Intro but joining me now to talk about this issue and much more is Republican congressman from California Devin Nunez he's live in Fresno where the Fresno State Bulldogs are playing the Minnesota Golden Gophers congressman thanks so much for joining me and by the way with that you've got a microphone there you're holding on to it yourself you look like a football loss spokesperson how is it out there I feel like I'm reporting I feel like I'm reporting live from a college football game judge we could just start the game here like the pregame show well you know Comey we got our own game here it's a political game that's going on in this country and you know I just wanna I just want to continue with the one thing the spinning from that open that I intended to use last week you know Jim Comey has been able to avoid prosecution even though it's clear that the Attorney General could have prosecuted him do you have hope that at some point going forward and it's a very quick answer on this one that he will face justice in the criminal justice system for the corruption that went on in the FBI under his tutelage well judge I can tell from your opening that you're probably not a big fan of mr. Comey we're still paying for his sins the intelligence community for decades will pay for our sins if people aren't held accountable so I believe you know getting Comey on on leaking or mishandling classified information although important is not as important as the overall larger conspiracy how we got led down this whole idea of a Russia hoax which we now know from the IG report he's definitely involved in well you know I just think the consequences are important and I think that the American people are interested in consequences because you know what the Justice shouldn't depend on what level you are in society not not to suggest that there are levels now I want to move on from Jim Comey and I want to talk about you in particular you Fusion GPS have made a decision to file a lawsuit based upon your treatment when you were the head of the house Intel Committee and now of course you're the ranking member of the house in television GPS related company call the campaign for accounting would you believe not only tried to harass and intimidate you but your wife was a schoolteacher daxing information publishing her emails and doing everything they could the closer you got to information to show the corruption at the Department of Justice and the FBI how that you filed a RICO statute and of course that has to do with the corruption and organized and criminal enterprise but you filed it civilly you expect it to be get a trial date soon what do you expect to get out of this and what is the essence of your complaint what people have to understand out there is that you know we're not going to fight these fights just on the legislative battlefield the left for decades has been using the courts they've corrupted the courts so we really need the third branch of government to step up and start to do their job one of the ways that we can do this is by bringing cases to the courts and so you know I'm filing against Fuzion GPS there's no question what were they trying to do at the end of the day we were investigating them and at the same time they were smearing me slandering me and trying to intimidate me doing things that you know costing public schools a lot of money these are all things that we need to prove in court and I think that we'll get a trial date before Christmas I think the American people will finally begin to heal once some of these operations are shut down that's the bottom line is these operations need to be shut down if we want to if we want to improve politics in this country and get back to a fair and and a debate that's you know really a debate that people expect us to have right with good decorum right now not with this whole idea that you're going to be daxing people creating your friendly media Glenn Simpson from fusion Glenn Simpson GPS this is the one guy we don't know anything about I understand that he pled the fifth and all the fusion GPS guys did you know that genius Bob Muller who had no idea where he was and said he didn't even know what fusion GPS was these guys on the Left are getting away with it what I think is fascinating about your lawsuit is as a public official you chose not to go the way of defamation because with New York Times against Sullivan you would have lost okay but you instead want the weight of a Rico that is that is unlike anything that anyone from Congress has ever done before it's almost like judicial watch and tom Fitton you need that you need a different branch of government to provide you with justice that that's correct and so and the only way we can do this is by using the civil laws that we are allowed so I as a public official you know I still AM granted and I live under those same laws and so does fusion GPS and this campaign for accountability so we know that they're together they're thugs okay they're thugs we know they they did this to Bill Browder they were working for dirty Russians they did this to a guy named Halverson because they were working for dirty Venezuelans we know what they did did the Trump campaign and they did it to me so it's just that you know I'm not gonna take this I'm gonna use the laws that that I availed by the Constitution and I'm taking them to court and hopefully we will get a jury trial and I think the jury will see fit that you know this is not okay this is not okay in the public square this activity needs to stop and these people have to be held accountable well good for you Camp David good for you okay I want to move on to something that just broke tonight where the president has tweeted that unbeknownst to almost everyone major Taliban leaders as well as the President of Afghanistan were set to meet on Sunday at Camp David and apparently they were coming to the United States tonight in order you know to resolve the issue of creating some kind of a of a peace treaty as it relates to an agreement which has been in the works for months has significantly reduced the US forces in Afghanistan after a 11 people were killed including at least one American the president decided to call the whole thing off and he basically said you know if they can't even have a ceasefire during these important peace talks and would even kill 12 people and then take credit for it they probably don't have the power or the interest to negotiate any kind of meaningful peace agreement what is your take on that well I'm actually very happy with this because I don't believe the Taliban for a second are not connected to al-qaeda they for a long time they've been al-qaeda sympathizers you've been seeing what they've been doing this is not the first people that they've that they've killed it's been you know every week there's a new bombing a new suicide attack so remember this is America's longest war I understand why the president wants to get out the American people want to get out look I don't want to lose any more of our of our troops over there but the bottom line is is then you know if we want to leave then just leave we don't need to have a deal with the Taliban right so you know we can and just look at the end of the day if you harbor al-qaeda again we're gonna be back there to kill you again so I don't think cutting some deal with these with these terrorists is a good idea and I say terrorists because there is there is only small shades of gray between the Taliban and al Qaeda those are just the facts and I think the president gave them an opportunity to gave them an opportunity to be at the table and they just didn't want to take a judge bottom line you know good for the president for trying to at least work out an agreement with them and they've proved who they are over and over again all right congressman right before I say goodbye is there a team that you're favoring tonight well you're right in the heart of my district here in the valley you were just on the radio here yesterday so Fresno State so we're looking forward to a big victory tonight all right well listen you can keep the microphone and run around and tell people you're reporting on the game congressman Devin Nunez thanks for joining us from the Fresno State football game thank you judge