Watching. For you cnn newsroom is next. For u. S. Viewers new day continues right now. It makes sense for chairman to recuse himself. What im raising here is vital to national security. His actions look like someone who is protecting the president and that doesnt work. The chairman made very clear what his goal was. Theres no legitimate reason to have gone to the white house instead of sharing it with his own community. Devin nunes has gone rogue. Jared kushner, russian banker with ties to vladimir putin. Have you a direct conflict between what the white house said at that meeting and what the bank is saying. Roger stone, paul manafort, now Jared Kushner, people who had unusual number of meetings with russians. He wants to make sure about the role he played and who he talked to and thats it. Announcer this is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. Chairman of the House Committee said he will not recuse himself from the Russian Investigation after admitting he secretly met with a source on white house grounds a day before briefing the president on this topic. Remember, nunes went around the democrats on his own committee to give information to the white house after checking in with ryan and other republicans. It really took away the integrity for the democrats working with the republicans. So now we have how will the white house deal with this. They keep dismissing the russia story as a hoax. Now the president is tweeting congress should be focusing on the clintons. All this in light of another major development. The president s soninlaw met with a russian bank we are ties to putin. The kremlin is now saying they didnt know about that meeting. Were in day 68 of the Trump Administration. Our coverage begins with cnn suzan malvo live from capitol hill. Another big day. Its another big day, chris, of course. This caused a growing chorus of people now calling for independent investigation of trumps ties, his teams ties with russia. This comes as revelations emerge day by day about behavior of the Intelligence Committee. Despite that, House Speaker paul ryan says he has very little appetite to replace him. Suzanne malveaux. Leading democrats calling for embattled chairman of the House Committee to step down arguing congressman devin nunes, a former member of trumps Transition Team is too close to the administration to conduct an impartial investigation into the trump campaigns potential ties to russia. Weve reached the point after the events of this week where it would be very difficult to maintain credibility investigation if the chairman did not recuse himself. The uproar coming after nunes acknowledged monday that he made a secret visit to the white house grounds to meet an intelligence source in a secure location. Nobody was sneaking around. All it was was just a place i had to go to be able to review this information. Nunes denying if i wrongdoing a any wrongdoing, denying incidental collection about Trump Team Communications before informing his colleagues on the Intelligence Committee. I wasnt planning on going to the white house the next day. But after i was able to read what i read, i realized it had nothing to do with russia but had everything to do with individuals who were whose names were included into intelligence reports. I was very concerned and i thought that the president of the United States should know and thats why i went and told him. Devin nunes has gone rogue. A growing chorus of democrats piling on. Actions taken by the chairman have compromised the investigation. Reporter calling on House Speaker paul ryan to appoint a new chair. His actions look like those of someone who was interested in protecting the president and his party, and that doesnt work. Reporter both speaker ryan and the white house standing by the chairman. I think hes been fairly open with the press as far as what he was doing, who he spoke to and why. Reporter amid ongoing questions about who granted nunes access to white house grounds, who led him to the secure room at the Eisenhower Executive Office building, and who accessed the computer to view the files. Democrats are now demanding that those white house visitor logs be made public. So far the Trump Administration has refused to do so. At the same time we see President Trump hitting hard back via twitter, tweeting last night saying he believes the whole russia story is a hoax. Also saying and urning members of congress they should investigate the clintons connection to russia instead. Chris. An artful distraction. Will it work . Well see. Suzanne, thank you very much. President trumps soninlaw Jared Kushner facing scrutiny for failing to disclose a meeting he had with russian banger with ties to vladimir putin. Kushner preparing to face senate Intel Committee. Sara murray live from the white house with more. What do we know . Reporter we know the Trump Administration would rather not be talking about this. They cant seem to shed the russia controversy and now caught up one of Donald Trumps closest advisers and a member of his own family. Reporter President Trumps soninlaw under scrutiny for undisblofd meeti undisclosed meeting with the russian banker. This interaction and his role in rang arranging meetings between the trump adviser sergei sy kislyak he volunteered, we made contacts, ill be glad to explain them. Reporter white house insisting acting as liaison when he met with gorkov. Jared did a job during the transition in the campaign where he was a conduit for leaders before we had a state department and people