dispute his claim. the one you just heard that the dossier formed no part of the corpus of intelligence used by our government to spy on the trump campaign. retired national security agency michael rogers and former director of national intelligence jim clapper both admit now that the steele dossier and its clinton campaign-funded allegations did in fact influence the intel community assessment. we knew that, but it s nice to hear it confirmed. mollie hemingway is senior editor at the federalist and she joins us tonight. i know you ve been following this carefully. a lot of these stories seem to lead back to this guy, john brennan. you would think as the former head of the cia, he is someone you would be able to trust, but he seems not only a liar, but an inept one. am i misreading this?st we have a problem with multiple heads of intelligence agencies, and that does includee brennan, who has a history of lying, specifically about spying on american citizens.de it s difficult to hold
i think that the important pattern to note here why was cohen there to pay hush money allegedly to kind of sweep everything under the rug which we ve seen him do over and over again with multiple women trump has allegedly been involved with. this establishes perhaps there was serious collusion going on between the trump campaign and russia and there was an attempt to kind of clean up the dirt that the paul manafort, former trump campaign chairman, had left in his wake. also of course, that it was an attempt to kind of pay off the hackers, some of whom were allegedly at this meeting that cohen attended in prag in order to keep them quiet, as well. okay. so i just have got to be clear here. the context of this is the steele dossier. it is the infamous dossier called the dodgy dossier, called fake news by the people who support the president of the united states, something that those of us who watched develop kind of make what you can of it unconfirmed.
on twitter you may read former cia had john brennan spouting off about the political news of the day, attacking the president s dishonesty he says. it turns out brennan himself is a liar. he s been caught lying, odd for a government official. last year for example brennan told congress the infamous steele dossier had no influence at all on the claim that russia interfered in the 2016 election. here s a selection. do you know who commissioned the steele dossier? i don t. did the cia rely on it? no. might not? because it wasn t part of the corpus of intelligence information that we had. it was not in any way used as a basis for the intel community assessment that was done. tucker: busted! liar! by the way, brennan, you should know this, is in nbc and msnbc
the details of his encounters with the president in written testimony released yesterday, there was still perhaps surprisingly, plenty of news from today s hearing. we learned, for example, that comey himself was responsible for leaking one of his memos to the new york times, which resulted in this story days after comey s firing about the president s request to end the investigation of michael flynn. we learned that while comey was still at the fbi, flynn was under criminal investigation involving his contacts with russian officials and his conversation with fbi investigators. we learned that the president himself was not a subject of the fbi s counterintelligence probe while comey was in charge though he may now be under investigation by the special counsel. at the same time, what comey felt he couldn t say about russian collusion, attorney general jeff sessions, and the infamous steele dossier in an open session was just as
the president never suggested that mr. comey, quote, let flynn go, closed quote. comey had already laid out the details of his encounters with the president in written testimony released yesterday, there was still perhaps surprisingly, plenty of news from today s hearing. we learned, for example, that comey himself was responsible for leaking one of his memos to the new york times, which resulted in this story days after comey s firing about the president s request to end the investigation of michael flynn. we learned that while comey was still at the fbi, flynn was under criminal investigation involving his contacts with russian officials and his conversation with fbi investigators. we learned that the president himself was not a subject of the fbi s counterintelligence probe while comey was in charge though he may now be under investigation by the special counsel. at the same time, what comey felt he couldn t say about russian collusion, attorney general jeff sessions, and the in