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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 speech in moscow. the trump tower meeting with the russian lawyer. bar talk with papadopoulos. >> sean: ...

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: don't we know it was never verified? in january, jim, he goes to trump tower and says, it's salacious, and it's not verifie verified. this is months earlier. he's now admitting mon...

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 about it, but he nonetheless did not tell congress, and he knows that congress is looking into this qu...

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 about it, but he nonetheless did not tell congress, and he knows that congress is looking into this qu...

Mrs. clinton's 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 surveillance. july of this year, mueller learned strzok had sent a colleague text messages said to b...