had a place to go. Management repeatedly met with representatives of the worlds leading Financial Institutions including the head of kushner companies, Jared Kushner. Gorkov was appointed to his post at the russian bank by president vladimir putin. Its a bank thats been under u. S. Sanctions for three years since russia took over crimea. Kushner met with gorkov one month after trump was elected at the insistence of ambassador kislyak, who kushner met w the head of the Intelligence Committee confirming they want to talk to kushner saying in a joint statement the timing is still being determined but will only come after the committee dealers that it has received any documents or information necessary to ensure the meeting is productive for all sides. If it happens, kushner would become the first person currently serving in the white house to speak to Congressional Committee investigating russian ties. Firestorm previously undisclosed official. As for meeting with russian banking official, the kremlin is saying today they did not know about the meeting until they heard about it. Sara, whats going on behind you, are you getting kicked out of there . Who is the loud guy. Others. You dont want to call out any particular person for being the loudmouth. The joy of the white house relative humidity. Needed to check. Didnt want to read through later you had to knock someone out. Sara, thank you very much. Lets discuss all of these developments including russia entanglements or allegations thereof with our panel cnn senior political analyst mark preston. Cnn analyst and author of how is your faith David Gregory and cnn analyst and Washington Post report maggie phillip. Some reporting, learned house Intel Committee, devin nunes committee, has now officially strapped all the scheduled meetings they had for this week. The Intel Committee was going to be interviewing people trying to get to the bottom of what these russian connections were. They cant do that because of all the consternation around devin nunes. It sounds like he is now getting in the way of them doing their job. How long it he last . For all the committees you hope there wouldnt be a politicization of investigative committee, this is the one you dont want to happen. A democrat in california, who was on last night on cnn, said she lost all confidence in nunes. Very personal thing to say about one of your fellow committee members. Can you criticizes somebody for politics, when you get into personalities, shows you how raw this is for democrats and quite frankly nunes who they dont think can lead the committee at this point. David, whats your take on how partisan this is . Isnt this straight up deception, went around democrats on the committee, went to ryan, checked in with some of his republicans and then went to the white house and gave them some type of political cover. It seems pretty obvious it doesnt have to be a partisan problem, its just a problem. Just a straight up problem. If youre head of the Intelligence Committee and you want to run a straight investigation into a very serious matter thats being looked at on the senate side as well, you dont do this. Somebody on the Transition Team, any of these committees are subject to politics. There are politicians involved there, not independent actors. Even those can have political overtones as well. This is just a way to undermine any serious work that this committee is doing. He absolutely should know better. He had a different motive in mind here. So now if you wanted to give to the democrats to have a select committee or independent committee or counsel for that matter, devin nunes handed that to him on a platter. I think what really ends up happening, and this goes to kushner issue as well, the senate takes over this investigation. That does not appear to be compromise. I dont think republicans want to create a select committee or have an independent counsel but certainly nunes did a lot to help the democrats cause. Abbey, help us understand what he did here. He went to the white house. Said he had to go because there are only certain cases you can view classified information. You know, correct me if im wrong president bush set up Prism Program that captured, collected this data, communications with a foreign leader and where somebody might incidentally, an american, be caught up in a phone call or some sort of communications. But devin nunes seemed confused about what he was seeing. He still seems confused about what he saw. He wasnt able to sort of categorize what he said. It had something to do with russia. Beyond that it was unclear what he was looking at. Where are we with the substance of this . Yeah, thats a really good point. One of the most puzzling parts about how this was handled devin nunes decided to hold a press conference and briefed the president on incomplete information, information that he himself does not seem to fully understand or be able to contextualize. That is very confusing and puzzling and doesnt seem to help trump if that was even his motive. One of the problems with this whole series of events is also what devin nunes has said publicly. He talked about the political heat the president was taking and feeling that was unfair and he felt he needed to act. As chairman of Intelligence Committee thats not his main motivation or shouldnt be. It isnt to take off the political heat from the person youre investigating. All of these things, both his actions and his words are leading to a sense that he doesnt have a full handle on the situation