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has now joined Caroline Levitt at the White House briefing
and she is going over this very information. So let's
listen in.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, good afternoon. At President Trump's direction
and with the support and coordination with the House Intelligence
Committee Chairman Rick Crawford, today we've released a declassified oversight
Majority Staff report that was produced in Septembermber of twenty twenty.
The stunning revelations that we are releasing today should be
of concern to every American. This is not about Democrats Republicans.
This has to do with the integrity of our Democratic
Republic and American voters having faith that the votes cast
will count. There is irrefutable evidence that detail how President
Obama and his national security team directed the creation of
an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false. They
knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered
in the twenty sixteen election to help President Trump win,
selling it to the American people as though it were true.
It wasn't. The report that we released today shows in
great detail how they carried this out. They manufactured findings
from shoddy sources, They suppressed evidence and credible intelligence that
disproved their false claims. They disobeyed traditional trade craft intelligence
community standards, and withheld the truth from the American people.
In doing so, they conspired to subvert the will of
the American people who elected Donald Trump in that election
in November of twenty sixteen. They worked with their partners
in the media to promote this lie, ultimately to undermine
the legitimacy of President Trump and launching what would be
a year's long coup against him and his administration. We're
here today because the American people deserve the truth, they
deserve accountability, and they deserve justice. The records that we
released on Friday that were ode and I records. Senator
Chuck Grassley's release on Monday of what is known as
the Clinton Annex, which was an appendix to the Department
of Justice Office of Inspector General's twenty eighteen report, as
well as the House Intelligence Committee's Oversight Majority Oversight report
that we're releasing today, all come back to and confirm
the same report. There was a gross policization manipulation of
intelligence by the Obama administration intended to delegitimize President Trump
even before he was inaugurated, ultimately usurping the will of
the American people. I'm going to go over the key
findings from the House Intelligence Report, which investigated the claims
that were made by an intelligence community assessment ordered by
President Obama and published in January of twenty seventeen. First,
Putin's principal interests relating to the twenty sixteen election were
to undermine faith in the US democratic process, not show
any preference of a certain candidate. In fact, this report
shows Putin held back leaking, held back from leaking compromising
material on Hillary Clinton prior to the election, instead planning
to release it after the election to weaken what Moscow
viewed as an inevitable Clinton presidency. In the January twenty
seventeen Intelligence Community assessment that President Obama ordered John Brennan,
whose CIA director at the time, and the Intelligence community
intentionally suppressed intelligence that showed Putin was saving the most
damaging material that he had in his possession about Hillary
Clinton until after her potential and likely victory. The report
goes into great detail about the information that Russia and
Putin had which on Hillary Clinton, which included possible criminal
acts like secret meetings with multiple named US religious organizations
in which State Department officials offered in exchange for supporting
Secretary Clinton's campaign for the presidency, significant increases in financing
from the State Department.
Speaker 1: Uh oh, that's bad.
Speaker 2: They also had documents that showed the patronage of the
State Department to State Department employees who would go and
support Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. There were high level DNC
emails that detailed evidence of Hillary's quote psycho emotional problem,
uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness, and that then
Secretary Clinton was allegedly on a daily regiment of heavy tranquilizers.
Then CIA Director Brennan and the intelligence community mischaracterized intelligence
and relied on dubious, substandard sources to create a contrived,
false narrative that Putin developed a quote unquote clear preference
for Trump. Brennan and the ICE misled lawmakers by referencing
the debunked Steele dossier to assess quote unquote Russia's plans
and intentions, falsely suggesting that this dossier had intelligence value
when he knew that it was discredited. The Intelligence community
excluded significant intelligence and ignored or selectively quoted reliable intelligence
that contradicted the Intelligence Community assessment's key findings on Putin's
alleged support for Trump. Including this intelligence reporting would have
exposed the ICA's claim. Including this intellelligence reporting would have
exposed the ICA's claim as implausible, if not ridiculous. The
Intelligence Community assessment omitted reliably sourced information, such as how
some Russian intelligence officials were quote unquote planning for candidate
Hillary Clinton's victory, while others assessed neither Trump nor Clinton
would respect Russia's interests, as was reflected in the OD
and I documents that we released on Friday. Multiple intelligence
community assessments released in the months leading up to the
November twenty sixteen election concluded that Russia had neither the
intent nor capability to impact the outcome of the US election.
