THE NEWS GODS DO NOT BELIEVE IN CASUAL FRIDAYS.
CASUAL FRIDAYS. THERE IS A LOT GOING ON.
THERE IS A LOT GOING ON. THE NEWS IS A LITTLE TOPSY
THE NEWS IS A LITTLE TOPSY TURVY.
TURVY.
I WANT TO START TONIGHT WITH
SOME DRAMATIC AND HEADLINE
GRABBING TESTIMONY FROM JAMES COMEY.NG TESTIMONY FROM JAMES
COMEY.
NOT THE JAW DROPPING CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY HE GAVE
CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY HE GAVE IN THE SUMMER OF 2017 AFTER HE
IN THE SUMMER OF 2017 AFTER HE WAS FIRED AS FBI DIRECTOR BY
WAS FIRED AS FBI DIRECTOR BY PRESIDENT TRUMP.
PRESIDENT TRUMP.
THATS WHEN HE DETAILED DISTURBING MAFIA-LIKED
DISTURBING MAFIA-LIKE CONVERSATIONS WITH THE
CONVERSATIONS WITH THE PRESIDENT.
PRESIDENT.
THATS WHEN HE TOLD CONGRESS
LORDY, I HOPE THERE WERE TAPES.
ALSO NOT HIS TESTIMONY A FEW
MONTHS EARLIER WHILE HE WAS
STILL FBI DIRECTOR AND HE
ANNOUNCED PUBLICLY FOR THE FIRST
TIME THAT THE FBI WAS INVESTIGATING ANY POTENTIAL
INVESTIGATING ANY POTENTIAL COORDINATION WHICH IN THE TRUMP
COORDINATION WHICH IN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND THE RUSSIAN
CAMPAIGN AND THE RUSSIAN OPERATIVE WHO ATTACKED THE 2016
OPERATIVE WHO ATTACKED THE 2016 ELECTION AS PART OF THE FBIS
ELECTION AS PART OF THE FBIS
COUNTER INTELLIGENCE
AUTHORITIES.
THIS IS DIFFERENT.
SUPER DRAMATIC JAMES COMEY TESTIMONY.ATIC JAMES COMEY
TESTIMONY.
THIS IS TESTIMONY HE GAVE A FULL DECADE BEFORE ALL OF THAT.A FULL
DECADE BEFORE ALL OF THAT. TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF HOW LONG
TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF HOW LONG AGO THAT WAS, WHEN JAMES COMEY
AGO THAT WAS, WHEN JAMES COMEY
GAVE HIS TESTIMONY IN MAY OF
2007, THIS IS WHEN GEORGE W. BUSH WAS PRESIDENT.GEORGE W.
BUSH WAS PRESIDENT. THIS WAS WHEN BARACK OBAMA WAS A
THIS WAS WHEN BARACK OBAMA WAS A
FIRST TERM SENATOR. THIS WAS WHEN RUDY GIULIANI WAS
THIS WAS WHEN RUDY GIULIANI WAS THE LEADING REPUBLICAN
THE LEADING REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER.
PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER. WHAT?
WHAT?
BUT JAMES COMEY TOLD THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE A STORY THAT
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE A STORY THAT WAS ABSOLUTELY RIVETING AND IT
WAS ABSOLUTELY RIVETING AND IT WAS ABOUT A CONFRONTATION HE HAD
WAS ABOUT A CONFRONTATION HE HAD
HAD WITH THE GEORGE W. BUSH WHITE HOUSE WHEN HE WAS WORKING
WHITE HOUSE WHEN HE WAS WORKING IN THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AS
IN THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AS
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL.
HE WAS IN FACT ACTING ATTORNEY
GENERAL BECAUSE THE CURRENT
ATTORNEY GENERAL AT THE TIME JOHN ASHCROFT WAS IN THETIME
JOHN ASHCROFT WAS IN THE HOSPITAL.
HOSPITAL.
THE STORY WAS ABOUT HOW HE, JAMES COMEY AND SOME OF HIS
JAMES COMEY AND SOME OF HIS COLLEAGUES INCLUDING ROBERT
COLLEAGUES INCLUDING ROBERT MUELLER WHO WAS THEN THE FBI
MUELLER WHO WAS THEN THE FBI DIRECTOR, THEY INTERCEPTED TOP
DIRECTOR, THEY INTERCEPTED TOP
WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS WHO WERE
TRYING TO GET SOMETHING DONE
AROUND THEM, AROUND THEIR AUTHORITY, BY SHOWING UP AT THE
AUTHORITY, BY SHOWING UP AT THE HOSPITAL BED OF THE SERIOUSLY
HOSPITAL BED OF THE SERIOUSLY
ILL ATTORNEY GENERAL.
