Thank you, mr. Chairman. Welcome, everyone, to the last gasp of the russia collusion Conspiracy Theory. As democrats continue to voice this expect tackle on the American People as well as you, mr. Mueller, the American People may recall the media first began spreading this Conspiracy Theory in the spring of 2016 when fusion gps, funded by the dnc and the Hillary Clinton campaign started developing the Steele Dossier, a question of outlandish accusations that trump and his associates were russian agents. Fusion gps, steele and other confederates fed these theorys to naive reporters and top officials in numerous government agencies, including the fbi, Department Of Justice and the State Department. Among other things, the fbi used Dossier Allegations to obtain a
warranty to spy on the Trump Campaign. Despite acknowledging Dossier Allegations as being salacious and unverified, former fbi director james comey briefed those allegations to President Obama and president elect trump. Those bri
the russian government. would you repeat that question? your report describes a third avenue of russian interference, links and contacts between the trump campaign and individuals tied to the russian government. yes. let s bring up slide one, which is about george papadopoulos. it reads on may 6, 2016, ten days after that meeting with mifsid, papadopoulos represented to representative of a foreign government that the trump campaign had received indications from the russian government it could assist the campaign through the anonymous release of information that would be damaging to hillary clinton. director, that s exactly what happened two weeks later, did it not? i can speak to the screen being accurate as what is in the report but not the second half of the question. on july 22nd through
may 6, 2016. the fbi proposed changes to comey s statement. we later learned, those text messages were sent. there were repeated edits come at least three times, the words of grossly negligent taken out. comey wrote there is evidence supporting a conclusion that secretary clinton and others use the server that was grossly negligent with respect to handling of classified information. it changed for him to say this. although we did not find clear evidence that secretary clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling a very sensitive highly classified information. in addition, the draft statement had b7 saying