The Dan Bongino Show - We Were Sold Out Yesterday # 975 (Ep 975)

Episode Date: May 8, 2019

In this episode I address the FBI Director selling us out yesterday at a critical time. I also discuss an explosive new piece by an FBI whistleblower which should have James Comey very worried. Finally, I address The NY Times latest attack on President Trump and I debunk more liberal lies about the economy. News Picks:Pathetic: The FBI Director says “spying” is not the term he’d use.  Bernie Sanders’ campaign is struggling in national polls. FBI whistleblower says Jim Comey may be in big trouble. Here’s troubling new evidence that the State Department and the FBI knew about the political origins of the dossier. This John Solomon piece from last year regarding “scrubbing the lists” sheds some light on CIA involvement in Spygate. The NY Times attacks President Trump again by releasing his personal financial information. Liberals were wrong about the Trump tax cuts, again.  Copyright Dan Bongino All Rights Reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

get ready to hear the truth about america on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host dan bongino all right welcome to the dan bongino show producer joe how are you today it's wonderful wednesday yes it is yes we had a great suggestion from a viewer yesterday wants a montage of famous joe armacost openings to the show We will work on that right around holiday time. It will be a gift to you. All right, listen, I've got a really stacked show today. Joe knows it. It's going to be one of our, if I nail this today, folks,

this is going to be one of our finest pieces of work yet. Because the show yesterday about how the Bureau and the cia got they oh i don't this is gonna be a this is gonna blow your mind so don't go anywhere also the fbi director sold this out yesterday uh big time up on capitol hill and i want to get to that too all right let's get right to it today show brought to you by our friends at calming comfort i love this blanket listen i have a real hard time going to sleep, really hard time. I, you know, at night, I'm always thinking about what the show is gonna consist of the next day,

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need the bell uh so christopher ray was up on capitol hill yesterday the fbi director and completely sold this out i don't know what's up with this guy um i apologize to all of you for giving this guy the benefit of the doubt but he's up on capitol hill and he's answering a question from senator shaheen uh a democrat and don't forget the name or the face if you're watching on youtube senator shaheen why it's important that he answers this question the way he does christopher ray to give the deep state folks some comfort. But it's also important that he's answering it to Senator Shaheen, which I'll explain at the end. Senator Shaheen is asking him about the intelligence agencies, the FBI, potentially spying on the Trump campaign.

Here's his first answer. I'd like to follow up on Senator Moran's question about the hearing we had with Attorney General Barr, because I was very concerned by his use of the word spying, which I think is a very loaded word. It conjures a criminal connotation. And I want to ask you, and I'd appreciate a yes or no answer if possible, when FBI agents conduct investigations against alleged mobsters, suspected terrorists, other criminals. Do you believe that they're engaging in spying when they're following FBI investigative policies and procedures? Well, that's not the term I would use. Thank you. So I would say that's a no to that question.

Well, I mean, look, there are lots of people have different colloquial phrases i believe that the fbi is engaged in investigative activity and part of investigative activity includes surveillance activity of different shapes and sizes and to me the key question is making sure that it's done by the book consistent with our lawful authorities that's the key question different people use different colloquial phrases okay um ray totally sold this out yesterday christopher ray needed the fbi needed a an out the bureaucrats and the politicians up on dc needed a soundbite and christopher ray gave them exactly what they needed yesterday well that's not the phrase I would use. That's the phrase that's been used forever. It's a common term in the English language.

Make no mistake, Senator Shaheen, and I'll get to this in a second, why specifically she needed that answer that way. Senator Shaheen needed a soundbite for the media, which, of course, the police state tyrannical liberal buffoons in the media jumped on. Oh, he doesn't agree with spying the FBI director. All right. Now I've had a few people, friends of mine. I like, I communicated with some of, you know, good folks, but they said to me yesterday and Twitter DMS and elsewhere, people, we communicate with each other. A lot of people investigating the spyygate case.

They said, Dan, it's really not that bad. Ray's simply suggesting that he'd use a different term and that he's saying really exactly what Barr said, that as long as the spying or surveillance or whatever you want to call it is predicated, it's fine. But we're looking into that. I don't buy that at all. Christopher Ray's not stupid. He understands exactly what happened. He knows the Trump team was spied on. And instead of backing up Bill Barr, the attorney general, what does he do? He takes the euphemism game and the, oh, we'll talk about surveillance.

