CONSERVATIVE WATCHDOG GROUP
JUDICIAL WATCH HAS RAISED NEW
QUESTIONS OVER AND PEOPLE AT THE
CENTER OF THE RUSSIA PROBE.
BRUCE AND NELLIE OHR.
BIG WALL, YOU CAN SEE THEM,
THERE THEY ARE.
BRUCE OHR IS A FORMER
HIGH-RANKING JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
OFFICIAL.
HIS WIFE, NELLIE, WAS HIRED BY
FUSION GPS TO DIG UP DIRT ON
THEN-CANDIDATE DONALD J. TRUMP
DURING THE 2016 ELECTION.
JUDICIAL WATCH HAS UNCOVERED A
CONVERSATION BETWEEN THEM IN
WHICH NELLIE WRITES, "THANKS,
I'M DELETING THESE EMAILS NOW."
JUDICIAL WATCH PRESIDENT SAYS
SHE WAS INFORMING HER HUSBAND
ABOUT DELETING EMAILS INDICATING
ABOUT DELETING EMAILS INDICATINA
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ABOUT DELETING EMAILS INDICATINR
ABOUT DELETING EMAILS INDICATINN
ABOUT DELETING EMAILS INDICATING
UP A PLOT AGAINST THE PRESIDENT.
HERE IS WHAT HE WROTE.
"THIS EMAIL IS DISTURBING AND
SUGGESTS DOCUMENTS RELEVANT TO
TARGETING OF PRESIDENT TRUMP
WERE DESTROYED."
ALL THIS COMES AS
ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM BARR IS
RAISING MORE QUESTIONS REGARDING
FUSION GPS.
THE ANTI-TRUMP DOSSIER IN
PARTICULAR.
IT WAS COMPILED BY
CHRISTOPHER STEELE AND
FUSION GPS, AND IT INVOLVES
BRUCE AND NELLIE OHR.
HERE IS.
WATCH.
>> IT'S A VERY UNUSUAL SITUATION
TO HAVE OPPOSITION RESEARCH LIKE
THAT.
ESPECIALLY ONE THAT, ON ITS
FACE, HAD A NUMBER OF CLEAR
MISTAKES AND SOMEWHAT JEJUNE
ANALYSIS.
TO USE THAT TO DO
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AGAINST A
POLITICAL CAMPAIGN IS A
STRANGE -- IT WOULD BE ESTRANGED
ABOUT MEN.
I'M NOT SURE WHAT ROLE IT PLAYED
BUT THAT'S SOMETHING WE HAVE TO
LOOK AT.
>> Harris: AND THE USUAL
SITUATION PAID LAWRENCE?
>> Lawrence: KATIE ALLUDED TO
THIS IN THE LAST BLOCK, WHEN
BILL BARR CAME TO THE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT HE STARTED TO ASK
QUESTIONS.
HE WASN'T GETTING STRAIGHT
ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS.
I'VE GOT TO ASK THE DEMOCRATS,
WHEN YOU SEE SOMETHING LIKE THIS
BETWEEN BRUCE AND NELLIE OHR, DO
YOU THINK THAT'S OKAY?
THESE INTERACTIONS OF DELETING
EMAILS, SPYING ON THE PRESIDENT,
CLEARLY COVERING UP SOMETHING.
IS THAT OKAY?
>> Jessica: CLEARLY, SPYING ON
THE PRESIDENT IS PROBLEMATIC.
WE HAVE CHRISTOPHER WRAY COME A
TRUMP APPOINTEE, HEAD OF THE
FBI, CAME OUT LAST WEEK AND SAID
IT WASN'T SPYING.
IT WAS LEGITIMATE
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
INVESTIGATION.
>> Lawrence: BUT HE'S ALSO
TRYING TO PROTECT THE
INSTITUTION, THOUGH.
>> Jessica: YOU WANT TO SAY
HE'S LYING FOR THEM?
THAT HE'S BROUGHT INTO CLEANUP
AND NOW HE'S JUST --
>> Lawrence: YOU KNOW WHAT?
I THINK THE RANK AND FILE -- HE
IS AFRAID THAT THE RANK AND FILE
WILL FEEL LIKE HE DOESN'T
SUPPORT THEM.
BUT THE FACT OF THE MATTER IT'S
IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THE FBI
HAS SPIED ON AMERICANS.
THEY HAVE A HISTORY OF DOING IT.
I'M NOT SAYING EVERY FEDERAL
AGENT OUT THERE IS GOING TO
TARGET AMERICANS.
BUT THE LEADERSHIP, WHAT WE DO
KNOW HISTORICALLY, HAS DONE
SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
>> Harris: I WANT TO SLIDE
THIS AND IF I CAN.
PEOPLE WATCHING, REMEMBER WHAT
WILLIAM BARR SAID -- AND HE'S
RIGHT ABOUT THIS -- SPYING,
WHETHER IT'S ILLEGAL OR
INAPPROPRIATE.
IT'S WHAT THEY DO, IT'S NOT A
PEJORATIVE.
IT'S NOT A WORD THAT HAS SOME
SECRET MEANING IN IT.
>> Jessica: IT SOUNDS A LOT
DIFFERENT THAN A LEGITIMATE
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
INVESTIGATION.
>> Lawrence: BUT THEY'VE DONE
IT ILLEGALLY BEFORE.
>> Harris: YOU CAN SPY
LEGITIMATELY WITH A WARRANT.
