Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. Undoubtedly, hes going to confirm all the suspicions mounting for the past year that hes been using his chairmanship to protect the president. We recall last year when he viewed some things he viewed as problematic in those intelligence reports. He rushed to the white house, briefed the president about it before even briefing his committee. He was forced to step aside from the Russia Investigation on his Committee Last year, but he still wielded considerable influence from the outside. He stopped democratic attempts to subpoena witnesses, to get more records, to schedule witness interviews. Behind the scenes, he mounted his own investigation to try to sew doubt on the fbi, the Russia Investigation, the mueller probe. That led to the release of the nunes memo from earlier this year, criticizing how that fisa warrant was obtained to monitor carter page. Democrats say this is all part of this effort by devin nunes to
is first of all, it represents a pretty belated response to this astonishing use of deadly nerve agent on british soil months ago. actually, the trump administration is required by international biological chemical weapons conventions to do something about it if a state is accused of being in violation of it. they spent months not doing anything, belatedly made this action. of course, it comes after the president s very friendly helsinki summit with vladimir putin. to me, it actually underscores just how sort of double headed the trump administration policy is. you have donald trump s policy toward russia, which is very conciliatory and very different from the often tough policy of his own administration. and this is another example of that. they did, the administration, expel about 60 russian diplomats but did not impose the sanctions, which were required as part of this 1991 chemical weapons law. and it was only after the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, ed royce, i