Members of the House Intelligence Committee called for Rep. Devin Nunes to step down as chair of the committee, after it was revealed Monday that he met with a secret source on White House grounds the day before he briefed President Donald Trump on information that showed Trump and his advisers may have had their communications "incidentally collected" by the intelligence community during the transition period.
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'Unfit to lead': Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee start to turn on Devin Nunes
Members of the House Intelligence Committee called for Rep. Devin Nunes to step down as chair of the committee on Monday.
Devin Nunes
The ranking Democrat on the committee, Rep. Adam Schiff of California, blasted Nunes for the move, saying it compromised their committee's investigation.
"At this point, the only people who do know are the chairman and the president," Schiff told NPR. "And given that the president's associates are the subject in part of the investigation, that's wholly inappropriate, and, unfortunately, I think it really impugns the credibility of the chairman in terms of his ability to conduct an independent investigation."
Schiff told reporters on Friday that Nunes had canceled an open House Intelligence Committee hearing set for this week with former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan, and former acting Attorney General Sally Yates.
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Democratic Rep. Jim Himes, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, told CNN on Monday that the committee had been kept “totally out of the loop” on Nunes’ actions and whereabouts.
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