Nunes, Kushner and ongoing White House controversies

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>>> WELCOME BACK.
NEW PLOT TWIST TODAY INVOLVING
TWO KEY PLAYERS IN THE RUSSIAN
ELECTION MEDDLING INVESTIGATION.
THE PRESIDENT'S SON-IN-LAW JARED
KUSHNER HAS AGREED TO BE
QUESTIONED BY THE SENATE LEGS
COMMITTEE ABOUT HIS ELECTION
YEAR CONTACTS WITH TWO KEY
RUSSIAN PLAYERS.
WE'LL GET TO THAT.
FIRST THE SPY DRAMA WITHIN THE
SPY DRAMA.
HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE
CHAIRMAN DEVIN NUNES HAS SOME
PLANING TO GO.
HE'S ALREADY UNDER FIRE ABOUT
INTELLIGENCE REPORTS THAT NUNES
SAYS TRUMP TRANSITION OFFICIALS
WERE IN CONTACT WITH PEOPLE
UNDER U.S. GOVERNMENT
SURVEILLANCE.
NUNES RACED TO MEET WITH THE
PRESIDENT TO TELL HIM BEFORE
SHARING THAT INFORMATION WITH
OTHER COMMITTEE MEMBERS,
DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS.
NUNES HAS REFUSED TO BE MORE
SPECIFIC ABOUT THE INTEL REPORTS
EXCEPT TO SAY THEY DON'T HAVE
ANYTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA.
HE'S ALSO REFUSED TO SAY HOW HE
LEARNED ABOUT THEM.
NOW CNN HAS LEARNED AND NUNES
NOW CONFIRMS HE WAS AT THE WHITE
HOUSE COMPLEX THE DAY BEFORE HIS
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT.
CNN'S MANU RAJU JOINS US FROM
THE CAPITAL.
DEMOCRATS WERE SAYING HE WAS
TRYING TO PROTECT THE PRESIDENT,
NOT TRYING TO CONDUCT AN
INVESTIGATION.
I ASSUME FOR THE DEMOCRATS THIS
IS ANOTHER LOGON THE FIRE.
WHAT IS THE EXPLANATION?
>> WE'RE LEARNING MORE ABOUT HIS
WHEREABOUTS.
PUTTING OUT A STATEMENT SAYING
THAT CHIAIRMAN NUNES MET WITH TE
SOURCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE
GROUNDS TO HAVE PROXIMITY TO A
LOCATION WHERE HE COULD VIEW THE
INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE
SOURCE.
THE CHAIRMAN IS EXTREMELY
CONCERNED BY THE IMPROPER
UNMASKING OF NAMES AND HE BEGAN
LOOKING INTO THE ISSUE EVEN
BEFORE PRESIDENT TRUMP TWEETED
THAT ASSERTION THAT TRUMP TOWER
HAD BEEN WIRE TAPPED.
WHY IS THIS SIGNIFICANT?
BECAUSE NUNES HAS NOT BEEN
SAYING WHETHER OR NOT THIS
INFORMATION CAME FROM THE WHITE
HOUSE, BUT MULTIPLE TIMES LAST
WEEK I ASKED HIM CAN YOU
CATEGORICALLY RULE OUT THAT THIS
INFORMATION CAME FROM THE WHITE
HOUSE?
HE WOULD NOT DO THAT.
HE SAID I CANNOT REVEAL MY
SOURCES AND METHODS.
BUT THE REASON WHY FOLKS ARE
CONCERNED ABOUT THIS,
PARTICULARLY ON THE DEMOCRATIC
SIDE IS PART OF THE HOUSE
INTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATION IS
LOOKING AT WHITE HOUSE TRUMP
TEAM CONTACTS WITH RUSSIAN
OFFICIALS DURING THE
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
THEY BELIEVE THERE SHOULD BE A
FIRE WALL OF SORTS BETWEEN WHAT
CAPITOL HILL IS DOING AND WHAT
THE HOUSE IS DOING AND THE
POSSIBILITY HERE THAT MR. NUNES
MAY HAVE RECEIVED THIS
INFORMATION FROM THE WHITE HOUSE
AND THEN BRIEFED THE PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES WITHOUT
TELL HIS COMMITTEE STAFF AND
THEN REVEALING THIS PUBLICLY TO
ATTEMPT TO APPARENTLY MUDDY THE
WATERS ON THE ALLEGATION OF WIRE
TAPPING RAISES A LOT OF
QUESTIONS.
