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Himes, democrat of connecticut and important to this conversation a member of the house intelligence committee. congressman himes, a very basic question to you is how do you now proceed with this split between parties within your own committee and was the apology from your chairman enough for you today? >> well, the apology itself really cant possibly repair the damage that was done by this bizarre maneuver that chairman nunes did yesterday. i mean, you know, by taking material, not even sharing...

Impartiality, therefore making it all the more important that this investigation really be undertaken not by members of congress who are in the political fray but by an outside, bipartisan commission that can have the confidence of the american people that nothing is being done to help the president or try to bring down the president or whatever other political agendas may exist. >> if that doesnt happen, are you guys equipped to keep going with this and pull off a fair and full investigation? >...

Were released. >> the great thing about when you do the national security stuff, the cloak and dagger business, you can obfuscate any issue fairly well. you can get it to the laymen who have no idea what is going on, very important. it sounds dangerous. sounds like a big deal. the reality here is, devin nunes gave donald trump a gift, he gave him an enormous present which was a chance to get off this topic. i feel vindicated, he told "time" magazine. i was right, there is surveillance that inclu...

To run down to the white house. he is under from the white house and what do you assess the credibility of him to be tonight? >> i dont have the slightest idea. he has a history that would make us doubt his credibility. more important, i think that the press essentially needs to report as aggressively as we can what facts can be obtained about these allegations that nunez is making. apart from that, we are seeing today and tonight why we need a special prosecutor. there is abundant evidence that...

The campaign of donald trump and the russian leaks of these e-mails that requires a kind of impartiality that only a special prosecutor under what we are seeing here on the air from these guys on this committee. we need a special prosecutor, particularly given the bombshell story, not just the cnn story, but the app story today about manafort literal lly proposing paper that he can do things for putin a few year back and thats what he wants to be paid tens of million os dollars for. an extraordi...

This was astunt. this was a distraction in the middle of a week where americans are starting to realize that there are serious questions about the presidents team and what happened with russian interference. now were at a point where our investigation is on life support and the only way to really get to the bottom of this is for an independent commission. look whats happened. our attorney general -- it was exposed that he lied during his confirmation hearing twice when asked about prior contacts...

Were released. >> the great thing about when you do the national security stuff, the cloak and dagger business, you can obfuscate any issue fairly well. you can get it to the laymen who have no idea what is going on, very important. it sounds dangerous. sounds like a big deal. the reality here is, devin nunes gave donald trump a gift, he gave him an enormous present which was a chance to get off this topic. i feel vindicated, he told "time" magazine. i was right, there is surveillance that inclu...

Pre-committed to how youd rule on future cases. it would also be unfair to the future litigants and you made that very clear. and of course theres nothing new about all this because we quoted the ginsburg standard after justice ginsburg said during her confirmation hearing -- and its probably been repeated several times but i dont want to repeat it too many times, "judge warren, did he cite impartiality, can offer no forecast, no hints for what -- for that would show not only disregard for the s...

Enlisted chairman nunes to serve on his ecutive committee during the transition made an eery prediction last week. >> wiretap covers a lot of different things. i think youre going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks. >> adam schiff whos democratic ranking member of the house intelligence committee cast doubt on the impartiality of the investigation and its chairman, himself. >> we could do a tremendous service to the country if were able to do a cr...

Things about your nomination is the broad bipartisan support you have received. you have earned great praise from individuals who arent exactly supporters of the president, but who strongly supported ur nomination. yesterday, we heard from one of them, president obamas former solicitor general said you, quote, will not compromise principle to favor the president. in 2006, former colorado senator salazar, a democrat, said that you have, quote, the sense of fairness and impartiality that is a keys...