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There. dianne feinstein, joe manchin, even maxine waters said smoke, no fire. >> there was never any evidence of collusion. it was always a hoax. the f.b.i. knew this. but nevertheless, they tried to be really clever. they launched a counterintelligence probe that gave them more latitude. they used that as a pretext to investigate donald trump as a criminal and his associates. all of these accusations by the media and democrats with the hair on fire amounted to nothing. carter page giving a spee...

It. it says with a can and cannot do. on the one hand, when it comes to a criminal investigation, they cannot open it unless they have articulable basis for it. they have gone here, yet they opened the criminal probe of the trump campaign. the second is, and a counterintelligence probe, they have to submit evidence for surveillance warrants that it is corroborated and verified. again, it is in the dialogue. >> sean: dont we know it was never verified? in january, jim, he goes to trump tower and ...

Fairly? >> right. this is why struck really matters in that he was at the center of all of this, not just the hilary clinton investigation, but the counterintelligence probe into trump and russia. so there are legitimate questions, what role he played with the dossier and the court. i think that this gets to what you just said, mueller, can he legitimately look at this? and this is the real outrage too of the struck news. yes, true, he fired him -- not fired him, demoted him when he found out ab...

Fairly? >> right. this is why struck really matters in that he was at the center of all of this, not just the hilary clinton investigation, but the counterintelligence probe into trump and russia. so there are legitimate questions, what role he played with the dossier and the court. i think that this gets to what you just said, mueller, can he legitimately look at this? and this is the real outrage too of the struck news. yes, true, he fired him -- not fired him, demoted him when he found out ab...

Mrs. clintons loan interview with the fbi in july 2016. >> no reasonable prosecutor would bring such case. >> strzok reportedly helped persuade james comey to prosecution of mrs. clinton, the same month strzok is one of a dozen fbi officials who receive the dossier, the salacious and largely unverified allegations about mr. trump and his associates that was bankrolled by the clinton campaign and the dnc and which the fbi may have used to launch a counterintelligence probe that encompassed fisa s...

In july of 2016 when the fbi director james comey for the first time shut the clinton email case, they opened the counterintelligence probe and the same fbi agent was one of the senior supervisors on that case and one of the key handlers for the anti-trump dossier and the british spy christopher steel, the one who did the opposition research for the dossier that was funded by the dnc as well as the clinton campaign and that brings us to the allegations that hes shared these anti-trump text with ...

Committee, actually released a letter where he said jared kushner failed to turn over e-mails to him for his committees investigation, that involved the efforts to set up that back channel. so we have a u.s. senator on the record, saying, first, that kushner somehow was involved in communicates about a back channel, and second, that kushner wasnt completely forthcoming with that republican u.s. senator about those efforts. what that all means is that -- >> okay, what is unique -- what is wrong -...

Involving wikileaks. you would think that his memory would be jogged. as opposed to having to continue to drip drip. a lot of this is self-inflicted wounds, the idea of only handing over that which is requested by you. this is an operation and a counterintelligence probe that is widening and widening its scope and its scrutiny largely based on the actions of the people that its investigating. because there seems to be this impression that if you drip drip drip and youre not entirely forthcoming,...

Brother of his own wife involving wikileaks. you would think that his memory would be jogged. as opposed to having to continue to drip drip. a lot of this is self-inflicted wounds, the idea of only handing over that which is requested by you. this is an operation and a counterintelligence probe that is widening and widening its scope and its scrutiny largely based on the actions of the people that its investigating. because there seems to be this impression that if you drip drip drip and youre n...

We were talking on friday about the issue of who was going to be the big fish. we had a national security adviser. we had michael flynn. we had manafort the campaign chair. we had other people, the son-in-law, the son of the president as well. but the other than was who was going to be the biggest of those fish. but the reality of today show us it was the smallest of those fish, papadopoulos where we were that there was a bridge that was being built and constructed from the fbi counterintelligen...