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Answers today? >> reporter: no. he did not have any more answers today on who cleared chairman nunes into the white house, who he met with. this is despite telling reporters on monday that he would look into it. today he said, i have asked preliminary questions, but i havent gotten answers yet. i will look into it. i will continue to do that. meaning, i will continue to look into it. spicer also took issue with the fact that reporters have been asking about what he calls process matters. who cle...

Pertaining to any u.s. citizens who are subject even to incidental surveillance. its still possible that other surveillance activities were used against presidents trump and his associates. >> the following day, tuesday march 21st, according to "the daily beast," chairman nunes gets a message on his phone and heads to the white house grounds. specifically the eisenhower executive office building. the next day, wednesday march 22nd, nunes tells reporters he viewed dozens of reports. >> on numerou...

That they assisted in the disclosure of the intelligence reports. it is not clear what precisely that entails or how precisely they would have been involved. in a statement, a spokesman for chairman nunes telling nbc news, "as he has stated many times, chairman nunes will not confirm or deny speculation about his sources identity. he will not respond to speculation from anonymous sources." a lot going on here. a lot of confusion. kasie hunt is on capitol hill. she was at that press conference th...

After the most embarrassing week in the life of a congressman since anthony weiner, house intelligence committee chair devin nunes has now decided its up to him to say who the serious people are. >> beginning to figure out who is actually serious about the investigation. because it appears like the democrats are not very serious about this investigation. at the end of the day, were going to do an investigation with or without them. >> so legal observers are now saying that devin nunes could be t...

The democrats on the committee who he met with and what he was told and i think hes lost his ability to lead. >> you think it was appropriate that he went to go view these so-called intelligence reports on white house grounds? >> well, i think there needs to be a lot of explaining to do. ive been around for quite a while and ive never heard of any such thing. >> is that the consensus among people who have been around like john mccain and yourself, in terms of the particulars of the chairmans beh...

Two committees working on it? >> oh, absolutely. absolutely. >> a few weeks ago on this show, congress woman maxine waters was ahead of the game, she conveyed a lack of trust for the house investigation into the presidents possible connections to russias interference in the election, then in a statement last week, before it was revealed house gel jens claire devin nunes had a secret meeting, before it was learned nunes briefed intelligence reports, without talking to fellow committee members, wa...

Committee members, republican and democrat, and hes supposed to be independent and charged with this investigation. i want to read you a quote from the new yorker. i want to read you a quote from the new yorker. ryan lizza says its clear that the white house and nunes coordinated a strategy of focusing on surveillance collection. the white house clearly indicated to me, meaning ryan, that it knew nunes would highlight this issue. its back door surveillance. its not just incidental, its systemati...

>> i think we have to do everything that we possibly can, to take the investigations out of the house and even out of the senate. even though i have more feelings about it being in the house and not thinking that it can be incredible that i can win the senate. do i think that we have some opportunities. >> i want to make sure im understanding that you trust the senate more than you trust the house in terms of the relative two committees working on it? >> oh, absolutely. absolutely. >> a few week...

During the campaign and beyond. and that was an unlitigated disaster for the president and allies on the hill for everything else theyre trying to accomplish. it would make sense that devin nunes would try to slam the brakes. he did it and swerved the entire oversight process out of its lane and really into a ditch. lets listen in on what was said about this. >> hes gone off on by himself and inspector investigation here, hes not willing to tell the democrats on the committee who he met with and...

Favors as well. we have two investigations going on, one on leaks and one on connections with russia. for nunes on timing if you go back it seems to be shocking for him and a setback when he heard from the fbi director that this administration, the president was under investigation. we know these investigations last months, if not years. if the president wants to put this behind him then he would start to get in front of the story as opposed to reacting to it and calling it fake news. >> michael...