1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,600 go to dpeakclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,719 smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:34,000 your support. Yes, the Pope Francis passed away. We'll talk 10 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:39,359 at one o'clock with Bill Cruz from RedState dot com 11 00:00:39,439 --> 00:00:44,240 about that topic at one o'clock. But there was newly 12 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:49,759 let me say it this way, the FBI chief Cash 13 00:00:49,799 --> 00:00:55,880 Betel has now declassified more information on the Russia collusion hoax. 14 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:02,039 And there is a massive right up by Jerry Dunlevy 15 00:01:02,159 --> 00:01:06,840 at justthanews dot com. I read it so you don't 16 00:01:06,879 --> 00:01:13,560 have to, and according to well, I don't know, Well, 17 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:15,519 I guess it's the Brave browser. When you turn it 18 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:17,400 onto reader mode, it tells you how long it's going 19 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:19,760 to take you to read the article, and it says 20 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:22,680 forty two to fifty three minutes. And that's about right, 21 00:01:22,719 --> 00:01:24,959 that is about how long it took me to read it. 22 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,120 So I read it so you don't have to. I've 23 00:01:27,159 --> 00:01:30,439 got some of the highlights here. Here's how Dunleavy begins 24 00:01:30,439 --> 00:01:35,959 the piece. Newly declassified FBI documents shine new light on 25 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:41,599 the FBI's mishandling of its relationship with anti Trump dossier 26 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:48,200 author Christopher Steele on the FBI's double standards on defensive briefings, 27 00:01:48,519 --> 00:01:52,040 right when they would go and let people know, hey, 28 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:54,840 we got some information that maybe you're getting targeted by 29 00:01:54,879 --> 00:01:57,599 a foreign government, right in the way that they did 30 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:01,959 that for Hillary Clinton Eric swall Well versus the way 31 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:07,239 the FBI did it for Donald Trump. Also topic of 32 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:14,080 these declassified documents key elements of the debunked collusion saga. 33 00:02:14,879 --> 00:02:17,879 Just the News reports that the declassified documents show that 34 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:22,199 Stepan Halper remember that guy H. A. L. P. R. 35 00:02:22,599 --> 00:02:28,039 Stefan Helper, a key FBI informant in the widely debunked 36 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:32,439 Russia collusion case, was paid nearly one point two million 37 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:37,240 dollars over the course of thirty years and was motivated 38 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:42,759 in part by monetary compensation. Also that he continued snitching 39 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:47,439 for the Bureau even after agents had concluded that he 40 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:53,400 told them an inaccurate story about Mike Flynn, the future 41 00:02:53,439 --> 00:02:57,520 Trump National Security advisor, Mike Flynn, so they knew he 42 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:02,439 lied to them, told them an accurate story, but they 43 00:03:02,479 --> 00:03:06,360 still kept using him and paying him just The News 44 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:10,599 also reveals that the newly released documents showed that then 45 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:16,280 NSA director Mike Rogers shot down a Pulitzer Prize award 46 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:23,039 winning Washington Post article about the baseless Russian collusion investigation. 47 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:28,960 By the way as the Washington Post. Ever, no they haven't. 48 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:32,400 They have not returned that Pulitzer, which they should because 49 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:37,159 the story was not true, but they'll keep the award. 