Schiff: Nunes Must Decide if He’s Chairing an Investigative Committee, or a Trump Surrogate

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SCHIFF: "It is pertinent to the scope of our investigation and instead of sharing that information with the committee, would share that information with the white House. The committee has still not received the intercepts or other information that the chairman was referring to, and, therefore, it is really impossible for us to evaluate any of the merits of what the chairman has said. But I can say this. The chairman will need to decide whether he is the chairman of an independent investigation into conduct which includes allegations of potential coordination between the trump campaign and the Russians, or he is going to act as a surrogate of the White House because he cannot do both. And unfortunately I think the actions of today throw great doubt into the ability of both the chairman and the committee to conduct the investigation the way it ought to be conducted. I have expressed these grave concerns with the chairman. I only learned about this the way that all of you did when the chairman briefed the press in advance of briefing his own committee members, and that is a deep, deep problem. I think it does underscore the importance of establishing an independent commission, a body that is fully independent of any political considerations including those that may emanate from the White House. That would certainly give me a lot of confidence that in addition to whatever work our committee does and the Senate intelligence committee does, that there is a truly independent body that is looking into the grave issues that have been raised."