Now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief, exploring legal issues in the news. Today, Bloomberg Law host June Grasso and Michael Best discussed claims from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nounez that he has evidence supporting President Trump's claims of wire tapping during the campaign. They speak to Fordham University professor Andrew Kent and Liza Gaytene, co director
for the Liberty and National Security Program at Brennan Center. Andrew, this is a somewhat confusing and seemingly strange situation here where you have the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee having gone to the White House with information when it's possible the committee is going to be investigating the president. How unusual is this situation in your view? I think it's extremely unusual. And uh, you know, a number of folks on the Republican side, including John McCain, have said
as much. Um, you know, obviously there are you know, close political links between a president and members of his party in the Congress. But when the president's own conduct and the conduct of his campaign and close to him are as the subject of such an incredibly important and sensitive investigation that the House Intelligence Committee is undergoing. Uh. You know, this behavior by by the chairman is really
extraordinary and quite inappropriate, Liza. It's still unclear because Nunaz has refused to say where he got these documents from their supposedly classified documents. If they are really classified documents and he showed them or told the press about them, is that a prosecutable offense? Well, certainly knew this himself, and many others on his committee have really made a point of underscoring how dangerous it is to leak classified information and have emphasized that people who do leak such
information should be prosecuted. So if they are to be believed, it absolutely is a prosecutable offense. And it does appear that some of what uh Mr Nunez was saying in his press conferences was classified information. Now the president is able to be classify information uh quickly and easily. And there is a question in this case about whether there was coordination between the White House and and Neoness in
his announcements. And recently we learned that Newness was actually at the White House the day before he gave his press conference, using some secure compartment and facilities there. That's a place where you go to look at classified information, So you know, there's some real questions here about where this information came from. And and frankly, you know, if the president did de classified information so he could reveal it, I think that's more disturbing than than it is reassuring.
And that is Liza Gautene, co director for the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center and Fordham University professor Andrew Kent speaking to Bloomberg Law hosts June Grosso and Michael Best. You can listen to Bloomberg Law weekdays at one pm Wall Street Time right here on Bloomberg Radio. And that's this morning's Bloomberg Law Brief. You can find more illegal news at Bloomberg Law dot com and bloomberg na dot com. Attorneys will find exceptional legal
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