a true american patriot, devin nunes deserves everyone's support. vote for devin nunes. tonight, we have some news about devin nunes. one of the republican members of kong glows has an unexpectedly tough time in a primary last night is a senior lead area of the republican house liedership from washington state. congresswoman kath mcmorris-rodgers. tonight, we have obtained an audiotape that was made at one of her final fund raisers before last night's difficult primary. we obtained this from a progressive group called "fuse washington." someone from that group paid to attend this cathy mcmorris-rodgers fund-raiser and made this recording at this event. this fund-raiser was held last week, on monday of last week. it was a closed press event. because of that, what happened at this fund-raiser has not been reported anywhere simply because reporters were explicitly not allowed in when this thing happened last week. tonight, we have obtained the tape of what happened at that fund-raiser. on that tape, you will hear congressman cathy mcmorris-rodgers a little bit. you will mos

he's courageous, congressman devin nunes. thank you very much, devin, for being here. appreciate it. >> back in february, congressman nunes released a video of the wrongdoing of congressman page. >> it's appalling. it's a misrepresentation. it isn't even a relief of intelligence, it's a relief of a distortion of it. >> you can discount that. you might expect the housetop democrat to say that, of course. how about a republican? say the president's hand-picked fbi director. here's how christopher wray reacted. we have great concerns about material omissions of fact that might fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy. the president's fbi director is at war with attorney general rod rosenstein threatening to impeach him for not providing enough records to congress yet reported when some documents are provided nunes does not actually read them nor will he answer many questions, especially not outside the friendly confines of fox news. >> you stepped aside from this investigation? >> just like you know already i'm not going to talk about intelligence committee business. demo

congressman devin nunes. thank you for being here. >> and just after that, he revealed the wrongdoing with cart r page, aer page, and thii response from the democrats. >> it is appalling, and not a release of a mamaterial, but a distortion of it. >> and you might expect that, but what about the hand-picked fbi direction and this is how christopher wray reacted from the bureau. we have grave concern about the omissions of fact that impact the memo's accuracy, and the fei run by the president's own director, and chairman nunes is in opposition with the fbi director rod rosenstein, and when those documents are provide, he does not read them or answer questions outside of the friendly confines of fox ne news. >> you have stepped aside from the investigation. >> just like you know already, i won't talk about the intelligence committee the business. >> why is that not in any of the memos, sir? >> democracy dies in the darkness, sir. get to work. >> and can you tell us about the lead democratic -- >> salty, but keep

i agree with devin nunes. if we lose that majority, all those gains go away and you'll have nancy pelosi on the house floor rallying for eight hours to protect the people here illegally and they'll have open borders and get rid of the tax cuts and god knows what else. i stand with devin nunes on that comment. i did not hear the word protect. i hope that the media gets that right and says the word protect was not in that statement. i think that's a little false advertising. >> we get your point. but it was certainly implied if not specifically used, that one word protect. >> that's a little thin. >> we can leave it on that and let the viewers make up their mind to see what he was driving at. let me get your thoughts. you're a member of the house foreign affairs committee. on these latest sanctions against russia for the poisoning of an ex-russian spy on british soil, including his daughter as well. these sanctions are required by u.s. law, but the administration didn't implement them until the chairman of the f

what would you tell devin nunes about him if he wanted to talk to you about him? >> i'm sure what the mi-6 and mi-5 guys would say if they thought it was worth speaking to devin nunes, would say. he is a respected professional. he's worked 20 years with british intel and then he worked with the fbi and other u.s. agencies on sort of a contractor basis. so people who have worked with him speak tremendously highly of him. it doesn't matter what my impression of him is. he has an established track record. and if he doesn't like what he did with the memos, i don't think you can fault him. he was given an assignment. he went out. he sent stuff in. it wasn't for public consumption. it was just a lot of leads. and it's really not much of a story. we wrote a book about it. but in terms of like the dark evil side of this and plotting with bruce ohr, a person no one ever heard of, another great public servant, i mean, the republicans have turned this world upside down and the only person it helps -- actually, there are two people it helps. donald trump and vladimir putin. >

