Im already at number three its great to be here. When i first heard the president use the term witchhunt in that tweet like he used fake news the election was rigged that i spent my life that they recoil but now you have borrowed this phrase for your book. Why . Its very telling what people tend to forget about a witchhunt there are no real witches. But this overwhelming irrational desire is what propels a witchhunt and thats what happened here theoretically smart people convince themselves the president committed the most obnoxious crime there is a treasonous conspiracy with Vladimir Putin to steal the 2016 election. When it was based not on a shred of credible evidence in the book explains now we know through testimony of those involved they never had any plausible evidence to launch that investigation and nine months later when the special counsel is appointe appointed, they still had no evidence in the appointment itself violated the regulations authorizing the appointment and i explained how in the book so one of the things that struck me the appointment was made by the attempt on Deputy Attorney general not based on the evidence or the law but he named the special counsel because rosenstein was angry with the president that he was overwrought and emotional so in an act of retaliation had mueller do a 22 month Long National nightmare because one guy who got angry and he knew he was wrong he made that appointment after it was announced and is confronted in his office about what he had done his abuse of power he cowers behind his desk and blubber as well i get fired . That tells you he knew what he had done was wrong. So go back to the whole idea of donald trump being elected to the president. His relationship with russia i still have flashbacks to all the interviews to the runup of the general election. There was always intrigue that he was bailed out by russia. There were scarce facts or details but where does this come from . Originally with Hillary Clinton early 2016. She began to pepper her speeches that trump could be from kremlin. Did she believe that . One of the Unanswered Questions what about john brennan who was already beginning to investigate any potential ties with russia he is described as the instigator of the witchhunt he put together the Interagency Task force that is the foundation to be used by the fbi and peter struck head of counterintelligence point person in the witchhunt so we dont know if it came from the rich imagination of Hillary Clinton or john brennan are both and James Clapper was involved who was the prodigious leader and i explain those in the book but it came to a head at the campaign and the dnc to pay for russian disinformation that is composed by Christopher Steele and i explained this that he puts together the anti trump dossier licketysplit between ten and 14 days of them being hired. That is impossible to read the first memo of the dossie dossier, thats the information that would take month if not years to be on the ground and in russia its almost as if he picked up a telephone call the kremlin and said give me something, give me anything if its true or not and in the end he simply said russia had disinformation with tidbits of truth but the truth was just Public Information anybody could find on the internet but Christopher Steele or brennan and the obama appointee did they use others to handle this so they can wash their hands that the information was being dredged up . The cia under john brennan they are not allowed to spy on american citizens they are prohibited. But they did they outsourced to foreign governments and people and countries and they currently were key people in the Trump Campaign they were minor figures overseas to feed them information to be used to justify their investigation and they use confidential informants like a long time cia asset fbi or cia sends in the fbi analyst with a fake name described as a sexy blonde to seduce George Papadopoulos that is a volunteer junior advisor on the Trump Campaign. But what they get is not incriminating information they got exculpatory information that was hidden in the backyard and covered up but to understand this rotten stench that comes up from high and Law Enforcement you have to wind the tape back and go all the way back not all the scandals but just Hillary Clinton benghazi tragedy, her decision to keep silvers in the bathroom of their home to have outside the normal government process, all of that as the fbi director excuse me call me has to figure out how to handle this scandal . Because it reading your book again its quite extraordinary. Yes. Tell us the story. Chapter one is entitled a tale of two cases comparing the clinton investigation and it demonstrates that disparity and unequal treatment of prosecution and justice dispensed not on the law but politics of partisanshi partisanship. So the bottom line Hillary Clinton committed multiple acts and felonies it is abundantly clear she was in violation of the espionage act classified information that was stored in her home. People said james comey said theres no similar case but i name all the individuals to be prosecuted for exactly what she did so what he said theres no way to bring such a case thats not true reasonable prosecutors have brought innumerable cases he knew what clinton did was a crime. Multiple crimes actually ten crimes 110 classify documents he actually wrote a statement two months before she even interviewed in it he uses the language of the espionage act she was grossly negligent but then he presents that to the staff and says they still want to clear her. They say you cant clear her if you find