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Now, maybe you're 13 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:39,840 not feeling a lot of sympathy for the FBI at 14 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:42,479 this moment, even after all of the discussion from the 15 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:49,200 last hour, but consider this, Okay, consider this. They are 16 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:55,520 still hiding details of Russia Gate. Oh wait, actually that 17 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:59,000 probably won't engender more sympathy. Sorry, right, So, I guess 18 00:00:59,039 --> 00:01:01,880 if you have sympathy for the FBI already, this might 19 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:04,640 get rid of some of it, although probably not because 20 00:01:05,439 --> 00:01:08,239 considering the way the FBI handled the whole Russia Gate 21 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:08,959 Russia Rush. 22 00:01:08,879 --> 00:01:11,319 Speaker 1: Russ A collusion hoax. 23 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 2: If you already have an opinion about how they handled 24 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:19,120 that poorly, you probably don't have much sympathy for the FBI, 25 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:25,000 and now in a report by Real Clear Investigations by 26 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:31,560 Aaron matte or Mattey, the FBI is still hiding critical 27 00:01:31,599 --> 00:01:37,599 details on the Russia conspiracy investigation that engulfed Trump's first term. 28 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:41,239 Speaker 1: Get to that in a minute. 29 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:43,680 Speaker 2: First, let's pick up a call here from Lisa. Welcome 30 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:45,239 to the show, Lisa, Hello. 31 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 3: Hello, Pete. I'm sorry, my connection is horrible. I'm in 32 00:01:49,959 --> 00:01:54,879 the car, but I wanted to Mitch. I was yelling 33 00:01:54,879 --> 00:01:58,640 at the radio. I'm like, remember Hillary, Yeah, Urby never 34 00:01:58,680 --> 00:01:59,400 got busted. 35 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, he said no reasonable prosecutor would bring charges 36 00:02:04,079 --> 00:02:10,280 against her for her misdeeds, and that was deemed sufficient 37 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:12,560 to have cost her the election by the left. You know, 38 00:02:12,599 --> 00:02:14,840 they were like, did Jim Comy had never come out 39 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:18,240 and said that, then she would have beaten Trump and 40 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:20,840 they don't have any problem with what she did, Right, 41 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:25,560 It's that Jim Comy told us, right, Yeah. 42 00:02:25,319 --> 00:02:27,800 Speaker 1: No, it's another one. Yeah, there's a long list here 43 00:02:27,879 --> 00:02:29,360 that was huge. 44 00:02:29,479 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 2: Yeah at list. Yeah, no, I appreciate the call. There 45 00:02:32,879 --> 00:02:35,240 is a long list that people have gone over in 46 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:37,960 the last hour. Lisa just added to it of reasons 47 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:42,039 why people do not trust the FBI, and haven't for decades, 48 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:48,759 but it has gotten way worse in the last ten years. So, 49 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:53,240 in response to a freedom of information request that was 50 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:58,800 filed by Real Clear Investigations back in August of twenty 51 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:06,159 twenty two, so almost three years ago, the FBI, more 52 00:03:06,159 --> 00:03:09,960 than two years after getting the request, finally, on December thirty, 53 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:15,840 first released a document, a copy of a document, a 54 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:19,439 copy of a document that also was really really heavily redacted. 55 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:24,280 There's like almost nothing in the paperwork that they turned over. 56 00:03:25,759 --> 00:03:31,240 And the document is the one that opened the unprecedented 57 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:36,120 counterintelligence probe of the sitting president as an agent of 58 00:03:36,159 --> 00:03:43,319 the Russian government. Right, this was the source the electronic 59 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:50,000 communication dated May sixteenth, twenty seventeen, claimed to have an 60 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:54,319 articulable factual basis, so. 61 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:57,879 Speaker 1: A basis that is able to be articulated. 62 00:03:57,919 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 2: An articulable factual basis, which is just a fancy word 63 00:04:02,919 --> 00:04:04,080 for we're saying some stuff. 64 00:04:04,199 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 1: All right, we got some facts. 