All day long the media has been going nuts over the fact that Devin Nunes went to the White House the day before he announced that there were classified reports that suggests Trump and his transition team may have been spied upon by the Obama administration.
I’ve waited to hear from Nunes himself, and finally he went on CNN to discuss it.
Watch:
Maybe I’m just a Republican hack who thinks Trump is the next best thing to Jesus or something, but I really do find Devin Nunes to be credible and truthful, as best as I can determine, in his responses to Blitzer’s questions.
First of all, he said he wasn’t sneaking around at night. He said the sun was still out and he even spoke to several foreign dignitaries that he recognized on the White House grounds. He also said that he didn’t think the West Wing even knew he was there.
Secondly, the reason he had to view the information at the White House was because Congress has not been given the documents and therefore he couldn’t look at them anywhere other than the White House.
Thirdly, Nunes reiterates that none of these documents had anything to do with Russia, which is why he felt it was appropriate to discuss this with the president.
And finally, he said he does understand why some would believe this looks bad, but he contends he was looking into this before Trump ever tweeted his now infamous tweet about Obama wiretapping him.
Here are a few tweets that highlight portions of the interview:
"The Congress has not been given these documents, and that's the problem." @DevinNunes
— David M. Drucker (@DavidMDrucker) March 27, 2017
Nunes says he thinks the NSA will be providing the reports he was viewing to the committee "sometime this week."
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) March 27, 2017
Nunes: "We're happy the NSA is working overtime to get the committee this information."
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) March 27, 2017
Nunes: "Nobody was sneaking around. All it was was a place that I had to go to review this information."
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) March 27, 2017
Nunes: "This has nothing to do with Russia, nothing to do with the Russia investigation."
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) March 27, 2017
Nunes: "I'm quite sure people in the West Wing had no idea I was there."
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) March 27, 2017
Nunes on if he understands how it looks: "I do, I completely do. This is information I had long before Mr. Trump had his famous tweet."
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) March 27, 2017
Nunes: "If I really wanted to, I probably could have snuck onto the grounds that night."
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) March 27, 2017
Nunes says he wasn't planning to go to the White House til he read the reports, grew concerned
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) March 27, 2017
Nunes on what he saw: "It was very clear it was on President Trump and his transition team."
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) March 27, 2017
Nunes: "What I'm raising here is vital to national security."
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) March 27, 2017
Nunes: "It bothered me that this information was included in intelligence reports, because it just wasn't necessary."
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) March 27, 2017
Nunes says he thought it was "completely appropriate" to talk to @POTUS b/c none of the reports he saw dealt with Russia
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) March 27, 2017
Nunes: "I was not expecting to see what I saw."
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) March 27, 2017
As I suggested, Nunes just doesn’t seem like a liar to me and I don’t feel like he’s done anything wrong. I think the media continues to over hype this as well as all things Trump. Honestly, I wish they had cared even half this much on Benghazi, or Obama shipping weapons to Mexico, or the IRS scandal or….well, you get the idea.
Watch the interview for more…