>> SOUNDING LIKE A MOVIE PLOT.
IT HAPPENED THREE YEARS AGO IN THIS WASHINGTON, D.C. HOSPITAL.
THIS WASHINGTON, D.C. HOSPITAL. LYING IN BED THERE, THE ATTORNEY
LYING IN BED THERE, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, JOHN ASHCROFT.
GENERAL, JOHN ASHCROFT. THEY WANTED HIM TO APPROVE AN
THEY WANTED HIM TO APPROVE AN EXTENSION OF THE SECRET NSA
EXTENSION OF THE SECRET NSA WARRANTLESS EAVESDROPPING
WARRANTLESS EAVESDROPPING PROGRAM OVER STRONG JUSTICE
PROGRAM OVER STRONG JUSTICE DEPARTMENT OBJECTIONS EVEN
DEPARTMENT OBJECTIONS EVEN
THOUGH ASHCROFT WAS SERIOUSLY
ILL.
ALSO THERE, THE NUMBER TWO MAN
OF JUSTICE, JAMES COMEY, ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL. COMEY, ACTING
ATTORNEY GENERAL. HE SAID TODAY THE SCENE STARTED
HE SAID TODAY THE SCENE STARTED A CRISIS THAT NEARLY BROUGHT
A CRISIS THAT NEARLY BROUGHT
MASS RESIGNATIONS FROM THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT.ROM THE
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT.
>> I THOUGHT I JUST WITNESSED AN EFFORT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF A AN
EFFORT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF A VERY SICK MAN.
VERY SICK MAN.
>> HE SAID ASHCROFT RECITED
REASONS WHY IT SHOULD NOT BE
APPROVED.
LATER THAT NIGHT AGITATED CARR
SUMMONSED HIM TO THE WHITE
HOUSE.
>> I RESPONDED THAT AFTER THE
CONDUCT I HAD
WOULD NOT MEET WITH HIM WITHOUT
A WITNESS PRESENT.
>> EVENTUALLY COMEY SAID
PRESIDENT BUSH DIFFUSED THE CRIES DIRECTING CHANGES TO THE
CRIES DIRECTING CHANGES TO THE PROGRAM BASED ON JUSTICE
PROGRAM BASED ON JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT CONCERNS.
SENATOR CHARLES SCHUMER COMMENDED COMEY FOR OPPOSING THE
COMMENDED COMEY FOR OPPOSING THE MAN WHO WOULD BECOME HIS BOSS AS
MAN WHO WOULD BECOME HIS BOSS AS
ATTORNEY GENERAL.
>> THE STORY IS A SHOCKING ONE.
IT MAKES YOU ALMOST GULP.
>> THERE WERE SEVERAL GULP
MOMENTS IN THAT TESTIMONY.
COMEY TESTIFIED, TOLD THE CONGRESS THAT DAY THAT WHEN HE
CONGRESS THAT DAY THAT WHEN HE HEARD WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS WERE
HEARD WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS WERE
HEADING TO THE SICK ATTORNEY GENERALS HOSPITAL ROOM TO TRY
GENERALS HOSPITAL ROOM TO TRY TO GET THE ILL ATTORNEY GENERAL
TO GET THE ILL ATTORNEY GENERAL
TO SIGN OFF ON THIS WARRANTLESS
SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM THAT THE
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT HAD ALREADY
SAID THEY WOULDNT SIGN OFF ON,
COMEY AND FBI DIRECTOR ROBERT
MUELLER BOTH RACED TO THE
HOSPITAL.
ROBERT MUELLER ORDERED FBI
AGENTS AT THE HOSPITAL TO NOT
ALLOW COMEY TO BE REMOVED FROM
THE ATTORNEY GENERALS HOSPITAL ROOM UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.L
ROOM UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. AFTER THAT HOSPITAL ROOM
AFTER THAT HOSPITAL ROOM
CONFRONTATION, PRESIDENT BUSH INITIALLY DECIDED HE WOULD JUST
INITIALLY DECIDED HE WOULD JUST GO AHEAD WITH THIS WARRANTLESS
GO AHEAD WITH THIS WARRANTLESS
SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM WITHOUT
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT APPROVAL.
