1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:08,973 --> 00:00:11,973 (suspenseful music) 4 00:00:35,003 --> 00:00:38,392 (thunder rumbles) 5 00:00:38,392 --> 00:00:42,020 - President Carter fledged the utmost in cooperation 6 00:00:42,020 --> 00:00:44,443 in the transition that will take place. 7 00:00:45,450 --> 00:00:47,680 - I will always be grateful. 8 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:49,480 I can hardly believe it, but it's sinking 9 00:00:49,480 --> 00:00:52,610 in now the enormity of what has taken place, 10 00:00:52,610 --> 00:00:56,233 peaceful election, eventually a peaceful transfer of power. 11 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:00,880 - I accept tonight the responsibility 12 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:04,093 that you have given me to be the leader of this, 13 00:01:04,093 --> 00:01:07,853 the greatest country in human history. 14 00:01:08,900 --> 00:01:11,070 - I have a lot to be thankful for tonight. 15 00:01:11,070 --> 00:01:12,891 I'm thankful for America and thankful 16 00:01:12,891 --> 00:01:15,141 that we were able to resolve our electoral 17 00:01:15,141 --> 00:01:18,860 differences in a peaceful way. 18 00:01:18,860 --> 00:01:21,541 - This peaceful transfer of power is one of the hallmarks 19 00:01:21,541 --> 00:01:24,390 of a true democracy. 20 00:01:24,390 --> 00:01:26,811 - President Carter, President Bush Sr. 21 00:01:26,811 --> 00:01:30,920 as well as the current president have all been very gracious 22 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:33,680 and offered to provide any help that they can 23 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:36,103 in this transition process. 24 00:01:38,070 --> 00:01:40,370 We are now all rooting for success 25 00:01:40,370 --> 00:01:42,650 in uniting and leading the country. 26 00:01:42,650 --> 00:01:44,489 The peaceful transition of power 27 00:01:44,489 --> 00:01:47,963 is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. 28 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:59,110 (people shuffle and chatter) 29 00:02:02,460 --> 00:02:03,450 - Good afternoon, everyone. 30 00:02:03,450 --> 00:02:05,378 I recently confirmed that on numerous occasions 31 00:02:05,378 --> 00:02:06,836 the intelligence community incidentally 32 00:02:06,836 --> 00:02:10,660 collected information about US citizens involved 33 00:02:10,660 --> 00:02:12,578 in the Trump transition. 34 00:02:12,578 --> 00:02:15,820 Details about US persons associated 35 00:02:15,820 --> 00:02:17,830 with the incoming administration, details 36 00:02:17,830 --> 00:02:21,980 with little or no apparent foreign intelligence value 37 00:02:21,980 --> 00:02:24,799 were widely disseminated in intelligence 38 00:02:24,799 --> 00:02:26,503 community reporting. 39 00:02:27,790 --> 00:02:29,791 Third, I have confirmed that additional names 40 00:02:29,791 --> 00:02:33,873 of Trump transition team members were unmasked. 41 00:02:34,900 --> 00:02:38,270 And fourth and finally, I wanna be clear. 42 00:02:38,270 --> 00:02:41,250 None of this surveillance was related to Russia 43 00:02:41,250 --> 00:02:43,530 or the investigation of Russian activities 44 00:02:43,530 --> 00:02:46,523 or of the Trump team. 45 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:50,860 - The only thing we had wrong is it was worse 46 00:02:50,860 --> 00:02:51,693 than we thought. 47 00:02:52,710 --> 00:02:54,807 Devin was the first 'cause he got to see information 48 00:02:54,807 --> 00:02:59,030 first as then chair of the intelligence committee. 49 00:02:59,030 --> 00:03:01,633 He sensed there was wrongdoing early on. 50 00:03:04,010 --> 00:03:06,760 - He was a lone voice for a very long time. 51 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:09,953 We would not be where we are without Devin Nunez. 52 00:03:11,135 --> 00:03:13,802 (ominous music) 53 00:03:14,660 --> 00:03:16,120 - [Devin] They started it right after, 54 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:19,603 in the 1st of December, 2016. 55 00:03:20,990 --> 00:03:23,448 - It's becoming clear we have suffered a desecration 56 00:03:23,448 --> 00:03:27,160 of our democracy not seen since Watergate. 57 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:28,370 - It was right after the election 58 00:03:28,370 --> 00:03:29,490 and I thought, are they really gonna 59 00:03:29,490 --> 00:03:31,760 go down this road, this Russia issue. 60 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:34,670 - This is part of a concerted Russian influence 61 00:03:34,670 --> 00:03:35,503 operation 62 00:03:35,503 --> 00:03:36,570 - Russian interference. 63 00:03:36,570 --> 00:03:39,475 - They colluded, they helped, they were in on it. 64 00:03:39,475 --> 00:03:41,140 - Vladimir Putin was the person who authorized 65 00:03:41,140 --> 00:03:42,037 interference in our election. 66 00:03:42,037 --> 00:03:44,360 - What Russia did was no different 67 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:45,950 than what they do all the time. 68 00:03:45,950 --> 00:03:47,520 It was totally expected. 69 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:48,965 Right after the election, a couple of weeks, 70 00:03:48,965 --> 00:03:52,630 then I realized like, wow, they're just really starting 71 00:03:52,630 --> 00:03:53,950 to foment this. 72 00:03:53,950 --> 00:03:56,420 And we really almost thought it was a joke. 73 00:03:56,420 --> 00:03:58,580 Like those of us on the Republicans on the committee, 74 00:03:58,580 --> 00:03:59,779 like really you're not gonna accept 75 00:03:59,779 --> 00:04:01,260 that you lost this election. 76 00:04:01,260 --> 00:04:02,440 We're really going to go into this. 77 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:07,260 - My hope is that the president-elect 78 00:04:07,260 --> 00:04:10,740 is going to similarly be concerned with making sure 79 00:04:10,740 --> 00:04:13,596 that we don't have potential foreign influence 80 00:04:13,596 --> 00:04:15,240 in our election process. 81 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:16,997 - And then Obama and Brennan made it real 82 00:04:16,997 --> 00:04:20,378 by creating what I call Obama's Dossier 83 00:04:20,378 --> 00:04:22,970 which was this intelligence community assessment 84 00:04:22,970 --> 00:04:25,307 which was the fastest any government agency 85 00:04:25,307 --> 00:04:27,070 has ever done a report. 86 00:04:27,070 --> 00:04:29,220 And of course they took just a few weeks and they said 87 00:04:29,220 --> 00:04:31,040 oh yeah, the Russians were trying to help Trump. 88 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:31,873 You know, Obama really was 89 00:04:31,873 --> 00:04:33,570 gonna stick it to the Russians 90 00:04:33,570 --> 00:04:35,480 and he like kicked some people out of the country. 91 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:38,330 - [Reporter] 35 Russian diplomats in the US expelled, 92 00:04:38,330 --> 00:04:41,670 just 72 hours to leave, closing two Russian government 93 00:04:41,670 --> 00:04:45,010 compounds, rec centers allegedly used for spying 94 00:04:45,010 --> 00:04:46,763 shut down as of noon Friday. 95 00:04:49,100 --> 00:04:51,330 - We use the ways and means committee to hold 96 00:04:51,330 --> 00:04:53,760 what is a pretty unusual public hearing 97 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:55,310 for the intelligence committee. 98 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:57,810 James Comey comes in. 99 00:04:57,810 --> 00:05:00,450 Then he asks me to come back to the back room 100 00:05:00,450 --> 00:05:02,980 and tells me that he's going to publicly 101 00:05:02,980 --> 00:05:04,910 announce they're looking into the Trump campaign. 102 00:05:04,910 --> 00:05:07,800 And I was like, wow, does he have new information? 103 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:08,683 Is there something new? 104 00:05:08,683 --> 00:05:11,480 - I have been authorized by the Department of Justice 105 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:15,432 to confirm that the FBI, as part of our counter-intelligence 106 00:05:15,432 --> 00:05:19,690 mission is investigating the Russian government's efforts 107 00:05:19,690 --> 00:05:23,450 to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. 108 00:05:23,450 --> 00:05:25,270 - It blew up into a spectacle. 109 00:05:25,270 --> 00:05:28,550 It gave the appearance that this was a real investigation 110 00:05:28,550 --> 00:05:30,480 with real information, even though we had yet 111 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:33,083 to see what that real information was. 112 00:05:34,050 --> 00:05:36,690 - I interviewed a number of extraordinary candidates 113 00:05:36,690 --> 00:05:39,200 for this job, all with Sterling credentials. 114 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:42,160 But what gave me confidence that this was the right man 115 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:44,303 for the job was in talking to him a sense 116 00:05:44,303 --> 00:05:46,292 that this is somebody who knows what's right 117 00:05:46,292 --> 00:05:47,395 and what's wrong. 118 00:05:47,395 --> 00:05:50,403 - The FBI's reputation for integrity is a gift 119 00:05:50,403 --> 00:05:55,200 given to every new employee by those who went before. 120 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:59,000 No case, no source, no fear of embarrassment 121 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,831 is worth jeopardizing the gift of integrity. 122 00:06:02,831 --> 00:06:06,792 - Comey has a great history 123 00:06:06,792 --> 00:06:11,090 of fabricating crimes, entrapping innocent citizens 124 00:06:11,090 --> 00:06:14,020 in crimes that otherwise would not be committed. 125 00:06:14,020 --> 00:06:18,650 By leading the victim to believe that a truthful answer 126 00:06:18,650 --> 00:06:21,380 to a question would be an admission to a crime. 127 00:06:21,380 --> 00:06:24,582 Whereas in fact, it would not be an admission to a crime. 128 00:06:24,582 --> 00:06:29,582 When the subject then lies he's bagged his quarry. 129 00:06:29,970 --> 00:06:32,023 He did that with Martha Stewart. 130 00:06:33,540 --> 00:06:35,900 He later did the same thing to Scouter Libby 131 00:06:35,900 --> 00:06:38,424 through his special counsel that he appointed after 132 00:06:38,424 --> 00:06:39,875 Fitz Gerald. 133 00:06:39,875 --> 00:06:43,275 Later on they did the same thing with George Papadopoulos. 134 00:06:43,275 --> 00:06:46,523 He did the same thing with Michael Flynn. 135 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:52,465 - Mike is one of nine children, blue collar background, 136 00:06:52,465 --> 00:06:55,920 decided to enter the military and rose to the rank 137 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:57,224 as three star general. 138 00:06:57,224 --> 00:07:00,020 A Lieutenant general in the army, 139 00:07:00,020 --> 00:07:03,080 a man who put his life on the line for our country 140 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:04,040 on numerous occasions. 141 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:07,550 He was well versed in the secrets of our country. 142 00:07:07,550 --> 00:07:09,475 - Before he became the director 143 00:07:09,475 --> 00:07:13,910 of Defense Intelligence, was made responsible 144 00:07:13,910 --> 00:07:16,730 for all intelligence collection in Afghanistan. 145 00:07:16,730 --> 00:07:18,243 As the theater MI guy. 146 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:22,270 What Mike Flynn did was truly stunning. 147 00:07:22,270 --> 00:07:25,992 He revolutionized the way we do intelligence 148 00:07:25,992 --> 00:07:28,630 in theater in the battlefield. 149 00:07:28,630 --> 00:07:30,770 He understood that when you're fighting groups 150 00:07:30,770 --> 00:07:33,159 like Al Qaeda or ISIS, it is the rapidity 151 00:07:33,159 --> 00:07:35,618 and the quality of immediately 152 00:07:35,618 --> 00:07:38,210 exploitable intelligence that matters the most. 153 00:07:38,210 --> 00:07:39,440 When you go in there on your raid 154 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:41,409 with your alpha team or the stuff you pick up 155 00:07:41,409 --> 00:07:45,330 right there has got to be exploited now. 156 00:07:45,330 --> 00:07:46,560 You don't put it in a bag. 157 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:47,428 You don't put it on a secure service, 158 00:07:47,428 --> 00:07:49,950 sending it back to Langley or to Fort Meade, 159 00:07:49,950 --> 00:07:51,680 and then sit on it for nine months 160 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:53,080 and then see if it's useful. 161 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:56,937 - When Donald Trump was elected president 162 00:07:56,937 --> 00:08:00,110 of the United States, he flew to Washington DC 163 00:08:00,110 --> 00:08:01,830 for a meeting with Barack Obama. 164 00:08:01,830 --> 00:08:04,458 And in that meeting, Barack Obama told him unequivocally, 165 00:08:04,458 --> 00:08:06,830 don't let anybody tell you who to hire 166 00:08:06,830 --> 00:08:07,820 in your administration. 167 00:08:07,820 --> 00:08:10,870 You must surround yourself with your own people, 168 00:08:10,870 --> 00:08:12,913 except General Mike Flynn. 169 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:17,417 The president flew back to New York that night. 170 00:08:17,417 --> 00:08:19,337 And I remember speaking to him very directly 171 00:08:19,337 --> 00:08:22,295 and he said, "What job are we giving Mike Flynn?" 172 00:08:22,295 --> 00:08:24,230 I said, any job you want, sir? 173 00:08:24,230 --> 00:08:25,638 And then the offer was extended for Mike 174 00:08:25,638 --> 00:08:28,068 to become the national security advisor. 175 00:08:28,068 --> 00:08:30,266 - The Obama administration was after him 176 00:08:30,266 --> 00:08:34,720 for defying them on Iran and on another questions. 177 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:36,420 You know they fired him from the DIA 178 00:08:37,290 --> 00:08:40,260 and famously in their Oval Office meeting after the election 179 00:08:40,260 --> 00:08:43,410 Obama said to incoming President-Elect Trump, 180 00:08:43,410 --> 00:08:44,500 you know, there's basically two people 181 00:08:44,500 --> 00:08:45,638 in the world that you can't trust. 182 00:08:45,638 --> 00:08:46,813 One is Putin and the other is Mike Flynn. 183 00:08:46,813 --> 00:08:48,204 I mean, give me a break. 184 00:08:48,204 --> 00:08:50,520 - We talked about reforming the intelligence community 185 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:54,432 because the 17 sprawling agencies, 186 00:08:54,432 --> 00:08:56,720 you know, they've gotten a lot of stuff wrong. 187 00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:58,710 They were in the weapons of mass destruction 188 00:08:58,710 --> 00:09:00,297 being the most obvious example. 189 00:09:00,297 --> 00:09:04,200 - Every intelligence agency, every bureaucracy 190 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:06,050 is worried about being reformed. 191 00:09:06,050 --> 00:09:08,723 So Flynn had been loud and clear 192 00:09:08,723 --> 00:09:11,350 that he did not like the intelligence 193 00:09:11,350 --> 00:09:13,210 that he was getting when he was in the field. 194 00:09:13,210 --> 00:09:16,250 He did not get what he called actionable intelligence. 195 00:09:16,250 --> 00:09:19,155 So he was gonna cut some nice cushy jobs at Langley. 196 00:09:19,155 --> 00:09:22,900 - He was talking about going after people's budgets, 197 00:09:22,900 --> 00:09:24,961 seeing who is wasteful, who is doing the job. 198 00:09:24,961 --> 00:09:28,041 We we're gonna cut these institutions down to size 199 00:09:28,041 --> 00:09:29,870 and see how it works. 200 00:09:29,870 --> 00:09:31,800 So, they were terrified. 201 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:33,930 - And then there are probably reasons 202 00:09:33,930 --> 00:09:36,350 why the intel bureaucracies are specifically resistant 203 00:09:36,350 --> 00:09:40,040 to change because they really are unaccountable. 204 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:41,240 If you're on accountable for a long time, 205 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:42,310 you get used to being unaccountable 206 00:09:42,310 --> 00:09:43,480 and accountability sounds bad. 207 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:44,650 Like you don't want to have to, if you haven't, 208 00:09:44,650 --> 00:09:46,180 never answered to anybody you don't have to answer 209 00:09:46,180 --> 00:09:47,013 to somebody. 210 00:09:47,013 --> 00:09:48,070 - Especially when some of the things 211 00:09:48,070 --> 00:09:50,790 you've been doing when exposed might make you look bad. 212 00:09:50,790 --> 00:09:51,975 - As you know, when this attack happened, 213 00:09:51,975 --> 00:09:54,690 the White House initially said it arose 214 00:09:54,690 --> 00:09:58,100 out of a spontaneous protest over anti-Muslim video. 215 00:09:58,100 --> 00:09:59,650 That turned out not to be true. 216 00:09:59,650 --> 00:10:01,137 And the White House said they relied entirely 217 00:10:01,137 --> 00:10:03,155 on CIA talking points. 218 00:10:03,155 --> 00:10:05,090 - [informant] The non-response 219 00:10:05,090 --> 00:10:07,326 to Benghazi was a deliberate decision. 220 00:10:07,326 --> 00:10:09,192 It wasn't an oversight. 221 00:10:09,192 --> 00:10:11,480 And it was because there was an illegal covert 222 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:13,177 weapons program being run there. 223 00:10:13,177 --> 00:10:16,090 The community writ large; the special forces community, 224 00:10:16,090 --> 00:10:17,680 the counter-terrorism community, 225 00:10:17,680 --> 00:10:19,898 the intelligence community was aware of what was going on. 226 00:10:19,898 --> 00:10:22,419 Several members, even the leadership of the Republican party 227 00:10:22,419 --> 00:10:23,950 were aware what was going on. 228 00:10:23,950 --> 00:10:27,160 What you have was the bipartisan corruption. 229 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:29,953 And this bipartisan corruption was something 230 00:10:29,953 --> 00:10:31,653 that I think Flynn was well aware. 231 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:35,293 Where the intelligence committee was no longer 232 00:10:35,293 --> 00:10:36,499 necessarily servicing the country, 233 00:10:36,499 --> 00:10:39,160 it was servicing the Obama regime itself. 234 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:40,760 - We haven't put any demands on them. 235 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:44,062 We have used this soft power approach. 236 00:10:44,062 --> 00:10:46,090 - [Informant] Mike Flynn is viewed 237 00:10:46,090 --> 00:10:46,970 as the consummate disruptor. 238 00:10:46,970 --> 00:10:49,710 And now he was going to be in a position 239 00:10:49,710 --> 00:10:52,601 to bring that disruption to the entire 240 00:10:52,601 --> 00:10:55,270 national security community. 241 00:10:55,270 --> 00:10:58,180 So he's moved up a level and his ability to impact 242 00:10:58,180 --> 00:10:59,790 is now gonna be much more widespread. 243 00:10:59,790 --> 00:11:03,310 And of course this absolutely terrifies 244 00:11:03,310 --> 00:11:05,370 the Central Intelligence Agency. 245 00:11:05,370 --> 00:11:10,370 It terrifies the FBI because somebody who knows 246 00:11:10,735 --> 00:11:12,860 where all the secrets are is now gonna be 247 00:11:12,860 --> 00:11:15,510 in a position to really harness that knowledge, 248 00:11:15,510 --> 00:11:17,123 to disrupt things. 249 00:11:17,123 --> 00:11:18,692 - He's the former director of the DIA. 250 00:11:18,692 --> 00:11:21,220 He knew where the bodies were buried. 251 00:11:21,220 --> 00:11:22,310 He knew the corruption. 252 00:11:22,310 --> 00:11:23,180 He knew the lies. 253 00:11:23,180 --> 00:11:26,400 He knew the perversion of the threat environment. 254 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:28,400 - He knew what was going on and he objected. 