65 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 2: We can say them, but we don't want to say 66 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:12,120 them because it's classified, you know, hush hush, But that 67 00:04:12,199 --> 00:04:17,920 they have an articulable factual basis to suspect that Donald 68 00:04:17,959 --> 00:04:22,959 Trump wittingly or unwittingly was illegally acting on behalf of 69 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:28,480 Russia and accordingly posing threats to the national security of 70 00:04:28,519 --> 00:04:33,360 the United States. Now tell me, how would that be 71 00:04:33,399 --> 00:04:39,240 any different than the Joe Biden influence peddling operation. Why 72 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:42,920 was there never an investigation opened into Joe Biden. Okay, 73 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:44,680 maybe there was, and we just don't know about it. 74 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:47,240 Nobody's ever reported on it, nobody's ever leaked that out. 75 00:04:48,439 --> 00:04:51,079 But I gotta believe at this point that nothing like 76 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:53,519 this has ever been done against Joe Biden. 77 00:04:54,319 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 1: Yet there's as much, at. 78 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 2: Minimum and way more obviously evidence against Joe Biden being compromised, 79 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:11,560 unwittingly or wittingly acting on behalf of a foreign country 80 00:05:12,639 --> 00:05:15,439 has been for years. We've been covering it for years. 81 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:19,839 The FBI's goal, according to the document, was to determine 82 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:25,040 if President Trump is or was directed by, controlled by, 83 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:31,720 and or coordinated activities with the Russian Federation. Again, swap 84 00:05:31,759 --> 00:05:35,560 out Trump for Biden and swap out Russia for China, 85 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:43,759 and it's just as articulable effectual basis. It additionally sought 86 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:48,959 to uncover whether Trump and unnamed others obstructed any associated 87 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:54,000 FBI investigation. That is a reference to Crossfire Hurricane. The 88 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:58,600 initial FBI inquiry into the Trump campaign suspected cooperation with 89 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:02,560 an alleged Russian interference plot in the twenty sixteen election, 90 00:06:03,879 --> 00:06:09,240 So this is separate. While Crossfire Hurricane was open July thirty, first, 91 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:13,399 twenty sixteen, had by that point focused on members in 92 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:18,600 Trump's orbit. A half a year or almost a year later, 93 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:23,519 May twenty seventeen, this probe was specifically targeted at Trump 94 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:27,120 himself during his fourth month in office. The investigation of 95 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:31,639 Trump was undertaken at the behest of the acting FBI 96 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:36,480 Director Andrew McCabe. And this was done a week after 97 00:06:36,519 --> 00:06:42,839 Trump fired James Comy, which was Andy McCabe's mentor. And 98 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:50,160 this has all the odor of payback. Right, how dare 99 00:06:50,319 --> 00:06:54,199 you fire Jim Comy, the great Patriot? 100 00:06:55,199 --> 00:06:55,319 Speaker 4: Right? 101 00:06:55,399 --> 00:06:58,759 Speaker 2: How dare you fire my mentor? So I'm going to 102 00:06:58,879 --> 00:07:04,560 avenge his firing. And McCabe opens up this second probe 103 00:07:05,079 --> 00:07:07,800 because nobody would fire Jim Comey. 104 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:11,759 Speaker 1: Unless they were a Russian asset. Jim Comey was getting 105 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:12,920 too close to the truth. 106 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 2: According to the declassified document, McCabe's decision was approved by 107 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:26,800 FBI assistant director Bill pre Stab pre Stab, which I 108 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:29,879 think isn't that Also, I thought that was something that 109 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:32,560 the Vatican put out for its clergy, the pre staff 110 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:39,680 that I'm sorry Bill Prestab, who had also signed off 111 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:43,319 on the opening of Crossfire Hurricane, so he's a twofer. 112 00:07:43,959 --> 00:07:48,319 Jim Baker also approved it. Jim Baker was the FBI 113 00:07:48,439 --> 00:07:51,560 General Counsel. Baker was a longtime friend of a man 114 00:07:51,639 --> 00:07:56,199 named Michael Sussman. Michael Sussman was a lawyer for Hillary 115 00:07:56,279 --> 00:08:00,560 Clinton's campaign and a key figure in the descemine of 116 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:05,240 Clinton funded disinformation to the FBI, which tried to tie 117 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:11,040 Trump to Russia falsely. This is why I say this 118 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:15,240 is the blob, right. It's not an individual doing these things. 