reporter: a bizarre development considering nunes went back to the white house the next day to brief president trump on material he allegedly got from the president s own staff. was this an attempt to find post facto justification? we don t have answers because as usual, the white house doesn t answer questions about this. reporter: nunes s previous statements contradicting the report. by holding the meeting on the white house grounds makes it appear someone in the administration was coordinating the release of the information to you. is that not the case? no, that s not the case. reporter: the new york times and washington post reporting one of the individuals who let nunes into the white house was brought on by former national security adviser michael flynn. both papers reporting that general mcmaster wanted to fire the staffer, but jared kushner
flynn s identity was revealed to the new york times. that s against the law. now, i m not defending flynn for anything he may or may not have done. but it was actually public knowledge, some of this, and that is wrong. but in terms of what devin nunes got his hands on, which again there is so many questions about, you don t know if it was incidental collection and who saw anything on there. there is so many questions about what devin nunes did, what is part of why this is so mysterious. which reassures me they will have access to that same information. it was an odd way to get there. but nunes has moved the ball forward in terms of what the house and senate committees will know as regards these issues. let s talk about something i know is very important to you as well as the american people, and that is the way forward on health care. given that the first effort failed last week, everybody
and washington post reporting that one of the individuals who let nunes into the white house was brought on by former national security adviser michael flynn. both those papers reporting that flynn s successor general mcmaster wanted to fire that person. only now as the white house extending an invitation to the house and senate intelligence committees to review classified information. the timing certainly looks fortuitous and probably more than fortuitous. per the letter, it said the ranking member had been asking to review materials, which of course i have. that suggests these are the same materials the chairman reviewed f. that is the case, it begs the question why all the subterfuge? maybe there is an innocent
post facto justification for the president s tweets? we don t have any of those answers because, as usual, the white house doesn t really answer questions about this. nunes s previous statements contradicting this new report. by holding the meeting on the white house grounds it makes it appear that someone in the administration was coordinating the release of this information to you. is that not the case? no, that s not the case. the new york times and the washington post also reporting that one of the individuals who let nunes into the white house was brought on by former national security advisor michael flynn. both newspapers also reporting that flynn s successor wanted to fire the staffer, but steve bannon and jared kushner stepped in to prevent it from happening. only now is the white house extending an inty vags to the heads of the house and senate intelligence committees to review classified information. the timing certainly looks fortuitous and probably more