255 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:33,400 He knew about the machinations by the Obama administration 256 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:36,650 and the West generally to support terrorists in Syria 257 00:11:36,650 --> 00:11:39,420 in their crazed effort to take out Assad. 258 00:11:39,420 --> 00:11:41,620 Of course a lot of that was being organized out of Libya. 259 00:11:41,620 --> 00:11:43,650 - [Reporter] When he spoke up against the Obama 260 00:11:43,650 --> 00:11:45,470 administration and said, look, just because 261 00:11:45,470 --> 00:11:47,520 you've killed Osama Bin Laden 262 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:51,090 doesn't mean that you've stopped radical Islamic movements 263 00:11:51,090 --> 00:11:54,300 and General Flynn predicted the rise of Islamic extremists. 264 00:11:54,300 --> 00:11:56,390 - I'm done trying to convince our president 265 00:11:56,390 --> 00:11:58,180 to actually define this enemy. 266 00:11:58,180 --> 00:11:59,380 We know what it is. 267 00:11:59,380 --> 00:12:01,460 It's radical Islamic terrorism. 268 00:12:01,460 --> 00:12:02,293 They are vicious. 269 00:12:02,293 --> 00:12:03,190 They're barbaric. 270 00:12:03,190 --> 00:12:05,330 They are on the march. - They didn't like Mike Flynn. 271 00:12:05,330 --> 00:12:06,934 Remember Barack Obama fired Mike Flynn 272 00:12:06,934 --> 00:12:08,530 because he was a rattle riser. 273 00:12:08,530 --> 00:12:10,070 - [Informant] Reason that Flynn had been fired 274 00:12:10,070 --> 00:12:13,000 is because he was speaking the truth about ISIS. 275 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:14,840 The straw that broke the camel's back 276 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:16,490 was what's now been very well known 277 00:12:16,490 --> 00:12:17,396 as this testimony that Flynn did. 278 00:12:17,396 --> 00:12:19,890 It was the global threat testimony 279 00:12:19,890 --> 00:12:21,424 where all of the heads of the intelligence agencies, 280 00:12:21,424 --> 00:12:25,144 John Brendan, Jim Comey, all of the people 281 00:12:25,144 --> 00:12:26,933 that later on would be part of the effort 282 00:12:26,933 --> 00:12:29,984 to take Michael Flynn down and ultimately 283 00:12:29,984 --> 00:12:30,974 take Trump down. 284 00:12:30,974 --> 00:12:32,675 Flynn had been raising the alarm 285 00:12:32,675 --> 00:12:35,593 about how the Obama administration 286 00:12:35,593 --> 00:12:39,070 was not taking the necessary steps to protect 287 00:12:39,070 --> 00:12:41,126 the American people from the growing Islamic threat. 288 00:12:41,126 --> 00:12:44,330 And, Flynn was told before he went into that testimony 289 00:12:44,330 --> 00:12:49,330 do not say anything about the fact that ISIS is resurgent. 290 00:12:49,433 --> 00:12:51,350 He decided I'm not gonna lie. 291 00:12:51,350 --> 00:12:53,170 You know, I need to be very, very honest 292 00:12:53,170 --> 00:12:54,125 with the American people, 293 00:12:54,125 --> 00:12:59,125 - They are increasingly adapting to an environment 294 00:12:59,980 --> 00:13:01,864 that is actually benefiting them. 295 00:13:01,864 --> 00:13:05,810 And that to me is a increasingly growing threat. 296 00:13:05,810 --> 00:13:08,950 - [Informant] After that, Jim clapper calls Mike Vickers up 297 00:13:08,950 --> 00:13:11,653 and Clapper tells Vickers, you need to fire Flynn. 298 00:13:11,653 --> 00:13:14,540 Clapper had received this instruction directly 299 00:13:14,540 --> 00:13:18,363 from Susan Rice at the request of Barack Obama. 300 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:21,390 In any event they tell him that you're gonna have 301 00:13:21,390 --> 00:13:22,350 to retire early. 302 00:13:22,350 --> 00:13:25,000 We need you to leave the Defense Intelligence Agency. 303 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:28,912 - Of all the people who came into the White House, 304 00:13:28,912 --> 00:13:32,653 Mike Flynn was the most dangerous to the swamp. 305 00:13:33,870 --> 00:13:35,080 He had to be taken out. 306 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:37,530 They knew he knew what the intelligence community was up to. 307 00:13:37,530 --> 00:13:41,670 And he knew what Obama had done to undermine 308 00:13:41,670 --> 00:13:44,260 our national security for eight years. 309 00:13:44,260 --> 00:13:49,260 He knew why Obama did what he did with Iran. 310 00:13:50,237 --> 00:13:53,560 $140 billion released a regime 311 00:13:53,560 --> 00:13:56,660 that every Friday says destroy America, 312 00:13:56,660 --> 00:13:58,472 that you're actually facilitating the rise 313 00:13:58,472 --> 00:14:01,370 of the theocratic Uranian regime that's 314 00:14:01,370 --> 00:14:04,370 taking our naval personnel hostage. 315 00:14:04,370 --> 00:14:06,700 - President Obama negotiated the JCPOA, 316 00:14:06,700 --> 00:14:07,980 the Iran nuclear deal. 317 00:14:07,980 --> 00:14:10,013 It was fatally flawed on so many different levels. 318 00:14:10,013 --> 00:14:13,502 So when you have somebody like a General Flynn 319 00:14:13,502 --> 00:14:17,320 serving at the highest levels in the room, 320 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:20,685 making recommendations, weighing in on work product 321 00:14:20,685 --> 00:14:24,830 and telling the other 97% of a story on a weak 322 00:14:24,830 --> 00:14:28,380 flawed approach to a particular conflict that ends up 323 00:14:28,380 --> 00:14:29,923 leading to increased resentment. 324 00:14:29,923 --> 00:14:32,630 And I think there are people inside the West Wing 325 00:14:32,630 --> 00:14:36,870 right up to president Obama who became anti-Michael Flynn 326 00:14:36,870 --> 00:14:38,010 for all the wrong reasons. 327 00:14:38,010 --> 00:14:41,200 It's a Chicago style politics approach 328 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:43,810 that was brought here from Illinois 329 00:14:43,810 --> 00:14:45,754 into the White House for two terms. 330 00:14:45,754 --> 00:14:49,505 And they were trying to kick a few people, 331 00:14:49,505 --> 00:14:52,900 burn a few things down before they left office. 332 00:14:52,900 --> 00:14:54,554 - The Obama administration earlier today 333 00:14:54,554 --> 00:14:57,313 allowed the United Nations to pass a resolution 334 00:14:57,313 --> 00:14:59,914 condemning Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem 335 00:14:59,914 --> 00:15:02,885 and the West bank has, "A flagrant violation 336 00:15:02,885 --> 00:15:04,460 of international law." 337 00:15:04,460 --> 00:15:07,060 - It was a shift in US foreign policy 338 00:15:07,060 --> 00:15:11,120 that was contradictory to the will of Congress. 339 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:13,960 It was contradictory to the will of the American people. 340 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:17,600 It made absolutely no sense, whatsoever. 341 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:20,480 It was really disgusting to watch it play 342 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:21,313 out the way it was. 343 00:15:21,313 --> 00:15:24,040 It was an effort to kind of burn down 344 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:26,760 our relationship before checking out. 345 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:30,200 - [Informant] He expelled 35 diplomats in the United States. 346 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:32,430 It was a silly act, 347 00:15:32,430 --> 00:15:35,610 unnecessarily provocative and it was grandstanding 348 00:15:35,610 --> 00:15:36,793 to no purpose. 349 00:15:40,641 --> 00:15:42,860 - For those who aren't familiar with it 350 00:15:42,860 --> 00:15:45,440 a federal government provides resources 351 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:49,260 for the last two candidates to establish transition teams 352 00:15:49,260 --> 00:15:52,180 to help their prospective presidential nominee 353 00:15:52,180 --> 00:15:54,320 take over government should they win. 354 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:56,120 - There's nothing wrong or unusual 355 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:58,290 about an incoming transition team 356 00:15:58,290 --> 00:16:02,631 talking to folks in other countries about foreign policy. 357 00:16:02,631 --> 00:16:04,689 Obama did it as he should do it. 358 00:16:04,689 --> 00:16:06,369 Flynn did what he should do 359 00:16:06,369 --> 00:16:09,730 and he diffused what really was a hot mess. 360 00:16:09,730 --> 00:16:11,650 - [Reporter] Flynn's calls were intercepted 361 00:16:11,650 --> 00:16:13,610 by the US intelligence community. 362 00:16:13,610 --> 00:16:16,649 Secret transcripts show Flynn did discuss the sanctions 363 00:16:16,649 --> 00:16:18,991 a potential violation of federal law 364 00:16:18,991 --> 00:16:22,840 prohibiting private citizens from engaging in diplomacy. 365 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,420 - From the very beginning, this conversation 366 00:16:25,420 --> 00:16:28,759 that General Flynn had with the Russian ambassador 367 00:16:28,759 --> 00:16:33,759 was about a UN resolution that was coming up. 368 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:37,650 And if you read the transcript General Flynn 369 00:16:37,650 --> 00:16:39,140 had a perfect phone call. 370 00:16:39,140 --> 00:16:41,870 He was advocating for the United States. 371 00:16:41,870 --> 00:16:44,120 It's exactly what you'd want someone to say. 372 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:45,191 Let's deescalate this. 373 00:16:45,191 --> 00:16:49,070 Let's not try to make it worse than what it is. 374 00:16:49,070 --> 00:16:52,440 - So you would want the incoming national security director 375 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:54,750 to be talking to his counterparts in important, 376 00:16:54,750 --> 00:16:57,110 he didn't have to talk to, you know, whoever 377 00:16:57,110 --> 00:16:59,911 that NSA equivalent is in certain countries 378 00:16:59,911 --> 00:17:03,230 but the Russians, the Chinese, the Germans have 379 00:17:03,230 --> 00:17:06,761 the, our allies and important players in geopolitical sense, 380 00:17:06,761 --> 00:17:08,150 he needs to be talking to them. 381 00:17:08,150 --> 00:17:09,660 He's doing his job. 382 00:17:09,660 --> 00:17:12,210 And of course, you know, the intelligence agencies 383 00:17:12,210 --> 00:17:14,100 are listening to Kislyak's conversation 384 00:17:14,100 --> 00:17:15,658 that's kind of what they do. 385 00:17:15,658 --> 00:17:19,740 - I believe that if anyone inside of the United States 386 00:17:19,740 --> 00:17:23,867 government would be fully aware of US intelligence, 387 00:17:23,867 --> 00:17:26,760 collection capabilities, tactics 388 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:29,740 procedures, it would be somebody like a Michael Flynn. 389 00:17:29,740 --> 00:17:33,190 - Flynn has been in the intelligence world 390 00:17:33,190 --> 00:17:35,870 therefore, he knew that every single phone call 391 00:17:35,870 --> 00:17:39,350 on an open civilian phone is intercepted. 392 00:17:39,350 --> 00:17:41,799 Therefore nobody could suspect that he was somehow 393 00:17:41,799 --> 00:17:44,946 plotting because he wouldn't use the phone, would you? 394 00:17:44,946 --> 00:17:48,039 But he didn't realize how determined they were. 395 00:17:48,039 --> 00:17:52,140 They pretended not to know what everybody in the field knows 396 00:17:52,140 --> 00:17:54,548 that when you telephone the Russian ambassador 397 00:17:54,548 --> 00:17:57,650 you're not meeting him in a park at night, 398 00:17:57,650 --> 00:18:02,650 you telephone him, you are basically telling the US system, 399 00:18:03,810 --> 00:18:06,970 the intelligence people, what you want them to hear 400 00:18:06,970 --> 00:18:08,140 what you're say. 401 00:18:08,140 --> 00:18:10,890 (dramatic music) 402 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:18,548 - Rather than say, okay, there's a new president. 403 00:18:18,548 --> 00:18:21,040 And let's just hand the files over 404 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:23,530 and do a peaceful transition. 405 00:18:23,530 --> 00:18:26,734 They really wanted to mess with the incoming president 406 00:18:26,734 --> 00:18:30,020 at a time when he was the most vulnerable, 407 00:18:30,020 --> 00:18:32,569 which was right after the election 408 00:18:32,569 --> 00:18:34,668 and his team was preparing. 409 00:18:34,668 --> 00:18:37,940 And so this culminated with attacks on General Flynn. 410 00:18:37,940 --> 00:18:40,010 When General Flynn was doing exactly 411 00:18:40,010 --> 00:18:42,059 what Susan Rice and Samantha Power admitted 412 00:18:42,059 --> 00:18:46,090 in house testimony that they were doing in their transition. 413 00:18:46,090 --> 00:18:47,839 If you read the transcripts Susan Rice admits, 414 00:18:47,839 --> 00:18:49,617 this is what she did. 415 00:18:49,617 --> 00:18:51,760 Of course, she had a transition period. 416 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:54,436 Of course, they talked to other countries. 417 00:18:54,436 --> 00:18:56,849 If you weren't talking to other countries, 418 00:18:56,849 --> 00:18:59,120 you weren't doing your job. 419 00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:03,100 You were preparing to take over the national security 420 00:19:03,100 --> 00:19:06,103 apparatus of the greatest country in the world. 421 00:19:07,250 --> 00:19:08,940 - Tensions get unnecessarily high 422 00:19:08,940 --> 00:19:10,220 with a nuclear armed superpower. 423 00:19:10,220 --> 00:19:12,200 You don't necessarily know where things are gonna go. 424 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:14,200 So it's probably for the best to try to keep things 425 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:15,330 on a low. 426 00:19:15,330 --> 00:19:18,610 - In 2015, Putin had said some complimentary things 427 00:19:18,610 --> 00:19:20,391 about then candidate, Donald Trump. 428 00:19:20,391 --> 00:19:21,682 - Donald Trump, 429 00:19:21,682 --> 00:19:23,590 (Vladimir speaks in a foreign language) 430 00:19:23,590 --> 00:19:26,530 - [Reporter] After Vladimir Putin, praised Donald Trump 431 00:19:26,530 --> 00:19:30,161 as, "Undoubtedly a bright and talented person." 432 00:19:30,161 --> 00:19:31,860 - [President Trump] When people call you brilliant 433 00:19:31,860 --> 00:19:34,040 it's always good especially when the person 434 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:34,940 heads up Russia. 435 00:19:34,940 --> 00:19:36,420 - Candidate Donald Trump responded 436 00:19:36,420 --> 00:19:38,060 with saying nice things about him. 437 00:19:38,060 --> 00:19:40,724 He has a total absolute understanding of who Putin is. 438 00:19:40,724 --> 00:19:43,120 He knows he's a killer. 439 00:19:43,120 --> 00:19:45,263 He knows he's an amoral man. 440 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:47,810 He's somebody we have to deal. 441 00:19:47,810 --> 00:19:49,300 Putin maybe somebody you wouldn't want to deal 442 00:19:49,300 --> 00:19:51,602 with personally but when I represent 320 million people 443 00:19:51,602 --> 00:19:55,840 he has a nuclear weapon, I better get to know him. 444 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:57,612 But they saw that and they could exploit 445 00:19:57,612 --> 00:20:00,260 those comments that Trump had made, 446 00:20:00,260 --> 00:20:01,540 which really meant nothing. 447 00:20:01,540 --> 00:20:04,903 They were less damaging than the comment 448 00:20:04,903 --> 00:20:07,540 that President Obama had made 449 00:20:07,540 --> 00:20:09,532 just a few years earlier when he told Medvedev 450 00:20:09,532 --> 00:20:12,074 who was sort of Putin's flunky. 451 00:20:12,074 --> 00:20:15,870 He said, tell Vladimir, when the election is over 452 00:20:15,870 --> 00:20:17,350 I can go easier on him. 453 00:20:17,350 --> 00:20:18,323 Wow. 454 00:20:18,323 --> 00:20:21,940 Had Trump ever said that, they'd impeach him. 455 00:20:21,940 --> 00:20:22,773 Right away. 456 00:20:22,773 --> 00:20:24,590 The New York Times would have done an editorial 457 00:20:24,590 --> 00:20:27,110 the next day and said impeach president, 458 00:20:27,110 --> 00:20:28,510 wants to sell our a country. 459 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:31,034 - They had the picture of Donald Trump. 460 00:20:31,034 --> 00:20:35,651 And in that picture, they will, they refuse to admit 461 00:20:35,651 --> 00:20:40,651 that part of Donald Trump could be geopolitical. 462 00:20:40,890 --> 00:20:43,760 Therefore, that of sinister explanations. 463 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:46,800 like his Putin's agent, he was bribed, 464 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:49,330 he was corrupted, he was blackmailed and whatever. 465 00:20:49,330 --> 00:20:53,610 And that is how the FBI people were going to get him. 466 00:20:53,610 --> 00:20:54,770 - You look at this White House now 467 00:20:54,770 --> 00:20:56,600 and it's hard to imagine two FBI agents 468 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:57,610 sending up in the set room. 469 00:20:57,610 --> 00:20:59,350 How did that happen? 470 00:20:59,350 --> 00:21:00,252 - I sent them. 471 00:21:00,252 --> 00:21:03,085 (audience laughs) 472 00:21:05,260 --> 00:21:07,430 Something I probably wouldn't have done 473 00:21:07,430 --> 00:21:11,210 or maybe gotten away with in a more organized investigation, 474 00:21:11,210 --> 00:21:13,980 more organized administration in the George W. Bush 475 00:21:13,980 --> 00:21:16,800 administration for example, or the Obama administration. 476 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:18,492 And in both of those administrations there was process 477 00:21:18,492 --> 00:21:23,492 and so if the FBI wanted to send agents into the White House 478 00:21:24,370 --> 00:21:27,292 itself to interview a senior official you would work 479 00:21:27,292 --> 00:21:29,950 through the White House counsel and there'd be discussions 480 00:21:29,950 --> 00:21:31,231 and approvals, and it would be there. 481 00:21:31,231 --> 00:21:33,412 And I thought it's early enough, 482 00:21:33,412 --> 00:21:35,583 let's just send a couple of guys over. 483 00:21:35,583 --> 00:21:38,002 - James Comey and his band of thugs 484 00:21:38,002 --> 00:21:40,710 at the FBI under his leadership, 485 00:21:40,710 --> 00:21:43,010 McCabe, Strzok, Paige. 486 00:21:43,010 --> 00:21:44,470 Comey bragged of this. 487 00:21:44,470 --> 00:21:46,500 - Oh, I, I pulled that off. 488 00:21:46,500 --> 00:21:48,790 I basically played a trick and got away with it. 489 00:21:48,790 --> 00:21:50,900 If it hadn't been in a more experienced administration 490 00:21:50,900 --> 00:21:52,037 I wouldn't have gotten away with it. 491 00:21:52,037 --> 00:21:53,880 And the audience was, (chuckles) 492 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:57,070 oh, isn't it, how funny to set up an innocent man. 493 00:21:57,070 --> 00:21:58,960 - James Comey knew the protocol from the FBI 494 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:01,465 was to call over the White House counsel 495 00:22:01,465 --> 00:22:02,650 and request a meeting with the national security advisor 496 00:22:02,650 --> 00:22:04,079 or any other senior staff. 497 00:22:04,079 --> 00:22:06,391 Mike Flynn sat down with those two FBI agents. 498 00:22:06,391 --> 00:22:09,940 They're then supposed to write what are called 302. 499 00:22:09,940 --> 00:22:13,700 - A 302 is an FBI report of an interview. 500 00:22:13,700 --> 00:22:15,010 They interviewed General Flynn, 501 00:22:15,010 --> 00:22:19,920 just two days into his new term as national security advisor 502 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:22,510 for the newly inaugurated president. 503 00:22:22,510 --> 00:22:25,303 And they did it in what was a complete ambush. 504 00:22:26,928 --> 00:22:28,735 - [Informant] The day that Mike Flynn had the interview 505 00:22:28,735 --> 00:22:32,010 with Pete Strzok and Joe Pientka 506 00:22:32,010 --> 00:22:36,250 several members of the national security staff 507 00:22:36,250 --> 00:22:39,080 including the Intelligence Program's office 508 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:41,900 were on Mike Flynn's calendar for briefing. 