chairman has said publicly, and my understanding from his public comments are that there are certain systems that he doesn t have access to. that was his explanation, and i m going to i think you should follow up with him on that. did the white house ever search for the same documents the chairman searched for? i don t know what he found, so it would be hard to make an assessment of what he was briefed on and what we know. that s a really hard question to answer at this point. is it possible these documents were merely surveillance reports? i m not going to get into hypothesis, john. i don t know what he found. to say what s possible or not, i don t know. let me finish, if i could. is it possible these were surveillance reports from security clearances that were collected after people filled them out? i don t know. i honestly don t know what he s got on his systems and what the intel community has on theirs that he wouldn t have access to. i don t know what he would have
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
my understanding from his public comments are thaf there are certain systems that he doesen have access to. that was his explanation and i think you should follow up with him on it. did white house ever search the same documents that the chairman searched? i don t know what he found so it would be hard to make an assessment of what he was briefed on. that s a hard question to answer. is it possible that thaoe documents were merely surveillance reports? i m not going to get into hypotheticals. to say what s possible, what s not, i don t know. let me finish. is it possible these were surveillance reports that were filled out? i don t know. i don t know. i honestly don t know what he s got on his systems and what the intel community has on theirs that he wouldn t have access to. i don t know what he would have had access to already. amen? on tax cuts, you got little bit of political cover from the
chairman devin nunes on this show last night detailing why he had a duty to brief the president about the surveillance reports. joining us enough to fox news contributor david boss is and president of judicial release tom fit ton. i have have got to golt you. you could be one of these people by the way because we knee this happened in november, december, january for sure. sarah carter thinks some of it happened before the election. really serious stuff if you care about the first amendment, the fourth amendment. over constitutional amendments. what s your reaction? you know, sean, that s correct. i was there during obviously of the campaign but i was also the deputy transition team. i was there all it s wave true nomination. it is disconsenting that you could find yourself date up in this. it s wiewn dling to talk about the politics of it.
americans, the names of those americans are supposed to be blacked out in intelligence reports when they circulate around the government. sometimes they can be unmasked. and what nunes is saying is i saw some reports that mentioned some trump people, some of them were unmasked. i wasn t sure whether that was appropriate. but of course this was occurring the presidential transition dwhen foreign edge bass cities would be talking to their capitals about who is going to get what job, who is up, who is down, what is donald trump going to do. perfectly normal stuff that the nsa would be picking up. so there is really no scandal here. and democrats are scratching their heads about why nunes did this in this way. and the other point to make about this is that donald trump is the president of the united states. he could order any of these surveillance reports sent to his desk tomorrow. he doesn t new devin nunes to learn about this stuff. so it raises a lot of questions about why it was done i