119 00:08:15,279 --> 00:08:18,360 It's a group of them knowing what the objective is. 120 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:26,639 In his FBI role, Baker personally circulated the conspiracy theory 121 00:08:26,959 --> 00:08:31,360 manufactured by quote unquote researchers working with the Clinton campaign 122 00:08:31,959 --> 00:08:35,519 that the Trump campaign and Russia were communicating via a 123 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:39,039 secret server. Remember that hoax. Remember that element of the hoax, 124 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:41,480 the Alpha Bank stuff and all. 125 00:08:41,519 --> 00:08:44,519 Speaker 1: That's where all of that started. That was Baker. 126 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:47,879 Speaker 2: After leaving the FBI, Baker then went on to serve 127 00:08:47,919 --> 00:08:52,399 as the general counsel the lawyer at Twitter, where he 128 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:56,879 backed the company's censorship of reporting on the contents of 129 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:00,960 Hunter Biden's laptop based on yet another con conspiracy theory 130 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:08,919 that the laptop files were Russian disinformation. See like it 131 00:09:09,039 --> 00:09:12,440 is a web, but it's not a very large one. 132 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:16,639 The same people keep showing up. I have marveled at 133 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:20,440 this for years, Like all of the same people are 134 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:24,480 involved in the like Peter Struck and least a page right, 135 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:29,960 same thing. This group of people, they're like the the 136 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:35,120 Justice League or no, a better example is like you know, 137 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:40,519 the the CSI team, or like the homicide detectives on 138 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:45,399 your favorite procedural cop drama. That they are always the 139 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:48,080 ones that get called to the highest profile cases. They're 140 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,279 always the ones when they go on to the swat raid. 141 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,600 They're like the first ones through the door in the 142 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:55,240 least amount of armor. 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Hello, Ray, Welcome. 170 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 1: To the program. 171 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:23,799 Speaker 4: Hello Pete, Happy new year. 172 00:11:23,879 --> 00:11:24,759 Speaker 1: Yeaes, sir to you too. 173 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 4: I liked your opening segment and talking about people not 174 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:33,039 feeling for the sorry for the FBI and that sort 175 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:38,919 of thing. But I was wanting to say, is I 176 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,480 used to kind of feel this way, like you know, 177 00:11:43,399 --> 00:11:47,759 in the mainstream media and the FBI, it's only the 178 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:50,480 top tier people that are the problem, and they got 179 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:54,519 some good people. I'm sure you remember those lines. But 180 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:58,919 I've got to the point to where now I don't 181 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:03,799 feel that way. You know, I feel like towards them, 182 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:06,279 just like I do the top tier people, you know, 183 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:13,240 the menions that work under them, the ancillary staff, because 184 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,960 you know they're they're getting their money from that company, 185 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:23,600 and you know they're they're hurting me. And also, you know, 186 00:12:24,039 --> 00:12:26,720 I don't know if that's the right way or the 187 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:30,200 wrong way, but it's I think it's the human nature way. 188 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:33,159 And I would say I'm sorry, but that's the way 189 00:12:33,159 --> 00:12:37,559 I feel, but instead I'll say, I'm sorry, that's the 190 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:40,240 way the media and the FBI made me feel. 191 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:42,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the thing. 192 00:12:42,399 --> 00:12:48,399 Speaker 2: Like, I try to treat people as individuals, and so 193 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:50,960 I know that there are you know, good people in 194 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:56,120 the different organizations and outlets and agencies and the like. 195 00:12:56,240 --> 00:13:02,720 But at an institutional level, they have they're reaping what 196 00:13:02,759 --> 00:13:06,000 they've sown. Right, they brought this on themselves because of 197 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:09,440 the way they behaved and the refusal of a lot 198 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:12,320 of the rank and file to blow the whistle. Look, 199 00:13:12,799 --> 00:13:16,320 my opinions on the media have not won me a 200 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:21,399 lot of friends inside media, you know, because I came 201 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:24,840 out of you know, reporting, and I knew a lot 202 