Nunes Announces FBI Evidence That Will End The Investigation On Trump
President Trump taking Jim Comey to task over newly released memos the former FBI
director kept to document his conversations with the president the
Justice Department's inspector general is now investigating if Call Me
mishandled classified information by giving some of those documents to a
friend who then shared them with a reporter the president calling that move
illegal and saying it raises questions about the mullah Russia investigation
meanwhile three GOP committee chairmen out with a scathing statement on the
Comey memos accusing him of political bias and his interactions with the Obama
era officials versus President Trump I'm joined right now by one of those
lawmakers House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunez is live this
morning at the world eh Expo in California and congressman Nunez is also
a member of the House Ways and Means Committee Conrad it's good to see this
morning thanks so much for joining us always a pleasure thank you I wanna get
to that memo the the letter that you have written after the Jim Comey memos
were out but first let me start here let's pick up where we left off the last
time we spoke mr. chairman you joined us four weeks ago on this program at that
time you said you wanted to get the electronic communication from the
Department of Justice and the FBI wanted that electronic communications to
understand exactly how the Trump admit an investigation into collusion even
began you've now since seen the electronic
communication yes that's correct so it took us a long time to actually get this
what's called the electronic communication as we know now for your
viewers what that is is it's the original intelligence the original
reasons that the counterintelligence investigation was started now this is
really important to us because a counterintelligence investigation uses
the tools of our intelligence services that are not supposed to be used on
American citizens so we've long wanted to know well what intelligence did you
have that actually led to this investigation so what we found now after
the investigators have reviewed it is that in fact there was no intelligence
so we have a traditional we have a traditional partnership with
what's called the five eyes agreement five eyes agreement involves our friends
in Australia New Zealand the United Kingdom Canada and of course us so
longtime process and procedures in place where we move intelligence across we are
not supposed to spy on each other citizens and it's worked well and it
continues to work well and we know it's working well because there was no
intelligence that passed from five eyes through the five eyes channels to our
government and that's why we had to see that original communication so now we're
trying to figure out as you know we are investigating the State Department we
think there's some major irregularities at the State Department and we're trying
to figure out how it is that this information about mr. Papadopoulos of
all people who was supposedly meeting with some folks in London how that made
it over across into the FBI's hands we know a little bit about that because of
what some of the State Department officials themselves have said about
that so we were glad to get this behind us but now of course as we pilled
another piece back it leaves more unanswered questions which we're trying
to get to the bottom up mr. chairman you've got to explain what you just said
I think this is extraordinary that you're telling us that in order for the
FBI the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into so-called
collusion between President Trump and the Russians there was no official
intelligence used then how how did this investigation start I don't understand
sir please explain well well I think that's that is the point we we don't
understand we've never understood because you know we have we have access
to these finished intelligence products and we've never seen one
we had never so we thought well maybe there was one that went through a
different channel that was kept really quiet that was secret that was kept from
the Congress and and other folks well in fact after our investigators reviewed
this that's that is not what happened there what there was no five eyes
intelligence product as it's been reported there was no product and I
think that's a major problem because we have to have trust
with our with our partners with our allies we have to make sure that our
agencies talk and they work out problems we have to make sure that they don't spy
on on either American citizens or that we're not spying on British citizens
these are all things that have been been around for decades so and this is even
more critical let's just let's just at the highest level what what is this what
is this about this was about a counterintelligence investigation that
was at the at the height of a political campaign where you opened up an
investigation using these these intelligence services to spy on the
other campaign it's really serious stuff it's it's quite extraordinary so you're
investigating the State Department does that mean it was Hillary Clinton pulling
the strings I mean here you have Hillary Clinton former Secretary of State she's
the other candidate is she pulling the strings on an investigation launched on
