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Digging for ever more information about the investigations. >> what they would like the information for is clearly service to the trump defense team and further the narrative they have. >> reporter: democrats responded with a scene from the movies. >> i don't think that's fair. >> reporter: erecting billboards accusing nunes of ignoring the people who elected him and when a newspaper asked of plans for any public meetings with his constituents, nunes responded. >> your paper is a joke. to bring up the issues or raise the issues. >> so what's in all this for nunes? praise of the white house, of...

And they have just further laying the predicate for discrediting anything mueller comes up with or firing rosenstein. >> kerstin, press secretary sanders originally said no one from the white house to attend the meetings. and then, of course, now we have rudy giuliani telling politico that depending on what they learn from those meetings even though flood and kelly weren't there for the classified part of it, it affects the defense strategy. your reaction? >> this seems utterly corrupt to me. defb nunes -- anywhere where devin nunes is, something's not going right and basically a stooge of the...

Announced he had proof federal agents surveilled trump's campaign and promptly informed the president. >> i felt like i had a duty and obligation to tell him because he's been taking heat in the news media. >> reporter: critics suggested it was like given the police file to the subject of an investigation. nunes walked it back a bit and not before widely sharing details. >> what i saw is -- has nothing to do with russia and nothing to do with the russia investigation, everything to do with possible surveillance activities. >> reporter: fellow republican mike rogers hit nunes fast saying when h...

In our politics lead, more on one of the masterminds behind today's back to back briefings, republican congressman devin nunes, a key ally to the trump white house having a quiet and major influence on the russia investigation despite officially kind of recusing himself from it. cnn's tom foreman reports. >> reporter: out of 50-plus members of congress none appears closer to donald trump than devin nunes. >> very courageous man, courageous. congressman devin nunes. thank you very much, devin, for being here: appreciate it. >> reporter: california republican in office 15 years and didn't gain n...