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Who are also up for reelection in 2018. >> bret: thank you. more on this with the panel paired we may know more tomorrow about who was caught up in surveillance after the november election and whether the identities of anyone with the trump or clinton campaigns revealed or unmasked. all of this as the house intelligence committee chairmans decision to go public with new intelligence reports is further dividing the committee. catherine herridge joins us with what we could learn tomorrow. >> the b...

>> what ive read, seems to me to be some level of surveillance activity, perhaps legal, but i dont know that its right and i dont know that the american people would be comfortable with what ive read here theres two issues here. there is additional unmasking of names, which i think is totally inappropriate and then you have the issue of the names that were put into these intelligence reports. >> meghan: chairman nunes made that announcement after briefing the white house on his findings. >> repo...

Stunning controversy unfolded on capitol hill. now questions if the house intelligence probe of the information was compromised. devin nunes announced conversations may have been incidentally collected by agencies conducting surveillance after the election. nunes said to be steaming at the intel he read. personally briefed the president on the development without informing his democratic counterparts. we are told nunes ignored pleas to wait to go public before he spoke to democrats. listen to nu...

Democrats, but he said it was his judgment call in deciding to brief the president given what he said was alarming information in the intelligence reports. but i did talk to adam schiff who is a top democratic on the committee later who said he was baffled by the decision by devin nunes to not rule out this came from the white house. >> i am concerned by the fact that after the meeting when the chairman was interviewed he wasnt able to rule out having received these materials from the white hous...

Supposed to be an independent investigation of possible inappropriate activity by associates of the president of the united states. thats what theyre investigating. heres what he -- why he said he went to the white house. >> because what i saw is -- has nothing to do with russia and nothing to do with the russia investigation. has everything to do with possible surveillance activities, and the president needs to know these intelligence reports are out there. i have a duty to tell him that. >> do...

Intel committee to conduct a fair and impartial investigation. >> reporter: house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes stunning washington. >> i thought it was important for the president to know this. >> reporter: rushing to the white house to warn president trump that communication involving members of his transition team may have been picked up through normal incidental surveillance, apparently all legally conducted. >> it does appear like his name and people -- and others ended up int...

Support those tweets. >> reporter: devin nunes says the intelligence was legally collected after the election, not related to any russian connection to campaign associates and not picked up in surveillance directed to mr. trump or his aides. the intelligence committees top democrat firing back, outraged nunes went to the president before briefing him. >> the chairman will need to decide whether he is the chairman of an independent investigation into conduct or hes going to act as a surrogate of ...

Democrats on the committee. and the entire committee frankly. the chairman yesterday told reporters why he went to the president. he says he apologized. but democrats are not convinced. >> this is information that was brought to me that i thought the president needed to know about incidental collection where the president himself and others in the trump transition team were clearly put into intelligence reports. and i thought it was important for the president to know this. thats why i briefed t...

Wherever they are, the american public has the right to know wherever they lead us. what took place in the last few days simply cant happen given. do i think the committee can work in a bipartisan fashion? it always has. im hoping that this is a horrible bump in the road and we can continue this investigation beginning with the next hearing next tuesday. >> congressman, good to talk to you. thank you for joining us. congressman mike quigley of illinois. i want to bring in msnbcs chief legal corr...

Find new roads at your local chevy dealer. in the dozens of reports i was able to see, i was able to determine that it was -- it looks like it was legal collection, incidental collection, but then made itself into intelligence reports. so it has to deal with fisa. and there is multiple number of fisa warrants that are out there. but there is nothing criminal at all involved. >> joining us now, rajesh day, former council to the national security agency, mika oyang, a former house intelligence c...