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>> THANK YOU. >> THANKS TO YOU AT HOME FOR
JOINING US THIS HOUR. >>> SO THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY.
IT STARTED LAST NIGHT. ROUTERS REPORTER WAS AN
EXCELLENT INVESTIGATOR. FIRST TO REPORT THAT ROBERT
MUELLER SPECIAL COUNSEL INVESTIGATION HAS TAKEN OVER THE
FBI'S WORK RELATED TO THE SO-CALLED DOSSIER.
THE DOSSIER ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HIS CONNECTIONS TO
RUSSIA. THAT'S THE DOSSIER PRODUCED
DURING THE ELECTION BY FORMER BRITISH INTELLIGENCE OPERATIVE
NAMED CHRISTOPHER STEEL WORKING ON A CONTRACT WITH THE D.C.
RESEARCH FIRM CALLED FUSION GPS. EARLIER THIS WEEK, THREE RUSSIAN
GUYS ASSOCIATED WITH THE GIANT PUTIN LINKED RUSSIAN BANK CALLED
ALPHA BANK, THREE RUSSIANS SUED FUSION GPS OVER THE WAY THEY
WERE DESCRIBED IN THE DOSSIER. SORT OF CRIMINAL AND POLITICAL
ALLEGATIONS MADE AGAINST THEM IN THE DOCUMENT.
THE THREE RUSSIANS OUT SAME GUYS THAT PREVIOUSLY SUED BUZZ FEED.
BUZZ FEED WAS THE FIRST MEDIA ORGANIZATION TO PUBLISH THE
DOSSIER IN JANUARY. THEY SUED BUZZ FEED BEFORE AND
NOW THIS WEEK SUING FUSION GPS, THE COMPANY THAT PAID FOR THE
DOSSIER AND SUING FUSION FOR ALLEGEDLY NOT TAKING SUFFICIENT
CASE WITH THAT DOCUMENT IN THE FIRST PLACE WHICH ULTIMATELY LED
TO BUZZ FEED PUBLISHING. SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S A HIGH BAR TO
PROVE LIABLE IN THIS COUNTRY. AND SERIOUS LITIGANTS DON'T
PURSUE LIABLE LAWSUITS IN THIS COUNTRY ALL THAT OFTEN, IN PART,
BECAUSE YOU'RE OPENING YOURSELF UP TO YOUR LIABLE LAWSUIT
BECOMING A VEHICLE TO INVESTIGATE WHETHER OR NOT ANY
OF THE CHARGES MADE AGAINST YOU MIGHT HAVE A KERNEL OF TRUTH TO
THEM. THE WAY THAT LIABLE IS LITIGATED
IN THIS COUNTRY, IT CAN BE A DANGEROUS LEGAL STATUS IF YOU
HAVE ANYTHING. IT DOESN'T MEAN THERE IS NEVER A
SUCCESSFUL LIABLE SUIT BUT THEY CAN BE MEANS OF OPENING UP
CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS AND PUTTING A SPOTLIGHT ON PEOPLE THAT WANT
TO SUE THAT LAWSUIT MAY BE AN INTERESTING SOURCE OF
INFORMATION ABOUT THE ALLEGATIONS IN THE TRUMP DOSSIER
AS TIME GOES ON. THAT LAWSUIT FILED THIS WEEK
COULD END UP BEING IMPORTANT DOWN THE ROAD.
STICK A PIN IN THAT. WE TALKED ABOUT THE LAWSUIT.
THE DOSSIER IS OBVIOUSLY ALREADY RADICALLY.
IN PART BECAUSE IT CONCLUDES TABLOID ABOUT TRUMP'S BEHAVIOR
WHEN HE WAS JUST A BUSINESSMAN OPERATING IN MORE IMPORTANTLY
IT'S CONTROVERSIAL DOCUMENT DOES OVERALL THE OVERALL POINT OF THE
DOSSIER IS THAT IT DESCRIBES A WELL DEVELOPED CONSPIRACY
BETWEEN TRUMP WORLD AND RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES WERE
TAKING ALL SORTS OF DIFFERENT ACTIONS TO TRY TO BENEFIT
ELECTION. THE DOSSIER OVERALL REGARDLESS
OF ANY OF ITS INDIVIDUAL CLAIMS, THE OVERALL ARGUMENT IS THAT
THERE WAS COLLUSION. THERE WAS A CONSPIRACY OF
COOPERATION BETWEEN TRUMP WORLD AND THE RUSSIAN LEADERSHIP WHILE
THE RUSSIAN LEADERSHIP WAS DIRECTING THE CAMPAIGN TO HAVE
RUSSIA INFLUENCE OUR ELECTION. AND IN TERMS OF THE SPECIFIC
CLAIMS OF THE DOSSIER, SOLE OF THEM ARE CONTESTED BY THE PEOPLE
WHO ARE NAMED IN THE DOSSIER INCLUDING BY THREE RUSSIANS OVER
ITS PUBLICATION. THE DOSSIER CONTAINLY DISMISSED
AND BY THE WHITE HOUSE AS A
COMPLETE, JUDICIARY TRUMP CAMPAIGN IN RUSSIA.
