He was being wirmd by the Obama Administration. But today the white house began to see a little light at the end of the tunnel. The press secretary today lashed out at questions about white house involvement in providing information to the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. If everyone was treating the president of the administration fairly, you would ask a series of much different questions about the substance than the material. Reporter after weeks of playing defense the white house appeared to find a small hole to run through today, intelligence officials telling fox news the two white house staffs who assisted in devin nunes search for intelligence were not his original source. And that nunes has been investigating the surveillance and unmasking of Trump Officials since well before the president sent out those now infamous tweets. When he came out initially and talked to the media, he made it very clear that he had been looking into this. He had stated this much earlier than the president had ever raised this issue about surveillance. Reporter the white house also pointed to statements made by former Obama Administration official Evelyn Farkas who a month ago appeared to indicate that the Obama White House had been collecting intelligence on trump connections with russia. If they found out how we knew what we knew about their the trump staff dealing with russians that they would try to comp promize those sources and methods meaning we would no longer have access to that intelligence. I think that is interesting how no one seems to cover the fact that a senior Obama Administration with high level clearances talked about the spreading of classified information for political purposes and no one seems to care. Reporter this afternoon the ranking democrat on the House Intelligence Committee arrived at the white house, adam schiff, taking up the white house counsels offer to look at the same intelligence that the chairman viewed 11 days ago. Before his arrival, schiff argued that all the members of the committee should have the same opportunity. The former trump official at the center of both surveillance and unmasking, general Michael Flynn may soon appear before the congressional Intelligence Committees. His attorney made a public offer to testify in exchange for immunity. The offer caught the eye of the president who tweeted, quote mike flynn should ask for immunity and that this is a witchhunt, excuse for big election loss of historic proportion. The language witchhunt drew criticism from the Republican HouseOversight Committee who also suggested the president shouldnt be weighing in on this on twitter. No, i dont think its a witch hunt. Its very miss serious to me though why all of a sudden general flynn is out there saying he wants immunity. A, i dont think congress should give him immiewngt. If there is an open investigation by the fbi, that should not happen. Reporter republican spokesman for the House Intelligence Committee says they have had some preliminary discussions with Michael Flynns attorney but no conditions were discussed there has been no word yet from the senate Intelligence Committee on whether they might grant immunity. And flynns attorney Robert Kelner would not comment to fox news tonight. Chris . Chris john roberts report from the white house. John, thanks for that lets talk with syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer with all of this. Lets start with mike flynn, his lawyer seeking immunity for any testimony before congress or the fbi and then Donald Trumps tweet saying thats exactly the right thing to do. Seek immunity. Where does that take this case . Well, its not going to depend on trump tweet. Although i think its not a very good idea for the president to inject himself into this. Its not going to help. If the fbi or any of the committees think that flynn can deliver trump, they will grant him immunity. Theres no reason to think he will. If its just protecting himself, i think they wont be interested in granting him immunity. In other words, is he only useful to the extent that he gets the big fish. Thats how it is in all of these investigations. So, i think it has to do with flynns own exposure, not having agent of the turkish government. Perhaps some dealings with the russians that predate his involvement in the Trump Campaign, that we dont know about. I suspect its personal stuff. Its not campaign stuff, and its not going to help the investigation of russian tampering. Chris then weve got the white house offering and today devin nunes, the im sorry, adam schiff, the top democrat on the House Intel Committee as we saw, taking them up on their offer to go to the white house to the nsc to see the intelligence that devin nunes got to see. That only happened after the New York Times reported that, in fact, it was nsc that gave devin nunes the information in the first place. Look, the ticktock on the history of this is disturbing and puzzling. In the end, all that matters is what schiff says that he saw. Is he going to come out and i suppose over the weekend hell be on the shows. Will he come out and say there is stuff here thats troubling . There appears to have been some improper unmasking and improper spreading of this intelligence. Or will he say that there is