50 00:03:38,599 --> 00:03:42,080 A new review of hundreds of pages of declassified documents 51 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:46,840 provides new information about the politicized Russia Gates scandal, although 52 00:03:46,879 --> 00:03:51,639 significant reactions do still remain in these documents. Now, Pete, 53 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:54,879 why are you going over this? We all know this well, 54 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:57,479 not everybody knows it. There are a lot of people, 55 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,680 like I think a majority still of Democrats believe this 56 00:04:02,719 --> 00:04:08,479 stuff is still true. Number one and number two. This 57 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:12,120 is why you have to look at think of it 58 00:04:12,159 --> 00:04:17,560 in right, think of it in these terms. October seventh, 59 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:19,680 the attack on Israel and what do you hear from 60 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:23,920 the Hamas Holace. It didn't start on October seventh. There's 61 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:28,120 a whole history before then, right, Okay, By that same logic, 62 00:04:29,959 --> 00:04:35,519 this is why you see people who support Trump completely 63 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:42,879 immune and dismissive of virtually everything that legacy media outlets 64 00:04:42,959 --> 00:04:47,839 and Democrats but I repeat myself say about Trump, they 65 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:51,560 don't believe you because of this, among other stories. But 66 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:55,879 this is a primary driver of the animus and the 67 00:04:55,959 --> 00:05:02,199 disbelief in you, much like the J six riot. Right, 68 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:04,720 the left says that's only because Donald Trump told him 69 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:09,839 it was rigged, right, But remember the years leading the 70 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:14,160 two years leading up to j six, Right, we saw 71 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:17,199 the Black Lives Matter riots all over the country, and 72 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:21,519 we saw the left not do it and Obama, right, 73 00:05:21,519 --> 00:05:25,519 they did not do anything to stop the destruction of 74 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:30,639 the cities, the lawlessness, rampant lawlessness that was permitted. Right, 75 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:37,920 Those things lead up to the atmosphere of the event 76 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,079 that you want to focus on. So while you're focused 77 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:44,399 right now on why are these Trump people, why are 78 00:05:44,399 --> 00:05:46,600 they also still you know, pro Trump, he could do 79 00:05:46,639 --> 00:05:50,000 anything and all this like this is a major driver 80 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,360 because of the way the government was weaponized against Trump, 81 00:05:54,439 --> 00:06:00,199 and his campaign and really everybody in his orbit. SOBI 82 00:06:00,319 --> 00:06:04,279 Director Cash Betel transmitted to Congress hundreds of pages of 83 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:09,639 declassified documents from the Crossfire Hurricane investigation that was related 84 00:06:09,639 --> 00:06:14,160 to false claims about Trump Russia collusion following a declassification 85 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:19,959 executive order from Trump last month. Justthnews dot com made 86 00:06:20,079 --> 00:06:25,040 all seven hundred pages from the declassified binder available on 87 00:06:25,079 --> 00:06:31,040 their website. An investigation by Special Council Robert Muller did 88 00:06:31,079 --> 00:06:37,480 not establish any criminal Trump Russia collusion. The DOJ Inspector 89 00:06:37,519 --> 00:06:42,560 General Michael Horowitz found huge flaws with the FBI's investigation. 90 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:48,120 He criticized the central and essentral role of the Steele 91 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:54,360 dossier in the FBI's politicized surveillance of former Trump campaign 92 00:06:54,439 --> 00:07:01,079 associate Carter Page. Carter Page went to Russia, and that 93 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:05,040 was enough for the FBI investigators. That was enough for 94 00:07:05,079 --> 00:07:07,439 Democrats and the media. But I repeat myself, like that 95 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:11,000 was enough. But what we found out later was that 96 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:17,360 while the FBI used that as the premise to surveil 97 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:22,519 Page and others he was talking to in the Trump campaign, 98 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:26,560 when the FBI asked the CIA, which is protocol they're 99 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:30,560 supposed to go and ask other intel agencies and such. 100 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:33,560 They're supposed to say, Hey, is this guy working with you? 101 00:07:34,079 --> 00:07:37,759 And the CIA said, yes, he is. He's one of 102 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:41,240 our guys. He's not an agent, but he comes back 103 00:07:41,279 --> 00:07:44,560 and he tells us stuff that he learns while he's 104 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:50,000 over there, And the FBI lawyer omitted that from the 105 00:07:50,079 --> 00:07:54,240 FISA court application which allowed for the wiretapping to occur. 