Transcript - Interview: Fox & Friends Interview With Devin Nunes - February 5, 2018 | Factba.se

Brian Kilmeade

00:00:00 - 00:00:06 (7 sec)

So right now is the Russian agent himself just a matter of you admitting it. Congressman Devon Nunez have you been compromised by the Russians?

Devin Nunes

00:00:06 - 00:00:21 (14 sec)

Good morning guys. As of right now I'm not aware of it but you know they work they work very mysteriously. I mean for the last year we've been chasing Russian ghosts around. They were colluding with the Trump campaign. We haven't found them yet but they could be there we're still looking out of everything that was thrown at you.

Brian Kilmeade

00:00:21 - 00:00:33 (13 sec)

One thing people kept saying yesterday is that well there was some acknowledgement that this was a political document meaning the dossier in a footnote at the bottom of the file is a warrant. What can you tell us about that?

Devin Nunes

00:00:33 - 00:00:52 (19 sec)

Yeah well if you look what they've done over the course of the last couple of weeks since we put together our memo so that we could make sure the American public discovered the Faez abuses that occurred. They've continued to leak out bits and pieces of information to create narratives that quite frankly have have one thing in common they're always false.

Devin Nunes

00:00:52 - 00:01:13 (20 sec)

So a footnote saying that something might be political is a far cry from letting the American people know that the Democrats and the Hillary campaign paid for dirt that the FBI then used to get a warrant on an American citizen to spy on another campaign. And it's very it's a very dangerous precedent that was set.

Devin Nunes

00:01:13 - 00:01:27 (15 sec)

And what we're trying to do is just get the American public to understand what happened in this last election and understand we have a responsibility as the House Intelligence Committee to ensure the American people that the FISA process is not being abused and that's what we did.

Ainsley Earhardt

00:01:27 - 00:01:42 (15 sec)

You know, to Republicans, a lot of Republicans, you are a hero because you're exposing the wrongdoings. But if you ask Democrats at least the ones that were on the Sunday shows they're saying you're the one doing something wrong. Adam Schiff who is on your committee. He is the top Democrat on your committee. He had this to say.

Adam Schiff

00:01:42 - 00:02:04 (22 sec)

[Begin Clip] Very possible staff who work with the White House and coordinated the whole effort with the White House because it looks so much like this earlier effort which we know was coordinated with the White House by the same chairman who had said that he would recuse himself. But of course he hasn't.

Ainsley Earhardt

00:02:04 - 00:02:07 (3 sec)

He said You coordinated all of this with the White House. What's your reaction?

Devin Nunes

00:02:07 - 00:02:24 (17 sec)

Yeah, well Mr. Schiff knows that he's spreading false narrative there but that's not new for him. He spread false narrative the entire time. So the Democrats were well aware that I did not leak information. However for a year they stayed quiet.

Devin Nunes

00:02:24 - 00:02:37 (13 sec)

They continued they advocated for my removal from the committee. And why is that. It's because we've been successful at getting to the bottom of a lot of real problems with the institutions in our government.

Devin Nunes

00:02:37 - 00:03:02 (25 sec)

And so look there's no question they want me gone. But whatever they accuse you of doing is what they're doing. So we know that there has been almost 100 leaks that we believe have come from the Democrats in the House Intelligence Committee and as of right now remember a year ago they were claiming that they had more than circumstantial evidence of collusion of Trump colluding with the Russians.

Devin Nunes

00:03:02 - 00:03:26 (24 sec)

But they keep coming up with goose eggs. They have nothing. And so what did they do? They attack people who are trying to get to the truth. People like myself, people like Trey Gowdy. But look it doesn't it actually helps. I said this on Friday. We actually enjoy the criticism because when you are when you're being criticized like this by all the major networks and being attacked by the left.

Devin Nunes

00:03:26 - 00:03:38 (12 sec)

We know that we're getting close to the truth. And I think the American people are just beginning to learn the truth about the Hillary campaign and the Democratic Party and their involvement and how they corrupted our institutions.

Steve Doocy

00:03:38 - 00:04:05 (28 sec)

Well Chairman we've heard hints of maybe the dirty dossier was used to get the FISA warrant, and then it was revealed in your memo that Andrew McCabe said the FISA application never would have been submitted without that dirty dossier. And now there's a story, Axios says that you've got the Intel Committee could publish five more memos which would go into wrongdoing at the DOJ, the FBI, the Department of State.

Devin Nunes

00:04:05 - 00:04:22 (16 sec)

So let's get this clear. So, with the FISA abuse specifically we had to use this process in order to make it public because DOJ and FBI were refusing to investigate themselves refusing to acknowledge that there were there were serious problems.

Devin Nunes

00:04:22 - 00:04:41 (19 sec)

If you remember last week DoJ sent me a letter saying that we were going destroy national security. So all of that wasn't true. The people who were who were in the memo were the people who were most vocal about making sure that the American public did not discover the corruption and the schemes that were being that were happening with the FISA court.

Devin Nunes

00:04:41 - 00:04:47 (5 sec)

So we had to use the process to make this public using the house rules, which we have the ability to do.

Steve Doocy

00:04:47 - 00:04:50 (3 sec)

Sir, do you have five more memos.

Devin Nunes

00:04:50 - 00:05:04 (14 sec)

Yes so let me get to that. So Phase 1 of our investigation was just getting to getting at the of abuse. What we're looking at now is a State Department and some of the irregularities there and we have several other areas that we're looking at.

Devin Nunes

00:05:04 - 00:05:19 (15 sec)

But I don't want the American people to think that we're going to have a memo that will go through this process. What we'll do is we will follow in phase two. We will follow the facts where they lead. And when we get enough facts we will then figure out a way to let the American people know. Likely it won't be done in the way that this was done

Brian Kilmeade

00:05:19 - 00:05:30 (11 sec)

Congressman in the big picture, this whole thing goes back to Carter Page. Some say well what about Papadopoulos. They started looking at him earlier. What do you say to that.

Devin Nunes

00:05:30 - 00:05:47 (17 sec)

Well I would say that if Papadopoulos was such a major figure why didn't you get a warrant on him. Papadopoulos was such a major figure you had nothing on him you know the guy lied as far as we can tell Papadopoulos never even knew who Trump you never even had met with the president.

Devin Nunes

00:05:47 - 00:06:00 (14 sec)

And look getting drunk in London and talking to others and talking to diplomats saying that you don't like Hillary Clinton is really I think it's kind of scary that our intelligence agencies would take that and use it against American citizens.

Ainsley Earhardt

00:06:00 - 00:06:04 (3 sec)

Congressman thank you so much for being on with us.

Devin Nunes

00:06:04 - 00:06:05 (1 sec)

I appreciate it. Thanks for having me.