being made were so preposterous, it was hard to take them seriously. >> i think most of us, you know, just on its face, dismissed it, because, first of all, a "q" clearance has nothing to do with the things that he was talking about. and second of all, having been serving in multiple administrations, holding very high security clearances, working in the white house and department of homeland security, none of those conspiracies, whether it's "q" or any of those other things have any merit. they're completely baseless. >> none of us foresaw this catching fire the way that it did. >> the false sex trafficking claims targeting hillary clinton actually dated back to 2016. with a conspiracy theory that came to be known as pizzagate. >> after the wikileaks email hack in 2016, there was a searchable database where people could just look through all of these e-mails that wikileaks had dropped on the internet. among them, john podesta, and