WEBVTT - FISA Report Released 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.800 Well, everything we said, everything we were reported, everything we 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:07.480 told you was dead on center, accurate. And the mob 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:11.479 and the media has missed what is the biggest abuse 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:15.360 of power corruption scandal in the history of the country. 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:21.239 It is that this report putting aside whatever differences, and 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:24.000 for the Attorney General and for John Durham to come 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:25.759 out like they have and I'll get to these statements 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:30.440 in a second, and it is all there in black 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:36.400 and white. It's all there. Put the conclusion differences aside 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:40.199 for a second. Here, there is no more doubt the 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:46.080 FBI launched an intrusive investigation in a presidential campaign on 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:51.479 what is described as the thinnest of suspicions. The Attorney 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:55.520 General said and in my view, were insufficient to justify 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:59.840 the steps taken. It is also clear from its inception 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:06.440 that the evidence produced by the investigation was consistently exculpatory. 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:10.520 By the way they actually took out exculpatory information, they 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:17.399 purposely misled repeatedly the FISA court. It goes on that, nevertheless, 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:21.560 the investigation and surveillance was pushed forward for the duration 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:26.600 of the campaign and deep into President Trump's administration in 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:31.440 the rush to obtain and maintain FIZA surveillance of the 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:36.520 Trump campaign associates. The FBI officials misled the FISA court, 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:42.920 omitted critical exculpatory facts from their filings, and suppressed or 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:48.640 ignored information, negating the reliability of their principal source. The 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:54.480 Inspector General found the explanations given for these actions unsatisfactory. 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:57.440 That's just the tip of the iceberg. Now that's from 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:01.680 Bill Barr. Now, remember, and this is very critical and 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:05.720 where we are at this particular moment, because and I've 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.400 spent a lot of time explaining this, Horowitz has already 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:11.320 made numerous referrals from all the people that we're now 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:14.040 going to be talking about today and the upper echelon 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:18.640 of the FBI long before in his earlier reports. Nobody's 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:22.600 lifted a finger because an inspector General does not have 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:26.720 the power to convene a grand jury make charges. And 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.360 what I suspect is going on here is now the 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:31.960 final step of all this is going to be Durham's report. 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:34.720 Because Durham said, I have the utmost respect for the 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:37.480 mission of the Inspector General. The comprehensive work that went 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:42.119 into the report prepared by mister Harowitz and his staff. However, 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:48.880 our investigation is not limited to developing information from within 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:53.240 component parts of the Justice Department. This is what do 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:56.240 you think they've been in Italy, Great Britain so often? 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:58.560 What do you think's going on over there? We're going 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:03.519 to know soon enough. Our investors included developing information from 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:07.600 other persons entities, both in the US and outside of 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:11.480 the US. Clapper Brennan, are you paying attention based on 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:15.800 the evidence collected to date and while our investigation is ongoing. 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:20.080 Last month, we advise the Inspector General we don't agree 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:24.240 with some of their conclusions as to the predication of 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:26.839 how the FBI's case was opened. In other words, we've 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:29.880 got evidence to the contrary. Let's let's be blunt here. 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:33.919 That's what he's saying, and it's also a preview, if 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:38.000 you will, of coming attractions. He's pretty much saying, stay tuned. 