From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the Daily.

Today, the Times reports that the House Republican in charge of investigating President Trump's ties to Russia

was given secret reports by two officials from the Trump White House.

And they call numbers at random, waiting to hear a woman's voice, while young men in India are intentionally dialing wrong numbers.

It's Friday, March 31st.

It's the latest twist in a bizarre Washington drama that began on the night of March 21st, 10 days ago.

Representative Devon Nunes, a Republican from California, was riding across town in an Uber when he got a call and diverted to the White House.

His explanation for meeting his source of the White House was that he needed to use one of the secure facilities where you can legally view classified information.

They're called skiffs.

My colleague, Matt Rosenberg, is tracking this story.

It's not a watertight story because there are skiffs at the Capitol. There are skiffs all over Washington.

So why was he meeting this guy at the White House? And it's not exactly like a congressman can just show up at the White House late at night and say,

hey, I'm Rep Nunes. This is like Jim from the NSA. And we just got to use one of your skiffs. I mean, that's what that's what his story would have you believe. And that's kind of fantastical.

This is how Nunes would soon describe what he learned that night.

I recently confirmed that on numerous occasions, the intelligence community incidentally collected information about US citizens involved in the Trump transition.

Details about US persons associated with the incoming administration, details with little or no apparent foreign intelligence value were widely disseminated in intelligence community reporting.

I saw intelligence reports that the Trump people were swept up into American surveillance. And it's really bizarre. He's confusing.

He's kind of contradicting himself a little bit. He's saying, you know, this doesn't actually doesn't back up Trump's wiretapping claims, but that it sort of does.

President Trump seized on the information saying it validated his recent claims that he'd been wiretapped by President Obama.

A claim that had been received like this with respect to the president's tweets about alleged wiretapping directed at him by the prior administration from Democrats, Republicans and members of the intelligence community.

I have no information that supports those tweets and we have looked carefully inside the FBI.

There was great interest in where Nunes had gotten this information because to make matters more complicated, Nunes leads a House committee charged with investigating President Trump on another matter, his campaign ties to Russia.

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