509 00:22:41,900 --> 00:22:44,780 Ezra was part of that team that was gonna be briefing 510 00:22:44,780 --> 00:22:45,776 Mike Flynn on that day. 511 00:22:45,776 --> 00:22:47,120 - [Informant] Flynn had brought in 512 00:22:47,120 --> 00:22:49,810 a young guy named Ezra Cohen to work 513 00:22:49,810 --> 00:22:52,416 for him as he went about trying to reset 514 00:22:52,416 --> 00:22:54,256 the intelligence community's focus. 515 00:22:54,256 --> 00:22:56,004 - [Informant] He arrived at Flynn's office 516 00:22:56,004 --> 00:23:00,260 and as he explained it, he's standing there and he's waiting 517 00:23:00,260 --> 00:23:02,310 for the meeting to begin and the time is running over 518 00:23:02,310 --> 00:23:05,090 and he turns to Flynn's assistant 519 00:23:05,090 --> 00:23:07,797 and he says, "Who's the General in there with?" 520 00:23:08,730 --> 00:23:11,170 And the assistant says, "The General, 521 00:23:11,170 --> 00:23:14,257 he's in there for a FBI intelligence briefing." 522 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:17,420 This was very confusing to Ezra because in fact, 523 00:23:17,420 --> 00:23:19,780 the intelligence briefing that was supposed 524 00:23:19,780 --> 00:23:22,873 to be with the FBI was set up for the following day. 525 00:23:24,619 --> 00:23:26,610 Ezra's waiting there and he starts getting 526 00:23:26,610 --> 00:23:27,915 this incredible sinking feeling 527 00:23:27,915 --> 00:23:31,610 knowing that Mike Flynn is meeting by himself 528 00:23:31,610 --> 00:23:33,190 with two FBI agents. 529 00:23:33,190 --> 00:23:34,760 Ezra immediately gets on the phone 530 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:36,704 and calls John Eisenberg, the White House 531 00:23:36,704 --> 00:23:39,330 National Security Council legal advisor. 532 00:23:39,330 --> 00:23:40,875 John Eisenberg is furious. 533 00:23:40,875 --> 00:23:44,095 John races down to Mike Flynn's office. 534 00:23:44,095 --> 00:23:47,050 And as he arrives, Pete Strzok and Joe Pientka 535 00:23:47,050 --> 00:23:48,533 are leaving the interview. 536 00:23:50,130 --> 00:23:52,830 Following day after the fateful Flynn interview 537 00:23:52,830 --> 00:23:55,690 there was the scheduled intelligence briefing. 538 00:23:55,690 --> 00:23:59,154 At the interview was General Flynn, K.T. McFarland, 539 00:23:59,154 --> 00:24:02,730 Keith Kellog, Ezra Cohen-Watnick, John Eisenberg. 540 00:24:02,730 --> 00:24:06,663 And from the FBI were Bill Priestap and Andy McCabe. 541 00:24:08,140 --> 00:24:09,780 McCabe at the end of the meeting 542 00:24:09,780 --> 00:24:12,670 goes to Flynn's desk and he says, "General, 543 00:24:12,670 --> 00:24:14,110 do you mind if I have a word with you?" 544 00:24:14,110 --> 00:24:15,840 Flynn says, "Sure, absolutely. 545 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:17,100 What's up, Andy?" 546 00:24:17,100 --> 00:24:19,633 McCabe pulls out the draft interview notes 547 00:24:19,633 --> 00:24:21,935 from the Flynn interview out of his lock back. 548 00:24:21,935 --> 00:24:24,460 And he says to Flynn, waving it around, 549 00:24:24,460 --> 00:24:26,270 I just wanna let you know, we've decided 550 00:24:26,270 --> 00:24:27,880 there's nothing here and we're considering 551 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:29,270 this matter closed. 552 00:24:29,270 --> 00:24:31,890 Of course, we know that this was a complete lie. 553 00:24:31,890 --> 00:24:33,783 One of McCabe's many lies. 554 00:24:34,930 --> 00:24:38,330 After McCabe left Flynn called back and the group 555 00:24:38,330 --> 00:24:40,480 of NSC staffers that had been there, 556 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:44,327 pointed to the seat that McCabe was in and said, 557 00:24:44,327 --> 00:24:47,427 "That is a very bad man and he's out to get me." 558 00:24:50,670 --> 00:24:52,151 - [Staff Member] Two or three days before he resigned, 559 00:24:52,151 --> 00:24:54,511 we got a phone call from the Washington Post 560 00:24:54,511 --> 00:24:58,601 and a reporter has said that he had just re-interviewed 561 00:24:58,601 --> 00:25:02,330 Mike Flynn and Mike Flynn made statements 562 00:25:02,330 --> 00:25:04,520 about his phone call to the Russian ambassador, 563 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:06,519 said that he hadn't discussed sanctions. 564 00:25:06,519 --> 00:25:08,917 But the Washington Post reporter says 565 00:25:08,917 --> 00:25:11,260 but we have a transcript, 566 00:25:11,260 --> 00:25:14,460 well they were read a transcript that says the opposite. 567 00:25:14,460 --> 00:25:15,993 So we go into General Flynn's office 568 00:25:15,993 --> 00:25:17,550 and he said, you know, I've gone over and over. 569 00:25:17,550 --> 00:25:19,120 I can't remember which phone call 570 00:25:19,120 --> 00:25:20,823 I had, what conversation in. 571 00:25:21,670 --> 00:25:24,933 What really struck me was, wait a minute, 572 00:25:24,933 --> 00:25:27,274 they're talking about a phone call 573 00:25:27,274 --> 00:25:30,410 that would have been classified at the highest level. 574 00:25:30,410 --> 00:25:33,213 It was so highly classified I didn't even know 575 00:25:33,213 --> 00:25:37,890 that transcript existed much less was cleared to read it. 576 00:25:37,890 --> 00:25:42,173 And yet somehow the Washington Post had a copy of it. 577 00:25:45,100 --> 00:25:46,743 - [Informant] When the David Ignatius article came out of 578 00:25:46,743 --> 00:25:51,680 the Washington Post, Mike Flynn was summoned by Mike Pence. 579 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,130 He gave us this indication that something wasn't right, 580 00:25:54,130 --> 00:25:57,223 and what he was referring to was the fact 581 00:25:57,223 --> 00:26:02,223 that Pence had bought into this assault 582 00:26:02,575 --> 00:26:04,200 from David Ignatius. 583 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:05,240 - That story then broke. 584 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:06,890 Let me put it this way, it had an external effect 585 00:26:06,890 --> 00:26:07,730 and an internal effect. 586 00:26:07,730 --> 00:26:09,783 And the internal effect was a lot of people 587 00:26:09,783 --> 00:26:12,380 were upset about it. 588 00:26:12,380 --> 00:26:14,350 It was basically the chief of staff 589 00:26:14,350 --> 00:26:15,870 and other various senior advisors were having 590 00:26:15,870 --> 00:26:19,003 these conversations and they continued through the weekend. 591 00:26:19,003 --> 00:26:21,560 - [Informant] So Flynn is really coming 592 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:22,910 under an enormous amount of pressure 593 00:26:22,910 --> 00:26:26,099 from the vice president to explain this call from Kislyak. 594 00:26:26,099 --> 00:26:28,990 It seemed very unusual that the vice president 595 00:26:28,990 --> 00:26:31,980 would be taking this level of interest in this. 596 00:26:31,980 --> 00:26:33,950 We now know that it was because he had come 597 00:26:33,950 --> 00:26:36,260 under the influence of his chief of staff 598 00:26:36,260 --> 00:26:39,285 who of course was compromised by Comey's inner circle. 599 00:26:39,285 --> 00:26:40,272 - Informant] They're constantly 600 00:26:40,272 --> 00:26:42,570 making Lieutenant-General Flynn 601 00:26:42,570 --> 00:26:44,780 radioactive to a point where I'm sure 602 00:26:44,780 --> 00:26:46,457 the vice president and president are saying to themselves, 603 00:26:46,457 --> 00:26:49,162 how do we, how do we get this calmed down? 604 00:26:49,162 --> 00:26:52,913 Maybe if we get rid of Flynn it will calm down. 605 00:26:52,913 --> 00:26:55,980 - I could tell people were out to get him fired. 606 00:26:55,980 --> 00:26:57,640 But I ran around and I started trying to talk 607 00:26:57,640 --> 00:26:58,550 to anybody who would listen. 608 00:26:58,550 --> 00:27:00,216 I was like, you can't do this. This is dumb. 609 00:27:00,216 --> 00:27:01,171 This isn't, he doesn't deserve this. 610 00:27:01,171 --> 00:27:03,292 And also I was trying to appeal to people's self interest 611 00:27:03,292 --> 00:27:06,080 in saying, if you give the president's enemies 612 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:08,450 a scalp like this so early over something so trivial 613 00:27:08,450 --> 00:27:09,840 you're not feeding the beast. 614 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:11,412 The beast doesn't get fat and happy and go to sleep. 615 00:27:11,412 --> 00:27:13,800 It brays for more blood. 616 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:14,983 This will not turn this off. 617 00:27:14,983 --> 00:27:17,037 This will make everything worse. 618 00:27:17,037 --> 00:27:19,314 I can remember at about 6.30 that night 619 00:27:19,314 --> 00:27:21,962 all of us, myself, K.T, General Flynn 620 00:27:21,962 --> 00:27:24,943 and the two executive assistants all in his office. 621 00:27:24,943 --> 00:27:27,090 We were urging him to try to see if he could just go 622 00:27:27,090 --> 00:27:28,110 and see him. 623 00:27:28,110 --> 00:27:29,482 Go to the residence and see the president. 624 00:27:29,482 --> 00:27:31,640 And he wouldn't, he wouldn't try. 625 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:33,170 He's like, I'm not gonna go and, 626 00:27:33,170 --> 00:27:34,500 you know, he has to make his own decision 627 00:27:34,500 --> 00:27:36,070 and I'm gonna leave it to him and I will abide 628 00:27:36,070 --> 00:27:37,041 by whatever his decision is. 629 00:27:37,041 --> 00:27:39,201 My sense was always that the president was reluctant 630 00:27:39,201 --> 00:27:40,380 to do it. 631 00:27:40,380 --> 00:27:43,010 Really liked and still likes General Flynn. 632 00:27:43,010 --> 00:27:44,180 Got along well in the campaign. 633 00:27:44,180 --> 00:27:46,012 They clicked in a way that he didn't click 634 00:27:46,012 --> 00:27:49,121 with any of his other small team of foreign policy advisors 635 00:27:49,121 --> 00:27:51,280 and really felt the loss. 636 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:52,823 And you could almost tell he immediately regretted it. 637 00:27:52,823 --> 00:27:56,670 And on Monday at like eight o'clock at night, 638 00:27:56,670 --> 00:27:59,440 I think, it was when General Flynn resigned. 639 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:00,940 - We begin with a major shakeup inside 640 00:28:00,940 --> 00:28:03,930 the Trump White House, national security advisor, 641 00:28:03,930 --> 00:28:05,751 Michael Flynn, forced to resign 642 00:28:05,751 --> 00:28:07,809 after what the administration is calling 643 00:28:07,809 --> 00:28:09,380 an erosion of trust. 644 00:28:09,380 --> 00:28:12,202 At issue, Flynn's call with the Russian ambassador 645 00:28:12,202 --> 00:28:14,059 on the same day, president Obama 646 00:28:14,059 --> 00:28:16,910 was imposing new sanctions on Russia 647 00:28:16,910 --> 00:28:18,860 because it wasn't- - Once Flynn was gone, 648 00:28:18,860 --> 00:28:22,350 there was nobody to ride herd 649 00:28:22,350 --> 00:28:25,860 over what the operation that they had carried over 650 00:28:25,860 --> 00:28:27,729 into the administration was going to do. 651 00:28:27,729 --> 00:28:30,719 And so they got basically carte blanche. 652 00:28:30,719 --> 00:28:33,157 And from there they began, they were spying 653 00:28:33,157 --> 00:28:36,270 on the president, his family, his associates, 654 00:28:36,270 --> 00:28:37,746 spying on the administration. 655 00:28:37,746 --> 00:28:41,268 When Flynn left, literally within two days of that, 656 00:28:41,268 --> 00:28:45,930 Ezra first discovered this enormous number of unmaskings 657 00:28:45,930 --> 00:28:48,818 that had been done, over 300 of them. 658 00:28:48,818 --> 00:28:51,137 - [Informant] At the end of January in 2017, 659 00:28:51,137 --> 00:28:56,137 Ezra Cohen was asked to review a very, very benign policy 660 00:28:57,490 --> 00:29:01,046 on how to unmask US persons' names. 661 00:29:01,046 --> 00:29:05,943 Ezra asked one of his subordinates to get an example 662 00:29:05,943 --> 00:29:09,246 of how the unmaskings had been kept track 663 00:29:09,246 --> 00:29:12,525 of at the White House so that they could write this 664 00:29:12,525 --> 00:29:15,180 into the policy. 665 00:29:15,180 --> 00:29:17,620 When he came back the next day, 666 00:29:17,620 --> 00:29:20,710 Ezra came to his office and he found 667 00:29:20,710 --> 00:29:24,270 the phone book size stack of documents on his desk. 668 00:29:24,270 --> 00:29:27,595 And he was told that this stack of documents 669 00:29:27,595 --> 00:29:31,114 was the unmasking log from the Obama White House, 670 00:29:31,114 --> 00:29:34,070 just for the past six months. 671 00:29:34,070 --> 00:29:36,254 Ezra, after consulting with his staff 672 00:29:36,254 --> 00:29:38,700 decided that the prudent thing to do would be 673 00:29:38,700 --> 00:29:41,974 to notify the NSC legal advisor, John Eisenberg. 674 00:29:41,974 --> 00:29:44,760 He came back to Ezra several days later 675 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:48,744 in early February, 2017 and asked him to retrieve 676 00:29:48,744 --> 00:29:53,744 10 of the reports that had been unmasked by Susan Rice. 677 00:29:54,030 --> 00:29:55,780 As the reports came off the printer, 678 00:29:55,780 --> 00:29:57,934 they began to look at them in Ezra's office. 679 00:29:57,934 --> 00:30:02,934 It immediately became clear that their worst fears 680 00:30:03,230 --> 00:30:04,063 were coming true. 681 00:30:04,063 --> 00:30:06,717 That the reports, the intelligence that Susan Rice 682 00:30:06,717 --> 00:30:09,495 had unmasked, the names that she had unmasked 683 00:30:09,495 --> 00:30:11,915 were the names of Trump campaign officials 684 00:30:11,915 --> 00:30:15,515 and it dawned on them that effectively Susan Rice 685 00:30:15,515 --> 00:30:19,365 in her capacity as Obama's national security advisor 686 00:30:19,365 --> 00:30:22,720 was using her power and authority 687 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:27,524 to surreptitiously spy on and obtain non-public information 688 00:30:27,524 --> 00:30:31,360 about the activities of her political rivals 689 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:33,043 in the Trump transition team. 690 00:30:36,734 --> 00:30:37,990 - [Informant] Ezra's continuing 691 00:30:37,990 --> 00:30:39,691 the mission after Flynn's departure, 692 00:30:39,691 --> 00:30:42,550 that really broke the dam open. 693 00:30:42,550 --> 00:30:45,261 After the brief the president in the front office, 694 00:30:45,261 --> 00:30:47,560 there was probably a week or two 695 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:49,560 where they're just trying to get their heads around 696 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:50,740 what they were even looking at. 697 00:30:50,740 --> 00:30:52,350 It was so shocking. 698 00:30:52,350 --> 00:30:53,620 And they decided that they would engage 699 00:30:53,620 --> 00:30:57,660 with Devin and say, "Hey, do you know anything about this? 700 00:30:57,660 --> 00:30:58,493 What is going on here?" 701 00:30:58,493 --> 00:31:03,451 Devin Nunez being the one person elected to political office 702 00:31:03,451 --> 00:31:07,781 really stepped up to help, kind of peel the onion 703 00:31:07,781 --> 00:31:09,443 open if you will. 704 00:31:13,917 --> 00:31:14,750 - Good afternoon. 705 00:31:14,750 --> 00:31:18,810 I know a lot of you are not from the US Congress 706 00:31:18,810 --> 00:31:20,760 so I haven't had a chance to brief a lot of you 707 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:24,100 in the past but just in order to keep you all fully updated 708 00:31:24,100 --> 00:31:26,811 on what's happening with this investigation. 709 00:31:26,811 --> 00:31:30,810 Today, I briefed the president on the concerns 710 00:31:30,810 --> 00:31:33,311 that I had about incidental collection 711 00:31:33,311 --> 00:31:37,278 and how it relates to President-Elect Trump 712 00:31:37,278 --> 00:31:40,158 and his transition team. 713 00:31:40,158 --> 00:31:43,090 I mean, I knew it when I saw those, 714 00:31:43,090 --> 00:31:45,300 one of those transcripts leaked. 715 00:31:45,300 --> 00:31:47,963 I knew that we had a big problem on our hands. 716 00:31:49,521 --> 00:31:52,510 In this very room luckily we had some Patriots 717 00:31:52,510 --> 00:31:55,240 that came forward from the intelligence community 718 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,040 and said, look they were doing some really bad things 719 00:31:58,040 --> 00:31:58,873 with unmaskings. 720 00:31:58,873 --> 00:32:00,230 Well, you need to know about this 721 00:32:00,230 --> 00:32:02,240 and essentially showed me how to go find it. 722 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:05,463 I'm not gonna get into too much of the unmasking 723 00:32:05,463 --> 00:32:10,463 of my sources because there are patriots 724 00:32:10,650 --> 00:32:12,800 and you know, to this day, nobody knows who they are 725 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,800 and I'm gonna keep it that way. 726 00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,660 The morons in the press think they know who it is. 727 00:32:17,660 --> 00:32:19,870 We're the House Intelligence Committee 728 00:32:19,870 --> 00:32:23,101 we just deal with the 17 intelligence agencies. 729 00:32:23,101 --> 00:32:25,650 We had, you know, people that were very skilled 730 00:32:25,650 --> 00:32:28,205 in those areas, but we had no one that was really skilled 731 00:32:28,205 --> 00:32:30,380 at the Department of Justice. 732 00:32:30,380 --> 00:32:32,419 We gotta have somebody who can bust down the doors 733 00:32:32,419 --> 00:32:35,120 at the FBI and DOJ and we don't have that. 734 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:36,310 - Kash Patel. - Kash Patel. 735 00:32:36,310 --> 00:32:39,840 - [Reporter] Kash Patel, or Kash as he's known 736 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:41,050 in Washington. 737 00:32:41,050 --> 00:32:43,950 - Kash, I believe brought a very different energy 738 00:32:43,950 --> 00:32:45,180 to that team. 739 00:32:45,180 --> 00:32:47,367 As Jack Lang says, who's the communications director, 740 00:32:47,367 --> 00:32:50,050 Jack says, you know, is really relatively sleepy committee. 741 00:32:50,050 --> 00:32:52,359 We barely spoke to the press. 742 00:32:52,359 --> 00:32:54,300 You know, they're pretty easy going. 743 00:32:54,300 --> 00:32:57,200 They're mellow and here's Kash, man. 744 00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:01,260 He's an ethnic New Yorker from Queens, New York. 745 00:33:01,260 --> 00:33:04,750 Indian family who lived in Africa. 746 00:33:04,750 --> 00:33:09,670 And he just brought an entirely new energy to that team. 747 00:33:09,670 --> 00:33:12,450 - Kash was fundamental to gathering information 748 00:33:12,450 --> 00:33:13,283 and pushing this. 749 00:33:13,283 --> 00:33:14,799 He's got great instincts. 750 00:33:14,799 --> 00:33:17,877 This is a guy who really understands the players. 751 00:33:17,877 --> 00:33:20,420 Kash knows the intelligence community 752 00:33:20,420 --> 00:33:21,760 like I know the State Department. 753 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:26,760 - When he came in to talk to me and started walking me 754 00:33:27,130 --> 00:33:29,480 through like some of the problems that at DOJ 755 00:33:30,390 --> 00:33:33,217 just kinda big picture problems and almost on the spot 756 00:33:33,217 --> 00:33:35,770 I said, do you want a job? 757 00:33:35,770 --> 00:33:36,603 - I told Devin. 758 00:33:36,603 --> 00:33:38,864 I said, yeah, I'll do the, I'll take the job. 759 00:33:38,864 --> 00:33:42,570 But I was so upset at the lack of internal accountability 760 00:33:42,570 --> 00:33:44,539 at the DOJ and the FBI that I said 761 00:33:44,539 --> 00:33:47,097 we have to, whatever we find we're putting out. 762 00:33:47,097 --> 00:33:48,939 And I said look, if we find something that's bad, 763 00:33:48,939 --> 00:33:51,763 we're putting it out and he goes deal. 764 00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:56,563 I work closely with Trey Gowdy 765 00:33:56,563 --> 00:33:58,553 who was on the committee at the time. 766 00:33:58,553 --> 00:34:03,270 And, when I first met him, it was a memorable experience. 