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your support. So Fox News out with the exclusive. Yesterday,
Attorney General Pam Bondi directed her staff to act on
the criminal referral from Director of National Intelligence Tulci Gabbard
related to the alleged conspiracy to tie President Donald Trump
to Russia, and the Department of Justice is now opening
a grand jury investigation into the matter. Bondi personally ordered
an unnamed federal prosecutor to initiate legal proceedings, so this
would be a federal grand jury, and the prosecutor is
expected to present Department evidence to a grand jury, which
would would allow the Department to secure a potential indictment.
This is according to a letter from Bondi that was
reviewed by Fox News, as well as a source familiar
with the investigation, So, Pam BONDI no, I'm kidding. I
don't know who it is. So I don't know. Like
the key here is where is this federal grand jury
going to be impaneled?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Because if you're going to do it in Washington, d C,
it's pretty unlikely you're going to get convictions for anybody
in Obama world except maybe John Brennan maybe, right. I
just I have no confidence in the jury pool that
you would be selecting from in DC.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I have heard reports, rumors, if you will, that they
may be impaneling this grand jury down in Florida before
I came in, you know, because I basically wrap up
my show prep at about eleven ten thirty eleven o'clock,
come into the studio. I try to catch back up,
but I've not, you know, it's more of a cursory
glance to see, okay, anything else moving right now. And
I have not seen if there's been any solid reporting
yet on confirmation that it's being done in Florida. I
have heard that as a rumor. I don't know it
to be true. I don't know how you could do that,
except maybe if you say, well, Trump was living in
Florida at mar A Lago or something. But I don't
see how you could make that argument because the stuff
occurred in DC, right, And that, like, this poses another
pretty serious problem, which is that if you've got Democrats
that enjoy complete freedom to break laws and frame people,
using government levers of power to do so, and they
can they can skate on any kind of charges because
the jury pool is so partisan and in the tank
for them. But that's a serious problem because that means
now that we can't ever hold any Democrats accountable legally
for violating any laws. If if they're not going to
ever be convicted of this stuff, you got to You're
gonna have to move the venue. I like, I just
I don't see a way around it. But then of
course you've got to ask some of these you know,
left wing moon bat brigade judges in the DC area.
You're gonna have to ask them to move the venue,
and I'm sure they'll say no. Back to the Fox story,
the revelation that the DOJ is moving forward with a
grand jury probe comes after Gabbard declassified intelligence last month,
which shed new light on the Obama administration's alleged determination
that Russia sought to help Trump in the twenty SIXTHXEN election. See,
so maybe that's how you do it. Trump was a
resident of Florida in twenty sixteen, and that's where that's
where this stuff or when this stuff originally began, was
before he was elected. And so therefore you can go
back to Florida because that was sort of the origin story.
And if that's the case, then the government's chances go
way up. Right, But the conspiracy continued through January twenty
when he was inaugurated. But technically he's not in office
until January twenty. So if you go you go after
the intelligence agency chiefs, the various chiefs of these agencies,
you go after them for the crimes committed prior to
January twentieth, then then maybe you can make an argument
and you can bring the charges down in Florida. Back
to the story, former President Barack Obama and his intelligence
officials allegedly promoted a contrived narrative that Russia interfered in
the twenty sixteen election to help President Trump win, telling
or selling it to the American people as though it
were true, but it was not. Among the declassified material
was a meeting record revealing how Obama allegedly requested his
deputies prepare an intelligence community assessment. This is an ICA,
that's what they call it, an ICA, Intelligence Community assessment.
This was in December of twenty sixteen, so a month
month and a half prior to Trump's inauguration. Trump had won,
had not been inaugurated, and this ICA allegedly detailed the
tools Moscow used and actions it took to influence the
twenty sixteen election. Gabbard has alleged that Obama and national
security officials laid the groundwork for a narrative that then
candidate Trump and his campaign colluded to help him win
the twenty sixteen election. An FBI investigation and two Special
Council investigations loomed over much of Trump's first term, Right,
And that's really that was really the point.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: The first was an effort to help Hillary's campaign do
her a solid right out of fear of Trump, orange
Man Hitler or whatever. But also Comy was smarting a
bit because of the whole Clinton email server investigation. Right,
he was getting pressured by Loretta Lynch and all of this.
So you had all of this skulduggery going on, and
Hillary was not doing terribly well. They thought she was
going to just pummel Donald Trump and it wasn't really happening.
