then spreading covert in our communities. bill: texas governor wants to ban travel for migrants in his state. he wants to try to force it citing risk of covid spread. all of this happening amid a whistle-blower allegation, and it rich edson is trying to track that story down in la jolla, texas, today. more migrants continue, border patrol putting migrants onto a bus right now. just as we are doing that behind me more people are coming from the rio grande river which is just about a mile from here. border patrol so they apprehended more than 20,000 migrants in the real valley section alone last week and that s a trend that officials say is continuing this week. they stopped a group of 509 people, one single group. i emphasize, 509 people coming
what is not standard is one of the acts that s alleged here is that money went to a then sitting congressman, somebody that nbc news and people we ve spoken with have identified as former congressman pete sessions, that pete sessions was given money and he was asked to lobby for the removal of the ukrainian ambassador, something that s the heart of the whistle-blower allegation, something you ve been covering for the last several weeks. and did he do that? did he write a letter asking for a removal? yeah. according to the documents and some of the things that we ve seen, i m actually scanning through the indictment right now, that is, according to federal prosecutors, something that did occur in this case. that he was involved with some of that. so, yeah, chuck, i think when we look at it, there was no doubt what pete sessions was up to here and what he was aware of what was going on. so pete sessions, who by the way, is the son of a former fbi director who served in the fbi.
they absolutely know that within the cia and within the intelligence communities, people have been compromised. we see that right now with this whistle-blower allegation. we see what was going on and this is why john brennan is coming out and basically slashing and lashing out at the president saying that we are a corrupt country. they have to go around that, they need to talk directly to the sources to collect the information. this is what makes me have faith in the justice department and they are doing their job. sean: jason chaffetz, look, you know a lot of the materials, you have a lot of good sources, you ve been following this as closely as we have. there is no doubt about it it s an unverifiable dossier. mccabe said no dossier, no fisa warrant. they got the fisa warrant, and they didn t bother to try to verify it when the fbi finally got around to it. what do we know what happened? the fbi decided they approve 90 plus percent was not true. but they had by law an obligation to
intelligence communities, people have been compromised. we see that right now with this whistle-blower allegation. we see what was going on and this is why john brennan is coming out and basically slashing and lashing out at the president saying that we are a corrupt country. they have to go around that, they need to talk directly to the sources to collect the information. this is what makes me have faith in the justice department and they are doing their job. sean: jason chaffetz, look, you know a lot of the materials, you have a lot of good sources, you ve been following this as closely as we have. there is no doubt about it it s an unverifiable dossier. mccabe said no dossier, no fisa warrant. they got the fisa warrant, and they didn t bother to try to verify it when the fbi finally got around to it. what do we know what happened? the fbi decided they approve 90 plus percent was not true. but they had by law an obligation to go back to the court. they never did. they double down a
about the contours of the whistle-blower allegation as did the justice department and the intelligence community inspector general as well. but your reaction? it is irrelevant to whether the underlying claims themself are truth. however the vehicle has come to be known and according to the attorney of the whistle-blower, it is not true. but if the underlying complaint and the actual substance, and which the president has corroborated several times perhaps inadvert entsly at first and now continues to do so it is irrelevant but that tiny object or shiny attraction and saying if i deflect enough maybe you ll lose focus but in reality the reason the president won t answer this simple question is because probably his lawyers have said do not answer this question because the very first time you talked about this issue when you had this in this nonverbatim transcript, that is when people could say this is quid pro quo and those words were not used but what was used. i want you to do me a f