IT WAS ONLY WHEN COMEY AND
MUELLER AND A WHOLE BUNCH OF
OTHER DOJ SENIOR PEOPLE THREATENED THEY WOULD RESIGN.
THREATENED THEY WOULD RESIGN. THEY ACTUALLY DRAFTED THEIR
THEY ACTUALLY DRAFTED THEIR
RESIGNATION LETTERS THAT BUSH
FINALLY BACKED DOWN AND THE
PROGRAM WAS CHANGED TO ACCOUNT
FOR THE LEGAL OBJECTIONS TO IT
AT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT.
AND THAT STORY ABOUT THE HOSPITAL ROOM KRNTTATIONCONFRONT
HOSPITAL ROOM KRNTTATIONCONFRONT ITS A STORY YOU MAY HAVE HEARD.
ITS A STORY YOU MAY HAVE HEARD.
IT HAS RESURFACED IN RECENT YEARS BECAUSE THE PLAYERS FROM
YEARS BECAUSE THE PLAYERS FROM THAT DRAMA HAVE COME BACK INTO
THAT DRAMA HAVE COME BACK INTO THE PUBLIC EYE.
THE PUBLIC EYE.
JAMES COMEY WENT ON TO SUCCEED
ROBERT MUELLER. AFTER COMEY WAS FIRED ROBERT
AFTER COMEY WAS FIRED ROBERT MUELLER WAS APPOINTED.
MUELLER WAS APPOINTED.
REGARDLESS OF YOUR FEELINGS
ABOUT ROBERT MUELLER, REGARDLESS
OF YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT JAMES
COMEY, I KNOW YOU HAVE A LOT OF
THEM, REGARDLESS OF YOUR
FEELINGS ABOUT THE BUSH ADMINISTRATIONS WARRANTLESS
ADMINISTRATIONS WARRANTLESS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMS AND ALL
SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMS AND ALL THE SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMS THAT
THE SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMS THAT HAVE DISTENDED FROM THEM, I
HAVE DISTENDED FROM THEM, I
THINK THAT THAT HOSPITAL ROOM
CONFRONTATION STORY REMAINS
COMPELLING AND KEEPS GETTING
TOLD OVER AND OVER AGAIN BECAUSE
IT IS THIS CLEAR AND DRAMATIC
STORY OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
STANDING UP AGAINST SOMETHING
THEY VIEWED AS ILLEGAL.
BLOCKING THE WHITE HOUSE AND
WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS FROM DOING SOMETHING THEY BELIEVED WASDOING
SOMETHING THEY BELIEVED WAS ILLEGAL, GOING TO PHYSICALLY
ILLEGAL, GOING TO PHYSICALLY
DRAMATIC EXTREMES IN ORDER TO
STOP THAT THING FROM HAPPENING.
THREATENING TO RESIGN UNLESS THE
WHITE HOUSE DID THE RIGHT THING.
FORCING THE WHITE HOUSE TO DO
THE RIGHT THING BY THEIR
INTEGRITY AND BY THEIR STANDING
UP AND BY THEIR BEING UNAFRAID
OF THE CONSEQUENCES. AND SO ITS ABOUT THE PEOPLE
AND SO ITS ABOUT THE PEOPLE INVOLVED IN IT.
INVOLVED IN IT.
ITS IMPORTANT AS THEY GO ON TO BECOMING INTERESTING AND ON TO
BECOMING INTERESTING AND IMPORTANT CHARACTERS IN AMERICAN
IMPORTANT CHARACTERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
HISTORY.
ITS ALSO SOMETHING THATS IMPORTANT FOR US TO TELL
IMPORTANT FOR US TO TELL OURSELVES AS AMERICANS IN TERMS
OURSELVES AS AMERICANS IN TERMS OF WHAT WE VALUE AND EXPECT AND
OF WHAT WE VALUE AND EXPECT AND
RESPECT WHEN IT COMES TO INTEGRITY AND BRAVERY FROM
INTEGRITY AND BRAVERY FROM PUBLIC OFFICIALS WHO ARE IN
PUBLIC OFFICIALS WHO ARE IN
POWERFUL POSITIONS.
I THINK WE AS AMERICANS JUST
LIKE TO KNOW THAT SOMETIMES
HAPPENS.
AND SO HERES SOMETHING ELSE TO
KNOW ABOUT THAT TIME.
