been done before. they took a vote on this in the committee. a vote they never had to take before. tells you it s weaponized. the president s response, the rebuttal to it, that at least will inform us on both sides of this perspective, that he won t let them do that, tells you it is all about politics. nunes is clearly running interference for trump. and it really endangered the process of intelligence and the relationship with capitol hill. it sounds like nunes isn t done. he said there is more information out there coming. he s been asked repeatedly behind closed doors. i think even in public right now whether the white house played some role, whether they contributed to the back and forth. he was asked directly in that committee hearing where they took this vote. his colleagues asked him, have you been in contact with the white house. he wouldn t answer the question. which is a de facto yes. trump made the decision to release the memo before he even read it. he said it at the st
stuff that was collected in the process of people getting their security clearances. so i asked the press secretary about that. watch here. is it possible that these documents were merely surveillance reports? i don t know what he found. is it possible that they were surveillance reports from security clearances? i don t know. i don t know. i don t know what he s got on his systems and what the intel community has on theirs. so the white house press secretary says he doesn t know what chairman nunes saw. chairman nunes isn t saying what he saw except information is only available on the executive branch commuters. more on jared kushner, the first son-in-law. the president s chief counselor and whether or not he s going to capitol hill to talk to the senate intelligence committee. he s offered to do it, he s volunteered. the senate intelligence committee has asked him to come up. we don t know when it will happen, what form, whether testimony in a closed session or some sort o
trump to win it. john roberts is live on the north line. what else is the white house saying about chairman nunes? the white house isn t saying much. senator mark warner of virginia is from the senate intelligence committee and thinks it s all suspicious. what we know from nunes about reports about it, he was over here at the white house complex, eisenhower complex building on tuesday and rushed to the white house to tell the president about information that was housed in the white house. according to a bloomberg report, he met with a source in the intelligence community and personally a white house staff member to view records that were only on the system of the executive branch. now, questions have been raised as to why he couldn t see this information up there on capitol hill. one reason is because this was
rushed to the white house investoring the president he had seen evidence that communications of trump and his associates may have been collected by intelligence agencies after the election. today i briefed the president on the concerns that i had about incidental collection. reporter: today nunes is doing damage control after that improve two visit set off a political fire storm. the congressman privately apologizing to his committee colleagues for scrambling to brief the president and the press before his fellow congressmen. i try to treat everybody fairly and the republicans and democrats, but this is not an easy mine field. reporter: but the move quickly drew fire from democrats who called it a politically motivated attempt to give trump cover for his unfounded claim that trump tower was wiretapped by president obama. house democratic leader nancy pelosi dug in saying nunes isn t qualified to preside over an independent investigation into the trump campaign s tie to russia.