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:30,159 of reporters, and I saw the way the business operation functions, 203 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:33,759 and it's not it's not good, and there needs to 204 00:13:33,799 --> 00:13:37,080 be more people that stand up and say no, we're 205 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:37,919 not going to do this. 206 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 1: No, that's wrong. But yeah, you're like. 207 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 2: The idea you mentioned the good people on both sides, 208 00:13:42,519 --> 00:13:47,600 you know, the Trump comment after the Charlottesville protests and 209 00:13:47,639 --> 00:13:55,240 stuff like such an easily debunkable lie, and yet it 210 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:59,559 is still believed to be true by people in the 211 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:03,120 media and by almost half the country. I would submit 212 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:05,840 that get their news from those media outlets. 213 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:09,480 Speaker 4: It's right, I kind of, I kind of. It's kind 214 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:12,360 of comparable to the thing like you've got an army 215 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:17,559 led by a tyrant, whoever he might be. He's coming 216 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:23,200 over to kill you and your army, and you know, 217 00:14:23,879 --> 00:14:26,200 you feel sorry for the soldiers that are having to 218 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:28,279 give their lives for them, but you know, it's either 219 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:31,519 you or them. That's kind of the way it is. 220 00:14:32,159 --> 00:14:34,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's well, And I think at this point that 221 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:36,960 this is why I'm of the opinion that the FBI 222 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:41,240 just needs to be dismantled and you know, look at 223 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:44,240 look into building something else. But like I say that 224 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:50,039 as one who tries to preserve and conserve institutions, that 225 00:14:50,039 --> 00:14:53,000 that makes me a conservative, right, I don't think we 226 00:14:53,039 --> 00:14:57,440 should just rip everything down for the latest fad ideology 227 00:14:57,559 --> 00:15:01,000 or something. But the FBI has such a long history 228 00:15:01,159 --> 00:15:03,840 of this kind of garbage that I'm just done with it. 229 00:15:04,039 --> 00:15:07,240 And yeah, it's just and it's not gotten any better, 230 00:15:07,279 --> 00:15:11,120 it's gotten worse. So I don't know how else to proceed. 231 00:15:11,759 --> 00:15:13,799 Speaker 4: Yes, sir, thank you for taking them, Yes, sir, all. 232 00:15:13,759 --> 00:15:21,279 Speaker 1: Right, appreciate it. Thanks. Ray Crossfire Hurricane started. 233 00:15:20,919 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 2: In May of twenty seventeen. Oh, sorry, that was the 234 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:35,519 July twenty sixteen, during the campaign. May twenty seventeen was 235 00:15:35,559 --> 00:15:38,559 the second case that was opened. And this was opened 236 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:44,120 as a Foreign Agents Registration Act investigation, so a FARA 237 00:15:44,519 --> 00:15:51,759 act or Pharah far This is what Hunter Biden was 238 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:55,480 going what should have been charged with, But then they 239 00:15:55,559 --> 00:16:00,840 let the statute of limitations expire for him, right, Farah. 240 00:16:00,879 --> 00:16:05,200 He was acting as a representative of a foreign government, 241 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:10,720 a foreign agent. That means you have to register as 242 00:16:10,759 --> 00:16:13,519 an agent of that foreign entity if you are going 243 00:16:13,559 --> 00:16:17,600 to lobby on their behalf. And he did not, And 244 00:16:17,639 --> 00:16:23,399 so this was initially launched. McCabe launched this second probe 245 00:16:23,519 --> 00:16:28,519 into Donald Trump. Sorry ew, but second, the second investigation 246 00:16:29,039 --> 00:16:33,000 was a Farah investigation, and it was launched as a 247 00:16:33,039 --> 00:16:38,200 full investigation, which would have granted them sweeping surveillance powers. 248 00:16:38,759 --> 00:16:41,679 This is a sitting president that the FBI did this too. 249 00:16:42,159 --> 00:16:44,840 All right, I hope you had a happy holiday season. 250 00:16:44,919 --> 00:16:47,440 But tell me if something like this happened at your house. 251 00:16:47,759 --> 00:16:50,279 Your family and friends are gathered around, maybe y'all are 252 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:53,879 in the living room, you're laughing, swapping stories, reminiscing, and 253 00:16:53,919 --> 00:16:57,759 then somebody says, hey, did remember those old VHS tapes? 254 00:16:57,879 --> 00:17:00,679 Did you ever get them transferred? And the room gets 255 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:04,279 all quiet. All eyes are on Dad, who says, oh, 256 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:06,359 you know, well, I've been meaning to but I just 257 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:09,400 having gotten around to it. Look, don't let those priceless 258 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:12,359 memories sit in a box for another year, all right. 