AND ABOUT THAT INCIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY.CIDENT IN
AMERICAN HISTORY. JAMES COMEY AND ROBERT MUELLER
JAMES COMEY AND ROBERT MUELLER
HAVE BEEN SORT OF THE STARS OF
THAT STORY EVERY TIME THAT ITS
BEEN TOLD EVER SINCE.
BUT JAMES COMEY AND ROBERT MUELLER WERE NOT THE POINT OF
MUELLER WERE NOT THE POINT OF THE SPHERE.
THE SPHERE.
THEY WERE NOT THE FIRST PEOPLE
AT THE BUSH JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
TO RAISE THE ALARM ABOUT THAT ILLEGAL WARRANTLESSABOUT THAT
ILLEGAL WARRANTLESS EAVESDROPPING PROGRAM THAT THE
EAVESDROPPING PROGRAM THAT THE WHITE HOUSE HAD STARTED.
WHITE HOUSE HAD STARTED. THEY WERENT THE FIRST PEOPLE TO
THEY WERENT THE FIRST PEOPLE TO
TRY TO STOP IT BASICALLY, PUT THEIR OWN JOBS ON THE LINE IN
THEIR OWN JOBS ON THE LINE IN ORDER TO STOP IT.
ORDER TO STOP IT. WHEN AN INSPECTOR GENERALS
WHEN AN INSPECTOR GENERALS REPORT IS FINALLY RELEASED TO
REPORT IS FINALLY RELEASED TO
THE PUBLIC IN 2015, WE LEARNED
THAT THE FIRST PERSON AT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO RAISE RED
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO RAISE RED FLAGS, TO TRY TO STOP IT, TO
FLAGS, TO TRY TO STOP IT, TO
INSIST THAT PROGRAM HAD TO BE
PUT ON A REAL LEGAL FOOTING OR IT COULD NOT PROCEED, THE FIRST
IT COULD NOT PROCEED, THE FIRST PERSON WHO ACTUALLY DID THAT,
PERSON WHO ACTUALLY DID THAT, WHO THREW HIMSELF ON THE
WHO THREW HIMSELF ON THE
MACHINERY WAS THE HEAD OF THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENTS OFFICE OF
JUSTICE DEPARTMENTS OFFICE OF INTELLIGENCE POLICY.
INTELLIGENCE POLICY.
A MAN WHO WAS NAMED JAMES BAKER.
NOT A HIGH PROFILE POSITION AT
THAT TIME.
NOT A HIGH PROFILE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL, BUT
SOMEBODY WHO PLAYED AN INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT ROLE AND
INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT ROLE AND DID IT FIRST IN THAT STANDOFF.
DID IT FIRST IN THAT STANDOFF.
FROM THAT INSPECTOR GENERALS
REPORT JAMES BAKER TOLD US WHILE STANDING OUTSIDE THE JUSTICEHILE
STANDING OUTSIDE THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ONE EVENING SEVERAL
DEPARTMENT ONE EVENING SEVERAL
WEEKS AFTER THE NINE 11 ATTACKS
HE WAS APPROACHED BY AN FBI
COLLEAGUE WHO SAID, QUOTE,
THERES SOMETHING SPOOKY GOING
ON, IT APPEARS DOMESTIC
COMMUNICATIONS ARE BEING
COLLECTED WITHOUT A WARRANT.
SOME FBI PERSONNEL WERE GETTING
NERVOUS.
BAKER SAID SEVERAL WEEKS LATER
WHILE REVIEWING A FISA
APPLICATION A PARTICULAR PASSAGE
LEPT OUT AT HIM.
HE COULDNT FIGURE OUT WHERE THE INFORMATION THAT WAS BEING CITED
INFORMATION THAT WAS BEING CITED IN THAT APPLICATION HAD COME
IN THAT APPLICATION HAD COME
FROM.
HE SURMISED IT MIGHT HAVE COME
FROM THIS PROGRAM HE HOOAD NOT
BEEN READ IN ON BUT HAD BEEN
WARNED THERE WAS SOMETHING
SPOOKY GOING ON.
JAMES BAKER CHASED IT DOWN. HE SAYS HE IMMEDIATELY FELT THAT
HE SAYS HE IMMEDIATELY FELT THAT SPYING PROGRAM WAS ON SHAKY
SPYING PROGRAM WAS ON SHAKY
LEGAL FOOTING.
IT WAS LEGALLY PROBLEMATIC AND HE REFUSED TO TAKE THEATIC AND
HE REFUSED TO TAKE THE SURVEILLANCE WARRANT
SURVEILLANCE WARRANT APPLICATIONS TO THE COURT.
