continues to say we started this investigation into july of 16 because of a tip we heard about a conversation that happened in a bar between george papdopoulus and an infor ant. right. maria: actually we know that informants ran into george papdopoulus, quarter page, as early as march of that year. not only that, jim comey was talking about carter page and briefing on carter page in june of 2016 well before any report on the conversation reached the fbi. we don t know why. it will be interesting to find out. maria: so john durham is looking at this in a criminal matter, what took place before july 16th. we ll focus on that in durham s investigation. i want to ask you about what took place last week where adam schiff had phone records of rudy giuliani, the president s personal lawyer, john solomon, a journalist, devin nunez, we ll speak momentarily ranking member intel committee, not only get
how can members of congress best utilize their time, with the man who knows the answers before all those questions when he comes before them tomorrow. there is no one better suited for that mission former fbi director, former attorney general, author of the book, higher loyalty, jim comey. with us at the table, chuck rosenberg, former senator, claire mccaskill and now an independent, david jolly and the prosecutor for the southern and eastern districts of new york, an embarrassment of riches in terms of experts. mr. director, how did we get here? we got here in terms of the fbi s investigation because we learned in late july of 16, from an allied ambassador who had a conversation with a trump foreign policy advisor about that advisor s conversations about the fact the russians had dirt and looking for ways to
for two and a half years now, and the worst is they re not stopping. maria: right. they re not stopping, and that s the concern. maria: no, you re right. i mean, now hollywood s getting involveed as well, you know? robert deniro s going absolutely lunatic on everybody with this stuff too. we ve covered this a lot. do you think what does your gut tell you? did they just make it up? i mean, did they just they knew russia was trying to undermine the west for decades, and they just inserted donald trump in there? well, i think it gets to heart let me just get to heart of what we have yet to answer that i hope the department of justice can answer under the u.s. attorney out of connecticut, and that is this: there were two parallel operations that were running at the same time that the i believe started in late 2015, early 2016. one is the fbi was running an investigation into the trump campaign. not in july of 16 like they said, they re lying about that.
old. covers the soviet union and it has to be rejiggered, changed. russia, if you re listening, i hope you re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. if we could get along with russia, wouldn t that be a good thing instead of a bad thing? also in july of 16, trump said his businesses were quote not involved in russia. fast forward to know. his attorney says trump was negotiating a business deal that could have made trump millions. with me now let me just start with you. so now, the latest thread is that giuliani doesn t remember. doesn t remember. what s going on here? well right. pamela spoke with rudy giuliani today where he starts to walk back basically entirely
tucker: i m sorry, i need to correct you. comey hold on. i mean, comey, i have no idea what mueller s first of all it s irrelevant. they are republicans. tucker: civil war in the republican party and some of the virulent bill crystal is a republican. it s a meaningless distinction. i would just say of course it is. i would just say look around sincerely. i know it is. i have been on the right my whole life it doesn t mean anything. what does mean something is when you have people who clearly have no self-control and an ax to grind and why is the left, which used to care about cill liberties making excuses for this crap? i don t understand it. i don t think anyone on the left is i think what the left is saying is that comey, which is the principle focus of the report, acted inappropriately in a way that hurt clinton and helps trump by making the announcement in july of 16 and then october of 16 about things he shouldn t have been talking about. the decision whether or no