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Investigation? >> im sorry on this matter that im handling? >> yeah. >> no one that im aware of. >> following up on a question that senator feinstein asked, did the obama administration or president obama himself know about the counter intelligence investigation? >> i dont know the answer to that definitively. our authority was over the fbi and to look at the fbi and the department activities. >> in january 2018 chairman graham and i wrote to the fbi and the department referring christopher stee...

Immediately following mr. page, carter page, going to news outlets after word of the fisa hit the news media and said to the news media i was someone who worked with u.s. intelligence agencies, not someone who worked against them, lawyers and agents went and said weave got to figure out whats the story, is that what happened? the lawyer, the ogc attorney for the fbi reached out to a liaison at the other government agency that was at issue, asked the question is, was plfrmt page a source or conta...

This. >> lets run a clip here. this is what comey said in 2018. it would be nice to have sound. do we have sound? never mind. ill read it. director comey, the reporter is asking him, can i ask you a question on fisa abuse. its a major issue for the republicans. do you have the total confidence in the dossier when you used it to secure a surveillance warrant and also in the subsequent renewals? this was asked in december of 2018, about a year ago. comey, i have total confidence that the fisa proc...

Disturbing about that event, which is the initial application said, as you noted, that the fbi assessed that steele was the direct source or was a direct source, and on october 14th the drafts changed to the exact opposite. what we found is the fbi had no basis for the first statement, no evidence in their file -- it turned out the first statement was, in fact, the accurate statement. the point is they had no evidence to support that. when they flipped that, they had no evidence to support that ...

Whether he was a source for the september 2016 yahoo news article that cited western intelligence sources, quote, unquote? if not, why not? >> they did not ask that question despite having the opportunity to do so. and we got a variety of explanations including that, as to some of these issues, that they didnt want to offend him or jeopardize their relationship with him. >> question two, on october 11th, draft of the vice is a application stating fbi believes steele was the source of the yahoo n...

Exculpatory information. >> absolutely. >> they did not. >> they did not. >> why? >> thats the question i cant specifically answer for you. >> can you say it wasnt because of political bias? >> on decisions regarding those fisa matters, i do not know their state of mind at this point. >> fair enough. were talking about actions now. im trying to figure out what would motivate people. do you think comey and mccabe should have known? >> thats a challenging question as we explain in the report, ther...

This russia investigation? >> on this matter that im handling? >> yeah. >> no one that im aware of. >> following up on a question that senator feinstein asked, did the obama administration or president obama himself, is the one im interested in, know about the counterintelligence investigation? >> i dont know the answer to that definitively. our authority was over the fbi and to look at the fbi and the department activities. >> in january 2018, chairman graham and i wrote to the fbi and the depa...

Meetings. >> if you dont have a foundation -- >> let him answer the question. >> im sorry. go ahead. do you need to say anything else. >> im sorry. >> the incident, the event, the meeting was a briefing, and the fbi considered and decided to send that agent there to do the briefing. the agent was actually doing the briefing, but also using it for the purpose of investigation. >> okay. i hope that doesnt happen to us tomorrow. ill be really pissed if it does. okay. lets play this out. they never ...

Respect. >> tucker: is jesse watters right? is a respect by aretha franklin? [laughter] >> tucker: i want to apologize to her viewers. i havent seen that video. typically a screen the videos. i was just horrifying. im really sorry to put that on the screen. question two. another multiple-choice for you. the president has canceled his trip to denmark. that is because the countrys prime minister rejected his proposal to buy greenland which is a danish territory, who knew. the question is, who is t...

Her last name is. >> tucker: is he right? speak of the danish royal palace which invited mr. trump was apparently blindsided by the cancellation and prime minister mehdi fredrickson was surprised and disappointed. look. >> ive been looking forward to the visit of in the preparations were well underway. it was an opportunity i think to celebrate denmarks close relationship to u.s. >> tucker: you are right, mattie. jesse watters, you are savage. im not surprised. its just you are really on top of ...