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.880 We have a lot more now. Remember, Inspector General referred 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:45.040 come already prior to this release today, over leaking memos 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:49.400 and lack of candor and harrow, it's found the FBI's 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:53.640 handling of the Clinton emails. Remember, senior bureau officials show 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:56.760 to quote willingness to take official action to prevent Trump 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.880 from becoming president. He's already said all of that. He's 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:04.760 referred Lisa Page, Peter Struck, Kevin Kleinsmith, and others including 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:09.280 Jim Comey Andrew McCabe for further investigation. Kleinsmith is the 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:12.040 same anti Trump lawyer we're expecting to hear a lot 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:15.360 more about in days to come. And back in May, 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:20.719 the IG referred to an unnamed FBI deputy Assistant director 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:25.320 for referred this person for prosecution for leaking sealed court records. 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:29.400 And in April the DJ watch dog, the Inspector General 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:33.640 sent a criminal referral for the disgraced x FBI official 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:39.000 Andrew McCabe or unauthorized leaks and quote lacking candor. But 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:43.000 now now it's what Durham and barrs saying. Now it's 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.720 time for accountability, because that's all you're gonna get out 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:50.040 of the Inspector General. He can't convene a grand jury, 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:53.479 he can't. So now it's in the Attorney General's hand 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:57.839 and Durham's hand. In their words today should send shivers 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:01.040 and shocks down the spines of these people have involved 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.520 in this abuse of power corruption scandal. The biggest in 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.839 history here because this is what it is and what 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:11.480 you know. You look at the numerous factual errors and omissions. 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:16.760 They failed to vet the information, numerous serious performance failures 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:21.760 by those handling the FISA application. The applications were oh 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:26.400 relied on the discredited work of Christopher Steele, as the 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:30.960 Clinton bought and paid for dirty Steele dossier, whose own 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:34.080 author said, yeah, no, I have no idea of any 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.599 of its true. In other words, it was an unverifiable 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.800 document from the get go. How could you conclude anything 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.720 other than yeah, they did it by design. As far 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:46.039 as the numerous factual errors and omissions, I mean yeah, 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:50.200 as we discussed below, we identified numerous serious factual errors 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:54.240 and omissions. The omissions were exculpatory information which I'll get 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:58.320 into us this day unfolds. There were serious performance failures. 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:03.040 We conclude the failures described in this report represents serious 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:07.719 performance failures by the super advisory and non supervisory agents 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:15.240 with responsibility over PISA applications. Seventeen significant errors or omissions 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:19.600 in the FIA applications. Seventeen at least that they've identified. 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:25.080 IG did not receive satisfactory explanations for any of their 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:29.279 conduct in the errors in the applications procedures. We also 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:33.400 did not receive satisfactory explanations for the errors or the 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:37.039 problems that we identified. In most instances, the agents and 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:40.679 supervisors told us that they did not know or recall 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:45.279 why the information was not shared with the FISA court, 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:47.960 that the failure to do so may have been an 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:50.520 oversight they didn't recognize at the time the relevance of 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:55.640 the information. FBI personnel fell far short of the requirement 0:06:55.720 --> 0:07:00.680 that they ensure that all information in a PHIZA application 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:06.000 is accurate, and it goes to cross via Hurricane team 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:10.040 that McCabe, Comey others. They wanted to rely on Steal's 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:15.720 dosier despite knowing the concerns that Steele was being funded 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:21.120 by the Clinton and the DNC, and McCabe pushed for 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:25.760 Steele's debunk reporting to be in the intelligence assessment on 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:30.480 the twenty