It gets to john mccain, john mccain puts it in his safe, gives it to me and i read it. In the first thing i thought was, oh, my god. This could be russian disinformation or they could have this on trump. If you read this information in the first thing you would think it is they got something on donald trump. Its stunning, its end at salacious and its a bunch of. Senator lindsey graham, chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee talking about the steele dossier, the focus of this Inspector Generals report and this hearing in washington. Your risk withere with chris wa. I think there is a lot of damaging information about the fisa warrants on the way was carried out, and it isnt just come up with this name of a
relatively low level fbi what lawyer, i just want to read you one statement in the Opening Statement. If we are deeply concerned of that basic and fundamental errors were made by three separate handpicked Investigative Teams on one of the most sensitive fbi investigations and that
come up the difference between a counterintelligence investigation and a criminal investigation. i believe at some point during the last few years i remember loretta lynch, the former attorney general say, if that was the retaining counterintelligence investigations, would you agree with that? i don t have enough experience to tell you one way or the other. i ve heard that they said but i don t know specifically. but you don t have a reason to disagree. no reason to disagree. so the decision by the head of the counterintelligence division of the fbi not to provide an extensive counterintelligence briefing or defensive briefing to canada trumpet or his campaign would be unusual. if its usual and not doing it, i agree it would be unusual. what was even more unusual is the fact that the director of national intelligence went to provide what turned out to be a
going on in his campaign. you can sort of see, that sort of the process as it gets unveiled. why he felt like the intelligence agencies or at least some of them were out to get them. he was looking at it through a political lens. and he s saying a lot of these people were threatened by me. the government agency, i just want you to know how much we appreciate your work and your team s work. likewise, i think it s important even though we are critical of the leadership of the fbi during the last administration, their
with it an unexpectable, unacceptable risk of abuse. i believe these programs are subject to abuse. i ve been warning them for years that inevitably come these would result in abuse. it s not a question of if, but when, and how soon will government officials get caught doing it. it actually surprises me in some ways that it took us this long to find an instance where we would get caught. but then again, that is what happens. it you take a standard that is malleable, requires virtually no public accountability, you render all but a small handful of intelligence committee lawmakers in the house and the senate. you render all other citizens other than them and other than the intel community itself ineligible to review their work. then, you make it possible for them to gather information and this kind of thing is of course
about carter page. they knew the investigation, they had the investigation going on in to michael flynn of the time. do you know if they knew about the trump tower meeting two months before the intelligence meeting? i don t know one way or the other. and going into it, it would be reasonable, wouldn t it, to expect that the fbi did not then know how far russian penetration into the trump campaign went? i have no idea at what stage their investigation was at, and there was no way that they rule out people at the intelligence be briefing, or on behalf of the trump campaign which might have been involved in the russian operation. i have no knowledge of that but all i know as to that is they had opened the investigation on flynn.