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The President Carter pledged the utmost in cooperation in the transition of the

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United States.

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President Carter pledged the utmost in the transition of the United States.

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President Carter pledged the utmost in the transition of the United States.

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President Carter pledged the utmost in the United States.

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President Carter pledged the utmost in the United States.

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President Carter pledged the utmost in the United States.

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President Carter pledged the utmost in the United States.

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President Carter pledged the utmost in the United States.

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President Carter pledged the utmost in the United States.

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President Carter pledged the utmost in the United States.

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High accept tonight the responsibility that you have given me to be the leader of this, the greatest

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country and human history.

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I have a lot to be thankful for tonight.

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I'm thankful for America and thankful that we are able to resolve our electoral differences

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in a peaceful way.

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This peaceful transfer of power is one of the hallmarks of a true democracy.

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President Carter, President Bush Sr. as well as the current president of all of the

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very gracious and offered to provide any help that they can in this transition process.

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We are now all rooting for his success in the United and leading the country.

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The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy.

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Good afternoon, everyone.

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I recently confirmed that on numerous occasions the intelligence community incidentally

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collected information about U.S. citizens involved in the Trump transition.

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Details about U.S. persons associated with the incoming administration details with little

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or no apparent foreign intelligence value were widely disseminated in intelligence community

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reporting.

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Third I have confirmed that additional names of Trump transition team members were unmatched.

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And fourth and finally I want to be clear, none of this surveillance was related to Russia

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or the investigation of Russian activities or of the Trump team.

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The only thing we had wrong is it was worse than we thought.

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Devon was the first because he got to see information first as then chair of the intelligence

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committee.

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He since there was wrong doing early on.

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He was a lone voice for a very long time.

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We would not be where we are without Devon Nina.

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They started it right after the first December 2016.

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It's becoming clear we have suffered a desecration of our democracy not seen since one

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or gate.

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It was right after the election and I thought, are they really going to go down this road

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of this Russia issue?

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This is part of a concerted Russian influence operation.

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Russian interference.

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They colluded.

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They helped.

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They were in on it.

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The government was the personal authorizing interference on election.

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Russia did was no different than what they do all the time.

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It was totally expected.

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Right after the election a couple weeks, then I realized, wow, they are just really starting

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to do a moment this.

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We really almost thought it was a joke.

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Those of us on the Republicans on the committee, like, really you're not going to accept

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that you lost this election.

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We're really going to go into this.

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My hope is that the president elect is going to similarly be concerned with making sure

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that we don't have potential foreign influence in our election process.

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Then Obama and Brennan made it real by creating what I call Obama's dossier, which was

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this intelligence community assessment, which was the fastest in any government agencies ever

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done a report.

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Of course, they took just a few weeks and they said, oh yeah, the Russians were trying to

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help Trump.

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Obama really was going to stick it to the Russians and he like kick some people out of

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the country.

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35 Russian diplomats in the US expelled just 70 to hours to leave.

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Those are two Russians over at Com-Pounds, Rexenders allegedly used for spy, shut down

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as a new bride.

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We use the Waysamines Committee to hold what is a pretty unusual public hearing for the

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intelligence committee.

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James Cummink comes in, then he asks me to come back to the back room and tells me that

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he's going to publicly announce or look into the Trump campaign.

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And I was like, wow, does he have new information?

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Is there something new?

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I have been authorized by the Department of Justice to confirm that the FBI, as part of our

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counterintelligence mission, is investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere

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in the 2016 presidential election.

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They blew up into a spectacle.

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It gave the appearance that this was a real investigation with real information, even though

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we had yet to see what that real information was.

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I interviewed a number of extraordinary candidates for this job, all with sterling prevention.

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But what gave me confidence that this was the right man for the job.

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It was in talking to him a sense that this is somebody who knows what's right and what's

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wrong.

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The FBI's reputation for integrity is a gift given to every new employee by those who went

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before.

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In a case, no source, no fear of embarrassment is worth jeopardizing the gift of integrity.

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Tell me as a great history of fabricating crimes and trapping innocent citizens and crimes

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that otherwise would not be committed by leading the victim to believe that a truthful

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answer to a question would be an admission to a crime, whereas in fact it would not be

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an admission to a crime.

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In the subject, then lies, he's back to his quarry.

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He did that with Martha Stewart.

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He later did the same thing to Scooter Libby through his special counsel that he

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appointed Patrick DeFitch Gerald.

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Later on they did the same thing with George Poppedop was.

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He did the same thing with Michael Flynn.

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Mike is one of nine children.

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Blue collar background decided to enter the military and rose to the rank as three-star

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general.

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A lieutenant general in the army, man who put his life on the line for our country on

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numerous occasions, he was well versed in the secrets of our country.

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Before he became the director of defense intelligence, was made responsible for all intelligence

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collection in Afghanistan as the third MI guy.

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Mike Flynn did, was truly stunning.

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He revolutionized the way we do it intelligence in the battlefield.

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He understood that when you're fighting groups like our chirolysis, it is the rapidity and

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the quality of immediately exploitable intelligence that matters the most.

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When you go in there on your way with your alpha team, the stuff you pick up right there

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has got to be exploited now.

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You don't put it in a bag, you don't put it on a secure service, send it back to Langley

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or to Fort Mead and then sit on it for nine months and then see if it's useful.

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When Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, he flew to Washington, D.C.

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from meeting with Barack Obama.

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And in that meeting, Barack Obama told him on equivocally, don't let anybody tell you who

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to hire in your administration.

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You must surround yourself with your own people.

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Except General Mike Flynn.

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The president flew back to New York that night and I remember speaking to him very directly.

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And he said, what job are we giving Mike Flynn?

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I said, any job you want sir.

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And then the offer was extended for Mike to become the national security advisor.

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The Obama administration was after him for defying them on Iran and on other questions.

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They fired him from the DIA.

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And famously, in their oval office meeting after the election, Obama said to incoming

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president, like Trump, there's basically two people in the world that you can't trust.

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And one is prudent and the other is Mike Flynn, and he'll give me a break.

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We talked about reforming the intelligence community because the 17 sprawling agencies

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didn't have gone a lot of stuff wrong.

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They were the weapons of mass destruction being the most out of you, for example.

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Every intelligence agency, every bureaucracy is worried about being reformed.

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So Flynn had been loud and clear that he did not like the intelligence that he was

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getting when he was in the field.

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He did not get what he called actionable intelligence.

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So he was going to cut some nice cushy jobs at Langley.

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He was talking about going after people's budgets, seeing who was wasteful, who was doing

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the job.

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We're going to cut these institutions down to size and see how it works.

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So they were terrified.

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And then there are probably reasons why the intel bureaucracies are specifically resistance

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to change because they really are unaccountable.

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If you're unaccountable for a long time, you used to be unaccountable.

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And the accountability sounds bad.

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Like you don't want to have to.

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If you've never answered anybody, you don't want to have to answer to somebody.

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Especially when some of the things you've been doing when exposed might make you look

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bad.

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As you know, when this attack happened, the White House initially said it arose out of

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a spontaneous protest over an anti-Muslim video.

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That turned out not to be true.

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And the White House said they relied entirely on CIA talking points.

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And the non-response to Benghazi was a deliberate decision.

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It wasn't an oversight.

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It was because there was an illegal covert weapons program being run there.

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The community writ large as for forces community, the kind of carries them community,

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the intelligence community was aware of what was going on.

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Several members even in the leadership of the Republican Party were aware of what was

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going on.

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What you had was this bipartisan corruption.

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And this bipartisan corruption was something that I think flew was well aware of.

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And where the intelligence group who's the long-and-necessarily servicing country, you're

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servicing new wallery, a game itself.

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We haven't put any demands on them.

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We have we have used this soft power approach.

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Like Flynn has viewed as the consummate disruptor.

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And now he was going to be in a position to bring that disruption to the entire

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national security community.

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So he's moved up a level and his ability to impact is now going to be much more widespread.

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And of course, this absolutely terrifies the central intelligence agency.

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It terrifies the FBI.

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Because somebody who knows were hold the secrets are now going to be in a position to really

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harness that knowledge to disrupt things.

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The former director of the CIA.

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He knew where the bodies were buried.

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He knew the corruption.

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He knew the lies.

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He knew the perversion of the threat environment.

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He knew what was going on.

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And he objected.

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He knew about the machinations by the Obama administration and the West generally to support

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terrorists in Syria and their crazy effort to take out a side.

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Of course, a lot of that was being organized at a Libya.

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When he spoke, I think he has the Obama administration and said, look, just because

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you've killed a solid been law, doesn't mean that you've stopped radical Islamic movements.

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And General Flynn predicted the rise of Islamic extremists.

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I'm done trying to convince our president to actually define this enemy.

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We know what it is.

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It's radical Islamic terrorism.

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They are vicious.

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They're barbaric.

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They are on the march.

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They didn't like my flame.

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Remember, Barack Obama fired my flame because he was a rattle rising.

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Reason that Flynn had been fired is because he was speaking the truth about ISIS.

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The straw that brought the camel's back was what's now been very well known as the testimony

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that Flynn did with the global threat testimony.

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One of the heads of the intelligence agencies, John Brennan, Jim Komi, all the people that

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later on would be part of the effort to take Michael Flynn down and ultimately take Trump

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down.

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And it had been raising the alarm about how the Obama administration had was not taking the necessary

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steps to protect the American people from the growing Islamic threat.

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And Flynn was told before he went to that testimony, do not say anything about the fact

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that ISIS is resurgent.

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He decided, I'm not going to lie.

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I need to be very, very honest with the American people.

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They are increasingly adapting to an environment that has actually benefiting them.

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And that to me is a increasingly growing threat.

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After that, Jim Klapper calls Mike Vickers up.

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And Klapper tells Vickers you need to fire flip.

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Klapper had received this instruction directly from Susan Rice.

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Had the request of Barack Obama.

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In any event, they tell him you're going to have to retire early.

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I need you to leave the Defense Intelligence Agency.

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Of all the people who came into the White House, Mike Flynn was the most dangerous to the swamp.

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He had to be taken out.

