AS ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR FACES
FRESH ATTACKS ON HIS
CREDIBILITY, THERE IS ONE
QUESTION NO DEMOCRAT IN
WASHINGTON IS ABLE TO PROVIDE AN
ANSWER TO.
WHY WOULD OUR FBI RELY ON
OPPOSITION RESEARCH TO SECURE A
FISA WARRANT TO SPY ON AN
INNOCENT AMERICAN?
THIS REALLY IS THE QUESTIONER
AMERICAN LEFT, RIGHT AND RIGHT
DOWN THE MIDDLE DESERVES AN'S
TO.
IT IS THE QUESTION THAT MAY BE
THE UNDOING OF OUR INTELLIGENCE
AGENCIES AS WE KNOW THEM TODAY.
STAB CARDS SHOULD BE
EXTRAORDINARILY HIGH IN THE FISA
COURTS.
BUT WE ARE LEARNING THEY ARE
ANYTHING BUT THAT.
THE FISA COURTS WERE SO LAX THAT
THE FBI COULD USE A PIECE OF
OPPOSITION RESEARCH THAT HAS
NEVER BEEN VETTED PREPARED BY A
CORNER WHO SOLICITED STORIES
FROM HIS FORMER RUSSIAN INTEL
FRIENDS, FOREIGNERS WHO WERE AND
ARE ADVERSARIES TO THE UNITED
STATES.
FOR ALL THE DEMOCRATS
COMPLAINING ABOUT FOREIGN
INTERFERENCES IN THE ELECTIONS
BECAUSE THE RUSSIANS CREATED THE
FAKE SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS, I
SHOULD THINK THINK THEY WOULD BE
MORE WORKED UP OVER HOW THE FBI
TREATED FORMER FBI INTEL FOLKS.
WHILE WE KNOW THE UNPROVEN
DOSSIER WAS PART OF THE EVIDENCE
JUSTIFYING A WARRANT TO SPY ON
THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN.
THE OTHER EVIDENCE THAT MAY HAVE
COME TO THE FBI TO THE FISA
COURT MAY CAUSE US TO CONSIDER
SOMETHING LIKE POSSIBLE
ENTRAPMENT.
THE FBI LOOKS LIKE IT MAY HAVE
TRIED TO EFFECTIVELY ENTRAP
TRUMP CAMPAIGN AIDE, CARTER
PAGE.
ACCORDING TO REPORTS, INCLUDING
ONE IN THE "WASHINGTON POST,"
MR. HALPER CONTACTED THREE TRUMP
CAMPAIGN ADVISORS FOR MEETINGS
THAT CHARGELY FOCUSED ON FOREIGN
POLICY.
AND AT THE SAME TIME BEGAN WORK
AS A SECRET INFORMANT FOR THE
FBI AS IT INVESTIGATED RUSSIA'S
INTERFERENCE IN THE CAMPAIGN.
IS THIS NORMAL IN ANY WAY?
WHY IS THE FBI OUT THERE HIRING
SECRET INFORMANTS TO REPORT BACK
TO THEM ON THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN?
IS THIS WHAT THE FBI DOES IN
EVERY ELECTION TO THE OTHER
SIDE?
CARTER PAGE SAYS HIS CONTACTS
WITH HALPER QUOTE INTENSIFIED IN
THE MONTH BEFORE THE FBI
OBTAINED HIS FIRST FISA WARRANT
TO SPY ON HIM WHICH WAS
AUTHORIZED BY A FISA JUDGE AND
WAS RENEWED THREE TIMES.
HERE HE IS WITH OUR OWN MARIA
BARTIROMO.
>> I HAD A LONGSTANDING
RELATIONSHIP WITH PROFESSOR
HALPER.
I ALWAYS BELIEVE IN INNOCENT
UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY, BUT MY
CONVERSATIONS WITH HIM
INTENSIFIED RIGHT THE MONTH
BEFORE MY ILLEGITIMATE FISA
WARRANT IN SEPTEMBER 2016 WHEN
ALL THESE DEFAMATORY ARTICLES
ARE BEING PLACED BY THE DNC.
TRISH: IF THE FBI THOUGHT TRUMP
WAS AN AGENT OF RUSSIA, THAT
WOULD BE ONE THING.
YOU WOULD THINK THEY WOULD DO A
LITTLE RESEARCH OF THEIR OWN AND
NOT RELY ON THINGS LIKE THE
SO-CALLED DOSSIER FROM
CHRISTOPHER STEELE.
BUT IT SEEMS THE FIRE JUST
WANTED TO CATCH THE OPPOSING
CANDIDATE IN SOME THING.
MICHAEL CAPUTO WENT THROUGH
SOMETHING QUITE SIMILAR TO WHAT
CARTER PAGE WENT THROUGH.
YOU SAY THAT YOU ALSO SAW
COMMUNICATIONS WITH AN FBI
INFORMANT INTENSIFIED.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN?
>> AN FBI INFORMANT OF 17 YEARS,
CRIMINAL RUSSIAN IN AMERICA ON
AN FBI INFORMANT VISA CAME TO ME
AT THE END OF MAY OFFERING ME
DIRT ON HILLARY CLINTON.
EARLIER IN MAY I WAS APPROACHED
BY AN AMERICAN, A NATIONAL
SECURITY CONTRACTOR, OFFERING TO
GIVE ME HILLARY CLINTON'S
EMAILS.