that's what you heard devin nunes say. if sessions won't unrecuse and mueller won't clear the president, we're the only ones. so what they're saying there is if the attorney general of the united states abides by his oath to defend the constitution, and if the special prosecutor, robert mueller, abides by his oath to defend the constitution, then it will be up to them, the republican members of the congress, to defend donald trump against the defenders of the constitution. 44 years ago today richard nixon left the white house for the last time because there was no devin nunes in the house of representatives telling all the other republicans we're the only ones who can save their president. it wasn't always this way. if the republicans who served in the house of representatives and in the united states senate when richard nixon was president were still serving today, we would not have to fear that we are living with a congress that refuses to defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. leading off our

so this is a pattern that devin nunes has of taking this intelligence he's given by the fbi, the doj, and making it public. that, of course, is something else that officials in the uk were very concerned about. >> caddy? >> yeah, i think nunes's case, it's within his rights would be stronger if two of his staffers hadn't gone to london earlier this summer trying to get information on christopher steele and actually trying to get to christopher steele himself by going to christopher steele's lawyer and they went totally unannounced, they didn't tell the british services or the american embassy. that will not endear devin nunes to the british secret services and make them think he's playing everything straight. he's also developed a reputation for fiercely going after the messenger rather than looking at the message itself and questions about whether christopher -- all of trump's supporters refer to this as the dodgy dossier. it hadn't been discredited out. there are valid questions to ask about what christopher steele was after and what information he had. that's not what devin nunes i

devin nunes does that. and it is wrong. >> who walks out of a hearing, an intelligence hearing -- if you want the american people to believe credibly that there's actual, real oversight in congress, who walks out of an intelligence hearing to report what's going on in the hearing, portions of it, that will be damaging rhetoric for the democrats and goes back into the hearing as the ranking member, who would by the chairman if -- >> [ overlapping voices ] >> the onus is on the chairman of that committee not to go over to the white house, not to go over to the white house to tell the white house all the information that they had just gotten from that investigation. >> why can't both of you have a point by the way? hold on a second. why can't both of you have a point that you don't like that schiff goes out and talk to the media. nobody should be talking. you should keep it quiet to yourselves although he would argue i have to because these guys are lying to you, and that nina has a point, mike, that the chair

he's been a strong protector of the president, devin nunes. how likely is all of this -- how is this likely to play out up on capitol hill, these words that we just heard him utter? >> undoubtedly, he's going to confirm all the suspicions mounting for the past year that he's been using his chairmanship to protect the president. we recall last year when he viewed some things he viewed as problematic in those intelligence reports. he rushed to the white house, briefed the president about it before even briefing his committee. he was forced to step aside from the russia investigation on his committee last year, but he still wielded considerable influence from the outside. he stopped democratic attempts to subpoena witnesses, to get more records, to schedule witness interviews. behind the scenes, he mounted his own investigation to try to sew doubt on the fbi, the russia investigation, the mueller probe. that led to the release of the nunes memo from earlier this year, criticizing how that fisa warrant was obtained to monitor carter page. democrat

it is a much broader legal problem for the republicans than devin nunes described. what he said is true, that is criminal. it would be criminal. but it's also criminal if you accept anything of value from a foreign individual or a foreign government. especially when it happens to be an enemy of our country, not a friend or ally. but you cannot accept anything even from our closest allies if it is a foreign person. so once you have his description was of a portuguese giving something to the candidate. it doesn't matter what country it is. you can't take it. anything of value is barred by our election laws. and, so, there is a much broader thing. and it doesn't matter whether you public it or you knowingly allow someone to publish it or whether you just send an e-mail that says i love it, especially later in the summer and then wikileaks publishes it later in the summer. >> jennifer, the notion that the senate has to immediately take up a bill of impeachment, the last time we saw an impeachment of this level was of a federal judge. 1988 in august the house voted to im

