Devin Nunes was on with Fox and Friends this morning hitting back at some of the claims made by Adam Schiff as well as talking about future memos.
Watch the full interview below:
Yesterday Schiff accused Nunes of coordinating this memo with the White House, but Nunes basically says Schiff is lying and that he knows it.
In fact after what Gowdy said yesterday, if there was a coordination with the White House then it has gone off the rails. As the main congressional author of the memo, Gowdy’s conclusions don’t match that of the president, who thinks this memo vindicates himself.
Around the 4:30 minute mark, Nunes explains they are looking at writing a memo about abuses in the State Department and will go where the facts lead them. But he says it won’t go through the same congressional process the FISA memo went through, perhaps because the FISA process is so secretive. He said they had to go through that process because the FBI refused to investigate itself. The upcoming memo, which doesn’t sound like it’s coming anytime soon, will apparently go through a completely different process.
Nunes also hits back at the ‘footnote’ that Democrats are saying was on the FISA warrant that indicated the dossier was be a political document. Nunes rightfully points out that’s a far cry from stating that the “Democrats and the Hillary campaign paid for dirt” that the FBI then used to get a warrant on Page and then spy on the Trump campaign.
On that issue, I wanted to make one more point. It is true that Carter Page had resigned from the Trump campaign when the FISA warrant was given. But that fact doesn’t mean the FBI wasn’t still trying to use Page to spy on the Trump campaign. It’s entirely conceivable that Page would have still had some dealings with the Trump campaign and that the FBI was hoping that those dealings would reveal something meaningful. So in my opinion, it’s not wrong to suggest the FBI was at the very least indirectly spying on the Trump campaign. After all, we do know they spied on the Trump transition team with respect to Michael Flynn when they unmasked his communications with the Russian Ambassador.
UPDATE:
Apparently Trump was watching this interview and subsequently tweeted that Nunes would one day be seen as a ‘hero’:
Representative Devin Nunes, a man of tremendous courage and grit, may someday be recognized as a Great American Hero for what he has exposed and what he has had to endure!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 5, 2018