106 00:07:55,959 --> 00:08:00,319 Special Counsel John Durham's report concluded that neither the US 107 00:08:00,399 --> 00:08:05,160 law enforcement nor the intelligence community appears to have possessed 108 00:08:05,279 --> 00:08:10,160 any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings. At the 109 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:16,040 commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. There was no predicate. Basically, 110 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:20,439 they didn't have a reason to launch it. So first 111 00:08:20,439 --> 00:08:24,000 there's Mike Rogers, Admiral Mike Rodgers, who had he retired 112 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:29,279 in twenty eighteen. He was the National Security Agency chief 113 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:33,240 and commander of the US Cyber Command for four years. 114 00:08:33,919 --> 00:08:38,720 And in early January twenty seventeen, so just as Trump 115 00:08:39,159 --> 00:08:46,759 is taking office, four principles meet, and this would be Rogers, 116 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:50,919 Jim Comey, chief of the FBI, the Director of National 117 00:08:50,919 --> 00:08:54,639 Intelligence James Clapper, and the CIA Director of the Communist 118 00:08:54,759 --> 00:08:59,480 John Brennan. Right, So they meet and Rogers tells the 119 00:08:59,519 --> 00:09:03,600 group that he is unclear why the ICA, which is 120 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:08,919 the Intelligence Community Assessment the ICA. He's like, why, I'm 121 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:11,320 not clear. Why does the ICA need to focus on 122 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:17,080 the dossier because it's basically uncorroborated, And Comy responds that 123 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:21,240 the information was relevant. Rogers said, the information could be 124 00:09:21,279 --> 00:09:24,000 included maybe like in an appendix or something, stick it 125 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,960 at the end, rather than prominently featuring this thing in 126 00:09:27,039 --> 00:09:30,720 the nearly one page summary that he had read. So 127 00:09:30,759 --> 00:09:37,919 that's when Komy, Clapper and Brennan brief Trump about their 128 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:42,440 election meddling findings by the Russians that they had bought 129 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:46,559 some Facebook ads. Right, they go to Trump Tower, they 130 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:50,159 have this meeting to warn him about this, and then 131 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:53,879 that's when Jim Comey stays behind and tells Trump about 132 00:09:53,879 --> 00:09:57,480 the dossier's salacious allegations about the peing on the beds 133 00:09:57,519 --> 00:10:01,120 and such at the Ritz Carlton in Moscow, which were 134 00:10:01,159 --> 00:10:08,879 complete nonsense. Then Comy my belief is Comy then leaks 135 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:14,480 that that the briefing occurred, and that gave BuzzFeed the 136 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:18,120 opportunity to publish the Steele dossier, because that was their 137 00:10:18,159 --> 00:10:22,399 window in because you couldn't You couldn't leak it out 138 00:10:22,399 --> 00:10:25,240 and report that this was true. 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At least all of the corrupt agents, judges, lawyers, 167 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:12,320 and Hillary Clinton have been arrested, tried, and sentenced accordingly. Right, No, 168 00:12:13,279 --> 00:12:17,399 that hasn't happened. Well, that one guy, the one lawyer 169 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:21,480 who changed the PISA application to lie about Carter Page's 170 00:12:21,519 --> 00:12:26,799 involvement with the CIA. He did get some though. Actually no, 171 00:12:27,039 --> 00:12:30,399 he had his law license suspended and then he got 172 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:35,399 it back a couple months later. So it really was 173 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:37,759 about the friends we met along the way, you know, 174 00:12:39,279 --> 00:12:43,720 Eric says the purpose of the Stele dossier briefing from 175 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:47,759 Komy to Trump was to give it legitimacy and make 176 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:53,720 salacious slop cooked up by the Clinton's newsworthy. Yeah, that 177 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:57,919 was it. That was the entire intention of that defensive 178 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:01,159 briefing or whatever they call him. I think that's what 179 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:03,919 they call him, Like, hey, be on the lookout. There's 180 00:13:03,919 --> 00:13:06,919 a spy from China named Fangfang and she oh No. Eight. 