CNN Wolf Blitzer Grills Republican Devin Nunes On Meeting With Trump During Russia Investigation

CNN Wolf Blitzer Grills Republican Devin Nunes On Meeting With Trump During Russia Investigation

‘This is a lot of questions’: Nunes fumbles as Blitzer grills him over clandestine White House visit. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Monday grilled House Intel Committee chairman Devin Nunes over reports he met an intelligence source on White House grounds the day before he informed Donald Trump that he and members of his transition team may have been “incidentally surveilled” by intelligence agencies. Nunes insisted he’d been concerned about the unmasking of U.S. citizens in intelligence reports long before Trump’s “famous tweet” alleging former President Barack Obama “wiretapped” Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential election. Blitzer asked Nunes if he understands why it “might be conspicuous for the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee to visit” the White House hours before unilaterally deciding to inform the president of potential intelligence gathered on Trump and members of his team. Nunes argued there was nothing clandestine about meeting a source at the White House, adding, “if I wanted to, I could have snuck onto White House grounds at night when nobody would have seen me.” Blitzer pressed Nunes on “who cleared [him] for admission” at the White House, arguing, “eventually these records, they’re going to come out anyhow.” “Why not disclose it now if it’s going to be released in the near-future?” Blitzer asked. “You understand how all of this looks and why it’s causing such an uproar?” Nunes argued the potential unmasking of additional names “bothered [him] enough for him to consider it “completely appropriate … to go to the president with this.”

At one point, Nunes grew exasperated by the magnitude of Blitzer’s question, complaining, “this is a lot of questions.”

“Do you understand why it might have been better to avoid this kind of meeting at the White House,” Blitzer asked again. The CNN host also pressed Nunes about the president’s tweets alleging Obama had wiretapped him prior to the election.

“You don’t believe that, do you?” Blitzer asked, adding, “He should not feel vindicated?” CNN Wolf Blitzer. CNN Devin Nunes. Devin Nunes. Devin Nunes Trump. Devin Nunes CNN. CNN Devin Nunes. Wolf Blitzer Devin Nunes. Nunes CNN. Nunes CNN Blitzer. Nunes CNN Wolf Blitzer.

Rep. Nunes refused to say who cleared him for admission to the White House. He also refused to deny that it was a White House staffer who cleared him for admission. The House Intel Committee chairman said, “Look, Wolf, I’m not going to get into sources and methods and how we review documents and classified information. This happens all over the Executive Branch, and it’s quite common.” Wolf Blitzer told him that the records are going to come out anyway, and Nunes agreed, but still refused to disclose any information about how he got into the White House and who he was talking to. Nunes tried to defend himself by saying that if he wanted to, he could have snuck onto the White House grounds at night unseen, “if I wanted to, I could have snuck onto WH grounds at night when nobody would have seen me.”

The interview was a complete train wreck. Nunes offered answers to questions that contradicted themselves. For instance, Nunes tried to claim that his source was a whistleblower, but also that the whole process and the intelligence he saw were routine.

Nunes said that he thought what he saw in the documents was in his opinion wrong, but he refused to say that what he saw was illegal. Rep. Nunes all but admitted that this was a White House operation. He didn’t provide any explanations, and his answers should only inspire more questions. It is difficult to imagine an interview that could have gone worse for Nunes and the White House. The old cliche is that the cover-up is worse than the crime. In the case of the Trump/Russia scandal, the crime could be treason, and it is the cover-up that is going to intensify the investigation and scrutiny on Donald Trump. Trump Nunes. Nunes Trump. CNN Nunes Trump. CNN Nunes Wolf Blitzer Trump. Trump Nunes Russia

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