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They knew he knew what the intelligence community was up to.

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And he knew what Obama had done to undermine our national security for eight years.

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He knew why Obama did what he did with Iran.

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140 billion dollars released a regime that every Friday says destroy America that you're

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actually facilitating the rise of the theoretical reign in regime that's taking on naval

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personnel hostage.

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President Obama negotiated the JCPOA the Iran nuclear deal.

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It was fatally flawed on so many different levels.

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So when you have somebody like a general Flynn serving at the highest levels in the room,

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taking recommendations weighing in our work product and telling the other 97% of a story

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on a weak flawed approach to a particular conflict that ends up leading to increased resentment.

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I think there are people inside the West Wing right up to President Obama who became

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anti-Michael Flynn for all the wrong reasons.

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It's a Chicago-style politics approach that was brought here from Illinois into the White House

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for two terms.

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And they were trying to kick a few people burn a few things down before they left office.

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The Obama administration earlier today allowed the United Nations to pass a resolution

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condemning Israeli settlements in Eastern Islam and the West Bank as quote a flagrant

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violation of international law.

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It was a shift in US foreign policy that was contradictory to the will of Congress.

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It was contradictory to the will of the American people.

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It made absolutely no sense whatsoever.

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It was really disgusting to watch it play out the way it was.

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It was an effort to kind of burn down our relationship before checking out.

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He expelled 35 diplomats in the United States.

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It was a silly act unnecessarily provocative and it was grandstanding.

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It was to no purpose.

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For those who are unfamiliar with it, a federal government provides resources for the

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last two candidates to establish transition teams to help their prospective presidential

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nominee take over government should they win.

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There's nothing wrong or unusual about an incoming transition team talking to folks and other

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countries about foreign policy.

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Obama did it as he should do it.

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Flynn did what he should do and he defused what really was a hot mess.

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Flynn's calls were intercepted by the US intelligence community.

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Secret transcripts show Flynn did discuss the sanctions a potential violation of federal law

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prohibiting private citizens from engaging in diplomacy.

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From the very beginning, this conversation that General Flynn had with the Russian ambassador was about

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a UN resolution that was coming up.

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If you read the transcript, General Flynn had a perfect phone call.

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He was advocating for the United States.

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It's exactly what you'd want someone to say.

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Let's de-escalate this.

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Let's not try to make it worse than what it is.

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You would want the incoming national security director to be talking to his counterparts in

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important, now he didn't have to talk to whoever the NSA equivalent is in certain countries.

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But the Russians, the Chinese, the Germans, the Allies, and important players in geopolitical

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sense, he needs to be talking to them.

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He's doing his job and of course the intelligence agencies are listening to his latest conversation.

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I believe that if anyone inside of the United States government would be fully aware of

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US intelligence collection capabilities, tactics, procedures, it would be somebody like a

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Flynn had been in the intelligence world.

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Therefore a new that every single phone call on an open civilian phone is intercepted.

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Therefore nobody could suspect that he was somehow plotting because he wouldn't use the phone.

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What do you? But he didn't realize how determined they were.

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They pretended not to know what everybody in the field knows that when you telephone the Russian ambassador,

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you're not meeting him in a park at night. You telephone him. You are basically

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telling the US system, the intelligence people, what you want them to hear, what you say.

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Rather than say, okay there's a new president and let's just hand the files over in the

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Duay peaceful transition. They really wanted to mess with the incoming president.

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At a time when he was the most vulnerable, which was right after the election and his team was

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preparing. And so this culminated with attacks on General Flynn. When General Flynn was doing exactly

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what Susan Rice and Samantha Power admitted in House testimony that they were doing in their

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transition, if you read the transcript, Susan Rice admits, this is what she did. Of course she

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had a transition period. Of course they talked to other countries. If you weren't talking to other

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countries, you weren't doing your job. You were preparing to take over the National Security

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Apparatus of the greatest country in the world. Intensions get unnecessarily high with the nuclear

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arm of superpower. You don't necessarily know where things are going to go. So it's probably for the

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best to try to keep things on a low-boil. In 2015, Putin had said some complimentary things about

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then candidate Donald Trump. After Vladimir Putin, phrase Donald Trump as, quote, undoubtedly a

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bright and talented person.

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When people go and he's braided that's always good, especially when the person had

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brushed up. Candidate Donald Trump responded, which saying nice things about him, he has

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total absolute understanding of who Putin is. He knows he's a killer. He knows he's a moral man.

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He's somebody we have to deal with. Putin maybe somebody you wouldn't want to deal with personally.

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But when I represent 320 million people, he has a nuclear weapon. I better get to know him.

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But they saw that and they could exploit those comments that Trump had made, which really meant

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nothing. They were less damaging than the comment that President Obama had made just a few years

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earlier when he told Medvedev who was sort of Putin's funky. He said, tell Vladimir,

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when the election is over, I can go easier on him. Wow. Had Trump ever said that?

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They didn't picture. Right away, the New York Times would have done it. They don't

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show real the next day and said, in Peach President wants to sell out country.

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They had to picture Donald Trump. And in that picture, they were refused to admit

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that part of Donald Trump could be geopolitical. Therefore, they have to have sinister explanations.

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Like he's Putin's agent. He was bribe. He was corrupted. He was black belt.

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And whatever. And that is how the FBI people were going to get him.

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You look at this White House now and it's hard to imagine two FBI agents ending up in the

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same room. How did that happen? I sent them.

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Something we probably wouldn't have done or maybe gotten away with in a more organized

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investigation, more organized administration in the George W. Bush administration, for example,

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or the Obama administration. And in both of those administrations, there was process. And so if the

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FBI wanted to send agents into the White House itself to interview a senior official,

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you would work through the White House Council and there would be discussions and approvals and

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it would be there. And I thought it's early enough. Let's just send a couple of guys over.

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James Coleman is banned of thugs at the FBI under his leadership, McCabe, Strock, Page.

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Comey, brag of this. Oh, I pulled that off. I basically played a trick and got away with it.

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If it had been in a more experienced administration, I wouldn't have gotten away with it.

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And the audience was, oh, you know, isn't it? How funny to set up an innocent man?

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James Coleman knew the protocol from the FBI was to call over the White House Council

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and request a meeting with the National Security Advisor or any other senior staff.

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Mike Flynn sat down with the OSFBI agents. They were then supposed to write what

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a call 302s. 302 is an FBI report of an interview. They interviewed General Flynn just two days

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into his new term as National Security Advisor for the nearly inaugurated president.

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And they did it in what was a complete ambush.

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The day that Mike Flynn had the interview with Pete Strock and Joe Pienka, several members of the

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National Security staff including the Intelligence Programs Office,

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Ron Mike Flynn's calendar for briefing.

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Ezra was part of that team that was going to be briefing Mike Flynn on that day.

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Flynn had brought in a young guy and he was going to work for him as he went about

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trying to reset the intelligence community's focus.

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He arrived at Flynn's office and as he explained it, he standing there and he's waiting for the meeting

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to begin the time as running over and he turns to Flynn's assistant. He says,

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who is the general in there with?

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And the assistant says, the general he's in there for an FBI intelligence briefing.

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This was very confusing to Ezra because in fact the intelligence briefing that was supposed to be

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with the FBI was set up for the following day.

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As was waiting there and he starts getting this incredible sinking feeling,

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knowing that Mike Flynn is meeting by himself with two FBI agents.

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Ezra immediately gets on the phone and calls John Eisenberg.

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The White House National Security Council legal adviser.

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John Eisenberg is furious. John races down to Mike Flynn's office and as he arrives, Pete Strock and

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Joe Pienka are leaving the interview.

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Following day after the the faithful Flynn interview, there was the scheduled intelligence briefing.

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At the interview was Joe Flynn, Katee McFarland, Keith Kellogg, Ezra Cohen-Wannick,

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John Eisenberg and from the FBI were Bill Priestab and Andy McKib.

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Okay, at the end of the meeting goes to Flynn's desk and he says,

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general, do you mind if I have a work with you? Flynn says, sure, absolutely, what's up Andy?

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McKib pulls out the draft interview notes from the Flynn interview out of his lockback.

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And he says to Flynn, we even are out. I just want to let you know, we decided there's nothing here

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and we're considering this matter closed. Of course we know that this was a complete why one of

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McKib's nitty-wise. After McKib left Flynn called back in the group of NSC staffers that had been

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there, pointed to the seat that McKib was in and said, that is a very bad man and he's out to get me.

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Two or three days before he resigned, we got a phone call from the Washington Post and a reporter

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has said that he had just re-interviewed Mike Flynn and Mike Flynn made statements about his phone

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call to the Russian ambassador, said that they haven't discussed sanctions. But the Washington Post

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reporter says that we have a transcript where they were read a transcript that says the opposite.

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So we got a general Flynn's office, he said, you know I've gone over and over, I can't remember

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which phone call I had, what conversation him or really struck me was fleeting minute. They're talking

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about a phone call that would have been classified at the highest level. It was so highly classified,

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I didn't even know the transcript existed. Much less was clear to read it and yet somehow,

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the Washington Post had a copy of it.

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When the David Ignatius article came out of the Washington Post, Mike Flynn was summoned by

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Mike Pence. He gave us this indication that something wasn't right and what he was referring to

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was the fact that Pence had bought into this assault for David Ignatius.

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That story then broke, let me put it this way, had an external effect and an internal effect.

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And the internal effect was a lot of people were upset about it. It was basically the Chief of

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Staff and other variory senior advisers were having these conversations and they continued through

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the weekend. So Flynn is really coming under a enormous amount of pressure from the Vice President to explain

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this call for Keith Leigh. It's a very unusual that the Vice President would be taking this level of interest

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in this. We now know that it was because he had come under the influence of his chief of staff who, of course,

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was compromised by colleagues in her circle. They're constantly making Lieutenant General Flynn

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to bring the Vice President and President to the Vice President and President of the United

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States. How do we get this come down? Maybe if we get it a flannel count down.

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Like I could tell, people were out to get him fired. But I ran around and I started trying to talk to

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anybody who would listen to this. He can't do this. This is dumb. This isn't, doesn't deserve this.

