The Clinton campaign and the DNC paid 12
Million dollars for a dossier to connect Donald Trump to Russia this isn't about whether you won
or lost an election
It's whether you broke the law or not time and time again
The Clintons have lied to the American people and they're finally we've got to be held accountable for it. This is about our
Democracy it's about law and order and it's time for the Republicans
To step up to the plate to man up and do their job. This is the path forward
We've got to continue to do this not let up get all the facts because if we want to drain the swamp
Now is our time to do it in sections owner Bob McNair said we can't have the inmates
Running the prison who's talking about the whole kneeling controversy wrong choice of words
I would never take a knee listen if your problem is you want to protest against police brutality?
There are better ways to go about that
There will at the very least be a game six in the World Series because the serious is tied to the two
More fun always I don't have a team in the you just want to go seven games
We got the one run off game on the wild-card beat by the
Halloween extravaganza
Celebrate I don't know if you guys noticed this driving in this morning because we drive in very early
It's still dark and often people are still enjoying their night
The night of Halloween because Saturday was when many New Yorkers were out dressing up
You can't tell the difference between who's in costume and who's just
a costume
And the guy the girl was holding his hand and he had a construction uniform like orange
Vest and a hard hat on and I was like is he going to work because normally at 4:00 in the morning you see
Structural workers going to work in New York City, and there's all kinds of streets around here, and I was like oh
So we're gonna have some fun today on the show maybe some costume
Oh, there is still a lot of news and more and more continues to break about this dossier
How it was funded how they're getting access to where that money came from and now the House Intelligence Committee is striking a deal
it's struck a deal for access to fusion GPS bank records because
Until now we've known sort of where it came from or no we knew what was in the dossier or parts of it?
But we didn't know where the money came from and that's been the biggest news over the past because motivation is very
Important and we we understood that eventually the fusion GPS was gonna have to give up these records
Which is why they got out front of this story and acknowledged that the DNC did acknowledge that they were part of the funding in
The Clinton campaign, but now the fact that the Intelligence Committee itself is going to get access to these bank records it will confirm
What we know the of the involvement of the DNC in the Clinton campaign, maybe tell us more
But maybe tell us more who knows what other sources may have been out there who else could have been involved
We always say follow the money right and Devon Nunez who runs the House Intelligence Committee. He really shook this loose
He gets the credit. Yeah
He had subpoenaed these bank rec and as you Pete said it was only because a judge was leaning towards
Forcing these records out at the beginning of the next week that it all started leaking out last week
And I thought congressman Ron de Santos was all over this in saying we're about to learn a whole lot more
This dossier that was paid for by the Democratic Party
debbie, Wasserman Schultz the DNC the Clintons
If that was used as the basis of this surveillance by Jim Comey and the FBI
That means all this puffs about Russia collusion that happened over
These many months all goes back to that unverified essentially piece of garbage and so all of this stuff
I think it's called into question
You would never have had all these committees
Investigating this to begin with and you certainly would not have had a special counsel appointed
I think that's right the president has coined famously the phrase fake news what you could coin on
This is it is a fake investigation
It is not real if the nevertrump errs first funded the background investigation which we learned from the Washington free beacon?
To try to go at Trump, then it turned to the Clintons funding the fake dossier
Then you go to fusion GPS close to news sources like we've learned recently like CNN and others
Happily leaking anonymously to them then the Russians gave them half the information for the dossier
That was all false, and then it was given to the Obama administration
Which they weaponized and then the guy now leading the investigation is the former FBI director for the Obama?
Administration how much does that feel like something stacked only against this president and this?
Investigation we'll see who they who they are bringing charges against tomorrow. We're so waiting on that
Coming tomorrow
But that's been the question the whole time that we've talked about a lot on the show is what is this?
Investigation about at the end of the day is it about finding collusion with President Trump
And the Russians is this a bigger investigation without right, or is it about more broadly with Russia
And how they were involved in in trying to manipulate the elections people are still very confused as to what this is about well
I think there's still some real big questions had to be at right and there still is not proof that a single vote was changed
Right by the Russians or anyone else to influence the election that seems to be or what should be the bottom line
Question not where the Paul man for it had you know shaking transactions five ten years ago
But the president he if he if and I underline if he broke the law sure people should be held accountable
But that has potentially nothing to do with the last line correct, which is why the president has said time and time again
He doesn't have any concerns at all about anyone in in the his chain of command or people that work with him
Diming him out because there's nothing to dime him out and in fact in the New York Times
Which the president calls the failing New York Times? They had this yesterday president has no concerns
This is a statement from the administration from his attorney president has no concerns
in terms of any impact as to what happens to manna for or Flynn on his campaign or in the White House so if the
President truly is unconcerned
It's another piece of evidence that you know that was a Ty Cobb who is the lawyer inside the White House?
helping to turn over documents
To robert muller and a special counsel and abby. He's saying look. He said this in this podcast with the new york times
We believe we have nothing to hide so we're trying to get these records to them so they can clear us sooner
That's their. Hope do you may know where this started this was all under James Comey?