259 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:15,319 Create a Video has been helping families in the Charlotte 260 00:17:15,319 --> 00:17:19,119 area preserve their history since nineteen ninety seven. Simply bring 261 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:22,599 in your old camquarder tapes and Creative Video will transfer 262 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:25,839 them to a USB flash drive for just fourteen ninety 263 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:28,200 five per tape. You have a big collection, they've got 264 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:31,359 a discount for you. And next year, instead of talking 265 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:36,160 about those memories, imagine gathering the family to watch them together. 266 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:39,079 Talk about a memorable gift. So do what I did. 267 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:42,960 Trust the experts at Creative Video, conveniently located in mint 268 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,839 Hill right off I four eighty five and online at 269 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:52,920 Create a Video dot com, Realclear Investigations dot com. With 270 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:58,440 an update on the apparently never ending scandal revolving around 271 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:04,640 the FBI and it's multiple investigations. It's attempted coup. I 272 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:07,960 don't really know any other way to describe it. Of 273 00:18:08,039 --> 00:18:12,319 Donald Trump with the Russia and Russia Gate, Russia hoax, 274 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:16,960 the Steele dossier, garbage, the Alpha Bank garbage, all of it. 275 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:22,559 This piece by Aaron Mattei. FBI is still hiding details 276 00:18:22,599 --> 00:18:26,039 of Russia Gate. According to newly released documents. They filed 277 00:18:26,039 --> 00:18:30,160 freedom of information requests and they've been fighting for two 278 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:34,799 years to get this document or these documents, and most 279 00:18:34,839 --> 00:18:39,400 of this stuff in the documents is redacted. While the 280 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:45,599 declassified documents record the FBI's theory that then President Trump 281 00:18:46,079 --> 00:18:49,079 may be involved in illegal and maybe even trees in 282 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:56,720 this behavior, the articulable factual basis for the suspicion is redacted. 283 00:18:57,519 --> 00:19:03,200 So the very lynch pin right, the reason why they 284 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:07,559 said they had essentially probable cause, right, they had a 285 00:19:07,599 --> 00:19:10,200 reason for this. There is a factual basis that we 286 00:19:10,279 --> 00:19:12,599 can totally tell you about, and here it is, but 287 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:13,480 nobody can see it. 288 00:19:15,759 --> 00:19:16,640 Speaker 1: That's redacted. 289 00:19:16,799 --> 00:19:20,240 Speaker 2: Only a couple of paragraphs from the six page document 290 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:24,559 were not redacted, so out of six pages, they got 291 00:19:24,599 --> 00:19:30,279 like three or four paragraphs. Along with Crossfire Hurricane, the 292 00:19:30,319 --> 00:19:35,079 May twenty seventeen counterintelligence probe got folded into the Special 293 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:38,839 Council investigation that was led by Robert Muller, who was 294 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:43,440 appointed just one day after the FBI began portraying Trump 295 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:49,880 internally as a possible Russian agent or conspirator. Muller's final 296 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:53,640 report quote did not establish that members of the Trump 297 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:58,079 campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its 298 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:03,839 election interference activity. That is something that most Democrats do 299 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:07,880 not know. They still to this day believe that Russia 300 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:13,039 coordinated with Trump to help him win the election with 301 00:20:13,319 --> 00:20:16,720 like one hundred thousand dollars worth of Facebook ads or something. 302 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:22,079 Asked about his reasoning for opening the probe and related matters, 303 00:20:22,599 --> 00:20:26,960 Andrew McCabe, who now works as an on air commentator 304 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:32,799 at CNN, did not respond to real clear investigations emailed questions. 