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And also I was trying to peel to people self-interest and saying, if you give the President's

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enemies a scalp like this so early over something so trivial, you're not feeding the beast.

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The beast doesn't get fat and happy and go to sleep. It breaks for more blood. This will not

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turn this off. This will make everything worse. I can remember it about 630 that night. All of

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us myself, KT, General Flynn, and the two executive assistants all in his office. We were urging him

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to try to see if he could just go and see him. Go to the President and see the President. And he

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wouldn't, he wouldn't try. He's like, I'm not going to go and he has to make his own decision.

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And I'm going to leave it to him and I will abide by whatever his decision is. My sense was always

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that the President was reluctant to do it. Really liked and still likes General Flynn.

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It got along well on the campaign. They clicked in a way that he didn't click with any of his other

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small team of foreign policy advisors and really felt the loss. And you could almost tell

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you immediately regretted it. And on Monday, like a eight o'clock at night, I think it was when General

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Flynn resigned. We began with a major shake-up inside the Trump White House. National Security

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Advisor Michael Flynn forced to resign after what the administration is calling an erosion of trust.

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Add issue, Flynn's call would the Russian ambassador on the same day President Obama was imposing

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new sanctions on Russia because it was gone. The ones Flynn was gone that was nobody to ride

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her over what the operation that they had carried over into the administration was going to do.

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And so they got basically cartilage and from there they began to, you know, they were

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spying on the President. His family has associates spying on the administration.

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When Flynn left, literally within two days of that, as a first discovered this enormous number of

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unmaskings that had been done, he over 300 of them. At the end of January in 2017,

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Ezra Cohen was asked to review a very, very benign policy on how to unmask U.S. person's names.

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Ezra asked one of his subordinates to get an example of how the unmaskings had been kept track of

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at the White House so that they could rate this into the policy. When he came back the next day,

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Ezra came to his office and he found a phone book size stack of documents on his desk and he was told

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that this stack of documents was the unmasking log from the Obama White House just for the past six

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months. Ezra after consulting with his staff decided that the period of thing to do would be to

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notify the NSC legal adviser John Eisenberg. He came back to Ezra several days later in early February

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2017. An asked him to retrieve 10 of the reports that had been unmasked by Susan Rice.

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As the reports came off the printer, they began to look at them in Ezra's office and immediately

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became clear that their worst fears were coming true. That the reports, the intelligence, the Susan

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Rice had unmasked. The names of the general announced were the names of Trump campaign officials

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and it dawned on them that effectively Susan Rice, in her capacity as Obama's national security

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adviser, was using her power and authority to serratitiously spy on and obtain non-public information

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about the activities of her political rivals in the Trump transition team.

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You know, Ezra's continuing the mission after Flynn's departure that really proved the damn open.

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After they briefed the president in the front office, there was probably a week or two whether

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to just trying to get their heads around what they were even looking at. It was so shocking and they

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decided that they would engage with what evidence they hate. Do you know anything about this

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worst going on here? Do you have a new guest being a one person elected to political office who

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really stepped up to help you kind of kill the onion over the fuel.

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Good afternoon. I know a lot of you are not from the US Congress so I haven't had a chance to brief

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a lot of you in the past, but just in order to keep you awfully updated on what's happening with this

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investigation. Today I briefed the president on the concerns that I had about incidental collection

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and how it relates to a president like Trump and his transition team.

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I mean, I knew it when I saw those transcripts leaked, I knew that we had a big problem our hands.

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In this very room, luckily we had some patriots that came forward from the intelligence community

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and said, look, they were doing some really bad things, we'll end mass gains, we need to know about

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this and essentially show it me how to go find it. I'm not going to get into too much of the

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enmasking of my sources because they're patriots and to this day, nobody knows who they are,

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I'm going to keep it that way. The morons and the press think they know who it is.

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We're the House of Intelligence Committee. We just deal with the 17 intelligence agencies.

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We had people that were very skilled in those areas, but we had no one that was really skilled

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at the Department of Justice. We got to have somebody who can bust down the doors at the FBIN

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DOJ and we don't have that. Cash Patel Cash Patel is Duster Patel or Gash as he's known in Washington.

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Cash, I believe, brought a very different energy to that team. Jack Lang or Cazu's

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the Communications Director. Jack said, we know he's relatively sleepy committee. We barely spoke to

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the press. They're pretty easy going. They're mellow and here's cash. I mean, he's an ethnic

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New Yorker from Queens, New York, Indian family who lived in Africa and he just brought an

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entirely new energy to that team. Cash was fundamental to gathering information and pushing this.

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He's got great instincts. This is a guy who really understands the players. Cash knows the intelligence

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community like I know the State Department. When he came in to talk to me and started walking me through

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like some of the problems at DOJ, just kind of big picture problems. And almost on the spot I said,

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you want a job? I told Dev and I said, yeah, I'll do the job. I'll take the job.

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But I was so upset at the lack of internal accountability at the DOJ and the FBIN

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that I said, we have to whatever we find, we're putting out. And I said, look, if we find something that's

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bad, we're putting it out and he goes deal. And we're closely with the Tray Gaudi, who's

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on the committee at the time. And when I first met him, it was a memorable experience. He goes,

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because he had just come off Benghazi and he said, well, welcome to the Hill Cash. This is where

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good investigations come to die. So we both started laughing. We honestly thought he would be an

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investigation that almost no one would talk about. By the time March comes around, we have no

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intelligence products whatsoever that tied the Trump campaign to Russia. All we have is this dossier

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that supposedly they're looking into. So steal the ACA, it would become the central document

444
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for the investigation. And I remember reading it and as I'm driving home, I get on the phone and call

445
00:34:27,260 --> 00:34:31,740
my best friend in politics, Mark Meadows. And I like Mark this stinks. There's something going on.

446
00:34:31,740 --> 00:34:38,540
As soon as I heard about the steal dossier, I downloaded a copy and looked at it and laughed.

447
00:34:38,620 --> 00:34:45,100
If I saw something like the steal dossier immediately, I put steal into a investigation.

448
00:34:45,100 --> 00:34:49,820
Let's see, what tell you, give me? This is, you know, national inquire. I heard about it in the newspaper

449
00:34:49,820 --> 00:34:56,940
I said, this is ridiculous that they would premise an intelligence investigation on what is

450
00:34:56,940 --> 00:35:04,060
clearly the piece of garbage. Everybody in this town in the swamp had that dossier pretty much

451
00:35:04,140 --> 00:35:09,580
all the left wing reporters, many high-level reporters at the highest media outlets. We're all

452
00:35:09,580 --> 00:35:16,380
shop this dossier. In fact, they started producing fake news stories based off that dossier.

453
00:35:16,380 --> 00:35:22,860
A big part of that New York Times interview, they did with Trump, focused on what's called

454
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the dossier. Do you think that the original P-Tap dossier will prove to be true?

455
00:35:29,100 --> 00:35:32,540
Well, I know what he's talking about. He's talking about Christopher Steele's

456
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dossier. So when we went into, it could be briefed. It's called the Gang of A Briefing.

457
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Around the first part of January of 2017, they came to present this intelligence community

458
00:35:44,940 --> 00:35:50,300
assessment and at the end, they started talking about this information, about this dossier

459
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information. Very clearly I asked, where did this come from? These are pretty serious accusations

460
00:35:57,020 --> 00:36:04,300
about the any-body, P-Tapes and prostitution and Moscow hotel rooms. I mean, gosh,

461
00:36:04,780 --> 00:36:10,220
and like, why haven't we seen this? Right? Like, why haven't we, somebody should have had this?

462
00:36:10,220 --> 00:36:13,020
You know, that was essentially the first time they lied and misled us.

463
00:36:15,980 --> 00:36:22,940
So the steal dossier was out for a couple months and I had read it a little bit, but I didn't

464
00:36:23,020 --> 00:36:27,100
focus on it because I didn't realize what was going to be coming to work and do this. Investigation

465
00:36:27,100 --> 00:36:31,980
so I was like, alright, whatever. It's just another piece of the Russia Banana Show. And I looked

466
00:36:31,980 --> 00:36:38,220
at it and I was like, there's just no way this thing's accurate. And Devon was like, how do we

467
00:36:38,220 --> 00:36:44,940
figure that out? And I said, easy. Let's take a couple of quick things that we can readily prove to be

468
00:36:44,940 --> 00:36:52,540
accurate, just using public sources. You know, did person acts travel to Prague on a certain day?

469
00:36:52,620 --> 00:36:56,940
Great. Let's go get the airline record. This is in hard. Easy. It's an international trip.

470
00:36:56,940 --> 00:37:02,140
He was either there or not. And if he wasn't there, we're was he, because if he was in St. Montana,

471
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we'd go find the people that said he was in Montana or credit card statement or hotel statement.

472
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Then for some of the more outrageous and salacious components of it, the name of the hotel

473
00:37:12,460 --> 00:37:19,740
that steal alleged that President Trump had misbehaved. There's no such room in that hotel in

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Russia in Moscow. But the author of the document we had found out was an FBI source. So I said,

475
00:37:26,220 --> 00:37:30,620
okay, if he's an FBI source and I said, Devon, he's getting paid. We had to dig into his background a

476
00:37:30,620 --> 00:37:35,260
little bit just to verify for ourselves. Yeah, he's a career intelligence officer. He's worked

477
00:37:35,260 --> 00:37:39,340
with the United States and other partners around the country. It's been time in Russia. So it looks

478
00:37:39,340 --> 00:37:44,540
good on paper. But when I found out that the Department of Justice is just because it looks good on

479
00:37:44,620 --> 00:37:49,980
paper doesn't mean that person's legit and you know the biggest example of that is James

480
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Kami.

481
00:37:52,860 --> 00:37:57,020
Christopher Steele is a allegedly a former spy. He's willing to do what his clients want

482
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him to do. And his clients included Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee.

