announcements about it. if you re vladimir putin s uranium company and involved in kickbacks, and you are involved in bribery and extortion, involved in money laundering, give $500,000 to bill clinton and give $7 million to a lobbying firm dealing with the clintons, get billions of new contracts from the united states sgovment. you get taken off the export control list. you get a large swath of america sure rainium supply. sean: why? that is the story doug campbell puts before the public. robert mueller was the fbi director. he was. sean: he knew that putin s operatives were doing this in 2009. was campbell informing him? he was. absolutely, he was the director. we were told by law enforcement sources and mr. campbell, that the senior leadership of the fbi including director mueller was directly aware of his revelations. we re also told by mr. campbell and several intelligence officials that mr. campbell s information made night the president s daily briefing.
from the chairman of the uranium company has approval sale to russia is being approved at that very time. you wrote secretary clinton had veto power over the deal and you had to take that back. no i did not. read the book. you said the state department overreached. no, i did not. what i said in the book was that there were nine government agencies that approved the deal. if any of those agencies, including the state department don t agree with the deal, the deal gets halted and kicked up to the president for review. and by the way three go ahead. laura: the committee on foreign we can t relitigate that this is going to be going on for some time. i want to have you great back. great to have you on felipe. i botched your name three times. it happens all the time. laura: in a moment, we will tell you what the attorney general did today that could signal the beginning of the end? oh, for legal marijuana, that s wishful thinking. don t go away
from the chairman of the uranium company has approval sale to russia is being approved at that very time. you wrote secretary clinton had veto power over the deal and you had to take that back. no i did not. read the book. you said the state department overreached. no, i did not. what i said in the book was that there were nine government agencies that approved the deal. if any of those agencies, including the state department don t agree with the deal, the deal gets halted and kicked up to the president for review. and by the way three go ahead. laura: the committee on foreign we can t relitigate that this is going to be going on for some time. i want to have you great back. great to have you on felipe. i botched your name three times. it happens all the time. laura: in a moment, we will tell you what the attorney general did today that could signal the beginning of the end? oh, for legal marijuana, that s wishful thinking. don t go away
conclusions were. this is the uranium one deal, as you may recall, is the sale of assets of uranium company partially to the russian government. because of potential national security implications, it required the approval of a nine-member government board, which included secretary of state hillary clinton. now, she has said she played no role. the state department official who was on that board said she didn t play any role, but, nonetheless, executives of the company that sold these assets to the russians have made substantial contributions to the clinton foundation and that raised questions about whether or not there was anything and that is what the fbi looked at and the initial conclusion was no. but the government did promise to take another look at this and now it s done it. so, explain something to me, pete. jeff sessions during his confirmation hearing, gosh, almost a year ago now said this. listen. you recuse yourself from both
within this russian company was directly related to the decision to sell to let these corrupt russians buy the uranium company. then years later people involved in that were prosecuted but the u.s. government knew all about this in 2009 and 2010. they also knew, because my client turned it over, all the information about how the russians wanted to dominate the world market in uranium. he was providing memos and memos to them about how this was putin s aim. now, how could the u.s. government in october 2010 say okay, we re going to allow all this corrupt russian company to buy this uranium company. sandra: your client also engaged in conversations with russian colleagues about efforts of the washington entity and others to gain influence with the clintons and the obama administration. that s correct.