sixteen election, despite pushback from the CIA. There 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.600 were concerns about struck in page by passing the chain 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:38.440 of command to advise McCabe. The IG report concludes Bruce 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:44.440 or committed consequential errors in judgment. The FBI. Also it 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:48.840 goes on from there received information raising significant questions about 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:52.080 Steele's findings that did not press steal for information. Steel's 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:55.920 information played the central and essential role in the decision 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:59.120 to seek deifies the order. The FBI did not have 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:02.920 information oberating any of the Steel dossier and the allegations 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:04.520 that are being made here do you see where this 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:08.360 is all going? So you know what is in here? 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:12.280 We're learning in I mean, how many pages total is this? 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:16.680 I didn't even get to the last page, almost five 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:21.360 hundred pages. I mean, it's unbelievable. The failure to vet Steel. 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:24.600 Now here's why would that matter? All right? They fell 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:30.240 far short in abiding by FISA policy. No corroborating evidence 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:35.600 as it relates to page allegations. They purposely changed, you know, 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:39.000 page everything he had told us on this program, according 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.360 to this is all true. He worked for the government, 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:46.040 he worked for another agency, and then when they were 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:51.040 handed that information, they altered the information to get into 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:53.960 everything backdoor. Remember second hand information. Once you get to 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:58.560 Christopher Carter page, now you're in all things Trump campaign world, 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:03.679 Trump transition world. There were quote mountains of flags regarding 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:08.360 Steele's work. The FBI fell far short and abiding by 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:14.280 FISA policy. Our review found FBI personnel fell far short. 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:20.360 Factual assertions relied upon in the first FISA application were inaccurate, incomplete, 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:26.520 unsupported by appropriate documentation. None of these inaccuracies and omissions 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:30.720 were brought to the attention of the Office of Inspector 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.520 General before the last f application. This went on for 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:38.080 almost a year. They were Operation Crossfire Hurricane was unable 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:42.040 to corroborate any of the specific allegations regarding Carter Page 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:45.000 contained in Steel's DOCI. They couldn't corroborate any of it. 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:52.000 The FBI's failures created misleading, a misleading FISA application. Seventeen 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:57.720 specific errors and omissions we have identified in these FISA applications. 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:02.160 There are so many. Any basic and fundamental errors were 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:05.520 made by three separate, handpicked teams on one of the 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:10.280 most sensitive FBI investigations. This is all in the report 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:13.240 and then it goes on from there. They didn't give 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:16.200 equal attention, by the way, to the relevant facts. On 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:19.360 the other side, They purposely took all the exculpatory information 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.800 so that no, we don't want to see that. I 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:25.760 mean the five's applicant was made clear information supporting probable 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:29.680 cause it was non existent in this case, they found 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:34.080 the quantity of omissions and inaccuracies breathtaking and by the way, 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:37.719 the agents may have improperly substituted their own judgments, you 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:42.800 think serious performance failures. Then it gets into, you know, 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:46.480 the very very specific issues involving the dossier, which we've 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:50.440 got to now pay very close attention to, because if 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.880 we don't get to the basics and this, we're screwed. 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.720 Because you know, Stell, by the way, in his own sense, 0:10:56.720 --> 0:11:00.720 in his own way, was up to was eyeballs in 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:02.720 this and was doing it for money. And he when 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:04.640 he finally pushed, came to shove, which they could have 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:10.520 done from the very beginning they would have found h Yeah. Yeah. 