In-depth interview with Devin Nunes
Take a look:
Nunes was reviled for years for his statements on Russiagate. Turns out that Nunes was overwhelmingly correct, although I’m not seeing a load of apologies from his detractors. And I doubt the vast majority of them will ever issue them.
You neve need apologies when you have “your” truth; for those with their “own truth” facts are not inconvenient things. Facts are an “-ist” thing.
There will be no apologies. Bullying Republicans is the socially acceptable manifestation of narcissistic rage.
I listened to about 15 minutes. I didn’t hear any bombshells. I only heard speculation.
Unless there was more substance later on in the interview I am not impressed.
Roy
Listen to the last 8 minutes at least before making that judgement.
Roy, Nunes doesn’t need to shoot bomb shells at this point. He did that a couple of years ago. Now the IG has confirmed Nunes with his own bombshells. I expect that Durham will light up the sky at some point. Shock and awe to borrow a phrase.
On the other hand, if you only heard speculation, maybe you were tuned to the wrong channel, and were listening to Schiff, et al.
I listened to all of it. Very good.
Barr and Durham better indict people.
To use a misquote from the movie “Love Story”: Being a leftist means never having to say that you’re sorry.
I agree with Cornhead. There needs to be severe consequences for this behavior.
Hey guys, I am on your side. I just didn’t want to spend nearly an hour watching it if it was all like the start.
Roy:
Neo would not have put it up if it wasn’t worth watching the whole thing.
Roy Nathanson:
It is available as an audio podcast (for free) DanBonginoShow on Soundcloud, if you can be bothered.
https://soundcloud.com/dan-bongino/interview-with-devin-nunes
CapnRusty on December 26, 2019 at 7:54 pm said:
Roy:
Neo would not have put it up if it wasn’t worth watching the whole thing.
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Concur.
Also, to any new readers, Neo generally marks a portion of a video if that is all that is of immediate nterest.
Neo only puts up quality stuff. I rank her with Conservative Tree House and Ann Althouse: which are very different blogs, but share a dedication to getting good facts.
Though Nunes and Bongino have been very adept at ferreting out many of the details of the collusion frameup, it’s obvious that there are still some loose ends, some twists and turns that can’t quite be explained yet. That is what Barr and Durham are hard at work doing. It’s my hope that Durham will be able to turn a couple of the plotters, who will rat out their fellow conspirators. I hope that we will eventually understand how the plan was hatched and who the main actors were. Obama may not have been the main planner, but it’s a near certainty that he knew what was happening and gave his approval. If the whole truth eventually comes out, it could set the Dems back big time.
BHo and HRC Will never be revealed as the masterimnds of the conspiracy. Too big to fail.But people like Comey must be sarificed to save any hope of A republic if you can keep it.
CapnRusty; AesopFan:
I do usually try to point out a particularly interesting part of a longer video, but I was in a hurry today and just put up the whole thing.
F is right: if you do nothing else, go to 48:00 and listen to Nunes describe his first experience learning about the unmasking of the Trump transition team, how shocked he was that it was happening, and how appalled and even surprised he was at the immediate structuring of the media narrative to condemn him for “leaking” secret information to the President (who has the highest security clearance in the country!!) and to pull Russia into the story when he explicitly told them no Russians were involved.
That’s how early the MSM showed their complicity in the spying scam.
Interesting point at 22:30 about “The Nunes Translator” – a feature that Bongino introduced after numerous emails from listeners asking what Nunes was really talking about, as he had to be circumspect in earlier interviews due to security procedures (something which never stops Democrats from leaking information from confidential meetings). Now that Mueller and Horowitz have finished their reports, he apparently can talk a little more freely.
This is relevant to Roy’s complaint (my rendering) that he wouldn’t bother wasting an hour with Nunes, since he never introduced any substantially new bombshells.
Many things that aren’t news to the fairly small class of political junkies like many of us here ARE very new, or not remembered, by more casual listeners (or readers of other outlets) who really are hearing “bombshells” for the first time.
That’s why it’s important to have the GOP narrative, which is based on facts (unlike the Democrat one), repeated in as many venues and forums as possible, even though the stories are repetitive to people who read / listen to more than one source. A lot of people only have time, or interest, in reading/hearing their one or two favorite outlets.
It’s the same reason the Left pushes their own narrative, with omissions and distortions carefully tailored, on all of the MSM properties, not just one or two: the more fishing lines you throw out, the more fish you catch.
PS 1: Bongino and Nunes admit to airing speculations at about 29:00, but that was about the still-unexplained curiosities in the timeline regarding Papadapolous & Downer, which they hope Durham is examining, because they seem to indicate FBI complicity in setting up Trump’s campaign aides.
PS 2: One thing Nunes said at about 40:00 was new to me: that there are sufficient loopholes, which he calls “checks and schemes,” such that lying to the FISA courts is not technically against the law, but conspiring to manipulate the narrative to the court IS illegal. I would certainly like to see that investigated.
PS 3: At 42:00 he starts talking about the GOP speculations early on that there had to be a “Deep Throat” lower in the hierarchy than Strzok & Page & McCabe etc, because the top bosses aren’t running the details on the ground level (just like Comey said, it’s those 7 layers below him doing the grub work) who knew exactly what was going on. That person is now called Special Agent 1, but they don’t know for sure who it is, he has ideas but can’t speculate in public on that, but Bongino also has an idea.
PS 4:Intriguing to me, because I have never listened to Bongino before this, Nunes had noticed early on that Dan’s broadcasts covered material Nunes had just learned the day before – or even not until the day after – and thought his information might be coming from some of the people having access to the same meetings Nunes did, but Dan says his well-placed source comes from a different direction. Somebody with a deep cover, it looks like – be interesting to eventually find out who it is.
To neo on December 27, 2019 at 12:26 am:
In this case you would have had to mark everything after the opening handshakes anyway. It was all very good, and I certainly like interviewers who actually let the guest do the talking with minimal interruptions, and well constructed questions.
The whole interview is too long for me to listen to, I’d prefer a transcript. Thanks to AesopFan for pointing out key new insights.
Nunes should be suing all the news outlets for defamation and slander on their dishonest reporting of him and his memo. Their defense will be they were believing somebody else — so they’ll need to name that somebody else. Or, “protect the source” of the dishonest slander and lose the defamation case.
This would be justice.
We need a justice system that results in judicial outcomes that are just — and those who publicly defame/ slander people, including public figures, need more accountability than they’ve been receiving.
Reps need to get far far better at lawfare, with laws already written. Tho yes, they need judges to decide based on the laws, rather than on the narrative they want to succeed.
No excitement without indictments, or lawsuits being won. Tho there are hopes raised, which is not nothing.