SPEAKER RYAN HAS FULL CONFIDENCE
IN DEVIN NUNES.
ACTUALLY A SPOKES PERSON PUTTING
OUT A STATEMENT MOMENTS AGO SAID
RYAN BELIEVES THAT MR. NUNES CAN
RUN A CREDIBLE FAIR
INVESTIGATION BUT LAST YEWEEK
NUNES CAME UNDER FIRE WHEN HE
CANCELED A TUESDAY PUBLIC
HEARING ON RUSSIA WHERE ANOTHER
INTELLIGENCE FORMER INTELLIGENCE
OFFICIALS WERE GOING TO TESTIFY.
I AM HEARING TODAY THAT JAMES
COMEY WHO WAS GOING TO HAVE A
CLASSIFIED BRIEFING TOMORROW
INSTEAD MAY NOT ACTUALLY APPEAR
BEFORE THE HOUSE INTELLIGENCE
SK
COMMITTEE.
WE'RE TRYING TOO GET MORE
INFORMATION IF IN THFACT THAT
BRIEF SUGGEST GOING TO HAPPEN.
BUT AS TO WHETHER THIS
INVESTIGATION CAN PRODUCE A
CREDIBLE REPORT ON THE ISSUE OF
RUSSIA TIES AND THE TRUMP
CAMPAIGN, PARTICULARLY IN LIGHT
OF THE LATEST REVELATIONS.
>> I THINK THAT CERTAINLY IS A
FAIR QUESTION.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
SOMEBODY HELP ME.
IF THE CHAIRMAN HAS SOMETHING,
IF THE CHAIRMAN HAS SOMETHING
THAT IS SIGNIFICANT AND HE HAS A
LEGITIMATE BEEF HE SAYS ABOUT
THE UNMASKING, IF SOMEBODY GETS
PICKED UP IN A PHONE
CONVERSATION, HE SAYS THIS IS
HAPPENING LIKE THE OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION, OKAY, THAT
POTENTIALLY A BIG DEAL.
BUT THIS ISN'T THE WAY TO DEAL
WITH IT.
TO RAISE QUESTIONS ABOUT ARE YOU
PROTECTING THE PRESIDENT.
WHY ARE YOU DOING IT?
THERE IS -- YOU'RE UP ON THE
HILL ALL THE TIME.
IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I SPEP

SPENT MY DAYS UP THERE.
THERE'S A PLACE THE INTELLIGENCE
COMMITTEE MEETS.
THAT TELLS YOU HIS SOURCE IS IN
OR NEAR THE WHITE HOUSE COMPLEX.
THEY'LL LET YOU BRING AN OUTSIDE
SOURCE INTO A SECURITY FACILITY?
I THINK NOT.
>> IT RAISES A LOT OF QUESTIONS.
>> THIS IS A NIGHTMARE FOR ANY
IDEA OF NONPARTISAN
INVESTIGATION.
THIS IS A NIGHTMARE FOR HOUSE
LEADERSHIP.
THEY OBVIOUSLY DON'T WANT TO
MOVE IT TO AN INDEPENDENT PANEL.
THEY DON'T WANT A SPECIAL
PROSECUTOR.
T
THEY WANT THE TWO INTELLIGENCE
COMMITTEES.
ALSO THIS IS A NIGHTMARE FOR THE
SENATE KBINTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE.
EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENED, I
GOT A PHONE CALL OUT OF THE BLUE
SAYING DID YOU HEAR WHERE
CHAIRMAN NUNES WAS THE NIGHT
BEFORE THIS ALL HAPPENED AND
THERE'S LOTS OF STORIES.
