On Tuesday, House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA) addressed the American people by criticizing the media for their coverage of the hearings versus what is actually happening, pointing out the “disconnect between what you actually saw and the mainstream media accounts describing it.” And how the “three diplomats who dislike the President’s Ukraine policy” were talking about “second-hand and third-hand conversations about their objections,” even though they did not speak to Trump about these issues, and that “they were unable to identify any crime or impeachable offense the President committed.”

Nunes called attention to the press reports of “shocking, damning, and explosive testimony that fully supports the Democrats’ accusations,” like the media’s familiar way of “preposterous reporting“ of the Russian hoax by reading headlines from CNN, The New York Times, Slate, The Guardian, and Buzzfeed, which were all proven false. Nunes called the media “puppets of the Democratic Party.”

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Here’s a transcript of Nunes’ opening statement:

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