poroshenko, president zielinski s predecessor, in their first meeting in the oval office. when was that meeting? in june of 2017. 2017. the president also has well known concerns about foreign aid generally, commuscrutinizing an some cases looking at foreign aid was part of his platform. he s wary of sending american tax dollars abroad when other countries refuse to pitch in. mr. morrison and hale testified at length about president trump s concern. the president was concerned that the united states seems to secure the brunt of the security
absolutely. is that spying? it s not it s illegal surveillance. it s not court authorized surveillance. whatever legal surveillance means illegal surveillance means, they did it. so all this stuff that they didn t illegally surveil trump s campaign. they did because they had no legal basis after the january 2017 data dump by the russian guy to believe that the dossier was reliable. they amounter exculpatory information in june of 2017 that would have further proven that carter page is not a russian agent and he was actually working with the cia. let me ask you very directly. do you believe carter page is or ever was an agent of the russian government trying to do harm to his country? i m going to refer to the evidence we found here, which is that if i m going to read this. thank you. they, the fbi, and at the end of these fisas, told us that
thanks to our president. translator: do you know, for example, that in ukraine following the elections, some people and these were public officials sent congratulatory telegrams to hillary clinton even though trump had won. look, what do we have to do with it? so he was spreading that mess, and now the president and his people are following up on it. i think you re going to hear about it in the senate trial. the next month after that meeting with that first lavrov thing, june of 2017, that s when giuliani met with ukrainian leaders. the month after that, that s when the president tweeted about ukrainian efforts to sabotage his campaign. trump may not be doing russia s bidding per se to help russia. he s doing it because it helps what he cares about most himself. and while russia is getting all this love, ukraine, our ally, who is at war with russia, has gotten none. i guess the deal was real. no bidens, no meeting. this president allows russia to come here and lie and rewards
people. are they representative of the department as a whole in your view? i certainly hope that that is not the way others are following these practices. yeah. me too. okay. so, let s fast forward now to june of 2016. mr. klein smith. who s he? i m going to defer on speaking about people who we don t name basically in the report. okay. who s the guy that altered. tell me about the guy that altered the e-mail from the cia? so there was a lawyer in the office of general council of the fbi who was the line attorney working with the agents and counterparts of the national intuition on fisa. and that in june of 2017 as the last application was being prepared and immediately following mr. page, carter page,
following the elections, some people and these were public officials sent congratulatory telegrams to hillary clinton even though trump had won. look, what do we have to do with it? so he was spreading that mess, and now the president and his people are following up on it. i think you re going to hear about it in the senate trial. the next month after that meeting with that first lavrov thing, june of 2017, that s when giuliani met with ukrainian leaders. the month after that, that s when the president tweeted about ukrainian efforts to sabotage his campaign. trump may not be doing russia s bidding per se to help russia. he s doing it because it helps what he cares about most himself. and while russia is getting all this love, ukraine, our ally, who is at war with russia, has gotten none. i guess the deal was real. no bidens, no meeting. this president allows russia to come here and lie and rewards them with access. he lies to you about the inspector general report because