You. For going on three years innocent people have been accused of very serious crimes, including treason. Accusations made even here today. They have had their lives disrupted and in some cases destroyed by false accusations for which there is absolutely no basis other than some people desperately wish that it was so. But your report is clear. No evidence of conspiracy, no evidence of coordination. I believe we owe it to these people, who have been falsely accused, including the president and his family, to make that very clear. Mr. Mueller, the credibility of your report is based on integrity of how it is handled. Theres something that i think bothers me and other americans. Im holding a binder of 25 examples of leaks that occurred from the Special Counsels office and those associated with you dating back to a few weeks after your inception and beginning of your work and continuing up to just a few months ago. All of these, all of them, have
one thing in common. They were designed to
this? i can t get into a discussion on it. okay. also, on general flynn, i know you came after the leak of the phone call with the russian ambassador. your time in the fbi, it would be a major scandal, wouldn t it, for the leak of the national security adviser and anyone i can t adopt that hypothesis. did your report name any people who were acting as u.s. government informants or sources without disclosing that fact? i can t answer that. okay. on volume 1, page 133 of your report, you state that constantine klimnik has ties to russian intelligence. this name came up quite often
today. your report missed to mention that klimnik has long term relationships with u.s. government officials, including our own state department. i can t get into that. i know it s not in the report, but you know, if klimnik is being used in the report to say that he was possibly some type of russian agent, i think it is important for this committee to know if klinnik has ties to our own state department, which it appears that he does. again, it s the same territory that i m loathe to get into. you were asked this earlier about trump attorney john dowd, the pieces of his phone call were omitted from the report. it was what mr. dowd called
welcome back. paul manafort has countless connections that mueller can probe. for instance he can ask about the infamous trump tower meeting with a russian lawyer who said she had dirt on hillary clinton, why? because manafort was in the room when it happened. and then there s derapaska. there s constantine klimnik who s a long time russian agent. and then there s the mysterious gutting of a platform. and of course there s manafort s first partner in politics, roger stones, who appears to have talked to wikileaks about leaked emails. congressman schiff, welcome back to meet the press.