found that you could not prove those allegations? i think if you read the report you would see we talked about the results of the trial and we included all of the evidence that we had available. unfortunately not all was admitted at trial. you closed your investigation after you failed to find the f.b.i. investigation into putin s interference in the 2016 election was politically motivated and was a deep state conspiracy against ex-president trump. you were unable to prove that was true. that is not what i was investigating. you did not find it was true, correct? you found it to be false as a matter of fact. isn t that correct? if you have a chance to read the report. time is expired. could the gentleman answer the question? the witness can respond.
whole investigation? that s something of a mystery going back to october 3rd. according to the assistant at aceh for the bureau. when he first going back to july 5th. when he first met with steele, steele had indicated to him at the time that h.c. was aware of that steele was doing. when the bureau interviewed steele on october 3rd about matters relating to crossfire hurricane, steele in fact had provided the bureau with dolan s name as somebody who might have information relating to trump. he was never interviewed. so yeah, i don t know why they never interviewed trump i m sorry, why they didn t interview mr. dolan, but they didn t. the explanation that was given to the intelligence analyst who
coward, rhino and gutless pig. which is correct and which isn t? none of those are correct in my experience. mr. trump isn t that good of an expert on character and judging people. in your opinion he isn t. he is not a gutless pig, trump says he is. that s outside the scope of my report. also outside of the scope of your report was apparently the meeting at trump tower between the russians and the trump boys where they talked about allegedly adoptions but we know it was really about sanctions. how was that outside of your report? i didn t follow that. trump tore, russian attorney came to donald trump junior, wonderful, we love it, we love
hunter biden. of your three prosecutions one ended up a guilty plea to unrelated to the origins of f.b.i. investigation and that individual received a probateed sentence with no jail time, correct? parts of that are correct. the other two men you prosecuted went to trial on the charges, they were accused of lying to the f.b.i. and both were slam dunk acquitted. isn t that correct? they were acquitted. none of the individuals you prosecuted were ever charged with being part of a hoax or a fraud or a witch hunt or a politically motivated deep state conspiracy against donald trump, isn t that correct? i would not say that s accurate. you mean you did charge somebody with being a part of a hoax? we charged mr. sussman with having knowingly provided false information to the f.b.i. regarding alpha bank. he was acquitted, right?
applications would not have established probable cause. i think the borough the department of justice acknowledged that as well. if the fisk had all the information included in this report, i think it s highly doubtful there would have ever been an application submitted. if it was submitted that the order would be granted. mr. durham, you were appointed by whom? who premed you and appointed you? as the special counsel? as u.s. attorney, president trump at the time. two democratic senators from connecticut supporting the nomination. mr. trump appointed you. do you believe mr. trump has good judgment on people, their abilities and character? i won t characterize mr. trump or my thoughts about him. mr. barr appointed you special counsel, is that correct? that s correct. mr. trump called mr. barr a