YOU HAVE GOT TO LOOK AT IT THIS
WAY.
MOST OF PEOPLE DO.
EITHER THE COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE
OPERATION AT THE FBI WAS
HAPLESS, FECKLESS AND ALL THEY
DID WAS SEND STEPHEN HALPER AND
THE HONEY POT AFTER GEORGE
PAPADOPOULOS AND CARTER PAGE AND
THAT WAS THE PRECURSOR TO
CROSSFIRE HURRICANE.
I DON'T BELIEVE THAT.
I DON'T BELIEVE THE
COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE OPERATION
WAS FECKLESS.
I THINK THE OPERATION WAS
BROADER THAN THAT.
I THINK THAT'S WHAT THE ATTORNEY
GENERAL BARR IS STARTING TO SEE.
THAT'S WHY I THINK THE INSPECTOR
GENERAL'S REPORT WILL BE LATE.
ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR SAID IT
WOULD BE OUT IN EARLY JUNE.
AND HERE WE ARE.
AND IT'S NOWHERE AROUND.
I THINK WE'LL BE LUCKY TO SEE IT
BEFORE THE END OF JUNE.
TRISH: THAT MAKES SENSE TO ME.
THERE ARE A LOT OF LOOSE ENS
THAT NEED TO BE TIED UP.
IF I WANTED TO ASSUME THE PUREST
OF INTENTIONS FROM THE FBI, I
WOULD SAY FOR SOME REASON THEY
THOUGHT TRUMP WAS AN AGENT OF
RUSSIA.
IF THEY REALLY THOUGHT THAT,
THERE WOULD BE THINGS YOU WOULD
DO.
THERE WOULD BE Ts TO CROSS AND
Is TO DOT SO TO SPEAK.
BUT THEY CAN'T DO THAT.
SO THEY ARE TOTALLY INCOME TENT
OR THERE WAS SOMETHING ELSE
PERHAPS MALICIOUS GOING ON.
IS THIS THEIR M.O., YOU SPY ON
AN OPPOSING CAMPAIGN TO THE
OTHER PARTY OR IS IT JUST TRUMP?
>> I LOVE LISTENING TO ATTORNEY
GENERAL BARRR CLOSELY.
HE'S DESCRIBING WHAT MAY LOOK
LIKE A PRAETORIAN GUARD THAT
BELIEVE THEIR BELIEFS WERE TRUTH
FOR AMERICA.
HE'S DESCRIBING AND ROGUE GROUP
WITHIN THE FBI, A LOT OF THEM
ARE GONE NOW.
THEY WERE TRYING TO SPY ON THE
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR
PRESIDENT.
WE'LL FIND OUT THERE IS MORE
THAN JUST STEPHEN HALPER, AND
WE'LL FIND OUT THIS
INVESTIGATION STARTED LONG
BEFORE JULY 31 WHEN THEY ARE
CAREFUL TO SAY THE OFFICIAL
INVESTIGATION CROSSFIRE
HURRICANE -- I KNOW BECAUSE THEY
CONTACTED ME.
TRISH: THAT'S IN THE MUELLER
REPORT, BY THE WAY.
LET ME TURN TO ANOTHER THING
RIGHT NOW.
THAT'S THE HOUSE JUDICIARY
COMMIT EAT MEMBER JERRY NADLER.
PEFORTS TO HOLD A.G. BARR IN
CONTEMPT ON HOLD NOW.
BUT IT HASN'T STOPPED NADLER
FROM CALLING WITNESSES BEFORE
HIS COMMITTEE AMONG THOSE
TESTIFYING INCLUDED FORMER NIXON
WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL, JOHN DEAN.
>> IN MANY WAYS THE MUELLER
REPORT IS TO PRESIDENT TRUMP
WHAT THE SO-CALLED WATERGATE
ROADMAP WAS TO PRESIDENT ARE YOU
CHARRED NIXON.
STATED A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY.
SPECIAL COUNSEL MUELLER HAS
PROVIDED THIS COMMITTEE WITH A
ROADMAP.
>> I WOULD BE WILLING TO
PERSONALLY INDICT THE CASE AND
TRY THE CASE.
I WOULD HAVE CONFIDENCE THE
EVIDENCE WOULD BE SUFFICIENT TO
OBTAIN A GUILTY VERDICT AND WIN
ON APPEAL.
I'M CONNECTICUT CONFIDENT IF
ANYONE TOTTER THAN THE PRESIDENT
COMMITTED THIS CONDUCT, THAT
PERSON WOULD BE CHARGED WITH
CRIMES.
>> IT'S THE CNN PANEL.
ALL THREE OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE
FREQUENT CONTRIBUTORS TO CNN.
I HAVE APPEARED ON CNN PANELED
WITH ALL THREE OF THEM.
THAT REVEALS WHAT THE HOUSE
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE IS UP TO.
THEY ARE TRYING TO RECREATE THE
EXCITEMENT THEY HAD IN 2017 AND
2018 SURROUNDING THE BOGUS
RUSSIAN COLLUSION HOAX.
THEY ARE BRINGING IN THE SAME
TALKING HEADS THAT GOT IT GOING
ON CNN TO SEE IF THEY DOCKET IN
THE HOUSE OF THE
REPRESENTATIVES.
I THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
MIGHT BE TIRED OF THIS.
TRISH: SOME ADVICE FOR JERRY
NADLER AND CNN.
IT HAS NOT WORKED FOR YNN AND IT