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Involved in letting chairman nunes into the eisenhower executive office building on march 21. now "the new york times" says that it has a couple of sources in government, american officials, who have confirmed that those were in fact people that were involved in getting chairman nunes the information. heres why the process is important in this particular case. its the kind of affair of connecting the dots here. youll remember the week before chairman nunes came out with the bomb shell, the presi...

On some relevance? >> well, the process in the sense that we are -- as ive noted, we have invited the chairman and the ranking members who are reviewing the matter here. it doesnt mean we look at members from the media to come and look at it. >> thats not what i asked. what i asked was, when you have this connection of dots all the way along, does the process -- does the providence of this information not become relevant to the overall investigation? >> its up to the people who are conducting th...

Sources of intelligence on this investigation? >> he usually know miss sboufrs i do. >> and ive also got his cell phone, which he hears from me sometimes more than he likes. >> and congressman swalwell, we show these little bits simply because its such a stark contrast to the way things are working on your committee. and you point out its the way things were working on your committee two weeks ago, as recently as two weeks ago. what do you believe happened to change all that? >> i believe that a...

People will structure money laundering in other contexts, that, you know, these are the people at the center of this entire thing. if you get anyone talking, that seems to me like things start to break open. >> well, hopefully. i mean, you know, this really is not complicated to look at. we have donald trump, who as you pointed out called on the russians to hack hillary clinton, getting as his campaign manager for roughly a third of the campaign a foreign agent who is deeply on the payroll of pe...

His position but he was reportedly cant in the position by the president himself as pressure was brought to bear within the white house. i asked sean spicer about that connection earlier in the briefing. heres how the exchange went. >> it was reported that one of the people involved in the uncovering of the information is a white house staff member that was kept in his position over the request of the national security advisor by the white house. has it not taken on relevance? >> weve invited th...

Nunes saying ah-hah, i have secret information that trump associates were incidentally collected on and the entire news shifted from fbi investigation of trump associates to this periferal issue. >> i want to connect some dots here. when chairman nunes came out and told the press that he found this incidental surveillance, hes going to brief the white house. sean spicer said we have no clue what hes talking about because we have no idea what hes going to say. that turns out to be big lie. he was...

I think we need try their word and have a hearing in the public and see if they allow her to do it. >> heres what your web page shows. its a graphic connecting the dots between trump, his advisers and russian interests. given that so much is so uncertain in this investigation. do you think this is premature? and would it be better if you waited for all the evidence? so far nothing has been proven. i think what you said, correct me if im wrong is you have to figure out whether this is a confluenc...

Be instead of a public hearing. we can have both. >> do democrats -- youre a democrat, have any means of forcing the chairman to reveal the source of his claims regarding potential surveillance of members of the trump team during the transition? >> yes. i think that its really important that we have a complete witness list and that we in the house do all that we can to try to connect those dots between the trump administration and what went on in russia. you know, wolf, i think that all of this ...

Who is at the center of this thing. i would like to see the list of the american officials elected and otherwise, advisers, strategists that met with this guy. i have a feeling its a pretty expansive list. i have a feeling hes such a player and this guy is just trying to seek out and exploit as much power as he can. he doesnt have a fetish for a particular strike. he will meet with anyone. you know that hes met with democrats. you know hes met with democrats on a number of committees. unless you...

>> but what about retail? several major retail companies are closing doors on hundreds of locations. jc penney announce just this week theyre closing 138 stores nationwide. most of those will be closing in june and that will ultimately affect more than 6,000 employees. whats interesting is that while president trump and vp pence have been strong on these jobs, a lot of these stores are closing in counties that voted for trump, the overwhelming majority. lets take a look at texas, this is the sta...