office of omb, why were they calling the president s personal attorney? we also learned and here s again where those two plots are coming together that lev parnas, one of the men indicted by the sdny, had multiple phone calls with the ranking republican on the house intelligence committee, devin nunes. on just april 12th the two men shared four phone calls including one that lasted nearly nine minutes. again, the man charged with the plot to smear the ambassador to ukraine and now says he wants to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry he was having conversations with the one charged with investigating this whole process. devin nunes sat there the whole time through hours and hours of testimony talking about about what a contemperable circus it was while he and his colleagues had the nerve to say adam schiff should be called to testify.
pattern of behavior here. it is. and how many of his republican colleagues on the committee and just in the house generally knew about this, knew about his personal involvement? i would wager the number is pretty low. minority leader kevin mccarthy earlier tonight was asked about the new revelations, and his only answer was a very terse sort of nunes can call whoever he wants to. which you would think if it had been known previously or widely they would prepare a better answer about nunes conducting an investigation or whatever he was doing. but i cannot imagine the house republican caucus is very pleased with congressman nunes today. there s also a question here unt parnas as this kind of he s this sort of loaded gun on the table right now. here s this guy under indictment in sdny who seems to know quite a bit because he s intimately involved in the entirety of this scheme and talking to the president s lawyer, talking to the ranking member.
for a representative snapshot into just how far republicans are willing to go to defend the president, here s where we are right now. republican senator richard burr is the chair of the intelligence committee. and that committee investigated and commissioned a report into the widespread and systemic efforts by russia to abtaj the campaign of hillary clinton on behalf of then candidate donald trump by using a variety of different means. burr s committee also reportedly looked into the notion ukraine meddled in the election. and while that part of the report has yet to be released, politico the committee found no evidence akin to trump s efforts to win in to16. yet senator richard burr is now effectively rejecting the determination of his own committee, the one he chairs in order to lend credence to the wild theories the president and his allies are now resorting to.
he says he talked to the president himself and was stasked by him and this a guy desperate to make a deal. he is. and one of the questions is whether he s telling the if tire truth, whether he s holding some back i think as he goes through his trial and we had news additional charges could be added to the charges he s currently facing which are campaign finance related. but as he s staring down potentially he s pleaded not guilty but we ll see what happens. he may be interested in presenting himself as a good citizen, which when it comes to addressing a judge, sentencing or over employees can make a significant difference. i think he s revealed some but i think he s still holding back and i think the committee is understandably unsure whether to trust him. the final point to me about nunes is here s an individual the entire republican talking
republican donor has been awarded a $400 million contract to build 31 miles of border wall. now, donald trump loves tommy fisher. as the washington post reports trump has repeatedly pushed for fisher to get a wall building contract. urging the officials with the army corps of engineers to pick the firm only to be told that his firm did not meet standards. after the president kept pushing the army corps, the company has been added to a pool of competitors and now it has been awarded a massive $400 million contract. probably didn t hurt they maxed out their donations. it also probably helped that fisher was campaigning for the contract trump tv sounding uncannily like trump himself. the president will if he allows us to play and our team of figtser industries to play i