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>> martha: breaking news tonight. george papadopoulos says he's willing to testify before congress to explain his story in an attempt to clear his name. the former low-level trump campaign aide got caught up in mueller's russia probe after bizarre circumstances and a question of a cast of characters. papadopoulos who was sentenced to prison for lying to investigators, "senator byrne and mark warner, if my lawyers are fine with me testifying, i'm more than happy to discuss my suspicious activities with alexander downer, u.s. officials reaching out to me at that time, stephan halper, putin's nie...

Questions about the other side of the equation and the origins of the investigation, which we were told started in the summer but these contacts started in the spring and a number of these individuals, halper, was working for the fbi during the campaign at different points. you have studied the deep state, jason, quite in-depth. you wrote a book on that. do you see anything here or not? >> i think that congress should hear him out. he's not a very credible witness. he is now guilty for lying to federal investigators. anything he says, no matter how you want the investigation to go, is not goin...

His mouth and an australian diplomat hearing it in a bar and being so concerned they called over to the state department. so i don't know where you're -- >> shocker. shocker. an australian diplomat who organized a multimillion dollar donation to the clinton global initiative got involved. i wonder how that happened. >> maybe because george papadopoulos was running his mouth off truck, which was a fact. that -- >> right. i'll tell you what -- >> that he offered dirt on hillary clinton. shouldn't that arouse some suspicion? >> they owe george papadopoulos an apology too. >> should it arouse some...

Source. this was a spying on the campaign of the opposing party of the incumbent president who, at the time, was barack obama. what you are hearing from clapper and comey is gas lighting. this is charles boy yea talking to ingrid bergman trying to make her think all the things that she sees in front of her are not real. they are lying in the most unbelievably brazen and insidious way. if they were -- if they were not spying on the trump campaign, why didn't they just tell the trump people the russians are coming after you, be careful? because that's not what they were doing. they were spying o...

Designed to put pressure on investigators and, in fact, having the already effect of outing somebody who has worked for the u.s. government as an informant, has provided useful service, and in the conversation that we had about that earlier, we talked about the potential impact on stephan halper, if he is the person on his ability to serve and on the context that he had in the past. what we didn't talk about was something that the fbi director mentioned last week, which was, once you start showing people who work as confidential informants for the u.s. government that they cannot be secure, th...