That's a synonym for spying. Give us all a break. Shaheen doubles down. This is where it gets even worse. Instead of answering the question honestly and saying saying listen i'm not going to answer that because there's an ongoing investigation he gives democrats like shaheen soundbite number two with this ridiculous exchange do you have any evidence that any illegal surveillance into the campaigns or individuals associated with the campaigns by the fbi occurred i don't think i personally have any evidence of that sort. Now, instead of answering the question honestly and saying there's an ongoing inspector general investigation, I'm not going to get into that right now. He gives the Democrats exactly what

they want. Ladies and gentlemen, I apologize to you. I mean this, for giving this guy the benefit of the doubt. The Democrats needed a soundbite for the media. Everything is staged in advance. Ray had to know he was going to get this question, the FBI director. What does he do? I personally don't have any evidence. Just say there's an ongoing investigation and you don't know.

So what does, Joe, what does the police state media do? The police state hacks in the media there's no evidence of spying that's not what ray said that's not what he said he said he personally doesn't have evidence yeah caught that and goes on later oh there's an ongoing investigation just say there's an ongoing investigation and don't answer the question i personally don't have any evidence there's a bank being robbed in Oregon right now, but I'm not in Oregon investigating bank robberies.

Gosh, these deeps, I can't stand it. That deep state, it's all a conspiracy. These guys, this guy's the FBI director. Are you even interested in getting to the bottom of this? Now, to wrap this segment up, because I got a ton of stuff to get to, please don't go anywhere. I'm going to blow your mind today

if I do this right, okay? We need like six or seven producers on this show to tie everything together. Why was it important yesterday? Sorry, Joe. That may have been perceived as a nod.

I don't know why the audience loves you. I was not knocking you. I'm just saying, today's show is so complicated that Joe and Paula could use some assistance. My apologies. I just want to clear that. I'm just saying today's show is so complicated that Joe and Paula could use some assistance. My apologies.

I just want to clear that. I'll get 20 emails. Here is the video audio piece number three. This is very important. Why did Senator Shaheen, Democrat senator, need to ask that question to Ray? And why did she need Ray to give her an out and say, well, I wouldn't use the term spying and I personally don't have any evidence because Shaheen screwed up. And when I say screwed up, I mean for her Democrat activist base, when she got into this back and forth with Bill Barr, the attorney general a few weeks ago, and she needed a

lifeline and Christopher Ray gave it to her because she did this. Can you share with us why you feel a need to do that? Well, you know, for the same, well, for the same reason we're worried about foreign influence in elections, we want to make sure that during an election, I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal. It's a big deal. Generation I grew up in, which is the Vietnam War period, you know, people were all concerned about spying on anti-war people and so forth by the government. And there were a lot of rules put in place to make sure that there's an adequate basis before our law enforcement agencies get involved in political surveillance.

I'm not suggesting that those rules were violated, but I think it's important to look at that. And I'm not talking about the FBI necessarily, but intelligence agencies more broadly. So you're not suggesting, though, that spying occurred? I don't... Well... I guess you could... I think spying did occur. Yes, I think spying did occur.

Oh! Oh! Homer Simpson moment two weeks ago. Nelson Muntz... Eh-heh! Senator Gene Sahin well homer simpson moment two weeks ago nelson munson senator gene sahin aggravated the out of the democrat liberal radical police state base by asking bar a question he answered honestly that turned into a huge misstep she's asking him why he's investigating this whole spying into the Trump team thing. And he says the word

spying. And she goes, well, you're not suggesting spying occurred. He immediately responds, yo, spying occurred. We're just looking at why. She needed to be rescued. I hope I'm tying this up right. Yeah, you are. You're good. Her Democrat radical base,

Joe, was probably emailing her like, what are you, you an idiot why would you ask the attorney general about spying not knowing he of course he's gonna say that we're spying so she needed to be rest please understand what goes on behind the scenes at these things none of this stuff is random she screwed up by asking a follow-up question. Her first question was planned. I didn't play the whole thing because it's too long. She's asking him, why are you looking into this whole Pfizer thing? Which is fine because she wants to attack him. And instead of just letting it go, she asks for a second and unscripted follow-up question thinking he's going to say, no, no, there was no spying, but he answers answers honestly and it becomes an enormous soundbite

the liberal activist police state tyrant base and their media sycophant buddies their bootlicking media pals were furious at her because they gave bar an opening to say joe yeah spying occurred you notice by the way she has the same jacket on in both that those clips are like a couple weeks apart she has the same red jacket it's a power jacket it's a power jacket it's a power jacket exactly that's good that's good um she goes to and she needed to be rescued by ray and instead of ray doing the honest thing and saying listen i mean it's obvious based on media reports spying occurred. Me as the FBI director, I'm trying to get to the bottom of why to establish faith in

our agency again. That's not what he says. He gives our announcers. That's not the term I'd use. And I don't personally have any evidence. Just gross. Just gross. I have no faith in this guy at all.

