officials saying the dirtbags first son s laptop was russian disinformation. well, it turns out that the biden campaign orchestrated the entire thing. ex-cia director mike morel revealing in sworn testimony that secretary of state, now secretary of state antony blinken, who was then a senior biden campaign advisor, led the effort to release that letter. republican jim jordan ripping into the revelation. that letter became the basis for keeping this information from the american people, and the other thing that was important we learned in that deposition with mr. morel, mr. morel was trying to direct who the biden campaign told him who to get this to in the media. it was that coordinated. that is the scary thing. it was a little political operation and the most important fact is, laura, it was false. jeanine: both joe and hunter used that letter as proof to dismiss the laptop. 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he is accusing me of is a russian plan
geraldo: i got all that. but to think that all of these names, this very impressive list jeanine: so is there a deep state of? geraldo: to thank all of them got together and said jeanine: they did. geraldo: basement politics, rather than some noble jeanine: is there a deep state? geraldo: is there a deep state? jeanine: yeah. geraldo: i don t know. what there is is shallow people who do everything for political gain. jeanine: and who are at the top of the intelligence community in the united states of america? greg, i want you to take a listen to this. we are supposed to believe that hunter biden and a drunken stupor dropped off his laptop. do you think stuff like that could have been planted in there and completely fake? i do. to me, this is classic, textbook soviet, russian crafted. for all we know, these emails are made up, or maybe some are
public. what elon musk has been able to do. now we know why the white house wanted to fight against him owning twitter. now we need to look at facebook and google. they have become arms of the democratic party and the biden administration. this is just the tip of the iceberg what we need to investigate going forward. the other layer to all of this alleged government involvement in discrediting the post reporting. former intelligence officials including john brennan and james clapper signed a letter five days after the hunter biden story was first published claiming this. this is the classic textbook soviet/russia things as work. russians have analyzed the target. all of a sudden 2 1/2 weeks before the election this laptop appears somehow without and emails on it without any
would be. so if this is true, this has huge implications. what do you make of that first meeting in june of last year. it seems to be the first year when donald trump was approached for the proposition that the russians apparently, at the government level, had some dirt on hillary clinton. based on your knowledge of russian methods, what were they up to there in establishing a relationship with trump s son? well, first of all, this was the classic textbook soviet and now russian trade craft. the soft approach. and i think the principle, the two objectives. one was to determine whether those close to then candidate trump would be interested in talking with them about, and