And there were a lot of problems with the campaign.
She had scandals around her, you know, the email one
being a big one. And then of course, right, I
guess it was Uber or something September maybe when they
found the laptop which had not Hunter's laptop, another laptop,
the Anthony Wiener's laptop, and it had all of this
stuff on it that was coming from Hillary's homebrew server,
unsecured server that it all likelihood was hacked by like
every foreign adversary on the planet and probably half of
our allies as well. And so when they found that,
they had to reopen the investigation, and then Comy came out,
you know, no reasonable prosecutor would indict her and whatever,
and the Democrats blamed Comy for that. Now, what's interesting
is when you go back and you look at and
listen to the comments that were made at the time,
knowing what we know now about the inclusion of the
Steele dossier, the lies about how Russia was behind the
DNC hacking, and that they did so in order to
help Trump, and Putin personally directed them to give it
to wiki leagues. Like all of this stuff, the Alpha
Bank thing, the you know, the ping on the bed
by the hookers in the Moscow hotel room and all
of that, and like all of this stuff was being
leaked to compliant allied media operators if they aren't outright
assets of the CIA. Right, So you got all of
these plants in media operations that regurgitate stuff from the
intelligence community, and that was all turned on Trump and
every little thing leaked out, every little thing, you know,
oh hey, we talked to Trump today about the p tape.
Now you can publish it, right, comes from Komi and whatever.
You have, all of the lies that were built in
order to help Hillary win and to oh and by
the way, the irony of ironies here, the Steele dossier
was likely populated according to the analysis of the Steele dossier,
which of course they buried, that it was likely populated
with information that was planted by the Russians. So, in
other words, the actual people that were using Russian disinformation
to affect the outcome of an election was the Hillary
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Com a piece by Paul Sperry how Obama administration turned
unverifiable report into Russiagate dynamite. I call it the Russia
collusion hoax. Russia Gate is fined by me too. But
the collusion was a lie. It always was a lie.
It was a lie orchestrated, promulgated, disseminated by the intelligence
agencies and Obama administration officials. Paul Sperry documents the lengthy
campaign used to smear Donald Trump based on unverifiable information.
This goes beyond the Steele dossier. There was another piece
of information. It goes beyond the DNC hack That was
another piece of disinformation. It goes beyond that. There was
a third unverifiable report that was used to sell this
croc from the report. Real Clear Investigations the Obama intelligence
communities claim that Russian President Voladimir Putin authorized dirty tricks
to try and help Donald Trump win the twenty sixteen
election was based on quote one scant, unclear and unverifiable
fragment of a sentence from one of the substandard intelligence reports.
And that's according to the declassified report that was locked
away in a CIA vault, the report done by Hipsey
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence or the House Intelligence
Committee they call.
Speaker 2: It to.
Speaker 1: Nevertheless, and this was one of the documents Tulsa Gabbard
released the other day. Nevertheless, former CIA director John Brennan
ordered agency analysts to use this claim in their ICA,
the Intelligence Community Assessment that was issued during the final
days of the Obama administration, even though the ICA itself
said that the information on Putin's plans was how it
was obtained was quote not explicitly clear. What does that mean?
I mean you got some piece of raw intel, but
the Intelligence Community Assessment doesn't know how you got it. Well,
that was purposeful. John Brennan is at the heart of this.
A forty six page report by the House of Representatives
released a couple of days back, found that the source
of the claim about Putin. Reportedly, this source was a
Russian defector living in northern Virginia who was described as
anti Trump, and what this defector said was speculation. And
this guy was merely speculating to John Brennan about something
he had been told by somebody else, namely that Putin
was quote counting on Trump winning. And that's what Brennan
ran with, that Putin was counting on Trump winning. However,
the analysts in the intelligence agencies, including the CIA, they
interpreted that phrase counting on in several different ways. In
my opinion, the most believable way was that it was
actually that they were counting on Trump to win the primary,
because that's when this guy made the comment. He made
it before Trump was even the nominee. And again, remember
this was twenty sixteen. Remember how rough and tumble that
primary was. We didn't know who was going to emerge.
A the primary season went on and on, like our
vote in North Carolina actually kind of mattered for the
first time in forever, right, because it was all up
in the air, it was up for grabs. Trump kept
eking out these wins in different dates all along the way,
and people wouldn't drop out, and they kept going and
going and going. And so that's when this guy made
the comment that Trump was going to actually win the primary.