And you shouldn't either. Embarrassed himself yesterday playing the political hack instead of an honest broker. And he thinks he's doing the country a big favor trying to salvage the reputation of the FBI. You're not doing anybody any favors, pal. Anybody.

Faith in the FBI has been decimated. And it's comments like that yesterday, the euphemisms game, which only adds to the complete lack of faith in the law enforcement infrastructure in this country. All right, I got to move on. I got a couple other stories here today. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the release last night by the New York Slimes, this slimy rag releasing Trump's tax returns.

Totally illegal, by the way, his tax returns being leaked, not to publish them. The media basically gets to do whatever the heck they want, sadly. But broke yesterday in New York Times, Trump's tax returns from a certain set of years were released. And I just find it funny that media lunatics who can't even do journalism right, these hacks who missed the story of the century that collusion was dead and spying was real who insisted collusion was real and spying was dead they got the story backwards the whole time they can't even do journalism they're like look trump's entities showed paper losses in their tax returns oh joe shocker i'm

stunned joe this is astonishing during the door During the real estate boom and bust, a real estate developer may have showed some paper losses in his tax returns. Oh, my gosh. Breaking news. Another big colossal facepalm by the New York Times. By the way, reporters and journalists at the New York Times who graduated with journalism degrees, many of them, because they flunked out of biology 101, couldn't figure out basic chemistry, so took journalism. They can barely write a complete sentence, blew the story of the century, and they're sitting there attacking a businessman who lost money, made money, lost money, made money, like a lot of successful real estate people in a volatile market? Yeah, that's shocking breaking news lunatics i have zero zero respect for liberal media activists zero none not a scintilla they are some of the dumbest people on the planet i dealt with them when i ran

for office i'm not going to belabor you with that story again. How dumb some of these people were when I dealt with them. They would say things to you. You'd scratch your head and be like, is this guy really this stupid? And the answer is yes. And they were all in journalism. Trump lost money in real estate. You never made money to lose. How does that feel?

Thanks, Chewy. How does that feel, knuckleheads? Trump showed paper losses of a billion dollars. You show paper profits of zero dollars because you've never made any money. You've never made a dollar. You're working for 25 grand a year, popping the crapping out clickbait articles at BuzzFeed and you're attacking a guy

who's been involved in some of the highest stakes real estate deals of the last 30 years? Not defending the guy's business decisions. Losing money stinks. But you know, my wife and I have been in business for ourselves for long. We've made money. We've lost money.

We've opened businesses. We've shut businesses. That's what happens. Yep. Some of the greatest business people of our time have had some of the biggest failures. Remembered Steve Jobs and the Newton? What's the Newton? Exactly. You don't even remember it.

A lot of the younger folks listening. Remember New Coke? Coca-Cola, one of the most successful companies in the history of civilized man, put out a product called New Coke once, one of the most calamitous business decisions of all time. Yeah, it sucked. It was awful, wasn't it? It was awful.

Talk about a PR disaster. This happens all the time. But the one thing common about journalists is journalists have never made money to lose because they couldn't hack it anywhere else. And therefore, they write about other people. And there are some good ones out there. Even in some left-leaning, there are some decent people left. I'm not knocking everyone.

some left-leaning. There are some decent people left. I'm not knocking everyone. Right. But them poking fun at business losses and a real estate, a known volatile real estate, are you serious? You've never made any money to lose, you lunatics. All right. Here's the part of the show where things start to get super hairy. I can't say this enough. I can pull this off. The show is going to blow your mind. If I can't, you're going to be super confused, but this is going to be good. All right. Today's show brought to you by buddies at U.S. Law Shield.

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I did a show yesterday. It was very important. And I've been very careful about how I word it because I'm very sensitive to audience feedback, especially when we say things that I know are true but can be perceived the wrong way. And the headline at the top of yesterday's show basically was that I believe John Brennan is the ringleader, former CIA director, of a massive spying operation

being run against the Obama administration's political opponents that Brennan was running. And the whole Russia story about collusion was nothing more than a cover story later for them to legitimize what they were doing to a compliant press. In other words, the Obama administration was trying, was spying, using Brennan and intelligence community assets on all kinds of things. Working with foreign partners, circumventing U.S. spying laws. In order to make that seem legitimate after the surprise election of Donald Trump, remember, they thought Hillary would get elected and all this would go away. They needed a reason.

Therefore, this whole Russian collusion fiasco was created to make it appear that they were doing something noble. Does that make sense? Yeah. If that doesn't make sense, I can't go any further. No, you're good. Okay, it does. Thank you. Sometimes I wish we had callers.