483
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And yes, the FBI. He met with the FBI during the campaign at least 13 times. The document

484
00:38:07,980 --> 00:38:13,820
show 11 of those times he was paid money, which agencies were involved in helping

485
00:38:14,460 --> 00:38:18,700
either write or push out this dossier. Now we know the State Department for

486
00:38:18,700 --> 00:38:23,740
Instance, Jonathan Weiner, a key official in the Kerry State Department. Who really has nothing

487
00:38:23,740 --> 00:38:29,820
to do with Russia? Who looks to me to be actually he confessed to helping create part of what

488
00:38:29,820 --> 00:38:34,780
turned out to be the dossier. He's not only talking to Christopher Steele and is the close buddy

489
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in front of his. So you know in my view, the dossier really was never Russia disinfo.

490
00:38:41,740 --> 00:38:49,820
It was always Clinton disinfo. And we can't underestimate how involved the State Department was

491
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in pushing this dossier to lie out. Through our investigative process, we found out that a firm

492
00:38:59,420 --> 00:39:07,660
representing Christopher Steele fusion GPS was somehow involved in the matter. Following the money,

493
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if we could follow the money, we would openly figure out who was paying fusion GPS.

494
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I walked into the investigation and I said, this is why I think this happened this source at x.

495
00:39:17,820 --> 00:39:24,220
We can prove it if we subpoena the bank. And he's like, you want to subpoena bank. I said,

496
00:39:24,220 --> 00:39:29,100
Devon, give me one subpoena in a firm wrong. He can fire me. He gave me this subpoena. And we went

497
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after the bank. It wasn't like we served the subpoena and everybody went away. The using GPS

498
00:39:37,100 --> 00:39:43,900
forced us into federal court, into litigation over the subpoena itself. And that was when

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everybody was like, we're on the same thing. Fusion GPS is a very, I mean, they're very talented

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at what they do. They're a racketeering outfit. They're essentially, they make things up about people.

501
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They spread it to the people in the press. They get them to run the fake news stories. And then

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even worse, then they find different ways to feed it into the FBI. And all of these things sort

503
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of started coming together in a very unusual fashion. I said, Devon, we're following the money

504
00:40:10,940 --> 00:40:16,220
and I'm going to tell you right now that the DNC and Hillary paid for this. It was 9 a.m. on a weekday

505
00:40:16,220 --> 00:40:20,060
and he literally looks at me and he goes, cash if you're going to start drinking this morning,

506
00:40:20,060 --> 00:40:25,340
get out of my office. It always goes back to the money and it's the easiest thing to follow because

507
00:40:25,340 --> 00:40:30,380
you have to document it in some fashion or you got to move it in some way. We were able to

508
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pursue to the judges authority, allow myself and one other colleague to visit banks, attorneys,

509
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and review in close session the records. And we were not allowed to disclose it to anybody what we

510
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reviewed. And then finally, on the eve of the ruling of the court, fusion disclosed that

511
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Christophersteal had been paid by the DNC themselves. There were names that would eventually come out

512
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that were being paid by fusion. Names now that are public but at the time weren't,

513
00:41:07,100 --> 00:41:13,900
Nelly or the wife of Bruce or was being paid by fusion GPS, we would come to learn to do

514
00:41:14,780 --> 00:41:22,140
Russian intelligence information gathering and then submit it to the FBI. We were able to figure out

515
00:41:22,700 --> 00:41:29,980
that the attorneys, Perkins Kooey were the attorneys for the DNC. Nelly had been working Bruce

516
00:41:29,980 --> 00:41:36,380
was wife had been working for fusion GPS, the folks that Perkins Kooey paid $10 million to and

517
00:41:36,380 --> 00:41:43,100
then they took that $10 million of paid Christophersteal $168,000 to dig up dirt. They paid Nelly or I

518
00:41:43,100 --> 00:41:48,620
think $50,000 to do her research against the president and his daughter and they fed all of that

519
00:41:48,620 --> 00:41:54,860
directly to the bureau who then used it in the Pfizer and in the investigation against the president.

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00:41:54,860 --> 00:42:00,300
So now you've connected the money and the people and put the political party right in the middle of

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00:42:00,300 --> 00:42:05,660
your opponent. It's outrageous. I got to give a good great credit to Devin Nunis because he was

522
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willing to go the next step. He was willing to look to where was the funding coming from for the dossier.

523
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To go the next step to find out that this was a political document that was funded by the

524
00:42:15,740 --> 00:42:20,220
Democratic Party itself and Hillary Clinton's campaign, we would not have known that if Devin

525
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Nunis hadn't said, all right, look, we're going to do an asset, a trussesman of the

526
00:42:25,260 --> 00:42:29,740
veracity of the information that we're getting. We're not just going to look at the conclusions. We're

527
00:42:29,820 --> 00:42:36,140
going to look at the substance behind those conclusions. Look for biases, look for areas in which

528
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it's not accurate and then pursue those to determine what is the truth.

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If what was said in this dossier, the central thesis of the dossier was Carter Page,

530
00:42:49,100 --> 00:42:56,700
Trump campaign associate is a Russian basically asset and the critical mass in the dossier

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in the seal dossier was it said Carter Page went to Russia, met with these two guys,

532
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Russian oligarchs and the steel dossier said at that meeting, Carter Page, a member of the Trump

533
00:43:08,380 --> 00:43:18,300
campaign, negotiated an agreement whereby he would get 10 to 15% of Ross Nefft, which is like the biggest

534
00:43:18,380 --> 00:43:26,940
gas firm in Russia in exchange for his cooperation to work on behalf of the Russians to get

535
00:43:26,940 --> 00:43:31,820
better agreements from the Americans when Donald Trump selected. Now I told Devin, I said, if that's true,

536
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he's a Russian agent, the Pfizer was righteous and a lot of people are going to have a lot of problems.

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But I also said if that's false, they're screwed. The steel dossier were true, the Russians were going

538
00:43:44,140 --> 00:43:51,420
to pay this guy $12 billion. Okay, open up a bank account, where is this guy going to move his

539
00:43:51,420 --> 00:43:56,940
money, he turns out they had nothing to back up their claims. Cash had gotten fizes before,

540
00:43:56,940 --> 00:44:03,580
so he knew they had done something really corrupt in order to get that warrant. We were collecting

541
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our documents, we were talking to the FBI, we're talking to DOJ and they told us, they said, look,

542
00:44:10,140 --> 00:44:14,700
there, you guys are charged with looking into Russian active measures, you should know that

543
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this is how we surveilled a certain individual who we thought had ties to the Trump campaign.

544
00:44:21,340 --> 00:44:28,140
And we were like, what? And then we went and read it and having done fizes myself, I was like,

545
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this might be one of the worst documents I've ever seen.

546
00:44:40,460 --> 00:44:46,620
The FISA warrant process has to be followed carefully, matters because the war is the issue

547
00:44:46,620 --> 00:44:52,460
that's part day. Here's what I mean, imagine you're being sued and you don't know you're being sued.

548
00:44:53,420 --> 00:44:57,900
And you can't have a lawyer to defend you in court and then you found out you just lost a lawsuit.

549
00:44:58,380 --> 00:45:03,100
There's not an American who would say that's the most unfair process I've ever heard of my life

550
00:45:03,100 --> 00:45:09,100
and he would say, let's suffice a court process. You're being essentially sued in court and you're

551
00:45:09,420 --> 00:45:13,420
not allowed to have a lawyer and you're not allowed to even know that you're being sued.

552
00:45:13,420 --> 00:45:17,660
You're not allowed to look at any of the information being used against you and you just lost.

553
00:45:17,660 --> 00:45:21,420
Because now they have a FISA warrant and they can just do whatever they want. That goes against

554
00:45:22,300 --> 00:45:27,900
everyone's fundamental since the fairness is a person. Now the reason, of course, you don't

555
00:45:27,900 --> 00:45:31,260
tell the person you're about to spy on them is because you think they're a terrorist and if you tell them

556
00:45:31,260 --> 00:45:36,220
we're spying on you, obviously they'll change. The compromise is the deal with the devil is supposed to

557
00:45:37,180 --> 00:45:42,300
exchange for not giving the person the due process writes that go back to the Magna carda,

558
00:45:42,300 --> 00:45:47,980
that just go back to your holy book of choice. The idea that if you're accused you're allowed to

559
00:45:47,980 --> 00:45:53,420
face your accusers. You have this and every major religious tradition. The deal with the

560
00:45:53,420 --> 00:45:59,180
devil, those that everything will be meticulously audited, it'll be reviewed, everything will be truthful,

561
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everything we will prove. That procedure of course wasn't followed.

562
00:46:04,540 --> 00:46:12,220
We now know the dossier was used in the FISA. So we had shredded the credibility of the dossier

563
00:46:13,660 --> 00:46:18,060
and then once we found out it was in the FISA we couldn't tell anyone yet. Once those two

564
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merged, I said dev in this is insane that this document was used to go up on a surveillance warrant

565
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of American citizens. The second part of that FISA is even worse and that is that they ran

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spies even before they got a FISA warrant into the Trump campaign. Governments paid United

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States taxpayers paying for spies to spy on a political campaign. Before you even get a FISA

568
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warrant and then not only that it's a scopatory evidence that they don't even tell the court

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about. It was the first time they applied for the application to spy in Americans. The FISA court

570
00:46:57,500 --> 00:47:03,900
judge said it sounds like you want to spy on political operatives and the application was denied.

571
00:47:03,900 --> 00:47:07,020
They knew Christopher's deal was leaking to the State Department of News Media because they had

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the State Department's documents. That's their agitariant information. They didn't tell the

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court that they knew that Carter Page was an asset for the CIA and now the studio for the

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Russians. They didn't tell the court that they knew that George Poppedopolis and Carter Page had made

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statements of innocence, not knowing they were being recorded by the undercover and foreign

576
00:47:23,260 --> 00:47:28,460
staff on hopper. They don't tell the court that even though it's in the book it's in the manual.

577
00:47:28,460 --> 00:47:35,660
The FBI manual. It's the one you got to do. So now they've begun this giant web and if

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Carter Page or George Poppedopolis had contacted me, Steven Bannon, Kelly and Conway or anybody else

579
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within the campaign is very likely that all of those people were also being listened to. That

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on masking also occurred on literally the day Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President

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at the States and they unmatched the Trump children who clearly they were also listening to.

