process to limit how american tax dollars are spent at the department of justice. i yield back. general lady from texas is recognized. good morning. you have value the independence of a special counsel. i do. you asked garland to allow you to continue the investigation saying we want to thank you and your office for permitting our inquiry to proceed with will without interfere answer as you assured the members of the judiciary committee would be the case during the confirmation hearings to become attorney general of the united states. you value your special counsel status. it a being a rat that garland let you proceed on your case as you wish. that s true. it was important you have to as special counsel your investigation was supposed to be independent because special counsels and attorneys are supposed to be independent, right? special counsel is. yes. they are supposed to be independent, is that correct? special counsel is independent of the attorney gener
You. For going on three years innocent people have been accused of very serious crimes, including treason. Accusations made even here today. They have had their lives disrupted and in some cases destroyed by false accusations for which there is absolutely no basis other than some people desperately wish that it was so. But your report is clear. No evidence of conspiracy, no evidence of coordination. I believe we owe it to these people, who have been falsely accused, including the president and his family, to make that very clear. Mr. Mueller, the credibility of your report is based on integrity of how it is handled. Theres something that i think bothers me and other americans. Im holding a binder of 25 examples of leaks that occurred from the Special Counsels office and those associated with you dating back to a few weeks after your inception and beginning of your work and continuing up to just a few months ago. All of these, all of them, have
one thing in common. They were designed to
being here today. on october 3, 2016, the f.b.i. met with christopher steele who confessed to relying heavily on a russian national living in washington, d.c. as a sub source. that sub source was later identified as danchenko. steele not only used danchenko to create the dossier but steele was unable to corroborate any of the substantial gagss made in the dossier, is that correct? that s correct. even after the f.b.i. offered steele a million dollars if somehow he could actually follow through and underscore some of those specific items, is that correct? that s correct. so the f.b.i. interviewed danchenko and steele sub source for three days from january 24th through january 26th of 17. he could not provide any
some hope or boost to what is illegal activity. and donald trump jr. had direct electronic communications with wikileaks. on october 3, 2016, wikileaks sent another direct message to trump jr. asking you guys to help disseminate a link alleging candidate clinton had advocated a kroen can to attack julian assange. trump jr. responded he had already done so. same question. this behavior at the very least disturbing? disturbing and also subject to investigation. could it be described as aid and comfort to a hostile intelligence? i wouldn t category rise it with any specificity.
i don t know, hope or some boost to what is and should be illegal activity. volume 1, page 59, donald trump jr. had direct communications with wikileaks during the campaign period. october 3, 2016, wikileaks sent another direct message to trump jr., asking guys to help disseminate a link alleging candidate clinton advocated a drone to attack julian assange. trump jr. responded back, quote, he had already done so. then question, this behavior, at the very least, disturb you? disturbing. also subject to investigation. could it be described as aiding cop fort to a hostile intelligence service, sir? i wouldn t characterize it with any specificity. i yield the balance to the chairman, please. not sure i can make good use