305 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:38,839 Details about the FBI's motivation, though, can be puzzled together 306 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:45,559 here based on other public disclosures. For example, in twenty 307 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:50,240 nineteen January twenty nineteen, The New York Times did a 308 00:20:50,279 --> 00:20:55,279 story which first revealed the FBI's decision to investigate Trump 309 00:20:56,119 --> 00:21:02,240 the Steele Dossier, and that was among the factors that 310 00:21:02,319 --> 00:21:08,359 fueled the FBI's concerns. The Steele Dossier, a collection of 311 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:13,400 conspiracy theories funded by Hillary Clinton's camp completely fabricated. Oh 312 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:17,039 and they also knew that the source material for this 313 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:20,880 was not to be believed thanks to Igor Chenko whatever 314 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:26,079 his name was, who told them, Hey, this Igor Denchenko 315 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:28,519 was his name, Who was like, yeah, that's still dossier's 316 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:33,319 stuff is all crap because that's Steele was quoting Igor 317 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:34,000 and Igor was. 318 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:35,640 Speaker 1: Like, I didn't know. I didn't say that. 319 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:40,160 Speaker 2: They knew this all was garbage, but it didn't matter, right. 320 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:44,319 The wrap up smear, as Nancy Pelosi might call it. 321 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:49,279 A previously disclosed document also also shows that the former 322 00:21:49,319 --> 00:21:53,880 CIA director John Brennan, who was a communist who insistently 323 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:59,400 advanced the Trump Russia conspiracy theory, told Barack Obama while 324 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:03,880 Obama was still president in July of twenty sixteen. Brennan 325 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:08,960 told Obama that the Clinton camp was planning to tie 326 00:22:09,079 --> 00:22:16,480 Trump to Russia, so they knew what Hillary was up to. Remember, 327 00:22:16,519 --> 00:22:20,319 Mark Elias also involved in all of this. I think 328 00:22:20,319 --> 00:22:21,880 I'm going to mention his name in the next hour 329 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:24,599 two So it's a twofer from Mark Elias. We do 330 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:28,759 know he loves getting his name mentioned. Anyway, Hillary Clinton's 331 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:33,279 campaign was going to try to tie Trump to Russia. 332 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:38,200 Brennan knew it. Brennan told Obama, now, why did Hillary 333 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:43,160 want to do that? According to the documents, the purpose 334 00:22:43,319 --> 00:22:48,599 was to distract attention from the controversy over Hillary Clinton's 335 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:54,559 use of the server, the private server, the building, and 336 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:58,759 the secreting away of this server, which, by the way, 337 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:00,839 Obama knew about. 338 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:02,119 Speaker 1: They all knew they. 339 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:09,559 Speaker 2: Were getting emails from her server email address. They knew this, right, 340 00:23:09,559 --> 00:23:13,039 they were using her home Brew server as a way 341 00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:20,359 to avoid public scrutiny. I mean, fine, yes, some foreign governments, 342 00:23:20,839 --> 00:23:25,319 what did the dojsay is like, it is extremely likely 343 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,839 that they got hacked. They were that they these things 344 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:32,000 were being monitored because they didn't have the protections necessary, 345 00:23:32,039 --> 00:23:34,359 the encryption and all of that that you have with 346 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:39,440 these top secret communication channels that the government sets up 347 00:23:39,519 --> 00:23:42,799 for a secretary of state. But she didn't want her 348 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:48,839 emails to be foyd Freedom of Information Act. She didn't 349 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:51,319 want people to be able to come and say, give 350 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:53,920 me all of your emails on this particular topic, like oh, 351 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,119 I don't know the Clinton Foundation, or oh I don't 352 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:00,839 know your daughter's wedding seating chart, right, like the really, 353 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:02,319 oh your yoga schedule? 354 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:02,519 Speaker 3: Right? 355 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:05,359 Speaker 2: This is what she claimed she used her server for 356 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:09,880 in a cover story so bizarrely stupid that only the 357 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:10,960 media would believe it. 358 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:14,079 Speaker 1: And Democrats. But I repeat myself. 359 00:24:14,799 --> 00:24:21,559 Speaker 2: So that's why the Clinton camp pursued the Steele dossier. 