I'd be able to get audience feedback. I agree with you. But your emails suffice. The Russiagate story is a cover story to legitimize this spying thing. So John Solomon breaks the story yesterday. It's important. It's another critical piece of the puzzle we are finally starting to put together. So keep in mind what we're talking about.

We're talking about the CIA's involvement here in a big spying operation. Solomon breaks the story at the Hill yesterday about a State Department official, a last name Kavalec, that was told in a briefing by Christopher Steele, the guy who produces this Russian collusion information in the form of the dossier and briefings to the FBI and Bruce Ohr and elsewhere, that right before, 10 days before the FISA warrant in October,

10 days before the FISA warrant in October on Carter Page, Christopher Steele tells this woman Kavalec at the State Department, and she takes it down in a note. She memorializes it in a note that Christopher Steele needs this information to come out before the election. And she figures out as well that Christopher Steele is working for the DNC, a client that had been hacked into the DNC. Remember the DNC, you know, hack?

I use the air quotes because we can never really conclusively prove that because the DNC never turned over their servers. Right, right. Why is this important? One, because Christopher Steele is the producer of the entire Russia cover story, right? It's produced by Steele, who's working for Hillary in the DNC. The FBI has stated in their FISA warrants and elsewhere, they have refused to put in their FISA warrants

where they were spying on Carter Page, where Carter Page is the subject of a dossier. They did not put in there that Christopher Steele was working for Hillary Clinton. They did not, and Hillary Clinton's team. They left it out of the FISA warrant, hoodwinking the FISA judge. Leaving it out. That's a critical piece of information, that this information may be political, not intelligence.

Does this make sense so far? All right. A critical takeaway from John Solomon's Hill piece yesterday. This is worth your time here. Solomon's talking about the memo Kavalec wrote. He writes, everything else in the memo was redacted. The FOIA notes contain this explanation for the redactions. Classified by the FBI on, wait, wait, when?

What? 4-25, April 25th of 2019 in other words the fbi under who director christopher ray who we were just talking about who sold you out you're saying classified the documents as secret just a few days ago to add insult to injury, the FBI added this hopeful note. Don't worry, Joe, that's not in there. Don't worry,

Joe, but this is the note the FBI has on there. They have this thing redacted. This memo, Kavalec wrote about a meeting with steel. All right. Don't worry, Joe declassify on 1231,

2041. So don't worry. We'll get this info, Joe, 25 years after the 2016 election. Oh, great. Solomon goes on, for the first time we have written proof

the U.S. government knew well before the FBI secured the FISA warrant that Steele had a political motive and an election day deadline to make his dossier, by the way, and his information, because they may not be the exact same thing, public. Folks, do you understand now that any plausible deniability the FBI may have had, that their paid source, they were paying him at the time. He's also briefing the state department. Why is he briefing the state department?

These are not law enforcement officials. Why is he briefing this woman Cavalek at the state department and Cavalek who writes down in a note, she knows he's working for the DNC and Hillary Clinton. This guy's also being paid by the FBI. Do you understand how profound this is? Joe, are you putting this together? Yeah, man, sure.

That a paid FBI source they're using to spy on a political campaign via Carter Page is also feeding information to the State Department and acknowledging he works for the opposition political campaign? Holy cow. He's being paid by the FBI at the same time he's briefing this lady

why is christopher ray declassifying this last week or classifying it excuse me redacting it thank you for catching it why is he blacking it out i'm i'm humbly i know people listen to this show I am humbly and respectfully as a supporter of the President of the United States I mean this do I need to get on a knee to do this

do I have to beg please in the name of all that is sound and safe and in the name of the Republic in the name of all that is good please safe, and in the name of the republic, in the name of all that is good, please declassify this stuff already. This game has gone on too long already. The euphemisms game, Christopher,

it's not spying. I don't have a... Declassify this already. Enough. Enough. Enough of this I don't like cuss words but if there was ever a time this is a cano bleep this out enough of this bullshit I'm sorry for those who kids listening don't use that word but enough of this already. Please, Mr. President, declassify this.

This blackout game, black this out. What else is in that note? Well, I can tell you because Solomon speculates later in the piece, which is in the show notes, you got to read it, that a source told him that in that woman's note from the State Department, she's getting briefed by Steele 10 days before they produced the FISA warrant in October of 2016. A source tells John Solomon that in the note are indications that Hillary Clinton's team was paying him to do this. So let's just follow what this is here.

what this is here. The State Department, not a law enforcement entity at all, for some bizarre reason, is meeting with Christopher Steele, a foreign spy they know is being paid by Hillary, who is also working for the FBI, to feed information to the FISA court to

spy on Donald Trump. And Christopher Steele tells the State Department woman that he really needs this out before the election. Sounds like collusion to impact an election to me, folks. Enough of this dance. Damn it. Declassify this already. We're people out there putting their reputations on the hook.