181 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:14,960 That was Swallwell. Mike Rogers was surprised when Jim Coomy 182 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:18,720 told a congressional committee in open session on March twentieth, 183 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:23,759 twenty seventeen, that the FBI was investigating potential links between 184 00:13:23,799 --> 00:13:27,840 individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian interference. 185 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:31,840 Komy did not tell him in advance about the ongoing 186 00:13:31,919 --> 00:13:36,120 set of investigations, so they kept Rogers out of the loop. 187 00:13:37,919 --> 00:13:42,519 A host of top Obama officials received information in response 188 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:47,919 to the unmasking requests targeting retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn 189 00:13:47,919 --> 00:13:50,399 in the final weeks of the Obama administration, according to 190 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:54,320 a memo that was declassified some years ago. Republicans have 191 00:13:54,360 --> 00:14:00,000 alleged since twenty seventeen that Obama era officials improperly unmass 192 00:14:00,039 --> 00:14:03,360 asked associates of then candidate Trump's presidential campaign during the 193 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:07,879 Russia collusion investigation. Now, look, there is a perfectly reasonable 194 00:14:07,879 --> 00:14:13,720 explanation for why Republicans have alleged this. It's because Obama 195 00:14:13,799 --> 00:14:16,639 air officials did it. Like that's why they're alleging it 196 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:19,200 is because it's obvious that there was like this flurry 197 00:14:19,679 --> 00:14:26,519 of unmasking requests, which means when the NSSA, the intelligence 198 00:14:26,519 --> 00:14:29,519 agencies are scooping up everybody's phone calls and emails and 199 00:14:29,519 --> 00:14:33,000 everything else. I mean, just you know, targeting the foreign 200 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:42,159 bad actors. Only right that sometimes those foreign people are 201 00:14:42,559 --> 00:14:48,559 talking with American citizens and so we have special protections, 202 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:54,320 constitutional protections. The government's not allowed to do that kind 203 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:59,000 of an illegal search on you. And so you're in 204 00:14:59,039 --> 00:15:03,360 a conversation with somebody from overseas, they're listening in on 205 00:15:03,639 --> 00:15:07,759 that person, and then now you get caught up in that. 206 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:12,879 So they mask your identity, but you can ask to 207 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:18,240 have the identities unmasked. And then you know, if you're 208 00:15:18,279 --> 00:15:22,240 in the Trump campaign, then the Obama administration will say, yeah, totally, 209 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:26,000 here's here's who it actually is. And so that's how 210 00:15:26,039 --> 00:15:32,600 they got Mike Flynn. That's how they got his connection. 211 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:37,159 The records this is now on the State Department awareness 212 00:15:37,759 --> 00:15:43,360 of the FBI's relationship with a person identified as Crown, 213 00:15:43,519 --> 00:15:47,559 which is Christopher Steele, former MI I six officer who 214 00:15:47,679 --> 00:15:51,000 worked with Clinton allies at the State Department, and the 215 00:15:51,039 --> 00:15:54,840 records draw out the links between Steele and Hillary Clinton 216 00:15:56,200 --> 00:16:00,480 and how he passed to the FBI investigators the unfounded 217 00:16:00,559 --> 00:16:05,360 Russia allegations during an election year. He met with Kathy Cavalak, 218 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:10,919 Deputy Assistant Secretary Bureau of European Affairs, ten days prior 219 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:14,039 to the very first fize a warrant application that targeted 220 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:18,840 Carter Page, after which she forwarded her notes to the FBI. 221 00:16:19,399 --> 00:16:22,440 During the meeting that she had with Steele, Steele admitted 222 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:24,480 that he was encouraged by his client to get his 223 00:16:24,519 --> 00:16:30,279 research out before the twenty sixteen election. Cavalac's notes also 224 00:16:30,519 --> 00:16:35,840 show she found flaws with Steele's allegations and like others, 225 00:16:36,159 --> 00:16:41,279 cast doubt on his credibility. So people were saying, I'm 226 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:43,080 not so sure about this guy. They were saying it 227 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:45,679 from the very beginning, and he gave her the motive 228 00:16:46,679 --> 00:16:49,360 which was got to get this out before the election. 