this is what we talked about, devin nunes, a leaked video. mn snbc got, and he is speaking at a fund-raiser. l listen. >> if sessions won't unrecuse and mueller won't clear the president, we're the only ones, which is really the danger. that's why i keep, thank you for saying it, by the way. if we don't keep the majority, all of this goes away. >> all of this goes away. it's remarkable to hear a congressman, the chairman of the house intel committee, frank, saying that it's their job to shield the president. >> right. >> like this. is that their job? i mean, what the hell is going on here? >> no, what david said is absolutely correct, the job of congress is to provide oversight. there's a separation of powers. checks and balances. congress supposed to be a balance on the executive branch. what devin nunes is saying in the tape, we defend the president at all costs regardless of anything. what's so scary about what he says, if mueller won't clear the president. there's no concern in his statement about what mueller finds. regardless of what mu

is that a widely held belief or just devin nunes? >> it's become a cultural personality. we have to face this squarely. the deliberate line you are seeing, the gaslighting of the country has not worked on a majority of the country, which is good. but for 40% of the country, 35% of the country, they have surrendered their intellectual sovereignty to donald trump. things that are clearly true, that are before them, that can be known, objective facts, objective truth. what trump has been able to do abetted by rudy giuliani, abetted by devin nunes, is this. to redefine truth as what the leader says is truth. what the leader believes is true. and it doesn't matter if the leader is saying the red chair is blue, the blue chair is red, up is down or down is up. and of course that is not just pernicious, it's profoundly dangerous in a democracy. there is no other democratic republic in the world where you see that type of lining emanating from the seat of executive power. it speaks to the sickness that has infected the american republic. >> donald trump has been in office now for

it sounds like devin nunes might be able to shed some light. chuck rosenberg and the panel are still here. paul butler, it's remarkable to me that this -- it has been reported, president president's lawyers are aware of the fact that donald trump's desire for jeff sessions to unrecuse -- i don't even know if that's a thing. is this to get his a.g. to unrecuse himself is one of the flash points in the investigation into the president. >> it's crazy. especially when we remember what this investigation is about, is whether republican campaign operatives conspired with the russians to try to subvert our democracy and what chairman nunes is saying is i don't care if the russians installed donald trump as president. we need to keep him in office. so i've been reluctant to use the phrase constitutional crisis to describe what's going on. but if what he's saying is no matter what kind of evidence mueller turns in to congress, he's not looking at it, all he's trying to do is keep donald trump president. then we have a situation in which the congress is

devin nunes has been criticizing the mueller probe for a long time. so on one level this isn' surprising, but still, this is the head of the house intel tommittee seeming to imply th his job is to protect the president from robert mueller. >> that's what stands ot here. devin nunes, as you said, is the head of one of the most important committees of congress. his job is oversight of the most sensitive information about protecting this country that there is. that job has generally not been partisan. on the other hand, devin nunes is also someone on the stee erig commitr the trump campaign. it's an issue of how he's been balancing those two roles. t in tpe, it makes it seem like his priority is to protect and reelect theresident versus thinking about intelligence matters. clearly he's a person that can do both, but in that tape you wantoo think abut perhaps a different trump administration ficial, jeff sessions. he's also in the trump campaign. he decided to recuse himself when those two things came into conflie. that's why sessions is not overseeing th

this is an audio recording on which the chairman devin nunes and kathy mcmorris rodgers, they appeared to admit at this closed door event where they didn't know they were being recorded. they appear to admit that despite public statements to the contrary, there is a house republican man to pursue the impeachment of deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who overseas the bob mueller investigation. we broke that story last night it is plowing through today's news in a couple of ways you should know about. a couple of weeks ago, you might remember a small group of hard line pro trump congressional republicans introduced articles of impeachment for rod rosenstein. you might also remember that house speaker paul ryan immediately distanced himself and the rest of house republicans from that effort. >> do i support impeachment of rosenstein? no, i do not. for a number of reasons. first, it takes -- i don't think we should be cavalier with this process or this term. number one. number two, i don't think. this rises to high crimes is that misdemeanors. >> given what you just said, did you try t