John Solomon, Sarah Carter, Chuck Ross, Molly Hemingway, Margo Cleveland, Byron York, a ton of people, Jeff Carlson, who have been working on this for two years. Stop leaving us hanging. Declassify this. Enough of this game. We are entitled to the truth, man. So keep in mind now, October 2016,

because now I'm going to tie this into an old event. You know what? If I may give myself a small pat on the back here, if I may. Self-praise, thanks, I get it. My lovely aunt used to tell me that. I love Dan Jane. God rest her soul. Self-praise, thanks, Daniel. But following everybody's work and having some sources of my own has allowed me to put things together differently. And I think having a criminal investigative background helps a little

bit here. I want to tie this to an older John Solomon piece from last year. Before I do that, keep in mind what I'm talking about now. Ray has sold this out. He has now declassified just a, excuse me, class of redacted just a week ago, a memo we just discovered thanks to a FOIA request, the Freedom of Information Act request. This was not given to Nunes

or any other investigators, telling us that just a month before the election, one month, a foreign spy working for Mrs. Clinton was briefing the State Department while working for the FBI and demanding that his information get out

before the election, even though it was false, to impact our election. Now, if we may, go to this John Solomon piece in The Hill from last year, and a quote from it. I'm going to pull it up on my phone here, too, just in case. John Solomon, from 2018. case john solomon from 2018 memos detail fbi's quote hurry the f up pressure to probe trump campaign wait the fbi when is the fbi worrying about quote this is this is not me using foul language this is an actual quote from the investigators investigating trump at a very critical period they're emailing each other about getting this pfizer warrant that they need to

quote hurry the f up here's the first piece from this this is from 2018 hat tip my buddy 279 by the way you know who you are nice work on this in one email exchange with the subject line crossfire fisa stroke and lisa page these two investigators in the case discuss talking points to get fbi direct deputy director mccabe to persuade a high-ranking doj official to sign off on the warrant. So Stroke, the FBI agent investigating Donald Trump, in this very critical time period, I'll get to in a second, is trying to persuade a skeptical Department of Justice official that this FISA warrant, based on Christopher Steele's information, is legit.

Here's the quote. This is an email exchange between Stroke and his FBI lawyer girlfriend who's also working on the case. At a minimum, that keeps the hurry the F up pressure on him talking about this DOJ official who's

skeptical about this investigation. Stroke email page on october 14th 2016 less than four weeks before election day here's the goosebumps again for the second day in a row yeah Now does this new John Solomon article about October of 2016 I just went over start to have more color and context? Mm-hmm. So Christopher Steele, who is the source of the entire Russian collusion hoax cover story

to hide a massive spying operation under the Obama administration, Christopher Steele's the only source of this. There is no Russian collusion is a hoax invented in the mind of Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS. He's their quote machine for the FBI. They need a quote. They go to him. Just a few days before this email exchange, we just hurry the f up get the doj to do this

just a few days before that steel meets with the state department and the state department takes a memo never disclosed to anyone we've the first time we've seen this is yesterday steel meets with the state department and the State Department official is dumb enough to write down in a memo that he's probably working for Hillary Clinton and he's definitely working for the DNC and he needs to push this out before Election Day. Sounds to me like election interference. just possible that the FBI gets wind that their paid source Christopher Steele is now at the State Department for some bizarre reason and is dumb enough to disclose

that he wants this out before election day and is working with Hillary Clinton you think the FBI is a little concerned that may get back to the DOJ therefore they should hurry the F up? Armacost, please tell me that made sense to you. Yeah, it made sense. Sadly.

Just three days after Steele is at the State Department giving up the entire bag of cookies to an untrained law enforcement, not law enforcement, the State Department, who is dumb enough to put this down in a memo that could be discovered later. Which now Christopher Wray is hiding and redacting from us all. The Bureau probably knew about this and said, we got a problem. We told the DOJ, Department of Justice, this guy steals a reliable source for intel. Steals going to the DOJ, Department of Justice, this guy steals a reliable source for Intel.

Steals going to the State Department. The State Department figured out that this guy's a political operator working for Hillary. We better hurry the F up and get this DOJ thing through right away before they figure it out. Wow. Oh, the corruption here. Moving on. This is from Solomon's piece from last year, from 2018. The second piece from there is another,

oh gosh, this is crazy. The day after Trump's surprising win on November 9th, 2016, the FBI counterintelligence team engaged in a new mission, bluntly described in another string of emails prompted by another news leak. Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to switch gears here for a second. We were just talking about

just so we're clear. We were just talking about Steele briefs. The State Department gives up his whole political motive. I need to impact the election. I'm working for Hillary and the DNC. The State Department hides the memo, doesn't disclose it.

