suspected russian intelligence agent. and so all that stuff is happening at the same time. now, with the dossier, this is this political we ll call it opposition research that was paid for by the clinton campaign. we ve been reporting since april that that information in the dossier didn t start to arrive at counterintelligence agency excuse me, at the fbi counterintelligence division until late august. so, i mean, weeks, weeks after it was opened. now, i think it s a very fair question to ask, what role did politically paid for research, whether it s opposition research or not, pay in a law enforcement and counterintelligence investigation? and certainly, if the republican talking point has been, we want to see any fisas, surveillance warrants, to know if this opposition research underpinned the surveillance warrants. that is a real question. because you don t want the fbi to be in a position where it s being seen as taking political
from russian spies. i mean, if you call it opposition research, only when it s got democrat fingerprints on it. when the republicans were meeting with sources who claim to have bad information about hillary clinton, that was collusion. except this time there are real russian spies involved. to me it sounds like they were doing something really bad. brian: the link is, we don t know for sure if this document spurred the fbi to do this investigation. we don t know if this document allowed the fisa court to unmask hundreds of trump campaign workers. we don t. but we know it was bouncing around a lot. i first got calls on this as a trump advisor in may from reporters who said they got ahold of this thing that look as little bit weird. what do you think? started in may one month after hillary clinton paid for it. it kept going through the entire summer. i got calls at least once a week from legitimate reporters who were being sold this document. we also know it was bouncing
that are under investigation for collusion it self. so let s focus there and make sure we have not been distracted by the noise and tweets of what donald trump is communicating. trump has repeatedly said that he and his associates were never under investigation and no one was pursuing them but we re seeing consistently that they will try to distracts everyone from things they have been attempting to do. they were not honest when it came to the purpose of the meeting they had before. they were not honest about the information they ve been receiving and nothing they ve been demonstrating is transparent and so we had to focus on the trump team and make sure the reason why this is critical for everyone, russia is still trying to interact with our elections and we have to be diligent and that s why this investigation will continue. has it been incumbent on the clinton campaign to be honest on the research it did, call it opposition research or otherwise. was it incumbent upon the campaign
people who have information and he s called a traitor and he s said he s colluding with the russian government. hillary clinton and her team went to russia to shake down the trees with vladimir putin s cronies to get information and they re getting away with calling it opposition research. they cannot stand. byron, you ve got to this whole thing is based upon this mueller investigation as well as the unmasking that came as a result of fiza warrants are based this dossier which apparently is purchased by hillary clinton and her friends who say they know nothing about it which supposedly cost millions of dollars. you know, my faith in the american justice system i m a prosecutor and a judge i m destroyed about by this because right now it s fruit of the poisonous tree. if that s false, everything else comes down and mueller s got to end it.
six months later they have tepid denials. six months ago when it came out, not so much, right? the president today send out a statement on twitter that, you know, politico campaigns would have been opposition research. politico campaigns do take opposition research. they are perfect example of it not only was it opposition research. but set-ups regarding media questions to be asked to go after the then the republican nominee for president donald trump to go after his political campaign operation. so when you look at what was actually going on it s much deeper, right? sean: chalupa gives a statement to cnn. she won t respond to us. but by the way she let s the article go the whole time from what i have seen and i have saw no other quotes. begging her to come on this program. and then have you got the uraniumian one deal. and then you have the phony dossier where fusion g.p.s. funding this thing and it cites russian operatives