all we get is some oblique reference that george papadopoulos made in a bar. that s the whole reason we had a two-year long investigation. julie: that was the whole theme of the f.b.i. s basis. they had no basis. they used the christopher steele memo dossier which turned out to be b.s. and that was their basis. so they were going knowingly on b.s. right. that was the basis in the fall. that was the fall of 2016. even before that, when they quote launched the russia investigation, it was based on a comment in a bar. that doesn t even get to the dossier which jim comey admitted in december of 2016 had never been corroborated. never been vetted and certainly wasn t verified. look, he if your goal in life is to avoid indictment, congratulations, jim comey, you did it. my goal in life is to have history say i was fair. history will not judge jim
be an executive branch that s out of the control of the executive. the idea that the fbi launching counterintelligence investigations against the president that they serve, this is j. edgar hoover stuff. and, obviously, it was common in that era that the former fbi director in order to get leverage on politicians would dig through their personal lives , surveil them, and it s highly disturbing to see that return. paul: that was, ultimately, subsumed by the mueller probe, took over this. that s where that is now. kim, let s talk about the bruceover transcripts. bruce ohr transcripts. he testified to congress in august about what he told the fbi about the christopher steele memo and the whole fbi, the investigation about russia. what should we know about that? so a couple of important
joyce vance, let s go to the second bucket of information. that s mike flynn. michael flynn is also mentioned in the dossier, the steele dossier, which reads sort of like a spy novel when you now go through it and you think about all of the sort of things that it brings together. but one theme of it is that various high level members of the trump team, at least per the christopher steele memo, were having these interactions both to further the cause of getting dirt on hillary clinton and helping donald trump be elected, but then also to try to cover that up, to make sure that no one found out about it. we know that michael flynn has had at least 19 interviews with the special counsel, that he is being completely cooperate alternative the point where they re recommending no jail time. is it possible that s what the special counsel wants him for, to provide an overall narrative that ties together all of these weird contacts with the russians, the wikileaks, and puts it all together sort
with the russians with, and all kinds of variables between that, and he was planted right there. yeah. it is incredibly intriguing. joyce vance, let s go to the second bucket of information. that s mike flynn. michael flynn is also mentioned in the dossier, the steele dossier, which reads sort of like a spy novel when you now go through it and you think about all of the sort of things that it brings together. but one theme of it is that various high-level members of the trump team, at least per the christopher steele memo, were having these interactions both to further the cause of getting dirt on hillary clinton and helping donald trump be elected, but then also to try to cover that up, to make sure that no one found out about it. we know that michael flynn has had at least 19 interviews with the special counsel, that he is being completely cooperative to the point where they re recommending no jail time. is it possible that s what the special counsel wants him for, to provide an ov
covert communication phone that he handed to someone to deal with the russians with, and all kinds of variables between that, and he was planted right there. yeah. it is incredibly intriguing. joyce vance, let s go to the second bucket of information. that s mike flynn. michael flynn is also mentioned in the dossier, the steele dossier, which reads sort of like a spy novel when you now go through it and you think about all of the sort of things that it brings together. but one theme of it is that various high level members of the trump team, at least per the christopher steele memo, were having these interactions both to further the cause of getting dirt on hillary clinton and helping donald trump be elected, but then also to try to cover that up, to make sure that no one found out about it. we know that michael flynn has had at least 19 interviews with the special counsel, that he is being completely cooperate alternative the point where they re recommending no jail time. is it poss