i ve got a pretty good sense of who it is. it does look as though indeed there was an f.b.i. attempt, a successful one to basically go out and spy with a human asset on the trump campaign. jason: what about the timing in is the timing about all of this is critical. do we understand the timing? what are the implications for that? yeah. it is so important because remember the f.b.i. has been doggedly sticking with this story that what initiated the counterintelligence probe was a tip they got in july about this supposed drunken conversation of a junior campaign aid named george papadopoulos. if for any reason we find out that this person, this asset of theirs was, in fact, surveilling or spying on the trump campaign prior to that time, then they ve got an issue, right? that is no longer their origin
jim comey is now impacted by his own credibility. just in the last week, we ve seen jim comey contradicted by loretta lynch, he s been contradicted by his former deputy but director andrew mccabe and he has contradicted himself by some of the things he has said and done but their real questions about whether or not the president would have any problem, even if that statement were true as it related to jim comey. the president has the ability to end any counterintelligence probe at any time if necessary. with regard to criminal matters, it s a really difficult case to begin with but when you layer on that, with jim comey s credibility, it s going to be really difficult for bob mueller to pursue any credible charges against the president. i will say this, i think bob mueller can write the definitive
i just want to say, i don t have any information, she says she s not been interviewed. if that s true, what is that tells us? it tells us that this a fraud.tion has been it has nothing to do the collusion by the russians and they knew that from the very beginning. mr. manafort knew that from the very beginning because he knew that there was no basis for any of the fisa warrants. no foreign agents of the russian government involved from the beginning and that is why he refused to brief the gang of eight on capitol hill about the existence of the russian probe and the dossier for months and months because he knew if he briefed them, he would have to answer specific questions about the basis for the investigation and no basis existed. tucker: as a procedural matter, it s meaningful, can be fbibi director say no to congres when they say, tell us about something? can he say no? he kept it from them. they didn t know the russian probe, the counterintelligence probe, existed.
already out there. no, ite. is not out there. dianne feinstein, even maxine waters cad wow said no smoke, no fire. it s because there was never any evidence of collusion. it was always a hoax. the fbi knew this but nevertheless, they tried to be really clever. they launched a counterintelligence probe which gave them more latitude and they used that as a pretext to investigate donald trump as a criminal and his associates. and all of these accusations, by the media and by democrats, with their hair on fire, amounted to nothing. carter page giving a speech in moscow, the trump tower meeting with a russian lawyer. bartok with papadopoulos. sean: four way hearsay. four by! all of these things are not crimes. collusion and a criminal company and is not criminal. there is not a crime to talk to a russian.
there. dianne feinstein, joe manchin, even maxine waters said smoke, no fire. there was never any evidence of collusion. it was always a hoax. the f.b.i. knew this. but nevertheless, they tried to be really clever. they launched a counterintelligence probe that gave them more latitude. they used that as a pretext to investigate donald trump as a criminal and his associates. all of these accusations by the media and democrats with the hair on fire amounted to nothing. carter page giving a speech in moscow. the trump tower meeting with the russian lawyer. bar talk with papadopoulos. sean: hearsay. four-way. all of these things are not crimes. collusion in a political campaign is not criminal. it s not a crime to talk to a russian. these are all normal interactions that occur if you