her guilty of the espionage act so that peter struck sis down with his lover lisa page standing over his shoulder and eliminates the incriminating words of grossly negligent into something under the law is identical and synonymous but it sounds different and not in criminal code which is extremely careless which had been borrowed from barack obama. Based on that he twisted the facts and contorted the law to clear her later he said he was ordered to do that by the department of justice headed up by Loretto Lynch who just before comey clears clinton meets on the tarmac on the plane with bill clinton but yes they just talk about grandkids and golf and she owes much of her success to needed that close ally to bill clinton. He elevated her and she became the attorney general that he advanced her career. She pretends to recuse herself but doesnt actually. People dont like the clintons or dont vote for hillary who really get into the whole dynamics of the story supporters think maybe the witchhunt may just want to bring out the worst of what Hillary Clinton did. I do think there is a lot to write about with that but why does that matter . She breaks the espionage act. She said that the matter of convenience. We understand that being on our devices. Why is it a problem . To jeopardize National Security. As i explained in the book, book, document subsequent to her being cleared demonstrated Foreign Countries obtained her emails. That is a fact that came out through testimony. Classify documents as well so that jeopardizes our National Security that is the whole point of the espionage act. When President Trump before he was president said maybe china the point was she said she deleted the emails there is no record of them but its a fact our enemies read them and probably have copies of them so its ironic that they had copies. He was actually referring to russia you have her missing emails. It was obviously said in jest but it turns out it was likely true some of those hacked emails ended up in russian hands because it came through a russian server. Is hard for people that support the clintons. So this was about hot yoga and wedding plans and where we eat for dinner with all the research you did this is quite an Extensive Research project. Actually the emails were destroyed because there were Sensitive Conversations about ben ghazi and what she said as a candidate and that wouldve been damaging. She wasnt entirely successful to destroy those 33000 emails because that by himself would be obstruction of justice because Congress Asked her to preserve them. When you defy congress with a subpoena attached to it, that is obstruction of justice and they said the other week they were not under subpoena but she was reprimanded but she destroy them after congress made it very clear. Congress sent a request to preserve whether or not there is a subpoena they knew at that point but that is still obstruction of justice. It turns out some of the email she destroyed turned up elsewhere and some of them contained very sensitive government information it was not yoga or wedding plans. Not all of them. Know. Spermatic. Her explanation is simply not true. And that evidence is overwhelming that she violated the espionage act, she destroyed documents congress demanded. When you receive a preservation letter you have to abide by that. Im a former government official. My wife just recently left government service. You have an obligation to obtain maintain records from your very first day on the job you dont need a letter from congress or the ig to notify you that you should keep records you are told immediately you have to keep them because when you work for the administration or the cabinet or secretary of state every day is history and the taxpayer has a right to be able the process everybody gets to see the information. The foundation of democracy is transparency and accountability. The federal records act anything you do in writing in the course and scope of your employment as a public official is not your property. It is government and american peoples property. There was nothing on Hillary Clinton state Department Email account zero. Everything she did in the scope of her employment was kept in her home on a private server and as i mentioned you jeopardize National Security but she also violates federal law and she signed a document on her first day in office as secretary of state to say i understand these rules. She received a tutorial here is the law you must follow. She signed two separate documents acknowledging it to say i will abide by it but she already knew that from her service in the United States senate having received the same instructions about how you have to preserve documents and you cannot jeopardize National Security by leaking them. And his first lady as well. She knew the rules that she ignored them with impunity because she thought she was above the law and the rules just dont apply to her. What is your legal backgroun background . I was a defense attorney for many years in san francisco. Most of my clients are still behind bars. [laughter] thats a lawyer joke. I have taught law but my point is look at the black letter of the law when you sign a document that she herself is an ivy educated lawyer you know what that means you had very senior level government jobs you understand the records theyd all about records from little rock you dont get to pick and choose what those records are. Its hillary with a different surname so what legal penalties which he face quick. Inevitable federal indictments issued by a grand jury. And frankly it is a slamdunk case. Its a paper case james comey knows