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00:47:57,980 --> 00:48:03,660
I knew that I was unmasked that we were targeted. It was sort of assumed that we were targeted.

583
00:48:03,660 --> 00:48:07,980
I always say hey listen, I don't think it would be any stretch of the imagination to say that I

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the son of the president of the United States do we elected but as a civilian, as a citizen

585
00:48:13,740 --> 00:48:19,500
as someone who worked on a campaign was the number two target of the greatest hoax ever perpetrated

586
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on the American people. So I'm generation X and some kind of significant meme that surface

587
00:48:29,980 --> 00:48:35,260
before we call them memes was six degrees of Kevin Bacon. This is pre-social media. The idea would be

588
00:48:36,060 --> 00:48:41,740
how many connections would it take you to get to a world famous celebrity? Well the reason I

589
00:48:41,740 --> 00:48:49,820
bring up six degrees of Kevin Bacon is because to spy on the Trump campaign the FBI used the

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00:48:49,820 --> 00:48:56,860
three-jump rule. In these phyzoorats when you surveil one party you have what is known as a two-jump

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00:48:56,860 --> 00:49:03,740
rule. You not only get to spy on Carter Page but you get two jumps or as the Obama administration

592
00:49:03,740 --> 00:49:09,740
would have it three jumps from Carter Page to surveil person. You don't even need three jumps.

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Two jumps get you everywhere you want to be within the campaign as long as you have like a network

594
00:49:14,300 --> 00:49:19,340
note. Having wiretapped Carter Page you can now wiretapped Steve Bannon.

595
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According to Lewandowski then talks to Trump you've got a third jump so now you're

596
00:49:23,660 --> 00:49:28,300
wiretapping everyone. So that's what they were trying to do figuring if they could get into the

597
00:49:28,300 --> 00:49:37,500
Trump campaign somewhere that would be a crime. January 17th of dossier comes out March April

598
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started investigations summer time or cranking on document production and co-leading a list of

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witnesses we're going to interview. Fall hit the home run with the fusion clowns and figure out who

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paid for the dossier. So now we're in September October going into the holidays and we had finally also

601
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at this time started interviewing witnesses and in December we got Andy McCabe. When we asked Andy

602
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McCabe could you have gotten the phyzoorat application against Carter Page without the steel dossier?

603
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He said no. And I think we ended up doing 65 interviews. We hit everybody. Former attorneys

604
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general's you know Loretta Lynch, Sally Yates, Andy McCabe, James Callmey, you know the central

605
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thesis was the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to hijack the election.

606
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Okay let's find out. So we came up with the three C questions we were going to have every single witness.

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Do you have any evidence or information that the Trump campaign colluded,

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conspired or coordinated with with any member of the Russian government, with any member of the

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Trump campaign or Trump presidency and all 65 witnesses under oath said no to every question.

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We had to ask that because they were saying it in the media that that happened so these principles were

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the ones who would have to know that. And if they answered yes we'd have to report that to the

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public and they couldn't just answer it. It's simple question of where's the dirt?

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Revenue they have an answer that I have. I don't think you can conclude that at all.

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00:51:13,340 --> 00:51:20,140
We had not one person claim that they had or had seen evidence of Trump colluding with the Russians.

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00:51:20,140 --> 00:51:23,900
It's not a single one of them could cite any evidence whatsoever that they saw.

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That's what was going on behind closed doors. Then on TV you go there and any C shift come out and

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talking about how more trees and it's been revealed but Trump. All you have right now is a circumstantial

618
00:51:34,460 --> 00:51:41,260
case. Actually no Chuck I can tell you that the case is more than that and I can't go into the

619
00:51:41,260 --> 00:51:45,980
particulars but there is more than circumstantial evidence now. Then there's also the private

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world of people that we would have to interview as well if Padesta, Miller Clinton's campaign.

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The crowd strike thing was big deal. Padesta is ahead of the campaign or whatever's role was at

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higher. This company to do a scrub of their internal services to be like who's in our stuff,

623
00:52:03,740 --> 00:52:08,540
what happened, how did this go down? Which is a reasonable thing to do when you get hacked. What's

624
00:52:08,540 --> 00:52:14,940
an unreasonable and made up thing to do is then falsely tie it to the wrong person or country or

625
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actor. Normally what would happen in this type of hack is the FBI would come in and have our

626
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experts scrubbed the servers. The DNC hired crowd strike and crowd strike was in full control and

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James coming as publicly admitted this of what servers the FBI had access to. So the FBI was only

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given limited access whatever the DNC chose. So those were the only servers they were able to look at.

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This is why you have the disconnect that they've been saying continuously that the DNC was hacked.

630
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It was Padesta's email that was hacked. Nobody knows to this day what actually happened because

631
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the FBI has never looked at the entirety of the servers from the DNC and they can turn those over

632
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at any time they wanted to but they won't because they know it won't be good for them.

633
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Dining announced from the White House today, President Trump fires FBI director James Komi.

634
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It's only the second time in history that a president has fired the head of the bureau.

635
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I think the insurance policy morphed over time. I think initially the insurance policy was

636
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we're going to do this investigation. We're going to get after the president. We're going to

637
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spot his campaign. They did all that. Donald Trump and the American people surprised all of

638
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and President Trump wins. When he wins, the insurance policy becomes wow. We got to make sure they

639
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don't find out what we did and who better to find that out? Michael Flint. So they go after

640
00:53:39,020 --> 00:53:44,380
Michael Flint. Once they get him gone, they think they're fine until Jim Komi gets fired because

641
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Jim Komi was traveling into the next administration too. When he gets fired, it then the insurance

642
00:53:48,460 --> 00:53:53,980
policy morphs again and it becomes shazam. We got to do something now. We've lost Komi. We've lost our

643
00:53:53,980 --> 00:53:59,580
man. So what does Komi do? Leaks his memos to get a special counsel appointed and who better than

644
00:53:59,580 --> 00:54:04,700
his best pal Bob Mueller to run it for two years. That's how the insurance policy morphed over time.

645
00:54:04,700 --> 00:54:14,060
Robert Mueller has made me I think. Once his old job back, he's out to post clearly,

646
00:54:14,140 --> 00:54:18,860
he's losing his cognitive capacity, but he thinks or his buddies think that he can come back

647
00:54:18,860 --> 00:54:23,740
to direct the FBI like he did before. And why is that important? Because if Mueller

648
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who's good buddies with Komi, with visemen, with all of these Trump hating anti-American

649
00:54:32,380 --> 00:54:40,380
Democrat cabal operatives, if they can get Bob their buddy back at the Hoover Building,

650
00:54:40,540 --> 00:54:46,380
he can just shred it all. He can make all the evidence disappear, operation crossfire,

651
00:54:46,380 --> 00:54:52,380
hurricane against Mike Flynn, everything else was just be deep-saved. So Mueller is

652
00:54:52,380 --> 00:55:00,140
ascorted to the White House by Rod Rosenstein, his friend. Rod Rosenstein, Arch, deep state,

653
00:55:00,140 --> 00:55:06,620
swam creature is in fact running Donald Trump's Department of Justice, because Chester's

654
00:55:07,580 --> 00:55:12,700
removed himself. President needs for Robert Mueller out of professional courtesy.

655
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Realizes within minutes. Sorry, you can't even string co-hear at sentence. You don't

656
00:55:19,980 --> 00:55:26,460
represent making a American great again. Your old school establishment, your past, your cell

657
00:55:26,460 --> 00:55:35,100
by date, thank you very much. No thanks. Less than 24 hours later, the guy who's really running

658
00:55:35,180 --> 00:55:42,380
the DOJ, Rod Rosenstein. Makes his friend Robert Mueller the most powerful man in the world.

659
00:55:43,260 --> 00:55:50,860
He makes him special counsel, special prosecutor, who has the power to bring down the president.

660
00:55:50,860 --> 00:55:56,540
All I should never take in the job. He was compromised, he was conflicted, and it was the

661
00:55:56,540 --> 00:56:03,100
appointment arose, it flowed from an illegal act by his friend James Komi that released those files.

662
00:56:03,180 --> 00:56:08,460
It was part of a coup, and when he came on board, he could have known and should have known

663
00:56:08,460 --> 00:56:12,300
that there was nothing new investigate, and he should have shut it down instead of he

664
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harassed the president for years. And then they have this extraordinary raid, a matter of

665
00:56:18,380 --> 00:56:23,580
force home where they go in and start taking pictures of the suits to prove that he was buying

666
00:56:23,580 --> 00:56:28,780
expensive suits and you know, outside of his regular income, it's completely absurd.

667
00:56:29,660 --> 00:56:35,900
They're investigating Russia, and they nail Manifort on mortgage fraud and having expensive suits.

668
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They know that there's nothing there. Komi and McCabe know that they have done bad things,

669
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and the special counsel's investigation now is a way of trying to cover their tracks.

670
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And they've got their buddies in there, and they're trying their best to cover form. And hopefully

671
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they will get one wrong thing so that they can make a splash, and all of their crimes will be forgotten.

672
00:57:06,220 --> 00:57:10,380
We were pretty careful because we didn't want to step over any lines, and it ends up the

673
00:57:10,380 --> 00:57:15,340
corruption is just far worse than even we could have imagined, and we imagined it was pretty bad.

674
00:57:15,340 --> 00:57:19,420
When the newness memo came out, we thought the whole thing's over, this blows up it's

675
00:57:19,420 --> 00:57:22,860
the end of Mueller, it's the end of the investigation, and the investigators need to be

676
00:57:23,580 --> 00:57:28,780
investigated. Before it was published, they were all saying that the newness is reckless,

677
00:57:28,780 --> 00:57:35,660
this is extremely damaging to national security. The FBI, the DOJ is going to suffer all

678
00:57:35,660 --> 00:57:40,780
kinds of negative consequences. Informants are going to be outed, everybody's going to die.

