Transcript - Interview: Devin Nunes Interview on Fox's "At This Hour" - October 30, 2017 | Factba.se

Laura Ingraham

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Joining us now for reaction is Congressman Devin Nunues, the Republican chairman of the House Intel Committee. Congressman, you look great at this hour.

Devin Nunes

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Great to be on with you.

Laura Ingraham

00:00:10 - 00:00:19 (10 sec)

Thanks for being with us on our first show. OK, so where are we now on this? Make it easy for our viewers to understand and follow this. Where are we today?

Devin Nunes

00:00:19 - 00:00:54 (35 sec)

So there's a lot of moving parts. So let's start with we still have information from Fusion GPS that we need from the bank. We still have a whole host of information from the Department of Justice and FBI that we hope to begin to get tomorrow. So we are just really at the beginning of unraveling questions that we've been asking since March. And let me go to what Mr. Gowdy's comment was there. If people really believe that the FBI did not know who paid for that dossier, I've got a bridge to sell you.

Devin Nunes

00:00:54 - 00:01:03 (8 sec)

There is no possible way that the FBI did not know who paid for that dossier. And, yet, month after month after month --

Laura Ingraham

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Who lying at the FBI? Who specifically --

Devin Nunes

00:01:04 - 00:01:09 (5 sec)

We don't know is it just Comey or is it the whole FBI? And let's just take --

Laura Ingraham

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What you are saying about the FBI there, that's quite a charge.

Devin Nunes

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Absolutely. This is the government out of control.

Laura Ingraham

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That this is -- we hear about deep state, we hear about forces burrowed in the government working against the people's interest, the need to know, transparency in government.

Devin Nunes

00:01:25 - 00:01:37 (12 sec)

It's not OK for us to ask, since March, who paid for the dossier, what did you use the dossier for? And then it comes out only because of subpoenas to the bank and the bank was going to have to produce the subpoenas.

Laura Ingraham

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Then all of a sudden they cut a deal.

Devin Nunes

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Then they cut a deal.

Laura Ingraham

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Now, where are we with these bank records? I read today that you're in the process of getting them, and did they just willingly turn them over?

Devin Nunes

00:01:50 - 00:01:51 (1 sec)

We're fighting in court.

Laura Ingraham

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Because that's the key, right? Seeing where the money went specifically and will it illustrate for what?

Devin Nunes

00:01:57 - 00:02:05 (8 sec)

Well, we have a whole bunch of questions about Fusion GPS. So there is a whole host. We want to know, were they being paid by Russians? Were they paying Russians?

Laura Ingraham

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Well, they have Russian clients. They said they separated, right? They separated the Russian clients from the Clinton DNC work. That's what they claim.

Devin Nunes

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So they say but, look, we're investigating this.

Laura Ingraham

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Devin Nunes

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We need the information. We have the FBI and other agencies who either didn't tell us who paid for the dossier or didn't know, which would be equally disturbing. But my guess is somebody over there knew who paid for the dossier.

Laura Ingraham

00:02:31 - 00:02:43 (12 sec)

Should Mueller resign as special prosecutor given the potential conflicts of interest regarding something that may in fact be Russia collusion during the campaign? He was FBI director, correct?

Devin Nunes

00:02:43 - 00:03:11 (28 sec)

Number one, I'm very concerned about it, OK. But let's see. Today he had these initial indictments. I think you could run a show earlier the right way, which is there is nothing there. Let's see where he goes from here. If this continues to drag on and on and on, then we're going to have a problem because right now what I see is we have Fusion GPS obstructing the investigation, the Democrats obstructing our investigation, and the government, the executive branch obstructing our investigation.

Laura Ingraham

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Could Obama have known about this?

Devin Nunes

00:03:14 - 00:03:16 (2 sec)

Well, he was briefed on the dossier.

Laura Ingraham

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In January, supposedly he didn't know anything about it beforehand. Why would he? But this was $10 billion paid to Perkins Coie law firm that then funneled it to Fusion GPS. Why did the payment go that way? Why did it go to the law firm, law firm to Fusion, Fusion to Christopher Steele who got the information from Russia?

Devin Nunes

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To cover the tracks. To cover the tracks.

Laura Ingraham

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Devin Nunes

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And I think it's hard to believe that when President Obama was being briefed on this dossier that all of his intelligence people, the best intelligence agencies in the world, had no idea who paid for that information.

Laura Ingraham

00:03:52 - 00:04:12 (20 sec)

Adam Schiff, your Democrat counterpart has said that you have become, you, have become an obstacle to the Trump-Russia collusion investigation because, you know, you stepped aside and then you didn't step aside. Can you clear that up for us, because that's confusing to people. People think you recused yourself but you never did.

Devin Nunes

00:04:12 - 00:04:28 (17 sec)

There is a lot of crazy things that the media, the mainstream media says about me and others. But the bottom line is this. We are being obstructed in this investigation. We have for a long time. There is no question that I was attacked viciously by the left. You are well aware of it, to try to get me off this --

Laura Ingraham

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They were trying to intimidate you from speaking out which is what they do to a lot of people, did they not?

Devin Nunes

00:04:32 - 00:04:38 (6 sec)

That's what they did, yes. Remember, it was all over me originally going to the White House saying that --

Laura Ingraham

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That you looked at these documents.

Devin Nunes

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I looked at documents --

Laura Ingraham

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Devin Nunes

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-- where Trump administration officials had been unmasked.

Laura Ingraham

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Devin Nunes

00:04:45 - 00:04:51 (6 sec)

Some of those ended up in the media. This is a major problem with leaks from our intelligence agencies.

Laura Ingraham

00:04:51 - 00:04:58 (7 sec)

Deep state is leaking. They're leaking to make you look bad. And are you going to bring back Susan Rice and these others to testify? Samantha Power, bringing them back?

Devin Nunes

00:04:58 - 00:05:06 (8 sec)

Unfortunately we are going to bring back a lot of the people, or the DOJ could do their job and begin to investigate this.

Laura Ingraham

00:05:06 - 00:05:12 (6 sec)

I'm not thinking Bob Mueller is going to rush to that, but maybe I'm just being pessimistic. Thank you very much, congressman.

Devin Nunes

00:05:12 - 00:05:13 (1 sec)

Congratulations on your show.

Laura Ingraham

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And directly ahead, another Hollywood creep exposed, and the mainstream media hits a new low in its response.