he sound like a guy that spent his sunday golfing with a subject of this investigation, and he did. he s not correct. the white house is the only party that can declassify exactly what chairman nunes saw. i believe if there really is evidence of wrong doing, thaw will show us that but my prediction is they won t because there s nothing there. he did play golf last sunday with the president of the united states. are you saying he s just trying to defend the president? he s been a libertarian for a long time. he may have honest concerns about government surveillance. that s fine. he has not seen what the white house is referring to and the white house won t show the world what they are referring to. we should only assume based on the track record sh is only an effort to deceive and obstruct an investigation that needs to go forward. the senate intelligence chairman said it s possible susan rice could fall under his committee s investigation.
he seemed to think that what he saw was not how it was portrayed. now, congressman schiff, he s the top democrat on the house intelligence committee, is not one to go out and talk about classified information. so it s hard to tell exactly what was seen. what we d heard is that the reports that representative nunes saw were mostly foreign officials and not necessarily russians, but of many different countries, during the transition, talking to each other about ways they were trying to get to know people on the trump team. which is perfectly normal. and now the way intelligence reporting works is that those when reports about those intercepts were say distributed among the various small group of officials allowed to see this kind of stuff, the names are kind of masked. the details to which you can identify individuals are supposed to be blanked out or covered up. however, there are some people who are very hard to mask. and often you can tell through the context who s being spoken abou
see you today. it s worth pointing out and she points this out in her piece that one of the biggest headlines in the nunes story he unequivocally pointed out that the president was wrong when he said that the obama administration was wiretapping trump tower. so she is claiming that, you know, he has had a pretty clear through line despite the fact that it s not being presented that at that way in the media do you think that s fair. devin nunes has become piñata for the media and athletic are a of partisanship on both sides. we in the media don t know whether these explosive accusations are true because we haven t seen the classified information that nunes saw. we do know, i think it s fair to safe that congressman nunes has been rather clumsy in his handling of this announcing he had this new information and rushing over to the white house to brief president trump. then belatedly acknowledging he had seen this information on white house grounds and now of course the washington time
democrat on house intelligence adam schiff was at the white house, viewed some documents and released a statement afterwards saying this and i ll just read a portion it. it was represented to me that these are precisely the same materials that were provided to the chairman over a week ago. while i can not discuss the content of the documents if the white house had any concern or these materials they should have been shared with the full committee in the first place as part of our ordinary oversight responsibilities. let s take that first sentence first. chairman nunes has not disclosed what he s seen. so there s no way to know if they are looking at the same thing. no. we don t know what chairman nunes saw. we don t know who gave it to him. we don t know what s in it. we take him at his word that it proves that the president and his allies communication may have been intercepted kind of accidentally. and nunes added that this doesn t deal with russia. we re still trying to like i c
point there. it s not clear to me why paul ryan is going so far out, risking himself to protect this president when i think even a lot of members within that caucus, and we saw it on health care, are not so frightened of the president. and jason, you have now had the ranking member on that very committee sort of out nunes as being dishonest on its face in terms of what he saw and whether it warranted the kind of dramatic press conference. adam schiff saw it and wrote a letter on his twitter after he saw the documents, which he was told were the same exact documents that nunes saw. what he said in his statement was nothing i could see today warranted a departure from the normal review procedures. these materials should now be provided to the full membership of both committees. the white house has yet to explain why senior white house staff apparently shared these materials with but one member of either committee only. he s outed them. he s outed them and i think this is why former s