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Welcome to americas newsroom. Shannon good morning. Im Shannon Bream in for. Martha maccallum. The president accusing susan rice of a crime. The president suggesting she may have been behind the leaks of classified material. Rice denies that and claims politics played no role in her actions. Vice president mike pence said hes confident congress can get to the bottom of what happened. People have a right to know if there was surveillance of any private citizen in this country and the identity of those citizens were revealed people have a right to know why. The fact it involved our campaign and ...

Nunes temporarily stepping aside from the investigation and we're juggling both stories and it's important to point out he said he'll step aside for now until the ethics complaint against him is clarified. it's not an investigation on behalf of a committee but an office, let's say. >> shannon: they're quicker and less involved so speedier. so it may not be as long as it appears. >> let's bring in matt schoen and katy pavlich and we interrupted our segment and now we have the headlines. matt, you start, how significant is this when it comes to the investigation or is it not so? >> i think it's ...

The investigation over the russian actions and follow the fact where's they lead. and a former adviser to president clinton and fellas we brought you in to something related. we didn't expect this. matt, what's it say about the pressure on nunes to step aside? >> it's very difficult. these ethics charges can be levelled by anybody for any reason and a lot of times politics is the number one reason -- >> bill: my apologies, matt, i'm sorry, things are moving quickly. here's the house speaker and we have been waiting on this and expect a statement to clarify what happened overnight with regard t...