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he s not guilty. remember what he was accused of. he was accused of lying to the fbi, about who he was working for and who he was working for, hillary clinton. we want to get to our reporter. david, this trial was as taking a look at not just the fact that he lied but whether or not he can bring into focus anything else that s going on. once it was found out that he was working for hillary clinton, what else didn t we know? reporter: harris, exactly what this lie material to the fbi s investigation. that s something that jurors had to find out. apparently, they think that he did not lie to the fbi or may be it wasn t material. i m getting texts from our justice resource who was inside the building. michael sussmann indicted. not guilty for a charge of lying to the fbi. harris, to give everyone a back story, we ve been reporting this for about two weeks. michael sussmann was a clinton campaign attorney in september 2016. he texted the fbi general counsel, james baker, ....
John durham. this was the first trial, michael sussmann will walk out of here a free man, not guilty. now we look forward to the case in october. a russian national that was charged with five counts of lying to the fbi. michael sussmann charged with one count of lying to the fbi. igor is charged with to lying to the fbi on the steele dossier. the documents that were aimed taking down donald trump. again, all turned out to be bogus. this is clearly a loss for special counsel john durham. not a good day for his investigation. at the end, special counsel john durham team saying they can paint the picture the highest level of the hillary clinton campaign were involved in an effort to take down donald trump s campaign with bogus information. harris: if nothing else comes ....
Been looking for and as well as other documents and emails between james comey and others in the justice department that will reveal and sculpture evidence was withheld, are going to be revealed to the public very soon. sean: sara carter, thank you for that update and report. he was a reaction, of the best color, power grab, jason chaffetz, along with freedom caucus chairman, congressman andy biggs. this has taken way too long. michael horowitz it has over 600 people. we have been promised this again and again and again. there is no other conclusion based on what we know then there was premeditated fraud committet because it says verified on the top of the pfizer application. we know now that it was unverifiable based on the steele dossier as the grassley grandma mom says. why so long and will it be what sarah just said? i think sarah is absolutely right. i don t think you can justify it ....
But he lied, he leaked, he s a disreputable head of the fbi. he s af disgrace to the fbi. he usedce it for political purposes, the report demonstrates all of that. laura: clapper was on cnn tonight, did anyone ask him a question about it?not one quest. i m not sure if clapper knows where he is. brennan is the brains, clapper is the idiot. if you want me to guess who orchestrated this, clapper is not capable. i won t tell you who i think did. laura: rudy, here s what comey said when he was asked the reason for briefing trump backso in january of 2017 on that phoney june 2017, on the steele dossier. it was important for me to assure him we were not personally investigating him. and i didn t want him thinking i was briefing him on this to sort of hang it over him in some way. i was briefing him on it because we had been told by the media it was about to launch. we didn t want to be keeping that from him. and i was keen not to leave him ....
Did you tell him about the steele dossier? no. i just talked about additional material. did he have a right to know that? that it was financed by his political opponents? i don t know the answer to that. it wasn t necessary for my goal, which was to alert him that we had this information. all right. that was fired fbi director james comey talking about the moment that he briefed then president-elect trump on the steele dossier and not telling him that it was funded but his opposition. joining us no is former special agent mike rogers, cnn national security commentator. mike, great to see you. before we get to th larger issues of what a remarkable moment in history this is watching this battle between the former fbi head and the president about that, should he have told president-elect trump the origin of that dossier and who paid for it? i don t know. it depends on where the ....