bidens. women, that s an interesting point given now it appears that nunes himself was part of this effort. so according to lev parnas attorney, parnas wants to testify in front of congress and say that nunes met with viktor shokin back in december in vienna to get dirt on the bidens. who is viktor shokin? ex-prosecutor fon cynthr ukrain pressure, fired back in 2016. the one who says he has dirt on the bidens and it appears has an ax to grind here because biden was part of that effort. so essentially according to parnas attorney, after he returned, devin nunes reached out to parnas. said he wanted to coordinate efforts to get dirt with giuliani and parnas effort to get dirt, and essentially talked to him several times, and even had an aide communicating with parnas on who to reach out to who might have some of this
russia apparently had information that tsarnaev was planning to travel there, and he was going to join up with some unspecified underground groups. and they said they made the request because he was a follower of radical islam, strong believer, that he changed drastically since 2010. what we don t know is why russian officials didn t take him away when he was there. he was in the region for six months. and also, joe, just so i m clear, as far as we know, did any russian officials actually talk to him while he was there, or follow him? and on when he returned, as far as we know, no u.s. officials followed up with him, correct? that s right. i don t know about russia, and i have asked a lot of those questions. i don t know what happened when he was there, but when he came back here, it s my understanding that the fbi essentially had already checked him out. they didn t have anything on him at all. and so they pretty much let him go as a free man. so gloria, you ve got some