229 00:16:49,679 --> 00:16:56,080 Gotta undermine Trump, gotta gotta make sure Hillary wins. Talk 230 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,879 about collusion. Oh, by the way, apparently the steel information 231 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,879 I may have been funneled to him from Russia. Yeah, 232 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:07,240 talk about Russia collusion. All right. If you're listening to 233 00:17:07,279 --> 00:17:08,799 this show, you know I try to keep up with 234 00:17:08,839 --> 00:17:10,960 all sorts of current events, and I know you do too, 235 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:13,559 And you've probably heard me say get your news from 236 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:18,279 multiple sources. 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The 258 00:18:46,039 --> 00:18:50,880 notes also lifted the reaction on Steel, saying that dan 259 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:56,240 Chenko had worked with Fiona Hill at the Brookings Institution, 260 00:18:56,839 --> 00:19:01,240 and the notes now show Steele told the FBI that 261 00:19:01,519 --> 00:19:08,400 Igor Denchenko was a US resident. Steele outlined Denchenko's motivations 262 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:11,720 to the FBI that he's a US resident, his daughter 263 00:19:11,839 --> 00:19:14,400 was born in the United States, and Steele was also 264 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:22,359 motivated himself by finances. The FBI notes now reveal Steele 265 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:25,880 said that Danchenko quote had someone over at the Russian 266 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:30,440 Embassy in Washington, DC, asked dan Chenko about where they 267 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:33,799 could buy furniture or something like that, and Steele said 268 00:19:33,839 --> 00:19:38,480 it was strange but not alarming. Okay, I don't know 269 00:19:38,519 --> 00:19:41,000 why Danchenko would say that, unless furniture is some sort 270 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:45,359 of a code word for something else. While the dossier 271 00:19:45,519 --> 00:19:49,359 was being compiled, Steele said that Denchenko traveled to Russia 272 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:54,759 three times in twenty sixteen. The FBI had previously redacted that. 273 00:19:54,839 --> 00:19:59,000 Steele told the FBI that Danchenko's trip to Moscow in 274 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:02,559 twenty sixteen quote was paid for by an organization funded 275 00:20:02,599 --> 00:20:07,839 by the Russian government. That was his third trip to Moscow. 276 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:12,160 That was funded by some group funded by the Russian government. 277 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:17,200 That's now been that redaction has been lifted, So now 278 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:21,119 we know that. So what does that tell us? Steele 279 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:26,000 is relying on dan Chenko for information that he puts 280 00:20:26,039 --> 00:20:31,359 into this dossier, and dan Chenko is going back and 281 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:35,200 forth to Russia three times that year in the election year, 282 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:38,680 and the last time he goes he has his trip 283 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:44,240 paid for by some Russian government funded outfit. Steele admitted 284 00:20:44,279 --> 00:20:47,119 to the FBI that he leaked the Russia collusion story 285 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:49,920 during the height of the twenty sixteen election to help 286 00:20:50,039 --> 00:20:56,000 Hillary Clinton overcome her lingering email scandal. He also said 287 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,759 he believed Donald Trump's election would be bad for US 288 00:20:58,839 --> 00:21:03,640 relations with his home country of Britain. What else do 289 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:08,160 we learn? Oh? I mentioned Fiona Hill. The FBI documents 290 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:12,599 also showed that Steel, the Steele dossier's alleged main source, Danchenko, 291 00:21:14,039 --> 00:21:21,519 was introduced to Steele by Fiona Hill. Hill had worked 292 00:21:21,559 --> 00:21:25,359 at the Brookings Institution liberal think tank with dan Chenko. 