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Devon nunes is reasserting his authority over the probe despite recusing himself. he apparently never relinquished his role so slap on subpoenas attorney general jiff sessions. and donald trump jr. this is raising democrats' concern that chairman nunes may be trying to prematurely wrap up the russia probe. congressman, he recused himself based on ethics violation that was filed against him in a frivolous way. do you think it's fair that he is getting back involved in the investigation? >> look, devon nunes is the duly elected chairman of the house intelligence committee. and they have done ver...

Consequence? >> there's two issues here. one is shared by both parties. their access does concern me. both parties do it. the money goes to campaigns. the problem for trump, this money is going into his pocket. these people are paying $750. it's going into the mar-a-lago which he owns and, therefore, benefits from it. this is direct not just disguised as campaign contributions which everybody does which is sick as it is. we ought to get rid of and change the financing of campaigns, this is a direct payment to donald trump. >> let's break that down as far as, you know, what's in that amount of ...

>> you just heaped praise on the acting head of the intelligence community, mark conway. the ethics committee has been cleared of an ethics violation having to doio with his actions here. could he unwind his recusal and chair the house ethics committee again? >> he always chaired the committee, he just stepped away from the investigation. to be comfortable doing that, i think devin would sort of have to drop the role that he has played wherehe he has decided to devote himself to the investigationof of whether ther was improper unmasking. we had a whole 1972 bill where there was a section about...

>> says look, experienced criminal defense attorney like dowd would know that it's proper to say that flynn pleaded guilty, not pled guilty. it's remarkable, can't say we know this to be false but we just know it to look absurd. >> and no lawyer would ever want their client tweeting about open investigation, much less in these hostile ways. doesn't square. great point about pleaded. something we've heard. but also a major violation on dowd's part, ethics violation, if he's lying about the situation. >> which is why so many things -- had to scramble at top of the show because of all the news. w...

Think we maintain progress in the tax code similar to what exists today. the tack burden will be similar to what it is today. we're careful in the way we design this to make sure that was the case. only exception to that is upper income people who make more than $1 million a year will have a higher share of the tax burden than they do today. but most of the income brackets, we'll see people's tax burden very similar to what it is today. i think that's a good thing to get more money into their pockets. good thing to get the economy growing faster. we think this accomplishes both those objective...