SENATOR HAD ENOUGH OF THE DOSSIER.
HE ENGAGED IN A MONTH'S LONG CRUSADE ITSELF AS THE RUSSIA
SCANDAL. HE'S TRIED TO IMPUGN ANYTHING
THAT HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH CREATING THAT DOSSIER OR ANYBODY
WHOSE EVER SITED IT OR ANYBODY WHOSE EVER USED IT AS A BASIS OF
INVESTIGATION. MAKE THE DOSSIER FROM THE PERSON
STUFF HASN'T BEEN PROVEN. THERE ARE PARTS OF THE DOSSIER
THAT REALLY HAVE BEEN PROVEN OUT, DOSSIERS RUSSIAN ATTACK
EXCEPT THE DOSSIER WAS RIGHT ABOUT IT MONTHS BEFORE.
FOR EXAMPLE, BEFORE THERE WAS ANY PUBLIC REPORTING BEHIND
RUSSIA BEING THE ENTITY AND HACKING AND STEALING OF
DOCUMENTS THAT DESCRIBES HACKING OPERATIONS AND THOSE THEFTS.
THE STEEL DOSSIER HAD THAT BEFORE THERE WAS ANY PUBLIC
SOURCE REPORTING ON IT. BEFORE REPORTING FROM "THE NEW
YORK TIMES" IN A VERY BELATED ADMISSION FROM THE TRUMP
ORGANIZATION PROVED THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IN FACT PURSUED
A TRUMP TOWER MOSCOW PROJECT DURING THE CAMPAIGN MONTHS
BEFORE THAT EVER BECAME PUBLICLY KNOWN, IT WAS IN THE DOSSIER.
CHRISTOPHER STEEL IN THE DOSSIER DESCRIBED TRUMP EXPLORING THE
REAL ESTATE SECTOR IN RUSSIA INCLUDING MOSCOW.
BEFORE ANYBODY HAD ANY PROOF THAT RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT SOURCES
DIRECTLY OFFERED DEROGATORY INFORMATION ABOUT HILLARY
CLINTON TO THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN FIRST TO REPORT ABOUT THE
MEETING AT TRUMP TOWER WERE THE TOP OFFICIALS FROM THE TRUMP
CAMPAIGN SHOWED UP IN PERSON FOR A MEETING BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN
PROMISED RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT INFORMATION THAT WOULD MAKE
HILLARY CLINTON LOOK TERRIBLE. MONTHS BEFORE WE LEARNED ABOUT
THAT TRUMP TOWER MEETING WHERE THEY SHOWED UP TO GET THE
HILLARY CLINTON DIRT, MONTHS BEFORE THAT, CHRISTOPHER STEEL
CONSPIRACY WITH THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN.
PROVIDING THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN WITH DEROGATORY INFORMATION.
SO A LOT OF THIS HE HAD DONE TO RIGHTS.
A LOT OF THIS THAT SEEMED NUTS WHEN WE READ THIS PUBLISHED IN
JANUARY SINCE THEN HAS BEEN REPORTED OUT AND PROVEN.
SO THE CHRISTOPHER STEEL DOSSIER WAS PRODUCED BY THIS BRITISH
INTELLIGENCE AGENT BY THE CAMPAIGN.
IT WAS FIRST PUBLISHED OPENLY IN JANUARY BY BUZZ FEED.
IT HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF INCREDIBLE SCANDAL AND EFFORTS
BUT PARTS OF IT IS REPORTING THAT ROBERT MUELLER'S INQUIRY
HAS TAKEN OVER THE WORK HAPPENING AT THE FBI TO TRY TO
CORROBORATE THE DOSSIER AND FOLLOW UP THE CLAIMS.
