Volume 1, 193. He lied three times. Why didnt you charge him with a crime . I cant get into internal deliberations as to what or would not be you charged a lot of people from making false statements. Lets remember this. In 2016 the fbi did something they probably havent done before. They spied on two american citizens associated with the president ial campaign. George papadopoulos and carter page. Was carter page who then went to the g the fisa court. With mr. Papadopoulos they didnt go to the court. They used human sources. From about the moment papadopoulos joins the Trump Campaign you have all of these people All Around The World starting to swirl around him. Names like halper, downer, misfeud, thompson. Meeting in rome, london, all
kinds of places and the fbi even sent a lady posing as somebody else. Went by the name turk to spy on papadopoulos. In one of the meetings he is talking to a foreign diplomat and he says that the russians have dirt on clinton. That Diplomat Contacts the
the i had served two terms as fbi director. the answer is no. the answer is no. greg jarrett describes your office as the team of partisans. as additional information is coming to light, there s a growing concern that political bias caused important facts to be omitted from your report in order to cast the president unfairly, in a negative light. for example, john dowd, the president s lawyer, leaves a message with michael flynn s lawyer on november 2017. the edited version in your report makes it appear he was improperly asking for confidential information. that s all we know from your report, except that the judge in the flynn case ordered the entire transcript released in which dowd makes it crystal clear that s not what he was suggesting. so my question is why did you edit the transcript to hide the exculpatory part of the message? i don t agree with your characterization that we did anything to hide. well, you omitted it.
former lawyers reportedly proposed using the white house legal defense fund to help the president s former campaign manager, paul manafort, pay his legal fees. that s according to the wall street journal. a jury convicted manafort and he is now cooperating with the special counsel. the fox business network s blake burman live with more on that. blake? hi, jon. john dowd is the focus of the newest wall street journal story here. he was once outside counsel to president trump as it relates to the russia probe. he s calling this latest wall street journal a hit piece. the story says that when dowd was here working for president trump, he inquired about whether paul manafort and rick gates could receive money from the white house legal defense fund, a fund set up to help those involved with the special counsel prop. manafort was once president trump s campaign chairman. gates was just underneath manafort. both have since plead guilty or convicted of financial crimes unrelated to
in a statement received by dowd, he said he was one of many lawyers that tried to ascertain what exactly would have access to this money and he denies any wrong doing. he said i knew i had no control of those funds and never tried to divert those funds. i only ever inquired whether possible to include manafort and was told it was not for the reasons stated. there was no drama, end of story . the journal reports that dowd had pledged to contribute $25,000 to that fund to which dowd says of that, i received good advice to not contribute and took the advice. i did not contribute $25,000 to his fund as suggested. again, no drama. dowd we should point out is no longer a member of the president s legal team. dowd says he does still communicate with president trump. he resigned from that position earlier this year, jon.
that were already released today from the president s former criminal defense lawyer john dowd. bob woodward describes a rehearsal session with the president where john dowd pretended to be robert mueller asking the president questions. the washington post reports that in that rehearsal session donald trump s answers were stumbles, contradictions, and lies until the prevent eventually lost his cool. this thing s a god damn hoax trump erupted at the start of a 30-minute rant that finished with him saying i don t really want to testify. the book then describes a meeting john dowd with had robert mueller and mueller s deputy james quarles in which dowd explained why he didn t want the president to testify. i m not going o sit there and let him look like an idiot and you public that transcript because everything leaks in washington and the guys overseas are going to say, i told you he was an idiot, i told you he was a goddamn dumbbell. what are we dealing with this idiot for? after t