understand obstruct was not tfound. and to move on temp. to get on to infrastructure. to get on healthcare. get on to issues they care about. they are caught between the politic of the democratic party they helped create. moving voters along in a frenzy as well as members of the press that the russia collusion was real when it was ludicrous from day one. mark: do you think the democratic party as an entity have created such a emotional, fiery base, that they can t enroll what they created at this point? they created a base built on a fundamental mistruth that started with chris sister steel and gps fusion dossier that created are huge echo chamber.
peter strzok who has been struck out of this. who struck out of this investigation. but his fingerprints were all over. this he did the 35,000 emails anthony weiner s laptop. he is the one who interviewed hillary clinton. he is the one who maybe trapped michael film knowing that he had the intercept. so the damage has been done from strzok. i m curious when mueller knew that strzok might have been compromised. you are absolutely right. the other thing we have to find out is what role did peter strzok have with the fusion dossier. you will remember, brian, attorney general jeff sessions would not tell people in front of congress whether or not taxpayer money was used to go and buy a dossier to discredit the president. was peter strzok involved in that was he involved in carrying the information to fisa court to warrant to spy on american citizens. tomorrow the director of the fbi christopher wray will be before the judiciary committee and we want answers. we have got to find out
matters as a result, i have recuse myself. other than the matters that molars was dealing with. is there any other matters you would see the circumstance come or the issues have been raised through your last letter, where you anticipate a recruit on your part? i will not prejudge that, but it is possible. do you have the authority today, subject to your recusal to appoint a special counsel for the uranium one manner? i believe i do. do you have the ability to report on the fusion dossier? i don t believe i should be talking about and evaluating cases here today. i m not asking you to evaluate. your authority for a special counsel. i do not want to know anything about the investigation.
what do you say to that, jen? ironic to see john brennan harming the intelligence committee. it was john brennan who infused the fusion dossier. a paid political hit piece and john brennan ought to be careful when talking about who has harmed the intelligence community. i can think of nothing worse than putting in disinformation piece of information that may have been funded by russia in part into the system. i mean, this is really, really crazy stuff. rob: chuck, the status of the investigation, you know, there has been some ties to it but they are not really getting a huge smoking gun at this point. do you think it s still coming or do you think that when you investigate an entire administration there s always going to be some kind of ties to
basically independent operations that make judgments on their own. they are not a tool, a political tool abide presidential administration like that. but at the same time have his parallel scandal about unmasking and samantha paolino asked for hundreds of the former us ambassador. now she is a she did not quite ask them.it is unclear whether she asked on behalf of the people or other people used her name. all of this is coming together. look, the president tweeted out something again that is outraging. saying who paid for this fusion dossier? was it the democrats, the kremlin or the fbi?and it is a reasonable question given what we know. why do we want to know that it is kim and are we going to i guess let s put it this s way, but we get t the bottom of this week please people be able to get away with testifying and not cooperating? tlet s back up a second. the question that we are trying to answer is how did russia or did russia influence or interfere in our elections?