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August 10, 2018

In Leaked Audio, Rep. Nunes Talks about Protecting Trump from Mueller Probe
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In a newly leaked audio recording, House Intelligence Committee Chair
Devin Nunes of California says Republicans must keep control of the
House in order to protect President Trump from special counsel Robert
Mueller's investigation.

Devin Nunes: "So therein lies-so it's like your classic Catch-22
situation where we were at a-this puts us in such a tough spot. If
Sessions won't unrecuse and Mueller won't clear the president, we're the
only ones, which is really the danger. That's why I keep-and thank you
for saying it by the way-I mean, we have to keep all these seats. We
have to keep the majority. If we do not keep the majority, all of this
goes away."