THAT WAS FIRST. THAT WAS LAST NIGHT TONIGHT,
CONIF I RECALLED. BOB MULLER'S TEAM HAS
INTERVIEWED THE FORMER BRITISH INTELLIGENCE OFFICER THAT WROTE
THE DOSSIER. CHRISTOPHER STEEL.
COUNSEL AND MULLER'S INVESTIGATORS MET WITH BRITISH
SPY WHOSE DOSSIER AND ALLEGED RUSSIAN EFFORTS TO AID THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION. LAST YEAR TOOK THE STEEL DOSSIER
AND PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGED AND SOUNDS LOOK AT THIS, QUOTE, THE
INTELLIGENCE THE CIA AND STEEL'S RESEARCH SERIOUSLY ENOUGH THEY
KEPT IT OUT IN JANUARY ON RUSSIAN MEDDLING IN THE ELECTION
IN ORDER TO NOT SAY DIVULGE WHICH PARTS OFRT DOSSIER THEY
HAD. THIS IS SPECIFIC AND
INTERESTING. RIGHT?
YOU PUT THIS TOGETHER WITH MARK'S REPORT AND WHAT WE GOT IS
ROBERT MUELLER TRACKING DOWN ALLEGATIONS MADE IN THE DOSSIER.
MOORE'S TEAM MEETING WITH CHRISTOPHER STEEL AND THIS
REPORT THAT THE FBI AND CIA TOOK CARE AFTER INTERNAL DEBATES,
TOOK CARE TO NOT EXPLICITLY DISCUSS THE DOSSIER.
TO NOT EXPLICITLY INCLUDE MENTION OF THE DOSSIER WHEN THEY
REPORTED ON RUSSIAN MEDDLING IN THE ELECTION AND THE REASON THEY
DIDN'T INCLUDE THE DOSSIER IN THOSE REPORTS IS SPECIFICALLY
BECAUSE THEY HAD CORROBORATED SOME OF THE CLAIMS IN THE
DOSSIER AND IF THEY WERE GOING TO PUT THE CLAIMS AND IF THEY
WERE GOING TO MENTION THE DOSSIER IN THEIR REPORTING, THEY
WOULD ULTIMATELY HAVE TO EXPLAIN HOW THEY CORROBORATED IT, HOW
THEY FIGURED OUT THAT WHAT CHRISTOPHER STEEL SAID IN THAT
DOSSIER WAS CORRECT. HOWEVER, THEY DID THAT, HOWEVER
THEY CORROBORATED WHAT THEY CORROBORATED WAS TOO SENSITIVE
TO TELL, SAY, DONALD TRUMP. SO THEY DIDN'T WRITE IT DOWN.
THEY BRIEFED OUT GOING PRESIDENT OBAMA AND INCOMING PRESIDENT
ELECT TRUMP IN PERSON DIRECTLY ABOUT THE FACT THAT THIS DOSSIER
EXISTED. BUT EVEN THOUGH THE DOSSIER
APPARENTLY IS PART OF HOW THEY CAME TO UNDERSTAND THE RUSSIAN
MEDDLING IN THE ELECTION, WHEN IT CAME TIME TO PRODUCE THEIR
REPORT ABOUT THE RUSSIANS MEDDLING IN THE ELECTION, THEY
DIDN'T INCLUDE THE DOSSIER IN THAT BECAUSE ANY CLASSIFIED
VERSION OF THAT REPORT WOULD HAVE TO INCLUDE HOW THEY KNEW
THE DOSSIER WAS TRUE. QUOTE, IN THE WEEKS BEFORE THE
U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY PUBLISHED A JANUARY REPORT
DETAILING RUSSIAN MEDDLING EFFORTS IN THE 2016 ELECTION,
TOP OFFICIALS AT THE FBI, CIA AND DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL
INTELLIGENCE OFFICE DISCUSSED INCLUDING PARTS IN THE OFFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE DOCUMENT. INTELLIGENCE HAD QUOTE CONCERNS
ABOUT THAT. QUOTE, IF THAT REPORT INCLUDED
THE DOSSIER ALLEGATIONS, THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY WOULD
HAVE TO SAY WHICH AGENCY CORROBORATED AND HOW.
THAT WOULD COMPROMISE SOURCES AND METHODS INCLUDING
INFORMATION SHARED BY FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES.
