Key part of this fisa warrant that steele seemed to go everywhere. steele created a one-man echo chamber almost everywhere with the media, the fbi, the department of justice. pete: and the clinton campaign. well i think the clinton campaign we know and the dnc paid for it. the chain back to hillary again, let s not overstate facts we don t know. nunes said he s going to investigate that. let s understand there s a set of facts we can pretty much agree to and then everybody would like to take it to trump to take it to hillary. right now we know steele is right at the center of what appears to be completely un verified allegations. mark penn thank you very much and interesting you mentioned that grassley/graham memo. not a lot of people covering it but we are here. thanks for joining us. thank you. griff: all right eagles star malcolm jenkins no relation won t celebrate his team s super bowl win at the white house. he says it s not worth his time.
We learned that in march of 2017 , he had reached out through a lobbyist for a russian oligarch to try to get in touch with christopher steele so he s on the top democrat on the senate intel committee basically going rogue and he let the committee know months later but he tried to get in touch with christopher steele. rachel: he wasn t kind of going rogue, he was going rogue. in the text messages reveal that he wanted no paper trail. now the way these committees work is normally the republicans and the democrats work together so they re working on the same information and by the way, highly unusual for a senator to setup a meeting for himself. there are staffers that do this. he did this on his own and in the text as i said he said i want no paper trail. he s clearly trying to keep the republican members of the senate intelligence committee out of the loop on this. griff: and we can show you these texts this is between senator warner and a lobbyist getting him to that oligarch.
Either, there should be a separate investigation specifically into this or into why they are not looking into the fact that the fisa judge was misled when the fbi went to him and didn t tell him that that dossier and christopher steele s information was paid for by the clinton campaign. it s not just the fisa judge that was misled. remember when comey went to visit the president to talk about the dossier and then he leaked it to the media so the media could cover that he had talked about it to the president. do you really think in that meeting he told the president that that dossier was paid for by the hillary clinton campaign? great point. that never came out. they hid it then, they hid it in the fisa warrant, and they misled a judge and this is absolutely scandalous. so thank you andy mccarthy. look at the grassley/graham memo. it validates this, the justice
Salacious anti-trump material that is similar to the steele dossier funded by the democratic campaign. and i think the question is how can the democrats continue to maintain this collusion narrative. how can adam schiff continue to say that donald trump is soft on the russians and colluding with the russians when we have all of these reports of the rughtses trying to smear and undermine mr. trump. fred, you know the agency. i want to take them at face value. we re looking for the cyber weapons back and then they tried to get dirt on president trump. would agents say we don t want that? could they be so deuced by that? what happens on the ground? i mean, part of this story, this is being talked about, that there were people in the agency, careers who wanted this information to hurt the president. but the story says that agency officers did not want this information. i hope that s true. that s very promising. the reason the president is so credible is because the agency s reputation
Wanted to do it without the other members of the committee, the republican members of the committee finding out about it. so senate warner reaches out to russian lobbyist who said he had connections to christopher steele, he alerted the committee six months later, got defense for that, this is part of the text message exchange between senator warner and this lobbyist, he said, senator warner, we have to so much to discuss. you need to be careful but we can help our country. the lobbyist says, i m in. that s one part of a longer exchange. how do i get to clirs fer steele. how do i learn what you know about president trump. turns out we have videotape. it turns out people say things. do you know about this? remember that meeting at trump tower, don jr., absolute attack, mark warner. uncharged, right? against don jr. let s look back at what mark warner had to say about that meeting at trump tower. the president and frankly i