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behind closed doors at this fund-raiser though, house intelligence chairman devin nunes and the number four republican in house leadership mcmorris rodgers appeared to indicate that republicans in congress do support impeaching rod rosenstein but don't want to do it yet. answering a question from an audience member at this fund-raiser for rodgers answering a question from an audience member whether or not those impeachment articles against rosenstein actually had any support in congress, devin nunes explained that there is support for the impeachment of rosenstein. he said you won't get at argument about that from our colleagues but he said basically they're not talking about it now before the election. they plan to pursue it a, once the election is over and b, crucially, after republicans have confirmed trump nominee brett cab anyhow to the united states supreme court. now, this is not a plan that congressional republican leadership has talked about publicly. quite the contrary. apparently they are talking about it behind closed doors. >> but also on things that came up in the house o

so devin nunes has been very clear from the start. he is not serving as an impartial arbiter on the house intelligence committee. he is serving very clearly as a strident ally of the president, something that should worry all of us. >> i always love talking to both of you. ned price, thank you for the time on this saturday. my thanks to guy lewis as well. a state of emergency in charlottesville as the city prepares for a solemn anniversary this weekend. one year later, has anything changed? how the president is remembering last year's clashes between white supremacists and counter-protesters and what it means for race relations in america today. ♪ ♪ ♪ raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens ♪ ♪ bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens ♪ ♪ brown paper packages tied up with strings ♪ ♪ these are a few of my favorite things ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ these are a few of my favorite things ♪ ancestrydna can open you to a world of new cultures to explore. with two times more detail than any other dna test... you can get a n

i want to play that recording of devin nunes to hear it again. let's listen. >> if sessions won't unrecuse and mueller won't clear the president, we're the only ones. by the way i mean we have to keep all of these -- we're the only ones. >> meaning republicans in congress. what did you find so offensive in that that would lead you to for the very first time in your life as far as we know vote for a democrat? >> first time in a federal election. i voted locally in d.c. for a while and voted for some democratic candidates here. but really, it's the abdication of responsibility, the republican party seems to me to no longer deserve my support or frankly the support of anybody who thinks that the legislative branch should act as a check and balance against executive awe thor tar yanism. essentially represent nunes has said aloud what everybody is assuming, which is that his only goal and apparently the only goal of the party is to defend the president no matter what. and that's not the right way for a legislative branch to function. >> abdicated what

it's become a partisan issue in the house. >> it was devin nunes who went surreptitiously at night to the white house and consorted with people on mike flynn's staff, the nsc, started accusing susan rice of all sorts of things that were completely unfounded. he has so politicized this. then after being forced to recuse himself, still stayed in the middle of it and blocked subpoenas from being voted on for key witnesses. >> i lay this at the foot of speaker ryan and now kathy mcmorris rodgers. this is so disappointing, knowing her. it lays bare the agenda, which is to protect the president. what i want to know is where in the republican leadership, whether it's from the speaker or from now their conference chair that says that our responsibility is to the people of the united states and not just to protect the president from an investigation that's closing in on him. >> michael, let me just ask you, you mentioned the republican agenda. and i'm trying to figure out what the republican agenda is. there's the trump agenda. but the republican agenda that paul ryan used to have is no longer

. >> which is what devin nunes was trying to do at that fund-raiser where we have the audio. i'll play that in a moment. first i want to get your reaction from the fox news sound last night. rudy guiliani went on for this interview on fox last night, and then he made an argument that there would be a violation of doj rules by mueller if he doesn't wrap it up. let's listen to what he said. >> well, i think if it isn't over by september, then we have a very, very serious violation of the justice department rules. the reality is, the real story here is not that this case isn't going to fizzle, it's going to blow up on them. the real question is what we were talking about before. there's a lot more to what they did that nobody knows about yet. a lot more to the obstruction of justice, to the collusion, to the fake dossier. >> okay. there are two questions about what answer. let me ask you the first. and that is, a 60-day rule? >> so what he's talking about is not a hard and fast rule. it's a custom and tradition. and what the custom and tradition is inside the justice department