679
00:57:40,780 --> 00:57:44,700
Uh, newness is killing everybody, it's the best way I can sum up the narrative that they had

680
00:57:44,700 --> 00:57:50,140
going form back then. Then once the thing actually came out, it was clear that they're looking,

681
00:57:50,140 --> 00:57:56,860
and there's no national security threats in people finding out that they use the steel dossier

682
00:57:56,860 --> 00:58:00,540
to get a warrant to spy on Carter Pade. So then at that point, the narrative shift,

683
00:58:00,540 --> 00:58:05,100
to it was a nothing burger. There was nothing in it, this, this, all the hooplo over this,

684
00:58:05,100 --> 00:58:10,780
uh, you know, okay, so they, uh, you know, they use these, uh, unconfirmed allegations to spy on an

685
00:58:10,780 --> 00:58:14,780
American citizen. What's the big deal? Carter Pade is a weird guy anyway, and you know,

686
00:58:14,780 --> 00:58:21,900
so I'm sure he deserved it, you know, what, what's the big deal? We had information in there,

687
00:58:21,900 --> 00:58:29,020
revealing that Komi and McCabe had testified to us that the agents, the FBI agents who

688
00:58:29,020 --> 00:58:34,620
interviewed Michael Flynn, did not think he was lying. Um, we had that in our report, and it was

689
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redacted. Um, and at the time that our report came out, uh, Komi was going around on a book tour on

690
00:58:41,020 --> 00:58:45,660
the country and saying that he didn't know anything about that. How is it ethical to breathe

691
00:58:45,660 --> 00:58:51,420
with President Dunsey United States on an unverifiable and salacious dots here? And how is it ethical

692
00:58:51,420 --> 00:58:58,060
leadership to not tell him that his political opposition Hillary Quintin paid for that? Shortly after that,

693
00:58:59,100 --> 00:59:04,780
was when shift came out with his, with, with his counter memo, the shift memo, um, in which he

694
00:59:04,780 --> 00:59:08,780
argued that everything in the memo, we said was false that there were no problems whatsoever in

695
00:59:08,860 --> 00:59:13,180
the FISA war and on Carter page, nothing wrong with the dossier, everything's good, the FBI

696
00:59:13,180 --> 00:59:17,100
and DOJ did everything right, UNESCO doesn't know what he's talking about, he just made all this stuff up.

697
00:59:17,100 --> 00:59:22,220
So they have these two doing memo's, but, um, when the shift memo came out, I mean, that was

698
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championed by the media as the definitive debunking of the new NSM, all this stuff that shift said,

699
00:59:28,140 --> 00:59:33,980
it's true because shifts said it. Devon, it was subject to such score for saying the conclusions that

700
00:59:34,060 --> 00:59:39,580
we brought forth in that report, which all proved to be true. The Mueller investigation had to acknowledge

701
00:59:39,580 --> 00:59:44,940
them today that the Department of Justice acknowledges them and they certainly contradict all

702
00:59:44,940 --> 00:59:50,940
of the national media narrative that we all had to live with for over a year. After the IG report

703
00:59:50,940 --> 00:59:58,380
came out, um, I would have thought there would be some kind of, you know, little media frenzy,

704
00:59:58,940 --> 01:00:00:03,500
you know, asking shift if he stands by his memo. Look at the camera said they hacked

705
01:00:03,580 --> 01:00:06,780
Trump for this as he knows we know for a fact that Putin's government did that. You can't,

706
01:00:06,780 --> 01:00:11,820
and you know you can't, you're hiding behind. I, I, weasel were, I just said that they

707
01:00:11,820 --> 01:00:15,660
hacked Trump for this. No Russians, I'm not going to be specific as to you. Because you don't know it. That's why.

708
01:00:15,660 --> 01:00:21,900
All right, he would constantly say, I have seen evidence of collusion and conspiracy. The

709
01:00:21,900 --> 01:00:26,460
questions we were asking, we did it for a reason. And we would go to his minutes, happens,

710
01:00:26,460 --> 01:00:30,700
said, okay, are you seeing something where knockers, if you are, would like to know, but he knew he could

711
01:00:30,780 --> 01:00:37,020
just say it on TV, um, on certain organizations, and then he would, and then hide behind,

712
01:00:37,020 --> 01:00:41,820
well, it's all classified. I can't get into it. They went straight back to attacking us personally,

713
01:00:41,820 --> 01:00:46,780
the media and the left. So they were more attacks on Devon. Me, we would always say we're over the

714
01:00:46,780 --> 01:00:54,700
target when the ass clowns and the media on the left were just showing us at the same time. And

715
01:00:54,700 --> 01:00:57,900
we knew that was coming the second way it's sent and it came hard.

716
01:00:58,860 --> 01:01:04,540
The story that he came out when? The cocaine yachts brought the two story.

717
01:01:08,540 --> 01:01:13,580
The most absolutely outlandish stories about Devon, and it would be so ridiculous,

718
01:01:13,580 --> 01:01:21,100
things about absolute defy, but we, he was a dump farmer, he's corrupt, and we were seeing very early on

719
01:01:22,060 --> 01:01:29,100
these accusations that he was a Putin's stooge, which really stood out to us because the guy,

720
01:01:29,100 --> 01:01:34,860
his entire career, he's been a Russia hawk. And there was, you know, for example, a giant billboard

721
01:01:34,860 --> 01:01:42,380
on our mean highway in the district back home. You had analysts talking on MSNBC, speculating whether

722
01:01:42,380 --> 01:01:47,340
the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is actually a Russian asset.

723
01:01:47,420 --> 01:01:55,740
Some person filed the California Equivalent of the Freedom of Information Act against Devon's wife,

724
01:01:55,740 --> 01:01:59,740
who's an elementary school teacher, to get all of her work emails.

725
01:02:00,940 --> 01:02:05,180
You know, they started going after his family, and that's just absurd and totally off-limits

726
01:02:05,180 --> 01:02:12,380
and writing crazy things on social media and in articles. I was not just stalked by the fake

727
01:02:12,380 --> 01:02:16,780
confetti press who would hang out right outside this office and follow me everywhere they went.

728
01:02:21,180 --> 01:02:26,380
And it's going to be a set of investigations. I also had these big picture fake news stories.

729
01:02:26,380 --> 01:02:32,540
This was going on both at the national level in the pages of the Washington Post, the New York Times,

730
01:02:33,260 --> 01:02:40,060
and the local level back home. The media had gone wild. They had been writing crazy stories about

731
01:02:40,140 --> 01:02:45,420
everybody including myself, which was unheard of at the time to write about a staff early,

732
01:02:45,420 --> 01:02:51,900
his name, call him basically a genocidal dictator. Yeah, actually, they kind of portrayed as this sort

733
01:02:51,900 --> 01:03:00,140
of Mac, Eavillian, genius behind what the Hibsey Republicans were doing. You know, a guy,

734
01:03:00,140 --> 01:03:06,780
you know, nobody should be listening to. They knew that cash was the one that was given us the

735
01:03:06,780 --> 01:03:13,740
road map. I remember a specific circumstance where Rod Rosenstein was confronted with the fact that

736
01:03:13,740 --> 01:03:21,580
he had signed renewal for this phyzoorn. And he turned to cash, Patel, and said to cash that if

737
01:03:21,580 --> 01:03:27,340
this did not stop, if the criticism of Rosenstein persisted, if the efforts to call him to account

738
01:03:27,340 --> 01:03:32,700
for that signature were elevated, that it might be cash himself that would be subject to surveillance

739
01:03:32,700 --> 01:03:36,620
of our government. Used to be politicians, launch grenades on each other, and that was considered

740
01:03:36,620 --> 01:03:41,340
warfare and fair enough. All fair. You beat me. I beat you. We run dirty ads. And we can be,

741
01:03:41,340 --> 01:03:44,620
but now we're getting down to destroying the reputations of individual people.

742
01:03:44,620 --> 01:03:49,260
At its core, this was an information operation, an information warfare operation.

743
01:03:50,140 --> 01:03:56,860
It was designed to get out a specific narrative, and that narrative, in this case, was that Trump is a

744
01:03:56,860 --> 01:04:04,780
traitor and he was colluding with the Russians. The bigger problem is,

745
01:04:05,580 --> 01:04:13,820
the reporting that the same group of circus animals is conducting is not true. It's not accurate.

746
01:04:13,820 --> 01:04:19,900
You're in having conversations with reporters, as they were continuing to play this story out

747
01:04:19,900 --> 01:04:24,780
in the national media. And we would explain to them that if you go into a classified briefing,

748
01:04:24,860 --> 01:04:29,580
you receive classified information, and you step out and you tell reporters that information

749
01:04:29,580 --> 01:04:35,020
you have committed a crime. If you go to that same classified briefing and step out and lie about

750
01:04:35,020 --> 01:04:40,380
what happened, you've not committed a crime. So the reporters should be suspect. They should

751
01:04:40,380 --> 01:04:44,140
question whether or not this person really is committing a crime or whether or not they're just

752
01:04:44,140 --> 01:04:47,580
bending them and giving them the information that they want to have reported.

753
01:04:47,580 --> 01:04:52,380
I honestly think most at some point would say, you know, why bother? You know, I just

754
01:04:52,380 --> 01:04:56,940
retire from Congress, just go do something else, you know, have a quiet life where, you know,

755
01:04:56,940 --> 01:05:02,780
I don't got to deal with this nonsense every single day. But that's just not Devon's nature. His

756
01:05:02,780 --> 01:05:09,180
nature is when you're punched, always punch back. And I think that was always his instinct through

757
01:05:09,180 --> 01:05:15,100
this whole thing. I mean, he can't be bullied and he can't be intimidated. And at its root,

758
01:05:15,100 --> 01:05:19,660
that is what the whole media operation against him was trying to achieve.