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:14.080 Now one of the I think most damning things in this, 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:18.839 which validates every single thing that we told you, Christopher 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:23.959 Steele was paid by the FBI. Steele denies ever agreeing 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:27.079 to become to work for the FBI, which is an 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:32.520 interesting sidebar. But what I found most telling is what 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:36.520 you find out is without any dossier, there was no 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:41.319 FISA application. Remember we kept saying the bulk of information 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:47.640 comes from the unverifiable Steel dossier. It says it exactly 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:54.679 like that. In this report. They had absolutely zero confirmation 0:11:54.880 --> 0:12:00.360 or even an ability to confirm everything James in that 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:05.120 earlier version, I appreciate it. They didn't even have the 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:09.480 ability to verify it because they never took the time 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:13.160 to verify it, and they went as to so far 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:18.040 is to actually change the evidence that was presented in 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:21.400 this case, every bit of it. They want it. Well, okay, 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.840 So without the Steel dossier quote, they would not have 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:27.800 even pursued the FIES warn't because they weren't getting it. 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:32.360 When I asked about the motivations behind the Steel dossier, 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:37.840 agent involved didn't respond. The FIS application form was almost 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:43.760 entirely based on the unverifiable Steel Dossier and this whole 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:47.640 circular reporting. Remember one step, two step, once you get 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:51.120 into everything Carter Paige, Now you're into everything Trump worlds 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.680 because he worked as a campaign associate and the Trump campaign. 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.840 That gave them a backdoor to the Trump campaign, the 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:02.360 Trump transition team, and the Trump presidency. The FISA application 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.880 was almost entirely based on the Steel dossier. Oh, who's 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:10.800 been telling you that? Nobody in the fake news media. 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.520 Without the dossier, they wouldn't have pursued a FIES war 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.160 because they wouldn't have gotten one who's been telling you 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:21.800 that about the motivations buys application, called Steel a reliable 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:25.600 source and lied that his info had been used in 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:30.280 criminal proceedings. They actually lied about that. Struck himself signed 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:35.240 off on an expedited FISA application. They mislern the agent 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:38.360 misled the attorney saying that Carter Page never met with us. 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.920 Then you have the actual changing of this thing to 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:46.400 thee where it would have been exculpatory to Carter Page, 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:48.920 and then they did it to screw him so that 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:52.520 they could still get to Trump. Page to McCabe, we 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:56.520 can overcome looking biased in the FISA application. We could 0:13:56.520 --> 0:14:01.240 overcome it. They're bragging about it. And then Page to McCabe, Oh, 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:05.040 she's so innocent. I thought. We have a robust explanation 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.520 for any possible bias charges here, and it goes on 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.880 from there. It is a lot to absorb. It's nearly 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.040 five hundred pages. I've only had it in my hands 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:18.320 for a little over two hours, and my entire team 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.120 here was still going through it. But it is everything 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:27.720 we said is true. Everything, every single thing. The mob 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:32.080 was wrong every step of the way. Now imagine if 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:36.120 this was done to Hillary or Barack Obama or any 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:41.480 Democratic candidate ever, I think the mob would care. So 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.200 what were we telling you versus the mob in the meeting? 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:48.800 We were telling you that the bulk of information was 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:55.000 the killery Clinton, unverifiable, bought and paid four Steel dossier. 