and, yeah, devin nunes was right. >> here's what i'm going to tell you right now. here's the reality, if thehe democrats were going to take control of the house, all you are going to do is add more and more investigations, 24 hours a day. that is what their agenda is. all of the ability president trump to get his agenda with ath republican house is going to stop. people have to understand that president trump may not be on the ballot this november but his agenda certainly is. we need to go out there with thv same fervor that we elected the president with this november and keep a republican house. >> sean: yeah, dr. gorka, what do you say? we'll give you the last word. >> i think november 2018 is potentially more important than november 2016.20 fake news is real. the president is writing to hit back, and ignore them, get on social media, repost the president, find the facts out for yourself and ask yourself one thing, what do you think of the last year and a half? if you like it, that is what we need to vote for. >> sean: they got to know this is really, in a large

you mentioned devin nunes. here you have the chairman of the house intelligence committee who knows a lot we don't know about this because he has access to classified information, speaking at a fundraiser. listen to him here. is he saying we need to clear up all these questions? and i understand from a republican perspective, let's get this over with, especially if the president did nothing wrong. but that's not what he says. he says let's keep the republicans in charge of congress because we need to protect the president. >> again, please, if there's another way to translate it, i would love to hear it. rudy giuliani's legal strategy, at least at the moment, until he knows more about bob mueller s a political strategy. devin nunes was removed for the meat of this investigation because he got caught playing with team trump, essentially saying we need to keep the republicans not so we can answer questions and get to the bottom of this, but so we can protect the president. >> this is where you see the confluence

. >> and devin nunes, as you know, the chairman of the house intelligence committee, told an audience at a republican fundraiser recently why he thinks they have to keep the majority in congress. he said if robert mueller won't clear the president, then, quote, we're the only ones. what do you make of those comments? what do they say about devin nunes and how he's been handling his position as the chairman of that very important committee that you sit on? >> yeah, i think it's a public acknowledgment of what anyone should have known all along. mr. nunes directed the house select committee on intelligence to tank the russia investigation and shut it down. they refused to subpoena key witnesses, at least 40. they refused subpoenas on all but one witness and went along with the white house on their gag orders so people didn't have to answer our questions. perhaps more important than all that, he unilaterally committed to and conducted investigations into our own government. so as dni coats said, the lights are blinking red. our democratic process is under attack by the russians. but chai

this is really just devin nunes putting into words what his deeds have shown. he's made it pretty clear he sees his job as protecting the president at all costs and not getting to the bottom of what happened, whether with regards to russian interference and with regards to whether any members of donald trump's campaign participated or assisted in the russian interference. that's been obvious for a year and a half now. it's remarkable to come out and admit it privately, not publicly in a setting where you often hear politicians slip up and say what they really mean. and i think what it shows is this argument you see democrats making across the country which is the republican party in no way is willing to be a check on donald trump. no way willing to investigate corruption or malfeasance or impropriety in his administration and devin nunexts s not just unwilling to investigate it but actually coming out and saying ehe is th one -- the republican majority is the last ability to stop donald trump from being investigated in this case by the special counsel. >> so je

here's devin nunes in a closed-door fund-raiser on july 30th, the leaked recording obtained by msnbc. >> if sessions won't un-recuse and mueller won't clear the president, we're the only ones, which is really the danger. that's why, i keep -- and thank you for saying it, by the way. we have to keep all of these seats. we have to keep the majority. if we do note keep the majority, all of this goes away. >> it's an astonishing remark, because that's not the job of congress. congress' responsibility is to check the president, the special counsel's job is to investigate him. it's supposed to be fair and unbiased. congress' job is not there to sit there and protect a sitting president. but this is the type of thing we have heard before, to try to rile up and motivate the trump basis, that the midterms are really all about protecting the president. >> this election is going to be about impeachment or no impeachment. >> kaitlan collins is "outfront" live in berkeley heights, new jersey, that is where the president is on his working vacation. kaitlan, what do you know about this dinner tonigh

