of the media didn t know about some of the dossier allegations because he had been trying to get them desperately so, trying to get them to report on it. trace: none of it is credible! never confirmed. it made news, the fact that the fbi and the nation s intel chiefs have thought this was so important that they needed to briefly president-elect at if you say, if it so important that they need to briefly president-elect, should the public know about it? that s what got it into the news and was left out of his explanation to the president-elect. trace: the headline of course, james comey clearly we are talking about the ig report coming out. this is brand-new. what is your take away and then i want to get your take on today s announcement from the ig. what is your take on what your article was about and the
warranty to spy on the trump campaign. despite acknowledging dossier allegations as being salacious and unverified, former fbi director james comey briefed those allegations to president obama and president-elect trump. those briefings conveniently leaked to the press, resulting in the publication of the dossier and launching thousands of false press stories based on the word of a foreign ex-spy, one who admitted he was desperate that trump lose the election and who was eventually fired as an fbi source for leaking to the press. after comey was fired, by his own admission, he leaked derogatory information to the press and successfully so of engineering the appointment of a special counsel, who sits here before us today.
bruce fuller, directly briefed the dossier allegations to them in the summer of 2016? again, i m not going to speak to that issue. okay. before you arrested george papadopoulos in july of 2017, he was given $10,000 in cash in israel. do you know who gave him that cash? again, it s outside our gambit and questions such as that should go to the fbi or the department. it involved your investigation? it involved persons involved in my investigation. thank you, sir. we will stand in recess for five or ten minutes. please, folks, remain in your seats, allow the director and mr. zebley to exit the chamber. the first half of the second part of this day has concluded,
justice top official, directly briefed the dossier allegations to them in the summer of 2016? again, i m not going to speak to that issue. okay. before you arrested george papadapoulous, he was given $10,000 in cash in israel. do you know who gave him that cash? again, that s outside of the questions. that should go to the fbi or the department. but it involved your investigation. it involved persons involved in my investigation. thank you, mr. chairman. we will stand a recess for five or ten minutes. please, folks, remain in your seats. allow the director to exit the chamber. so there you have it, round one of the intelligence committee segment of today s robert mueller hearing.
it s clear they will twist what they can out of convenience. if you are one of the people calling them on the facts, they re going to try to kick you in the teeth. you felt that today from the president of the united states. i want to put up the tweet. michael isikoff was the first to report dossier allegations, and now seriously doubts the dossier claims. the whole russian collusion thing is a hoax. but who is going to restore the good name of so many people whose reputations have been destroyed? michael, your response. the president didn t read to far into what i said. i made clear in broad strokes that the steele dossier was on to some very serious stuff, that there was a major russian effort to interfere in our election. there were extensive efforts to cultivate members of the trump campaign, there were multiple contacts between people associated with the trump campaign and people associated with the russians concealed from the american public. all that is clear. what i was refer