360 00:24:22,039 --> 00:24:25,720 Brennan knew it. He told Obama. It was a distraction 361 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,240 away from the scandal about her server. It wasn't just 362 00:24:29,319 --> 00:24:32,119 her emails, it was the existence of the server. I 363 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:36,039 have said this for years. The server is the smoking gun. 364 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:41,119 There is no reason to build your own server except 365 00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:45,160 to wipe it, to have complete control over that data 366 00:24:45,279 --> 00:24:47,720 so nobody can ever get it. If you were using 367 00:24:47,799 --> 00:24:51,119 just a Gmail or a Yahoo account, they would be 368 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:55,799 able to get that, get the email information off of it, 369 00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,599 because you don't own the server. But if you own 370 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:00,839 the server, you control the server, and that means you 371 00:25:00,839 --> 00:25:03,799 can wipe it like with the cloth. 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Your subscription 392 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,400 then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports 393 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:07,720 ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. 394 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:12,559 I'm seeing on Twitter formerly known as x Molly Hemingway 395 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:20,079 sums up the real Clear investigation story fussly moments ago. 396 00:26:20,319 --> 00:26:23,039 Speaker 1: Two minutes ago. Actually, she tweeted out the. 397 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:26,920 Speaker 2: FBI opened the Trump Russia investigation for no reason, then 398 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,559 continued it despite it going nowhere, then leaked its existence 399 00:26:30,759 --> 00:26:33,839 for political gain, and then opened another probe on Trump. 400 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:38,599 But is hiding why, Probably because it was over him 401 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:40,319 firing Comy. 402 00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:41,319 Speaker 1: It's just insane. 403 00:26:42,039 --> 00:26:46,079 Speaker 2: Yeah, that is the way this looks that Andy McCabe 404 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:50,799 opened up the second investigation into Donald Trump the day 405 00:26:50,839 --> 00:26:53,680 after Comy got fired because Comy was his friend and 406 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:58,279 his mentor, and so this was to get Trump. And 407 00:26:58,319 --> 00:27:02,640 that's the way they weaponized the FBI against Trump again. 408 00:27:03,279 --> 00:27:05,599 And I say this as somebody who was not a 409 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:10,119 fan of Donald Trump. I just went where the evidence led, 410 00:27:10,279 --> 00:27:10,759 and this. 411 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:11,440 Speaker 1: Is where it leads. 412 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:15,200 Speaker 2: It's all very clear. It's complex, Don't get me wrong. 413 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:17,920 There are a lot of people moving parts and all 414 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:21,880 of this stuff. But every single step along the way 415 00:27:22,079 --> 00:27:25,559 you have people that were behaving in a way to 416 00:27:26,519 --> 00:27:30,519 jam up Donald Trump. And god only knows if they 417 00:27:30,559 --> 00:27:34,440 had found anything that was actionable. That's what's really amazing 418 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:38,000 in all of this is how many investigations into Donald 419 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:44,359 Trump were launched. And they they get Maniford right, and 420 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:51,039 Flynn for like, Flynn is just like that stuff's just ridiculous. 421 00:27:52,079 --> 00:27:53,240 Speaker 1: Yes, he should get a pardon. 422 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:56,680 Speaker 2: Maniford I was never a fan of He was a 423 00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:01,680 little too close to the to the Ukraine corruption over there, 424 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:03,839 and when they brought him on to the Trump campaign. 425 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:07,279 I was like, Eh, that's probably not a great idea. 426 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:09,519 But that was like, Oh, look, he's got all these 427 00:28:09,559 --> 00:28:16,400 you know, these Russia adjacent kinds of people. And so 428 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:18,720 when a lot of Trump supporters were saying, you know, 429 00:28:18,839 --> 00:28:22,279 Robert Mueller shouldn't do his investigation, and Horowitz that we 430 00:28:22,319 --> 00:28:24,920 don't need it and it's all just lies and all this, 431 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,359 I said, I want the investigations. I want more information. 