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Member of the committee did a press conference yesterday coming out and saying, look with, if these people found this information, why not just take it straight to the president of the united states? why do it in this way through the chairman of the house intelligence committee? and, of course, this has raised questions about the credibility of the intelligence committees investigation. chris. >> casey hunt with, thank you. i want to bring my panel back in. so i want to play what the house minor...

Its important to note nbc news has not independently confirmed these reports. they come from the "new york times" and the "washington post." lets go live to capitol hill and nbcs casey hunt. casey, a lot there. break it all down for us. >> there is a lot here, chris. and this, of course, has been what democrats have been insinuating on capitol hill for days, this idea that devin nunes essentially received information to lend credibility to the presidents claims that he was surveilled by the obam...

Whats problematic for the american people is that you have senior intelligence officials in the national security council that are not poring over intelligence reports trying to figure out how to keep the country save. theyre trying to figure out how they can defend an ultimately defenseless sweet to defend the president of the united states. but for the white house, i do think that they have to be concerned because it looks like theyre trying to lawner this information through the republican ch...

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Lawyers for flynn sit down and try to make their case? >> what theyre doing now is trying to entice the government with unrestricted conversations and trying to make that enticing to the government with the broadest immunity deal that they can. >> what does that mean, the broadest immunity deal that they can? >> what they want to make sure is that they are protected from any prosecution or investigation beyond just an individual incident. and this is the difference in the distinct between use mu...

>> youre going to learn more because i think all the prosecutors and investigators are going to ask for a profer and theyre going to want him to outline more details about what that unrestricted conversation would look like and then theyll be balancing whether or not that information is more important than the investigation that they already have with their target and suspects in terms of the bigger picture about whether or not the white house council will information beforehand and whether or n...

Nunes, including other members of his committee what that information is and he wont give it. >> well, i cant speak to what plan he has internally, i am confused about why its such a big issue that folks who have the information or are providing it to the chairman who is investigating this, it sounds -- how he got that information is up to him to describe. >> do you think if its meant to mitigate any damage from the white house and it comes from people in the white house, thats not a problem? >>...

Information out there about him possibly misleading the vice president. but the real issue in the core is whether or not he has shared information either with trump himself or with the white house counsel about what his dealings were and thats the core of the perjury clause and the perjury issues that prosecutors are investigationing right now and thinking about for potential charges. so that is what is going on behind the scene. >> and how common is a request like this and was the president rig...

Of the information. we have three branches of government for a reason. we have a system of checkes and bales for a reason. for a matter of urgent national security like this, the white house and the congress arent supposed to be hooking each other up for political reasons. theyre soefd to be doing a search for truth to make us all feel safe. again, were talking about national security here. >> but were going to talk a lot more, guys. jason, ron and paul are all going to come back. but in the mea...

Means. i think president trump doesnt really understand that. because hes not asking for immunity from democrats or immunity from a witch-hunt or immunity from congress. hes asking for immunity from prosecution by the justice department, okay? and so the question is why would he need that immunity? it doesnt do a -- you know, press or democrats or congress. .its because he may have committed a crime that the donald trumps justice department would prosecute him for. so thats whats on the table he...