Sean Spicer doesn’t know how Devin Nunes got on White House grounds

Nunes immediately rejected the calls for his recusal in an interview with Bill O’Reilly on Fox News.

Nunes confirmed Monday that the meeting where he had obtained that information was held on White House grounds and that he viewed it there because they hadn’t been provided to Congress yet. Doing so would ordinarily require Nunes and the person he met with to have been cleared in advance and accompanied by an escort – requirements that seemed to undercut White House claims to have no information about the encounter.

“He has not been operating like someone who is interested in getting to the unvarnished truth”. The conversations in question also happened after the election and, as observers have noted, could include remarks about Trump and his team. Last week, Pelosi called Nunes a “stooge of the president” and said he was “deeply compromised and he can not possibly lead an honest investigation”.

Schiff’s statement followed news reports that Nunes, the committee’s chairman, was on White House grounds with a source who showed him secret intelligence reports. When pressed on Friday, he said he felt a “duty” to tell the president and House Speaker Paul Ryan – but not members of his panel – due to “relentless” political attacks by Democrats. He also acknowledged going to the White House to brief top officials there before talking to Democratic members of the committee.

Those concerns escalated after Nunes, who has still not shared the documents with his own committee, abruptly canceled a public hearing scheduled for Tuesday into the Trump-Russia question.

“He is the one who has discussed what he is reviewing”, Spicer said, referring to Nunes.

Schumer believes Nunes is biased and unfit to lead an investigation into the president and any links between his campaign and Russian Federation. In short, Nunes is looking like a stooge for the White House.

The investigation into President Pee Pee’s campaign ties to Russian Federation is starting to become as messy as this damn administration. And it wouldn’t be a hard task for Spicer to figure out who cleared Nunes. He described the source as an intelligence official, not a White House official. On Thursday, spokesman Spicer mocked the idea.

“Whatever it is he’s done, it has been at the White House, it appears to have been in the service of the White House, and so, it is very clear that he owes us an explanation“, Himes said on “At This Hour”.

Nunes’ office said the information provided to the chairman came from “executive branch documents that have not been provided to Congress”.

Kushner volunteered to be interviewed by the committee, according to a White House official, making him the fourth member of Trump’s campaign operation to come forward in the past week offering to speak with congressional investigators.

When asked if he could clarify whether Trump or his associates were monitored or simply mentioned in the intelligence reports, Nunes said he won’t know until he receives all the documentation.

The White House provided little clarity, directing all inquiries to the chairman himself.