Devin Nunes: "Dirty Cops At The FBI And The Department of Justice" Committing Obstruction Of Congress To Hide Anti-Trump "Spy Ring"

House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes joined FNC's Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures" to discuss how the DOJ inspector general's report on the origins of the FBI's Trump-Russia investigation vindicates much of what he published the March 2018 "Nunes memo" that was widely dismissed by the mainstream media at the time.





MARIA BARTIROMO: House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes demanding Adam Schiff call the Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz to testify in front of the committee before a likely Senate impeachment trial gets underway next month. He points out statements in Schiff's memo that contradicted what wasin the I.G. Report.



Congressman Nunes joins me for an exclusive interview. Thanks for joining us. I want to lay the groundwork here, to make sure people understand what has taken place. More than a year ago in March of 2018, you came out with what we now refer to as the "Nunes memo" and that memo went through an update on significant facts related to the committee's ongoing investigation into the Department of Justice and the FBI and their use of the FISA court and the FISA warrant to spy on innocent American citizens.



You went through everything that you had come up with after your long investigation and now we know everything you said in that memo was true. It came out in the I.G. report. Having said that, after you came out with that memo in March of 2018, you were mocked. The Democrats mocked you as well as the media. In particular, Adam Schiff came out with a memo disputing everything you said. Tell us about the letter you sent to Adam Schiff this morning.



REP. DEVIN NUNES: Well, first off, we need to have a hearing with I.G. Horowitz next week. The longer this goes on, the longer it takes America to heal itself. The FISA court itself is in tremendous jeopardy. We cannot support the FISA court right now. The judges are refusing to take action against these dirty cops and dirty lawyers who did this. That is totally unacceptable. Because, remember, this is a secret court. The people who, like Carter Page, they have no recourse except for Congress. This is why the House Intelligence Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee were created.



So it is important I think to take people back. It wasn't that we just learned about this in February of 2018, Maria, we actually, House Republicans learned about this in the spring of 2017, at least the initial part, that the dossier had been used, the Clinton paid-for dirt. We then proved that the Clintons did pay for it and the DNC did pay for it in the fall of '17. We knew we had to get this information out to the American public and that is what led to us producing this memo in February of 2018 that the media helped cover up for it.



And you know, to get back to normalcy in this country, we need a free and fair press but we don't have that today. We still have numerous members of the media, hundreds of them, who attack, not only House Republicans for putting this out but anyone else in the media who said, hey, maybe the Republicans might have a point here, should we get to the bottom of it?



Remember we spent a year saying these documents need to be declassified, that would have ended it there. Instead what happened is, the Democrats lied and now they have put the American people in tremendous danger, the judges on the FISA court are putting the American people in danger, because look, the American people say at the end of the day we want our liberty before we'll give up, we'll not give up our liberty in order to have some secret court operate to spy on political campaigns and use our counterintelligence capabilities to do that.



MARIA BARTIROMO: One thing we didn't hear in the I.G. report, anything that happened before July 2016. Jim Comey said the FBI launched a counterintelligence investigation about potential collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign in July of 2016. Yet there is all this operational activity before that. I want to take your attention to that because we've got informants running at people like Carter Page and George Papadopoulos as early as March. What can you tell us? I know this is a subject of John Durham's criminal investigation?



DEVIN NUNES: Yeah, we're unsure why Horowitz was not able to figure out what happened pre-July 31st. Remember the dirty cops at the FBI and the Department of Justice over the last couple years hid that from Congress also. They would answer no questions. Right there you have obstruction of a Congressional investigation that, that ought to be held at the highest level. All of those people who blocked us from getting that information, especially if we find out later that the FBI was involved in it.



Here is what we kind of know right now. We know the spy ring that was created to target Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, Trump campaign officials, this big spy ring that was spying on the Trump campaign, before the FISA application, it is important to remember that, so this is in August and September and October, they're getting miked up and recording conversations with the Trump campaign members, that same spy ring was already operational in spring and early summer of 2016.



So, look, I don't know if the FBI was running it. I don't know if some other government agency was running it. I don't know if a foreign government was operating it. Hell, for all I know, Putin, Russia, Ukrainians, since that seems to be the blame for everything that happens wrong at the FBI or DOJ, or Democratic Party when they lose elections. I don't know who the hell is running the spy ring. I want to know. The American people want to know. That is what John Durham is figuring out and I'm glad he is there.