{"id":702,"date":"2019-12-04T23:38:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T23:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=702"},"modified":"2019-12-04T23:38:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T23:38:22","slug":"schiff-is-totally-out-of-control-a-menace-to-society-needs-to-be-removed-form-the-congress-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"Schiff is totally out of control, a menace to society, needs to be removed form the Congress&#8212;NOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>A Furious Scalise Demands To Know Why Schiff &#8216;Spying&#8217; On Nunes, Journalist<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Contained within a 300-page report on the Democrats&#8217; impeachment investigation was a startling admission; House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) had obtained\u00a0<em>call records<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>between Rep. Devin Nunes, Rudy Giuliani, Ukraine intermediary Lev Parnas, and\u00a0<strong>journalist John Solomon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/nunes%20schiff%20scalise.jpg?itok=j5DzGWXP\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/nunes%20schiff%20scalise.jpg?itok=j5DzGWXP\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/nunes%20schiff%20scalise.jpg?itok=tNvABYJW 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/nunes%20schiff%20scalise.jpg?itok=tNvABYJW 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/nunes%20schiff%20scalise.jpg?itok=tNvABYJW 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/nunes%20schiff%20scalise.jpg?itok=tNvABYJW 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/nunes%20schiff%20scalise.jpg?itok=tNvABYJW 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/nunes%20schiff%20scalise.jpg?itok=j5DzGWXP 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/nunes%20schiff%20scalise.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"294\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"d2ac623d-92d4-49c9-a1cc-5e5dcabbf390\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In response, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) said &#8220;It raises a lot of serious questions,&#8221; before demanding to know what Schiff was up to.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>I want to know all the people Adam Schiff is spying on<\/strong>,&#8221; Schiff told the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/congress\/scalise-schiff-spying-on-nunes-with-call-records\"><em>Washington Examiner<\/em><\/a>. &#8220;Are there other members of Congress that he is spying on, and what justification does he have? He needs to be held accountable and explain what he\u2019s doing, going after journalists, going after members of Congress, instead of doing his job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The records showed calls between Nunes and President Trump\u2019s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and\u00a0<strong>calls between Nunes and Lev Parnas<\/strong>, a Giuliani associate now under indictment for funneling foreign money to U.S. political candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Schiff said the calls raise questions about whether Nunes was involved in what Democrats believe was a scheme to undermine Trump\u2019s political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden. &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/congress\/scalise-schiff-spying-on-nunes-with-call-records\"><em>Washington Examiner<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On Tuesday, Schiff said &#8220;I find it deeply concerning at a time when the president of the United States was using the power of his office to dig up dirt on a political rival,\u00a0<strong>that there may be evidence of members of Congress complicit in that activity<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nunes says he doesn&#8217;t recall speaking with Parnas, and that any discussions with Giuliani would have likely revolved around the Mueller report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember talking to Rudy Giuliani, and we were actually laughing about how Mueller bombed out,&#8221; Nunes told\u00a0<em>Fox News<\/em>\u00a0on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"fitvid699376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MAOwoPQ22oo?start=251\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"newsletter-insert\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-insert__left-section\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"newsletter-insert__right-section\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-insert__right-section-flex-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Democrats claim that the Nunes call records reveal that he&#8217;s been coordinating with the Trump administration and Giuliani to go after former Vice President Joe Biden, who has been credibly accused of corruption in Ukraine involving his son Hunter.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democrats have been critical of Nunes since his tenure as the House Intelligence Committee chairman from 2017 to 2019. During that time, Nunes made a trip to the White House to inform Trump his transition meeting messages were intercepted by U.S. intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I always felt that Mr. Nunes was a dividing character,\u201d Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell of New Jersey told the\u00a0<i>Washington Examiner<\/i>. \u201cWe know of his meetings with the president, which he had every right to do by the way. But in the peculiar position he was in, it was obvious where he was getting his orders and how he proceeded. And I think he\u2019s going to get what\u2019s coming to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said \u201cthere are serious questions\u201d about the calls between Nunes and Giuliani and Parnas. He said Democrats \u201cneed to look at them and see what action ought to be taken, if any.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hoyer declined to say whether it would be in the form of a House ethics investigation or a punitive House floor measure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to have input from other people before I opine on what we ought to be doing. I will be doing that,\u201d he said. &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/congress\/scalise-schiff-spying-on-nunes-with-call-records\"><em>Washington Examiner<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The call record produced by House Democrats also reveal calls in late April between Lev Parnas and journalist John Solomon, a previous columnist for\u00a0<em>The Hill<\/em>\u00a0who has broken several bombshell stories regarding the Russia investigation and the Bidens.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m interested in why he was doing this,&#8221; said Scalise of Schiff. &#8220;And under what authority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/furious-scalise-demands-know-why-schiff-spying-nunes-journalist\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/furious-scalise-demands-know-why-schiff-spying-nunes-journalist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Furious Scalise Demands To Know Why Schiff &#8216;Spying&#8217; On Nunes, Journalist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}