There was no surveillance done for political purposes against our campaign. Sarah sanders also said, quote, it was also agreed that white house Chief Of Staff kelly will immediately set up a meeting with the fbi, doj and dni together with congressional leaders to review highly classified and other information they have requested. The claim of a spy within the Trump Campaign comes with as of yet little or nothing to back it up and plenty to raise suspic n suspicions about its validity, including someone the president went out of his way to praise today. And a very courageous man, hes courageous, congressman devin nunes. Thank you very much, devin, for being here, appreciate it. He is the chairman of the house Intelligence Committee. For weeks hes been seeking information on a Top Secret Intelligence Source who reportedly contacted two Trump Campaign advisers and one official, including carter page, who was already under suspicion for contacts with russia and
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there was no surveillance done for political purposes against our campaign. sarah sanders also said, quote, it was also agreed that white house chief of staff kelly will immediately set up a meeting with the fbi, doj and dni together with congressional leaders to review highly classified and other information they have requested. the claim of a spy within the trump campaign comes with as of yet little or nothing to back it up and plenty to raise suspic n suspicions about its validity, including someone the president went out of his way to praise today. and a very courageous man, he s courageous, congressman devin nunes. thank you very much, devin, for being here, appreciate it. he is the chairman of the house intelligence committee. for weeks he s been seeking information on a top secret intelligence source who reportedly contacted two trump campaign advisers and one official, including carter page, who was already under suspicion for contacts with russia and
being here, appreciate it. he is the chairman of the house intelligence committee. for weeks he s been seeking information on a top secret intelligence source who reportedly contacted two trump campaign advisers and one official, including carter page, who was already under suspicion for contacts with russia and george papadopoulos, whose drunken boasting about getting dirt on the clinton campaign triggered the investigation in the first place. senior fbi and intelligence officials warned that providing the information could jeopardize the source and at that point the president agreed. then right-wing media got ahold of the story. on may 10th an op-ed ran in the wall street journal. did the bureau engage in out right spying against the trump 2016 campaign. rush limbaugh talked about a spy in the campaign citing devin nunes and two days later andrew mccarthy wrote from pain staking research, nunes and committee staff believe they have identified such a spy. last week the new york t
black boxes so they can prove once and for all that this whole thing has gotten out of hand, total witch hunt, end it now. republicans have tried asking nicely for that memo. they ve tried writing nasty notes to the justice department. and now they re trying another way. there will be a request for us to audit the financial resources of this investigation. an audit. well, that s a new gambit to try, to pry the top secret memo out of the justice department. republicans say that they re going to ask for a federal audit of the mueller investigation as a way to unearth a classified government document. that is not what federal audits are for. but republicans say they re going to try anyway. both the white house and the justice department have refused to turn over that memo. they say it could endanger a top secret intelligence source. and as this standoff continues between a group of republicans in congress and the guy in charge of overseeing the mueller
us to audit the financial resources of this investigation. an audit. well, that s a new gambit to try, to pry the top secret memo out of the justice department. republicans say that they re going to ask for a federal audit of the mueller investigation as a way to unearth a classified government document. that is not what federal audits are for. but republicans say they re going to try anyway. both the white house and the justice department have refused to turn over that memo. they say it could endanger a top secret intelligence source. and as this standoff continues between a group of republicans in congress and the guy in charge of overseeing the mueller investigation, there s a real chill in washington right now. there s a real worry that republicans could use this whole incident as a pretext for firing rod rosenstein. and so now democrats have come up with a new backup plan. democratic senator richard blumenthal told nbc news that lawmakers in the senate are