On December fifth of twenty sixteen, the FBI and ODIE
and I gave the House Intelligence Committee its first post
election classified briefing, in which there was no mention of
Putin aspiring to elect Trump by either agency. The Presidential
Daily Brief, drafted on December eighth of twenty sixteen, stated
that no Russia or criminal actors impacted vote counts. This
document was pulled just hours before it was to be
published due to quote unquote new guidance. If it had
been published, it would have been briefed to both President
Obama and President elect Donald Trump. On December ninth, twenty sixteen,
a National Security Council meeting was called to gather President
Obama's senior national security officials, which included CIA Director Brennan,
then Obama, d and I, James Clapper, Susan Rice, and others.
Following that secret meeting, DNI, Clapper's assistant sent an email
to the intelligence community with the subject line potus tasking
on Russia election medaling, tasking od and I leaders to
create a new assessment per the President's request.
Speaker 1: All right, so let me stop it right there. This
is I've rolled it back from when she began speaking.
She is still speaking at the White House. So number one,
that's a new new piece of information that apparently there
was some promises of funding made via the State Department
to religious organizations. Don't know which those would be, but
that's part of this as well. Like, this is bad, people,
this is very, very bad. And I know people, you know,
Democrats don't want to focus on this. They don't want
this to be true. I get that, much like there
are probably people that don't want the Epstein connection to
Trump to be true if it's as bad as everybody
on the left thinks it is or says it is. Sure,
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Some breaking news, former Governor Roy Cooper will announce he
is running for the US Senate See being vacated by
Tom Tellus. That just in Axios reporting the the Director
of National Intelligence, Tulci Gabbert is appearing at the White
House Press briefing right now. She's outlining this was a
House Intelligence Committee report. It was based on an investigation
launched by then Chairman Devin Nunez, Republican from California. It
was dated September eighteenth, twenty twenty. At the time of
the publication of the report, Representative Adam Schiff for Brains
was the chairman of that committee, and the report has
never been released to the public. It has remained highly
classified within the intelligence community. That's what she just declassified today.
That's what she's going over. And the key point here
when she ran through that chronology which I gave you
earlier in the program that in hour two I went
over the chronology. The reason why they pulled the Intelligence
Committee assessment and revised it was because if it had
remained as the final product, it would have been included
in the Presidential Daily Brief, the President's Daily Brief, or
the PDB. They could not allow that ICA to remain
in the PDB because it said Russia didn't tamper with
the election to help Trump win. And why couldn't they
leave it in the PDB. Because Trump had won and
he was also getting the pdbs, they could not let
him see it. So they have a secret meeting and
Obama tasks the CIA with revising it, puts Brennan in charge.
Brennan sticks the Steel dossier in it, and now the
PDB says putin wanted Trump to win.
Speaker 2: Let's Resumetelligence Committee oversite report that we released today reveals
that quote Unlike routine intelligence community analysis, the Intelligence Community
Assessment was a high profile product ordered by the President
President Obama. It directed senior intelligence community agency heads and
created an intelligence community assessment limited to just five analysts
using one principal drafter. This is not something that occurs
in the normal path of producing an intelligence community assessment
that reflects the views across the intelligence community. The production
of this Intelligence community assessment was subject to unusual directives
directly from the President and senior political appointees, especially the
former Director of the CIA, John Brennan. The House Intelligence
Committee oversite report also shows how later that same day,
on December ninth, Brennan ordered the publication of quote unquote
substandard reporting on Russian activities, which had previously been withheld
from publication of prior assessments because the information was judged
quote to have not met long standing publication standards. Some
of the information later use in the Obama ordered assessment,
over the objections of veteran CIA officers, was quote unquote
unclear or from unknown sources. The Intelligence Committee's oversight report
reveals that CIA Director Brennan overruled senior CIA officers who
challenged the Obama ordered intelligence assessment, stating quote, we don't
have direct information that Putin wanted to get Trump elected.
