director was appointed by donald trump. he did not sign off on this monday, an insignificant document. and there are some instances, not very, important, but they gathered a lot of material today. this is national security material. let s remember, more than five years ago, in may of 2017. invited sergei lavrov, the russian foreign minister, sergei kyslyak, the ambassador, and the task news, quote unquote, photographer, into the oval office and according to sources and methods, that s the most closely guarded intelligence secrets. how did we find this out and who did we find out it from? put out the stories in the not going to be so free with giving information. because we can t expose trust that donald trump won t expose our spies, or sources or methods.
what their processes are generally for the issue on search warrants and the conduct of investigations, generally. i think the whole point of rule of law is that the law applies equally to everyone. it applies to government officials and private citizens. it applies to the rich, and it applies to the poor. it applies to people that look like you, and people that don t look like you. i think one of the issues here is that the reason why the government does not publicize search warrants is to protect the rights of the accused or the potential accused, or people being investigated. it s really for donald trump s protection that they went in their quietly and executed a search warrant. it really was for the protection of people being investigated in case it is determined that they are in fact not guilty of any offense that could potentially be described in the search warrant. that being said, if donald
might not have read, and titled what did durham prove. the first take away, it showed some parts of the clinton campaign wanted to weaponize the fbi to launch an investigation into hillary clinton s political opponent, donald trump. and then the other thing we learned, the fbi welcomed that weaponization. we found out during the trial this false story that michael sussmann had given to the fbi about this computer link between a russian bank and the trump campaign, the headquarters, the director, the top management of the fbi really liked it. there was an internal memo in the fbi from one very senior agent to another that was introduced in the trial and said seventh floor is really fired up about this. being where the management of the fbi is.
off the hook today, and another will go to trial in october for lying to the fbi. durham did not say anything after i asked if he had a comment about the verdict, he did release a statement, while we are disappointed in the outcome we respect the jury s decision and thank them for their service. and thank the investigators and the prosecution team. the special counsel losing in court, but some say he painted a narrative showing the highest levels of the hillary clinton campaign including the former candidate herself, hillary clinton, aimed at taking down donald trump s campaign by spreading false information about an alleged connection between trump and russia. sandra. sandra: david spunt live from washington. john. john: bring in byron york, you wrote a column this morning before this verdict was known that you just pointed out people
so the fbi was looking at donald trump s candidacy and as we know from peter struck and everyone else, there was a whole line of thinking at the fbi, we have to stop this guy from becoming president. bill barr was on glen beck recently and thought what happened with the clinton campaign feeding it to the media, and sussmann going to the fbi, amounted to sedition. i think whatever you think of trump, the fact is that the whole russiagate thing was a grave injustice, it was it appears to be a dirty political trick that was used first to hobble him and then potentially to drive him from office. at least seditious to do something like this? i believe it is seditious. john: it s a long leap to sedition. i m on the dirty trick side. i think a dirty trick and indeed, the future of the durham investigation is going to be