Prosecutors in the criminal case against former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann were stonewalled Monday by their own witness, a former top FBI official, who struggled to recall key details about the bureau's 2016 meeting with the defendant.
briefed on his visit. james baker did meet privately with sussmann and relayed the unverified information to priestap took notes but did not remember them when testified in court. lying to the fbi when he claimed he had evidence of a secret communications back channel between the trump organization. found no trump organization. in a text admitted as evidence, he was delivering information on his owns a a concerned citizen, not on behalf of any clients such as the clinton campaign but, bret, special counsel john durham says his team will show up to the jury that sussmann billed the clinton campaign for that fbi meeting. by bringing forward a number of fbi officials whether current or former, durham is building a narrative. federal prosecutors want to show that sussmann used law enforcement to help negatively impact then candidate trump s
bret: big story. bill melugin along the border. thank you. the trial resumed today for the former hillary clinton campaign attorney facing charges for his role in the trump-russia probe. correspondent david spunt is at the courthouse again with the latest. good evening, david. bret, good evening to you. several current and former fbi agents took the stand today. most notably late in the afternoon an agent named allison sands, a former agent tapped with investigating the origins of the trump-russia alpha bank allegation said she was told those allegations were coming from the department of justice not a clinton campaign attorney named michael sussmann. perhaps the most well known name today on the stand, former fbi head of counterintelligence division bill priestap. priestap today was called as a government witness and he may as though hurt the government s case. the reason is because, bret, he could not remember much about michael sussmann coming to the fbi in 2016. priestap never