About this right now and clearly this is something that is evolving quickly. We have Additional Information this morning about sally yates and the testimony she had asked to give to the house Intelligence Committee. She was supposed to testify publicly today. That hearing was cancelled on friday, the same day that her attorney sent a letter to the white house and said were going to give them information about Michael Flynn, potential opportunities for blackmail on the part of the russians, and then after that that same day nunes cancelled the hearing and now adam schiff is crying foul and saying this must be connected. We are still working on exactly how all of this unfolded here on the congressional side, but so far republicans not giving in to calls for nunes to recuse himself, but every piece of information is raising questions about the credibility of this house side investigation. Stay right there. Im going to throw the control room into chaos. Do we have Pete Williams ready to go since you brought up sally yates . Is pete there . No. Let me go back to you for a second. Talk a little bit about how what happened today, these new revelations with sally yates, the statements by the Ranking Member schiff, even i think you can look at this in the perspective of somebody like a Lindsey Graham who said nunes has to come clean with the democrats and if he doesnt i dont know how he leads. He wouldnt go outright and say he needs to step down, but you hear more and more republicans who seem to be uncomfortable with what theyre seeing happening on the Intelligence Committee, which has this very sacred i think i can use that word job of congressional oversight. How does this play into where we already were with the Intelligence Committee and nunes . Lets take a broad look at this and drill down. So what is this about fundamentally . The house Intelligence Committee is investigating russian meddling in the u. S. Election. Part of that involves the white house. We know that the fbi director has acknowledged they are investigating any contacts between russians and the Trump Campaign. So that is what is potentially at stake here. So every piece of this i would say we have a couple of Different Things going on right now that all feed into the same narrative or set of questions. So on the one hand you have nunes apparently going to the white house grounds to review intelligence from a source that he does not share with democrats, has apparently not shared the source with paul ryan, the speaker of the house, reviews that intelligence, goes in front of microphones the next day and says that there is incidental collection of intelligence on the Trump Campaign on the trump transition. This, of course, seeming to give am so credibility to the president s assertion that he was surveilled by the Obama White House at some point. That was an assertion that had previously been put to rest in a public hearing. This, of course, has democrats raising questions about his credibility. Did he get this information from white house sources . Is this something the Trump Administration wanted out in public to further their political goals. Then you have another seemingly separate, but, of course, related set of incidents around this new information were just learning this information. That is sally yates and what she was going to say in this scheduled public hearing about, again, ties between trump officials, the trump transition and eventually the administration, particularly around Michael Flynn, who of course was ousted as nsa director because he did not he had these improper conversations and lied to the Vice President about whether those conversations had occurred. So this new information obviously lends itself right into the same narrative that weve already been talking about, even though it may not be directly connected, and that is is the investigation that is going on in the house Intelligence Committee going to be credible . It clearly at this point has stopped being bipartisan. You have these calls for nunes to recuse himself. Democrats have not said they are going to stop participating in the investigation. Theyd lose access to the information if they did that, but clearly all of this adds to these questions about the credibility of whats going on here in the house Intelligence Committee. Thank you so much. As always on top of everything. We appreciate that. I want to go over to the white house. Christen is standing by. We know the president tweeted about the Russian Investigation last night, but before i will note that you indoors, not outdoors. Is it because of the weather or youre in lock down . Reporter because right now secret service not allowing us to go outside, youre right, due to a suspicious package. They are investigating, sweeping the grounds of the white house. Worth pointing out this is not necessarily something that is uncommon. Obviously security very tight here around the white house grounds. As they look at that outside, inside to your question about that trump tweet overnight as it relates to this russia investigation, let me read you what he said and then discuss am so of the implications of it. He tweeted, why isnt the house Intelligence Committee looking into the bill and hillary deal that allowed big uranum to go to russia. Praise of russia by hillary. Trump, russia story is a ho hoax maga. Hillary clinton is not in power and shes no longer a candidate. Hes the one in the white house and hes the one