House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes (R-CA) hasn’t read the classified intelligence that his so-called “explosive” memo is based on, according to Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA).
During an interview with MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Swalwell called into question Nunes' knowledge of the facts when crafting his memo that the GOP says should be released. He said that the Democratic memo is a 10-page analysis that he said they went into great detail to refute the GOP's findings.
"They essentially have put out a book review on a book that Devin Nunes himself hasn't read and they say the book the full of lies, that's the position they're going to put the American people in," Swalwell told Joe Scarborough.
"The president addresses Congress tonight and the state of our union is lawless," Swalwell said. "Lawless the president tries to remove Robert Mueller through tactics like this. Lawless as his aides in congress seek to help him and lawless as you didn't mention but he has failed to impose the sanctions against Russia that Congress passed."
He called the Nunes memo "brainwashing" and explained that the Democrats tried to correct the record and introduce the facts to the American people, to no avail.
"We sought to correct the memo with a ten-page memo that went into painstaking detail point by point rebutting with classified information what the Republicans have alleged but also opened the door on mountains of new evidence that would I think bolster the FBI's credibility and they voted unanimously to not allow the public to see that," he continued.
Scarborough said that he found it remarkable the GOP would "cherry pick information put inside a memo that their members admit they don't read before voting to make it public." He went on to say that that President Donald Trump's own Justice Department "says it would be extraordinarily reckless to do and then Democrats try to get the truth out and they won't let you release your memo."
Scarborough also explained "what Devin Nunes and his enabler Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) are doing are putting out a memo that only tells half the story and the other half of the story can only be told by classified information that can't be released so the American people will never see the entirety of that story, because to do so would be to reveal classified information."
Watch the full conversation below via MSNBC:
