[Steven W.]

That whole scene at the White House when Nunes went to the Eisenhower Office Building and presumably got the PDB's that were assembled for Obama (why he'd need to go there) and then Nunes came out and did the impromptu press conference on the White House driveway - that was after Dan Coats was sworn in as DNI ... it's likely that, no surprise, Trump et. al. were aware of what was in their midst, once Coats was in he could approve Nunes' request and, recall, Nunes was visibly shocked and then said that what he'd just reviewed didn't have anything to do with "Russia" ...

[BeauBo]

“Nunes was visibly shocked and then said that what he’d just reviewed didn’t have anything to do with “Russia” ... “

Knowing the Democrats, I am guessing that what it was about, was abusing their office to conduct wholesale spying on the Republican Party’s campaign with the Nation’s National Security capabilities - Watergate on steroids.