MARIA: WE ARE BACK WITH OBAMA
SENIOR ADVISOR, VALERIE JARRETT.
WE WERE GOING TO BREAK, TALKING
ABOUT RUSSIA MEDDLING IN THE
ELECTION AND MEDDLING IN THE
AFFAIRS, THAT’S BEEN GOING ON
FOR DECADES AS YOU KNOW.
I’VE GONE TO RUSSIA MANY TIMES
AND HAVE BEEN WATCHING THIS
HAPPEN FOR DECADES.
SO WE ALL KNOW THAT RUSSIA HAS
BEEN TRYING TO MEDDLE.
BUT NOW WE’RE TALKING ABOUT A
VERY SERIOUS SITUATION.
WE HAVE A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
UNDERWAY.
PEOPLE COULD GO TO JAIL.
DO YOU BELIEVE IF JIM COMEY KNEW
THAT THE DOSSIER WAS FAKE AND
GARBAGE AND HE KEPT GOING,
REUPING WARRANTS TO SPY ON THE
TRUMP CAMPAIGN THAT HE SHOULD GO
TO JAIL?
>> WELL, MARIA, LOOK, I HAVE A
HIGH DEGREE OF CONFIDENCE THAT
OUR OF INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY,
OUR INVESTIGATORS COMPORTED
THEMSELVES RESPONSIBLY.
LINDSEY GRAHAM IS THE ONE THAT
ENCOURAGED SENATOR McCAIN TO
TURN OVER THE DOSSIER IN THE
FIRST PLACE TO THE FBI.
I CAN’T TELL YOU ALL THE REASONS
WHY COMEY WENT FORWARD WITH HIS
INVESTIGATION.
MAYBE THIS WAS ONE PIECE OF A
BIGGER BUT PUZZLE.
I DO KNOW THAT IT’S NEARLY FOUR
YEARS AGO AND I DON’T UNDERSTAND
WHY OUR FOCUS ISN’T ON WHAT’S
HAPPENING RIGHT NOW AND TODAY.
THAT’S THE INVESTIGATION I WOULD
LIKE TO SEE GOING ON.
MARIA: WHAT’S HAPPENING RIGHT
NOW IS WE ARE LEARNING --
VALERIE, WHAT’S HAPPENING RIGHT
NOW IS WE ARE LEARNING THE
DETAILS OF WHAT TOOK PLACE AND
WE ARE GETTING OFFICIAL
CONFIRMATION THAT THE FBI KNEW
THAT THE DOSSIER WAS GARBAGE AND
MADE UP IN A BAR BECAUSE THE
SUBSOURCE OF THE DOSSIER TOLD
FBI OFFICIALS IN EARLY JANUARY.
THEN IN EARLY JANUARY, YOU HAD
AN OVAL OFFICE MEETING WHERE
PRESIDENT OBAMA APPARENTLY SAID
WE’VE GOT TO GET THE RIGHT
PEOPLE INVOLVED TO INVESTIGATE
GENERAL FLYNN.
WE HAD JOE BIDEN SAY LET’S GET
HIM ON THE LOGAN ACT AND WE KNOW
ALL OF THIS FROM PETER STRZOK’S
HANDWRITTEN NOTES.
SO LET ME ASK YOU THIS.
DID YOU WANT GENERAL FLYNN TO BE
UNMASKED AS WELL?
I KNOW A LOT OF YOUR COLLEAGUES
DID.
JOE BIDEN WANTED IT.
SUSAN RICE WANTED IT.
THEY WANTED HIM UNMASKED.
DID YOU ALSO SAY YOU WANTED HIM
UNMASKED.
>> NO, I WAS NOT INVOLVED IN
ANY OF THOSE CONVERSATIONS.
BUT THE QUESTION I WANT TO PUT
TO YOU IS, WHAT ARE WE DOING
TODAY?
IF PEOPLE WANT TO HAVE AN
INVESTIGATION ABOUT WHAT
HAPPENED FOUR YEARS AGO, THEY
SHOULD DO THAT.
