House Intel Chairman Nunes plans to release interviews from committee's Russia probe

The California Republican said in an interview on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" that he would release the materials "in the next few weeks" so that the public could review them before the midterm elections.

"The depositions that we took, I believe about seventy people, those need to be published and I think they need to be published before the election," Nunes said. "I expect to make those available from our committee to the American public in the next few weeks."

The committee's top Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff, called for Nunes to release all such interview materials in June, NBC reported.

Nunes added that "70 or 80 percent" of the documents are not classified, and that the classified documents will be sent to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which Nunes criticized for often "foot-dragging."

"The ones that are classified we will have to send to the Director of National Intelligence to declassify, but we hope that would only take a matter of days and they don't do their normal foot-dragging where they slow roll and we don't get these before the election."

Nunes connected his push to have his committee's materials out by the election to some House Republicans' calls for President Donald Trump to fully declassify Justice Department documents related to the Russia investigation, such as the FBI's application for a FISA warrant on former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page and the FBI's notes from interviewing Justice official Bruce Ohr.

"Just for the sake of full transparency, because there's so much that's out there that's misinformation or disinformation on this Russia-gate fiasco ... we need this information out before the election," Nunes said. "And that's why we've been asking the President of the United States to declassify many more documents as it relates to not only Bruce Ohr but also with the Carter Page FISA."

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