YOU CAN DO WHAT YOU NEED TO DO.
THE QUESTION ISN'T WHETHER OR
NOT SPYING WAS GOING ON.
THE QUESTION IS WHAT LED UP TO
THAT POINT?
WHERE THE RIGHT STEPS TAKEN?
WERE THERE ANY INAPPROPRIATE OR
ILLEGAL STEPS TAKEN THAT
PROCESS?
THE FISA COURT IS SECRET.
IT WOULD BE GREAT IF WE COULD
JUST GET ALL THEIR FILES, BUT
THAT'S PROBABLY NOT GOING TO
HAPPEN ON THIS FRIDAY.
>> Jessica: THEY MADE IT CLEAR
THAT A NUMBER OF CAMPAIGN
OFFICIALS LIED TO THE FBI ABOUT
CONTACTS WITH RUSSIANS.
WE ALL CAN'T REFUSE THAT.
THAT HAPPENED, I KNEW IT WAS
CLEAR ABOUT THAT.
>> Harris: SOME OF THEM ARE
PLAYING THE PRICE BUT WHAT THEY
SAID THAT WASN'T TRUE.
PAPADOPOULOS LIVES LIKE, "I
DON'T KNOW WHAT I LIED, I WASN'T
DOING ANYTHING WRONG."
>> Jessica: YOU CAN SAY
WHATEVER HE WANTS.
>> Harris: THAT'S A PROBLEM.
>> Lisa: WHAT ATTORNEY GENERAL
BARR WANTS TO GET TO THE BOTTOM
OF HIS WHETHER IT WAS
PREDICATED.
TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THAT, AS
I POINTED OUT BEFORE, WE KNOW
THAT THE FBI WITHHELD CRITICAL
INFORMATION.
OF THE DOSSIER WAS FUNDED BY THE
DNC AND THE CLINTON
ADMINISTRATION.
AND HE ALSO -- BECAUSE OF THE
MUELLER REPORT, WE KNOW THAT
CHRISTOPHER STEELE'S INFORMATION
IN THE DOSSIER WAS NOT ACCURATE.
IT WAS SENSATIONAL.
IT WAS INACCURATE.
>> Lawrence: IT ALSO --
A >> Lisa: IN REGARD TO NELLIE
OHR, PART OF WHAT
CHRISTOPHER STEELE TRIED TO DO
WAS GET ACCESS TO GOVERNMENT
OFFICIALS TO GIVE LEGITIMACY TO
THE DOSSIER.
WE KNOW THAT NELLIE OHR WAS
PUMPING INFORMATION ABOUT
RUSSIANS TO HER HUSBAND AND
OTHER OFFICIALS OF THE DOJ.
SO SHE IS ABSOLUTELY SOMEONE
THEY NEED TO LOOK AT.
>> Harris: BEFORE WE SCOOT, I
KNOW YOU LOOKED CLOSER AT THESE
EMAILS.
I WANT TO KNOW AS MUCH AS WE
POSSIBLY CAN, KATIE, ABOUT THE
CONTEXT.
BECAUSE PEOPLE DELETING EMAILS,
THAT HAPPENS.
THIS WAS DIFFERENT.
>> Katie: THE DATE ON THE
EMAIL WHEN SHE SAID SHE'S
DELETING IT IS APRIL 2016.
SO IT WAS BEFORE THE
INVESTIGATION INTO NELLIE OHR
AND BRUCE OHR AND EVERYTHING
GOING ON WAS ACTUALLY
INVESTIGATED.
THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT TO MAKE
HERE IS THAT FUSION GPS WAS
BEING PAID BY A POLITICAL
CAMPAIGN, AND A NELLIE OHR, AS
LISA SAID, WAS GIVING
INFORMATION TO A SENIOR RANKING
OFFICIAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
JUSTICE WHO HAS NOW BEEN DEMOTED
IN ORDER TO USE THE DENSEST
PARTNER TO GO AFTER A POLITICAL
CAMPAIGN.
WHAT WE DO KNOW ABOUT THE FISA
COURT IS THAT IN APRIL 2016, AT
THE SAME TIME SHE WAS DELETING
THAT EMAIL, THE FORMER NSA
DIRECTOR ACTUALLY CALLED FOR A
REVIEW OF FISA BECAUSE THE FBI
WAS HIRING OUTSIDE CONTACTORS C
WAS HIRING OUTSIDE CONTACTORS N
WAS HIRING OUTSIDE CONTACTORS R
WAS HIRING OUTSIDE CONTACTORS C
WAS HIRING OUTSIDE CONTACTORS O
WAS HIRING OUTSIDE CONTACTORS S
TO LOOK AT THE FISA INFORMATION
PAID HE TESTIFIED ABOUT THAT IN
OCTOBER 2016 AS WELL.
WE KNOW THERE ARE PROBLEMS WITH
ACCESS TO FISA INFORMATION.
OUTSIDE GROUPS LIKE FUSION GPS,
OUTSIDE CONTRACTORS HAVING
INFORMATION.
AND THE FORMER NSA DIRECTOR
SAID, "WE HAVE A PROBLEM HERE."
SPEED WHEN IT COMES BACK DOWN TO
THAT
TRAIL.
THEY ARE MARRIED, SO YOU CAN
ADDRESS THE QUESTION, WHY DON'T
THEY JUST TALK TO EACH OTHER?"
BUT SHE HAD TO GO BACK AND