her opponent her political opponent Donald Trump well we don't know that yet
but what I can tell you I can tell you what we do know we do know that longtime
associates of Hillary Clinton including Sidney Blumenthal and another person and
I think Corey Scheer were actively giving information to the State
Department there was somehow making its way to the FBI this is from this is from
two people within the State Department who have now publicly come out and said
this in I think in major news publications so we know this we know
this was at least from at least two witnesses who have publicly said this
and so what we're trying to do is we're trying to piece all that together we now
know that there was no official intelligence that was used to start this
investigation we know that Sidney Blumenthal and others were pushing
information into the State Department so we're trying to piece all of that
together and that's why we continued to look at the State Department
the IG report as it relates to Jim Comey as it relates to the handling of the
Hillary Clinton email investigation we got these these Comey memos this week
tell me what you got from these memos what struck you most
well the main reason we wanted them out is because the mainstream media and the
Democrats have been running around talking about collusion collusion
collusion when they when they figured out there was no collusion they moved on
to obstruction of justice obstruction of justice obstruction of justice
what mr. gowdey who was able to review these a long time ago and mr. Goodlatte
had said and now we know this from reading them is that once you read all
of the Comey memos it becomes Exhibit A in a defense against that there was no
obstruction of justice so this would so I think when you read all of them good
legal minds review these when you have the President of the United States
saying look investigate all of my people with anybody in my campaign was
colluding with the Russians I want to know and they need to be brought to
justice something of that nature is in the Comey memos so this is why the
coming memos needed to get out because you know if there is obstruction of
justice we want to know about it but clearly there wasn't and that's what the
Comey memos proved now I think for mr. Comey when you match up his memos with
what's in his book with the interviews that he's giving I think he's got a lot
of problems coming in the future as it relates to what the IG is looking at
into his behavior and they could during the Clinton email investigation well
well what kind of problems I mean we know that the IG has recommended
criminal charges against his former deputy Andrew McCabe where's that go
what does that mean criminal charges where do you where do you see that going
and is that the same fate that we will see for Jim Comey well it's hard to say
right now but we know that so Mr McCabe has been recommended that that he face
criminal charges now his lawyer and he has a right to his
let his lawyer has said no this is not true what the IG mr. Comey is lying
essentially is what mr. McCabe is saying that that Comey did give him the right
to go talk to the press so you know this all has to be fleshed out clearly the IG
doesn't believe the IG believed mr. Comey that Comey did not get mr. McCabe
the ability to go talk to the press now as it relates to mr. Comey you've got
the added problem now that the memos that he wrote the seven
memos that he decided to write on President Trump never wrote memos on any
of the other meetings he had with would the other president or the the AG or
anyone else prior to this but he wrote kept seven memos four of those were
classified he decided to launder them to a friend who then leaked them to the New
York Times if those memos contain classified information he purposely did
that he purposely leaked them in order to get a special counsel started after
he was fired he leaked pieces of these so we need to figure out exactly what is
it that he leaked who did he give these memos to and was it just the friend that
leaked them to the New York Times or were there others I believe there were
others i think i think that these Comey memos were actually given to several
people it contained classified information
the irony is the very thing that mr. Comey cleared mrs. Clinton up real quick
we're gonna take a break right here but but with all of what you're saying
whether it's no official intelligence the president pushing to find out the
truth no obstruction of justice are these reasons to shut down this robert
muller special counsel probe well look I I am hit beginning I actually supported
special counsel because I thought okay mr. Moeller will come in longtime FBI
guy he will quickly see that there's no evidence of collusion which there what
now because we had not seen any just like I said we've not seen any
intelligence product that shows that there was any collusion between the
Trump campaign and the Russians but that he would he would quickly go after the
felony that occurred when general Flynn was talking to the Russian ambassador
and all of that information was leaked out which is a major felony at the
highest level so I thought great we'll have a special counsel they'll close
those leaks we'll figure out who that was well that never happened it appears
