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Question. Why isnt adam schiff saying, yeah, lets go look at it . Instead just like yesterday when he said hell go look at it. Let me finish. He was almost about to sign the invitation for comey to come testify, but suddenly, there are stipulations. There was no reason to have stipulations. Same thing today. He was invited jack, youre rewriting jack, youre rewriting history. Stipulations, what are you saying let me answer the question. I know this not because ive talked to him, but because ive read the documents and read the public reporting which you can read as well and you probably already know, which is that he was willing to sign the letter. In fact, he said today, hes willing to have comey and rogers come in behind closeddoors testimony, but he also wants a guarantee that clapper, that yates, and others are going to testify openly and that hasnt been assured. Even today, he still hasnt gotten assurances from nunes thats going to occur. And jack, let me also ask you, if you were d ....
People who you would look at most closely, because of the ties that he s had in the past, because we know he s had conversations with kislyak, perhaps others. so, this is, this is a really, really alarming development from the standpoint of the white house. and i quite agree with david. you know, part of why people are so keenly interested in this and following this so closely is the freneticism in which the president has reacted to any charges of collusion with russia and these charges he s dropped from time to time to try to avert the discussion. so this is a big deal. and by the way, it comes at a particularly inconvenient time, because on the very day that this news surfaces, we learn that one of flynn s appointees in the white house was involved in this nunes escapade. ....
In this nunes escapade. so, it really it couldn t be worse. this is this is, as david gergen would say, a bad news day at the white house. right. i mean, david gergen, not only somebody that flynn appointed to the national security council, but someone who the new head of the national security council, the new national security adviser, tried to get removed from the national security council. and according to the reporting by matthew, of the new york times, president trump himself intervened to stop that removal. i want to play a clip of something that general flynn said on meet the press back in september. i spoke about this. he was speaking about secretary clinton and the people around her asking for immunity. let s play that. the very last thing that john podesta just said is no individual too big to jail. that should include people like hillary clinton. i mean, five people around her have had have been given immunity to include her former chief of staff. ....
Intelligence committee tells nbc news that staff level interviews have started regarding that coittee investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 election. and the house intelligence committee met behind closed doors for the first time today since the ranking member of that committee, representative adam schiff called for chairman devin nunes to recuse himself from their russian investigation. congressman schiff told nbc news tonight that he and chairman nunes are coming to an agreement on an initial witness list to interview. that witness list may be released as early as tomorrow. today the white house tried to involve former obama national security adviser susan rice in the controversy created by house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes when he publicly made a trip to the white house claiming he was briefing the president on sensitive intelligence material that he had obtained from the white house. the nunes escapade has now been ....
The nunes escapade has now been unmasked as a complete charade in which the white house used devin nunes as a third party to make public information that the white house already possessed and wanted to make public without their fingerprints on it. today the trump white house claimed that during the transition before the trump inauguration, susan rice saw the intelligence reports that devin nunes first saw at the white house and then the next day brought back to the white house, pretending publicly that he was telling the white house something that the president did not know. the trump white house is now saying that susan rice requested the identities of u.s. persons in those raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions. fox news and bloomberg columnist eli lake reported that story today without naming their sources. but let me just read you the opening line of eli lake s story. ....