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You've got a record of dissing and dismissing and compromising our intelligence community. and the trouble began the day after trump's inauguration when he stood in front of the cia's wall of heroes and talked about himself. >> trust me. i'm like a smart person. god looked down and he said we're not going to let it rain on your speech. and i think we had the all-time record in the history of "time" magazine. >> so that speech was supposed to smooth over candidate trump comparing the intelligence community to nazis and accusing them of leaking information. the major sticking point between trump...

Democrat, he bragged about it, and decided to use cnn as his political mouth piece. net result, more than any other media company by far cnn promoted the absurd russian hoax day and night for years. at times his puppets openly excluded with robert mueller's prosecutors. for one example mueller clearly tipped off cnn before stone's arrest in florida. there was a crew on the scene before dawn to humiliate zone as armed federal agents barged into his home at 6:00 a.m. for purposes never clear even until this day. congressman chris stewart of utah asked about that during today's hearing. here's ho...

In the department of justice. only five came from outside. >> mandated special counsel was to investigate russian election interference but mueller testified it did not extend to the opposition research paid for by democrats and used to secure a warrant for a trump campaign aide. >> director mueller can you sedate with confidence that the steele dossier was not part of russian's disinformation campaign. >> as i said in my opening statement, that part of the building of the case was -- predated me and by at least ten months. >> my intelligence contacts report that it's standard for the russians...

Election. i said he doesn't know muller like i do. this guy's going to keep this thing going as long as he can and he's certainly not going to end it before the 2018 election. i knew the guy. i knew he wouldn't do that. he would probably have continued if we hadn't had a strong attorney general come in and see that he had nothing after two years. this is my speculation, but i think if weissmann had been left to his own purposes he would have kept going on and on. >> let me just clarify something congressman. >> sure. >> so you're saying that, from what you know from the information he gathered...

Amendment rights are null and void but the government can leak against him to hurt his reputation? what country is this? >> that's exactly the same feel i have, what country is this. for heaven's sake you always have the right to defend yourself, you always have the right to go to the public forum and tell your side of the story, especially, tucker, as you just pointed out, when the government isn't muzzled, the government hasn't been held back on this and even when they are held back, many times they leak information anyway. you look at this and, by the way, mr. stone, who's a bit of a charac...