tonight. the russian collusion investigation meant to derail trump s 2016 campaign wastigati cacompleteon and total sham. now, todaymp, special counsel s john durham s conclusion weren t that brutal in a matter of fact, but histh three andd six page report was blunt and .e now, afterad reading through as much of the report as i could stomach tonight, i was disgusted. by i was so sickened all overdid to again by what they did to donald trump , what they did to carter page and so manyd so others along the way. othernow we see in black and wl in facts presentedac what was obvious and pervasive corruption. now, there was clear political bias at work dufung calls that confirmation agen in the most powerful agencies within our federal government intelligence and theg federal bureau of investigatioen . now, hillary clinton, wee know evidenated despite destroying evidence. bualt donald trump , hd e was tormented over nothing. and this began.r never forget when obama was pow still
like that.he and they never informed the fisa court. but listen, that sisa co just of noe many, many things that are in this report now. a loa lot of these we knew about from michael horowitz s report h yearorows ago. yea but this this adds powe because durham had more powers of investigation. s oo how concerned are you aa do you remain given what againn is confirmed in additions ind wh this report about how the fbi operated with intel, that thisle is a continuing problem within our federal government? and i just don t i don t know anyone to trust the fbi anymorei . m i mean, which is really sad because i m sure there are agorkingnple working withi the agency. butht i meaney, if they can do s in a presidential election,out a cycle, they re talking about donald trump interfering with the electio n. e to well, i would like to be able to say, laura , and i do think this was a leadership problem primary, i would i would likeeol to be able to say all of thosemh people are gone and it wo
russian government effort to help elect donald trump .p dt there is significant evidence, much of it in the public mai domain, on the issue of collusion and the intelligencepi chiefs with their ownone reputations at stake. they circle the wagons and kept the farcical defamatory story going. il i will tell you thatnk my dashboard warning light was clearly on and i think that was the case with all of us ince cou the intelligence community very concerned abouniernet the the n of these approaches to the russians. if you put that in context, cone with everything else wext knew the russians were doingh the to interfere with the election is his dashboard warning light waelection. s on because they w to be discovered. now, additionally, b there were no nefarious approaches to theeu russians by trump s campaignssi and number two , iftion the russians were interfering in the election, t the evidence suggests that they were tryingya to help hillary via the phony steel dossier.
knew previously about how the government was weaponized in a presidential ont campaign election year, what pressure can be brought to bear on the senate now, especially republican senator s thinking mcconnell, thune, cornyn, to actually take this seriously ? and what are they going to do? about it? i think the most fundamental task i thiamenta, laura , is appropriations bill so that government fundingbill expires r september is for the house gop and the senate gop to work together to reform the fbi and thd the department of justie using the constitutional power of the purse. ageous it is astonishing to me it we is outrageous that here we arey seven years later after they store for they stol yearse four years of a presidency and they tried to undermine and overthrow democracunderminy there has been zero reform, zero accountability, zerowho at consequence for the people who attempted this coup wienie. republicane s in the house
but the fbi never corrected this assertion. e in three subsequent page fisa renewal applications, rather, beginning in march. 2017, the fbi engaged on chanko as the confidential human source and then began making regular financial payments to him for information, none of which corroborated steele s confireporting, at least on chs had a job. now, this was a rotten. operation from the get go , the speed and manner in whiched the fbi opened and investigated crossfire hurricane during the presidential election season based on raw, unanalyzedd and uncorroborated intelligence. also reflected a noticeable departure from how it approached prior mattersarture involving possible attempted foreign intelligence interference plans i aimed at the clinton campaign. yes, thint wentk i do thinkon i could have and should have a done a bettendr job answering