American peoples money on this impeachment, theres so many other important things that are going undone. Within this committees own jurisdiction, we should be addressing the opioid epidemic. We could be working together to find a solution to our immigration and asylum challenges on our southern border. We could be protecting americans from having their intellectual property and jobs stolen by chinese companies. And we could be enhancing Election Security just to name a few things. And congress as a whole could be working on rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. Providing additional tax relief to the nations middleclass families and providing additional security to our people here at home and abroad. Instead, here we are spinning our wheels once again on impeachment. What a waste. The American People deserve so much better. I yield back. Gentleman yields back. Mr. Cohen. Thank you, mr. Chair. I take no pleasure in the fact that were here today. As a patriot who loves america, it pain
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Senate investigators grilled Auten about his eager acceptance of the allegation, which Page had denied in secretly recorded conversations with an undercover FBI informant exculpatory evidence that was withheld from the FISA court. Auten confessed he had no other information to independently verify the dossier’s charge, which was central to the FISA warrants.
In a declassified internal FBI spreadsheet he compiled in January 2017 to try to corroborate the dossier, Auten cited a September 2016 Yahoo News article as possible corroboration of “Page’s alleged meeting with Divyekin” even though the source of that article was Steele himself. So you had no knowledge of a secret meeting between Divyekin and Page, but you thought this information put us at least that much closer to a full FISA on Carter Page?” then-chief Senate Judiciary Committee investigative counsel Zach Somers asked Auten, incredulously. “Why does the mention of a meeting with Page a
he speaks arabic and russian. reported directly to charles who is a friend of the clinton s aide. he did policy work for ukraine corruption. close, continuous contact with the fbi state ukrainian officials. had a collateral duty to support vice president biden. and biden was obama s point man on ukraine. associated with dnc operative ali chalupa, who we also need. met with her november 9th, 2015, with ukrainian delegation. and there s all kinds of reasons we need these three witnesses. and i would ask pursuant to section 4 house resolution 660, ask our chairman to i mean, our ranking member, to submit the request for these three witnesses because we re not
this is who they want to hear from. the whistleblower, hunter biden, kurt volker, the former special envoy to ukraine, david hail, a top state department official, tim morrison, nelly ore, the wife of bruce ore and alexandria cha li chalupa. we have heard from three of four or those witnesses, prospective witnesses in the deposition process. personally speaking for myself, i wouldn t have any problem with them. what we re not going to do as adam schiff said is allow them to sort of revisit these crazy already debunked conspiracy theories about the bidens and ukraine. or to try to out the whistleblower. we re not going to be party to that. we re not going to give them a platform to do that. but you see there is some negotiation to be had over this