EVERYBODY'S TRYING TO TRACK DOWN
THE SOURCE AND WHERE HE WENT AND
HOW IT HAPPENED.
EVERY PIECE, I'VE HEARD BITS AND
PIECES AND I'M LIKE THAT'S
ABSURD.
AND THEN THEY CONFIRM IT.
SO I THINK THE DIFFICULTY HERE
IS EVERYBODY TRYING TO FOCUS ON
WHAT THE CHAIRMAN WANTS YOU TO
FOCUS ON WHICH IS THE UNMASKING
OF THE INDIVIDUALS T.'S VERY
CONCERNING TO MEMBERS OF BOTH
PARTIES IF THIS IS WHAT'S
ACTUALLY HAPPENING.
YOU CAN'T FOCUS ON THAT WITH
EVERYTHING HE'S DONE IN THE WAKE
OF FINDING THIS STUFF OUT OVER
THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS.
>> THAT'S THE THING.
YOU WOULD THINK, AT LEAST
DEMOCRATS THINK HE'S OUT THERE
TRYING TO HELP DONALD TRUMP.
BUT THIS IS ALSO A NIGHTMARE FOR
DONALD TRUMP.
EVERY DAY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
RUSSIA AND INTELLIGENCE AND
UNMASKING IN ANY SORT OF
SPOTLIGHT ON WHETHER OR NOT
THERE WAS COLLUSION BETWEEN
THIS -- TRUMP AS A CANDIDATE OR
HIS AIDES AND RUSSIAN
INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS OR
RUSSIANS JUST IN GENERAL, THAT'S
A BAD, BAD DAY FOR HIM.
I THINK IF NUNES'S GOAL IS TO
UN
UNDERMINE THE CREDIBILITY OF THE
HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE,
GOOD JOB IN DOING THAT.
>> IF HIS GOAL IS TO UNDERMINE
HIS OWN COMMITTEE, HE'S DOING A
GREAT JOB.
>> HE'S MAKING A GREAT CASE FOR
ONE.
>> IN ANY LINE OF -- HE HAS TO
ISSUE A STATEMENT SAYING HE HAS
FULL CONFIDENCE IN YOU, THAT'S
JUST NOT A GOOD DAY.
>> KNOWING WHAT WE KNOW HOW
WHICH OBVIOUSLY ISN'T THAT MUCH,
IF SOMEONE AT THE WHITE HOUSE OR
THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
WAS HIS SOURT CE FOR THIS
INFORMATION, IT RAISES THE
QUESTION WHY COULDN'T THAT
PERSON TELL THE PRESIDENT?
EITHER THEY COULD OR LINES TO
HIM ALREADY KNEW OR THEY
COULDN'T FOR SOME OTHER REASON
IN ANY WHICH CASE WHY DID THE
CHAIRMAN --
>> HE RUNS BACK AND TELLS THE
PRESIDENT EVEN THOUGH THE
INFORMATION IS COMING -- YEAH.
>> THERE'S JUST A LOT OF
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS AND IT'S
HARD TO GET TO THE BOTTOM WOF
WHAT IS ACTUALLY GOING ON HERE?
>> THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS AREN'T
AWARE OF WHAT'S GOING ON AND I
CAN TELL YOU THE E-MAILS AND
TEXTS AND RUNNING INTO PEOPLE ON
THE HILL, ALL OF THESE THEORIES
ABOUT WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED
AND COULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED.
THEY'RE AROUND.
THEY'RE NOT JUST AROUND SMAMONG
STAFF.
THEY'RE AROUND MEMBERS OF THE
HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE.
>> YEAH.
OF NEEDING TO INVESTIGATE THE
INVESTIGATOR.
I MEAN, IT --
>> SO LET'S MOVE TO THE SENATE
SIDE.
THE SENATE INTELLIGENCE
COMMITTEE NOW HAS A DEAL TO
QUESTION JARED KUSHNER, THE
PRESIDENT'S SON-IN-LAW.
WE'RE GOING TO TALK IN A FEW
MINUTES ABOUT THINGS HE'S DOING.
