too far but essentially wasted americans times and efforts is now coming with the is dotted and the ts crossed. david spunt has more from the justice department. good afternoon. 306 pages from john durham transmitted this to attorney general merrick garland friday. garland looked it over, decided to release it to the public. did not change one word. he didn t add anything. so now it s public. durham says the conclusions from his own research and we re talking four years, he said those conclusions are sobering. may 13th, 2019, when he came on board at the request of then attorney general bill barr to look at the origins of the trump russia collusion narrative. he lost two high profile cases in court but secured a guilty plea from a former fbi attorney. this today is his narrative to the public after four years of work. the cost over $6 million in taxpayer money. first we have to do back, neil, to the years 2016 and 17. the primary focus of this report. the overarching theme
to fruition. he took two people to trial. a former intelligence analyst nan igor danchenko. prior to that a year against he took michael sussmann, well-known in democratic community to trial. lost those trials. kevin klinessmith was an fbi attorney that helps falsify a document. he pleaded guilty in 2020 to falsifying that document. that again was used to actually obtain these surveillance warrants against carter page, a man that we have spoken about many times over the years. many believe that he had connections to russia. turns out he did not have the connections to russia and was not a russian agent. he was surveilled by the government and that fisa warrant was reflewed over and over again. so kevin klinesmith is the only victory if you want to say in a
arrested this morning by the f.b.i. on charges stemming from durham s probe. in the 39-page indictment, sandra, danchenko is charged with five counts of false statements to the f.b.i. those statements pertain to so-called company reports which are sources of information he provided to steele. party of the indictment reads all of danchenko s lies were material to the f.b.i. because among other reasons the f.b.i. s investigation of the trump campaign relied in large part on the company reports to obtain fisa warrants and as we know that pertains to the surveillance warrant issued against former trump aide carter page. danchenko is the third person charged in the durham 2 1/2-year investigation. the two previous individuals were kevin klinessmith who
delivered by voters and division within their own party. west virginia senator joe manchin sounding the alarm to democrats while speaking to fox news saying the disappointing result from tuesday s races should serve as a wake up call to all of us. sandra: wuwill it? house democrats are planning it to vote on both the social spending plan and the bipartisan infrastructure bill by the end of the week. kevin: fox news coverage. peter doocy at the white house. sandra: we begin with congressional correspondent chad pergram. house speaker nancy pelosi is not tipping her hand on when the house could vote but she did say passage of the infrastructure bill could have helped democrats in virginia. without saying what impact it had, it s always a positive message to have results that are understood by the public. but it was not a good night.
2016. john durham could ask judge coop tore recuse himself. he s not done so. attorneys from both sides believe there s no conflict of interest right now. in 2 1/2 years, durham has charged two people in the case. susman and this man on your clean, kevin klinessmith that pleaded guilty to falsifying a document. there s no indication that michael sussmann plans to do the same and plans to fight this. we re told the trial is many months away, many delays in the court system. back to you. martha: thanks, david. let s bring in the top republican on the house judiciary committee, ohio congressman jim jordan and the author of the book do what you ve said you would do. a lot of americans would like to see that happen. thanks very much, congressman. good to have you here. one of the fascinating things here is the way this was perpetuated through these channels of clinton operatives