It’s unclear why Nunes would have to go to the White House to seek a secure location to view classified material, since his own committee has a secure room in the Capitol where Nunes and his aides review secret documents on a daily basis .
National Security Reporter Ken Delanian Discusses Nunes’ Secret Meeting. Nunes has declined to say who provided the intelligence reports he referenced, but his admission that he met with his source at the White House is fueling suspicions among Democrats that his source was someone close to Trump.
The official said that Nunes would have had to go to the White House – or the headquarters of the CIA, NSA or another location to view that sort ...
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes speaks to reporters at the Capitol on March 24. J.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer refused to comment when asked why Nunes was on White House grounds, saying he only knew what Nunes had done based on public statements made to various media outlets. Former White House official Ned Price told NBC News that Nunes would have had to have been signed into the White House facility.
After saying he had seen reports showing that Trump and his team had been "monitored," Nunes on Friday backtracked, and acknowledged that he couldn’t be sure of that. Nunes has made clear that much of what he saw involved foreigner-to-foreigner conversations about Trump and his associates, and Nunes is raising questions about whether those reports were improperly distributed around the government.
Ken Dilanian. Ken Dilanian is a correspondent covering intelligence and national security for the NBC News Investigative Unit. Alex Moe. Alex Moe is a Capitol Hill producer for NBC News covering the House of Representatives. Ali Vitali. Ali Vitali is a political reporter for NBC News, based in Washington.
Another key figure whose role in events was further illuminated by the new phone records is Nunes, R-Calif., whose name appeared 49 times in the report in relation to contacts Nunes had with Giuliani and his associates.
The House Intelligence Committee’s report on its impeachment investigation includes never-before-seen call logs that show a web of communications the president’s private lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, built with key figures in the White House and Congress.
Giuliani spoke to White House and Nunes at key points during Ukraine campaign, Trump impeachment report says 1 The House Intelligence Committee’s report on its impeachment investigation includes never-before-seen call logs that show a web of communications the president’s private lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, built with key figures in the White House and Congress. 2 On the day that then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was abruptly recalled from her post, Giuliani spoke to the White House 11 separate times. 3 Other calls cited include Giuliani communications with the Office of Management and Budget, which steered a freeze on U.S. aid to Ukraine that is at the center of the impeachment inquiry.
They show, for instance, that Giuliani, who is not a government employee, was in frequent contact with the White House Office of Management and Budget, which carried out an order this summer that witnesses said came directly from Trump himself, to freeze $391 million in foreign and military aid to Ukraine.
Wednesday afternoon, March 22: Nunes holds a press conference in the Capitol building outlining “incidental collection” of Trump and associates, as well as their “unmasking,” which means they were identified by name in intelligence reports. Nunes says the reports came from FISA surveillance, which means that foreign nationals who ...
Monday morning, March 27: A Nunes spokesperson says Nunes met his source at the White House last week "in order to have proximity to a secure location where he could view the information provided by the source.". That’s apparently referring to a SCIF, a protected room used to share classified materials.
Nunes says the reports came from FISA surveillance, which means that foreign nationals who the intelligence community has eyes on either talked to or about the president-elect and his transition team at some point . There’s nothing either incriminating or surprising about this. Next, Nunes visits the White House to brief Trump on ...
As a Nunes spokesperson confirmed following a later CNN report, the unscheduled trip is to the White House, where an unnamed source provides Nunes with information about incidental collection of Trump and his associates.
Thursday morning, March 23: Nunes apologizes to his Intelligence Committee colleagues “in a generic way,” according to representative Jackie Speier (D-California), a fellow committee member. Nunes also tells the committee that they’ll see the documents on Friday. (This does not happen.)
Shortly thereafter, representative Adam Schiff of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, releases a statement clarifying that Nunes did not share his information with his colleagues prior to holding public press conferences.
In that capacity, Nunes also heads up the House investigation into Russian's interference in last year's presidential election, as well as any ties between Russia and Trump or his colleagues. But last week, Nunes grabbed far more headlines than usual. Wednesday, he held an extraordinary, impromptu news conference.
Nunes insisted that a secure location at the White House complex was used because the information he went to view was already available to the executive branch and not to Congress.
— -- On Monday, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes confirmed that he traveled to the White House last week in order to meet a source and view information related to surveillance that "incidentally collected" information about associates of President Donald Trump.
Nunes has provided limited details about the information he obtained over the course of his investigation, but said there are "dozens of reports" showing that "incidentally collected information about U.S. citizens involved in the Trump transition" was gathered during the course of "normal foreign surveillance.".
House intel chair won't step aside in Russia investigation, despite growing calls. Both Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Nunes himself said there would be no recusal, with Nunes saying Tuesday he has "no idea" why Democrats would call for his removal from the investigation.
Nunes is under fire for his visit to the White House. House Intelligence Committee chair Devin Nunes, R-Calif., refuses to recuse himself from the investigation as he and the White House face questions over a postponed hearing. — -- On Monday, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes confirmed that he traveled to ...
However, Nunes later briefed Trump on the information provided by the source , a move that press secretary Sean Spicer said wouldn't make sense if the information originated from the White House -- seemingly indicating that the source works elsewhere.
As House Intelligence Committee chairman, Representative Devin Nunes’s job is to oversee American spycraft. But Nunes’s own actions over the last few days suggest more the cloak-and-dagger actions of a would-be John Le Carré character than those of a sober government investigator. Amid accusations from Democrats on the panel ...
CNN said Nunes had visited the National Security Council offices in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House, adding, “The official said Nunes arrived and left alone.”. And after days of refusing to say who his source was, Nunes told Eli Lake on Monday that it was an intelligence official.
As House Intelligence Committee chairman, Representative Devin Nunes ’s job is to oversee American spycraft.