APPLICATIONS TO THE COURT. UNLESS THE COURT WOULD BE
UNLESS THE COURT WOULD BE
INFORMED OF THE PROGRAM.
THOSE JUDGES WERE BEING ASKED TO SIGN OFF ON SURVEILLANCEASKED TO
SIGN OFF ON SURVEILLANCE APPLICATIONS.
APPLICATIONS.
THEY ACTUALLY DIDNT KNOW WHERE THE INFORMATION IN THOSE WHERE
THE INFORMATION IN THOSE APPLICATION WAS COMING FROM.
APPLICATION WAS COMING FROM. HE INSISTED THAT THE COURT BE
HE INSISTED THAT THE COURT BE
TOLD.
THE WHITE HOUSE RESISTED.
AT LEAST ONE OFFICIAL AT THE BUSH WHITE HOUSE TRIED TO HAVE
BUSH WHITE HOUSE TRIED TO HAVE HIM FIRED FOR HIM RESISTING IT.
HIM FIRED FOR HIM RESISTING IT. BUT JAMES BAKER AT THE JUSTICE
BUT JAMES BAKER AT THE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT WAS CONVINCED HE WAS RIGHT AND HE WAS STUBBORN ANDAS
RIGHT AND HE WAS STUBBORN AND EVENTUALLY HE WON.
EVENTUALLY HE WON.
THE WHITE HOUSE HAD BEEN INTENT ONGOING AROUND THAT COURT ANDNT
ONGOING AROUND THAT COURT AND OVERTLY DENYING THE COURT ANY
OVERTLY DENYING THE COURT ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THAT NEW
INFORMATION ABOUT THAT NEW
SPYING PROGRAM AND THEY ENDED UP
GETTING FORCED TO INFORM THE
COURT ABOUT IT BECAUSE OF THE
WAY JAMES BAKER STOOD UP TO HIM. MORE OFFICIALS. STOOD UP TO HIM.
MORE OFFICIALS. HE CONVINCED MORE OFFICIALS HE
HE CONVINCED MORE OFFICIALS HE
WAS RIGHT ABOUT IT AND MORE OFFICIALS RAISED OBJECTIONS.
OFFICIALS RAISED OBJECTIONS. CONGRESS INTERVENED TO CRAFT
CONGRESS INTERVENED TO CRAFT LEGISLATION.
LEGISLATION.
AGAIN, YOU MAY NOT BE A BIG FAN
OF THE LEGISLATION CONGRESS
ULTIMATELY CREATED ABOUT THIS,
BUT BEFORE PEOPLE LIKE JAMES
BAKER STARTED RAISING RED FLAGS
AND SAYING NO, IM NOT SIGHING OFF ON THIS, IM NOT GETTINGNG
OFF ON THIS, IM NOT GETTING THIS GO FORWARD, THIS WAS A
THIS GO FORWARD, THIS WAS A
SPYING PROGRAM THAT WAS BEING
RUN MORE OR LESS OFF THE BOOKS WITHOUT ANY COURT OVERSIGHT AT
WITHOUT ANY COURT OVERSIGHT AT ALL.
ALL.
JUST BY THE WHITE HOUSE.
THE INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT ON THIS SPYING PROGRAM WHICH WAS A
THIS SPYING PROGRAM WHICH WAS A PROGRAM CODE NAME STELLAR WIND,
PROGRAM CODE NAME STELLAR WIND,
THIS REPORT WAS PUT TOGETHER BY
INSPECTORS GENERAL FROM FIVE
DIFFERENT AGENCIES.
ON THIS MATTER IT CONCLUDED WITH THIS QUOTE.TER IT CONCLUDED WITH
THIS QUOTE.
WE BELIEVE THAT THE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT AND FBI OFFICIALS WHO
RESISTED THE PRESSURE TO
RECERTIFY THE STELLAR WIND PROGRAM BECAUSE OF THEIR BELIEFS
PROGRAM BECAUSE OF THEIR BELIEFS THAT ASPECTS OF THE PROGRAM WERE
THAT ASPECTS OF THE PROGRAM WERE
NOT LEGALLY SUPPORTABLE, THOSE
OFFICIALS ACTED -- INCLUDING ROBERT MUELLER AND JAMES COMEY
ROBERT MUELLER AND JAMES COMEY AND JAMES BAKER.