767 00:34:03,270 --> 00:34:05,521 He goes, 'cause he had just come off Benghazi 768 00:34:05,521 --> 00:34:07,960 and he said well, welcome to the Hill Kash. 769 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,271 This is where good investigations come to die. 770 00:34:10,271 --> 00:34:12,200 So we both started laughing. 771 00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:14,454 We honestly thought it would be an investigation 772 00:34:14,454 --> 00:34:16,723 that almost no one would talk about. 773 00:34:16,723 --> 00:34:18,523 - By the time March comes around, 774 00:34:18,523 --> 00:34:21,134 we have no intelligence products whatsoever 775 00:34:21,134 --> 00:34:23,450 to tie the Trump campaign to Russia. 776 00:34:23,450 --> 00:34:25,235 All we have is this dossier that supposedly 777 00:34:25,235 --> 00:34:27,414 they're looking into. 778 00:34:27,414 --> 00:34:30,414 (suspenseful music) 779 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,770 - So the Steele dossier, it would become 780 00:34:33,770 --> 00:34:36,430 the central document for the investigation. 781 00:34:36,430 --> 00:34:38,810 - And I remember reading it and as I'm driving home, 782 00:34:38,810 --> 00:34:41,170 I get on the phone and call my best friend 783 00:34:41,170 --> 00:34:42,467 in politics, Mark Meadows. 784 00:34:42,467 --> 00:34:44,060 And I'm like, Mark, this stinks. 785 00:34:44,060 --> 00:34:45,060 There's something going on. 786 00:34:45,060 --> 00:34:48,465 - As soon as I heard about the Steele dossier 787 00:34:48,465 --> 00:34:51,890 I downloaded a copy and looked at it and laughed. 788 00:34:51,890 --> 00:34:55,283 - If I saw something like the Steele dossier, 789 00:34:56,270 --> 00:34:58,600 immediately I'd put Steele under investigation. 790 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:00,420 I'd say, what the hell are you giving me this? 791 00:35:00,420 --> 00:35:01,880 This is, you know, National Inquirer. 792 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:03,150 I heard about it in the newspaper 793 00:35:03,150 --> 00:35:06,801 I said, "This is ridiculous that they would premise 794 00:35:06,801 --> 00:35:11,580 an intelligence investigation on what is clearly 795 00:35:11,580 --> 00:35:12,690 a piece of garbage." 796 00:35:12,690 --> 00:35:15,006 - Everybody in this town, in the swamp 797 00:35:15,006 --> 00:35:17,290 had that dossier, pretty much. 798 00:35:17,290 --> 00:35:19,050 All the left wing reporters 799 00:35:19,050 --> 00:35:20,880 and many high level reporters 800 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,820 at the highest media outlets were all shopped this dossier. 801 00:35:23,820 --> 00:35:27,587 In fact, they started, you know, producing fake news stories 802 00:35:27,587 --> 00:35:29,198 based off that dossier. 803 00:35:29,198 --> 00:35:32,295 - A big part of that New York Times interview 804 00:35:32,295 --> 00:35:37,250 they did with Trump focused on what's called the dossier. 805 00:35:37,250 --> 00:35:39,457 - Do you think that The original pee tape dossier 806 00:35:39,457 --> 00:35:41,318 will prove to be true? 807 00:35:41,318 --> 00:35:44,190 Well, we know what he's talking about. 808 00:35:44,190 --> 00:35:45,380 He's talking about Christopher 809 00:35:45,380 --> 00:35:46,420 Steele's- - Christopher Steele's 810 00:35:46,420 --> 00:35:47,900 dossier. - So when we went 811 00:35:47,900 --> 00:35:50,930 in to be briefed, it's called the gang of eight briefing. 812 00:35:50,930 --> 00:35:54,653 Around the first part of January of 2017. 813 00:35:54,653 --> 00:35:58,621 They came to present this intelligence community assessment. 814 00:35:58,621 --> 00:36:02,680 And at the end, they start talking about this information 815 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:04,154 about this dossier information. 816 00:36:04,154 --> 00:36:07,480 Very clearly I ask, where did this come from? 817 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:09,202 These are pretty serious accusations 818 00:36:09,202 --> 00:36:13,340 about the, anybody, right? 819 00:36:13,340 --> 00:36:15,660 You know, pee tapes and prostitution 820 00:36:15,660 --> 00:36:17,551 and Moscow hotel rooms, I mean, gosh, 821 00:36:17,551 --> 00:36:20,282 and like, why haven't we seen this? 822 00:36:20,282 --> 00:36:21,115 Right? 823 00:36:21,115 --> 00:36:22,890 Like why haven't we, somebody should have had this. 824 00:36:22,890 --> 00:36:25,170 You know, that was essentially the first time 825 00:36:25,170 --> 00:36:26,543 they lied and misled us. 826 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:32,461 - So the Steele dossier was out for a couple of months 827 00:36:32,461 --> 00:36:36,850 and I had read it a little bit, but I didn't focus on it 828 00:36:36,850 --> 00:36:37,970 'cause I didn't realize it was going to be coming 829 00:36:37,970 --> 00:36:40,430 to work and do this investigation. 830 00:36:40,430 --> 00:36:41,529 So I was like, all right, whatever. 831 00:36:41,529 --> 00:36:44,650 It's just another piece of the Russia banana show. 832 00:36:44,650 --> 00:36:46,081 And I looked at it and I was like, 833 00:36:46,081 --> 00:36:49,220 there's just no way this thing is accurate. 834 00:36:49,220 --> 00:36:52,367 And Devin was like, "Well, how do we figure that out?" 835 00:36:52,367 --> 00:36:54,740 And I said, easy. 836 00:36:54,740 --> 00:36:56,230 Let's take a couple of quick things 837 00:36:56,230 --> 00:36:58,641 that we can readily prove to be accurate 838 00:36:58,641 --> 00:37:00,740 just using public sources. 839 00:37:00,740 --> 00:37:05,740 You know, did person X travel to Prague on a certain day? 840 00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:07,370 Great, let's go get the airline records. 841 00:37:07,370 --> 00:37:08,320 This isn't hard. 842 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:09,153 Easy. 843 00:37:09,153 --> 00:37:10,270 It's an international trip. 844 00:37:10,270 --> 00:37:11,601 He was either there or not. 845 00:37:11,601 --> 00:37:13,620 And if he wasn't there, where was he? 846 00:37:13,620 --> 00:37:15,259 'Cause if he was in say Montana, 847 00:37:15,259 --> 00:37:18,470 we'd go find the people that said he was in Montana 848 00:37:18,470 --> 00:37:20,441 or a credit card statement or a hotel statement. 849 00:37:20,441 --> 00:37:22,510 Then for some of the more outrageous 850 00:37:22,510 --> 00:37:24,240 and salacious components of it, 851 00:37:24,240 --> 00:37:28,179 the name of the hotel that Steele alleged 852 00:37:28,179 --> 00:37:30,121 that President Trump had misbehaved, 853 00:37:30,121 --> 00:37:34,500 there's no such room in that hotel in Russia, in Moscow. 854 00:37:34,500 --> 00:37:37,000 But the author of the document we had found out 855 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:38,980 was an FBI source. 856 00:37:38,980 --> 00:37:40,800 So I said, okay, if he's an FBI source 857 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:42,230 and I said, Devin he's getting paid. 858 00:37:42,230 --> 00:37:44,340 We had to dig into his background a little bit 859 00:37:44,340 --> 00:37:45,740 just to verify for ourselves. 860 00:37:45,740 --> 00:37:47,371 Yeah, he's a career intelligence officer. 861 00:37:47,371 --> 00:37:49,540 He's worked with the United States 862 00:37:49,540 --> 00:37:50,920 and other partners around the country 863 00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:53,550 and spent time in Russia so, it looks good on paper. 864 00:37:53,550 --> 00:37:56,121 But when I found out that the Department of Justice is, 865 00:37:56,121 --> 00:37:58,170 just because it looks good on paper 866 00:37:58,170 --> 00:37:59,630 doesn't mean that person's legit. 867 00:37:59,630 --> 00:38:03,390 And you know, the biggest example of that is James Comey. 868 00:38:03,390 --> 00:38:06,140 (dramatic music) 869 00:38:06,140 --> 00:38:08,733 - Christopher Steele is allegedly a former spy, 870 00:38:08,733 --> 00:38:10,760 he's willing to do what his clients want him to do. 871 00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,010 And his clients included Hillary Clinton 872 00:38:13,010 --> 00:38:14,094 the Democratic National Committee. 873 00:38:14,094 --> 00:38:16,400 And yes, the FBI. 874 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:20,275 He met with the FBI during the campaign at least 13 times. 875 00:38:20,275 --> 00:38:24,470 The document show 11 of those times he was paid money. 876 00:38:24,470 --> 00:38:26,763 Which agencies weren't involved in helping 877 00:38:26,763 --> 00:38:30,350 either write or push out this dossier? 878 00:38:30,350 --> 00:38:32,460 Now we know the State Department, for instance 879 00:38:32,460 --> 00:38:34,123 Jonathan Winer, a key official 880 00:38:34,123 --> 00:38:36,580 in the Kerry State Department who really 881 00:38:36,580 --> 00:38:38,410 has nothing to do with Russia, 882 00:38:38,410 --> 00:38:40,990 who looks to me to be, actually he confessed 883 00:38:40,990 --> 00:38:45,080 to helping create part of what turned out to be the dossier. 884 00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,070 He's not only talking to Christopher Steele 885 00:38:47,070 --> 00:38:49,268 and is a close buddy and friend of his. 886 00:38:49,268 --> 00:38:51,313 So, you know, in my view, the dossier 887 00:38:51,313 --> 00:38:54,593 really was never Russia dis-info. 888 00:38:54,593 --> 00:38:57,930 It was always Clinton dis-info. 889 00:38:57,930 --> 00:39:01,830 And we can't underestimate how involved 890 00:39:01,830 --> 00:39:05,243 the State Department was in pushing this dossier lie out. 891 00:39:06,410 --> 00:39:08,083 Through our investigative process 892 00:39:08,083 --> 00:39:13,083 we found out that a firm representing 893 00:39:13,330 --> 00:39:15,705 Christopher Steele, Fusion GPS 894 00:39:15,705 --> 00:39:19,220 was somehow involved in the matter. 895 00:39:19,220 --> 00:39:21,060 - Following the money. 896 00:39:21,060 --> 00:39:23,894 If we could follow the money we would openly figure out 897 00:39:23,894 --> 00:39:26,770 who was paying Fusion GPS. 898 00:39:26,770 --> 00:39:28,160 - I walked him through the investigation. 899 00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:29,950 I said, this is why I think this happened. 900 00:39:29,950 --> 00:39:31,130 This source of X. 901 00:39:31,130 --> 00:39:32,340 We can prove it. 902 00:39:32,340 --> 00:39:33,753 If we subpoena the bank. 903 00:39:33,753 --> 00:39:37,220 And he's like you wanna subpoena a bank? 904 00:39:37,220 --> 00:39:39,116 I said, Devin, give me one subpoena and if I'm wrong, 905 00:39:39,116 --> 00:39:40,300 you can fire me. 906 00:39:40,300 --> 00:39:43,223 He gave me the subpoena and we went after the bank. 907 00:39:45,500 --> 00:39:46,960 It wasn't like we served the subpoena 908 00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:47,812 and everybody went away. 909 00:39:47,812 --> 00:39:51,820 Fusion GPS forced us into federal court, 910 00:39:51,820 --> 00:39:54,983 into litigation over the subpoena itself. 911 00:39:54,983 --> 00:39:57,452 And, that was when everybody was like, 912 00:39:57,452 --> 00:39:59,010 we're on to something. 913 00:39:59,010 --> 00:40:02,391 - Fusion GPS is a very, I mean they're very talented 914 00:40:02,391 --> 00:40:03,750 at what they do. 915 00:40:03,750 --> 00:40:05,210 They're a racketeering outfit. 916 00:40:05,210 --> 00:40:08,452 They're essentially they make things up about people. 917 00:40:08,452 --> 00:40:11,572 They spread it to the people in the press. 918 00:40:11,572 --> 00:40:13,660 They get them to run the fake news stories 919 00:40:13,660 --> 00:40:16,580 and then even worse then they find different ways 920 00:40:16,580 --> 00:40:19,300 to feed it into the FBI. 921 00:40:19,300 --> 00:40:21,180 - And all of these things sort of started coming together 922 00:40:21,180 --> 00:40:22,840 in a very unusual fashion. 923 00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:24,260 I said, Devin, we're following the money. 924 00:40:24,260 --> 00:40:25,389 And I'm gonna tell you right now that 925 00:40:25,389 --> 00:40:27,730 the DNC and Hillary paid for this. 926 00:40:27,730 --> 00:40:29,580 It was 9:00 a.m. on a weekday 927 00:40:29,580 --> 00:40:31,417 and he literally looks at me, he goes Kash, 928 00:40:31,417 --> 00:40:32,471 "If you're gonna start drinking this morning 929 00:40:32,471 --> 00:40:34,700 get out of my office." 930 00:40:34,700 --> 00:40:37,000 It always goes back to the money. 931 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,360 And it's the easiest thing to follow 932 00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:40,420 because you have to document it in some fashion 933 00:40:40,420 --> 00:40:41,820 or you got to move it in some way. 934 00:40:41,820 --> 00:40:45,790 We were able to pursue in to the judge's authority, 935 00:40:45,790 --> 00:40:50,659 allow myself and one other colleague to visit banks' 936 00:40:50,659 --> 00:40:55,659 attorneys and review in closed session the records. 937 00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:57,490 And we were not allowed to disclose it 938 00:40:57,490 --> 00:40:59,430 to anybody, what we reviewed. 939 00:40:59,430 --> 00:41:03,680 And then finally on the eve of the ruling of the court 940 00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:08,540 Fusion disclosed that Christopher Steele 941 00:41:08,540 --> 00:41:10,710 had been paid by the DNC themselves. 942 00:41:10,710 --> 00:41:14,200 There were names that would eventually come out 943 00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:17,690 that were being paid by Fusion. 944 00:41:17,690 --> 00:41:20,370 Names now that are public but at the time weren't. 945 00:41:20,370 --> 00:41:22,880 Nellie Ohr, the wife of Bruce Ohr 946 00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:24,720 was being paid by Fusion GPS; 947 00:41:24,720 --> 00:41:29,340 we would come to learn to do Russian intelligence 948 00:41:29,340 --> 00:41:33,460 information gathering and then submit it to the FBI. 949 00:41:33,460 --> 00:41:35,750 We were able to figure out 950 00:41:35,750 --> 00:41:39,470 that the attorneys Perkins Coie, 951 00:41:39,470 --> 00:41:41,730 were the attorneys for the DNC. 952 00:41:41,730 --> 00:41:43,860 Nellie had been working, Bruce's wife 953 00:41:43,860 --> 00:41:45,970 had been working for Fusion GPS. 954 00:41:45,970 --> 00:41:49,170 The folks that Perkins Coie paid $10 million to, 955 00:41:49,170 --> 00:41:50,990 and then they took that 10 million 956 00:41:50,990 --> 00:41:55,100 and paid Christopher Steele $168.000 to dig up dirt. 957 00:41:55,100 --> 00:41:58,780 They paid Nellie Ohr, I think $50.000 to do her research 958 00:41:58,780 --> 00:42:00,220 against the president and his daughter. 959 00:42:00,220 --> 00:42:02,730 And they fed all of that directly 960 00:42:02,730 --> 00:42:06,270 to the Bureau who then used it in the FISA 961 00:42:06,270 --> 00:42:08,230 and in the investigation against the president. 962 00:42:08,230 --> 00:42:10,968 So now you've connected the money and the people 963 00:42:10,968 --> 00:42:13,030 and put the political party right 964 00:42:13,030 --> 00:42:14,380 in the middle of your opponent. 965 00:42:14,380 --> 00:42:15,890 It's outrageous. 966 00:42:15,890 --> 00:42:18,180 - I've got to give good great credit to Devin Nunez 967 00:42:18,180 --> 00:42:20,290 because he was willing to go the next step. 968 00:42:20,290 --> 00:42:23,740 He was willing to look to where was the funding coming 969 00:42:23,740 --> 00:42:24,677 from for the dossier. 970 00:42:24,677 --> 00:42:26,810 To go the next step to find out 971 00:42:26,810 --> 00:42:28,290 that this was a political document, 972 00:42:28,290 --> 00:42:29,744 that it was funded by the Democratic Party itself 973 00:42:29,744 --> 00:42:31,298 and Hillary Clinton's campaign. 974 00:42:31,298 --> 00:42:33,830 We would not have known that if Devin Nunez 975 00:42:33,830 --> 00:42:35,480 hadn't said, all right, look, we, you know, 976 00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:38,290 if we're gonna do an, a true assessment 977 00:42:38,290 --> 00:42:41,109 of the veracity of the information that we're getting, 978 00:42:41,109 --> 00:42:43,050 we're not just gonna look at the conclusions. 979 00:42:43,050 --> 00:42:46,114 We're gonna look at the substance behind those conclusions. 980 00:42:46,114 --> 00:42:50,520 Look for biases, look for areas in which it's not accurate. 981 00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,563 And then pursue those to determine what is the truth. 982 00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,440 - If what was said in this dossier, the central thesis 983 00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,488 of the dossier was Carter Page, 984 00:43:01,488 --> 00:43:06,488 Trump campaign associate is a Russian, basically asset 985 00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:09,787 and the critical mass in the dossier 986 00:43:09,787 --> 00:43:11,867 and the Steele dossier was it said, 987 00:43:11,867 --> 00:43:15,640 "Carter page went to Russia, met with these two guys, 988 00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:17,240 Russian oligarchs." 989 00:43:17,240 --> 00:43:19,309 And the Steele dossier said at that meeting 990 00:43:19,309 --> 00:43:24,309 Carter Page, a member of the Trump campaign negotiated 991 00:43:24,328 --> 00:43:29,328 an agreement whereby he would get 10 to 15% of Rosneft, 992 00:43:30,390 --> 00:43:34,088 which is like the biggest gas firm in Russia, 993 00:43:34,088 --> 00:43:38,960 in exchange for his cooperation to work 994 00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:41,100 on behalf of the Russians to get better agreements 995 00:43:41,100 --> 00:43:43,500 from the Americans when Donald Trump elected. 996 00:43:43,500 --> 00:43:45,000 Now I told Devin I said, if that's true, 997 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:47,210 he's a Russian agent. 998 00:43:47,210 --> 00:43:49,709 The FISA was righteous and a lot of people 999 00:43:49,709 --> 00:43:51,710 are gonna have a lot of problems. 1000 00:43:51,710 --> 00:43:55,770 But I also said, if that's false, they're screwed. 1001 00:43:55,770 --> 00:43:56,890 If the Steele dossier were true 1002 00:43:56,890 --> 00:43:59,340 the Russians were gonna pay this guy $12 billion. 1003 00:44:01,340 --> 00:44:03,740 Like, okay, open up a bank account, 1004 00:44:03,740 --> 00:44:05,140 where's this guy gonna move his money. 1005 00:44:05,140 --> 00:44:08,360 Turns out they had nothing to back up their claims. 1006 00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:09,749 - Kash had gotten FISAs before. 1007 00:44:09,749 --> 00:44:14,310 So he knew they had done something really corrupt 1008 00:44:14,310 --> 00:44:15,818 in order to get that warrant. 1009 00:44:15,818 --> 00:44:17,317 - We were collecting our documents. 1010 00:44:17,317 --> 00:44:20,298 We're talking to the FBI, we're talking to DOJ. 1011 00:44:20,298 --> 00:44:22,490 And they told us. 1012 00:44:22,490 --> 00:44:24,540 They said, look there, you know, you guys 1013 00:44:24,540 --> 00:44:27,130 are charged with looking into Russian active measures. 1014 00:44:27,130 --> 00:44:29,330 You should know that this is how 1015 00:44:29,330 --> 00:44:31,930 we surveilled a certain individual 1016 00:44:31,930 --> 00:44:34,537 who we thought had ties to the Trump campaign. 1017 00:44:34,537 --> 00:44:36,008 And we were like what? 1018 00:44:36,008 --> 00:44:39,837 And then we went and read it and having done FISAs myself, 1019 00:44:39,837 --> 00:44:44,330 I was like this might be one of the worst documents 1020 00:44:44,330 --> 00:44:45,213 I've ever seen. 1021 00:44:46,938 --> 00:44:49,938 (suspenseful music) 1022 00:44:53,740 --> 00:44:57,930 - The FISA warrant process has to be followed carefully. 1023 00:44:57,930 --> 00:45:00,770 And it matters because the warrants issued ex parte. 1024 00:45:00,770 --> 00:45:01,800 Here's what I mean. 1025 00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:03,269 Imagine you're being sued. 1026 00:45:03,269 --> 00:45:05,789 And you don't know you're being sued. 1027 00:45:05,789 --> 00:45:09,210 And you can't have a lawyer to defend you in court. 