From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.

Brooke Gladstone is away this week.

I'm Bob Garfield.

And this is Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes.

Today I briefed the president on the concerns that I had about incidental collection and how it relates to President-elect Trump and his transition team.

Yikes, this is what they mean by the term highly irregular. For starters, it is the Congress with the oversight authority over the executive branch, not

vice versa.

Why would Nunes be briefing the president about committee activities?

Why especially would he be briefing the central figure in the committee's investigation

into Russian interference of the 2016 election?

The answer to that is Nunez, a Trump backer, believed he had new information to bolster the

White House claim that Barack Obama had bugged Trump Tower.

That accusation had come in a notorious presidential tweet three weeks ago.

How low has President Obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process?

This is Nixon Watergate, bad or sick guy.

This week had begun, of course, at Nunes Committee hearing with FBI director James Comey calling Trump's allegation hogwash.

I have no information that supports those tweets.

Whereupon Trump and his spokesman, Sean Spicer, came back with,

okay, maybe not wiretapped, wiretapped, but under surveillance.

Nunes's big scoop, which he raced to share with the White House

without even briefing his Democratic colleagues on the committee,

was that communications of Trump campaign staffers were indeed found in routine intercepts of foreign intelligence targets,

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