and that maybe hes trying to help the president or trying to ease the political pressure on the president at a time when hes supposed to be in a watchdog mode doing forward with this investigation hand in hand with his democrat colleagues in order to make it as impartial as possible. Well see what happens with nunes. Some are asking him to recuse himself, a la jeff sessions. Others saying he should get off all together. This has still been effective. The idea of russian interference into our election, and any potential connections that are untoward with trump has turned into, who is unmaersking these sources . Whats all this toxic leaking going on. That wasnt part of the mandate. Now on equal footing with anything else they are looking at and taking away with time spent on the questions. I agree with you. Its the impression four associates, whether former or current or very close in their family testifying on capitol hill. Not even testifying. Kushner offered to speak to him, not testify. Hes not saying ill raise my hand and have my words bonded by an oath. A few of them testifying. A couple of them on capitol hill. Nunes could have avoided all this if he had just picked up the phone and called adam schiff, the ranking democrat saying i got a phone call, you need to come down here and we need to look at this together. Why would he do that . He wants to give cover to the white house with this clumsy hollow claim that president obama committed a felony and wiretapped him. Why would he do that . Hes trying to give him political cover. He did exactly that and only that. I think youre being kind saying it was clumsy. There are probably worse terms you could use to adequately explain that he did. Im known for my discretion. And his word wizardry. David, how significant is this jared development that he met or a representative met with russian officials, a banker three times . Well, we dont know. Thats what the Intelligence Committee has to find out. There are a couple of things striking about this. Why is this just coming out now . The white house when it got caught up in all this earlier made some show about reporting out all the contacts they had, except for this one. It shows when the president thinks this is all a joke, he treats it like a joke, tweets like a hoax, doesnt take the manipulation of the election seriously. He thinks its undermining him, allowing his ego to get in the way rather than protecting the office. Why should anybody comply with the demands of this investigation. So the white house has been sloppy at the very least about all of this, which is not to say these are necessarily inappropriate. However, you cannot just say, as sean spicer routinely does, Jared Kushner met with lots of people. Hes a liaison on the campaign. Russia is different. I dont care whether trump says its not, its different. They demonstrably try to manipulate United States election. They will do so in other elections. They have been up to no good for a long time. This is not business as usual. Any Incoming Administration should have treated russia as such. This one did not. Now weve got a drip, drip, drip. Again, whatever your political leadings, you ought to be able to get to the bottom of whatever they tried to do. Not because it influenced the outcome, not because it determined the outcome but because the russians tried. Whether youre a populist that supports trump or democrats you want to get to the bottom of this. I would argue they succeeded. If what they wanted was to disrupt democratic process, look what ensued. Debate necessarily determine the outcome but certainly the manipulation succeeded. Fair point. Ab abby, dick cheney called it an act of war, in the flit cal sphere, latest turn about in play, while the white house is very soft with russia, russia came out and said we didnt know about any meeting between a banker and Jared Kushner. By the way, when they did acknowledge the meeting coming out of the kremlin, the banker referred to kushner as head of kushner development, not white house, which was, again, another jab this was somehow a conflict. Yeah. The russians have been playing this game i think a little bit more of a sophisticated way than the white house. They understand that they have longterm goals here, which include just creating a section of chaos and undermining the political system, undermining the trust in our government. Thats where they are going with this. The difference between russia and some other country isnt just that its russia. It isnt just the human rise complaints, it isnt just the sort of treatment of political dissidents, its also they were at the time either about to or under sanctions. The white house, you know, the trump transition was not handling russia in a way that was consistent with someone who was being sanctioned by the United States. That could be one of the cruxes of the potential problems Going Forward for them. Abby, david, mark, thank you very much for all of those insights. Well, the woman we were just talking about who wants congressman devin nunes from Intelligence Committees Russian Investigation, we are going to have the congresswoman on. She wants him to step down from the committee. And she says he can no longer do his job. She joins us next. 3w4 3w4r5. At fidelity, were available 24 7 we let you know where you stand, so when it comes to your retirement plan, youll always be absolutely. Clear. Time to think of your future its your retirement. Know where you stand. 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