and you are not going to get them to act as constitutional check and balance as devin nunes disclosed to his donors. >> i want to play one bit of tape. before you guys went on recess, they filed articles of impeachment on rod rosenstein. listen to what he had to say. >> also, on things that came up in the house on rosenstein impeachment thing. yeah, yeah, well, so it's a bit complicated right and i say that because you have to, so we only have so many months left, right. so if we actually vote to impeach, okay, what that does is that triggers the senate that has to take it up. well, you have to decide what you want right now, because the senate only has so much time. you want them to drop everything and not confirm the supreme court justice. you are -- i said publicly rosenstein needs to be impeached. the question is the timing of it right before the election. >> the senate has to start -- >> the senate would have to drop everything they are doing and start with impeachment on rosenstein and then take the risk of not getting kavanaugh confirmed. it is not a matter -- it is a matter of

the fact is that devin nunes was absolutely correct and the left as usual, well, far far gone. joining me now, eric edgars, research director at the government accountability institute, author of a newly released book. eric, it's good to have you with us. and voter fraud. we hear the left continue to dismiss the very idea saying that the numbers are too small, it's not a matter that we should worry our little heads about. you found quite a different result. >> that's right, lou. and it's great to be here. i.at the government accountabily institute, we're tired of hearing the talk of voter fraud, we wanted to know what the evidence was. we did an unprecedented look at the national level using all of the rolls tha roles that we cou. we found in the state of florida what appear to be over 2100 examples of durabl double votin. that means 2100 floridians cast a ballot in 2016 and cast a different ball loot in a different state. that's four times the margin of victory in the 2000 presidential election. the idea that voter fraud doesn't occur on a scale to sway elections is clearly no

nunes. a lot of protection. what happens if that goes away. you have real committee chairman who is going to subpoena all documents and take their charge seriously. the protecting of the president, i suppose the party and donald trump are in deep trouble. >> jay sekulow tempered expectations of any interview. saying there is quote a steep hurdle. the legal team has concerns about questions. axios quote there are two topics the president's lawyers want to rule out in order to agree to a trump sit down with mueller. number one, why trump fired fbi director james comey. peter baker, we have seen donald trump cycle through lawyers before and through all sorts of advisers and people in his inner circle. what is your sense behind the scenes trump's relationship with rudy giuliani, with jay sekulow. is he hughing to what he says. >> the president wants in a lawyer, is somebody to get out there and fight and say things that may not be the things that other lawyers would say. to get out on television

we know devin nunes, the chair of the intel committee is looking at the cia and what john brennan 's role was in terms of the dossier and handing over to the fbi. when it was unverified trying to get the warrant to wiretap carter page. we know that brennan was involved in this and we know that you've got an active investigation into his performance. so he still has security clearance giving him this sort of appearance that he is in the know of something. then he goes on television and criticizing the president, calls him treasonous? >> john brennan cia obviously we are talking about a handful of people in the cia. 99.9 percent do an outstanding job. but a handful people in his leadership and a handful people under james comey, i believe did not carry out their duties in the best interest of the us. they are more interested in stopping donald trump. that is being looked at, it is not definite yet but i believe there is real improper activities carried on and it is being looked at. to me, all the more reason why very few if anyone in the obama administration right now should have this

. >> i want your take on devin nunes who has been such an ardent supporter of the president. rachel maddow on her show played this tape that was taken inside a private fund-raiser of devin nunes. we have the audio. he said a lot. but here's what he said about the president's statements on twitter as it applies to the mueller probe. >> they know it's ridiculous to go after the president for obstruction of justice but if they tell a lie often enough and put it out there and say oh, look at the tweets, you've got a lot of tweets, sometimes we love the president's tweets, sometimes we cringe on the president's tweets but they're trying to make a political -- >> he's saying you have to keep republicans in control of congress because we'll see an impeachment. it's not that different than what he said publicly but what is the significance here? >> i think the idea that any of this is politically motivated by mueller is probe ridiculous. the obstruction issue is very real and something the president's lawyers are concerned about. i think it's on the top of their mind and what they're