Christopher Wray now redacts it. I believe Stroke and his team found out about it. The DOJ, people in the DOJ who had to sign off on this thing weren't going to sign off because they didn't believe Steele was reliable. And they had to hurry the F up before they found out Steele released the cookies to the State Department.

Copy that. Now, in the same piece, we're going to switch gears because I want to go back to Brennan being the puppet master of this whole thing. The ringleader. The head of this circus. Back to that second piece there. Here, this is the, oh, this one is just devastating. Here's a communication between all of, from Stroke and Page emailing each other the day after the election. We need all, emphasis theirs, of their names to scrub.

And we should give them ours for the same purpose. Stroke email Page on November 10th citing a Daily Beast article about Manafort. Andy, talking about Andy McCabe, didn't get any others, page wrote back, apparently indicating McCabe didn't have names to add to the, quote, scrub. I'm going to explain this. Don't go anywhere. That's what Bill said, stroke wrote back, apparently referring to then FBI chief of counterintel William Price step. I suggest we need to exchange our entire lists

as we each have potential derogatory CI info the other doesn't. CI is short for confidential informants. The day after Trump surprises the world and wins this election, the FBI agents who just a month earlier are telling the DOJ to hurry the F up on getting that FISA warrant because they're worried Christopher Steele's political ties are going to come out and his efforts to impact their election. They're all surprised. They're astonished because Trump won. And nobody, nobody expected that.

They thought Hillary was going to make this all go away. Trump wins. The day later, they panic, and they're worried about scrubbing lists. Ladies and gentlemen, what lists are they talking about? If you listen to yesterday's show, you may see exactly where I'm going with this. Folks, the FBI agents involved in this, clearly, I can't say this enough, at the top, acted with malicious intent. This is in no way, shape, form. Anyway, giving them a pass.

But I legitimately believe at this point. That the FBI agents at the top. Who wanted to harm Trump, there's no doubt. Got played by John Brennan. And certain operators and players at the CIA too. Now, you may say, well, you're giving them an out. I'm not giving them an out. If the FBI would have done their homework and acted with clear eyes instead of acting as they did with hatred towards Donald Trump, the scam would have been obvious.

But because they hated him so much, they willingly fell for this. What's this? What's the scam? What are you talking about? Ladies and gentlemen, I believe the FBI in sucking in this information from Christopher Steele, paying him, even though he's a political operative and the government knows it at this point. We have this new memo. Steele feeds this to the State Department. They know he's a political operative and the government knows it at this point we have this new memo steel feeds this to the state department they know he's a political operative i believe the fbi thinks the information they're getting from steel even though they know he's a

political operative is confirming information they get in paragraph one from the CIA. You're confused, I can tell. Because Joe is completely silent. No, I'm taking this in, man. I've told you repeatedly, the FBI continues to hide the origins of their investigation into Trump.

They're lying, saying it began with Papadopoulos. It didn't. Right. I call it paragraph one. Every investigative report has a first paragraph talking about how it started. We have no idea to this

day what paragraph one the EC, the electronic communication that starts this case, counterintelligence a case into the trump team we have no idea what it says right i'm going to tell you what it says it is a referral from our intelligence community probably from brennan's crew at the cia indicating that trump's team. Manafort and others. Have suspicious Russian ties.

And I believe that information. Is from some of the same players. Connected to Christopher Steele. Understand what I'm telling you. Steele and this network. Of foreign intelligence operators. Who are supposedly friendly. to the United States are feeding information to John Brennan. Remember that meeting with the British intelligence head at the director level with John Brennan? It's all the same garbage information.

Brennan gets this garbage information. Brennan gets this garbage information. Brennan needs this information, this Russian collusion story, as a cover story to hide Brennan's illicit activities for Obama. The spying that went on. Brennan feeds this information to the FBI and pretends it's distinct, separate information from Steele. it's distinct separate information from Steele. The FBI then gets the information from Steele in the form of Steele information and the dossier,

not always the same thing. Right. And says, Joe, look, maybe Brennan was right. This dossier, we have said the same thing we got from the agency, the CIA. We have said the same thing we got from the agency, the CIA. Now, does it make sense why the day after the election day, they're talking about scrubbing the list of informants? Yeah.