this so what intervenes . Just say no . We are not going . This is the investigation . Those officials at the fbi who were there at the time all of this unfolded testified behind closed doors it has now been released few journalists have read it but i dug through all of it with 1000 pages of testimony but the fbi admitted under oath that they were told by the department of justice that the charges would be brought against Hillary Clinton. Comey said the department of justice doesnt know what im about to do but yet they were directing it so a lot of people believe nothing like this could happen with the president or the Vice President being aware of that. People dont know how high up the food chain this went as i lay out the facts so implicating her he seems upset about that it seemed that it was strange wording he felt uncomfortable and was being so aggressive. It all came to an interview that barack obama had done several weeks before on fox news and then had given another one that said the same thing. This was a public instruction i dont want Hillary Clinton to be prosecuted that what she had done was careless. That the language comey adopted after finding she was in violation of the law. You dont think the fbi director would listen to the words of the president . [laughter] he did in fact he told the Inspector General when he was interviewed he said he paid close attention to what barack obama said that she just careless and i didnt jeopardize National Security thats exactly what he ended up saying on july 5th 2016 when he cleared her. Even though he was not just adopting the language of the president but essentially a public order. This is unfair question but do you think he sent every signal he could to make sure she got a pass quick. His method was quite clever and ingenious. There will be no paper trail. I will not tell them what to do but then he goes on television tells everybody what to do and they will hear it. So really than the story takes a dastardly turn. So that all the various aspects they are defense. She has committed crimes. There is a terrible tragedy in ben ghazi where is not about the victims its about her Congress Goes through various investigations and the last one that will say how many investigations where you have how many did they have in the house . There were multiple dueling investigations going at the same time trey gaudi was the foremost but if not for the deception by Hillary Clinton state department about benghazi we would have never discovered this private server that these documents were stored. So it seems to me that folks chronicle that focus and those in the Intelligence Community go on offense and some point of the process to quote peter struck we have to stop him meeting trump. So they take extraordinary measures to dig up dirt overseas to push it towards the Clinton Campaign to make that a repugnant thing for voters. How does that happen quick. There were two parts to the plan. Part number one was to exploit the dossier which was penned by Christopher Steele and the fbi was unable to verify. They tried but you cant verify something that doesnt exist that is simply a pernicious live. Part of the plan was to leak it to the media and they assumed they would run crazy with the story and damage him politically to ensure Hillary Clintons election. And while its true that many members of the media did pick up the story didnt quite gain traction and resonate with American Voters when he was elected but the insurance policy was plan b famous when he sent that text message we have the insurance policy that was the fbi investigation that if donald trump one we will kick it into overdrive and really go after him and make our investigation of him for potential alleged russian asset public. And they did. And they did. Watch all of the indepth reporting on it and everything else. In all of this work that Hillary Clinton campaign, all of these things that weve come to know, is there any truth to any of these things that donald trump did and that he had any kind of illegal actions. And are there any truths about things that are just embarrassing. With present trump. All of the collusion allegations in the dossier, turned out to be untrue and you can read it in volume one of the roller report. The fbi created a spreadsheet of all of the collusion allegatio allegations. An alternative date. There was nothing on the spreadsheet, they couldnt collaborate for anything. Is the author of the darth ca said, the information he wrote, is unverifiable. It came from in a multiple anonymous hearsay. Hearsay is generally not allowed in a court of law and double hearsay, is never allowed because it is a farce. This was triple and quadruple hearsay. And weve learned in subsequent testimony and with emails and such, within the fbi it feel himself, and these characters in the Obama Administration was actually in unsafely character. Totally, in fact he got fired by the fbi for lying. He is on the payroll not just the Hillary Clinton campaign the Democratic National committee, is on the payroll of the fbi and had been since early 2016 the year of the election. But he lied to the fbi about talking to the media and feeding this disinformation to the media. And is it too monday people in the fbi found out about it and they had a fire him. They still used him though. He is to the Foreign Surveillance court to get a warrant application to spy on Trump Campaign. He vouches for steel is credible. Knowing he wasnt, he was a liar. Journal communications at the time proved that he felt differently about this. They knew he was unsavory. Note that he liked them. The state department