Mike chael flynns contacts and were there any people in Donald Trumps universe as a candidate who were in contact with entities in russia, russian agents, that kind of thing. It is significant but its also the standard way they would begin an investigation. The white house acknowledges it will preserve these types of records. I want to go to the white house. Kristen, what do we know about these memos, signed by the secretary of Homeland Security . Reporter halle, these are draft memos, not etched in stones. The white house saying these are among the choices under consideration but it shows that the white house is looking to get tough on immigration. They include hiring 10,000 agents and officers for custom
enforcement, expedite the removal of undocumented immigrants in the u. S. For two years or left. It would call for deputizing local Law Enforcement and then it would also potentially hold parents who pay smugglers to bring in their children accountable. They could face prosecution. T
them had any knowledge at all to make those statements? we know from the director of national intelligence and i know from my reporting inside the fbi that by early, middle of 2020, early spring to mid spring of 2020, the fbi corroborated, this was anna then particular laptop. they were using it, documentation, exploitation to drive the hunter biden investigation. the fbi knew it wasn t a russian disinformation. they had the laptop, authenticated it. separately, we know from dni ratcliffe there was no intelligence whatsoever between september and november suggesting the laptop was a russian disinformation. i interviewed several of the 51 who signed it who said some of them had classified security clearances still, none of them, none of them knew of anything. they just thought they could sign the letter saying looks like something that could be. and with that, created one of the greatest political dirty tricks in american history.
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olympics, as well as somewhat before the invasion of russia. i was in lithuania at that time. and determining that this hometown girl had been taken wrongly, and destroying her potential life and success, having gone to russia to pray basketball, having done that for seven years. we got involved, pushing and pushing to get her determined to be a person wrongfully held. once the united states does that, which was done in mid spring, as everyone was trying to push that designation, then we became and did the strong fight. i never saw kevin mccarthy or congressman perry or anyone of that vintage or that persuasion or that view more consumed, of course, with january 6th, 2021,