Thank you, mr. Chairman. Welcome, everyone, to the last gas of the russia collusion Conspiracy Theory. As democrats continue to foist the spectacle 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 the fusion gps, funded by the dnc and the elder Clinton Campaign, started developing the Steele Dossier. A collection of outlandish accusations that trump and his associates were russian agents. Effusion gps, steel, and other confederates and to top officials in numerous agencies, quitting the fbi, the apartment of justice, and the state department. Among other things, the fbi used dusty allegations to obtain a
warrant to spy on the Trump Campaign. Despite acknowledging dusty allegations as being salacious and unverified, former fbi director james comey briefed those allegations to President Obama and president elect trump. This briefings conveniently leaked to the press. Laun
rosenstein, or does it come from you? or can it come from either? i won t discuss any other alternatives. thank you, mr. mueller. ms. speier? thank you, mr. chairman. i think you re the greatest patriot in this room today and i want to thank you for being here. thank you. you said in your report and i m going to quibble with your words that the russian intervention was sweeping and systematic. i would quibble with that because i don t think it was just an intervention. i think it was an invasion. and i don t think it was just sweeping and systematic, i think it was sinister and scheming. having said that, one of my colleagues earlier here referred to this russian intervention as a hoax. i would like to get your comment on that.
issues that came up in the mueller report with mr. putin today? we discussed it, he actually sort of smiled when he said something to the effect that it started off as a mountain and it ended up being a mouse. but he knew that because he knew there was no collusion whatsoever. reporter: but what about russian meddling in the u.s. election? the president was asked again. so we had a good conversation about many different things. okay. did you tell him not to meddle in the next election? we didn t discuss that. really we didn t discuss it. reporter: special counsel robert mueller determined russia efforts to hurt hillary clinton and help donald trump in the 2016 election were sweeping and systematic and the leaders of the major intelligence agencies and the president s number one ally on capitol hill have warned putin will try to do it again in 2020. they were very involved in the 2016 election. they re coming at us again. i d like to stop them. reporter: but the presid