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
nt it s totally , laura .y i mean, there s no other way around it.i it s softlagrey worded, as you stated. i agree with that. in fact, your opening monologuyoue is spot on . but we looked at a two was different types of treatmentsf for two different political campaigns, and they are radically different. lowed stophey sloweddo down and put the stops on investigations sbu into the clinton foundation, dee as noted. but they they denied donald dod trump s campaign eveniefi a defensive briefing, which is a very low leveng cl and almt no, there s almost no resources dedicated to doing stuff like that. somet to agents that go inar and just say, hey, these are h the concerns we have. thiss how is how you mightw yo be targeted. this is hocaw you can ben be awf it. and this is how you should t want be careful because you don t want a major political campaign to be targeted by a foreig n government. it s v and the stuff fact that they denied it, it s lling in every way. steve , i want i to pl
And i think this entire report now really just exposes thatel the this should be the finall fo death knell for for the fbi. no impartial judge should ever accept an affidavit written by an fbi agen t becausewritte they have to presume that they they didn t have any a evidence and no impartial jurytn should render a guilty verdict.. i think now the fbi hanos exposd itself as a political actor and it s no longer legitimate. and they just really need to be controlled, obsoleted. we need to have a resea t. n and that s going to ben pres incumbent on a futuride o republican presidency to to take that on . and hopefully the house o bo top to bottom reform. tt kyl, steve illuminating. thank you . now i want to bring in my next guest, sol wisenberg, former assistant us attorney forme and deputy independent counsel sol. now, the durham report als attor makes it clear that it is a crime to knowingly provide fals e information to the government. you know that as well as i do. section one , two
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