On NBC's Today, Leader Pelosi Reiterates Call for Independent Commission and Nunes' Recusal
The American people deserve to know the full truth of Russia's personal, political and financial grip on the Trump administration.
Below are the highlights.
On Calling for Recusal of House Intelligence Chairman Nunes:
"It is very bizarre. I have a long experience in the intelligence community. [I] served with Republicans and Democrats, and was the top Democrat there myself. I've never seen behavior this bizarre on the part of the Chairman."
"He should not conduct the investigation, because he was part of the transition. For that and other reasons – his bizarre behavior – why would the Chairman of the committee go to the White House to get information that they could have conveyed to the President, bring it to the President and take it to the press."
"He should have known better, Chairman of the Committee. Again, the Intelligence Committee is a small committee, [it] has a responsibility to the Caucus, to the Congress, to the country to protect the force protection of our troops. It's about having intelligence so that we can protect the American people, not protect the President."
On Trump-Russia Ties:
"I just wonder what the Russians have politically, personally or financially on President Trump, because this is about a national security issue. Why would the President of the United States just come in and start to flirt with the idea of lifting sanctions on Russia in terms of their behavior in Eastern Europe? Why would the President of the United States come and question the START Treaty? Why would the President of the United States put Putin on a pedestal and diminish the greatness of America? There's something wrong with this picture."
"You really have to take some steps back and hope that in the Administration there's some adult someplace who can say, ‘This is not fair to the American people.'"
On the Need for an Outside, Independent Commission:
"Let's have the outside independent commission investigate all of this. And I don't know how many more days where Nunes connecting the Trump campaign to the Russians needs to come forward, because for the Republicans in Congress to say, ‘Let's get to the truth, the American people deserve the truth.' Why are the Republicans protecting the President? Why don't we just have the truth?"