1028 00:45:09,210 --> 00:45:11,730 And then you found out you just lost a lawsuit. 1029 00:45:11,730 --> 00:45:13,390 There's not an American who has said 1030 00:45:13,390 --> 00:45:16,450 that's the most unfair process I've ever heard in my life. 1031 00:45:16,450 --> 00:45:19,440 And he would say that that's the FISA court process. 1032 00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:21,767 You're being essentially sued in court 1033 00:45:21,767 --> 00:45:23,687 and you're not allowed to have a lawyer. 1034 00:45:23,687 --> 00:45:26,870 And you're not allowed to even know that you're being sued. 1035 00:45:26,870 --> 00:45:28,570 You're not allowed to look at any of the information 1036 00:45:28,570 --> 00:45:30,980 being used against you and you just lost, 1037 00:45:30,980 --> 00:45:32,220 'cause now they have a FISA warrant 1038 00:45:32,220 --> 00:45:33,670 and they can just do whatever they want. 1039 00:45:33,670 --> 00:45:37,270 That goes against everyone's fundamental sense 1040 00:45:37,270 --> 00:45:38,280 of fairness as a person. 1041 00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:41,470 Now, the reason of course you don't tell 1042 00:45:41,470 --> 00:45:42,720 the person you're about to spy on them 1043 00:45:42,720 --> 00:45:44,010 is because you think they're a terrorist. 1044 00:45:44,010 --> 00:45:45,470 And if you tell them we're spying and you, 1045 00:45:45,470 --> 00:45:47,230 obviously they'll change. 1046 00:45:47,230 --> 00:45:48,980 The compromise of the deal with the devil 1047 00:45:48,980 --> 00:45:51,160 was supposed to be that in exchange 1048 00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:53,516 for not giving the person the due process rights 1049 00:45:53,516 --> 00:45:55,680 that go back to the Magna Carta, 1050 00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:57,967 that just go back to your Holy book of choice. 1051 00:45:57,967 --> 00:46:00,710 The idea that if you're accused, 1052 00:46:00,710 --> 00:46:02,590 you're allowed to face your accusers. 1053 00:46:02,590 --> 00:46:05,295 You have this in every major religious tradition. 1054 00:46:05,295 --> 00:46:07,645 The deal with the devil though is that 1055 00:46:07,645 --> 00:46:10,480 everything will be meticulously audited. 1056 00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:11,430 It will be reviewed. 1057 00:46:11,430 --> 00:46:12,500 Everything will be truthful. 1058 00:46:12,500 --> 00:46:13,847 Everything will be bulletproof. 1059 00:46:13,847 --> 00:46:15,947 That procedure, of course wasn't followed. 1060 00:46:17,890 --> 00:46:22,100 - We now know the dossier was used in the FISA. 1061 00:46:22,100 --> 00:46:25,733 So we had shredded the credibility of the dossier. 1062 00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:29,100 And then once we found out it was in the FISA 1063 00:46:29,100 --> 00:46:30,055 we couldn't tell anyone yet. 1064 00:46:30,055 --> 00:46:32,540 Once those two merged, I said, "Devin, 1065 00:46:32,540 --> 00:46:35,750 this is insane that this document was used 1066 00:46:35,750 --> 00:46:38,787 to go up on a surveillance warrant of an American citizen." 1067 00:46:40,210 --> 00:46:44,530 - The second part of that FISA is even worse. 1068 00:46:44,530 --> 00:46:47,960 And that is that they ran spies even 1069 00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:51,520 before they got a FISA warrant into the Trump campaign. 1070 00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:55,010 Governments paid, United States taxpayers 1071 00:46:55,010 --> 00:46:59,000 paying for spies to spy on a political campaign 1072 00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:00,790 you know, before you even get a FISA warrant 1073 00:47:00,790 --> 00:47:03,407 and then not only that, it's exculpatory evidence 1074 00:47:03,407 --> 00:47:05,257 that they don't even tell the court about. 1075 00:47:05,257 --> 00:47:08,470 - It was the first time they applied for the application 1076 00:47:08,470 --> 00:47:11,907 to spy on Americans, the FISA court judge said, 1077 00:47:11,907 --> 00:47:15,280 "It sounds like you wanna spy on political operatives." 1078 00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:17,220 And their application was denied. 1079 00:47:17,220 --> 00:47:18,680 - They knew Christopher Steele was leaking 1080 00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:19,910 to the State Department and the news media 1081 00:47:19,910 --> 00:47:22,210 'cause they had the State Department's documents. 1082 00:47:22,210 --> 00:47:23,450 That's derogatory information. 1083 00:47:23,450 --> 00:47:24,700 They didn't tell the court that. 1084 00:47:24,700 --> 00:47:27,068 They knew that Carter Page was an asset for the CIA, 1085 00:47:27,068 --> 00:47:28,730 not a stooge for the Russians. 1086 00:47:28,730 --> 00:47:30,010 They didn't the court that. 1087 00:47:30,010 --> 00:47:31,530 They knew that George Papadopoulos 1088 00:47:31,530 --> 00:47:33,639 and Carter Page had made statements of innocence, 1089 00:47:33,639 --> 00:47:35,710 not knowing they were being recorded by 1090 00:47:35,710 --> 00:47:37,690 the undercover informant Stefan Hopper. 1091 00:47:37,690 --> 00:47:39,620 They don't tell the court that even though 1092 00:47:39,620 --> 00:47:41,800 that's in the, it's in the book, it's in the manual 1093 00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:43,500 the FBI manual, but you got to do. 1094 00:47:46,140 --> 00:47:48,340 - So now they've begun this giant web 1095 00:47:48,340 --> 00:47:50,630 and if Carter Page or George Papadopoulos 1096 00:47:50,630 --> 00:47:53,540 had contacted me, Steven Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, 1097 00:47:53,540 --> 00:47:55,760 or anybody else within the campaign, 1098 00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:57,770 it's very likely that all of those people 1099 00:47:57,770 --> 00:47:59,773 were also being listened to. 1100 00:47:59,773 --> 00:48:03,100 That unmasking also occurred on literally the day 1101 00:48:03,100 --> 00:48:06,290 Donald Trump was sworn as the 45th president United States. 1102 00:48:06,290 --> 00:48:08,800 And they unmasked the Trump children 1103 00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:11,260 who clearly they were also listening to. 1104 00:48:11,260 --> 00:48:12,847 - I knew that I was unmasked. 1105 00:48:12,847 --> 00:48:15,030 That we were targeted. 1106 00:48:15,030 --> 00:48:17,010 It was sort of assumed that we were targeted. 1107 00:48:17,010 --> 00:48:18,730 I always say, hey, listen, I don't think 1108 00:48:18,730 --> 00:48:20,530 it would be any stretch of the imagination 1109 00:48:20,530 --> 00:48:22,867 to say that I, you know the son of the president 1110 00:48:22,867 --> 00:48:24,658 of the United States, duly elected 1111 00:48:24,658 --> 00:48:27,090 but as a civilian, as a citizen, 1112 00:48:27,090 --> 00:48:28,556 and as someone who worked on a campaign 1113 00:48:28,556 --> 00:48:32,040 was the number two target of the greatest hoax 1114 00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:34,040 ever perpetrated on the American people. 1115 00:48:38,470 --> 00:48:42,730 - So I'm generation X and some kind of significant meme 1116 00:48:42,730 --> 00:48:44,390 that surface before we call them memes 1117 00:48:44,390 --> 00:48:46,320 was six degrees of Kevin Bacon. 1118 00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:47,640 This is pre-social media. 1119 00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:50,660 The idea would be how many connections 1120 00:48:50,660 --> 00:48:54,430 would it take you to get to a world famous celebrity? 1121 00:48:54,430 --> 00:48:57,555 Well, the reason I bring up six degrees of Kevin Bacon 1122 00:48:57,555 --> 00:49:00,327 is because to spy on the Trump campaign 1123 00:49:00,327 --> 00:49:04,270 the FBI used the three jump rule. 1124 00:49:04,270 --> 00:49:07,506 - In these FISA warrants when you surveil one party 1125 00:49:07,506 --> 00:49:10,540 you have what is known as a two jump rule. 1126 00:49:10,540 --> 00:49:13,730 You not only get to spy on Carter Page, 1127 00:49:13,730 --> 00:49:16,506 but you get two jumps or as the Obama administration 1128 00:49:16,506 --> 00:49:20,110 would have it three jumps from Carter Page, 1129 00:49:20,110 --> 00:49:21,430 the surveilled person. 1130 00:49:21,430 --> 00:49:22,727 - You don't even need three jumps. 1131 00:49:22,727 --> 00:49:25,020 Two jumps gets you everywhere you wanna be 1132 00:49:25,020 --> 00:49:27,506 within the campaign as long as you have like a network nod. 1133 00:49:27,506 --> 00:49:30,520 - Having wiretapped Carter Page 1134 00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:32,630 you can now wiretap Steve Bannon. 1135 00:49:32,630 --> 00:49:34,640 Corey Lewandowski then talks to Trump, 1136 00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:35,880 you've got a third jump. 1137 00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:38,570 So now you're wiretapping everyone. 1138 00:49:38,570 --> 00:49:40,160 So that's what they were trying to do. 1139 00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:42,930 Figuring if they could get into the Trump campaign 1140 00:49:42,930 --> 00:49:44,618 somewhere, there would be a crime. 1141 00:49:44,618 --> 00:49:48,050 (suspenseful drums) 1142 00:49:48,050 --> 00:49:50,230 - January 17, the dossier comes out. 1143 00:49:50,230 --> 00:49:51,910 March-April, we start an investigation. 1144 00:49:51,910 --> 00:49:53,687 Summertime we're cranking on document production 1145 00:49:53,687 --> 00:49:56,175 and collating a list of witnesses we're gonna interview . 1146 00:49:56,175 --> 00:50:00,167 Fall hit the home run with the Fusion clowns 1147 00:50:00,167 --> 00:50:03,730 and figure out who paid for the dossier. 1148 00:50:03,730 --> 00:50:07,136 So now we're in September, October going into the holidays. 1149 00:50:07,136 --> 00:50:09,760 And we had finally also at this time started 1150 00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:11,270 interviewing witnesses. 1151 00:50:11,270 --> 00:50:13,607 And in December we got Andy McCabe. 1152 00:50:13,607 --> 00:50:16,550 When we asked Andy McCabe, could you have gotten 1153 00:50:16,550 --> 00:50:18,386 the FISA application against Carter Page 1154 00:50:18,386 --> 00:50:20,557 without the Steele dossier? 1155 00:50:20,557 --> 00:50:21,693 And he said, no. 1156 00:50:25,130 --> 00:50:27,975 And I think we ended up doing 65 interviews. 1157 00:50:27,975 --> 00:50:29,570 We hit everybody. 1158 00:50:29,570 --> 00:50:31,290 Former attorneys generals, you know, 1159 00:50:31,290 --> 00:50:35,975 Loretta Lynch, Sally Yates, Andy McCabe, James Comey. 1160 00:50:35,975 --> 00:50:39,233 You know, the central thesis was the Trump campaign 1161 00:50:39,233 --> 00:50:42,910 colluded with the Russian government to hijack the election. 1162 00:50:42,910 --> 00:50:43,743 Okay. 1163 00:50:43,743 --> 00:50:44,576 Let's find out. 1164 00:50:44,576 --> 00:50:47,450 So we came up with the three C questions 1165 00:50:47,450 --> 00:50:49,693 we were gonna ask every single witness. 1166 00:50:49,693 --> 00:50:52,240 Do you have any evidence or information 1167 00:50:52,240 --> 00:50:55,300 that the Trump campaign colluded, conspired or coordinated 1168 00:50:55,300 --> 00:50:57,670 with any member of the Russian government, 1169 00:50:57,670 --> 00:51:00,867 with any member of the Trump campaign or Trump presidency? 1170 00:51:00,867 --> 00:51:05,410 And all 65 witnesses under oath said no to every question. 1171 00:51:05,410 --> 00:51:07,322 We had to ask that because they were saying it 1172 00:51:07,322 --> 00:51:08,970 in the media that that happened. 1173 00:51:08,970 --> 00:51:11,540 So these principals were the ones who would have 1174 00:51:11,540 --> 00:51:12,930 to know that. 1175 00:51:12,930 --> 00:51:14,630 And if they answered yes, we'd have to report 1176 00:51:14,630 --> 00:51:15,463 that to the public. 1177 00:51:15,463 --> 00:51:17,770 And they couldn't just answer a simple question 1178 00:51:17,770 --> 00:51:19,763 of where's the dirt? 1179 00:51:20,750 --> 00:51:22,973 - Reviewing the evidence that I have, 1180 00:51:23,978 --> 00:51:26,291 I don't think you can conclude that at all. 1181 00:51:26,291 --> 00:51:28,810 - We had not one person claim 1182 00:51:28,810 --> 00:51:31,680 that they had, or had seen evidence 1183 00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:33,490 of Trump colluding with the Russians. 1184 00:51:33,490 --> 00:51:35,230 Not a single one of them could cite 1185 00:51:35,230 --> 00:51:36,755 any evidence whatsoever that they saw. 1186 00:51:36,755 --> 00:51:39,980 That's what was going on behind closed doors. 1187 00:51:39,980 --> 00:51:42,900 Then on TV, you go there and you see Schiff come out 1188 00:51:42,900 --> 00:51:44,700 and talking about how you know, more treason 1189 00:51:44,700 --> 00:51:45,860 has been revealed by Trump. 1190 00:51:45,860 --> 00:51:48,067 - All you have right now is a circumstantial case. 1191 00:51:48,067 --> 00:51:49,896 - Actually no, Chuck. 1192 00:51:49,896 --> 00:51:52,890 I can tell you that the case is more than that. 1193 00:51:52,890 --> 00:51:54,905 And I can't go into the particulars 1194 00:51:54,905 --> 00:51:57,715 but there is more than circumstantial evidence now. 1195 00:51:57,715 --> 00:52:00,160 - Then there was also the private world of people 1196 00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:02,086 that we would have to interview as well. 1197 00:52:02,086 --> 00:52:04,344 Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign. 1198 00:52:04,344 --> 00:52:06,630 The CrowdStrike thing was big deal. 1199 00:52:06,630 --> 00:52:09,310 Podesta is the head of the campaign or whatever his role was 1200 00:52:09,310 --> 00:52:12,670 had hired these this company to do a scrub 1201 00:52:12,670 --> 00:52:16,575 of their internal services, to be like who's in our stuff? 1202 00:52:16,575 --> 00:52:17,720 What happened? 1203 00:52:17,720 --> 00:52:18,750 How did this go down? 1204 00:52:18,750 --> 00:52:20,992 Which is a reasonable thing to do when you get hacked. 1205 00:52:20,992 --> 00:52:23,830 What's an unreasonable and made up thing to do 1206 00:52:23,830 --> 00:52:27,480 is then falsely tie it to the wrong person 1207 00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:28,970 or country or actor. 1208 00:52:28,970 --> 00:52:30,823 Normally what would happen in this type of hack 1209 00:52:30,823 --> 00:52:33,900 is the FBI would come in and have 1210 00:52:33,900 --> 00:52:36,280 our experts scrub the servers. 1211 00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:39,390 The DNC hired CrowdStrike and CrowdStrike 1212 00:52:39,390 --> 00:52:41,530 was in full control, and James Comey 1213 00:52:41,530 --> 00:52:45,110 has publicly admitted this, of what servers 1214 00:52:45,110 --> 00:52:46,810 the FBI had access to. 1215 00:52:46,810 --> 00:52:50,060 So the FBI was only given limited access, 1216 00:52:50,060 --> 00:52:52,320 whatever the DNC chose. 1217 00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:53,330 So those were the only servers 1218 00:52:53,330 --> 00:52:54,277 they were ever able to look at. 1219 00:52:54,277 --> 00:52:56,666 And this is why you have the disconnect that 1220 00:52:56,666 --> 00:52:58,330 they've been saying continuously 1221 00:52:58,330 --> 00:53:01,330 that the DNC was hacked. 1222 00:53:01,330 --> 00:53:04,010 It was Podesta's email that was hacked. 1223 00:53:04,010 --> 00:53:06,970 Nobody knows to this day what actually happened 1224 00:53:06,970 --> 00:53:10,010 because the FBI has never looked at the entirety 1225 00:53:10,010 --> 00:53:11,990 of the servers from the DNC and they can turn those over 1226 00:53:11,990 --> 00:53:14,750 at any time they wanted to, but they won't 1227 00:53:14,750 --> 00:53:17,013 because they know it won't be good for them. 1228 00:53:18,770 --> 00:53:19,970 - [Reporter] Stunning announcement from the White House 1229 00:53:19,970 --> 00:53:23,610 today, President Trump fires FBI Director James Comey. 1230 00:53:23,610 --> 00:53:26,140 It's only the second time in history that a president 1231 00:53:26,140 --> 00:53:28,250 has fired the head of the Bureau. 1232 00:53:28,250 --> 00:53:31,070 - I think the insurance policy morphed over time. 1233 00:53:31,070 --> 00:53:32,691 I think initially the insurance policy was, 1234 00:53:32,691 --> 00:53:34,560 we're gonna do this investigation. 1235 00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:35,870 We're gonna get after the president, 1236 00:53:35,870 --> 00:53:37,460 we're gonna spy his campaign. 1237 00:53:37,460 --> 00:53:38,520 They did all that. 1238 00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:40,720 Donald Trump and the American people surprised all of them. 1239 00:53:40,720 --> 00:53:42,490 And president Trump wins. 1240 00:53:42,490 --> 00:53:44,622 When he wins the insurance policy becomes wow, 1241 00:53:44,622 --> 00:53:48,320 we gotta make sure they don't find out what we did. 1242 00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:51,610 And who better to find that out, Michael Flynn. 1243 00:53:51,610 --> 00:53:52,950 So they go after Michael Flynn. 1244 00:53:52,950 --> 00:53:55,560 Once they get him gone they think they're fine 1245 00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:58,180 until Jim Comey gets fired 'cause Jim Comey 1246 00:53:58,180 --> 00:53:59,970 was traveling into the next administration too. 1247 00:53:59,970 --> 00:54:02,100 When he gets fired then the insurance policy 1248 00:54:02,100 --> 00:54:04,297 morphs again and it becomes shazaam, 1249 00:54:04,297 --> 00:54:05,880 we've got to do something now. 1250 00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:07,464 We've lost Comey, we've lost our man. 1251 00:54:07,464 --> 00:54:08,674 So what does Comey do? 1252 00:54:08,674 --> 00:54:11,405 Leaks his memos to get a special counsel appointed 1253 00:54:11,405 --> 00:54:14,310 and who better than his best pal, Bob Mueller 1254 00:54:14,310 --> 00:54:15,580 to run it for two years. 1255 00:54:15,580 --> 00:54:17,594 That's how the insurance policy morphed over time. 1256 00:54:17,594 --> 00:54:21,565 - Robert Mueller is was mid-May, I think. 1257 00:54:21,565 --> 00:54:24,170 Wants his old job back. 1258 00:54:24,170 --> 00:54:27,900 He's out to pasture, clearly he's losing 1259 00:54:27,900 --> 00:54:28,733 his cognitive capacity 1260 00:54:28,733 --> 00:54:31,586 but he thinks, well his buddy's think that he can come back 1261 00:54:31,586 --> 00:54:34,910 to direct the FBI like he did before. 1262 00:54:34,910 --> 00:54:35,920 And why is that important? 1263 00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:39,770 Because if Mueller who's good buddies with Comey, 1264 00:54:39,770 --> 00:54:44,030 with Weissman, with all of these Trump hating 1265 00:54:44,030 --> 00:54:49,030 anti-American Democrat cabal operatives. 1266 00:54:49,340 --> 00:54:53,810 If they can get Bob their buddy back at the Hoover building, 1267 00:54:53,810 --> 00:54:55,760 he can just shred it all. 1268 00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:58,420 He can make all the evidence disappear. 1269 00:54:58,420 --> 00:55:01,830 Operation Crossfire Hurricane against Mike Flynn. 1270 00:55:01,830 --> 00:55:04,081 Everything else was just be deep sixed. 1271 00:55:04,081 --> 00:55:07,580 So Mueller is escorted to the White House 1272 00:55:07,580 --> 00:55:10,130 by Rod Rosenstein, his friend. 1273 00:55:10,130 --> 00:55:14,780 Rod Rosenstein, arch deep state swamp creature 1274 00:55:14,780 --> 00:55:18,880 is in fact running Donald Trump's Department of Justice 1275 00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:21,906 because Jeff's just removed himself. 1276 00:55:21,906 --> 00:55:24,100 President meets with Robert Mueller 1277 00:55:24,100 --> 00:55:25,917 out of professional courtesy. 1278 00:55:25,917 --> 00:55:28,466 (chuckles) Realizes within minutes 1279 00:55:28,466 --> 00:55:32,850 sorry, you can't even string a coherent sentence. 