Yeah. They're in a panic. They're figuring out the day after election day that the same informants the CIA used that they told them was separate information was the same guy. You doubt what I'm telling you? Again, hat tip to my source. Let's go to page 95 and 96 of Lisa Page's testimony up on Capitol Hill. The FBI lawyer intimately involved in working on this case. Lisa Page is up on Capitol Hill and is asked by a congressman,

excellent congressman, Mark Meadows from North Carolina. I adore this guy. All over this case. Meadows says, okay, I guess what concern I have is why would Director Brennan be aware of the things

that FBI was not aware of at this particular point when it actually would potentially involve, according to Stroke's word on January of 2017, an unverified salacious set of memos? Page responds, so I don't understand what you're saying. What are you saying? Whatever occurs between Brennan and Reid, I don't understand what the relationship to the dossier is. That's not what I'm following. Keep that up there for a minute. In other words,

Meadows is saying, Brennan got the same information you did. Page responds back under oath, and I believe her. I believe she's telling the truth. I don't know what you're talking about. Our source was separate. It was Steele. Meadows is like, it's

not separate. It's the same guy it goes on meadows says so the dossier apparently was mentioned in fact we have documents that would suggest that in the briefing the dossier was mentioned to harry reed and then obviously we're gonna have to have conversations does that surprise you let me translate memo meadows is saying that the dossier and the information you guys got from steel is the exact same thing john brennan briefed in august in august before the fbi gets the dossier page again is confused how is that that's not brennan's information's not from Steele. That's our information.

He was our source. It goes on. Miss Paige answers that. Well, that totally surprises me. Meadows says, what, that Director Brennan would be aware of? Paige says, yes, sir. Because with all due honesty, if Director Brennan, so we got that information, all redacted.

Her answer after that. Why is that redacted? Declassify this. Meadows goes on. We do know there are multiple sources. Page, I do know that. I do know that the information ultimately found its way to a lot of different places. Certainly in October of 2016.

Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Page, the FBI lawyers acknowledging right here on the screen. That she knows Steele's information went to multiple sources. Maybe the State Department where Steele told him he was a political operator and you used it anyway? Put that

back up. Not only does she acknowledge it made its way to the State Department, Mr. Meadows says, so you say our source is your source or is that because he was working for you? In other words, what Meadows is saying is okay, so you're saying Steele's your source, but you're also saying his information made its way to multiple other agencies?

Page's answer is critical. I don't know if the CIA has or had Mr. Steele open as a source. I would not know that. Folks, I think she's telling the truth. These idiots got totally, totally worked because they hated this president so much. They failed to do their basic job, their responsibility to verify and authenticate their source. They thought the information they were getting from Steele was corroborating information coming from Brennan. It's the same damn thing.

Brennan, she's stunned that Brennan had the information in August what the dossier that's impossible the dossier came to us way after August we got that information separately from Brennan no you didn't now does the panic on November

10th make sense we gotta scrub the lists. We got to make sure that our CI, Christopher Steele, wasn't the agency CI too, the CIA. We're telling people we were corroborating the CIA's information. It was the same information. Joe, please tell me this makes sense, brother. Man, it does does they got worked

big time dude oh holy cow idiots Brennan played you for fools Brennan went and briefed Harry Reid on Capitol Hill about Christopher Steele's information

which then gets a letter from Reid sent to the FBI telling him to open up a case Steele's information, which then gets a letter from Reed sent to the FBI telling him to open up a case. Steele then goes to the FBI and the State Department, probably doesn't tell him about dealing with Brennan at all. Matter of fact, I'm almost sure he doesn't. Tells them the same information. The FBI's reading it thinking it's the first time.

It goes, wow, this sounds like the stuff Brennan told us. Of course it does. It's the same information, you dopes. Sounds like the stuff Brennan told us. Of course it does. It's the same information, you dopes. This is going to get better. Don't go anywhere.

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He sold us out on Capitol Hill yesterday by giving the one senator who needed an out the out she needed. I wouldn't use the term spying. Then says, well, I personally

don't have any evidence. You know what? Well, I personally didn't meet Jesus Christ, but I believe in him. I mean, what is this?

An article of faith? You personally don't meet Jesus Christ, but I believe in him. I mean, what is this? An article of faith? You personally don't have the evidence? Secondly, Ray redacts a document we just found from a State Department official. Personally redacts Ray, right? His operation. He's the FBI director.

A key component of a passage where we now know Steele met with the State Department and his political ties were revealed. We now know Lisa Page, one of the FBI to open up a law enforcement case because the CIA can't do that. They have no law enforcement authority. By going up to Capitol Hill, briefing Harry Reid on information they unquestionably got from Steele

but didn't tell the FBI about. Why? Because when the FBI gets the information from Steele as a paid source later on, even though he tells the State Department he's a political operator. The FBI can then pretend they're shocked. You know what? I shouldn't say pretend.

