here is a picture i want to show you we re all familiar with. this is donald trump meeting in the oval office with the russian foreign minister and russian ambassador respectively. that meeting takes place may 10, 2017, which this is day after jim comey was fired as fbi director. the new york times reports that trump told the russians at that meeting that he fired comey and eased pressure on himself from the investigation into russian interference. in light of what we now know about the new york times opening not their original investigation into the election interference but this new thing, about possible ongoing cooperation between the president of the united states and russia, what do you make of that picture now? well, you might recall that on september 23rd, 2016, i published a book, the plot to
russian government officials including russian intelligence officers. you re telling me they pulled that out of thin air, you have no relationships with russian government officials? you ve already told me and this audience that you were an informal adviser to the kremlin in 2013 and have relationships with government officials, right? let s see what they are referring to specifically. you know, as you correctly noted, there s a ton of information that s blacked out. if you read mr. clapper s dni report of january 6th, 2017, there s a big long section in there but how rt and sputnik, the russian propaganda agencies allegedly were influencing the elections. now we know that through these documents that the that the defame tri article in september 23rd, 2016, was used as a central source of this. so really, you know, again, it s
after to give a speech after he is named by to trump s foreign policy advisory board. martha: that s interesting. they don t even question carter page. the heathey had a fisa warrat on him. martha: they did. three times. renewed three times. the full story is yet to be told. martha: he firmly believes you were up to no good and you were someone that they were really kind of poking at to see if there was vulnerability to maybe make you a foreign agent, a spy essential for the united states. this is exactly the misunderstandings that i m talking about. it s interesting. this is the same exact story that he was saying on television the weekend after september 23rd, 2016. kind of pitching the same sort of well, there is all these open questions. we ll have to see. we will have to wait and see. martha: why the restraining order? the restraining order,
they didn t tell the courtney of this? they didn t tell the court where the money came from? they didn t tell the court they also knew at that time that that steele hated trump because trump because steele mentioned it to bruce ohr. we will get to that in a minute. there is substantial evidence that are mr. steele materially mislead the fbi about a key. one reveals on his credibility. note the existence avenues article dated september 23rd, 2016, which in particular contained some of the same dossier information about mr. page compiled by mr. steele on which the fbi relied on in its application. while not explicitly stated, this is presumably the article written by michael isikoff entitled u.s. intel officials pro-ties between trump advisor and kremlin. we americans with disabilities acted the application, attempts to explain away the inconsistency between steele s assertion to the fbi and the existence of the
wow. they didn t tell the court any of this? they did until the court where the money came from? they didn t tell the court they also knew that steele hated trump? because steele mentioned it to bruce orr. we go to that in a minute. there is substantial evidence suggesting that mr. steele material he the fbi, one which bears on his credibility. it starts, yet the fisa applications nor the existence of a news article dated september 23rd, 2016, which in particular contains some of the same dossier information aboutmp mr. page compiled by mr. steel on which the fbi relied in its application. not exquisitely stated, this is presumably, the article written by michael is a cough, yahoo! news, titled u.s. intel officials broke ties between u.d kremlin. it attempts a to explain away e