432 00:28:28,559 --> 00:28:31,079 I want to read this stuff when they find it out. 433 00:28:32,039 --> 00:28:33,680 And look at where we are now. When they did 434 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,559 all of this stuff, what did they yield? Nothing? And 435 00:28:36,599 --> 00:28:40,240 now I get to use that in my argument, which 436 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:44,759 is why I wanted them to do it. Back to 437 00:28:44,799 --> 00:28:51,519 the Real Clear investigation story, July of twenty sixteen, John 438 00:28:51,559 --> 00:28:56,400 Brennan tells Obama that the Clinton campaign was planning to 439 00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:59,119 try to tie Trump to Russia to distract attention from 440 00:28:59,119 --> 00:29:04,000 the controversy Hillary's use of private email server while serving 441 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,440 as Secretary of State. By that point, the Clinton campaign 442 00:29:07,559 --> 00:29:11,400 was already paying for the fabricated reports produced by Christopher Steele, 443 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:15,480 who made contact with the FBI as early as July fifth, 444 00:29:16,079 --> 00:29:21,440 twenty sixteen. Although the newly declassified document attempts to suggest 445 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:25,359 that the FBI had actionable intelligence to suspect Trump of 446 00:29:25,359 --> 00:29:30,880 being a Russian agent. McCabe's subsequent comments indicate that there 447 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:35,359 was no such evidence on offer. Instead, McCabe has said 448 00:29:35,359 --> 00:29:39,920 that his counterintelligence probe of Trump was primarily motivated by 449 00:29:40,839 --> 00:29:47,319 the president's firing of Komi. McCabe therefore had no evidence 450 00:29:47,599 --> 00:29:51,119 that Trump had a connection to Russia, and in fact 451 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:52,880 could only wonder if. 452 00:29:52,759 --> 00:29:53,319 Speaker 1: There was one. 453 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,720 Speaker 2: To use his own words, he could I just wondered 454 00:29:56,759 --> 00:30:00,720 if there was a connection, because that's allbviously. What it 455 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:05,599 couldn't be that Donald Trump, a mercurial, thin skinned kind 456 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:10,440 of a guy, took great umbrage at Komy and the 457 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:12,799 way he was leaking all of this stuff to damage 458 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,359 Donald Trump, which was very obvious from the very beginning. 459 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:21,200 But because Trump had fired Comy, whose FBI was already 460 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:25,319 investigating Trump's campaign for Russian ties and relying on the 461 00:30:25,359 --> 00:30:29,039 Clinton funded Steele dossier in the process, McCabe decided that 462 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:33,119 he had grounds to order an espionage investigation of the 463 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:37,000 commander in chief. The piece goes on to say, later 464 00:30:37,119 --> 00:30:38,640 is a very lengthy piece. By that I'm giving you 465 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:44,279 the highlights with the official predicate for the May twenty 466 00:30:44,319 --> 00:30:48,480 seventeen investigation still redacted by the FBI. McCabe's public statements 467 00:30:48,599 --> 00:30:52,279 offer the only insider window into why it was actually opened. 468 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,880 In all of the investigations related to alleged Russian interference 469 00:30:55,920 --> 00:31:00,880 to date, the Justice Department has a void the question. 470 00:31:02,039 --> 00:31:07,359 Despite inheriting McCabe's probe and debunking claims of a Trump 471 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:12,440 Russia conspiracy, Special Counsel Mueller made no mention of the 472 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:15,920 Trump as a Russian agent theory in his final report 473 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,559 in March of twenty nineteen, without informing the public. The 474 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:23,759 FBI closed down the Trump counterintelligence investigation the following month. 475 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:29,079 An inquiry led by Michael Horowitz, the Inspector General, into 476 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:34,240 the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, also ignored McCabe's decision to investigate 477 00:31:34,279 --> 00:31:38,480 Trump as an agent of Russia, and in the Durham report, 478 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:43,759 they claimed that McCabe's probe was outside of their purview, 479 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,319 so they didn't look into it either. When it comes 480 00:31:47,359 --> 00:31:50,799 to Crossfire Hurricane, Durham's report concluded that the FBI did 481 00:31:50,839 --> 00:31:54,480 not have a legitimate basis to launch that probe, right 482 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:56,839 so they were willing to take a look at that one, 483 00:31:57,039 --> 00:32:01,039 but not McCabe's. While the original Trump Ussia investigation has 484 00:32:01,079 --> 00:32:03,759 been discredited, the public remains in the dark about why 485 00:32:03,759 --> 00:32:07,480 the FBI launched the follow up counterintelligence probe that targeted 486 00:32:07,519 --> 00:32:10,599 Trump himself while he was newly in the White House, 487 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:13,960 and what ends it took to pursue it. All right, 488 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:15,519 that'll do it for this episode. 489 00:32:15,599 --> 00:32:16,960 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening. 490 00:32:17,079 --> 00:32:19,200 Speaker 2: I could not do the show without your support and 491 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,960 the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, 492 00:32:22,319 --> 00:32:24,400 so if you'd like, please support them too and tell 493 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,160 them you heard it here. 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