Yet the Obama directed assessment was published on January sixth,
twenty seventeen, which explicitly stated, quote, we assess Putin and
the Russian government aspired to help President elect Trump's election
chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting
her unfavorably to him end of quote. And FBI, then
led by John Brennan and James Comy, expressed high confidence
in this judgment, while the NSA expressed moderate confidence. Yet,
as the report we released today shows, the ICA the
Intelligence Community assessment did not cite any report where Putin
indicated helping Trump win was an objective. The opposite is
true with regards to the Steele dossier. We now know
that one of the source documents that the Obama administration
used in the creation of this intelligence assessment in January
of twenty seventeen was none other than the discredited, unverified
Steele dossier. The House Intel report states quote contradicting public
claims by then CIA Director Brennan that the dossier was
not in any way incorporated into this intelligence assessment. The
dossier was referenced in the intelligence assessment's main body text
and further detailed in a two page assessment annex. John
Brennan lied, and he denied using this dossier in this
intelligence assessment that President Obama ordered because he knew it
was discredited. It was a politically motivated manufactured document. He
directed senior CIA officials to use it anyway. CIA officer
told the House Intelligence Committee staff as they investigated this quote,
the Director of the CIA, John Brennan, refused to remove it, and,
when confronted with the dossier's many flaws, responded, quote, yes,
but doesn't it ring true. Even the bipartisan Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence report published in twenty twenty, criticized the
FBI's handling of the Steele dossier, noting its completely unverified
nature and purposeful side stepping of intelligence community procedures in
its use. Now President Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, James Clapper,
James Coby, and others, including their mouthpieces in the met
knowingly lied as they repeated the contrived narrative that was
created in this January twenty seventeen Intelligence Community assessment with
high confidence as though it were fact right.
Speaker 1: They lied, and the ICA also suppressed intel that showed
Russia was actually planning for a Hillary Clinton victory. That's
what they thought. What happened, because that's what everybody thought
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Intelligence Tulsea Gabbard joining the White House Daily Press Briefing,
and she is outlining all of the evidence that was
compiled in the House Intelligence Committee but then was locked
down under a highly classified designation so nobody could get
at the information, and she declassified this. It is now
public today and she's been laying it out for the press.
I'm assuming I think I saw somebody email me that
CNN broke away as soon as she started talking about this,
which that tells you all you need to know about
who's actually trying to inform you of what really occurred.
Speaker 2: John Brennan, as CIA Director, stated in a memo to
his agency staff in December of twenty sixteen, saying, quote,
there is strong consensus among us on the scope, nature,
and intent of Russian interference in our presidential elected election.
Speaker 1: Intent is the key.
Speaker 2: This is reported by NBC News confirming that Brennan, along
with James Clapper and James Comey, agreed with the CIA's
assessment that Russia intervened to help Trump win the presidency.
As Obama's Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper was tasked
with overseeing the creation of this assessment in January of
twenty seventeen by President Obama, and he expressed confidence in
its findings. In a twenty eighteen interview with the Harvard Gazette,
he talked about how he provided Trump with the same
classified assessment that protestment that President Obama received, which included
the high confidence judgment that putin directly ordered the hacking
and election interference. Clapper then went on to add, I
think they, the Russians, actually influenced the outcome. This is
a brief summary of the details that you'll find within
the House Majority Staff's report. In their investigation into the
Obama directed January twenty seventeen intelligence community assessment that leads
us to the very same conclusion that we announced in
the release of our documents on Friday. The implications of
this are far reaching and have to do with the
integrity of our democratic republic. It has to do with
an outgoing president taking action to manage manufacture intelligence to
undermine and usurp the will of the American people in
that election and launch what would be a year's long
coup against the incoming president of the United States, Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: Thank you well, Thank you, Telsey, and we do want
to take questions on this topic. While the director has
time for this topic, she will leave. I'm happy to
take questions on other matters after that, but if anyone
has questions for Director Gabbard, you're welcome.