BUT AREN’T YOU CONCERNED ABOUT
WHAT’S GOING ON RIGHT NOW?
AREN’T YOU WORRIED ABOUT THE
INTEGRITY OF OUR UPCOMING
ELECTIONS?
AREN’T YOU WORRIED ABOUT HOW
WE’RE GOING TO HAVE A SAFE AND
FERRELL EX.
MARIA: YES, THAT’S WHY I’M
ASKING YOU THIS QUESTION.
VALERIE, THAT’S EXACTLY WHY I’M
ASKING YOU THESE QUESTIONS
BECAUSE I AM A PATRIOT AND DON’T
WANT TO SEE PEOPLE IN POSITIONS
OF POWER PUT THEIR FINGER ON THE
SCALE AND MAKE UP A STORY THAT
THERE’S COLLUSION WITH A FOREIGN
POWER WHEN THERE’S ABSOLUTELY NO
EVIDENCE OF THAT.
AND IF THE POWERS THAT BE KNEW
THAT THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF
THAT IN EARLY JANUARY, I WANT TO
MAKE SURE THAT WE DO NOT HAVE
THE POWERS IN GOVERNMENT SPYING
ON POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS BECAUSE
THE OTHER POLITICAL CAMPAIGN
PAID FOR IT.
WE KNOW THAT HILLARY CLINTON
PAID YOU FOR THE DOSSIER.
-- PAID FOR THE DOSSIER.
THIS IS AN ELECTION YEAR.
YOU’VE GOT ONE CAMPAIGN PAYING
FOR DIRT ON ANOTHER CAMPAIGN AND
YOU’VE GOT THE AMAZING
INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES OF OUR
GOVERNMENT WEAPONIZED.
SO THAT’S WHAT HAS TAKEN PLACE
HERE.
YOU’RE SAYING YOU KNEW NOTHING
ABOUT IT?
YOU WERE PRESIDENT OBAMA’S RIGHT
HAND.
A LOT OF PEOPLE WONDER HOW MUCH
PRESIDENT OBAMA DIRECTED THIS.
SO I ASK YOU, DID PRESIDENT
OBAMA DIRECT ANY OF THIS?
>> THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS.
THAT’S NOT HOW OUR
INVESTIGATIONS WORK.
BUT WE LEAVE THAT TO THE
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY TO BRING
FORWARD INFORMATION AND THE
DOSSIER, I WOULD IMAGINE WOULD
BE ONE PIECE OF A MUCH BIGGER
PUZZLE.
IF YOU’RE SAYING IS IT IMPORTANT
TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE ISN’T
INFLUENCE AND ACTUALLY THE
MUELLER REPORT DIDN’T CONCLUDE
THERE WASN’T ANY WRONG-DOING.
HE WAS EXPLICIT IN SAYING QUITE
THE OPPOSITE.
AND SO I DON’T THINK WE SHOULD
READ IN WHERE -- THERE HASN’T
BEEN A CONCLUSION TO THAT EFFECT
YET.
YOU’RE MAKING STATEMENTS THAT
HAVEN’T BEEN PROVEN TO BE FACT.
MARIA: JUST TO BE CLEAR, ROBERT
MUELLER SAID NO COLLUSION.
MICHAEL HOROWITZ, THE IG OF THE
FBI SAID THAT THE DOSSIER WAS,
QUOTE, UNQUOTE, AN ESSENTIAL
PIECE OF ALL OF THIS
INVESTIGATING OF THE TRUMP
CAMPAIGN, ESSENTIAL PIECE WAS
THE WORD MICHAEL HOROWITZ USED.
YOU SAY IT WAS PART OF A LARGER
MOSAIC.
WE HAVE NO EVIDENCE OF THAT.
WE ONLY HAVE EVIDENCE OF THE
DOSSIER.
I APPRECIATE YOU COMING ON THIS
MORNING AND ANSWERING THE TOUGH
QUESTIONS THAT OUR AUDIENCE