what is white house reaction to special counsel durham report on how the fbi handled the trump-russia probe? i leave to the doj to speak to. does he agree there needs to be changes at the fbi? that is with the d.o.j., as you stated in your question, we believe in an independent d.o.j., that is what the president has said. thank you, see you guys in japan. lucas: they said not everyone that worked for felt safe, adam schiff took over leadership of the committee and the researcher took that as a mild threat. adam schiff rebuking the durham report. the durham investigation was flawed from the start, it began to satisfy trump and resulted in two failures at trial and end with nothing to show for four years of effort. bottom line, fbi had a good reason to investigate, durham didn t. speaker mccarthy questioning schiff s suitability for public office. it raises the question about adam schiff. he told the american people he had proof and didn t know the whistleblower a
presidency as a result. brian: ambassador downer put him up to talk to papadopoulos and they had narrative to run with. disturbing to see speert strzok getting paid and andrew mccabe saying, do not believe durham, it is a political document. it is not a political document, if people talk about the integrity of john durham, look up eric holder, when he was named to investigate this, among people that praised him was eric holder. what about this document was inrack rat? they hoped you wouldn t read it, even the summary and move on from it. ainsley: as heated as this election cycle, everyone needs to take a step back and question if the information released is factual. steve: that is why it is great we have the durham report. he did investigateing and we have answers.
President Trump Pardons George Papadopoulos and 14 Others
President Trump issued full pardons to 15 individuals and commuted part or all of the sentences of an additional five people, the White House announced Tuesday.
Included in the list are Duncan Hunter, a former GOP congressman from California, Chris Collins, a former GOP representative from New York and former Trump campaign advisor George Papadapoulous who was targeted by Robert Mueller as part of building the Russian conspiracy theory.
In May 2016 George Papadopoulos was contacted by two members of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA),Terrence Dudley and Greg Baker, working out of the U.S. embassy in London.
information on from ambassador downer from australia. he turned around and reports it back over to u.s. intelligence because they are close allies of us. then an investigation ensues. this was right after they pretty much exown rated hillary clinton in a criminal investigation. and it s after they got their hands on the dossier hillary clinton paid for. the daily caller has a piece that seems to be asking questions hot spy was on the trump campaign. when you are dealing with an informant this is how they classify them. this came from leaks from the doj, from the fbi or from people within that closed circle in england. this is where the new york times and the washington post and others have gotten their information. based on that information that
the start of the russia investigation, ambassador downer s information that he had overheard a conversation with george papadopoulos in the london bar, he reported two months later, that became the genesis of this whole investigation. one of the things we didn t know the last few years we were talking about it, a $25 million donor to the clinton foundation, arranged foreign aid in the matter 25 million from the australian taxpayers. a noble project, project to but it s another connection of a friendly clintons horse who s at the front end of this investigation, and we are learning about it so late in the process.g it frustrates congress. we talked to jim jordan today in the first thing he said is why do we keep finding out the stuff after the fact? what can the fbi tell the stuff up front? is a question a lot of people in congressjo will be asking. sean: the prior connection to the clinton foundation wast. never disclosed. again, everything always goes back to the clintons. who the