you have something to report. martha: good to see you today. thank you for being here today. thank you. martha: intelligence community chairman devin nunes descended his decision to go to the white house to view this intelligence. he said it was the only way he could see it. watch this. the congress has not been given this information. these documents. that is the problem. it was distributed widely through the executive branch, from november, december, january. there was no way i could do that because they couldn t get it to the house intelligence committee. martha: a cia trained intelligence operative and marie horace. great panel for this this evening. good to have you both here. tony, let me start with you. what do you make of that
says there s an ongoing criminal investigation, we have your report. and the one thing i would tell the country is i want to make sure we get to the bottom of whatever this is, that go where the evidence takes you, that i hope the house and senate can hold it together, and congress can do their job, but the main thing is, let the fbi do their job without political interference. senator, you said you hope the house and the senate can hold it together. that gets to this. the house intelligence community chairman, devon nunes, he apologized today to democrats on his committee for not briefing them before going to the press and the president about what he is seeing in this centennial, possible incidental collection of trump. is that apology enough? i don t know. it would be up to the democratic members of the house. the hearing they held was pretty impressive, i thought. good questions. i want to get to the leakers, too, but also, i m glad now i know. it was senator white house and mys