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:59.320 Now we know the Fiser request Quote one six twenty 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:06.160 seven page drew almost entirely from Steele's reporting and describing 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:10.720 the factual basis to establish probable cause. The bulk of 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:17.200 information was the dirty dossier, the unverifiable dirty dossier. Now 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.680 we also know when asked for the motivations behind the 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:25.280 Steel dossier, they didn't know. Without Steel they could not 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:28.840 have gotten a FISER warrant. That unit chief told the 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:33.040 OYG that the receipt of Steele's quote reporting changed their 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:37.240 mind on whether they could establish probable cause. In other words, 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:41.920 without the dirty Clinton bought and paid for unverifiable dirty 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:45.960 Russian dossier, there is no Fiser report. On top of 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:49.920 all the lying and exculpatory information with held will continue 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:52.160 all right, twenty five now till the top of the hour, 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:54.360 eight hundred and ninety four one. Sean, if you want 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.040 to be a part of this extravaganzas so much to 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:00.520 I'm just trying to stand back. I can look at 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:03.600 the big picture. There's so much damning information in this thing. 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.120 And what I've now concluded is, if you remember the 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:11.880 the Mueller Report, the way the Democrats saw it was 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:17.280 going to lead to the roadmap to impeachment, Dak got 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:19.800 blown out of the water. By the way. Another thing 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:24.200 that we find out in this Horowitz report on you know, 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:27.400 it's so it's so outrageous because all of this is 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:31.320 such an abuse, disgusting abuse of power. It really is. 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:34.720 I mean, if you listen to the words A, Durham 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:39.200 and Bar, it's devastating. And Durham has the wider scope. 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:44.120 Durham has the power. Durham is now officially a criminal investigation. 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.840 He can convene grand juries and he's making clear he 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:51.240 will be doing that. And you know when with Barr 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:56.080 and his statements, it is it is beyond damning. Um. Now, 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:58.960 I want to go back now that I'm explaining to 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.760 you everything that we told you is true, and you 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:03.960 go to page one twenty five, and you can go 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:06.760 to one twenty four and one twenty six and one 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:10.200 twenty seven of this report. What are we looking for here, 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:14.679 all right? Steele? Christopher Steele? Or is it motivations? Remember 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.800 we found out when he when he was pressed under 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:21.000 oath in an interrogatory in Great Britain. I have known 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:23.600 you if any of it's true. Single sourced information from 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.399 a crazy person that he describes as a crazy person 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:32.880 without without the Steel dossier, they knew they couldn't get 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:36.239 the FISA application McCabe. So McCabe did say it, he's 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:38.000 saying now he didn't say, of course, he probably said 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:42.159 it my view, but they're saying in the report that 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.160 with that it pushed it over the line in terms 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:47.399 of yeah, that was what that was? What did it 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:50.720 for us? And don't forget they also used a circular reporting. 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:54.680 They leaked it out to Isakough and what's another hack's 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:59.840 name conspiracy theorist, Oh, David Corn and Isakov by the way, 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:02.720 willing dupes, Oh, thank you for the information. Let me 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:08.199 reported it as true and using that conspiracy theorists that 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:12.040 they are. But anyway, without the dirty dossier, the Clinton 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:16.960 pays for that we now know as verifiable. That's how 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.760 they get in a backdoor. Now, of course you get 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:22.560 once you get to Carter Page. Well, now you get 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:26.000 into the Trump campaign, and then after the Trump campaign, 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:29.440 you get into the Trump transition, then the Trump presidency. 