293 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,319 She then went on to serve on the Trump National 294 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:34,839 Security Council and was a witness in his first impeachment. 295 00:21:36,599 --> 00:21:40,319 The FBI report revealed that Steele said, Fiona Hill knows 296 00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:44,240 that the primary sub source was involved in the dossier. 297 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:48,119 She knew dan Chenko was involved in the Steele dossier, 298 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:53,200 but that contradicts Fiona Hill's sworn testimony before the House 299 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:57,119 Intelligence Committee in October twenty nineteen, when she said, I 300 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:00,720 have no knowledge whatsoever of how he developed that dossie. 301 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:05,119 That was a lie or perjury, you could call it. 302 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:10,160 She also told House lawmakers a month later, November twenty nineteen, 303 00:22:10,799 --> 00:22:16,160 that it was Brookings Institution president Strobe Talbot who showed 304 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:20,599 her the dossier. She was critical of Steele's dossier when 305 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:25,400 she spoke to Congress. Who is Strobe Talbot? You usually 306 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:29,160 find him dangling from the center of the ceiling at 307 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:34,640 nineteen seventies era discothechs. But Talbot Strobe Talbot is an 308 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:40,079 Ohio Democrat. He was also a Moscow correspondent for Time 309 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:45,559 magazine and then US Deputy Secretary of State under Bill 310 00:22:45,599 --> 00:22:52,079 Clinton between nineteen ninety four to two thousand and one. Guys, 311 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:54,680 there's a reason why this looks as bad as it does. 312 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:58,759 It's because it is as bad as it looks. The 313 00:22:58,799 --> 00:23:03,880 Inspector General report on the Russian investigation criticized the DOJ 314 00:23:04,079 --> 00:23:07,640 and the FBI for at least seventeen significant errors and 315 00:23:07,759 --> 00:23:13,119 omissions related to the FISA Warrens against Carter Page, and 316 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:18,759 for the FBI's reliance on the Democratic funded dossier compiled 317 00:23:18,799 --> 00:23:22,759 by Steele. Steele was hired by Fusion GPS in June 318 00:23:22,759 --> 00:23:26,440 of twenty sixteen, and the opposition research firm had been 319 00:23:26,519 --> 00:23:30,519 hired by the Perkins Koe law firm. Perkins Koe Law 320 00:23:30,519 --> 00:23:35,039 firm also working for Hillary Clinton's campaign. My goodness, there 321 00:23:35,039 --> 00:23:37,960 are so many connections we may never be able to trace. 322 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:41,880 The Oh no, actually yeah we did. They did. It's 323 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,640 all trace. The FBI has all of the documentation in 324 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:48,079 these hundreds of pages. They had all these charts and 325 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,839 stuff about where things went. They built like this matrix 326 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,920 of who told who what and when. FBI notes of 327 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:59,240 a January twenty seventeen interview with Igor Denchenko showed that 328 00:23:59,279 --> 00:24:02,240 he told the beer he did not know the origins 329 00:24:02,279 --> 00:24:06,079 of some Steel dossier claims, and he did not recall 330 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:11,720 other dossier information. Denchenko also noted much of what he 331 00:24:11,759 --> 00:24:15,079 gave to Steele was word of mouth and hearsay, some 332 00:24:15,279 --> 00:24:18,480 of which stemmed from a conversation he had had with 333 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:24,559 friends over beers, and that the most salacious allegations may 334 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:30,920 have been made in jest. Newly declassified records from the 335 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:36,160 FBI also showed the bureau's Validation Management Unit, or the VMU, 336 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:42,039 assessed in twenty seventeen that Steele had received one hundred 337 00:24:42,039 --> 00:24:46,119 and twenty seven