Andrea Mitchell: Nunes has turned House Intel Committee 'into a joke'
BY JOE CONCHA - 01/29/18 09:44 AM EST
MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell on Monday said that House Intel chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) "has destroyed the credibility" of the committee, adding that he has turned the panel "into a joke."
“I’m not hearing a lot of Republican senators in the United States Senate being as reckless as their counterparts in the House,” "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough said to Mitchell during a discussion about a New York Times report that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein approved a FISA application in 2017 to conduct surveillance on former Trump campaign associate Carter Page, according to a secret Republican memo claim.
"They’re not [being as reckless in the Senate]," responded Mitchell, who also serves as the chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News. "But you also do not hear them suggesting that if Mueller were fired or [Rod] Rosenstein, which could be more significant because he is overseeing Mueller’s investigation, that they would take action. It’s a real softening of the backbone, the spine, in the Senate as well. But they’re not commenting on Nunes and this memo at all. They’re considering it a House problem. And Nunes was cleared by the Ethics Committee on that unmasking probe so that gave him the leeway, he believes and his supporters believe, to jump right back in," she continued.
"He never stopped issuing subpoenas and interfering with the probe, according to critics on the house intelligence committee, and this has destroyed the credibility of the house intelligence committee.
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