Hey Sen. Nunes - how about you actually look to see if there is any collusion before you make the statement that there is none.
“There is no evidence of collusion.”
And as chair of the House Intelligence Committee and a member of the Trump campaign, I have no interest in finding any. So let’s let sleeping dogs lie.
So, Devin - very definite about this one. No evidence of collusion. Period. End [you hope] of story. However on the baseless wiretap/surveillance tweet claims, you add the qualifier “that I’m aware of.” You weaselly piece of shit.
“And this is after getting this information from the FBI?” Wallace asked.
“Up to speed on everything I have up to this morning,” Nunes said. “There is no evidence of collusion.”
Notice that he very subtly avoids answering the question. Up to speed based on what; whom? He allows the listener to think he’s referring to the FBI, but he really hasn’t made a definitive statement. Based on his almost sycophantic support for Trump, he may simply have avoided asking the FBI or the IC, the appropriate questions. As in never ask a question when you know you won’t like the answer.
This guy used to be my congresscreature when I lived in California. He’s as slippery and lubricious as they come. I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could drop kick a giant ball of dough while standing in quicksand.
“I’ll give you a very simple answer.
NoNyet,” Nunes said.
Fixed.
(And is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that Ms. Cribb is the one doing all the work at TPM today?)
OT but fascinating to watch in real time, today’s Gallop Daily Tracking Poll has PeePee at a whopping -21 points!
Now, on topic, I say that there is a massive amount of evidence of collusion btwn PeePeeCo and PutinCo. And we need more info on the “coincidence” of Rybolovlev’s yacht being in the same place as the Kushners last summer. Yes, we’ve heard that this and his plane being in the same obscure places as PeePee’s PenisAIR are merely coincidences that should be ignored but I see smoke and would like to know if there is fire or a simple barbecue.
@irasdad - I wonder if nyet now means “not yet” in English?
@inversion - not sure why it took a full week for the polling to show a marked increase in disapproval. I’m not a statistician but I certainly understand a 3-day rolling average.
I did notice that, as a matter of fact.
And given how long Comey dodged the Senate Committee and what Grassley and DiFi went through to get Comey to tell them what he has and what he’s doing, there’s zero chance that they would voluntarily share information with this salad-tossing brownnose, knowing he’d pass it on to Trump in a heartbeat.
Well, what would you call the contacts between Roger Stone and Gucifer 2? Very likely collusion since Stone, in retrospect, was very perceptive about hacked e-mails, etc.
In any case, this warrants a serious investigation and Nunes’s answer, seemingly dismissive, is very troubling.
“No evidence of collusion”. Also no evidence of what I ate last night… and my head is so far up my ass that I would know if there was any.
Another definitional query. What and who constitutes the Trump campaign? People who are directly involved and pulling salaries? Does “campaign” include unpaid spokespersons and "volunteers’. Before Lewandowski, Manafort, and Page, or after they left? Flynn got money from the Russians. Is this collusion, or simply a matter of optics. Did the Russkies get more from Flynn besides a speech and the honor of his presence at a dinner?
What does Nunie think he’s doing, working the refs for tomorrow’s hearing? Why do all these lightweights have so much leverage! Makes me nuts.
With an emphasis on ‘lie’.
Nunes is trying to kill the investigation before it even starts. he’s going into it with his mind already made up. This is why a select committee is required, other wise there will always be doubt in people minds of a coverup by Republicans.
Schiff is saying something else
I wish this slimeball would recuse himself from that committee…Fat chance, I know.
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I know it’ll never happen, but Devolved Devin was on Donnie Dingbat’s transition team. Anyone connected to that team should not be involved in any investigation of said transition, or that Reality TV star’s elevation to the Presidency if the issue is about Russia’s connection to our election. Why is that so hard for these people to comprehend?
Schiff is saying we need to follow the evidence trail and see what we can find. Nunes is saying “what evidence trail”? Like in the old joke about the guy who decides to take up bird watching as a hobby.
On the field trip, someone in the group says “Oh, look, a dead bird” and the novice proceeds to scan the sky with his binoculars saying “where, where?”
It’s a tad disingenuous to suggest that no evidence exists when Comey refuses to divulge what the FBI investigations have uncovered on the matter.
Is he simply trying to protect the GOP legislative agenda, or could he be trying to make sure his own involvement in collusion never comes to light?