759
01:05:19,660 --> 01:05:24,540
Biggest misconception about Devon, Nunez, is that the memo he released was a hoax when in fact,

760
01:05:24,540 --> 01:05:30,060
Adam Schiff's memo was a hoax. They attack Devon, Nunez for the Nunez memo based on what Adam

761
01:05:30,060 --> 01:05:33,900
Schiff said. And if you're an honest person, you would say, well, how could you just say the

762
01:05:33,900 --> 01:05:38,140
Democrat wrote a memo, the Republican wrote a memo, all politicians lie their bold probably

763
01:05:38,140 --> 01:05:43,580
foolishness. I wouldn't be okay with that. We know that Adam Schiff claimed that he had evidence

764
01:05:43,580 --> 01:05:48,140
of Russian collusion. And he's never called out for any of that. But if you were a Republican

765
01:05:48,220 --> 01:05:51,100
making those kind of claims, you would never live them down. The media's role in the

766
01:05:51,100 --> 01:05:57,020
Russian hoax is complex because what we had suspected was proven ironically of all places in the

767
01:05:57,020 --> 01:06:01,900
Mueller report. The Mueller report showed how the information laundering works. Someone within the

768
01:06:01,900 --> 01:06:10,940
FBI leaked something to Michael Isaacov or David Corn or some of the Washington Post. That person,

769
01:06:10,940 --> 01:06:15,980
the Washington Post, writes an article based on the leak. And then the FBI goes and says, look,

770
01:06:16,060 --> 01:06:22,300
we have this story about this thing, which means this thing must be true. And then the FBI takes

771
01:06:22,300 --> 01:06:26,380
action on that. And then the information goes back to the Washington Post. That's how the

772
01:06:26,380 --> 01:06:32,300
information laundering cycle works. Now, boom, number one story, seeing ends reporting that

773
01:06:32,300 --> 01:06:38,380
this dossier exists and it contains scandalous information. Who knows if it's true or not?

774
01:06:38,380 --> 01:06:44,300
It's salacious. It's a whole big of truth thing to trumping our prostitutes. Well, I mean, how

775
01:06:44,380 --> 01:06:48,700
do you know that he didn't? Right? I can't say for certainty that he didn't.

776
01:06:49,500 --> 01:06:53,740
Oh, so now people are like, oh Trump heat on prostitutes. I can't believe this. It was all

777
01:06:53,740 --> 01:06:58,460
course of big hoax. That's how you laundered that information and you get a document that is

778
01:06:58,460 --> 01:07:05,180
based on fabrications into the new cycle. For me, going into your house intelligence committee,

779
01:07:05,180 --> 01:07:09,500
it's supposed to be sort of a closed door meeting. I'm there voluntarily cooperating trying to

780
01:07:09,500 --> 01:07:13,820
help. Believe I was in there for nine hours straight. And I got done. It was about 730 at night.

781
01:07:13,820 --> 01:07:17,660
I walk out the building. I finally get my phone back, you know, open up Twitter and I'm looking

782
01:07:18,300 --> 01:07:23,180
1130. Don Jr said this. It's supposed to be, you know, behind closed doors and literally at

783
01:07:23,180 --> 01:07:27,980
every bathroom break someone's leaking to CNN, what's going on in the room. Like, why would

784
01:07:27,980 --> 01:07:33,980
anyone voluntarily go in there and try to work with them to get answers, knowing that they have

785
01:07:33,980 --> 01:07:39,900
no intention of trying to deal in good faith? We're entering into a new era of information warfare.

786
01:07:39,900 --> 01:07:44,940
But the information warfare that most scares me is the very tactics that our defense intelligence

787
01:07:44,940 --> 01:07:50,940
agency, RCA, our NSA have used for years to create misinformation and propaganda, the ability to

788
01:07:50,940 --> 01:07:55,660
create false reality and social media, news organizations. They've now been turned into

789
01:07:55,740 --> 01:08:02,700
in where non-American people. Somebody created a false illusion of a sophisticated, extraordinary

790
01:08:02,700 --> 01:08:07,580
capabilities. The idea that you're going to take a document that says Carter Page is a CIA

791
01:08:07,580 --> 01:08:11,580
asset, helping the American public and change it to say, no, he's a Russian student,

792
01:08:12,540 --> 01:08:17,020
fake a court with that, fake the Congress with that. That's how far the FBI went. That is

793
01:08:17,020 --> 01:08:21,580
information warfare. That's misinformation that the highest levels and I don't think the American

794
01:08:21,580 --> 01:08:28,060
public has come to grips with what the potential threshold we just crossed. It's illegal to possess

795
01:08:28,940 --> 01:08:32,700
these stolen documents. It's different for the media. So everything you learn about this,

796
01:08:32,700 --> 01:08:41,420
you're learning from us. When CNN says on air, you the public are not allowed to look at these.

797
01:08:41,420 --> 01:08:49,500
That's what we're here to do. At some point, you've got to say, wow, you've got some big balls to

798
01:08:49,580 --> 01:08:56,380
stand up on national television and tell the entire world, don't read this. I'll read it to you.

799
01:08:57,980 --> 01:09:04,380
I have personal friends who are reporters or who are in like near conservative or near liberal

800
01:09:04,380 --> 01:09:10,380
fields who genuinely still believe this stuff. They still believe it because the jobs that

801
01:09:10,380 --> 01:09:16,140
livelihoods their histories, their backgrounds, their resumes, depend on them believing it.

802
01:09:16,460 --> 01:09:21,660
You know, a lot of this will come down to the supposed fact checkers and editors in newsrooms

803
01:09:21,660 --> 01:09:25,900
whose name's none of us have the top of our heads. What role did they play in all of this? Isn't

804
01:09:25,900 --> 01:09:30,140
their job to send the bad copy back to Chris Siles and say, you know, we can't really put this up

805
01:09:30,140 --> 01:09:35,900
on the CNN website. Well, why not? Well, firstly, it's not news. It's your opinion and secondly,

806
01:09:35,900 --> 01:09:41,580
it's a mental opinion. It doesn't bear anything close to reality. What are you doing? Please don't

807
01:09:41,660 --> 01:09:47,580
send me anything like this again. You have a police your own industry. There should be real

808
01:09:47,580 --> 01:09:54,780
journalists that stand up and say, this is a phony reporter. This isn't advocate. Don't listen to

809
01:09:54,780 --> 01:09:59,420
this person. All those who perpetrated this false story have sat in the bunker and refused to acknowledge

810
01:09:59,420 --> 01:10:03,660
their wrongdoing, refused to do what they ethically more release should have done, which is say,

811
01:10:03,660 --> 01:10:07,660
we got it wrong and we're sorry. We'll be better at it next time. And but instead, we just moved

812
01:10:07,740 --> 01:10:12,540
onto another false candle and created Ukraine and we'll probably create another false candle after that.

813
01:10:12,540 --> 01:10:19,580
Half the time when CNN has, oh, bombshell news. It was about me and it was a lie. These same people,

814
01:10:20,620 --> 01:10:24,540
right? They're told, Congress, no, we didn't see anything. They literally testified

815
01:10:24,540 --> 01:10:30,140
under oath the exact opposite, but there's no consequence. We will go on TV, day in and day out,

816
01:10:30,140 --> 01:10:33,900
and lie to the American people to their face and nothing's going to happen to us.

817
01:10:38,380 --> 01:10:44,860
10, six, three, six, five. Go back to 2016. Trump is Hitler. Trump is Hitler. Trump is Hitler.

818
01:10:44,860 --> 01:10:52,060
Trump is evil. Trump represents fascism. Trump represents the rise of the new riker or something.

819
01:10:52,060 --> 01:10:56,700
This was their narrative. And this wasn't something that was just put out on the internet or

820
01:10:56,700 --> 01:11:02,620
shouted by the Michael Moore's and the code Pink City of the world. This was high level CNN,

821
01:11:02,620 --> 01:11:08,700
Washington Post, you know, social justice crusader narratives and language that was used

822
01:11:08,700 --> 01:11:14,380
in the highest levels of America's media institutions. New York's daily news ran this front page

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earlier this week. Trump is Hitler. And so then when Trump went to an massive upside, suddenly they

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have a big problem because how in their walled garden can they explain that a guy that they told

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all of their people was the second coming of Hitler, how could 62 million Americans vote for Hitler?

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Right? And so they have a big problem there. How do you explain that away? Are 62 million Americans

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not cease? Right? Now that doesn't make any sense. That's a bridge too far. Then they see

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the Russia collusion narrative sitting right there in front of them and say, why don't we just say

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that he cheated? So in their movie, Trump cheated with the help of Vladimir Putin and then that

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became the reason that America elected the next eight of Hitler and then became useful for so many

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various interests, Rachel Maddoe uses it to generate her ratings, right? Because she says,

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we're going to get him. We're going to catch him. We're going to uncover this.

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Well, unfortunately until this is released, I can't comment on the underlying documents,

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but I can't say among the changes that I thought were notable. Instead of some, you know,

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smoking gun that was always promised, it's on what's classified. You can't see it, right?

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That was the game they played until Rick and all flew that one out. Maybe these guys just actually

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believe that collusion is real and they're operating good faith. In reality, that wasn't the goal.

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The goal was never to prove collusion. The goal was always indictments, convictions,

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and then impeachment. And that was the goal from the very start of all of it.

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This is exclusive CNN video. This is what happened this morning. The forezone rise just before 6am.

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When Roger Stone longtime Trump, a associate and advisor was taken into custody by the FBI.

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On the morning of January 25th, 25 heavily armed FBI agents in full swag gear and brandishing salt

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weapons arrived at my home at 6am in the morning. In 17 armored vehicles, there was an FBI helicopter

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overhead. I lived on a canal, so there were two amphibious units that pulled up to the dock with

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frog men who were also armed, then they dragged my wife out of the house in her night clothing and

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bare feet, so she could share my humiliation for the CNN cameras. Now CNN's cameras, we know from

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the security footage, shows that the CNN camera showed up exactly 14 minutes before the FBI.

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This would make it the shortest journalistic stake out in American history. I think as most people

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know, I was targeted for a political prosecution because of my longtime support and friendship

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for the president. Don't want to say he has been encouraging Donald Trump to run for

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president since 1988. I would say that I would have a hell of a chance of winning between his

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his outspokenness, his national name identification and his issue positions. He could be a formidable

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candidate.