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:33.879 And what's remarkable in all of this is Komey lies 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:37.679 through his teeth repeatedly, because he signed off on the 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:42.800 application in October of twenty sixteen. He put his signature 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:50.360 on that first FISA application with the unverifiable bulk of information. 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:53.560 I'll read from page one twenty six and seven. The 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:58.560 FISER request form drew almost entirely from Steels reporting and 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:02.480 describing the factual ass to establish probable cause to believe 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:07.600 that Page was an agent of a foreign power. The 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:10.600 only additional information cited an ADFISER request from the only 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:13.480 the rest of it was a statement that Paige was 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:16.439 a senior foreign policy adviser for the Trump campaign and 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:20.280 had extensive ties to various state owned or affiliated entities 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:23.760 of the Russian Federation. The only other thing besides the 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:28.760 dossier used to secure the warrant Papadopoulos's statement, which by 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:33.439 the way, even that's altered and an open source which 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:38.199 is articles discussing. But all that was was leaks to 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:42.359 Isakof and korn As I understand it to make it 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:45.240 seem like it was independent corroboration that was done on 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:49.600 purpose too. So without the dirty unverifiable Clinton bought and 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:52.480 paid for Russian dossa, you don't get the back door. 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:58.399 So remember the standard, because if you look at a 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:02.760 FISA application, it has the word verified at the top 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:07.360 of it. Oh, it's unverifiable. But it was the it 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:11.679 was based almost entirely. But for those three things. The 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:14.720 statement that page was a senior foreign policy blah blah 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:19.840 blah blah, Papadopoulos's statement, and these two articles written by 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:22.919 two conspiracy theorist hacks that they leaked to and did 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:26.359 no verification on their own obviously because they're just hacks. 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:29.919 That hey, Trump, that was it. So it was the 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:36.120 dirty dossier Laughton paid for unverifiable and then but the standard, 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:39.000 well Rod Rosenstein told us of mail last year what 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:42.040 the standard was. Pay close attention the way we operating 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:44.159 the Department of Justice. If we're going to accuse somebody 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:48.720 of wrongdoing, we have to have admissible evidence and credible witnesses. 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:50.639 We need to prepare to prove our case in court, 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:54.320 and we have to fix our signature to the charging document. 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:56.720 That's something that not everybody appreciates. Let's go back to 0:20:56.760 --> 0:21:02.520 the beginning. You need to have real evidence. Play that 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:04.560 again the way we operate in the Department of Justice. 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:07.600 If we're going to accuse somebody of wrongdoing, we have 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:10.680 to have admissible evidence and credible witnesses. We need to 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:13.159 prepare to prove our case in court, and we have 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:20.800 to fix our signet out there. Credible evidence, admissible evidence, admissible. Okay, 0:21:21.040 --> 0:21:25.600 none of this is verified. The whole thing was a sham. 0:21:25.680 --> 0:21:27.679 If that's not abusive power, I don't know what is. 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:32.639 And we're gonna we're creal law enforcement officials listen to 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:36.360 this charging document. That's something that not everybody appreciates. There's 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:39.320 a lot of talk about FISA applications, and many people 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:43.040 that I see talking about it seem not to recognize 0:21:43.680 --> 0:21:47.320 what a FIES application. FIES application is actually a warrant, 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:49.800 just like a search warrant. In order to get a 0:21:49.880 --> 0:21:53.960 FISA search warrant, you need an affidavit signed by a 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:58.200 career federal law enforcement officer who swears that the information 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:00.240 in the affidavit is true and correct to the best 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:02.840 of his knowledge and belief. And that's the way we 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:05.560 operate and if it's wrong. Sometimes it is. If you 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:08.480 find out there's anything incorrect in there, that person is 0:22:08.520 --> 0:22:13.480 going to face consequences. There was that no time, ever, 0:22:14.840 --> 0:22:22.600 any ability to verify the bulk of that application. It's unverifiable. Bull. 0:22:23.760 --> 0:22:27.360 That's why I think we're hearing from Horowitz and Durham. 