thousand dollars plus in payments from the FBI, 338 00:24:46,519 --> 00:24:49,160 and that the FBI had offered him an incentive of 339 00:24:49,279 --> 00:24:51,839 up to one million dollars if he could prove the 340 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:57,519 allegations in his discredited anti Trump dossier. That was in 341 00:24:57,559 --> 00:25:04,359 October of twenty sixteen. They offered him payment to confirm 342 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:11,920 the dossier's contents right before the election, but shockingly, he 343 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:17,599 was not able to back up his claims because they 344 00:25:18,319 --> 00:25:22,480 weren't true. Then there was the Durham Report in twenty 345 00:25:22,519 --> 00:25:25,559 twenty three. It concluded that the investigation was also launched 346 00:25:25,599 --> 00:25:29,319 without conducting any interviews of witnesses essential to understand the 347 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:33,359 raw information that the FBI had received. They did not 348 00:25:33,559 --> 00:25:41,640 interview witnesses. Also, they did not use any of the 349 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:47,039 standard analytical tools typically employed by the FBI when evaluating 350 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:50,519 raw intelligence. The report asserted that if the bureau had 351 00:25:50,559 --> 00:25:53,240 taken these basic steps, the FBI would have learned that 352 00:25:53,279 --> 00:25:58,160 their own experienced Russia analysts had no information about Trump 353 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:01,960 being involved with Russian leadership of faials. Nor were others 354 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,640 in sensitive positions at the CIA, the NSA, the Department 355 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:08,759 of State. None of them were aware of such evidence 356 00:26:08,839 --> 00:26:13,480 concerning the subject. It was just Christopher Steele. But that 357 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,640 was enough for them. That was enough for Crossfire, Hurricane 358 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,319 and the FBI. All right, So spring is here a 359 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:24,279 time of renewal and celebrations. You've got graduations, weddings, anniversaries 360 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:27,119 and especial days for mom and dad. Your family's making 361 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,160 memories that are going to last a lifetime. But let 362 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:32,200 me ask you are all of those treasured moments from 363 00:26:32,279 --> 00:26:35,440 days gone by? 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Declassified footnotes from 380 00:27:41,559 --> 00:27:46,160 the Inspector General report showed that a twenty fifteen report 381 00:27:46,279 --> 00:27:53,279 concerning oligarchs written by the FBI's Transnational Organized Crime Intelligence Unit, 382 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:56,079 or the TOCIU or the TATCHU as I call it 383 00:27:56,799 --> 00:28:02,319 noted that from January twenty fifth through May of twenty fifteen, 384 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:09,000 ten Eurasian oligarchs sought meetings with the FBI, and five 385 00:28:09,079 --> 00:28:16,599 of these had their intermediaries contact Christopher Steele. So the 386 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:24,000 TOCIU report noted that Steele's contact with five Russian oligarchs 387 00:28:24,039 --> 00:28:30,440 in a short period of time was unusual. Also, declassified 388 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:34,279 footnotes from the Horowitz report, the Inspector General report said 389 00:28:34,279 --> 00:28:37,400 some of the Steele dossier claims about now former Trump 390 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:42,319 lawyer Michael Cohen were quote part of a Russian disinformation 391 00:28:42,559 --> 00:28:48,759 campaign to denigrate US foreign relations. The footnote also added 392 00:28:49,039 --> 00:28:52,400 that a US intelligence community report concluded that the Steele 393 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:55,960 dossier's baseless and salacious claims about Trump and the peing 394 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,319 on the bed at the Ritz Carlton Hotel where the 395 00:28:58,359 --> 00:29:04,079 result of a Russian intelligence infiltration. They infiltrated a source 396 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:10,720 into the network managed by Steel, so the Russian government 397 00:29:11,359 --> 00:29:16,880 put that into Steele's orbit. Steele and his company, Orbis 398 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:25,160 Business Intelligence, worked for Russian oligarch Olegg Derek Pasca, Olegg 399 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:29,839 