1280 00:55:32,850 --> 00:55:35,416 You don't represent Making America Great Again, 1281 00:55:35,416 --> 00:55:38,201 you're old school establishment, 1282 00:55:38,201 --> 00:55:40,310 you're past your sell by date. 1283 00:55:40,310 --> 00:55:41,400 Thank you very much. 1284 00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:42,373 No thanks. 1285 00:55:43,820 --> 00:55:48,420 Less than 24 hours later, the guy who's really running 1286 00:55:48,420 --> 00:55:53,356 the DOJ, Rod Rosenstein makes his friend Robert Mueller 1287 00:55:53,356 --> 00:55:56,560 the most powerful man in the world. 1288 00:55:56,560 --> 00:56:00,488 He makes him special counsel, special prosecutor 1289 00:56:00,488 --> 00:56:04,280 who has the power to bring down the president. 1290 00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:05,930 - Mueller should never take in the job. 1291 00:56:05,930 --> 00:56:08,525 He was compromised, he was conflicted 1292 00:56:08,525 --> 00:56:11,560 and it was the appointment arose, 1293 00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:14,230 it flowed from an illegal act by his friend, 1294 00:56:14,230 --> 00:56:16,550 James Comey that released those files. 1295 00:56:16,550 --> 00:56:18,020 It was part of a coup. 1296 00:56:18,020 --> 00:56:20,210 And when he came on board, he could have 1297 00:56:20,210 --> 00:56:22,322 known and should have known that there was nothing 1298 00:56:22,322 --> 00:56:25,120 to investigate, and he should have shut it down. 1299 00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:27,320 Instead he harassed the president for years. 1300 00:56:28,180 --> 00:56:30,230 And then they have this extraordinary raid, 1301 00:56:30,230 --> 00:56:32,980 at Manafort's home where they go in 1302 00:56:32,980 --> 00:56:35,740 and start taking pictures of his suits 1303 00:56:35,740 --> 00:56:37,973 to prove that he was buying expensive suits, 1304 00:56:39,140 --> 00:56:41,060 you know outside of his regular income, 1305 00:56:41,060 --> 00:56:42,283 it's completely absurd. 1306 00:56:44,170 --> 00:56:46,610 They're investigating Russia and they nail Manafort 1307 00:56:46,610 --> 00:56:49,490 on mortgage fraud and having expensive suits. 1308 00:56:49,490 --> 00:56:51,511 - They know that there's nothing there. 1309 00:56:51,511 --> 00:56:56,511 Comey and McCabe know that they have done bad things. 1310 00:56:57,670 --> 00:57:00,210 And the special counsel's investigation now 1311 00:57:00,210 --> 00:57:04,060 is a way of trying to cover their tracks. 1312 00:57:04,060 --> 00:57:05,363 And they've got their buddies in there 1313 00:57:05,363 --> 00:57:08,140 and they're trying their best to cover for them. 1314 00:57:08,140 --> 00:57:11,301 And hopefully they will get one wrong thing 1315 00:57:11,301 --> 00:57:12,974 so that they can make a splash 1316 00:57:12,974 --> 00:57:15,943 and all of their crimes will be forgotten. 1317 00:57:19,550 --> 00:57:21,340 - We were pretty careful 'cause we didn't want 1318 00:57:21,340 --> 00:57:24,090 to step over any lines and it ends up the corruption 1319 00:57:24,090 --> 00:57:26,840 is just far worse than even we could have imagined 1320 00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:28,690 and we imagined it was pretty bad. 1321 00:57:28,690 --> 00:57:30,134 When the newness memo came out, 1322 00:57:30,134 --> 00:57:31,990 we thought the whole thing's over. 1323 00:57:31,990 --> 00:57:32,823 This blows up. 1324 00:57:32,823 --> 00:57:34,630 It's the end of Mueller, it's the end of the investigation 1325 00:57:34,630 --> 00:57:37,810 and the investigators need to be investigated 1326 00:57:37,810 --> 00:57:38,786 - Before it was published, 1327 00:57:38,786 --> 00:57:42,110 they were all saying that Nunez is reckless. 1328 00:57:42,110 --> 00:57:44,643 This is extremely damaging to national security. 1329 00:57:44,643 --> 00:57:47,782 The FBI, the DOJ is going to suffer 1330 00:57:47,782 --> 00:57:50,502 all kinds of negative consequences. 1331 00:57:50,502 --> 00:57:52,414 Informants are gonna be outed. 1332 00:57:52,414 --> 00:57:54,052 Everybody's gonna die. 1333 00:57:54,052 --> 00:57:57,130 Nunez is killing everybody, it's the best way I can sum up 1334 00:57:57,130 --> 00:57:59,080 the narrative that they had going for him back then. 1335 00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:01,713 Then once the thing actually came out, 1336 00:58:01,713 --> 00:58:05,992 it was clear that the look, there's no national security 1337 00:58:05,992 --> 00:58:09,140 threats in people finding out that they used 1338 00:58:09,140 --> 00:58:12,000 the Steele dossier to get a warrant to spy on Carter Page. 1339 00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:13,780 So then at that point the narrative shifts 1340 00:58:13,780 --> 00:58:15,402 to it was a nothing burger. 1341 00:58:15,402 --> 00:58:18,161 There was nothing in this, all the hoopla over this, 1342 00:58:18,161 --> 00:58:19,570 you know, okay. 1343 00:58:19,570 --> 00:58:22,160 So they you know, they use these 1344 00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:24,940 unconfirmed allegations to spy on an American citizen. 1345 00:58:24,940 --> 00:58:25,810 What's the big deal? 1346 00:58:25,810 --> 00:58:27,201 Carter Page is a weird guy anyway. 1347 00:58:27,201 --> 00:58:29,360 And then you know, so I'm sure he deserved it. 1348 00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:31,110 You know what, what's the big deal? 1349 00:58:32,860 --> 00:58:36,150 We had information in there revealing that Comey 1350 00:58:36,150 --> 00:58:40,729 and McCabe had testified to us that the agents, 1351 00:58:40,729 --> 00:58:43,740 the FBI agents who interviewed Michael Flynn 1352 00:58:43,740 --> 00:58:45,458 did not think he was lying. 1353 00:58:45,458 --> 00:58:48,559 We had that in our report and it was redacted. 1354 00:58:48,559 --> 00:58:51,390 And at the time that our report came out, 1355 00:58:51,390 --> 00:58:54,888 Comey was going around on a book tour on the country 1356 00:58:54,888 --> 00:58:57,520 and saying that he didn't know anything about that. 1357 00:58:57,520 --> 00:58:59,247 - [Journalist] How is it ethical to brief the president 1358 00:58:59,247 --> 00:59:01,750 of the United States on an unverifiable 1359 00:59:01,750 --> 00:59:03,370 and salacious dossier? 1360 00:59:03,370 --> 00:59:05,860 And how is it ethical leadership to not tell him 1361 00:59:05,860 --> 00:59:08,980 that his political opposition Hillary Clinton paid 1362 00:59:08,980 --> 00:59:10,240 for that? 1363 00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:13,613 - Shortly after that was when Schiff came out with his, 1364 00:59:13,613 --> 00:59:16,618 with his counter memo, the Schiff memo 1365 00:59:16,618 --> 00:59:19,640 in which he argued that everything in the memo 1366 00:59:19,640 --> 00:59:22,030 we said was false, that there were no problems whatsoever 1367 00:59:22,030 --> 00:59:23,710 in the FISA warrant on Carter Page, 1368 00:59:23,710 --> 00:59:25,090 nothing wrong with the dossier. 1369 00:59:25,090 --> 00:59:25,923 Everything's good. 1370 00:59:25,923 --> 00:59:27,250 The FBI and DOJ did everything right. 1371 00:59:27,250 --> 00:59:29,260 Nunez doesn't know what he's talking about. 1372 00:59:29,260 --> 00:59:30,450 He just made all this stuff up. 1373 00:59:30,450 --> 00:59:31,850 So they have these two dueling memos. 1374 00:59:31,850 --> 00:59:34,670 But when the Schiff memo came out, 1375 00:59:34,670 --> 00:59:36,709 I mean that was championed by the media 1376 00:59:36,709 --> 00:59:40,170 as the definitive debunking of the Nunez memo. 1377 00:59:40,170 --> 00:59:41,800 All this stuff that Schiff said is true 1378 00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:42,890 because Schiff said it. 1379 00:59:42,890 --> 00:59:45,230 - Devin Nunez was subject to such scorn 1380 00:59:45,230 --> 00:59:47,988 for saying the conclusions that we brought forth 1381 00:59:47,988 --> 00:59:50,923 in that report, which all proved to be true. 1382 00:59:50,923 --> 00:59:53,150 The Mueller investigation had to acknowledge them. 1383 00:59:53,150 --> 00:59:55,010 Today, the Department of Justice acknowledges them. 1384 00:59:55,010 --> 00:59:59,440 And they certainly contradict all of the national media 1385 00:59:59,440 --> 01:00:02,900 narrative that we all had to live with for over a year. 1386 01:00:02,900 --> 01:00:06,139 - After the IG report came out, I would have thought 1387 01:00:06,139 --> 01:00:08,116 there would be some kind of you know, 1388 01:00:08,116 --> 01:00:13,116 little media frenzy, you know, asking Schiff 1389 01:00:13,610 --> 01:00:15,560 if he stands by his memo. 1390 01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:16,770 - Look in the cameras and say they hacked 1391 01:00:16,770 --> 01:00:17,603 John Podesta's emails. 1392 01:00:17,603 --> 01:00:19,350 We know for a fact that Putin's government did that. 1393 01:00:19,350 --> 01:00:21,070 You can't, and you know you can't. 1394 01:00:21,070 --> 01:00:22,337 And you're hiding behind - I,- 1395 01:00:22,337 --> 01:00:24,870 - Weasel words. - I just said that- 1396 01:00:24,870 --> 01:00:26,080 - So they hacked John Podesta's- 1397 01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:27,289 - The Russians, I'm not gonna be specific 1398 01:00:27,289 --> 01:00:28,130 as to- - Oh because 1399 01:00:28,130 --> 01:00:29,297 you don't know it, that's why. 1400 01:00:29,297 --> 01:00:30,130 All right. 1401 01:00:30,130 --> 01:00:33,390 - He would constantly say, "I have seen evidence 1402 01:00:33,390 --> 01:00:36,910 of collusion and conspiracy," the questions we were asking. 1403 01:00:36,910 --> 01:00:37,970 We did it for a reason. 1404 01:00:37,970 --> 01:00:39,890 And we would go to him and his staff and said, 1405 01:00:39,890 --> 01:00:41,290 okay, are you seeing something we're not? 1406 01:00:41,290 --> 01:00:43,190 'Cause if you are, we'd like to know. 1407 01:00:43,190 --> 01:00:45,740 But he knew he could just say it on TV 1408 01:00:45,740 --> 01:00:47,899 on uncertain organizations. 1409 01:00:47,899 --> 01:00:50,031 And then he would, and then hide behind 1410 01:00:50,031 --> 01:00:51,360 well, it's all classified. 1411 01:00:51,360 --> 01:00:52,330 I can't get into it. 1412 01:00:52,330 --> 01:00:55,120 They went straight back to attacking us personally, 1413 01:00:55,120 --> 01:00:56,350 the media and the left. 1414 01:00:56,350 --> 01:00:58,159 So they were more attacks on Devin and me. 1415 01:00:58,159 --> 01:01:00,449 We would always say we're over the target 1416 01:01:00,449 --> 01:01:04,168 when the ass clowns in the media on the left, 1417 01:01:04,168 --> 01:01:07,630 we're just shelling us at the same time. 1418 01:01:07,630 --> 01:01:09,591 And we knew that was coming the second we hit send 1419 01:01:09,591 --> 01:01:11,553 and it came hard. 1420 01:01:12,670 --> 01:01:16,030 - [Interviewer] This story in the Bee came out when? 1421 01:01:16,030 --> 01:01:18,437 - The cocaine yachts prostitutes story? 1422 01:01:18,437 --> 01:01:19,902 (women giggle) 1423 01:01:19,902 --> 01:01:21,950 (playful music) 1424 01:01:21,950 --> 01:01:25,570 The most absolutely outlandish stories about Devin 1425 01:01:25,570 --> 01:01:26,930 and it would be so ridiculous, 1426 01:01:26,930 --> 01:01:28,730 things that would absolutely defy belief. 1427 01:01:28,730 --> 01:01:29,913 He was dump farmer. 1428 01:01:29,913 --> 01:01:34,913 He's corrupt and we were seeing very early on 1429 01:01:34,954 --> 01:01:39,954 these accusations that he was a Putin stooge 1430 01:01:40,060 --> 01:01:42,410 which really stood out to us because the guy 1431 01:01:42,410 --> 01:01:45,860 his entire career, he's been a Russia Hawk. 1432 01:01:45,860 --> 01:01:47,958 And there was, you know, for example, a giant billboard on 1433 01:01:47,958 --> 01:01:50,660 on our main highway in the district back home. 1434 01:01:50,660 --> 01:01:55,103 You had analysts talking on MSNBC speculating whether 1435 01:01:55,103 --> 01:01:58,050 the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee 1436 01:01:58,050 --> 01:02:00,763 is is actually a Russian asset. 1437 01:02:03,040 --> 01:02:06,170 Some person filed the California equivalent 1438 01:02:06,170 --> 01:02:09,080 of the Freedom of Information Act against Devin's wife 1439 01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:10,602 who's an elementary school teacher 1440 01:02:10,602 --> 01:02:13,313 to get all of her work emails. 1441 01:02:14,300 --> 01:02:15,840 - You know, they started going after his family 1442 01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:18,530 and that's just absurd and totally off limits 1443 01:02:18,530 --> 01:02:21,763 and writing crazy things on social media and in articles. 1444 01:02:23,140 --> 01:02:26,293 - I was not just stalked by the fake and phony press, 1445 01:02:26,293 --> 01:02:28,310 they would hang out right outside this office 1446 01:02:28,310 --> 01:02:30,021 and follow me everywhere they went. 1447 01:02:30,021 --> 01:02:32,049 - [Fake Journalist] For best supporting actor 1448 01:02:32,049 --> 01:02:34,710 in working with the Trump administration 1449 01:02:34,710 --> 01:02:36,810 and going to meet with them on the investigation. 1450 01:02:36,810 --> 01:02:39,740 - I also had these big picture, fake news stories. 1451 01:02:39,740 --> 01:02:42,035 - This was going on both at the national level 1452 01:02:42,035 --> 01:02:45,713 in the pages of the Washington Post, the New York Times 1453 01:02:45,713 --> 01:02:48,950 and the local level back home. 1454 01:02:48,950 --> 01:02:50,640 - The media had gone wild. 1455 01:02:50,640 --> 01:02:52,950 They had been writing crazy stories 1456 01:02:52,950 --> 01:02:56,100 about everybody, including myself, 1457 01:02:56,100 --> 01:02:57,300 which was unheard of at the time 1458 01:02:57,300 --> 01:02:59,800 to write about a staffer, leak his name, 1459 01:02:59,800 --> 01:03:02,820 call him basically a genocidal dictator. 1460 01:03:02,820 --> 01:03:05,150 - Kash, they kind of portrayed as this sort 1461 01:03:05,150 --> 01:03:09,965 of machiavellian genius behind what the 1462 01:03:09,965 --> 01:03:12,820 hipsy Republicans were doing. 1463 01:03:12,820 --> 01:03:15,690 You know, a guy you know, nobody should be listening to. 1464 01:03:15,690 --> 01:03:18,213 - They knew that Kash was the one 1465 01:03:18,213 --> 01:03:20,920 that was giving us the roadmap. 1466 01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:22,614 - I remember a specific circumstance 1467 01:03:22,614 --> 01:03:26,330 where Rod Rosenstein was confronted 1468 01:03:26,330 --> 01:03:29,440 with the fact that he had signed renewal 1469 01:03:29,440 --> 01:03:31,130 for this FISA warrant. 1470 01:03:31,130 --> 01:03:33,904 And he turned to Kash Patel and said to Kash 1471 01:03:33,904 --> 01:03:36,483 that if this did not stop, if the criticism 1472 01:03:36,483 --> 01:03:40,190 of Rosenstein persisted, if the efforts to call him 1473 01:03:40,190 --> 01:03:42,700 to account for that signature were elevated 1474 01:03:42,700 --> 01:03:44,740 that it might be Kash himself that would 1475 01:03:44,740 --> 01:03:46,650 be subject of surveillance of our government. 1476 01:03:46,650 --> 01:03:48,680 - It used to be politicians launched grenades 1477 01:03:48,680 --> 01:03:50,390 at each other and that was considered warfare. 1478 01:03:50,390 --> 01:03:51,390 And fair enough, all fair. 1479 01:03:51,390 --> 01:03:52,720 You beat me, I beat you. 1480 01:03:52,720 --> 01:03:54,257 We run dirty ads and we can be, 1481 01:03:54,257 --> 01:03:56,428 but now we're getting down to destroying the reputations 1482 01:03:56,428 --> 01:03:57,980 of individual people. 1483 01:03:57,980 --> 01:04:00,166 - At its core this was an information operation, 1484 01:04:00,166 --> 01:04:02,765 an information warfare operation. 1485 01:04:02,765 --> 01:04:07,000 It was designed to get out a specific narrative. 1486 01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:09,940 And that narrative in this case was that Trump 1487 01:04:09,940 --> 01:04:12,468 is a traitor and he was colluding with the Russians. 1488 01:04:12,468 --> 01:04:14,968 (clock ticks) 1489 01:04:16,920 --> 01:04:19,690 - The bigger problem is they're reporting 1490 01:04:19,690 --> 01:04:23,130 that their same group of circus animals 1491 01:04:23,130 --> 01:04:27,160 is conducting is not true, it's not accurate 1492 01:04:27,160 --> 01:04:28,520 - You know, in having conversations 1493 01:04:28,520 --> 01:04:31,280 with reporters as they were continuing 1494 01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:34,327 to play this story out in the national media. 1495 01:04:34,327 --> 01:04:35,738 And we would explain to them that 1496 01:04:35,738 --> 01:04:38,070 if you go into a classified briefing 1497 01:04:38,070 --> 01:04:39,567 and you receive classified information 1498 01:04:39,567 --> 01:04:42,410 and you step out and you tell reporters 1499 01:04:42,410 --> 01:04:44,268 that information you have committed a crime. 1500 01:04:44,268 --> 01:04:46,640 If you go to that same classified briefing 1501 01:04:46,640 --> 01:04:49,060 and step out and lie about what happened, 1502 01:04:49,060 --> 01:04:50,707 you've not committed a crime. 1503 01:04:50,707 --> 01:04:52,617 So the reporters should be suspect. 1504 01:04:52,617 --> 01:04:55,380 They should question whether or not this person really 1505 01:04:55,380 --> 01:04:56,550 is committing a crime or whether 1506 01:04:56,550 --> 01:04:58,430 or not they're just spinning them 1507 01:04:58,430 --> 01:04:59,850 and giving them the information that 1508 01:04:59,850 --> 01:05:00,960 they want to have report it. 1509 01:05:00,960 --> 01:05:03,060 - I honestly think most at some point 1510 01:05:03,060 --> 01:05:04,790 would have said, you know, what, why bother? 1511 01:05:04,790 --> 01:05:06,970 You know, I just, you know just retire from Congress, 1512 01:05:06,970 --> 01:05:08,340 just go do something else, you know, 1513 01:05:08,340 --> 01:05:10,270 have a quiet life where, you know 1514 01:05:10,270 --> 01:05:13,100 I don't gotta to deal with this nonsense every single day 1515 01:05:13,100 --> 01:05:15,770 but that's just not Devin's nature. 1516 01:05:15,770 --> 01:05:19,236 His nature is when you're punched, always punch back. 1517 01:05:19,236 --> 01:05:22,380 And I think that was always his instinct 1518 01:05:22,380 --> 01:05:23,320 through this whole thing. 1519 01:05:23,320 --> 01:05:26,580 I mean, he can't be bullied and he can't be intimidated. 1520 01:05:26,580 --> 01:05:30,540 And at its root, that is what the whole media operation 1521 01:05:30,540 --> 01:05:32,910 against him was trying to achieve. 1522 01:05:32,910 --> 01:05:34,800 - Biggest misconception about Devin Nunez 1523 01:05:34,800 --> 01:05:37,280 is that the memo he released was a hoax. 1524 01:05:37,280 --> 01:05:39,410 When in fact, Adam Schiff's memo was a hoax. 1525 01:05:39,410 --> 01:05:41,956 They attack Devin Nunez for the Nunez Memo 1526 01:05:41,956 --> 01:05:43,980 based on what Adam Schiff says. 1527 01:05:43,980 --> 01:05:45,610 And if you're an honest person, you would say 1528 01:05:45,610 --> 01:05:48,290 well, how could you just say the Democrat wrote a memo, 1529 01:05:48,290 --> 01:05:50,760 the Republican wrote a memo, all politicians lie. 1530 01:05:50,760 --> 01:05:52,110 They're both probably full of shit. 1531 01:05:52,110 --> 01:05:53,018 I would be okay with that. 1532 01:05:53,018 --> 01:05:55,490 We know the Adam Schiff claimed 1533 01:05:55,490 --> 01:05:57,647 that he had evidence of Russia collusion 1534 01:05:57,647 --> 01:06:00,007 and he's never called off for any of that. 1535 01:06:00,007 --> 01:06:02,210 But if you're a Republican making those kinda 1536 01:06:02,210 --> 01:06:03,550 claims, you would never live them down. 1537 01:06:03,550 --> 01:06:05,720 The media's role in the Russia hoax is complex 1538 01:06:05,720 --> 01:06:07,868 because what we had suspected was proven 1539 01:06:07,868 --> 01:06:10,956 ironically of all places in the Mueller report. 1540 01:06:10,956 --> 01:06:13,360 the Mueller report showed how the information 1541 01:06:13,360 --> 01:06:14,490 laundering works. 