HE LEARNED HE HAD A MEETING WITH
A RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR DURING THE
TRUMP TRANSITION.
LET'S PUT THE STATEMENT UP.
THROUGHOUT THE CAMPAIGN AND
TRANSITION, HE SERVED SAYS
PRIMARY POINT OF CONTACT WITH
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT AND
OFFICIALS.
THAT'S FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.
COULD BE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
THE PRESIDENT'S IS INTERESTED IN
HAVING BETTER RELATIONSHIPS WITH
RUSSIA.
WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO GET IN
TOUCH WITH YOU.
WHO ARE YOUR DEPUTIES ON THIS
ISSUE.
>> WE ASKED THE TRUMP TRANSITION
AND THEN TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
FOR MONTHS, WHO DID YOU MEET
WITH.
THEY DIDN'T DISCLOSE.
IT TURNS OUT HE ALSO MED WITH
THE HEAD OF A STATE RUN RUSSIAN
BANK WHO HAPPENS TO BE
INCREDIBLY CLOSE TO VLADIMIR
PUTIN.
AGAIN, COULD BE INNOCENT.
COULD BE ABOUT ECONOMIC
CONTACTS.
BUT THIS BANK IS UNDER SANCTIONS
BY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.
THEY DIDN'T DISCLOSE IT.
BY OBNOT TELLING US THINGS, THE
RAISE SUSPICIONS.
>> THE DRIP, DRIP, DRIP IS
WHAT'S HURTING THIS
ADMINISTRATION.
IT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED.
IT'S THAT WE'RE FIENDING OUT
ABOUT IT LATER.
THE FACT THAT WE'RE STILL
TALKIN
TALKING ABOUT THE TRUMP
OFFICIALS, IF THEY WOULD HAVE --
>> THIS IDEA THAT JARED KUSHNER
IS VOLUNTARILY GOING BEFORE THIS
COMMITTEE, I VOLUNTARILY FILE MY
TAXES EVERY YEAR, I MEAN, IT'S
ESSENTIALLY THE SAME THING.
AT SOME POINT THIS WAS GOING TO
HAPPEN.
BECAUSE THERE WAS SUCH A
SPOTLIGHT ALL OF THESE FOLKS WHO
WERE AROUND THE PRESIDENT, WHO
HAVE BEEN VERY CLOSE TO THE
PRESIDENT.
AND IT ALSO JUST POINTS TO THE
FACT THAT THEY DON'T HAVE A
STRATEGY IN TERMS OF HOW THE
DEAL WITH RUSSIA AND ALL OF THE
THINGS THAT WERE COMING UP.
IT'S NO PROACTIVE STRATEGY.
IT'S ALL REACTIVE.
WEEKS AGO THEY COULD HAVE PUT
OUT A LIST OF THIS PERSON MET,
THIS IS WHAT THE CONVERSATION
WAS.
THIS IS HOW MANY TIMES IT
HAPPENED.
THIS IS WHEN IT HAPPENED.
NONE OF THAT.
>> THAT'S HOW WASHINGTON
TRADITIONALLY WORKS.
THEY ARE UNTRADITIONAL IN MANY,
MANY WAYS.
>> JARED C-- HE AND HIS WIFE
OBVIOUSLY CARE A GREAT DEAL
ABOUT THEIR PERSONAL
REPUTATIONS, THEIR PROFESSIONAL
REPUTATION, BUT BEYOND KIND OF
BEFORE AND AFTER THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION.
HE'S GOT HIS HAND IN A NUMBER OF
VENTURES AS WE'RE DISCUSSING,
MID EAST PEACE, INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS ALL OVER THE WORLD.
HIS CREDIBILITY ON THIS HAS
RIPPLE EFFECTS AND BEYOND.
>> AND THE ART OF THE SEGUE,
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT JARED
KUSHNER GOING UP TO TESTIFY
BEFORE THE INTELLIGENCE
COMMITTEE.
NEXT THE ECONOMY IS TURNING TO
JARED.
HOW THE WHITE

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