history right up there with some of its worst. and it is my understanding from your reporting that this report will find that the investigation, the launch of the investigation met the legal standard, correct? yeah, it s going to debunk a number of republican right-wing conspiracy theories that have asserted that this investigation, the opening of the russia investigation in july of 2016, code name crossfire hurricane, used information from an ex-british spy named chris steele and the information he had compiled. they said that is false. they also said that the information used to open that investigation didn t come from the cia, right? it wasn t being done by john brenn brennan, right, the puppet master in all of this according to these conspiracy theories. and also two other important points. well, in particular one, also
what you re saying is it must be the case that upon completion and transmission to congress, that be made public more or less immediately particularly if there s a question about whether it would be public before or after the election. whether he ever the report comes out whether it s before or after the election, it should be made public. what i said if it s before the election, i would hope our republican colleagues would join us on insisting it be made public at that point. jerry nadler, thanks for being with me. mueller investigation is one year old. but the fbi investigation into trump dates back to the summer of 2016 and the heart of that campaign season. really fascinating new new york times report sheds light on the origins of that investigation known by the code name crossfire hurricane. and just how far the fbi went to keep it quiet, for one thing, agents considered them rejected interviewing key trump associates which might have sped up the investigation but risked rev
any way, shape or form. despite all of this wild and false speculation, it s nothing. the trump tower meeting is not the only breaking news story that is embarrassing to the destroy trump media. the new york times, they hate president trump. they re now basically tonight confirming everything we have been telling you regarding the biggest abuse scandal in the history of the country. it s not a maya culpa, it s probably inadvertent. this was their original headline today. a secret mission, a code name and anxiety inside the early days of the fbi s trump investigation. they changed the headline. code name crossfire hurricane. the secret origins of the trump administration. great to know somebody in the fbi like the rolling stones. why would they change it?
when they ve screwed up, they also break a ton of news in this new story that also functions as an apology. we get, for example, in this new story tonight the code word that was used inside the fbi to refer to the trump russia investigation. we ve never had this before. apparently, their code name for it was crossfire hurricane. the new york times also breaking the news that fbi agents are a bunch of drama queens. crossfire hurricane. we also got the information that fbi agents interrogated an australian ambassador right at the outset of their investigation, literally on day one. the times describes that as a break with diplomatic protocol, something that had to be intensely deliberated between law enforcement in australia and in d.c. but fbi agents ultimately did succeed in interviewing that ambassador from australia to find out what he knew about the trump campaign and its advance notice of russia s attack on our election. we get a bunch of new detail
foreign agent of the russian government. this is brand-new. quote, crossfire hurricane come on. it s a great name for a squirt gun, but really? crossfire hurricane began with a focus on four campaign officials, but by mid fall 2016, the carter page inquiry had progressed the furthest. agents had known mr. page for years. russian spies had tried to recruit him in 2013. and when agents warned him about that, he was dismissive. quote, that warning even made its way back to russian intelligence, leaving agents suspecting that carter page had reported their efforts to moscow. think about that for a second. this is a foreign policy adviser to the trump campaign. the fbi didn t just know that he had been caught up in a russian spy ring in new york, right, one that resulted in an actual russian spy going to actual prison in the united states on espionage charges. they didn t just know that he