Speaker 1: I see Annis watching this over on c SPAN two. No,
I don't want now to a house oversight subject. Are
you serious? Unaccompanied migrant children? Why would you do that
to me? C span? Why would you move it to
c SPAN two. That's ridiculous, Thanks a lot, c SPAN.
Sean says, Oh, this is on the text line. You
said everybody thought Hillary was going to win. I bet
a guy my one hundred dollars to his five that
she was not going to be president. This bet was
made when there was still seventeen Republicans running. I said,
no matter who they nominate, they will beat her. As
it got closer and Trump was the last man standing,
I must admit I was a bit worried that I
threw away one hundred dollars, but he ended up paying
me my five bucks. She was never a very well
liked person. The media just made it look like she was.
That's from Sean. Well, here's the thing. All of the polling, right,
all of the coverage, everything, all the horse race coverage,
it was all pointing in that direction. And yeah, like
that was a major turning point in the polling industry.
It's why I don't rely on poles anymore. Like I'll
look at polls just for trend lines. I don't care
about individual snapshots. I don't. It is a rare occasion
when I will bring a pole to the program and
go over a poll, a single poll. Glenn Beck, Actually
he had a very good not Actually I like Glenbeck.
When I worked in Ashville, we carried Glen Beck and
I used to listen to him, and I mean some
of the stuff was it was not my cup of tea.
But but he does a good job of connecting dots.
Anybody who has seen his chalkboard can confirm. But he
has a he did a big I think this was
from his show yesterday maybe or maybe in this morning.
But the Blaze dot com did a synopsis basically of
his recapping of this scandal, and he starts off going
back to September twelfth, twenty sixteen, in a secure briefing room,
a document from the Office of the d and I,
the Director of National Intelligence under then President Barack Obama,
was circulated among his intelligence team, and the memo stated, quote,
foreign adversaries do not have and will probably not obtain
the capabilities to successfully execute widespread and undetected cyber attacks
on election systems end quote. That was September twelfth, before
the election. In other words, Russia was not a threat
to the election's outcome. That was from the ODNI. But
when thousands of private DNC emails were leaked by hackers,
the Clinton campaign and the media blamed Russia. That was
despite the fact that the NSA had ranked that claim
as quote low confidence that it was the Russians. Then
October seventh, twenty sixteen. Now remember this is at a
time when Hillary Clinton's campaign had already they had already
compiled the Steele dossier, they had paid for it, right,
Brennan was shopping this thing around. He was doing that
back in April of twenty sixteen. So when there when
the DNC email hack came along, they raced out and
said it's the Russians. Meanwhile, the NSA was like, uh noil,
probably not. Didn't It turn out to be John Podestah
getting duped by a phishing scam, like, hey, you got
to change your password, and so he gave his password
to this you know, phishing scam and that's how they
got all of the emails. So that was September. October seventh,
twenty sixteen, the DNI and Department of Homeland Security quote
jointly state that Russia is directing cyber attacks that contradicted
internal memos from the same week that showed key agencies
still had serious doubts about any Russian involvement. And then
Trump won and panic ensues. A meeting is called on
December ninth in the situation room. Everyone is there Clapper, Brennan,
Susan Rice, Andrew McCabe, John Kerry, President Obama. This meeting
is on the record. Instructions are issued to scrap the
post election briefing that had reaffirmed that there was no
Russian interference, and then the direction was given per the
president's request, that's the direct quote, per the president's request,
to rewrite a new draft. And as I said earlier,
this was imperative because if that assessment made it into
the Presidential Daily Briefing Book, then Trump would have seen
it too, because Trump, as president elect now was getting PDBS.
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me see I let me go to the text line.
Alrighty why why? Okay? Uh? Uh? Se SPAN breaking away?
