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.
night detailing why he had a duty to brief the president about the surveillance reports for joining us now with reaction s fox news contributor and former trump deputy campaign manager dave bossi and the president of judicial watch, tom fitton. i ve got to tell you, dave, i know you were there. you could be one of these people, by the way, because we know that this happened november, december, january for sure. sara carter think some of it started before the election. really serious stuff if you care about the fourth amendment, before the moment, other constitutional amendments. what is your reaction? sean, that s correct. i was aware during obviously the campaign, but i was also the deputy so i will as they are all the way through inauguration. and it is a little bit disconcerting that you could find yourself caught up in this. and it s one thing to talk about the politics of it for the investigation, but when it s
the rest of the investigation? that is not terribly significant because fbi director james comey had already made that clear. we have long understood there was no wiretap. but the news of last week was that devin nunes essentially blew up the independence of the house investigations by his actions and words. what happened is he had a pair of news conferences where he said he had seen surveillance reports in a appear to have monitored, he used the phrase monitored trump and his associates at frour. and he went to the white house and handed these reports to president trump and then he had another news conference. he did this without consulting dnls on t democrats on the committee and then he acknowledged that trump may not have been monitored after all, these may have been foreigners talks to foern forei that mentioned donald trump and his aides which is a whole different kettle of fish. this happens all the time the nsa listening to foreigners and
were they monitored or we won t know that until we actually receive all of the documentation. what s going on here? is this a retraction on the chairman s part? you saw it there, that was a back track. i mean, he threw a stink bomb into the investigation of trump/russia. on his own he held a news conference, saying he had seen that trump and his aides were monitored in surveillance reports. two days later he said, well, i can t say that they were monitored. this may have been foreigners talking to foreigners overheard by the nsa or evesdropped on by the nsa about trump and his aides. which happens all the time. it s routine. there are rules about blacking out the identities of americans when they appear in intelligence reports.
rout, and then he defended his decision. the whole thing was a ruse. it was designed to give donald trump cover. donald trump doesn t need nunes to get ahold of the surveillance reports. he could order them from the nsa. a lot of questions here. it really kind of casts a pall over the russia-trump collusion, and a lot of people are wondering whether he can independently lead that probe. that s really the big question. can he actually do that? ken delaney, appreciate you joining me. just one day after the republican health care bill was withdrawn republican senator lindsey graham is back in his home state of california facing tough questions from his constituents. we ll go there live next.