AND JAMES BAKER. SINGLE THEM OUT BY NAME TO SAY
SINGLE THEM OUT BY NAME TO SAY
THEY ACTED, QUOTE, IN ACCORD WITH THE HIGHEST PROFESSIONAL
WITH THE HIGHEST PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS OF THE JUSTICE
STANDARDS OF THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT.
DEPARTMENT.
WHEN JAMES COMEY BECAME DIRECTOR
OF THE FBI YEARS LATER HE TAPPED
THAT SAME JAMES BAKER, PRAISED FOR HIS INTEGRITY IN THATAISED
FOR HIS INTEGRITY IN THAT EARLIER CONFRONTATION WITH THE
EARLIER CONFRONTATION WITH THE REPUBLICAN WHITE HOUSE, HE
REPUBLICAN WHITE HOUSE, HE
PICKED JAMES BAKER TO BE HIS GENERAL COUNSEL, TO BE THE TOP
GENERAL COUNSEL, TO BE THE TOP LEGAL OFFICIAL AT THE FBI.
LEGAL OFFICIAL AT THE FBI.
THAT IS A POSITION OF IMMENSE
IMPORTANCE AND TRUST AT THAT AGENCY.NCE AND TRUST AT THAT
AGENCY.
A PERSON WHO SERVES AS GENERAL
COUNSEL IS ALMOST ALWAYS HAND
PICKED BY THE FBI DIRECTOR.
AND SO JAMES BAKER WAS THERE AT
THE VERY TOP OF THE FBIS TOP
LEGAL JOB AT THE FBI WHEN THE
COUNTRY FIRST STARTED TO REALIZE
WITHIN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND
INTELLIGENCE CIRCLES THAT RUSSIA
WAS ATTACKING THE 2016 ELECTION FOR THE PURPOSE OF TRUMP TO GET
FOR THE PURPOSE OF TRUMP TO GET DONALD TRUMP INSTALLED IN THE
DONALD TRUMP INSTALLED IN THE
WHITE HOUSE AND THEY WERE
SIMULTANEOUSLY BECOMING AWARE
THAT THERE WERE NUMEROUS, NUMEROUS, NUMEROUS SOMEWHAT
NUMEROUS, NUMEROUS SOMEWHAT INEXPLICABLE CONTACTS BETWEEN A
INEXPLICABLE CONTACTS BETWEEN A PARTICULAR PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
PARTICULAR PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
WHICH HAPPENED TO BE THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND PEOPLE ASSOCIATED
CAMPAIGN AND PEOPLE ASSOCIATED WITH THE KREMLIN AT THE SAME
WITH THE KREMLIN AT THE SAME
TIME THAT THAT RUSSIAN ATTACK WAS GOING ON.T RUSSIAN ATTACK
WAS GOING ON. AND THAT MUST HAVE BEEN A
AND THAT MUST HAVE BEEN A
REMARKABLE THING TO GO THROUGH, RIGHT?ABLE THING TO GO THROUGH,
RIGHT? IN 2016.
IN 2016.
TO BE A SENIOR INTELLIGENCE
LEADERSHIP ROLE, TO REALIZE WHAT
WAS HAPPENING.
CALL ON ALL OF YOUR YEARS OF
EXPERIENCE, ALL OF YOUR PERSONAL
GUMPTION TO DEAL WITH THIS
ABSOLUTELY UNPRECEDENTED
SITUATION.
TO RUN A COUNTER INTELLIGENCE
INVESTIGATION INTO A HOSTILE
FOREIGN POWERS OPERATION
TARGETING OUR ELECTION WHILE
THAT ELECTION WAS ONGOING AND WHILE THERE APPEARED TO BEAND
WHILE THERE APPEARED TO BE NUMEROUS UNEXPLAINED CONTACTS
NUMEROUS UNEXPLAINED CONTACTS BETWEEN THE PARTY IN THE UNITED
BETWEEN THE PARTY IN THE UNITED STATES THAT WAS BENEFITING FROM
STATES THAT WAS BENEFITING FROM
THAT FOREIGN INTERVENTION AND PEOPLE ASSOCIATED WITH THATND
PEOPLE ASSOCIATED WITH THAT FOREIGN POWER.