Derek Paska allegedly helping recover millions of dollars the Russian 400 00:29:29,839 --> 00:29:36,640 oligarch claimed Paul Maniford had stolen from him. Hmm, another 401 00:29:36,759 --> 00:29:40,599 interesting connection. Steele sought help in this anti Trump research 402 00:29:40,599 --> 00:29:44,039 effort from Fusion Gps. The founders of the company wrote, 403 00:29:44,319 --> 00:29:48,559 and Fusion Gps hired Steel soon thereafter, So that's how 404 00:29:48,559 --> 00:29:53,480 they hooked up. Steele was trying to do the research, 405 00:29:54,519 --> 00:29:57,799 and so he asked Fusion for help, and then Fusion 406 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,559 hires him. The Senate in Tel Diligence Committee's twenty twenty 407 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:06,319 report assessed that quote the Russian government coordinates with and 408 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:11,799 directs Oleg Deripaska on many of his influence operations. The 409 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:16,519 report found multiple links between Steele and Deripaska and indications 410 00:30:16,519 --> 00:30:20,400 that Deripaska had early knowledge of Steele's work, and said 411 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:25,000 Steele's relationship with Derek Paska provided a potential direct channel 412 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:31,000 for Russian influence on the dossier. Steele himself admitted in 413 00:30:31,039 --> 00:30:35,359 an ABC interview with George Stephanopolos, quote, I think there's 414 00:30:35,359 --> 00:30:38,880 a chance that Russia fed him disinformation, but he tried 415 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:45,200 to downplay the possibility during that interview. What else, Oh, 416 00:30:45,319 --> 00:30:47,319 there's a whole big section in the piece here about 417 00:30:47,759 --> 00:30:53,720 how the Steele dossier circulated inside the FBI. Right just 418 00:30:53,799 --> 00:30:58,119 the News has the internal FBI emails discussing the Steele dossier. 419 00:30:58,519 --> 00:31:03,799 They were sent among FBI agents like Peter Struck, FBI 420 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:09,359 leader Jonathan Maffa, and thirteen FBI officials whose names are redacted. 421 00:31:09,759 --> 00:31:13,920 The newly declassified version lifts redactions on many of these 422 00:31:14,039 --> 00:31:19,039 FBI officials who were sending and receiving updates to the dossier. 423 00:31:20,319 --> 00:31:26,160 Here's a name, Bruce or remember that guy, former DOJ official. 424 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,720 The email includes a tracking matrix on the receipt of 425 00:31:32,759 --> 00:31:38,279 Steele dossier reports. Also included Fusion Gps founder Glenn Simpson, 426 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:43,960 also Mark Elias, a former Perkins Cooey lawyer who served 427 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:47,799 as general counsel for Hillary Clinton's twenty sixteen presidential campaign 428 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,319 and who played a key role in the funding and 429 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:57,599 the spreading of Steele's discredited dossier. He hired the opposition 430 00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:04,039 firm Fusion Gps, which in hired Steel. The FBI documents 431 00:32:04,079 --> 00:32:07,440 also include a spreadsheet laying out how the dossier reports 432 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:13,319 had been injected into the FBI, including left wing journalist 433 00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:19,400 David Korn from Mother Jones, Glenn Simpson, former Republican Senator 434 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:26,880 John McCain. Yeah, also a FGI, which is a foreign 435 00:32:27,119 --> 00:32:31,559 Government information indicating that there's some yet unrevealed foreign government 436 00:32:31,559 --> 00:32:38,799 that was involved. Yeah, there's a reason why Trump supporters 437 00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:43,640 believe what they believe, and this is it. This is 438 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,279 why when you see this kind of stuff because most 439 00:32:46,279 --> 00:32:51,119 of this information Trump people know this. I've known this stuff. 440 00:32:51,119 --> 00:32:53,240 It's good to get more redactions and to have this 441 00:32:53,279 --> 00:32:56,880 stuff buttoned down or nailed down. But we knew where 442 00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:01,720 all of these signs were pointing years ago, and we 443 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:05,359 were told that we were making stuff up. All right, 444 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,759 that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much 445 00:33:07,759 --> 00:33:09,839 for listening. 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