It wasn't about the general at that time. That's my
that's my theory, So it's not eme of a theory
like that's that's my estimation. My analysis. ICA participants that
different ideas about what this phrase could mean. Many NSA
and CIA officials read the words counting on as meaning
the same thing as expected, which is much different than
the language that Putin preferred Trump. Right, Putin expecting Trump
to win doesn't mean that he prefers Trump win. The
Congressional Review determined that the ICA did not cite any
classified report where Putin directly indicated helping Trump to win
would be the objective. There was never any proof, no
direct evidence of this. Ever, the report says that the
ICA judgment on Putin's thoughts about helping candidate Trump does
not stand if Brennan's single interpretation of the fragment is wrong,
because there is literally no other intelligence corroborating it. All Right,
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Plumber says, Hey there, Pete, great show as always, Thank you, Andy.
Keep telling the truth and reporting it as it happened. History,
Actual history is not easily refuted. These events happened. We
witnessed the undermining of a presidency when they couldn't when
they couldn't find anything, they made it up top to bottom.
All who participated should be held to account for it.
Thanks for all you do well. That's and Andy, I
appreciate it. That's that's why I cover this like I
cover it because I don't think people being ignorant of
it will help drive account of ability. Another message from
somebody else in ATO three number. In your opinion, do
you feel anybody will be charged with a real crime
that sticks. I don't know. I don't know, but the
impaneling of a federal grand jury on the matter that
was announced, that's a good sign. Make their case show
the evidence. So let me, uh hang on a second. Oh,
I have this other thing breaking news. The House Oversight
Committee has subpoenaed Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton and former
Attorney General Bill Barr and former Attorney General Jeff's sessions
in relation to the Epstein case. So back to Paul
Sperry's piece at Realclearinvestigations dot com. The Obama Intelligence Community
Assessment or the ICA of Russia's intentions? Did Russia did
putin intend to help Trump win? The assessment changed sharply
after Trump won. Before he won, the memo said nothing
made no mention of Putin aspiring for a Trump victory,
although the Russian defector had shared his thoughts about Putin
with John Brennan way back in July, months before the election.
The CIA director's November sixth memo said Putin expected Clinton
to win. That's what it said before the election. But
then after the election everything changed. In early December, after
Obama ordered a new assessment, Brennan dusted off that informance
secondhand hearsay, which had been shelved as unreliable. The CIA director,
who had previously worked for Obama in the White House,
suddenly insisted that it underpin the new conclusion about Putin's motive.
It's also at that time Barack Obama did an interview
with NPR, and it's instructive to go back and listen
to what he said. This was December sixteenth, twenty sixteen,
so he's right, so they're already rewriting the ICA and
listen to what he says.
Speaker 3: Now, did the Russian hack of the Democratic National Committee
and other targets actually affect the results of the election?
Speaker 2: In your view, there's no doubt that it contributed to
an atmosphere in which the only focus for weeks at
a time, months at a time were Hillary's emails, the
Clinton Foundation, political gossip surrounding the DNC, and that whole
swirl that ended up dominating the news meant that number
one issues weren't talked about a lot in the coverage.
Huge policy differences were not debated, and vetted elections can
always turn out differently. You never know which factors are
going to make a difference. But I have no doubt
that it had some impact. Everyone now acting surprised by
the CIA assessment that this was done purposely to improve
Trump's chances. And my only point was that shouldn't be
treated as a blockbuster because that was the worst kept
secret in this town.
Speaker 1: Why was that? Was it the worst kept secret? Well,
Brennan was shopping this information around via the Steele dossier.
This is after Trump won, and now they're retconning, retroactively,
retroactive continuity. They're going back and trying to stuff some
pieces to make it fit and to cast dispersions on
Trump as this Russian asset. Like everybody knew this was coming.
Now we have this assessment. So the interview ends and
in the NPR piece they show a graphic that says.
After the interview, Obama returned to the room to say
one more thing about the CIA, and here's what he said.
Speaker 3: You had something you wanted to add.
Speaker 2: When we're discussing the issue of the Russia, Hank, and
I think it is worth noting that when it comes
to the motivations of the Russians, that there are still
a whole range of assessments taking place among the agencies.
