witch hunt and hoax and he said absolutely not. sandra: john ratcliffe said it went beyond the scope of what robert mueller was supposed to do with this investigation. an exchange in the hearing room yesterday. the mueller report was not written by bob mueller and that a lot of the findings and conclusions that were in there were written by a bunch of lawyers that didn t like donald trump. that had supported and in some cases represented hillary clinton. so i think that was a fact that came out. the other big winner if you will is attorney general bill barr. if bob mueller didn t answer those questions, bill barr needs to. people need to know the answers to the questions. sandra: that was john ratcliffe on fox news this morning. he had a lot of tense exchanges going after robert mueller for going beyond the regulations of his job. i agree with what jess said earlier. nobody wants russia involved in american elections. one thing i think everybody can
aware that the dossier, in his mind, was paid for by the clinton campaign, and he wanted to sort of go through some of those characters, once simpson, natalia svletskia and make sure he was aware of them. it reminded me, bret, of your interview with jim comey, where he claimed to have not known who paid for the dossier either. it was interesting to see, obviously, bob mueller didn t answer those questions. he started the second hearing by correcting the record of the first hearing, clarifying earlier testimony with ted lieu saying he wanted to add this correction that his testimony. he said one thing wrong when asked by liu, who said, and i quote here, you didn t charge the president because of the olc, the office of legal counsel opinion. that is not the correct way to say it, said mueller. as we say in the report, i said at the opening, we did not reach a determination as to whether the president committed a crime. that was a key moment, a huge
this? i can t get into a discussion on it. okay. also, on general flynn, i know you came after the leak of the phone call with the russian ambassador. your time in the fbi, it would be a major scandal, wouldn t it, for the leak of the national security adviser and anyone i can t adopt that hypothesis. did your report name any people who were acting as u.s. government informants or sources without disclosing that fact? i can t answer that. okay. on volume 1, page 133 of your report, you state that constantine klimnik has ties to russian intelligence. this name came up quite often
interfering russian interference in the election. when it came to light he was removed at his assistance. i m sure that was not a long meeting. i m sure bob mueller didn t deliberate about whether pete strozk had to be removed. this is a part of what matt miller is referring to and part of the smear campaign of the july 17th testimony. this particular charge makes absolutely no sense. not only are the words wrong but the underlying thing that the president is trying to describe never happened. i want to also though sort of dig deep and i know it s always a dark place and we all try to get into donald trump s mind and i think i ll leave it to the medical professionals to try to understand why he landed on the word terminated when he was looking for the kwoword deleted. i m not a friend or ally but i m worried about him landing on that word, honestly. but he s accusing robert mueller of a crime when robert mueller found conduct around obstruction
text messages together. he terminated them. they re gone and it s illegal. that s a crime. i think the word he s groping for in his jammies before all of this coffee or maybe before his ambien wore off is deleted but he s accusing robert mueller of a crime. now talk about how many people investigated the conduct haven t strzk and page s been inspected by the director of the fbi? yes, and in fact they ve been provided by the congress and made public. he may be searching for the word deleted. the word terminated makes absolutely no sense there. but the whole thing is really just a smear campaign, nicolle. bob mueller didn t break the law. bob mueller didn t terminate or delete emails. in fact the only person bob mueller terminated was pete strozk when he removed him from the special counsel s team