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If you could pick anyone, with the senate intelligence committee, who would you call? >> joy, i kind of want to stopwatching this movie and read the spoiler alert. i want to see how alert. i want to see how it ends. but the adult in me says there is a balance here. we have a this to know whats going on. what concerns me -- id love to hear flynn, manafort, the whole cast of the trump team as well as sally yates and everyone else. what concerns me though is if this is done in the open hearing that...

Hes pushed back on this fiercely over the course of several days. he also hasnt provided any information about who the source is of that information or even who signed chairman nunez in at the time. the reporting according to the "new york times" identifies these two individuals as a man by the name of isra cohen wasnick who works as a senior director for intelligence at the national security council and a second individual by the man named of michael ellis who works for the national security co...

Mark warner this afternoon, if you didnt know, you couldnt tell which was the republican and which was the democrat. i think thats an important way to think about this. the committee is very closely balanced. its eight republicans, six democrats and me. theyre really good members of this committee. i think we are going to be able do it. the intent is non-partisan, follow the facts. im not going to participate in a whitewash and im not going to participate in a witch hunt. i think were on a good ...

Room. ahead of this daily briefing. and this is something that mr. spicer is most certainly going to be asked about, peter, this report thats surfaced in "the new york times" it was two white house officials that actually helped give devin nunez the intelligence reports. what more do we know? >> yeah, craig, youre right. this scoop first coming from "the new york times" moments ago, what sean spicer will certainly be pressed on through the course of this news conference coming up right now. its ...

And which was the democrat. i think thats an important way to think about this. the committee is very closely balanced. its eight republicans, six democrats and me. theyre really good members of this committee. i think we are going to be able do it. the intent is non-partisan, follow the facts. im not going to participate in a whitewash and im not going to participate in a witch hunt. i think were on a good start. it doesnt mean its not going to be hard. were on our way. >> you have full confide...

A bipartisan show of force. >> i have confidence in richard burr. we together with members of our committee will get to the bottom of that. >> reporter: is that cooperation a stark contrast to the house committee. devin nunes under fire from critics who questioned his impartiality after reviewing classified documents on the white house grounds last week. the presidents okesman still refusing who cleared nunes in. >> i have asked preliminary questions. >> reporter: former white house officials te...

That he can be impartial as he claims? >> it is a bit difficult. i wish i could say that it does. because i think right now, he is really at the center of this fire storm, and we really are depending on him to conduct an impartial investigation. however, his record doesnt necessarily show perfect impartiality. were not -- we dont need to get into the history of what happened during the campaign and hillary clintons e-mails and when he went out publicly and, you know, how much information he had ...

Something to favor the white house to the disadvantages of his committee. >> true. right now, what you are seeing is a circling of the wagons under devin nunes instead of answering the questions. look, chris, we saw manu raju talking nunes. he could not answer basic questions that manu was putting to him about why the hearing was postponed and impartiality he had. you have paul ryan come out yesterday saying we support devin nunes running the investigation. that is a circling the wagons. >> why ...

The investigation going forward. >> let me back up just a little bit from the possibility and weve been talking about this for a while of an independent investigation. do you see any circumstances under which nunes should retain his chairmanship of the intelligence committee or do you believe that is so tainted he has to step down? >> he has to step down, even if were only the appearance of what he has done. there is a reality of potential impropriety as well. he would have to step down to ensur...

>> i dont think he can credibly and still preserve the appearance of impartiality for that committee. remember, the reason you have these committees is essentially to have to oversee these operations and not to have partisan values and politics come into play. but when you have somebody whos acting apparently more as a surrogate who wants to warn as opposed to enlighten other committee members on evidence that still has not been seen it starts to smell as if you are obstructing or interfering or...