Stan says, looks like se SPAN got the memo later
than CNN did. Ah yeah maybe uh. Timmy says this
is just a dog and pony show. Nobody of note
will be charged or arrested. We have gotten to a
place in politics where politicians have free reign to openly
commit fraud and crimes without any consequences. Not to mention,
the CIA and FBI can blatantly break the law. Okay, well,
wouldn't this be the steps that you take in order
to start charging people with breaking the law. Like that's
what I mean. Like, guys, I don't know what it is.
Maybe people in you know, in the Republican Party, conservatives,
right leaners, like, are you tired of winning? No, it's losing.
We're losing. This isn't losing, Like we have to recognize
the wins when we get them. I don't know what
happens next, and people, you are free to make whatever
predictions you want to make. I'm not saying that you
need to be optimistic that you know people are going
to go to jail. I'm not saying you you should
be pessimistic either though, but like, let's just wait and see.
This is to me, this is a positive development. This
development is positive. This is a good step. I don't
know what's going to happen, but I'm not blackpilling myself
and saying all is lost already. In fact, after c
C Span cut away, apparently a reporter asked Tulsi Gabbard,
are you referring former President Barack Obama to the DOJ
for criminal implications? And Gabbert said, correct, the evidence we
have found and released directly point to President Obama leading
the manufacturing of this intelligence assessment. Now, will will the
DOJ charge him? I don't know, Like in the past,
like we don't charge former presidents. Well, that precedent sort
of got blown up a few years ago, folks, So yeah,
I think you could probably pursue this sort of thing. Now,
what about the Supreme Court ruling this is a president's
official act? Would this count as an official act to
order this kind of revision? I don't know, But let's
run them through the gauntlet because that's the precedent. That's
what we're going to be testing. That's why we ended
up with a Supreme Court decision on this very idea. Right,
good for the goose, good for the gander. Isn't this
what people claim they want to see? And to me,
I've been warning the left about the slippery slope. You
guys keep doing these things. You're not gonna like it
when these weapons get turned against you. And here we are, welcome.
You have arrived. That is your own petard. I don't
know what a petard is. I feel like it's a garment.
It's like it's like a variation of the what do
they call the leotard. I think it's a yeah, the petard.
I think maybe I don't know, So there's that. A
reporter asked Gabbard, do you believe President Obama is guilty
of treason, because that's what Trump said yesterday, and Gabbard
said it on Friday. She called it treason, this behavior.
Her response at the White House Press briefing was, quote,
when you look at the intent behind creating a fake
man manufactured intelligence document, the expressed intent can only be
described as a year's long coup and a treason, this conspiracy.
Right again, keep in mind, this is what hamstrung Donald
Trump's first term. The most you can get done when
you're a president, right when you first take when you
get elected. The first eighteen months is really when you
get the most amount of stuff done, particularly in a
first term, because after the eighteen months, then you've got
your mid terms. You're out there campaigning for all of
these different House and Senate members trying to get them
elected or keep them in office. The most active and
fruitful period of time you will have is usually in
the first year and a half, and then you have
your own reelection. After the midterms, that becomes a lot
of the focus and you know you got the opposition
party not wanting to give you any wins and that
sort of thing. And usually presidents lose the House and
or the Senate in that first midterm election, and so
they crippled his first term. I mean it led to
the impeachment over the Ukraine issue because he asked Zelenski, hey,
show me what you got on this corruption stuff and
the Biden deal or you know when he said, you know,
get rid of your prosecutor and what was going on
with Obama and all of that, and that got him impeached.
The same people that were in the intelligence agencies that
were working against Trump for the entirety of his first term.
And by the way, the spying, according to Matt Tayibi,
the Independent journalist, he says, the spying that we saw
in the Trump campaign in twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, that
the referral of charges and the investigation goes all the
way through this last election. In other words, it may
have resumed or it may have never even stopped. So yes,
I want criminal referrals. I want charges to be referred
to DOJ and we'll see what happens. All right, that'll
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