h would win, unprecedented. bigger than watergate. plus, obama did nothing about russian meddling. fact check that. first off, that s not the case, obama didn t do nothing about russian meddling. that s exactly right. you fact check the first part. let me fact check the other part. donald trump s reasoning, if i have this right, is that the obama administration started a secret investigation into the trump campaign in july 2016, an investigation that, by the way, remains secret until march of last year when james comey made it public in congressional testimony. meanwhile, if you follow trump s logic, the obama administration started a very public investigation into hillary clinton that was opened, closed and then very publicly reopened and reclosed. that, to me mind, doesn t seem like a very sound strategy on the part of the obama administration purportedly to get hillary clinton elected, but it does sound like something
networks since. but if i could just take one further step back for context. which i think is important. in march of last year there was an open hearing by the house intelligence committee with then director, james comey and head of the national security agency, mike rogers. it was during the testimony congressman adam schiff read into the record entire sections of the trump dossier. about six minutes worth of information. what i find interesting in the democrats memo now is that dancing was never really about the dossier. it was about other intelligence that led to the surveillance warrant. and that to me seems like they moved several steps in distancing themselves from the dossier. and this was not the tone that they were taking just one year ago and they were arguing that there was interference in the campaign and some of the information was held in the trump dossier. also the doj provides transparency about christopher steele and you we are going
they had to know that the director was testifying today. and he was going to provide a record of what the fbi did. and he was quite clear that the information had been given to them multiple times starting in march of last year. and the fact that the white house and the chief of staff in particular said well, i only learned the worst details 40 minutes before rob porter was fired and we have not heard from the white house counsel don mcgahn who was clearly dealing with this information is something they need to address and address quickly because of what chris wray, the fbi director said today. jim, sarah sanders has not been willing to go into any detail about when kelly or mcgahn got this information. she says i am not going to get into a tick tock, we generally
that s when carter page left the trump campaign amid the russia reports amid reports as well about his ties to russia. and then it was one month later in october 2016 that the fbi got a new warrant to monitor him on the basis of some information from the steele dossier plus other intelligence and evidence that was obtained by the fbi. so the fbi questioned page back in march of last year. that was in the midst of the russia probe, but that was before robert mueller was named as special counsel. so carter page is now at the center of this republican memo, part of a conservative effort to discredit the fbi and the russia investigation. however, it was a much different tune than the past year when trump aides and associates worked to minimize page s role. take a listen. carter page is an individual who the president-elect does not know. he s not part of our national security or foreign policy briefings that we do now at all. to the best of my
lifts too lazy, too rigidly ideological to do their jobs. they ve been sitting on the sidelines while the biggest scandal in their lifetimes has been unfolding right before their very faces. we ve been talking about the fisa abuse, spying on the trump campaign since march 6th of last year and the media has ignored it every stem of the way. here is what i said in march of last year on my radio show: this is the swamp. obama holdovers, lifelong bureaucrats, that are sabotaging. this is the shadow government i ve been talking about. this is what deep state means. they are sabotaging the trump presidency. a cardinal rule of the obama administration was no white house official ever interfered with an independent investigation led by the department of justice. that s not a denial that it happened, meaning the fisa request. it says as a matter of practice neither the president are any