1542 01:06:14,490 --> 01:06:17,350 Someone within the FBI leaked something 1543 01:06:17,350 --> 01:06:21,350 to Michael Isikoff or David Corn, 1544 01:06:21,350 --> 01:06:23,600 or someone at the Washington Post. 1545 01:06:23,600 --> 01:06:25,800 That person, the Washington Post writes an article 1546 01:06:25,800 --> 01:06:27,270 based on the leak. 1547 01:06:27,270 --> 01:06:30,103 And then the FBI goes and says, look, we have this story 1548 01:06:30,103 --> 01:06:33,534 about this thing, which means this thing must be true. 1549 01:06:33,534 --> 01:06:36,760 And then the FBI takes action on that. 1550 01:06:36,760 --> 01:06:38,815 And then the information goes back to the Washington Post. 1551 01:06:38,815 --> 01:06:41,420 That's how the information laundering cycle works. 1552 01:06:41,420 --> 01:06:43,235 Now, boom, number one story. 1553 01:06:43,235 --> 01:06:47,250 CNN is reporting that this dossier exists 1554 01:06:47,250 --> 01:06:49,175 and it contains scandalous information. 1555 01:06:49,175 --> 01:06:51,615 Who knows if it's true or not? 1556 01:06:51,615 --> 01:06:53,150 It's salacious. 1557 01:06:53,150 --> 01:06:54,700 There's a whole bigger truth thing. 1558 01:06:54,700 --> 01:06:56,154 Does Trump pee on prostitutes? 1559 01:06:56,154 --> 01:06:59,360 Well, I mean, how do you know that he didn't, right? 1560 01:06:59,360 --> 01:07:02,502 I can't say for certainty that he didn't. 1561 01:07:02,502 --> 01:07:05,350 Oh, so now people are like, oh, Trump peed on prostitutes. 1562 01:07:05,350 --> 01:07:06,183 I can't believe this. 1563 01:07:06,183 --> 01:07:08,350 It was all of course, a big hoax. 1564 01:07:08,350 --> 01:07:09,667 That's how you launder that information 1565 01:07:09,667 --> 01:07:12,070 and you get a document that is based 1566 01:07:12,070 --> 01:07:14,513 on fabrications into the news cycle. 1567 01:07:15,970 --> 01:07:18,510 - For me, going into your House Intelligence Committee 1568 01:07:18,510 --> 01:07:20,690 it's supposed to be sort of a closed door meeting. 1569 01:07:20,690 --> 01:07:23,130 I'm there voluntarily cooperating trying to help. 1570 01:07:23,130 --> 01:07:25,230 I believe I was in there for nine hours straight. 1571 01:07:25,230 --> 01:07:26,063 And I got it done. 1572 01:07:26,063 --> 01:07:27,130 It was about 7.30 at night. 1573 01:07:27,130 --> 01:07:29,172 I walk out the building, I finally get my phone back 1574 01:07:29,172 --> 01:07:32,340 you know, open up Twitter and I'm looking 11.30, 1575 01:07:32,340 --> 01:07:33,500 Don Jr. said this. 1576 01:07:33,500 --> 01:07:35,750 It's supposed to be you know, behind closed doors. 1577 01:07:35,750 --> 01:07:37,360 And literally at every bathroom break, 1578 01:07:37,360 --> 01:07:40,570 someone's leaking to CNN what's going on in the room. 1579 01:07:40,570 --> 01:07:44,050 Like, why would anyone voluntarily go in there 1580 01:07:44,050 --> 01:07:46,160 and try to work with them to get answers, 1581 01:07:46,160 --> 01:07:47,930 knowing that they have no intention 1582 01:07:47,930 --> 01:07:49,530 of trying to deal in good faith? 1583 01:07:50,370 --> 01:07:53,190 - We're entering into a new era of information warfare. 1584 01:07:53,190 --> 01:07:55,157 But the information warfare that most scares me 1585 01:07:55,157 --> 01:07:58,730 is the very tactics that our defense intelligence agency, 1586 01:07:58,730 --> 01:08:01,210 our CIA, our NSA have used for years 1587 01:08:01,210 --> 01:08:03,248 to create misinformation and propaganda. 1588 01:08:03,248 --> 01:08:05,310 The ability to create false reality 1589 01:08:05,310 --> 01:08:07,557 on social media and news organizations. 1590 01:08:07,557 --> 01:08:10,393 They've now been turned inward on the American people. 1591 01:08:11,380 --> 01:08:13,370 Somebody created a false illusion 1592 01:08:13,370 --> 01:08:16,760 of a sophisticated, extraordinary capabilities. 1593 01:08:16,760 --> 01:08:19,270 The idea that you're gonna take a document 1594 01:08:19,270 --> 01:08:21,136 that says Carter Page is a CIA asset 1595 01:08:21,136 --> 01:08:23,930 helping the American public and change it to say no, 1596 01:08:23,930 --> 01:08:26,930 he's a Russian stooge and fake a court with that, 1597 01:08:26,930 --> 01:08:28,360 fake the Congress with that. 1598 01:08:28,360 --> 01:08:29,710 That's how far the FBI went. 1599 01:08:29,710 --> 01:08:31,370 That is information warfare. 1600 01:08:31,370 --> 01:08:33,480 That's misinformation at the highest levels 1601 01:08:33,480 --> 01:08:35,130 and I don't think the American public 1602 01:08:35,130 --> 01:08:37,940 has come to grips with what the potential threshold 1603 01:08:37,940 --> 01:08:38,843 we just crossed. 1604 01:08:39,900 --> 01:08:43,710 - It's illegal to possess these stolen documents. 1605 01:08:43,710 --> 01:08:44,730 It's different for them media. 1606 01:08:44,730 --> 01:08:46,000 So everything you learned about this, 1607 01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:47,760 you're learning from us. 1608 01:08:47,760 --> 01:08:51,450 - When CNN says on air, 1609 01:08:51,450 --> 01:08:54,740 you the public are not allowed to look at these. 1610 01:08:54,740 --> 01:08:56,570 That's what we're here to do. 1611 01:08:56,570 --> 01:08:59,386 At some point, you got to say, wow, 1612 01:08:59,386 --> 01:09:03,330 you got some big balls to stand up 1613 01:09:03,330 --> 01:09:06,288 on national television and tell the entire world, 1614 01:09:06,288 --> 01:09:08,490 don't read this. 1615 01:09:08,490 --> 01:09:09,883 I'll read it to you. 1616 01:09:11,340 --> 01:09:15,020 I have personal friends who are reporters 1617 01:09:15,020 --> 01:09:17,040 or who are in like neoconservative 1618 01:09:17,040 --> 01:09:20,790 or neoliberal fields who genuinely still believe this stuff. 1619 01:09:20,790 --> 01:09:23,500 They still believe it because their jobs, 1620 01:09:23,500 --> 01:09:25,690 their livelihoods, their histories, their backgrounds 1621 01:09:25,690 --> 01:09:29,750 their resumes depend on them believing it. 1622 01:09:29,750 --> 01:09:30,930 You know, a lot of this will come down 1623 01:09:30,930 --> 01:09:33,860 to the supposed fact checkers and editors 1624 01:09:33,860 --> 01:09:36,010 in newsrooms whose names none of us know 1625 01:09:36,010 --> 01:09:37,430 off the top of our heads. 1626 01:09:37,430 --> 01:09:39,000 What role did they play in all of this? 1627 01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:41,840 Isn't their job to send the bad copy back to Chris Cillizza 1628 01:09:41,840 --> 01:09:43,380 and say you know, we can't really put this 1629 01:09:43,380 --> 01:09:44,340 up on the CNN website. 1630 01:09:44,340 --> 01:09:45,200 Well, why not? 1631 01:09:45,200 --> 01:09:47,310 Well, firstly, it's not news. 1632 01:09:47,310 --> 01:09:48,300 It's your opinion. 1633 01:09:48,300 --> 01:09:50,196 And secondly, it's a mental opinion. 1634 01:09:50,196 --> 01:09:52,877 It doesn't bear anything close to reality. 1635 01:09:52,877 --> 01:09:53,934 What are you doing? 1636 01:09:53,934 --> 01:09:56,455 Please, don't send me anything like this again. 1637 01:09:56,455 --> 01:09:57,290 You know, (chuckles) 1638 01:09:57,290 --> 01:09:59,780 - Police your own industry. 1639 01:09:59,780 --> 01:10:01,700 There should be real journalists 1640 01:10:01,700 --> 01:10:05,800 that stand up and say, this is a phony reporter. 1641 01:10:05,800 --> 01:10:06,736 This is an advocate. 1642 01:10:06,736 --> 01:10:08,890 Don't listen to this person. 1643 01:10:08,890 --> 01:10:10,900 - All those who perpetrated this false story 1644 01:10:10,900 --> 01:10:12,760 have sat in a bunker and refused to acknowledge 1645 01:10:12,760 --> 01:10:15,160 their wrongdoing, refuse to do what they ethically, 1646 01:10:15,160 --> 01:10:17,336 morally should have done, which is say, we got it wrong 1647 01:10:17,336 --> 01:10:19,376 and we're sorry, and we'll be better at it next time. 1648 01:10:19,376 --> 01:10:22,170 But instead we just moved on to another false scandal 1649 01:10:22,170 --> 01:10:23,470 and created Ukraine. 1650 01:10:23,470 --> 01:10:25,496 And we'll probably create another false scandal after that. 1651 01:10:25,496 --> 01:10:28,946 - Half the time when CNN has, oh, bombshell news, 1652 01:10:28,946 --> 01:10:30,610 it was about me. 1653 01:10:30,610 --> 01:10:31,880 And it was a lie. 1654 01:10:31,880 --> 01:10:35,107 These same people, right, that told Congress, 1655 01:10:35,107 --> 01:10:36,288 no, we didn't see anything. 1656 01:10:36,288 --> 01:10:38,270 They literally testified under oath, 1657 01:10:38,270 --> 01:10:40,920 the exact opposite, but there's no consequence. 1658 01:10:40,920 --> 01:10:43,730 We will go on TV day in and day out 1659 01:10:43,730 --> 01:10:46,210 and lie to the American people to their face. 1660 01:10:46,210 --> 01:10:47,760 And nothing's gonna happen to us. 1661 01:10:47,760 --> 01:10:48,760 - [Journalist] Why did you fire Robert Mueller? 1662 01:10:48,760 --> 01:10:49,770 - Fake news, folks. 1663 01:10:49,770 --> 01:10:51,577 Fake news. - What's your message today? 1664 01:10:51,577 --> 01:10:53,340 - Typical New York Times fake stories. 1665 01:10:53,340 --> 01:10:54,173 - [Journalist] Mr Trump? 1666 01:10:54,173 --> 01:10:55,478 - Go back to 2016. 1667 01:10:55,478 --> 01:10:56,770 Trump is Hitler. 1668 01:10:56,770 --> 01:10:57,603 Trump is Hitler. 1669 01:10:57,603 --> 01:10:58,436 Trump is Hitler. 1670 01:10:58,436 --> 01:10:59,790 Trump is evil. 1671 01:10:59,790 --> 01:11:01,430 Trump represents fascism. 1672 01:11:01,430 --> 01:11:02,610 Trump represents 1673 01:11:02,610 --> 01:11:05,720 the rise of the new Reich or something. 1674 01:11:05,720 --> 01:11:06,600 This was their narrative. 1675 01:11:06,600 --> 01:11:09,400 And this wasn't something that was just put out 1676 01:11:09,400 --> 01:11:11,890 on the internet or shouted by the Michael Moore's 1677 01:11:11,890 --> 01:11:13,130 and the Code Pink's of the world. 1678 01:11:13,130 --> 01:11:16,798 This was high level CNN, Washington Post, 1679 01:11:16,798 --> 01:11:20,760 you know, social justice crusader narratives 1680 01:11:20,760 --> 01:11:23,370 and language that was used in the highest levels 1681 01:11:23,370 --> 01:11:25,360 of America's media institutions. 1682 01:11:25,360 --> 01:11:27,446 - New York's Daily News ran this front page 1683 01:11:27,446 --> 01:11:30,290 earlier this week, "Trump is Hitler." 1684 01:11:30,290 --> 01:11:32,078 - And so then when Trump wins 1685 01:11:32,078 --> 01:11:36,110 and a massive upset, suddenly they have a big problem 1686 01:11:36,110 --> 01:11:38,660 because how in their walled garden 1687 01:11:38,660 --> 01:11:41,050 can they explain that a guy that they told 1688 01:11:41,050 --> 01:11:44,920 all of their people was the second coming of Hitler, 1689 01:11:44,920 --> 01:11:49,380 how could 62 million Americans vote for Hitler, right? 1690 01:11:49,380 --> 01:11:51,070 And so they have a big problem there. 1691 01:11:51,070 --> 01:11:52,097 How do you explain that away? 1692 01:11:52,097 --> 01:11:55,650 Are 62 million Americans Nazis, right? 1693 01:11:55,650 --> 01:11:56,620 No, that doesn't make any sense. 1694 01:11:56,620 --> 01:11:58,130 Like that that's a bridge too far. 1695 01:11:58,130 --> 01:12:01,060 Then they see the Russia collusion narrative 1696 01:12:01,060 --> 01:12:02,850 sitting right there in front of them 1697 01:12:02,850 --> 01:12:05,753 and say why don't we just say that he cheated? 1698 01:12:08,240 --> 01:12:11,800 So in their movie, Trump cheated 1699 01:12:11,800 --> 01:12:13,850 with the help of Vladimir Putin 1700 01:12:13,850 --> 01:12:16,260 and then that became the reason that America 1701 01:12:16,260 --> 01:12:18,730 elected the next Adolf Hitler. 1702 01:12:18,730 --> 01:12:22,230 And that it became useful for so many various interests. 1703 01:12:22,230 --> 01:12:25,770 Rachel Maddow uses it to gen up her ratings, right? 1704 01:12:25,770 --> 01:12:27,310 Because she says, we're gonna get them. 1705 01:12:27,310 --> 01:12:28,143 We're gonna catch them. 1706 01:12:28,143 --> 01:12:29,038 We're gonna uncover this. 1707 01:12:29,038 --> 01:12:31,180 - Well, unfortunately until this is released, 1708 01:12:31,180 --> 01:12:33,586 I can't comment on the underlying documents, 1709 01:12:33,586 --> 01:12:36,169 but I can say among the changes that I thought were notable- 1710 01:12:36,169 --> 01:12:38,009 - Instead of some, 1711 01:12:38,009 --> 01:12:40,364 you know, smoking gun that was always promised 1712 01:12:40,364 --> 01:12:42,560 it's on what's classified. 1713 01:12:42,560 --> 01:12:43,860 You can't see it, right? 1714 01:12:43,860 --> 01:12:45,820 That was the game they played until Rick Grennell 1715 01:12:45,820 --> 01:12:46,740 blew that one up. 1716 01:12:46,740 --> 01:12:48,810 Maybe these guys just actually believe 1717 01:12:48,810 --> 01:12:51,660 that collusion is real and they're operating in good faith. 1718 01:12:51,660 --> 01:12:54,300 In reality, that wasn't the goal. 1719 01:12:54,300 --> 01:12:56,230 The goal was never to prove collusion. 1720 01:12:56,230 --> 01:12:59,080 The goal was always indictments, 1721 01:12:59,080 --> 01:13:01,620 convictions and then impeachment. 1722 01:13:01,620 --> 01:13:05,228 And that was the goal from the very start of all of it. 1723 01:13:05,228 --> 01:13:08,228 (suspenseful music) 1724 01:13:09,940 --> 01:13:10,878 (door knocks) 1725 01:13:10,878 --> 01:13:12,787 - [FBI Agent] FBI open the door. 1726 01:13:12,787 --> 01:13:15,200 - [Reporter] This is exclusive CNN video. 1727 01:13:15,200 --> 01:13:17,057 This is what happened this morning before sunrise, 1728 01:13:17,057 --> 01:13:18,367 just before 6:00 a.m. 1729 01:13:18,367 --> 01:13:22,610 When Roger Stone, long time Trump associate 1730 01:13:22,610 --> 01:13:24,770 and adviser was taken into custody by the FBI. 1731 01:13:24,770 --> 01:13:26,950 - On the morning of January 25th, 1732 01:13:26,950 --> 01:13:31,412 25 heavily armed FBI agents in full SWAT gear 1733 01:13:31,412 --> 01:13:34,530 and brandishing a assault weapons, 1734 01:13:34,530 --> 01:13:37,159 arrived at my home at six o'clock in the morning 1735 01:13:37,159 --> 01:13:39,812 in 17 armored vehicles. 1736 01:13:39,812 --> 01:13:42,910 There was an FBI helicopter overhead. 1737 01:13:42,910 --> 01:13:44,520 I lived on a canal. 1738 01:13:44,520 --> 01:13:47,550 So there were two amphibious units that pulled up 1739 01:13:47,550 --> 01:13:51,310 to the dock with frog men who were also armed. 1740 01:13:51,310 --> 01:13:53,590 Then they dragged my wife out of the house 1741 01:13:53,590 --> 01:13:55,810 in her night clothing and bare feet. 1742 01:13:55,810 --> 01:14:00,220 So she could share my humiliation for the CNN cameras. 1743 01:14:00,220 --> 01:14:03,260 Now CNN's cameras, we know from the security footage 1744 01:14:03,260 --> 01:14:08,020 shows that the CNN camera showed up exactly 14 minutes 1745 01:14:08,020 --> 01:14:09,850 before the FBI. 1746 01:14:09,850 --> 01:14:12,970 This would make it the shortest journalistic stakeout 1747 01:14:12,970 --> 01:14:14,440 in American history. 1748 01:14:14,440 --> 01:14:16,940 I think as most people know I was targeted 1749 01:14:16,940 --> 01:14:20,469 for a political prosecution because of my longtime support 1750 01:14:20,469 --> 01:14:22,950 and friendship for the president. 1751 01:14:22,950 --> 01:14:25,110 - [Reporter] Stone says he's been encouraging Donald Trump 1752 01:14:25,110 --> 01:14:27,390 to run for president since 1988. 1753 01:14:27,390 --> 01:14:29,110 - I would say that I would have a hell of a chance 1754 01:14:29,110 --> 01:14:29,943 of winning. 1755 01:14:29,943 --> 01:14:32,390 - Between his outspokenness, his national name 1756 01:14:32,390 --> 01:14:34,430 identification and his issue positions. 1757 01:14:34,430 --> 01:14:35,929 He could be a formidable candidate. 1758 01:14:35,929 --> 01:14:38,929 (suspenseful music) 1759 01:14:42,400 --> 01:14:45,540 The indictment against me came up with nothing. 1760 01:14:45,540 --> 01:14:49,270 They pasted together a very flimsy indictment 1761 01:14:49,270 --> 01:14:53,280 for lying to Congress even though the misstatements 1762 01:14:53,280 --> 01:14:55,700 I made when I went voluntarily 1763 01:14:55,700 --> 01:14:57,470 to the House Intelligence Committee 1764 01:14:57,470 --> 01:14:59,410 were immaterial. 1765 01:14:59,410 --> 01:15:01,610 They had no underlying crimes. 1766 01:15:01,610 --> 01:15:04,399 It was a Soviet style show trial. 1767 01:15:04,399 --> 01:15:07,816 (people chatter angrily) 1768 01:15:09,448 --> 01:15:10,850 (crowd boos) 1769 01:15:10,850 --> 01:15:14,170 'Cause I have always said, the only thing worse than 1770 01:15:14,170 --> 01:15:18,140 being talked about is not being talked about. 1771 01:15:18,140 --> 01:15:20,130 - I was in Congress for 30 hours. 1772 01:15:20,130 --> 01:15:22,340 I was at the target because it would generate headlines. 1773 01:15:22,340 --> 01:15:24,720 I'm sure there's an element of stress on my father 1774 01:15:24,720 --> 01:15:26,420 that, hey, they're putting your kid through this. 1775 01:15:26,420 --> 01:15:28,300 I mean, don't forget, it wasn't like they were saying, 1776 01:15:28,300 --> 01:15:29,618 Hey, we wanna find out. 1777 01:15:29,618 --> 01:15:32,410 You had the former vice presidential candidate 1778 01:15:32,410 --> 01:15:34,550 of the United States for the Democrat Party Tim Kaine. 1779 01:15:34,550 --> 01:15:38,010 Schiff saying that I committed treason. 1780 01:15:38,010 --> 01:15:40,970 Treason is a crime punishable death. 1781 01:15:40,970 --> 01:15:42,620 - Can you imagine carrying that weight 1782 01:15:42,620 --> 01:15:44,580 and that burden as a president, knowing that 1783 01:15:44,580 --> 01:15:46,750 they're trying to go after your child 1784 01:15:46,750 --> 01:15:48,369 and thinking in some way, hey, look 1785 01:15:48,369 --> 01:15:51,150 they're going after my son because I'm president. 1786 01:15:51,150 --> 01:15:53,170 Do you ever think maybe at night you say to yourself, 1787 01:15:53,170 --> 01:15:54,340 gosh, is this worth it? 1788 01:15:54,340 --> 01:15:56,920 They're targeting my family and trying 1789 01:15:56,920 --> 01:15:59,560 to destroy them and going after your children 1790 01:15:59,560 --> 01:16:01,640 - [Reporter] President Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr. 1791 01:16:01,640 --> 01:16:03,930 was back on Capitol Hill this week to talk about 1792 01:16:03,930 --> 01:16:05,890 his much discussed Trump Tower meeting 1793 01:16:05,890 --> 01:16:07,560 with a Russian lawyer who promised him 1794 01:16:07,560 --> 01:16:10,746 damaging political info during the 2016. 1795 01:16:10,746 --> 01:16:13,380 - And he's a father with, you know, five children 1796 01:16:13,380 --> 01:16:15,930 children having to hear about this from their friends, 1797 01:16:15,930 --> 01:16:17,277 listen to it, you know, in school, 1798 01:16:17,277 --> 01:16:19,578 see it in the paper, on television at night. 1799 01:16:19,578 --> 01:16:21,737 It's such a scary thing to see it. 1800 01:16:21,737 --> 01:16:23,066 And your heart breaks. 1801 01:16:23,066 --> 01:16:25,538 You know, when they tell you they wanna put you in prison 1802 01:16:25,538 --> 01:16:28,830 for life or treason punishable by death. 1803 01:16:28,830 --> 01:16:32,226 Can you imagine when you hear this or you see this about, 1804 01:16:32,226 --> 01:16:34,720 you know, your father? 1805 01:16:34,720 --> 01:16:37,350 - My biggest regret of the last four years 1806 01:16:37,350 --> 01:16:39,450 was not being more vocal about what they did 1807 01:16:39,450 --> 01:16:40,365 to General Flynn. 1808 01:16:40,365 --> 01:16:44,760 I just said, man, there must be something here 1809 01:16:44,760 --> 01:16:47,240 if this many people that ran these institutions, 1810 01:16:47,240 --> 01:16:49,940 I still believed, I still had faith 1811 01:16:49,940 --> 01:16:52,008 as an American in these institutions. 1812 01:16:52,008 --> 01:16:54,418 And it was the most misguided faith 1813 01:16:54,418 --> 01:16:57,103 I've ever had in anything in my life. 1814 01:16:59,720 --> 01:17:01,880 - Former National Security advisor, Michael Flynn 1815 01:17:01,880 --> 01:17:03,750 thought he would walk out of court free 1816 01:17:03,750 --> 01:17:05,277 after a sentencing hearing yesterday. 