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The indictment against me came up with nothing. It paced it together, a very flimsy indictment

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for lying to Congress, even though the mistatements I made when I went voluntarily to the House

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Intelligence Committee were in material. They had no underlying crimes. It was a Soviet-style

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show trial. I wasn't Congress for 30 hours. I was the target because it would generate headlines.

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I'm sure there's an element of stress on my father that hey, they're putting your kid through this.

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I mean, don't forget, it wasn't like they're saying, hey, we want to find out.

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You had the former Vice Presidential candidate of the United States for the Democrat Party,

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Tim Cane, Schiff saying that I committed treason. Treason is a crime punishable by death.

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Can you imagine carrying that weight in that burden as a president knowing that they're trying

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to go after your child and thinking in some way, hey, look, they're going after my son because

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I'm president. Do you ever think maybe at night you say to yourself, gosh, is this worth it? They're

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targeting my family and trying to destroy them and going after your children.

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President Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. was back on Capitol Hill this week to talk about his

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much discussed Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer who promised him damaging political

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info during the 2016 campaign. And he's a father with you know, five children. Children

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having to hear about this and their friends, listen to it and you know, in school, we're seeing it

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in the paper on television at night. It's such a scary thing to see in your heart breaks.

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You know, when they tell you they want to put you in prison for life or trees and punishable by

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death, can you imagine when you hear this or you see this about, you know, your father?

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My biggest regret of the last four years was not being more vocal about what they did to general

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Flynn. I just said, man, there must be something here if this many people that run these

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institutions, I still believed. I still had faith as an American in these institutions. And it was

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the most misguided faith I've ever had in anything in my life.

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Former National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn thought he would walk out of court free after

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a sentencing hearing yesterday. A packed courtroom was stunned as Judge Emmett Sullivan said

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he could not hide his disgust and his disdain for Flynn's crimes.

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And first I thought he was trying to do everything he could to get general Flynn to scream out.

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I'm not guilty. He threw out the word trees and he said he you are directly sold out your

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country while you were in the White House. I mean it was just a breathtaking, excoriating

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dialogue. I was stunned. And he even paused after his tirade for an hour while the media runs wild

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internationally with calls of general Flynn having committed treason. The pressure on a criminal

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defendant, particularly in a federal case, is beyond anybody's capacity.comprehend unless you've

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been there. They threatened to indict Michael Flynn the sun. If general Flynn did not immediately

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enter a guilty plea. Young Michael Flynn had just had a baby. He had a four-month-old little boy.

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He had done nothing wrong. He had been forced to sell his house to pay legal fees. They threatened

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to indict him just around Thanksgiving and to indict Michael too. They just wanted to stop the pain

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for the whole family. They were just broken in many ways and saw no other way out.

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He should have never taken Flynn's guilty plea. They knew he was not an agent of Russia. They knew

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there was no collusion between general Flynn and anybody with Russia. We learned that they inserted

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into the 302 statements that he never made. Things they never asked him about to create the reported

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false statements. I've seen the FBI manipulate 302s before. They had done the major changes the

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night of February 10. After they had shown the reported transcripts of the calls with Kisly Ag to

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vice president Pence. And then they went back that night and it was done and altered until it was

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approved by Andrew McCabe. The viscam happened of general Michael T. Flynn. I'm

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imagine what they do to anybody who has a single strike against them.

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There's so much happening in this country right now that boggles the imagination

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and you're at the very center of it. If one person needs to apologize to the American people for

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propelling this false narrative for three something years, it would be Adam Schiff.

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Adam Schiff is the modern day Joe McCarthy. He would come out of an intelligence briefing who would

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say nothing there and he'd go collusion. You just got to be willing to see it. The willingness to see it

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is exactly what misinformation and propaganda is. If the facts aren't there and you still see it,

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you're delusional. Transparency is not political. An information is power and when individuals

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like the gang of eight are the only ones to have the information, then they go on TV and they

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get to say, I can't tell you, but you have to trust me. That trust has been broken because they lied to us.

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The best way to clean this whole mess up is with some indictments. That's what people felt during

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watergate. That's what we all should feel now if we have any sense of keeping our integrity as a country.

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You know, I don't know why criminals engage in criminal behavior. I mean, we can all talk about that

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to where blue in the face. The fact is they engaged in seditious behavior and they ought to be

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prosecuted about it. I don't know who should go to jail. I just want a regular series investigation.

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Heck, I just want someone to be questioned. Well, I don't prosecute it. Why do you think that is?

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Because they don't want to do anything. They don't want to do anything. You're asking to just

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form it to investigate themselves. They're not going to do it. Does anyone really believe that

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FBI lawyer changed that document all on his own? Somebody had to give him that instruction. We know

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somebody gave the instruction to the FBI, not to close down Mike Flynn's case when the law said you

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should close it down. Now we have a dual justice system. There's a department of justice for

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everyday Americans who get punished and there's a department of justice. The thing that they were

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investigating the Trump campaign for colluding with Russians is what they themselves were doing.

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Not just the Democratic Party and their operatives, but also the FBI. Inspector General

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Report on the FISA abuse and the Russian investigation about the most damning IG report in the history

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of the United States. And it showed everything we had done instead was true. There isn't any

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information because if there actually was, we would have heard about it by now. And the reason

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there isn't any information or evidence to suggest the Trump campaign coordinator,

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a conspirator colluded with the Russian government, is because they did not.

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These guys have perpetrated the greatest crime against the American people ever seen.

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It was a coup de ta. It was the attempt to take over a duly elected president for their own

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personal gain. They made an attempt to overthrow the outcome of a presidential election.

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That was an American coup. You can't do with the coup de ta that takes place in Africa or

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Latin America where you seize the building of the president and you say, I'm the president.

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Some officials in the political police. The secret police, they're the ones who

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control the security machinery. And they say, my God, we have discovered that the president is a foreign

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agent. So we have to arrest them to save the country. If the people in charge of guarding the states,

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choose to turn against the state, the state is defenseless. This is what third world security

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states do. They spy on their political opponents like this. They try to send them to jail.

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They try to bankrupt them. Once you establish this precedent that the Intel agencies

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oversee the presidency. And if the American people make a mistake by electing the wrong guy,

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then it's up to them to correct that mistake. And the fact that people think like that in these agencies,

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I think poses a fundamental threat to democracy. To me, this really is the crime of the century

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when you think about it. When you think about all these different institutions working in

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concert colluding, all working towards one goal to take out the president of the United States.

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So I tried to say this is going to be bad and warn people. And I thought I had a good grasp of how

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bad it was going to be. And I didn't. If you had told me in December or January, I think the administration

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was coming in. Flynn won't last a month because it's been off. The deep state is going to run

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against him. I would have said it. Come on. It's bad. He's not that bad. And then it happened.

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So show you how did my judgment is.

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I would say that Russia gate has been the most

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egregious, malevolent abuse of everything that was supposed to have been good about our government.

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It divided the country in ways that people can't imagine. It's inspired massive violence.

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It's given people who are bad faith actors, a license to do whatever they want.

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Because they literally feel like they're fighting Russian spies and Nazis and foreign bad actors.

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If you are right wing and you're a reporter or a politician, you will have your reputation destroyed.

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That's if you're lucky. If you're lucky, you'll only have your reputation smeared.

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If you end up like some other people, you're going to get framed for crimes.

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I worry that that is the future of American politics. Personal destruction at the candidate level

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on the party levels one thing when it starts getting down to every day lives. How do you get your

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reputation back after that? The change in tactics now is anyone who dares to speak up and meet the

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enemy risk the possibility that they will have a false reality launched against them to destroy

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the reputation and the silence them. I think that can't be what our founding fathers intended

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when they created this great democracy and this great constitution of Republic.

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The most powerful organs of the state are not merely corrupt but that they've been weaponized

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to go after perceived domestic enemies. That's very scary and bad. We don't live in the United

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States of America as any of us would like to understand it. I don't live in that country anymore.

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The realization of that is maybe the saddest thing I've ever gone through in my life.

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It's not just that we're not the United States anymore. What is your humanity? What kind of a human

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being are you if you are essentially a slave? If you are run by intelligent services,

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if you're run by the press, if these are the people who dominate your public sphere,

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if these are the people who make decisions about how you live, about how your family lives,

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but how your friends live, these live things that you have to contest all the time. If you wish to

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stay a free person and a free people. It's time for people to recognize that they've got to stand

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up and push back on the media, demand unbiased, coverage, out those people who are advocates

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and not real journalists and tell your neighbors, tell everybody in your social media circle,

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that we are the greatest country in the world, that we have the greatest system. We may not be

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perfect, but our system is perfect and we know how to fix problems if we just follow the rules.

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If I were writing about the timeframe that we lived in that we're living in now, I would say it

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wasn't supposed to happen. They weren't supposed to know. You know, had Hillary Clinton won.

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We wouldn't have known the different crimes and abuses committed by rogue law enforcement officials

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or dirty cops, rogue intelligence officials as well. That's true, except you needed something else.

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Had it not been for Congressman Nunes, had he not been willing to do this and had he not

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had this particular team with cash betel, with Jack Langer. We would not have known what have

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happened. He stood up to the mob. He didn't go along with the narrative. He thought the narrative

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that the Trump people had colluded with Russia was wrong and he stood up and he said so at a time

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when nobody else was willing to do that. History has already exonerated Devon Nunes in many ways

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because he stuck to the facts. All right, it was an unpopular storyline, but he was right.

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Without Nunes, we would know we might not know anything about it. I mean, they basically have

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gotten away with it. It's got free, which is sad because the system doesn't work, but at least it's

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been exposed. Without him, it wouldn't. Why is moral courage among members of Congress, the type of

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moral courage that Devon Nunes has? Why is that rare? Well, it's rare in Congress because it's

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rare in the world. It's a rare trait to go against the mob. Aristotle had called moral courage

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the chief of all virtues because if you don't have courage, then you can't be honorable because

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sometimes to be honorable and honest, you have to speak out against lies. You have to stand up for the

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truth. It's exactly right. Every Republican, Senator, a member of Congress should be saying,

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this is over. We want every damn bit of evidence that every intelligence agency has or it's

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maybe time to shut those agencies down.