And so when I receive a final report, we'll be
able to, I think, give us a comprehensive and best
guess as to those motivations. But that does not, in
any way, I think, detract from the basic point that
everyone during the election perceived accurately that in fact, what
the Russian hack had done was create more problems for
the Clinton administration the Clinton campaign that it had for
the Trump campaign.
Speaker 3: I think you're stopping short of endorsing the CIA conclusion
that the hack was designed to help Donald Trump, as
opposed to some other objective.
Speaker 1: Now, remember the CIA conclusion had not actually been reached.
At this point. The CIA conclusion was being shopped around
to media as high confidence. They were saying, this is
a high confidence conclusion, when it had not actually been
a high confidence conclusion, yet it hadn't been done yet.
And when the report was done and they said it
was high confidence, what we now know was that the
analyst said it's not. But they were bigfooted by their bosses,
Brennan and Comy and Clapper. This is how the information
laundering works. You put the information out there and then
you give them a little nibble here. You give some
high ranking officials to go anonymously off the record, but
give you the intel, give you the information, and now
you are laundering that smear.
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my guests, let me say that I guess as to
why Obama left the interview but then came back, returned
to the room, so he had something else to say
about the CIA, and I think he forgot to make
the connection that this was done to help Trump, right,
and that the intelligence is writing up its ICA and
it's coming forward. But he doesn't make the assertion. And
the NPR reporter asked, it sounds like you're stopping short
of saying that they did this to help Trump, and
here was Obama's response.
Speaker 2: Well, I think the point I'm making is that right now,
what you've had at our CIA leaks not an official document,
and I think it's important for the process of various
agencies comparing notes and thinking about these assessments, because it's
not as if in any of these circumstances, you know,
you just have a signed letter in regarding Russian intentions
that's floating around. These are all assessments made based on
a wide range of evidence, and different agencies are still
looking at all that stuff, gathering it together and hopefully
putting into a single package. That's precisely why I've asked
that report to be issued before the twentieth, so that
those aspects of at least that are not classified can
be presented in some form to the public. Those aspects
of it that are classified can be presented, as we've
consistently done on a bipartisan basis, to the members of
Congress and the relevant committees.
Speaker 1: Right, so there you go. I'm going to walk you
right up to this. I'm not going to say exactly
like this is definitive, because we're still waiting on the assessment.
But when it's done, you all will see. Right now,
you just have leaks. We'll have the final package before
Trump is sworn in. The major high confidence judgment of
the ICA rests on one opinion about a text fragment
with uncertain meaning. This text, which would not have been
published without John Brennan's orders to do so. Is cited
using only one interpretation of its meaning and without considering
alternative interpretations. That is a violation of statecraft of the
intelligence community director of two three. One alternative was that
Putin was quote counting on Trump winning the primary and
the nomination at the GOP convention, which was in July,
which was two weeks after the informant provided the tip.
That was the relevant timeframe. He said this two weeks
before the GOP convention, when there was talk that they
were going to try to deprive Trump of the nomination. Remember,
they were going to have a contested convention. But this
informant guy some anti Trump Russian defector that is unnamed
and supposedly could not be named because he would have
been whacked by Putin. Yeh slight problem with that story.
Brennan's informant and apparently this was Brennan's informant who he
refused to identify to anybody. It's now understood that this
informant is Oleg Smolenkov, who previously worked in the Russian
embassy in Washington and later as a government foreign policy
advisor in Moscow before he moved back to the DC
area in early twenty seventeen. Brennan said that his source
could not be revealed because Putin might have him executed. However,
reporters easily found him living in a six bedroom home
in Stafford, Virginia, listed in his and his wife's real names.
Smolenkov was also Brennan's source for the Intelligence community assessments
claim that Putin ordered the hacked DNC material to be
leaked to wikiliques. Same guy, and his information is based
on somebody else telling him that that's what they think
is the case. The report from the House Intelligence Committee
also discovered that Brennan personally directed this CIA informants tip
not be circulated within formal intelligence community channels, and Brennan
only briefed the team that was working on the ICA.
He only spoke about it. He never put it in print,
never put it in emails, which raised suspicions among the
team that he was tailoring his message to different officials
in order to convince dissenters that the tip was legit
when he knew basically that it wasn't. It wasn't legit.
Brennan knew it wasn't legit. It wouldn't pass muster among
the actual analysts that were compiling it, but he would
go around and talk to people about it in order
to induce an outcome which was then promoted by all
levels of the Democrat Party and the media. But I
repeat myself, all right, that'll do it for this episode.
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