FOREIGN POWER. WHAT IS EVEN MORE REMARKABLE
WHAT IS EVEN MORE REMARKABLE
SINCE THEN IS HOW ALL OF THOSE
PEOPLE WHO WERE IN ALL OF THOSE
LEADERSHIP ROLES AT THE TIME
THAT ATTACK WAS HAPPENING, THEY
WERE REALIZING WHAT WAS GOING
ON, THEY WERE STARTING THE
INVESTIGATIONS INTO IT.
ALL OF THE PEOPLE IN SENIOR
LEADERSHIP, LAW ENFORCEMENT AND
INTELLIGENCE ROLES AT THAT TIME
HAVE JUST BEEN SYSTEMATICALLY DESTROYED BY THE TRUMPTICALLY
DESTROYED BY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION EVER SINCE,
ADMINISTRATION EVER SINCE,
RIGHT?
JAMES COMEY WASOF COURSE WAS FIR HIS DEPUTY WHO BECAME ACTING FIR
HIS DEPUTY WHO BECAME ACTING DIRECTOR ANDREW McCABE GOT
DIRECTOR ANDREW McCABE GOT
FIRED, GOT HIS PENSION REDUCED
ON THE WAY OUT THE DOOR, HAS BEEN REFERRED FOR POSSIBLEAS
BEEN REFERRED FOR POSSIBLE PROSECUTION.
PROSECUTION.
PETER STRZOK WAS THE LEAD
COUNTER INTELLIGENCE AGENT IN
THE FBI.
A VETERAN RUSSIA COUNTER INTELLIGENCE AGENT.UNTER
INTELLIGENCE AGENT. HE GETS FORCED OUT.
HE GETS FORCED OUT. BRUCE ORR, THE SENIOR PERSON IN
BRUCE ORR, THE SENIOR PERSON IN
THE RUSSIA DEPARTMENT, HE ESCAPES BY THE SKIN OF HIS
ESCAPES BY THE SKIN OF HIS TEETH, STILL HAS A JOB BUT MOVED
TEETH, STILL HAS A JOB BUT MOVED
INTO A BASEMENT FILING ROOM OR
SOMETHING AND IS BASICALLY DAILY
ATTACKED BY THE PRESIDENT AND
INCREASINGLY BY REPUBLICANS IN
CONGRESS AS WELL.
FORMER CIA DIRECTOR, THE MAN WHO WAS CIA DIRECTOR AT THE TIME OFO
WAS CIA DIRECTOR AT THE TIME OF THE RUSSIA ATTACK AND THE TIME
THE RUSSIA ATTACK AND THE TIME
THE INVESTIGATION SBOOINTO IT.
JOHN BRENNAN GETS HIS SECURITY
CLEARANCE
CLEARANCE YANKED.
AND OTHERS HE MIGHT TRY TO YANK INCLUDING THE NATIONAL SECURITY
INCLUDING THE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER, THE DEPUTY ATTORNEY
ADVISER, THE DEPUTY ATTORNEY
GENERAL WHO BECAME THE ACTING
ATTORNEY GENERAL WHO CAME TO THE
WHITE HOUSE AND WARNED THEM
ABOUT THEIR NATIONAL SECURITY
ADVISER BEING COMPROMISED BY RUSSIA, THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL
RUSSIA, THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE.
INTELLIGENCE.
HE PUTS THEM ALL ON A LIST SAYING THEY MIGHT HAVE THEIR
SAYING THEY MIGHT HAVE THEIR SECURITY CLEARANCE REVOKED,
SECURITY CLEARANCE REVOKED,
TOORKSTOO,
BECAUSE OF THEIR BASELESS
ACCUSATIONS BECAUSE OF IMPROPER
CONTACT WITH RUSSIA.
I DONT NEED TO MENTION THERE
ARE NOW MORE THAN 100 PAGES OF A REPORT BY NONE OTHER THAN ROBERT
REPORT BY NONE OTHER THAN ROBERT MUELLER THAT SAY THOSE
MUELLER THAT SAY THOSE
ACCUSATIONS WERE FAR FROM
BASELESS.
ALL OF THESE PEOPLE WITH ALL OF
THESE DECADES OF LEADERSHIP
EXPERIENCE, WITH ALL OF THIS
SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE, THE
PEOPLE WHO WERE IN ALL THE KEY
ROLES OF TRYING TO UNDERSTAND
AND ASSESS AND HELP THE COUNTRY
UNDERSTAND AND ASSESS THE ATTACK
BY RUSSIA, PEOPLE TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THAT ATTACK ANDO
UNDERSTAND THAT ATTACK AND THWART IT AND GET TO THE BOTTOM
THWART IT AND GET TO THE BOTTOM
OF IT, PEOPLE WHO LED THAT
EFFORT HAVE PAID THE PRICE FOR
IT.