getting the scrutiny over this. It is an attempt to try to turn the page on what continues to overshadow this administration as he tries to reset from that big loss last week failing to get a repeal and replace bill through congress. Hes trying to say wait a minute, there are questions about my former arrival, Hillary Clint clinton, but the reality is this Investigation Continues to move forward and obviously the questions are growing, the calls are growing for nunes to step down. White House Press Secretary spisean spicer is going to hold a briefing in a few hours. Hell get peppered with questions about this as he was yesterday, specifically is the white house aware who briefed nunes. He said they didnt know who that was, but he didnt rule out the possibility that it could be someone with ties to the white house. The concerns continue to mount as those questions go uninnocenu unanswered. Lets bring in our panel to talk more about it all. Washington bureau chief and political analyst and former bush cheney advisor and former fbi double agent and author of how to catch a russian spy. Its moving fast and furious. Lets start with the basic premise that we heard in a question from kassie hunt. Can the house Intelligence Committee be a credible investigative body . Whats the answer. Can the republicans on the house Intelligence Committee be objective . I dont know the answer to that. The reason why i dont know the answer to that lets make it smaller. Nunes . I dont know the answer to that and thats because as a former surrogate for the president , as someone who clearly went to the white house and briefed the administration before he briefed his colleagues, how can you not be objective . Just being completely fair. Let me flip the coin here. If this in fact was Hillary Clintons white house im serious. I know you are. If it is Hillary Clintons white house, you know what the talking points would be. Lets be fair and make sure let me go back to this Vladimir Putin is not our friend. Anything we can do to ensure our democracy is intact needs to be objective in this case. Here we are. You have the whole sally yates part of this playing into it. Where are we with this . Were on the verge of a constitutional crisis. Why i say that is why do we let in our Government People do secret things, the intelligence agencies . Its a democracy and republic and theyre supposed to answer to the public, but they do many things we dont know about. The reason we let them do that is because people we elect in the legislative branch oversee these people. Thats the only reason why we let them do secret things. What we see now thanks to nunes he is destroying the congressional oversight president over whether putin meddled in our election and we know he did and to see if there was any degree of encouragement between the Trump Campaign and moscow. You have the president tweeting out this is a hoax. I hope sean spicer gets a lot of questions about that today. Its not a hoax. Why does he keep insisting this is made up . You have nunes twice running to the president s aide la last we with his Bizarre Press Conference and then now cancelling the sally yates hearing which would have been bad for the investigation and there were two more hearings scheduled. This would have been a disastrous situation like last week. He seems more concerned for protecting the president than oversight. Lets go back to your first statement which is there a proper place for secrecy when youre looking at investigations. Is there something that you see now that we have every day new revolutions about nunes, where he was and who he was with and what he found out, but wheres the place for secrecy for this and where does it not make sense . There has to be trust by the American People, by the public in the work that the Intelligence Committee does. The trust is not going to be by exposing the secret stuff they do. What nunes has done and what has happened with the Intelligence Committee in the house is that trust has been broken. I think there should be a public forum for this stuff. Theres a lot of questions about the legitimacy of the presidency in short and a lot of questions go back to russia. So there needs to be some public forum here, but theres an investigation going on. The reality is that investigation is with the fbi and we wont know if ever what actually happened until the fbi finishes that. I have to say, i feel very concerned that that investigation is getting comingled with the partisan politics on both sides. You have the senate Intelligence Committee and you have the fbi. Youre not confident of those because of perhaps the way this is bleeding over . I want to make sure i understand what your concern is. I have to say there is a partisanship here and what nunes did didnt help things, but theres a partisanship that has taken over this. At the core of the question here is not just was there collaboration with the Trump Campaign, but its what did russia do and what can we do Going Forward to ensure that never happens again. That should be the unifying theme here. You may want to protect the president and you may be a republican or democrat, but russia meddled in our core democratic principal and i think they tried to recruit american u. S. Persons. That is something that should both horror and unite republicans and democrats alike. To that point at sixth civics student can figure this out and that is that congress is a coequal branch of government and congress