I don't think they're shocked. I mean, I don't think they're pretending. I think they are genuinely shocked that they got duped by this idiot Brennan. just would have done basic due diligence and scrubbed the lists in advance, they would have figured out that the FBI and the CIA were not corroborating each other. They were using the same guy. Now it is Brennan's little CYA on TV. I didn't see the dossier until December. December, that's conveniently after October. on TV. I didn't see the dossier until December. December.

That's conveniently after October. Now does it make sense? Brennan probably didn't see the dossier. No. What he saw was Steele's information. The dossier was handed off to the political people.

It's the same stuff. Please tell me that makes sense. He's playing a word game with you here. I didn't see the dossier. Did you talk to Christopher Steele? That's a different story. I plead the fifth. Damn it, this is frustrating. Just declassify this stuff.

Sorry, I didn't lose my... I'm just really... This whole thing just pisses me off, man. Declassify this already. Enough of this dance. Brennan, dupe these idiots. Hey, look, we've got got information you better open up a case Harry Reid tell them to open up a case

they open up a case based on the information this Steele guy appears they start paying him like whoa look at this Joe he's saying the same thing we were told by the CIA ooh crazy how that happens yeah Paige well I didn't know the CIA was using him CIA. Oh, crazy how that happens. Yeah. Page.

Well, I didn't know the CIA was using him. Maybe you should have scrubbed the list before the election. Do your job, damn it. Here's the last takeaway. Sorry, I've teased this thing to death. From John Solomon's piece last year. He's this thing to death from John Solomon's piece last year. There's a very suspicious appointment made by the FBI.

The FBI appoints a liaison official to the Trump transition team after they start working on scrubbing the lists of informants. But they make a very suspicious appointment and the investigators seem very concerned about who this guy is, who's going to be, just to be clear, Joe, this is the FBI official who's going to be assigned, tasked to the Trump transition team.

All right. Quoting John Solomon's piece, as the president-elect, Trump geared to take over, the FBI made another move that has captured investigators' attention. John Solomon never says anything without a hint of big impropriety. It named an executive with expertise in the FBI's most sensitive surveillance equipment to be a liaison to the Trump transition. Wow! Solomon goes on.

On its face, that seems odd. Technical surveillance nerds aren't normally the first picks for plum political assignments. Even odder, the FBI counterintelligence team, worried about scrubbing the list, by the way, running the Trump-Russia probe, seemed to have an interest in the appointment. Why would John write that? You think John just got bored at the end of the story and was like, you know what?

Let's queue up the Teddy Ruxpin machine, drop a coin and just throw a little extra in there. No, Solomon should be up for a Pulitzer. I'm not kidding. Now does the recent revelation about how Peter Stroke, an employee in his office, was married to Mike Pence's old chief of staff,

and the FBI text we discussed, Joe, what, a week, two weeks ago, about how these FBI investigators are texting each other about potentially using their contacts to get a source inside the presidential transition team? Oh, I have information. I'll I'm not sure I'm breaking it here. I know other people who broke it, but I can confirm it for you here. I know other people who broke it, but I can confirm it for you here.

Technical surveillance sweeps outside. Listen to what I'm telling you. I'm going to repeat this again. This is a ding, ding, ding, pay attention moment. All right. I'm going to confirm this for you. The FBI has a contact, the spouse of a high-ranking person inside the vice president's office. They're texting each other about using those ins to get some information from the transition team while they're appointing an FBI official, oddly, who has surveillance capabilities, is a tech nerd, to be the liaison to the transition team. is a tech nerd to be the liaison to the transition team.

I'm confirming for you now that technical surveillance sweeps were done of the White House after and outside of their normal protocols. You don't get it do you so the fbi appoints a technical surveillance nerd to a political spot in the liaison team while they're emailing each other later on back and forth about developing sources inside the white house to use because they're married to people in the FBI. The Secret Service and others, the Technical Security Division, probably in conjunction with WACA, the White House Communications Agency,

then feels the need afterwards to do a sweep for potential listening devices in and around the Oval Office. Confirmed. Outside of their normal sweeps. Because I'm... I know what the liberals will say. Oh, the Secret Service and them sweep for listening devices all the time. They do.

Why were they doing extra sweeps, by the way? land that freaking ship bro let me leave you today with a little gem from our old boy up chuck Schumer who knows exactly what happened here. This is Chuck Schumer telling Rachel Maddow exactly why all of this went on. And I'll see you all tomorrow.

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