SO THERE IS IS THIS DOSSIER SAYING THAT THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN
AND THE RUSSIANS WERE IN CAHOOTS INVOLVED IN A CONSPIRACY OF
OPERATION TO HELP PUT TRUMP PUT A FOREIGN THUMB ON THE SCALE TO
GET TRUMP IN OFFICE. YOU GOT TO BRIEF TRUMP ON HOW
YOU FOUND OUT WHAT PARTS OF THAT WERE TRUE?
WHO MIGHT HE TELL ONCE YOU TOLD HIM?
OKAY. SO IN THE END, THEY DIDN'T PUT
WHAT THEY HAD LEARNED FROM THE DOSSIER IN THEIR UNCLASSIFIED OR

METHODOLOGY THEY USED TO PROVE IT.
ALL RIGHT. THEY WERE TRYING TO PROTECT THE
FACT THE DOSSIER HAD PROVEN OUT WHEN THEY CHECKED IT OUT, BUT
PARTS OF IT AT LEAST PROVED OUT WHEN THEY CHECKED IT OUT AND SO
NOW BOB MULLER IS IN CHARGE OF CHECKING OUT ANYMORE AND
ACCORDING FIRST TO CNN AND NOW CONFIRMED BY NBC, BOB MULLER AND
INVESTIGATORS MET AS PART OF THE SOCIAL COUNSEL INVESTIGATION.
SO LAST NIGHT CNN TONIGHT AND NBC CONFIRMING AND NOW WE RIGHT
HERE CAN ADD TO THE REPORTING ON THIS SUBJECT, AS WELL.
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, RICHARD BURR AND MARK WARNER, TOP ON THE
INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE GAVE WHAT THEY DESCRIBED AS AN UPDATE ON
THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE ELECTION AND THE QUESTION OF
WHETHER OR NOT THERE WAS TRUMP CAMPAIGN COLLUSION.
THE SENATOR SAID THEY HAD BEEN ABLE TO THOROUGHLY CHECK OUT THE
CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING DONALD TRUMP'S BIG PRORUSSIA FOREIGN
POLICY SPEECH AT THE MAY FLOWER HOTEL LAST YEAR.
THEY SAID THEY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO THOROUGHLY CHECK OUT THE
CIRCUMSTANCES THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN INSISTED ON CHANGING CHECKING
OUT THE CHRISTOPHER STEEL DOSSIER.
THEY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FOLLOW BUT WE HIT A BRICK WALL THERE.
>> AS IT RELATES TO THE STEEL DOSSIER, UNFORTUNATELY THE
COMMITTEE HIT A WALL. WE HAVE ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS
MADE ATTEMPTS TO CONTACT MR. STEEL TO MEET WITH MR. STEEL TO
INCLUDE PERSONALLY THE VICE CHAIRMAN AND MYSELF AS TWO
INDIVIDUALS MAKING THAT CONNECTION.
THOSE OFFERS THAT HAVE GONE
UNACCEPTED. THE COMMITTEE REALLY DECIDES THE
CREDIBILITY OF THE DOSSIER AND UNDERSTANDING THINGS LIKE WHO
PAID FOR IT? WHO ARE YOUR SOURCES AND
SUBSOURCES? WE'RE INVESTIGATING A VERY
EXPANSIVE RUSSIAN NETWORK OF INTERFERENCE IN U.S. ELECTIONS.
AND THOUGH WE HAVE BEEN INCREDIBLY ENLIGHTENED AT OUR
ABILITY TO REBUILD BACKWARDS, THE STEEL DOSSIER UP TO A
CERTAIN DATE GETTING PAST THAT POINT IS SOMEWHAT IMPOSSIBLE.
AND I SAY THIS BECAUSE I DON'T THINK WE'RE GOING TO FIND THE
INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTS THAT UNLOCK THAT KEY TO PRE JUNE OF
2016. MY HOPE IS MR. STEEL WILL MAKE A
DECISION TO MEET WITH EITHER MARK AND I OR THE COMMITTEE OR
BOTH SO THAT WE CAN HEAR HIS SIDE OF IT VERSUS FOR US TO
DEPICT IN OUR FINDINGS WHAT HIS INTENT OR WHAT HIS ACTIONS WERE.
AND I SAY THAT TO YOU BUT I ALSO SAY IT TO CHRIS STEEL.
