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<\/a>Rep. Devin Nunes (Getty Images)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
By Mark Swanson
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The House Intelligence Committee has canceled its meetings for the week amid the turmoil surrounding Republican chairman Devin Nunes, CNN reported<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n The cancellations of the twice-weekly meetings calls into question the committee’s ability to continue its investigation into possible collusion between President Donald Trump’s team and Russia operatives.<\/p>\n Democrats on the committee \u2014\u00a0led by Rep. Adam Schiff \u2014 are calling for Nunes to recuse himself <\/strong><\/a>from the panel’s investigation into Trump and Russia following the chairman’s admission Monday that he was on White House grounds<\/strong><\/a> last week meeting with a source regarding surveillance of the president.<\/p>\n A day later, Nunes announced that Trump and his campaign team’s communications had been monitored incidentally amid the intelligence community’s surveillance of foreign diplomats, standard protocol.<\/p>\n Democrats say Nunes is betraying the secret work of the committee and its probe into Trump-Russia by informing the White House of the panel’s findings.<\/p>\n Nunes also scrapped a public hearing Tuesday with FBI Director James Comey about the probe, opting instead to hold a private briefing. Comey declined to brief the committee, given the internal discord, CNN reported.<\/p>\n