nothing here . That, to me, is what is important. I find it really childish for the two sides to be arguing your issue is a distraction. Only my issue counts. There are two charges here. One that the Trump Campaign colluded with the russians and the other is that the Obama Administration misused intelligence information. Why is one a distraction from the other . Why cant somebody stand up and say they are both legitimate issues. We need to investigate both. There is this implication, particularly in the media, that unless you are talking about the alleged collusion, all youre doing is distracting. Is not the unmasking of americans a real issue . Of course it is. And if this were the only issue, the media would be all over it. Chris i want to pick up on exactly that issue because you have been talking about it for a while and i know you are troubled and, look, you should be if its true. Be a crime, be unmasking of american officials swept up in intelligence gathering. The New York Times reports today and you can take it or leave it, but they report today that most of the unmasking, the great part of it was foreign ambassadors or sphorn officials talking amongst themselves about having contacts, trying to develop relationships with members of the trump transition and that if you read it you can kind of guess which trump official they wanted to develop a relationship with, perfectly innocent. Perfectly normal relationship with a new administration. If thats all this is, is the unmasking such a big deal . It depends what the content is. If you have one ambassador saying to another that an important person in the white house, prefers macaroni and cheese over steak, thats not important. If you have him saying that this person in the white house wants to work out a deal with the russians over syria o whatever, or has been collaborating in some way with the russians or with others, thats real. Look, the reason you have been having these argue. S that are circular, we have been chasing our tails on this for three weeks, it lets be honest about this. We dont know damn thing. Chris thats exactly right. There are stories coming out every day. Everybody is giving them out, particularly the ones in the Intelligence Community are trained to lie so until this is all over, and we hear the testimony, we have no idea. Chris the infamous hall of mirrors. Charles, thank you. Have a good weekend. My pleasure. Chris two Senate Democrats will support President Trumps pick to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court. But the path of judge neil gorsuch to the bench is still filled with political potholes. Chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel tells us why. Its setting up to be quite a showdown in the Senate Next Week with republicans saying judge neech wilneil gorsuch will be confirmed to the Supreme Court one way or another. Mitch mcconnell says much of the opposition is pure politics. The democratic leader even joined in, saying he would oppose anyone from the president s list of candidates and would fight it tooth and nail as long as we have to in order to keep Justice Scalias seat open. Reporter republicans say democratic leader Chuck Schumer is fearful of the anger on the left after Merrick Garland president obamas nominee last year was never considered. Senator Chuck Schumer is considering a filibuster instead of allowing a straight up or down vote. The republican majority want everyone to believe that by the end of next week one of two things must happen. Either judge gorsuch will pass with 60 votes or they must exercise the Nuclear Option and change the rules of the senate so that he can pass on a simple majority. Reporter two democrats up for reelections next year by states carried by President Trump joe manchin of West Virginia and Heidi Heitkamp of north dakota said they will support gorsuch. Institutionalists like senator john mccain are trying to see if a deal can be struck to avoid the socalled Nuclear Option changing the threshold to 51 votes. Missouri democrat senator Claire Mccaskill is up for election next year. In leaked audio from a fundraiser she questioned the democrat strategy and worried about the next openings of justice ginsburg, breyer or kennedy retire and the filibuster is gone. We are not talking about scalia for scalia, which is what gorsuch is, we are talking about scalia for somebody on the court who shares our values. And then all of the sudden the things i fought for, the scars on my back to show it in this state, are in jeopardy. Reporter today the White House Press secretary encouraged democrats to take mccaskills advice. We hope her praise leads to additional support. Reporter mccaskill says she will vote know. By our count 10 undecided democrats and ours on both sides say it success unlikely support gorsuch meaning a change in precedent is likely. Criminals . Chris more on this with the panel. Mike, thank you. Stocks were down. The dow off 65. The s p 500 gave back five. Nasdaq was off three. For the week, the dow gained a third of a percentage point. The s p 500 was up. 08. Nasdaq rose almost 1. 5. A break away faction of the Pakistani Taliban is claiming responsibility for a car bombing that killed at least 24 people near a shiite house of worship. The blast occurred in a tribal region where dering afghanistan. The explosion was so powerful, it damaged cars and nearby shops. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson is telling nato allies its time to pay up. Tillerson has given nato partners a deadline to come up with plans to chip in more for their own defense. Correspondent rich edson reports tonight from brussels. Reporter secretary of state Rex Tillerson went to his first nato meeting and gave u. S. Allies an assignment. Those failing to meet the nato defense spending threshold should offer a plan on how they will eventually honor that commitment. Ensuring that nato has all of the resources, financial and otherwise that are necessary for nato to fulfill its mission. Reporter secretary tillerson gave them two months may 25th. Thats the next nato meeting. They agreed to move toward the target of spending 2 of the size of their countrys economies on defense. The u. S. , united kingdom, poland, greece and astone i cant are the only five nato countries reaching that target. There are 28 nations in nato. As forever the u. S. Response, if nato countries fail to spend more on defense, state Department Officials refused to say. The German Foreign minister is already pushing back on the u. S. Request. Reuters reports foreign minister sigmoid gabriel would mean 70 billion euros. I dont know any german politician would claim that is reachable or desirable. Before reprimanding nato allies on defense spending secretary tillerson opened his remarks to International Counterparts expressing support for nato is strong and bedrock for transatlantic security. A message of relief for some. Remember, at the beginning of the presidency, you know, nato is not so important anymore. It is not the key for security. Now we see that the United States said, no it is the corner stone of transatlantic alliance. Reporter secretary tillerson also warned russia that nato is fundamental to countering russian aggression. He gave a very strong message stressing that the United States is together with ukraine in fighting the russian aggression. Reporter ukraines foreign minister also said tillerson promised the United States would maintain sanctions against russia until it honors ceasefire agreements in ukraine. Nato leaders also discussed Counter Terrorism and fighting isis. There are still questions over formulating strategy like whether the Trump Administration will look to work with russia on trying to fight isis and what the future of syria may be and whether syrian president ba shower al assad will be a part of it. Chris . Chris rich edson reporting live from brussels. Rich, thank you. Iran is still the top threat to stability in the middle east. Thats the word from President Trumps defense secretary. Pentagon producer Lucas Tomlinson tells us what else jim mattis is saying. Despite the ongoing battle against isis and al qaeda, defense secretary jim mattis warned not to ignore iran. At the time when i spoke about iran, i was the commander of u. S. Central command and that was the primary exporter of terrorism, frankly. It was primary state sponsor of terrorism and it continues that kind of behavior today. Reporter last week the u. S. Says george h. W. Bush arrived in the persian gulf to begin air strikes against isis and to keep an eye on iran. On capitol hill the head of u. S. Central command said iran represents the greatest threat to the region, operating in a gray zone just short of open conflict. I think we need to look at opportunities where we can disrupt through military means or other means their activities. General votel says irans behavior has gotten worse when a nuclear deal was reached during the Obama Administration. Testfired more Ballistic Missiles iran and russia continue to Work Together in syria to keep president Bashar Al Assad in power. We have seen russian jets operating out of iranian basis and cooperation to prop up the regime and give them new life here. I think we should be concerned about that. This weeks irans president visited moscow and a sign of warming ties between nations. Russia and iran coordinate on every step to stabilize the situation in syria. The russians are taking a pledge out of irans playbook supporting the taliban. Trying to undermine the United States and afghanistan. I think its fair to assume they may be providing some kind of support to them in terms of weapons or other things that may be there. Again, i think that is the possibility. We have seen russian activity, visavis the taliban im not willing to say if that has manifested into weapons. Certainly what they are up to there in light of their other activity gives us concern. Iran is accused of killing hundreds of american troops in iraq a decade ago. General votel says there are 100,000 iranian backed fighters in iraq raising question what comes next after isis. Chris what many people sees a a power grab is prompting violent protests prots in venezuelala. The countrys Supreme Court has stripped the opposition controlled congress of much its power. That has sent critic into the streets. National guardsman and caracas swird buck shot and swung batons at demonstrators. Nicholas has seen his Approval Ratings plunge amid widespread Food Shortages and triple digit inflation. 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