senate intel committee releasing a
nearly 1 000 page bipartisan report that
details ties
between the 2016 trump campaign and
russia
among the findings in the report trump
2016 campaign chair paul manafort posed
a quote grave counterintelligence threat
due to his ties with people close to the
kremlin but like the muller report the
senate panel did not conclude
that there was any collusion between the
trump campaign
and russia congressional correspondent
mike emanuel has the story
for us from washington hi mike martha
good evening senate intelligence is out
with a nearly 1 000 page report on
interaction between the 2016 trump
campaign
and russian intelligence on one time
campaign chairman paul manafort quote
the committee found that manafort's
presence on the campaign and proximity
to trump created opportunities
for russian intelligence services to
exert influence over
and acquire confidential information on
the trump campaign
the intelligence panel also not pulling
any punches about the role played by
russia's vladimir putin writing quote
the committee found that russian
president vladimir putin ordered the
russian effort to hack computer networks
and accounts affiliated with the
democratic party and leak information
damaging to hillary clinton
and her campaign for president acting
senate intelligence committee chairman
marco rubio
offering this conclusion quote we can
say without
any hesitation that the committee found
absolutely no evidence
that then candidate donald trump or his
campaign colluded with the russian
government
to meddle in the 2016 election the
panel's top democrat says the report was
thorough
and calls the findings troubling
i believe the russians clearly had a
preference for donald trump
i think the trump campaign was looking
for dirt on hillary clinton
and i think there was an unprecedented
level of communication
when the then campaign manager paul
manafort
shares insider campaign information
with a russian intelligence official
that's not good for anybody
senate intelligence invested a great
deal of time and energy interviewing
more than
200 witnesses and reviewing more than
one million pages of documents
all in an effort to get to the bottom of
russian's efforts to
drive a wedge in the u.s the american
response to russia
and how the intelligence community
handled these sensitive issues
martha thank you mike joining me now
trey gowdy
former house oversight committee chair
fox news contributor and author of the
new book out today
doesn't hurt to ask using powerful power
of questions to communicate connect
and persuade which we know you are very
good at mr gowdy good to see you tonight
congratulations on the book
and thanks for joining us uh this is a
very interesting
report going through it with regard to
what it says
about paul manafort and his interactions
with constantine kalimnik who they say
was indeed affiliated uh as some sort of
russian agent
what do you say about that uh paul
manafort is not a good guy he's right
where he should be
the trump campaign probably wishes
they'd vetted him more but you know
martha
he did what he did for money that's the
oldest motive
known to man he he was cash-strapped he
thought they owed him money
so he's showing internal polls for
himself not not to help donald trump but
to help himself
so i congratulate senate intel i mean
they worked hard on it
but in terms of takeaways when you're
talking about a ukrainian or a russian
whose name we can barely pronounce
that that is not the narrative we've
been fed over the last four years that
trump
colluded with russia there's no evidence
of that and keep in mind what marco said
marco didn't say there's insufficient
evidence we couldn't prove it beyond a
reasonable doubt
no evidence of collusion between the
trump campaign and russia yeah
and now you've got two exhaustive
multi-year
investigations that both came to the
same conclusion you've got the mueller
report and you've got this
senate intel report um which were
independent and and
have the exact same finding the fbi was
flawed according to
the report when it came to their
handling of the steele dossier
and how seriously they took it and what
they used it to achieve
i think there are three main takeaways
after the last four years russia is not
our friend
and on that every american should agree
they are not
our friend number two there is no
evidence of collusion between the trump
campaign and russia and number three
the world's premier law enforcement
agency
continues to not meet our basic
expectations
it is one thing martha to use
information that's not been vetted
that's bad but that's one thing it is
another thing to use information you
know is unreliable
you know it is not accurate and still
continue to use it
this is jim comey's problem but quite
frankly martha it has become chris ray's
problem
he was warned by by devin by paul
by bob goodlatte you can be part of the
cleanup crew or you can be part of the
cover-up crew
and there are more things coming out
with the durham report that show the
fbi's primary concern is its own
reputation
what about john brennan uh we understand
that john durham will be
interviewing him was the word that they
used this friday
i know it's this week if you say friday
i i trust you your sources are probably
better than mine
um you know congratulations to john
durham for getting a key person to sit
down and congratulations on doing it in
the right order
you need documents before you interview
witnesses i mean
i mean john brennan has been around
a long time you need documents to hand
to him and say what did you mean
in late what did you mean in 2016
what do your notes mean your handwritten
notes
so documents are great john durham's a
good prosecutor
i just want to find out what happened
what happened in 2016
to create this cloud our country's been
living under yeah i mean i'll never
forget
uh before the mueller report came out
john brennan with a totally straight
face said you know there are indictments
coming down
uh and that's gonna happen and he was
wrong the next day he got on tv and said
but i guess i was misled well he was
right about one thing
uh there was an indictment there have
been more fbi employees indicted than
members of the trump family
so i i hope i hope the dnc convention
tonight addresses that
more fbi employees than members of the
trump family
let the washington post report that okay
how do i use the power of questions to
communicate connect
and persuade you're great at it i
i'm gonna send you a book anyway but
well
i mean it people want to be heard and
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whether it's asking for a promotion or
just dealing with your brother-in-law
over thanksgiving and
learning questions is an acquirable
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i was terrible when i started in a
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you can become good at asking the right
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and you can be really persuasive with
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i want to help people make their case
well some of the most epic
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the years over on this show
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think that there is such a power
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using the power of question to
communicate connect and persuade
treyarch good to see you
good luck with the book thank you so
much for being here tonight