has the congressional oversight and what nunes did was he delegitimatized that branch of government. This is how democracy is supposed to work. The executive branch gets oversight from the legislative branch. Theres this question that you brought up about do we think Vladimir Putin is a good guy. Your former boss dick cheney talked about that. Fascinating what he had to say. Take a listen. There was a very serious effort made by mr. Putin and his government and his organization to interfere in major ways with our basic fundamental democratic processes. In some quarters that would be considered an act of war. David, i dont want the sky to fall in, but im thinking you might actually agree for the first time with dick cheney. Im looking to see if theres any snow now. I do agree and it pains me to say that i see republicans elected republicans who are trying to protect the president who have been dismissing both nunes and senator burr who is leading the senate Intelligence Committee were both reluctant to take on this investigation and the only reason they did in the end is because john mccain and others were pushing for a select committee or an independent commission so they had to do it to keep control. So the reasyou see them say not about this. If youre mccain or Lindsay Graham and youre somebody who is looking at this not just about whats happening to your party but i think about what weve heard senator warner say complimentary things different between the relationship between schiff and nunes, what do you do . If youre a republican you put country first. We see that not happening again and again amongst most elected republicans. Some outside republicans like dick cheney feel more free to say things. And one really important thing to keep in mind, because i think the house Intelligence Committee investigation is irrelevant. I dont think they can put it back together. The fbi investigation is Going Forward, but this is important. It may not become public. We may not know what they find out. A white house official is completely denying the story on sally yates. Thats going to be an Interesting Press briefing today. The white house is completely denying it. That brings us to a perfect point, which is that you know how investigations work. You know frankly how spy craft works, but you also know how you get to the bottom of things. How much of what the American Public needs to know and serious people on these various congressional committees and within the fbi need to know, how much of it is knowable, whether publicly or not . Look at the core of this i really think the American Public has a right to know and frankly has a right to have confidence in the fact that our government is staffed by people who are not controlled by an outside country. I think that is where the investigation should go. The specifics matter, but frankly they matter less than that core question, which is do we have people under the direction of a foreign country . I think that is essentially what the investigation is seeking to answer. When you have Michael Flynn who comes back and says i met with a foreign aelgt it bringent it brf things into question. Thank you so much. More this morning, the president tweeting about new jobs at ford motor company, major investment to be mean. Thats what the president tweeted. Ron mott joins me now from chicago. How many jobs are we talking about and are they the result of this administrations policy or were they in the pipeline before the president was elected . Good morning. This is good news, no doubt about that. The question is whether this is old news because a lot of what the president is appearing to take credit for was negotiated and announced two years ago when ford signed its newest deal with the united out workers union. In terms of the jobs mentioned today the company will create or retain 130 jobs at one of those three facilities it announced it was going to make an investment in today. They made similar announcements back in january when Donald Trump Took Office and at that time they said they would add 700 jobs, new jobs at a new plant that they were planning to build. Todays announcement much more modest in terms of jobs, new jobs, and again the phrasing with the company is that it will create or retain 130 jobs. All of this comes as a part of fords announcement two years ago to make a significant 9 billion investment in their plants here in the country. And what has happened, they have slowly trickled out the details of those investments, but a lot has been on the books and in the planning for a couple of years. Maybe this is a stretch to claim that his administration has had some bearing on the announcement we are seeing today. You put it in the right way. If one of those jobs is your job this is a big deal, but i appreciate your giving us the proper perspective. Thanks. In hours the fight over implement change, business versus environmentalists and this new executive order. Plus the fight over the Supreme Court pick neil gorsuch. To stealth bombers. To nextgeneration fighters. To landing an unmanned vehicle on a carrier for the first time in history. Just wait till you see whats next. Thats the value of performance. Northrop grumman Nosy Neighbor with a glad bag, full of trash. What happens next . Nothing. Only glad has febreze to neutralize odors for 5 days. Guaranteed. Even the most perceptive noses wont notice the trash. 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