it. it says with a can and cannot do. on the one hand, when it comes to a criminal investigation, they cannot open it unless they have articulable basis for it. they have gone here, yet they opened the criminal probe of the trump campaign. the second is, and a counterintelligence probe, they have to submit evidence for surveillance warrants that it is corroborated and verified. again, it is in the dialogue. sean: don t we know it was never verified? in january, jim, he goes to trump tower and says, it s salacious, and it s not verifie verified. this is months earlier. he s now admitting months later it was never verified. that s right. sean: and using it is a violation of at least six diffey statutes. you notice on that devin nunes has pointed out, the ones that you and i were talking about, plus a couple of others.
fairly? right. this is why struck really matters in that he was at the center of all of this, not just the hilary clinton investigation, but the counterintelligence probe into trump and russia. so there are legitimate questions, what role he played with the dossier and the court. i think that this gets to what you just said, mueller, can he legitimately look at this? and this is the real outrage too of the struck news. yes, true, he fired him not fired him, demoted him when he found out about it, but he nonetheless did not tell congress, and he knows that congress is looking into this question because presumably he knew it would undermine the credibility of his special counsel probe. but i think that that does call into question, if he isn t even going to tell congress that he s got situations like this, can we really expect him to be investigating many of the very
fairly? right. this is why struck really matters in that he was at the center of all of this, not just the hilary clinton investigation, but the counterintelligence probe into trump and russia. so there are legitimate questions, what role he played with the dossier and the court. i think that this gets to what you just said, mueller, can he legitimately look at this? and this is the real outrage too of the struck news. yes, true, he fired him not fired him, demoted him when he found out about it, but he nonetheless did not tell congress, and he knows that congress is looking into this question because presumably he knew it would undermine the credibility of his special counsel probe. but i think that that does call into question, if he isn t even going to tell congress that he s got situations like this, can we really expect him to be investigating many of the very people who are on his team who
mrs. clinton s loan interview with the fbi in july 2016. no reasonable prosecutor would bring such case. strzok reportedly helped persuade james comey to prosecution of mrs. clinton, the same month strzok is one of a dozen fbi officials who receive the dossier, the salacious and largely unverified allegations about mr. trump and his associates that was bankrolled by the clinton campaign and the dnc and which the fbi may have used to launch a counterintelligence probe that encompassed fisa surveillance. july of this year, mueller learned strzok had sent a colleague text messages said to be critical of mr. trump and removed him from the special counsel team. speak we found out the fbi hd pro-hillary, anti-trump people at the heart of the hillary investigation, very troubling. the fact that this was on the
in july of 2016 when the fbi director james comey for the first time shut the clinton email case, they opened the counterintelligence probe and the same fbi agent was one of the senior supervisors on that case and one of the key handlers for the anti-trump dossier and the british spy christopher steel, the one who did the opposition research for the dossier that was funded by the dnc as well as the clinton campaign and that brings us to the allegations that he s shared these anti-trump text with his lawyer at the fbi. this is a subject of an inspector general investigation and they will be looking at whether any of this shapes the way he handles these cases. harris: the greater american public has to be looking at this and wondering the trust is being shaken now with a major agency within the