>> SO THAT'S THE CHAIRMAN OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE YESTERDAY
SAYING THERE IS A BRICK WALL HERE EXPLAINING TO THE PRESS
WHAT IS GOING ON ABOUT THEM NOT BEING ABLE TO TALK TO
CHRISTOPHER STEEL ABOUT THIS DOSSIER BUT SAYING I'M SAYING
THIS TO YOU AS THE PRESS, I'LL SAYING IT TO YOU, TOO,
CHRISTOPHER STEEL. IT'S INTERESTING IN CONNECTICUT
TEXT IN TERMS OF WHAT IS HAPPENING IN WASHINGTON WITH
INVESTIGATING THE SCANDAL. YOU HAVE THE REPUBLICAN OF THE
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE TRYING TO SAY THAT THE DOSSIER ITSELF IS A
SCANDAL AND INHERENTLY DUBIOUS OR FAKE SOMEHOW MAYBE IS
DEFINITELY IMPLYING AND SOMETIMES FLAT OUT ALLEGING
ANYBODY ASSOCIATED WITH IT IS SOMEHOW IN TROUBLE AND SHOULD
HAVE TO ANSWER FOR ACTIONS. IN THE OTHER SENATE COMMITTEE

REPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN THERE DOESN'T DESCRIBE THE DOSSIER AS
A SCANDAL BUT BASICALLY DESCRIBING IT AS A MYSTERY HERE.
WE'LL NEVER GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS.
THE CREDIBILITY OF THE DOSSIER WILL NEVER BE ESTABLISHED
BECAUSE WE CAN'T SPEAK TO THE AUTHOR.
IT'S ALL UNKNOWN AND WILL REMAIN UNKNOWN.
WE'LL NEVER UNDERSTAND WHETHER ANY OF THIS IS REAL BECAUSE WE
CAN'T INVESTIGATE IT. THAT CLAIM FALLS SHORT ON TWO
FRONTS. CHRISTOPHER STEEL ISEEL IS REPO
TALKING TO THE MULLER INVESTIGATORS.
IF THERE ARE QUESTIONS TO ASK CHRISTOPHER STEEL ABOUT THE
DOSSIER, HE'S TALKING TO AMERICAN INVESTIGATORS ABOUT IT
AND SPECIAL COUNSEL'S OFFICE THE OTHER WAY THE FELL SHORT IS THE
WAY WE REPORT. CHRISTOPHER STEEL RELATES THERE
IS NO BRICK WALL THAT SENATE INVESTIGATOR HAVES RUN UP
AGAINST TRYING TO INVESTIGATE THE DOSSIER OR SPEAK WITH
CHRISTOPHER STEEL. ASSOCIATE OF STEEL TELLS US IN
FACT, VERY RECENTLY IN LATE SEPTEMBER CHRISTOPHER STEEL IN
LONDON RELAID TO WASHINGTON THROUGH THIS ASSOCIATE THAT MR.
STEEL IN FACT WOULD BE HAPPY TO MEET WITH SENATOR RICHARD BURR
AND SENATOR MARK WARNER. APPARENTLY SENATORS BURR AND
WARNER HAD REQUESTED AS THEY SAID IN THE BRIEFING YESTERDAY
REQUESTED TO MEET WITH CHRISTOPHER STEEL THE ANSWER
FROM CHRISTOPHER STEEL THROUGH THIS ASSOCIATE WAS YES, YES, I
WILL MEET WITH YOU. THE NEXT STEP AS THEY UNDERSTOOD
IT WAS A DATE. THE ASSOCIATE WHO RERELAID THIS
OFFER TO ME, CHRISTOPHER STEEL WAS SURPRISED TO HEAR SENATOR
BURR SAY FULL AVENUES OF COMMUNICATION HAD BEEN CUT OFF
WITH CHRISTOPHER STEEL AND A BRICK WALL HAD BEEN HIT AND
THERE WAS NO WAY TO GET HIM TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS.
SO WE REACHED OUT TO THE SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE, TO THE
CHAIRMAN AND VICE PRESIDENT TONIGHT AND THEY DID GIVE US A
STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO THE REPORTING FROM US.
THEY GAVE US AN INTERESTING STATEMENT THAT DOESN'T REFUTE
WHAT OUR SOURCE TOLD US BUT LET ME READ YOU WHAT THEY SAID,
QUOTE, THE COMMITTEE MADE MULTIPLE REQUESTS TO MEET WITH
MR. STEEL OVER THE LAST NINE MONTHS INCLUDING OUT REACH TO
HIS ATTORNEYS OPEN TO ANY CREDIBLE OFFER TO MEET WITH MR.
