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They have oversight responsibilities. many of them have a lot of other work to do monitoring intelligence activities and can't focus full-time on the trump-russia probe. and there is actually among those seven individuals, none of them has any expertise in prosecutions or in complex investigations. >> and tim, one of the surprising biofacts about these staff members that you discovered is none of them are lawyers. and it's actually hard to collect seven staff members on senate committees and not find a lawyer among them. >> well, there are lawyers on the committee. but of the seven individuals...

Were relevant to this investigation. the senate intelligence committee investigation was considered the best hope for a solid bipartisan investigation that would produce public results. we will consider now the prospects for all three of those investigations, beginning with the senate intelligence committee investigation, which according to tim mak's reporting in the daily beast today is not running as professionally or as quickly as it could be. joining us now, tim mak, senior correspondent for the daily beast. tim, your big reveal today was the small number of committee personnel staff that ...

>> tim, is any of this normal protocol for a member of congress, a chairman of an intelligence committee, to go into the white house to view anything this way, the way that nunes did it? >> not at all. i talked to a lot of folks who have worked on the house intelligence committee. it is extremely unusual to go to the white house to view documents. now it's regular procedure to good to the fbi, to go to the nsa, the cia to review executive branch documents. but it is very, very unusual to get a white house grounds seemingly in the middle of the night in order to meet with sources and review doc...

To the white house grounds? >> i don't know. i think that's a good question. but i would just add some context here that, you know, the congressman nunes has been talking about the issue of unmasking and inappropriate reporting on this incidentally collected information now for more than a month. and it's something that i think he has heard from other people. and he has a reputation for cultivating independent source within the intelligence community as opposed to going through the normal channels. and he has been doing that before he was chairman. so i would say that he has had a few people w...

Democrats, republicans, we don't know what mr. nunes is talking about, what kind of information. we've queried the intel community. i don't think they know what he is talking about. and it seems more than suspicious that he is somehow going to the white house. and anybody who knows anywhere in the white house complex, the eisenhower building or the white house itself, you have to be escorted. who is he meeting with? is it a source or was it somebody from the administration? >> and here is what devin nunes had to say about recusal tonight on fox news. >> he wants you to quit the investigation. ...