How does the White House know these are the same materials that were shown to the chairman if the White House wasn't aware what the chairman was being shown?

I think that the answer to the question is this effort to point the Congress in another direction. Basically say, don't look at me, don't look at Russia. There's nothing to see here. You know, I would tell people, whenever they see the…

The president is pretty transparent in his tweets. I think he wanted to get across a message that he is not afraid of what General Flynn has to say, and basically daring Congress to give him immunity.

nothing he saw warranted a departure from the normal review procedure.

Nothing I could see today warranted a departure from the normal review produces. And these materials should now be provided to the full membership of both committees. The White House has yet to explain why senior White House staff…

The chairman is going to have to find a way to lift this cloud. Otherwise, we're going to need someone else to preside over this.

I hope the chairman will decide that he will be forthcoming on what he saw, who he saw it with and whether they have any relationship to the White House.

I would hope that he would recuse himself from those two facets of our oversight work, because I think it would enhance the public trust that we're doing our investigation creditably in a nonpartisan way insulated from any interference…

It would be wise for the chairman to do the same thing, not just the Russian investigation, but if he is making claims about minimization of procedures of whether they were followed with respect to the transition team.

I think it makes sense for the chairman to recuse himself.

Well, it's two things. First, it was the sort of dead of night meeting at the White House and then later returning to the White House with whatever information he got at the White House. But more than that, to the degree that what he is…

the ranking Democratic of the House Intelligence Committee is calling on the Republican Chairman Congressman Devin Nunes to recuse himself from the Russia investigation.

If we are going to look at whether proper minimization procedures were followed vis-a- vis the transition team, we can't have a member of that transition team I think doing the oversight.

The Chairman in what appears to be a dead of night excursion obtains or reviews some documents that he has not shared with his own committee.

We can't conduct a credible investigation this way and the chairman really has to make a decision about whether that's his intention and that's what he wants to do or whether he is still acting as surrogate for the president.

It's time for the chairman to step aside.

One of the profound takeaways of the last couple of days is we really do need an independent commission here because the public at the end of the day needs to have confidence that someone has done a thorough investigation, untainted by…

There must have been a very strong push back, you know, from the White House about the nature of Monday's hearing.

To take evidence that may or may not be related to the investigation through the White House was wholly inappropriate and of course cast grave doubts into the ability to run an incredible investigation.

Paints a more complete picture of what they know now and maybe it's not enough for probable cause to actually bring to trial. But enough for a grand jury investigation to look at this issue of coordination, look at this issue of collusion…

And unfortunately, I think the actions of today throw a great doubt into the ability of both the chairman and the committee to conduct the investigation the way it ought to be conducted.

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…

I think he should have done it, even-handed manner, if he's going to talk about one, he needed to talk about both.

Is it possible that the removal of the Ukraine provision from the GOP platform was a coincidence? Is it a coincidence that Jeff Sessions failed to tell the Senate about his meetings with the Russian ambassador? Is it a coincidence that…

I think that on the -- up to the very last day of the Trump administration, whenever that is, he will be blaming Obama for something.