it s two months before the election. it s before the fisa application and here is something that the fbi trusted previously to give them reliable information. spent his own money doing fbi work and now they re telling him no collusion. does the fisa court know this? i bet not. laura: so our viewers understand this. we have a situation with three fbi agents go to this russian billionaire s apartment, who only can come to the united states because he is supposedly a bad guy, which by all indications he was trying to help bob wethington get out of iran, a 30-year veteran of the cia who he left there. he tried to get him out two times, spent $25 million, had a jet waiting on the tarmac pulled back by the state department for some weird reason. hillary clinton involved.or barack obama involved, perhaps even the previous administration involved. they go to him and they say we have a collusion idea. he says that s ridiculous and
paul manafort to coordinate an election and that s important for two reasons. it s two months before the election. it s before the fisa application and here is something that the fbi trusted previously to give them reliable information. spent his own money doing fbi work and now they re telling him no collusion. does the fisa court know this? i bet not. laura: so our viewers understand this. we have a situation with three fbi agents go to this russian billionaire s apartment, who only can come to the united states because he is supposedly a bad guy, which by all indications he was trying to help bob wethington get out of iran, a 30-year veteran of the cia who he left there. he tried to get him out two times, spent $25 million, had a jet waiting on the tarmac, pulled back by the state department for some weird reason. hillary clinton involved. barack obama involved, perhaps even the previous administration involved. they go to him and they say we have a collusion idea.
occasions, one by one visa. they approach him and they say, float this collusion idea. and he s like what? collusion? with manafort? is kind of laughing at them. and they are like, keep an open mind. they were actually trying to collude with a russian billionaire to push the russian collusion theory. it s outrageous that all this is going on. it s stuff that you see in the movies. and to see that people that were working for the release of robert levinson have now switched and are actually pushing a political agenda and you said something really interesting about hillary clinton and then the iran deal. and i actually was gone from the fbi when the iran deal was signed and i was waiting for bob s name to be read. i was waiting for him to come home and when his name wasn t
this investigation, one way or the other, we need to see him face-to-face. and i think what the president s team is trying to find out now is it what do you want to ask him about. is collusion off the table? what are we talking about? are we talking about obstruction? so i think these are conversations that are probably ongoing. and i think they keep the president informed on this. and i think he s probably getting some input from his lawyers about what they think is best for him. because his instinct, as we heard last june, he said 100% i would testify before mueller about my conversation with james comey. now not so much. do you agree? is the question here president trump trying to put the emphasis on the collusion idea, so that he doesn t have to answer questions about whether or not there was any obstruction of justice? maybe that s not so he doesn t have to answer questions, but let s just say when and if it ever comes out perhaps there was no collusion, we do not know. righ
just to go through it quickly, donald trump, i m on page of 18 of the transcript and remarkable reading donald trump outside of the edited once they put it together new york times, just reading the transcript and the number of directions his mind goes and i think of a bird in peanuts and friend of snoopy, no collusion, no collusion, and coming back to it. i have counted 15 times, sometimes 2 or 3 times in 3 sentences and goes back to the election, whether at the fbi or whether he s, you know, i don t know, dedicating a ship, back to, i won the election because i amy just the master of the electoral college and goes on and on and on and the collusion idea is democrats making excuses. the mind is almost as if he s stuck in time. and he can t get passed the night of the election and he keeps coming back to it over and over again. that goes to, again, i don t