think who has not gotten the credit that they collectively deserve and that is the democratic national committee. i ve heard my friends on the other side of the aisle complain about hillary clinton s campaign and how ineffective it was and the dnc didn t do a good job. i beg to differ. is this the most credible the dnc pays for the steele dossi i solicits it and then gets the ferlg bureau of investigation to get fisa warntsds, sur swrrants presidential campaign on the basis of the manufactured garbage that they paid for. that is extraordinary. that has to be the first time in history. and let me just ask you, are you aware of of another presidential campaign beingr targeted by th fbi like the trump campaign was? to my knowledge. but i m not an expert. butt to your knowledge.
start up with a dossier that was paid for, to be prepared by fusion gps, by the dnc. and steel was a part of that process. is that correct? that s correct. okay. and then his primary subsource was someone who, when he was finally questioned, said they misstated or exaggerated our statements. that the alleged sexual activitiesat were rumor or speculation. that the conversations were had with friends over beers and so on and so forth. so s that was something after the ha the dossier was used aa basis for moving forward with that. this is information thatrd came afterwards that was known to peoplete in this organization chart. before they attested to a fisa court that the fbi found the russian-based sub source to be truthful ando cooperative. that s an accurate statement. butn if they had included all e truthful and cooperative comments that he made, it would
a report from a friendly foreign government that heard that the trumpd campaign had received se kind of suggestion that russia could help themgg by releasing information that was damaging to hillary clinton. is thatam right? that s correct. as a former prosecutor, i know that it is critical that the fbi isha able to take an action like here to investigat threats to our national security. do you think that interference in our elections by a foreign government constitutes a national c security threat? yes, i do. does anything in your report call into question the finding in the special counsel s report thatpe the russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in a sweepingal and systemic financi? no, it doesn t and we cite the report here in a footnote laying out all the different reports that had been released on that issue. does anything in your report
this is something that s very important. this is somebody here on the org chart. somebody that works for the director of the fbi. whodi says he s not ever going be president, right? this other guy on the org chart, who you ll see in a future text message, talks about a meeting with with mccabe. says, no, he won t. we will stop him. and then he goes on to say, i want to believe the path that yoube threw out for considerati and andy dot dot dot mccabe s office that there s no way he gets elected. but i m afraid we can t take thatm risk. it s liketa an insurance policyn the unlikely event that you die before you re 40. thesefo are all people that are walking the hallways involved in this investigation. having those sorts of discussions about the president of the united states. ors the candidate and then the president of the united states. is that one of the reasons why you re being fair minded in saying it s murky as to whether or not there was a political motivation behind some of thes
mike lee weren t sitting here two people away from me right now because as a national security hawk, i have argued with mike lee in the 4 1/2 our 5 years that i ve been in the in the that stuff i just like ther couldn t possibly happen at the fbi and at the department of justice. so as somebody who is embarrassed on behalf of theso i about b your report because i believe that it isca critically important that we have the fisa statute, i think that the court is important. the approval rating is off the charts. a couple years ago when i saw them, like 97.9%. last number i saw was roughly 98%. so 98% approval rating of applications that come before the fisk. why would it be that high? and i m just saying that the good answer is, in an ex parte