0:22:27.880 --> 0:22:30.119 They're like, Okay, I don't know why you're getting this. 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:32.200 You're trying to give them the benefit of the doubt. Fine, 0:22:32.359 --> 0:22:36.040 but you know, with all due respect, they failed to 0:22:36.080 --> 0:22:42.200 meet the basic obligation to ensure applications were scrupulously accurate. 0:22:42.880 --> 0:22:45.560 It was never that. There was no possibility any of 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:50.680 it was accurate. It's unverifiable, and they used it four 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:54.199 times a full year of spying. Then they launched an 0:22:54.200 --> 0:22:59.800 investigation into a presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions, 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:03.440 as Bill Barr says, and he says, in my view, 0:23:03.560 --> 0:23:07.800 insufficient to justify these steps taken. And then you go 0:23:07.840 --> 0:23:12.000 to Durham, and Durrham's the one that's doing the criminal investigation, 0:23:12.760 --> 0:23:14.639 and he was about as clear as he could be. 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:18.320 You sure, I respect Harwitz. Our investigation, though, is not 0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:23.480 limited to developing information from within component parts of the 0:23:23.560 --> 0:23:27.719 Justice Department. Oh, other people that have information, we can 0:23:27.760 --> 0:23:33.639 go talk to them. Our investigation has included developing information 0:23:33.760 --> 0:23:37.560 from other persons and entities, both in the US and 0:23:37.680 --> 0:23:41.640 outside the US, based on the evidence collected a date, 0:23:42.119 --> 0:23:46.399 and while our investigation is ongoing, we do not agree 0:23:46.440 --> 0:23:51.240 with some of the report's conclusions as to prediction of 0:23:51.280 --> 0:23:56.080 how the FBI case was opened. Remember Harrowitz found that 0:23:56.200 --> 0:24:01.920 dossier provided probable costs to spy on Carter Page. Well, yeah, 0:24:01.960 --> 0:24:04.919 but they had to alter information about Carter Page to 0:24:04.920 --> 0:24:08.760 get there, which I'll get to omitted information the FBI 0:24:08.800 --> 0:24:13.560 obtained from another US government agency detailing its prior relationship 0:24:13.640 --> 0:24:18.000 with Page, including Page had been approved as an operational 0:24:18.080 --> 0:24:22.720 contact for the other agency three letter agency from two 0:24:22.760 --> 0:24:26.119 thousand and eight to thirteen. The Page had provided information 0:24:26.160 --> 0:24:30.680 to other agency concerning his prior contacts with certain Russian 0:24:30.720 --> 0:24:35.320 intelligence officials and officers, one of which overlap with facts 0:24:35.359 --> 0:24:40.399 asserted in the visa application. Now we also have a 0:24:40.840 --> 0:24:44.879 included in this whole thing, a source characterization statement about 0:24:45.040 --> 0:24:48.720 Steel's prior reporting had been quote corroborated and used in 0:24:48.760 --> 0:24:52.439 criminal proceedings. That is a lie. That's not true. And 0:24:52.480 --> 0:24:55.080 I've talked to high ranking people all day that know 0:24:55.280 --> 0:25:00.320 within the Justice Department, overstating the significance of Steel's asked 0:25:00.320 --> 0:25:04.800 reporting and was not approved by Steele's handling agent as 0:25:04.920 --> 0:25:11.080 required by WOODS procedures. Three. They omitted information relevant to 0:25:11.119 --> 0:25:16.639 the reliability of person A key Steel's subsource and this 0:25:16.680 --> 0:25:19.679 is the one source. He only had one source. Steel 0:25:19.760 --> 0:25:23.440 himself told members of the Crossfire Hurricane team that one 0:25:23.520 --> 0:25:27.040 person who was at a big ego and was a 0:25:27.080 --> 0:25:30.720 boaster gave him the information may engage in some embellishment. 0:25:30.920 --> 0:25:34.560 Steele even told them that one source by somebody that 0:25:34.600 --> 0:25:38.000 lies basically and if you look at the report nine 0:25:39.280 --> 0:25:41.520 you know, and some if you look at who the 0:25:41.560 --> 0:25:46.119 attribute attribution here with provided information in the report and 0:25:46.160 --> 0:25:50.399 some information and other reports relied on the application. Steal 0:25:50.480 --> 0:25:54.240 himself told members of the the whole team, it's only 0:25:54.240 --> 0:25:56.720 one guy. He's basically telling them, I have no idea. 0:25:56.760 --> 0:26:01.439 If it's true, then that would be premeditated aud and 0:26:01.520 --> 0:26:05.119 that the FBI assessed Steal did not directly provide to 0:26:05.160 --> 0:26:08.720 the press the information for that Yahoo. Michael Iszikov article 0:26:08.760 --> 0:26:10.879 based on the premise that Steele had told the FBI 0:26:11.320 --> 0:26:15.159 he only shared his election related research with FBI and 0:26:16.080 --> 0:26:20.840 Fusion GPS as client. The premise was incorrect and contradicted 0:26:20.840 --> 0:26:23.480 by documentation in the Woods file. Steel had told the 0:26:23.520 --> 0:26:27.480 FBI he also gave information to the State Department. They 0:26:27.480 --> 0:26:34.720 omitted Papadopoulos's statements monitored to an FBI gets informant, denying 0:26:34.760 --> 0:26:38.920 that anyone associated with the Trump campaign ever corroborated with 0:26:39.080 --> 0:26:42.760 Russia or outside groups like Wiki Leaks, Oopsie Daisy that 0:26:42.760 --> 0:26:47.560 would be important. They omitted pages statements that he had 0:26:47.600 --> 0:26:51.600 literally never met or said one word to Manaport, and 0:26:51.720 --> 0:26:56.040 Manaport had not represented to any of pages, emails and 0:26:56.119 --> 0:27:01.480 by the way, number seven pages consentually monitored statements, etc. 0:27:01.880 --> 0:27:05.720 They omitted other statements paid maids that we're inconsistent with 0:27:05.880 --> 0:27:10.320 that theory, including denying Evan met with certain individuals if true. 0:27:10.320 --> 0:27:13.760 Those statements contradicted the claims in the report that Paige 0:27:13.800 --> 0:27:17.520