committee, members like myself and others, so we can do our work. he didn t do anything that would require him to do this. i am frustrated and frankly a little angry that the politics of us has gotten such that he would be forced into that situation. martha: you don t think it was a mistake for him to go to the president? why not? speak it was he made clear, it may nothing to do with the rusted investigation. it was information that he felt was appropriate, and necessary for the president to be aware of. i would challenge anyone, why was that wrong? committee will have access to the information. he advised that he had the information, he advised both parties, republicans or democrats. to take that to the president of the vote circumstances, i just don t see where people would fall to that. martha: and nunes statement, he said several left-wing academic groups have filed accusations against him. he has stepped aside
from a democrats point of view, they had a nominee, merrick garland, s not only highly qualified, he was a consensus pick and confirmed and so many offices by republicans that he was denied the opportunity. martha: gorsuch has the same description. i don t doubt that you could argue that bashar gorsuch was d but garland was distinguishing his position. i wanted to pick on something dash go martha: that is why they didn t vote for him? the point was that they denied. this is the power the point i wanted to pick up. this is the power of obstruction. the republicans obstructed president obama s nominee, i think jeff merkley of oregon called at the theft of the century. you have a situation where david is saying, going forward, you can have a 7-2 conservative republican majority. what that says to you, martha,
was that he took relevant intelligence and went to the president with it before he went to other committee members. the new head of the russia probe tells me that he has not talked to president trump about his new role and he is not going to talk to anyone at the white house about it unless their name comes up in the court, course of his investigation. martha: here now, house intelligence member congressman chris stewart. good to have you here tonight. if this has been a tough road on the house side for this investigation. what do you think about the fact that nunes was pressured out? that has been a tough road. frankly, it has been tougher because it had to be because people have been overly political. one of the great things about the intelligence community as we generally do our work behind closed doors to, we don t do it in front of television cameras, and we try not to be political. for devon to be put in the situation, i challenge anyone, tell me what you think you did wrong
president of jordan abdullah, or i should say king of jordan, abdullah, with a news conference coming up at any moment now. we could hear also the president talk about the susan rice situation, the unmasking of names, and her declaration that she did not leak anything. she said she leaked nothing. that would be the first time since those remarks have been spoken that we would hear from our own president on that potentially. we re watching for this to happen, the dual news conference. as it does, we ll bring it to you live on fnc, for the cool kids. stay close. you don t let anything
what syria or iraq or islam is. joining us now, former acting director of the cia. thank you very much for joining us tonight. i just wanted to go, first of all, to the susan rice situation. and is there anything that you ve heard in that story as it s unfolded today. including what susan rice had to say about it. that gives you any concern or is there any point that you think we should be focusing on or elaborating on in that story? what i would say based on susan s remarks today and it accords with my experience and judgment. she was merely doing her job. what happens there is that she s delivered each morning a series of reports, occasionally they referred to foreigners contacting americans about something and she has the option of asking the fbi or the national security agency to