STEEL WHETHER IN WASHINGTON OR IN LONDON.
AND WHAT WE'RE HEARING FROM THE STEEL SIDE OF THE EQUATION IS
THAT MR. STEEL IS HAPPY TO MEET WITH SENATORS BURR AND WARNER.
PICKING A DATE. SO THERE MAY BE A CONTINUING
POLITICAL INTEREST IN WASHINGTON IN TRYING TO MAKE THE
CHRISTOPHER STEEL DOSSIER SEEM LIKE A SCANDAL OR SEEM LIKE AN
UNPLUMBLE DEPTH THAT WE'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND AND NOBODY
WILL EVER BE ABLE TO INVESTIGATE.
WE'LL NEVER KNOW IF ANY OF IT IS TRUE.
I GET THE POLITICAL DRIVE TO COME TO ONE OF THOSE TWO
CONCLUSIONS OR MAYBE BOTH. BUT IN REALITY, BASED MOSTLY ON
OPEN SOURCE REPORTING FROM THE AMERICAN MEDIA IN REALITY, A, A
BUNCH OF THE DOSSIER HAS PROVEN TO BE TRUE.
B, THE FBI AND CIA HAVE REPORTEDLY VALIDATED PARTS OF IT
AS TRUE AND HAVE APPARENTLY USED IT AS THE BASIS OF SOME OF THEIR
ON GOING INVESTIGATION, C, THE SPECIAL COUNSEL ROBERT MUELLER
IS INVESTIGATING THE DOSSIER INCLUDING INTERVIEWING
CHRISTOPHER STEEL ABOUT IT. AND D, SENATE INVESTIGATORS
APPARENTLY CAN MEET WITH CHRISTOPHER STEEL IF THEY WANT
TO. EVEN IF THE REPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN
OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE YESTERDAY SAID OTHERWISE.
SO REPUBLICANS ARE OBVIOUSLY UNDER A LOT OF PRESSURE TO WRAP
THIS THING UP. TRUMP CAMPAIGN MANAGER STEVE
BANNON LEFT THE WHITE HOUSE BUT FROM HIS NEW POSITION AS A
PERSON WHO GETSS INTERVIEWED ABOUT THE WHITE HOUSE, WHICH IS
ITSELF FUNNY, STEVE BANNON MADE CLEAR THE ONLY PROBLEM RELATED
TO RUSSIA AND THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IS THAT REPUBLICANS IN
WASHINGTON HAVEN'T YET BLOCKED THE INVESTIGATION INTO WHAT
RUSSIA DID. >> IT'S MITCH MCCONNELL AND PAUL
RYAN HAVE ALLOWED THREE -- THERE IS THREE INVESTIGATIVE
COMMITTEES ON CAPITOL HILL. THEY HAVE FULL SUBPOENA POWER.
THEY ARE GOING AFTER PRESIDENT TRUMP --
>> YEAH. >> THEY ARE GOING AFTER HIM
EVERY DAY. >> THE PROBLEM WITH TRYING TO
STOP THESE INVESTIGATIONS INTO WHAT HAPPENED WITH RUSSIA AND
THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN IS THAT WE KEEP FINDING NEW STUFF THAT
MAKES THE INVESTIGATION SEEM WARRANTED AND WORTHWHILE.
RIGHT? SOME OF THAT IS COMING WITHIN
THE INVESTIGATIVE PROCESS BUT A LOT OF IT IS COMING FROM THE
MEDIA WHERE HARD CORE INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING AND FREE
PRESS IS TURNING UP EVIDENCE TO SAY THESE INVESTIGATIONS SHOULD
BE TURNED OFF. THE PRESIDENT'S RESPONSE TO EVEN
THIS LATEST NEWS FROM THE SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE IS THAT
THE THING, THE SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE OUGHT TO
BE INVESTIGATING IS THE NEWS MEDIA IN THIS COUNTRY.
THAT TELLS YOU A LOT ABOUT THE ATTITUDES OF THIS ADMINISTRATION
TOWARDS ANYTHING IT PERCEIVES AS A THREAT BUT TELLS YOU
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT HOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE SCANDAL
WILL CONTINUE TO PROGRESS. BECAUSE THE INVESTIGATIONS ARE
NOT STOPPING AND THE REACH IN THE INVESTIGATIONS ARE NOT
STOPPING BECAUSE REPORTERS WILL NOT STOP
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