THAT INCLUDES JAMES BAKER WHO
WAS THE TOP LEGAL OFFICIAL AT THE FBI.TOP LEGAL OFFICIAL AT
THE FBI. PRESIDENT ATTACKED JAMES BAKER
PRESIDENT ATTACKED JAMES BAKER
BY NAME SEVERAL TIMES FOR HIS OS OSTENSIBLE ROLE IN THIS WITCH OS
OSTENSIBLE ROLE IN THIS WITCH HUNT.
HUNT.
FOR SUPPOSEDLY BEING PART OF SOME PLOT TO MOUNT A COUP.OF
SOME PLOT TO MOUNT A COUP. JAMES BAKER LEFT THE FBI A YEAR
JAMES BAKER LEFT THE FBI A YEAR AFTER JAMES COMEY WAS FIRED.
AFTER JAMES COMEY WAS FIRED.
ALL OF THAT TIME OF BEING A PUNCHING BAG FOR THE PRESIDENT
PUNCHING BAG FOR THE PRESIDENT AND HIS SUPPORTERS, JAMES BAKER
AND HIS SUPPORTERS, JAMES BAKER
COULD NOT SPEAK PUBLICLY ABOUT WHAT HE ACTUALLY DID AS A TOPT
WHAT HE ACTUALLY DID AS A TOP NATIONAL SECURITY OFFICIAL
NATIONAL SECURITY OFFICIAL
DURING THE RUSSIAN ATTACK.
HE COULDNT TALK ABOUT THE
INVESTIGATION INTO RUSSIA AND
INTO THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN.
HE COULDNT SAY WHAT HE KNEW.
BUT NOW HE CAN. WITH THE MUELLER REPORT
WITH THE MUELLER REPORT COMPLETED AND RELEASED TO THE
COMPLETED AND RELEASED TO THE
PUBLIC, WITH HIS TESTIMONY TO THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE ON THESE
THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE ON THESE MATTERS HAVING BEEN RELEASED TO
MATTERS HAVING BEEN RELEASED TO
THE PUBLIC BY REPUBLICANS ON
THAT COMMITTEE, FORMER FBI
GENERAL COUNSEL JAMES BAKER SAYS
HES ABLE TO SPEAK OUT ON THESE
MATTERS THAT HAVE AT LEAST NOW BECOME PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE.ST NOW
BECOME PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE. WERE ABOUT TO FIND OUT, BUT IT
WERE ABOUT TO FIND OUT, BUT IT
SOUNDS LIKE WHAT HE WANTS THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE TO KNOW IS
DESPITE THE UNPRECEDENTED
SITUATION, HE SAYS THE FBI DID
THINGS BY THE BOOK.
SHOWED CONFIDENCE IN WHAT THEY
DID.
TODAY HE WAS INTERVIEWED.
JAMES BAKER SAID THAT HAD THE SITUATION NOT BEEN DONE BY THE
SITUATION NOT BEEN DONE BY THE BOOK, QUOTE, HE WOULD NOT HAVE
BOOK, QUOTE, HE WOULD NOT HAVE TOLERATE TODAY
TOLERATE TODAY
TOLERATED IT WHATSOEVER.
I HAVE GONE TO THE MAT IN THE
PAST IN MY CAREER WITH STUFF THAT I THOUGHT WASWITH STUFF
THAT I THOUGHT WAS INAPPROPRIATE.
INAPPROPRIATE. THERE WAS NO WAY IN HELL I WAS
THERE WAS NO WAY IN HELL I WAS
GOING TO ALLOW SOME COUP OR COUP
ATTEMPT TO TAKE PLACE ON MY
WATCH OR ANY CONSPIRACY TO DO
ANYTHING UNLAWFUL.
NO WAY.
AND OF COURSE WHEN JAMES BAKER
SAYS HE WOULD GO TO THE MAT OVER
SOMETHING HE SEES AS UNLAWFUL,
HE WOULD THREATEN TO RESIGN IF HE NEEDED TO TO STOP IT, THERES
HE NEEDED TO TO STOP IT, THERES REASON TO BELIEVE IT.
REASON TO BELIEVE IT.
HE HAS CASHED THAT CHECK BEFORE.
HE HAS DONE.
BEFORE.
NOW TONIGHT HES HERE TO TALK TO
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