the buzzfeed defamation case show how the anti-trump dossier was circulated during the 2016 election. david kramer then an aide to the late senator john mccain gave the dossier to buzzfeed news as well as a dozen reporters. he was singled out by christopher steele to lend credibility to the democrat-funded opposition research. steele admitted under oath that he tried to verify the dossier using a cnn eye report story. it was verified why glenn simpson of fusion gps. i think they felt a senior republican was better to be the recipient of this rather than a democrat because if it were a democrat, i think that the view was it that it would have been dismissed as a political attack. the fbi s former counterintelligence chief bill priestap also filed this declaration confirming the fbi got the dossier first 33 pages from mccain in december 2016. now the fbi was already receiving the memos from other sources. prestep also confirmed
the fbi former counterintelligence chief bill priestap filed with the course with fbi dossier for 33 pages for mccain december 2016. the fbi already receiving the memos from other sources. he also come from president obama on dossier by senior intelligence officials including then the ni james clapper ten days before inauguration and the same time buzzfeed published online, shannon. catherine herridge, thank you very much. does that doj have to turn over information senator graham has requested? let s talk about it with the new podcast terry littman and law professor at john, welcome to you both. thank you shannon. shannon: to read a broader quote, the committee deeply concerned with discussions and whether indicate that two with the highest ranking law enforcement officials in the united states discussing what amounts to a coup against the president, here referring to
the project was run by glenn simpson s fusion gps. quote i think they felt the senior republican was better to be the recipient of this rather than a democrat because if it were a democrat, the view was that it would have been dismissed as a political attack. the fbi s former counter-terrorism intelligence chief bill priestap also filed a declaration confirming the fbi got the dossier first 33 pages from mccain in december 2016. the fbi was already receiving the memos from other sources. prestep also confirmed president obama was briefed on the unverified dossier by senior intelligence officials including then dni james clapper 10 days before the inauguration, bret. bret: thank you. you are welcome. bret: one of the pilots that crashed sunday reportedly requested permission to return to the airport shortly after takeoff. the new york times writes thought pilot spoke in a panicky voice. the airline says analysis of the flight recorders has begun in france. authorities are saying
tonight, first to report, that bill priestap is leaving the federal director of investigations. he is the number two director at counterintelligence at the fbi. his departure from fbi is a l d landmark moment because he is the best senior official that is involved at a senior level in the russia investigation from the beginning. he is the last one still at the fbi. as of this reporting tonight in the wall street journal, apparently, he is now gone, too. or at least he s on his way out. and i know these guys sometimes just age out. the wall street journal reports tonight, there s nothing unusual about this departure, that priestap hit his departure mark and decided to leave. but it is striking that as of tonight, that all of the senior officials that were involved in investigating the russia scandal from the beginning, they are now
all gone. and the specific official who was running the investigation inside the bureau on a day-to-day, hands-on basis, before it was handed over to robert mueller that was bill priestap, the official at the fbi. and he is about to leave the bureau himself. you know, maybe this is totally normal. maybe this is coincidental and this is your typical turnover. it is remarkable that it s been 2 1/2 years since the fbi started investigating russia interference in our next election. that is not wrapped up, which is clear by the multiple redactions in the mike flynn sentencing memo tonight, about all of the things that are still ongoing. since the fbi started that investigation in the summer of 2016, the fbi has lost or turfed out its director, james comey. the deputy director. the fbi general counsel, the fbi