like this was clearly what started as a counterintelligence investigation into
the Trump campaign they drilled a bunch of dry holes never found any collusion
they moved to obstruction they've got a special counsel and now God knows where
this is going to go that I think the American people are getting sick and
tired of it they did manage to raid Michael Cohen's
office and home and hotel room let's not forget your manners stay with us we've
got more to talk about and I want to get your reaction to this next story the
same people who helped fund that salacious and unverified Trump dossier
welcome back the Democratic National Committee filing a lawsuit on Friday
against the Trump campaign Russia and WikiLeaks alleging conspiracy to
undercut Democrats in the 2016 presidential election by stealing tens
of thousands of emails and documents we're back with congressman Devin Nunez
chairman of the House Intelligence Ott's your reaction to this lawsuit well my
first thought is is this some kind of joke this must be a joke I mean we we
know who colluded with Russians they don't want to admit that they colluded
with Russians but they hired fusion Jeep they hired a law firm that hired fusion
GPS that hired a British spy that went in colluded with Russians so I don't
understand why they just didn't open up a lawsuit against themselves they should
name themselves and sue themselves so that they can get to the bottom of what
do they have on their servers why didn't they give those servers to the FBI this
is this is nothing more nothing less than a continuation of fundraising off
of this scandal this is made to play to the far left in this country so that the
far left will continue to write checks because they don't believe that
President Trump won the election fair and square
because the media most of the media in this country has continued this
narrative that there was collusion there was obstruction that Trump was somehow
involved with Putin and Putin helped to steal this election we've now looked at
all this none of that is true but the Democrats need a way to keep their base
motivated to turnout in November and they need a way to continue to raise
money and they're raising millions and millions and millions of dollars to
target Republicans over this Russia Fiasco it's incredible but yes the only
place where there's a Russia Fiasco is is with them so this is a fundraising
exercise why not why doesn't the RNC come back and say we're suing you for
the same exact reason given the fact that we know the bias at the top of the
FBI we know that they were have already been felonies we know about the leaking
and the fact that the FBI the DOJ and and perhaps the CIA we're all in it to
try to get Hillary to win and keep Donald Trump from from winning I mean
it's the same thing once again they're pushing on you what they're doing isn't
that right that's right well I always I always like
to say whatever the left accuses you of doing they're doing themselves exactly
what you have here mr. chairman what about those service I mean remember
National Committee got hacked you would think that the DNC wants that might and
the power and the strength of the US government behind them to find out who
hacked how come all these emails are out in the public's view and yet they didn't
do that at all they didn't give the server to the FBI they hired a private
company to look at their servers exactly so the obvious question here is is that
you know once once you were notified by the FBI that maybe somebody had hacked
into your system for sure once those emails became public right and they came
public I think July and July mid-july you you think you would immediately call
the FBI in to try to figure out and get to the bottom of what had happened yeah
but that that didn't happen there's must be a reason why they didn't want the FBI
to come in yeah I think we probably know the reason why there was probably a lot
of bad things that were on that work that were on that system real quick mr.
chairman let me switch gears tomorrow we've got the vote from the Senate
Committee on mr. Pompeo in terms of becoming the new secretary of state your
thoughts on what we'll see tomorrow out of this vote for mr. Pompeo
well mr. Pompeo should have been confirmed weeks ago this is really the
number three person in our government we have we have high-level negotiations
going on with the with North Korea with the North Koreans now in South Koreans
trying to solve that that long-standing conflict mr. Pompeo was already
confirmed as the director of the FBI he's a good man he knows what he's doing
the president trusts him this is about our nation's national security and the
United States Senate should stop playing politics with our national security so a
president has a right to hire whoever he wants especially as it relates to
someone with national security we should not let domestic politics get involved
in this decision and the Senate should do its job and do it quickly
all right well we'll see what happens tomorrow then mr. chairman good to see
you sir thanks very much for joining us this morning
thank you we will be watching the developments Devon Nunez they are a
growing number of communities in California meanwhile siding with the
Trump administration thank you god bless you and God bless america
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