House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes on Sunday reacted to comments made by fellow lawmaker, Rep. Trey Gowdy, which cast doubt on the allegations of an FBI “spy” placed in President Trump’s campaign.
“What Trey Gowdy’s specifically talking about is this small slice of the investigation that we’re looking at as it relates to whether or not an informant or informants were used,” said Nunes, a California Republican, on “Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo.”
He added: “You have to remember that Mr. Gowdy loves the FBI and the Department of Justice. If they’re targeting Russians or Chinese or what have you, that’s what we expect them to do. However, the challenge we have in this is that they actually targeted a political campaign that was Donald Trump. And that’s where I think that even though Mr. Gowdy believes that the president’s not a target of this investigation, his campaign is.”
Nunes and Gowdy were part of a select group of lawmakers that sat in on briefings with Justice Department and FBI officials amid allegations from Trump and some of his allies that a “spy” was placed in the Trump campaign by the Obama administration.
“I am even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got, and that it has nothing to do with Donald Trump,” Gowdy said Tuesday in a Fox News interview.
Nunes said Sunday that he still has not seen all the documents from the Justice Department and FBI that he has requested, though it is unclear what specifically he still wants to see.
