not capable or willing to pursue that truth, only an independent commission can provide us with what we need to know. all right. jason johnson, thanks so much for being here. this republican party divided or united? they re meeting right now behind closed doors. how much discussion will be about the new issues about russia and chairman nunes? we also know who is not meeting today, the house intelligence committee. we re going to speak to a top house democrat who tells us something smells with this committee. you will hear from him next. also look at the stock market. stocks stopped after the white house deals with a series of setbacks. is the slump continue to continue and what that means for you straight ahead. going beyond expectations. because our pets deserve it. beyond. natural pet food.
caucus in the house of representatives and he has backed up nunes until this point. while we re waiting, i want to bring up another famous republican that democrats seem to love, all of a sudden, this morning because of what he has to say about russia. listen to former vice president dick chaney. there was an effort made by mr. putin and his government to interfere in major ways with our basic fundamental processes. in some quarters that would be considered an act of war. and most republicans now are very serious about this investigation on capitol hill. but that is different language we heard from the president himself really up until them. he continues to call the whole
the intelligence committee has canceled all meetings for this week. they have called on chairman nunes to stepped aside. moments ago we spoke to congressman joseph crowley of knock and we asked him if we agreed with the calls for chairman nunes to step aside. i agree. at this point i agree with both the ranking member, adam schiff and leader pelosi. i do think it is time for him to step aside for the sake of this investigation and so we could get to the bottom of this without any innuendo and suspension. how he received the information and giving it to both sides of the aisle on the house intelligence committee speaks volumes to his needing to step aside. let me ask you about this.
he was not aware that his family was being discussed on open channels and even was aware of it but he was not. martha, the simplest answer is sometimes the correct one. the president has this information and nunez implied he received it from someone at the agency. why weren t they able to give it to someone at the white house. if that s the case, why do you care that he went to talk to him about it? he job is to conduct an independent collaborative invest investigation. the chairman has put himself into the office of someone whose campaign is under investigation that we are supposed to investigate. that compromises our integrity. wouldn t you like to know how that intelligence got into those people s hands and wouldn t that
up the white house wiretapping issue. the ranking democrat offered his own theory. there must have been a strong push back from the white house about the nature of monday s hearing. it s hard to come to any other conclusion about why it would be canceled. clearly it has to do with the week. the chairman cannot continue to lead the investigation, but it s not their call. thank you. you re welcome. with us congressman smallwell. we don t know what was discussed, but you would imagine that the white house would like to have a better understanding of the information chairmannen nunez gave about why there would