1817 01:17:05,277 --> 01:17:09,085 - A packed courtroom was stunned as Judge Emmett Sullivan 1818 01:17:09,085 --> 01:17:11,205 said, he could not hide his disgust 1819 01:17:11,205 --> 01:17:14,093 and his disdain for Flynn's crimes. 1820 01:17:16,340 --> 01:17:20,085 - At first, I thought he was trying to do everything 1821 01:17:20,085 --> 01:17:22,737 he could to get General Flynn to scream out, 1822 01:17:22,737 --> 01:17:24,120 "I'm not guilty!" 1823 01:17:24,120 --> 01:17:26,850 He threw out the word treason and he said 1824 01:17:26,850 --> 01:17:29,310 you arguably sold out your country 1825 01:17:29,310 --> 01:17:30,850 while you were in the White House. 1826 01:17:30,850 --> 01:17:35,713 I mean, it was just a breathtaking, excoriating dialogue. 1827 01:17:37,300 --> 01:17:39,193 I was stunned. 1828 01:17:40,220 --> 01:17:45,220 And he even paused after his tirade for an hour 1829 01:17:45,490 --> 01:17:48,570 while the media runs wild internationally 1830 01:17:48,570 --> 01:17:51,950 with calls of General Flynn having committed treason. 1831 01:17:51,950 --> 01:17:54,700 The pressure on a criminal defendant, 1832 01:17:54,700 --> 01:17:58,740 particularly in a federal case is beyond anybody's capacity 1833 01:17:58,740 --> 01:18:01,200 to comprehend unless you've been there. 1834 01:18:01,200 --> 01:18:05,860 They threatened to indict Michael Flynn, the son 1835 01:18:05,860 --> 01:18:10,150 if General Flynn did not immediately enter a guilty plea. 1836 01:18:10,150 --> 01:18:12,530 Young Michael Flynn had just had a baby. 1837 01:18:12,530 --> 01:18:13,885 He had a four month old little boy. 1838 01:18:13,885 --> 01:18:16,410 He had done nothing wrong. 1839 01:18:16,410 --> 01:18:20,170 He had been forced to sell his house to pay legal fees. 1840 01:18:20,170 --> 01:18:24,120 They threatened to indict him just around Thanksgiving 1841 01:18:24,120 --> 01:18:26,200 and to indict Michael too. 1842 01:18:26,200 --> 01:18:29,400 They just wanted to stop the pain for the whole family. 1843 01:18:29,400 --> 01:18:33,000 They were just broken and in many ways 1844 01:18:33,000 --> 01:18:34,493 and saw no other way out. 1845 01:18:35,380 --> 01:18:37,793 He should have never taken Flynn's guilty plea. 1846 01:18:40,030 --> 01:18:42,587 They knew he was not an agent of Russia. 1847 01:18:42,587 --> 01:18:46,250 They knew there was no collusion between General Flynn 1848 01:18:46,250 --> 01:18:48,310 and anybody with Russia. 1849 01:18:48,310 --> 01:18:50,580 We learned that they inserted 1850 01:18:50,580 --> 01:18:55,170 into the 302 statements that he never made 1851 01:18:55,170 --> 01:18:58,221 things they never asked him about to create 1852 01:18:58,221 --> 01:19:00,820 the purported false statements. 1853 01:19:00,820 --> 01:19:04,920 I've seen the FBI manipulate 302s before. 1854 01:19:04,920 --> 01:19:09,240 They had done the major changes the night of February 10, 1855 01:19:09,240 --> 01:19:13,107 after they had shown the purported transcripts 1856 01:19:13,107 --> 01:19:17,650 of the calls with Kislyak to Vice President Pence. 1857 01:19:17,650 --> 01:19:21,005 And then they went back that night and made changes. 1858 01:19:21,005 --> 01:19:24,530 It was done and altered until it was approved 1859 01:19:24,530 --> 01:19:25,803 by Andrew McCabe. 1860 01:19:28,280 --> 01:19:31,030 If this can happen to General Michael T. Flynn, 1861 01:19:31,030 --> 01:19:32,910 or imagine what they do to anybody 1862 01:19:32,910 --> 01:19:35,550 who has a single strike against them. 1863 01:19:39,240 --> 01:19:40,936 - There's so much happening in this country right now 1864 01:19:40,936 --> 01:19:43,285 that boggles the imagination. 1865 01:19:43,285 --> 01:19:45,290 And you're at the very center of it. 1866 01:19:45,290 --> 01:19:49,870 - If one person needs to apologize to the American people 1867 01:19:49,870 --> 01:19:53,786 for propelling this false narrative for 3 something years 1868 01:19:53,786 --> 01:19:56,316 it would be Adam Schiff. 1869 01:19:56,316 --> 01:20:00,740 - Adam Schiff is the modern day Joe McCarthy. 1870 01:20:00,740 --> 01:20:02,210 He would come out of an intelligence briefing, 1871 01:20:02,210 --> 01:20:04,920 he would say nothing there, and he'd go collusion. 1872 01:20:04,920 --> 01:20:06,480 You just gotta be willing to see it. 1873 01:20:06,480 --> 01:20:09,490 The willingness to see it is exactly what misinformation 1874 01:20:09,490 --> 01:20:10,440 and propaganda is. 1875 01:20:10,440 --> 01:20:11,915 If the facts are there and you still see it, 1876 01:20:11,915 --> 01:20:13,133 you're delusional. 1877 01:20:14,830 --> 01:20:17,230 - Transparency is not political. 1878 01:20:17,230 --> 01:20:18,715 And information is power. 1879 01:20:18,715 --> 01:20:21,970 And when individuals like the gang of eight 1880 01:20:21,970 --> 01:20:24,307 are the only ones to have the information 1881 01:20:24,307 --> 01:20:28,010 then they go on TV and they get to say 1882 01:20:28,010 --> 01:20:31,687 I can't tell you, but you have to trust me. 1883 01:20:31,687 --> 01:20:36,123 That trust has been broken because they lied to us. 1884 01:20:38,850 --> 01:20:40,667 - The best way to clean this whole mess up 1885 01:20:40,667 --> 01:20:44,090 is with some indictments. 1886 01:20:44,090 --> 01:20:45,816 That's what people felt during Watergate. 1887 01:20:45,816 --> 01:20:49,050 That's what we all should feel now, 1888 01:20:49,050 --> 01:20:54,023 if we have any sense of keeping our integrity as a country. 1889 01:20:55,650 --> 01:20:57,450 - You know I don't know why criminals engage 1890 01:20:57,450 --> 01:20:58,860 in criminal behavior. 1891 01:20:58,860 --> 01:21:00,110 I mean, we can all talk about that 1892 01:21:00,110 --> 01:21:01,480 till we're blue in the face. 1893 01:21:01,480 --> 01:21:03,805 The fact is they engage in seditious behavior 1894 01:21:03,805 --> 01:21:06,163 and they ought to be prosecuted about it. 1895 01:21:07,560 --> 01:21:08,780 I don't know who should go to jail. 1896 01:21:08,780 --> 01:21:11,672 I just want a regular serious investigation. 1897 01:21:11,672 --> 01:21:14,141 Heck, I just want someone to be questioned, 1898 01:21:14,141 --> 01:21:16,193 let alone prosecuted. 1899 01:21:17,930 --> 01:21:19,512 - [Interviewer] Why do you think that is? 1900 01:21:19,512 --> 01:21:20,811 - Because they don't wanna do anything. 1901 01:21:20,811 --> 01:21:22,110 They didn't wanna do anything. 1902 01:21:22,110 --> 01:21:23,350 You're asking the Justice Department 1903 01:21:23,350 --> 01:21:25,900 to investigate themselves, they're not gonna do it. 1904 01:21:26,950 --> 01:21:28,632 - Does anyone really believe that FBI lawyer 1905 01:21:28,632 --> 01:21:30,840 changed that document all on his own? 1906 01:21:30,840 --> 01:21:32,401 Somebody had to give him that instruction. 1907 01:21:32,401 --> 01:21:35,170 We know somebody gave the instruction to the FBI agent 1908 01:21:35,170 --> 01:21:37,010 not to close down Mike Flynn's case 1909 01:21:37,010 --> 01:21:38,970 when the law said you should close it down. 1910 01:21:38,970 --> 01:21:41,460 Now we have a dual justice system. 1911 01:21:41,460 --> 01:21:44,060 There's a Department of Justice for everyday Americans 1912 01:21:44,060 --> 01:21:46,280 who get punished and there's a Department of Just-us. 1913 01:21:46,280 --> 01:21:47,580 - The thing that they were investigating 1914 01:21:47,580 --> 01:21:49,840 the Trump campaign for colluding 1915 01:21:49,840 --> 01:21:54,340 with the Russians is what they themselves were doing. 1916 01:21:54,340 --> 01:21:56,490 Not just the Democratic Party and their operatives, 1917 01:21:56,490 --> 01:21:57,690 but also the FBI. 1918 01:21:57,690 --> 01:21:59,130 - The Inspector General's report 1919 01:21:59,130 --> 01:22:01,567 on the FISA abuse and the Russia investigation 1920 01:22:01,567 --> 01:22:04,360 was about the most damning IG report 1921 01:22:04,360 --> 01:22:05,720 in the history of the United States. 1922 01:22:05,720 --> 01:22:10,170 And it showed everything we had done and said was true. 1923 01:22:10,170 --> 01:22:13,410 There isn't any information 'cause if there actually was, 1924 01:22:13,410 --> 01:22:14,900 we would have heard about it by now. 1925 01:22:14,900 --> 01:22:17,670 And the reason there isn't any information 1926 01:22:17,670 --> 01:22:19,740 or evidence to suggest that Trump campaign 1927 01:22:19,740 --> 01:22:21,673 coordinated or conspire colluded with the Russian government 1928 01:22:21,673 --> 01:22:23,863 is because they did not. 1929 01:22:26,500 --> 01:22:28,440 - These guys have perpetrated the greatest crime 1930 01:22:28,440 --> 01:22:30,310 against the American people ever seen. 1931 01:22:30,310 --> 01:22:31,650 It was a coup d'etat. 1932 01:22:31,650 --> 01:22:35,050 It was the attempt to take over a duly elected president 1933 01:22:35,050 --> 01:22:37,660 for their own personal gain. 1934 01:22:37,660 --> 01:22:39,602 - They made an attempt to overthrow 1935 01:22:39,602 --> 01:22:42,680 the outcome of a presidential election. 1936 01:22:42,680 --> 01:22:44,770 That was an American coup. 1937 01:22:44,770 --> 01:22:48,070 You can't do with a coup d'etat that takes place in Africa, 1938 01:22:48,070 --> 01:22:51,100 or Latin America, where you seize the building 1939 01:22:51,100 --> 01:22:53,420 of the presidency and you say, I'm the president. 1940 01:22:53,420 --> 01:22:55,724 Some officials in the political police, 1941 01:22:55,724 --> 01:22:59,970 the secret police, they're the ones who control 1942 01:22:59,970 --> 01:23:01,572 the security machinery. 1943 01:23:01,572 --> 01:23:04,230 And they say, my God we have discovered 1944 01:23:04,230 --> 01:23:06,570 that the president is a foreign agent. 1945 01:23:06,570 --> 01:23:09,780 So we have to arrest him to save the country. 1946 01:23:09,780 --> 01:23:13,830 If the people in charge of guarding the state 1947 01:23:13,830 --> 01:23:18,240 choose to turn against the state, the state is defenseless. 1948 01:23:18,240 --> 01:23:20,980 - This is what third world security states do. 1949 01:23:20,980 --> 01:23:23,430 They spy on their political opponents like this. 1950 01:23:23,430 --> 01:23:24,932 They try to send them to jail. 1951 01:23:24,932 --> 01:23:26,700 They try to bankrupt them. 1952 01:23:26,700 --> 01:23:29,900 - Once you established this precedent that you know 1953 01:23:29,900 --> 01:23:33,870 the intel agencies oversee the presidency. 1954 01:23:33,870 --> 01:23:36,222 And if the American people make a mistake 1955 01:23:36,222 --> 01:23:39,530 by electing the wrong guy and it's up to them 1956 01:23:39,530 --> 01:23:41,010 to correct that mistake. 1957 01:23:41,010 --> 01:23:45,588 And the fact that people think like that in these agencies 1958 01:23:45,588 --> 01:23:50,150 I think poses a fundamental threat to democracy. 1959 01:23:50,150 --> 01:23:52,020 - To me, this really is the crime of the century 1960 01:23:52,020 --> 01:23:52,950 when you think about it. 1961 01:23:52,950 --> 01:23:56,630 When you think about all these different institutions 1962 01:23:56,630 --> 01:24:00,650 working in concert, colluding, all working towards 1963 01:24:00,650 --> 01:24:04,752 one goal; to take out the president of the United States. 1964 01:24:04,752 --> 01:24:09,410 - So I tried to say this was gonna be bad and warn people. 1965 01:24:09,410 --> 01:24:12,377 And I thought I had a good grasp of how bad 1966 01:24:12,377 --> 01:24:14,940 it was gonna be and I didn't. 1967 01:24:14,940 --> 01:24:16,883 If you had told me in December or January, 1968 01:24:16,883 --> 01:24:18,974 as the administration was coming in, 1969 01:24:18,974 --> 01:24:22,320 Flynn won't last a month because of an op 1970 01:24:22,320 --> 01:24:24,410 that the deep state is going to run against him, 1971 01:24:24,410 --> 01:24:25,955 I would have said it, come on, it's bad 1972 01:24:25,955 --> 01:24:27,140 but it's not that bad. 1973 01:24:27,140 --> 01:24:28,300 And then it happened. 1974 01:24:28,300 --> 01:24:33,300 So, goes to show you how good my judgment is. (chuckles) 1975 01:24:34,635 --> 01:24:38,563 - I would say the Russia-gate has been the most egregious, 1976 01:24:39,875 --> 01:24:44,875 malevolent abuse of everything that was supposed 1977 01:24:45,130 --> 01:24:47,700 to have been good about our government. 1978 01:24:47,700 --> 01:24:49,634 - It divided the country in ways that people can't imagine. 1979 01:24:49,634 --> 01:24:51,904 It's inspired massive violence. 1980 01:24:51,904 --> 01:24:55,080 It's given people who are bad faith actors 1981 01:24:55,080 --> 01:24:56,984 a license to do whatever they want 1982 01:24:56,984 --> 01:24:59,326 because they literally feel like they're fighting 1983 01:24:59,326 --> 01:25:04,326 Russian spies and Nazis and foreign bad actors. 1984 01:25:04,500 --> 01:25:08,050 If you are right wing and you're a reporter 1985 01:25:08,050 --> 01:25:11,460 or a politician, you will have your reputation destroyed. 1986 01:25:11,460 --> 01:25:13,090 That's if you're lucky. 1987 01:25:13,090 --> 01:25:16,160 If you're lucky, you'll only have your reputation smeared. 1988 01:25:16,160 --> 01:25:17,856 If you end up like other people you're gonna get framed 1989 01:25:17,856 --> 01:25:19,340 for crimes. 1990 01:25:19,340 --> 01:25:22,286 - I worry that that is the future of American politics. 1991 01:25:22,286 --> 01:25:24,387 Personal destruction at the candidate level 1992 01:25:24,387 --> 01:25:25,630 and the party level is one thing. 1993 01:25:25,630 --> 01:25:27,355 When it starts getting down to every everyday lives, 1994 01:25:27,355 --> 01:25:29,840 how do you get your reputation back after that? 1995 01:25:29,840 --> 01:25:31,740 The change in tactics now is anyone 1996 01:25:31,740 --> 01:25:33,486 who dare speak up and meet the enemy, 1997 01:25:33,486 --> 01:25:35,790 risks the possibility that they will have 1998 01:25:35,790 --> 01:25:37,900 a false reality launched against them 1999 01:25:37,900 --> 01:25:40,040 to destroy their reputation and to silence them. 2000 01:25:40,040 --> 01:25:42,620 And I think that can't be what our founding fathers 2001 01:25:42,620 --> 01:25:44,113 intended when they created this great democracy 2002 01:25:44,113 --> 01:25:46,240 in this great constitutional Republic. 2003 01:25:46,240 --> 01:25:47,891 - The most powerful organs of the state 2004 01:25:47,891 --> 01:25:50,931 are not merely corrupt but that they'd been weaponized 2005 01:25:50,931 --> 01:25:53,651 to go after perceived domestic enemies. 2006 01:25:53,651 --> 01:25:57,350 And that's very scary and bad. 2007 01:25:57,350 --> 01:25:59,070 It means we don't, we don't live in the United States 2008 01:25:59,070 --> 01:26:01,770 of America as it is any of us would like to understand it. 2009 01:26:01,770 --> 01:26:02,990 I don't live in that country anymore. 2010 01:26:02,990 --> 01:26:05,630 The realization of that is maybe the saddest thing 2011 01:26:05,630 --> 01:26:07,330 I've ever gone through in my life. 2012 01:26:08,390 --> 01:26:10,730 - It's not just that we're not the United States anymore. 2013 01:26:10,730 --> 01:26:14,040 It's what is your humanity? 2014 01:26:14,040 --> 01:26:16,800 What kind of a human being are you 2015 01:26:16,800 --> 01:26:18,470 if you are essentially a slave? 2016 01:26:18,470 --> 01:26:20,403 If you are run by intelligence services, 2017 01:26:20,403 --> 01:26:23,730 if you're run by the press, if these are the people 2018 01:26:23,730 --> 01:26:25,800 who dominate your public sphere. 2019 01:26:25,800 --> 01:26:27,430 If these are the people who make decisions 2020 01:26:27,430 --> 01:26:29,450 about how you live, about how your family lives, 2021 01:26:29,450 --> 01:26:30,890 about how your friends live, 2022 01:26:30,890 --> 01:26:34,970 these are the things that you have to contest all the time 2023 01:26:34,970 --> 01:26:38,610 if you wish to stay a free person and a free people. 2024 01:26:38,610 --> 01:26:41,190 - It's time for people to recognize 2025 01:26:41,190 --> 01:26:44,193 that they've got to stand up and push back 2026 01:26:44,193 --> 01:26:48,953 on the media, demand unbiased coverage, 2027 01:26:48,953 --> 01:26:53,953 out those people who are advocates and not real journalists. 2028 01:26:54,440 --> 01:26:58,680 And tell your neighbors, tell everybody in your social media 2029 01:26:58,680 --> 01:27:02,640 circle that we are the greatest country in the world, 2030 01:27:02,640 --> 01:27:04,381 that we have the greatest system. 2031 01:27:04,381 --> 01:27:08,010 We may not be perfect, but our system is perfect 2032 01:27:08,010 --> 01:27:11,350 and we know how to fix problems, 2033 01:27:11,350 --> 01:27:13,740 if we just follow the rules. 2034 01:27:13,740 --> 01:27:17,440 - If I were writing about the timeframe that we lived in, 2035 01:27:17,440 --> 01:27:18,890 that we're living in now I would say, 2036 01:27:18,890 --> 01:27:20,970 it wasn't supposed to happen. 2037 01:27:20,970 --> 01:27:22,943 They weren't supposed to know. 2038 01:27:24,763 --> 01:27:26,830 - You know, had Hillary Clinton won, 2039 01:27:26,830 --> 01:27:29,620 We wouldn't have known the different crimes and abuses 2040 01:27:29,620 --> 01:27:31,423 committed by rogue 2041 01:27:31,423 --> 01:27:34,700 law enforcement officials or dirty cops, 2042 01:27:34,700 --> 01:27:37,600 rogue intelligence officials as well. 2043 01:27:37,600 --> 01:27:40,104 That's true except you needed something else. 2044 01:27:40,104 --> 01:27:45,104 Had it not been for Congressman Nunez, 2045 01:27:45,170 --> 01:27:48,180 had he not been willing to do this, 2046 01:27:48,180 --> 01:27:51,510 and had he not had this particular team 2047 01:27:51,510 --> 01:27:54,040 with Kash Patel, with Jack Langer, 2048 01:27:54,040 --> 01:27:56,260 we would not have known what had happened. 2049 01:27:56,260 --> 01:27:57,760 - He stood up to the mob. 2050 01:27:57,760 --> 01:28:00,202 He didn't go along with the narrative. 2051 01:28:00,202 --> 01:28:02,900 He thought the narrative that the Trump people 2052 01:28:02,900 --> 01:28:04,732 had colluded with Russia was wrong 2053 01:28:04,732 --> 01:28:06,560 and he stood up and he said so 2054 01:28:06,560 --> 01:28:09,190 at a time when nobody else was willing to do that. 2055 01:28:09,190 --> 01:28:11,380 - History has already exonerated Devin Nunez 2056 01:28:11,380 --> 01:28:13,733 in many ways, because he stuck to the facts. 2057 01:28:13,733 --> 01:28:15,722 All right, it was an unpopular storyline, 2058 01:28:15,722 --> 01:28:16,893 but he was right 2059 01:28:16,893 --> 01:28:18,882 - Without Nunez we wouldn't know, 2060 01:28:18,882 --> 01:28:20,870 we might not know anything about it. 2061 01:28:20,870 --> 01:28:22,720 I mean, they basically have gotten away with it scot-free 2062 01:28:22,720 --> 01:28:24,282 which is sad 'cause the system doesn't work. 2063 01:28:24,282 --> 01:28:25,634 But at least it's been exposed. 2064 01:28:25,634 --> 01:28:27,340 And without him it wouldn't. 2065 01:28:27,340 --> 01:28:30,790 - Why is moral courage among members of Congress, 2066 01:28:30,790 --> 01:28:33,930 a type of moral courage that Devin Nunez has, 2067 01:28:33,930 --> 01:28:35,140 why is that rare? 2068 01:28:35,140 --> 01:28:37,870 Well, it's rare in Congress because it's rare in the world. 2069 01:28:37,870 --> 01:28:40,634 It's a rare trait to go against a mob. 2070 01:28:40,634 --> 01:28:43,357 Aristotle had called moral courage, 2071 01:28:43,357 --> 01:28:44,530 "the chief of all virtues," 2072 01:28:44,530 --> 01:28:46,320 because if you don't have courage, 2073 01:28:46,320 --> 01:28:48,060 then you can't be honorable because sometimes 2074 01:28:48,060 --> 01:28:49,853 to be honorable and honest, you have to speak out 2075 01:28:49,853 --> 01:28:50,990 against lies. 2076 01:28:50,990 --> 01:28:52,703 You have to stand up to the truth. 2077 01:28:55,120 --> 01:28:56,110 - That's exactly right. 2078 01:28:56,110 --> 01:28:58,950 Every Republican Senator and member of Congress 2079 01:28:58,950 --> 01:29:02,090 should be saying, this is over. 2080 01:29:02,090 --> 01:29:05,170 We want every damn bit of evidence, 2081 01:29:05,170 --> 01:29:07,450 that every intelligence agency has 2082 01:29:07,450 --> 01:29:11,202 or it's maybe time to shut those agencies down. 2083 01:29:11,202 --> 01:29:13,952 (dramatic music) 2084 01:30:50,784 --> 01:30:53,867 (suspenseful music)