I mean how much has changed this in the past year now Robert Moeller is over this investigation and you have folks that are
Questioning this investigation Michael Goodwin is one of them
He's in New York Post columnist, and he's calling on Moeller now to step aside from this investigation
He says robert muller will never be able to untangle
The tangled webs with any credibility and needs to step aside Moeller this office has apparently
leaked the secret news that a grand jury has approved charges assumed his role with one big conflict his relationship with
Comey that conflict has morphed into
Several more that are thought that are fixable only by resignation and The Wall Street Journal called for his resignation
I believe the editorial page on Friday as well, so this is not a lone voice
I think Michael Goodwin is adding to some others who have said there's there's a problem here absolutely and especially if
I mean you've got a mentorship relationship from the very beginning
But if this whole investigation really does turn in the other direction it should call into even more question whether or not he's viably
a viable alternative believe an investigation well
It's completely turned on its head this whole all the way
Because the Democrats have been focused on this from the beginning and now find out that it's funded by the Democrats by the Hillary campaign
And just just let that sink in for a second, so governor Mike Huckabee
He was always very passionate about these issues and animated he had these thoughts about the investigation blowing up in the Democrats face
It's blowing up in their face for all of a year
They have been demanding that we investigate the connection between Donald Trump
and the Russians and the Trump campaign the president himself everybody connected said there is no connection and
Now we find out that if there is a connection. It's with the DNC. It's with the Hillary Clinton campaign
It's the money that they spent to try to get this dossier done
I mean it it really is coming back to haunt them and the uranium deal
Which just stinks to high heaven I want to make it very clear. This isn't about whether you won, or lost an election
It's whether you broke the law or not well. That's the issue and isn't it interesting Hillary, Clinton
She hasn't been shy with her opinions since the election especially during the the book tour remember after the Las Vegas tragedy
She tweeted within hours about gun control and even some of her supporters were saying this might be a little bit too soon
When it comes to the funding of the dossier this story's been out there now for days
Nancy and her campaign you see a tweet you see, but she did answer a big question last night, though. Oh really
So baby not this question the question everyone's been wanting to get an answer to take a listen
Since the election one of the most common questions people have asked me is how did you even get out of bed?
Yes, I'll be honest there were times when it was tempting just to pull the covers up over my head
But instead I spent time with family and friends. I watched a lot of HGTV and
Went into my own frenzy of
organizing closets and drawers in our house
Played with our two sweet dogs did some yoga, and yes, I also had my fair share of Chardonnay
No tough questions yet from the media for her about whether or not she knew about I don't know funding a Russian dossier
That's triggered an entire country and a year-long investigation about nonsense, but she will talk about Chardonnay
yoga
There's a sweet part of that which is that you spent more time with her grandkids everybody goes through?
Setbacks and failures and trying to people would love to see more of that from Hillary, Clinton
They say you know you aren't grandma this election is over. Take a step back
And stop making it the focus
Beginning how did I get out of bed?
It's just strange cuz whole career has been about fighting back to be tough instead of this like oh
What was me that's the way it comes across right?
I think a lot of Democrats for the same way as well as they're trying to move forward as a party
Let's let's just we're about a year
Since the election and we're still talking about how'd you get out of bed after the election at some point?
I just I feel really bad for her all right well
I do want to bring you some other headlines that we're following starting with some extreme weather right now
Tropical storm of Felipa slamming the southern coast of Florida a tornado briefly touching down a West Palm Beach ahead of the storm on Saturday
Knocking out power to thousands of people there the powerful storm now fueling a second system moving into the Northeast
drenching rains howling winds we can already feel it here in New York expected to sweep the New England region today into tomorrow and
Four officers are now suspended without pay in connection to a prison break it took officers nearly two days before
Realizing this man 43 year-old Todd Boyce was missing from the West, Virginia jail
And he is still on the loose boys was able to change into street clothes in his cell and then walk out of jail
As you can see there. He was doing court on Friday to be sentenced on charges including possession of a stolen car yeah
He's still on the loose
And a judge could rule tomorrow to declare a mistrial in Senator Bob Menendez corruption case in, New Jersey
Democrats attorneys arguing that the judge's decision to block testimony from lawyer mark a Ullaeus is
preventing them from putting on a proper defense
Julius who worked as a lawyer for the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC Elias now he says
Interesting recently gained attention for his role in commissioning as we were talking about the Trump dossier well Menendez is accused of accepting gifts from
a wealthy, Florida doctor in exchange for political favors
That was a big story yesterday
It was that was a big strange though that they're saying this is you can't do this
We're gonna suspend. You next could happen during the World Series, but next year in meaningless regular-season games
You'll be suspended behind the guy. You know yeah, I don't know might have been better
Yeah, all right well fusion GPS may have worked with the Kremlin to cook up that dirty dossier. How exactly could that have happened
we'll ask the CIA's a former chief in Moscow then President Trump slamming Michael Moore's play as a
total bomb that was just the opening act the battle taking over Twitter coming up next
GPS allegedly working with a
British intelligence officer with then with the Kremlin officials to cook up the dirty dossier on Trump
So how exactly did it all happen and how credible at all is this dossier?
Daniel Hoffman is a retired CIA station chief who served in Moscow for five years
He's also the vice president of security at SPG, and he joins us now with more on this Daniel
You would know about this having served in Moscow and and having worked with Russian officials
To talk to us about this dossier. What kind of intelligence work was really done here
That's I think I've worked more against Russian officials that I have to be to be frank
But really there's three concerns about the DA say the first of the sources
We don't know anything about the sources. We don't know who they are
We don't know about the veracity of their reporting the reporting record presumably mr.
Steele used these sources before he used them to collect the information
That wound up in the dossier and perhaps
He's even still using them
But usually we make
Analytical judgments based on how strongly feel the reporting is and we just don't know a lot about that do we know that they were
Paid to those reports potentially these Russian officials were paid for this information. It's certainly quite possible
It would certainly be standard practice that mr.
Steele would pay sources second concern is the tradecraft that they used to obtain the information mr
Steele himself did not travel to Moscow he used these sources who presumably spoke with others in Russia and
The FSB is its one of the best most effective the FSB for our viewers is is the Russian internal service their internal police?
And they're very effective at running intelligence and counterintelligence
Operations, I think it's quite likely they would have discovered that this intelligence collection was going on remember that they have hacked into the Democratic
National Committee server
And they might have also obtained information through that means that this collection was going on would they have known
Who ultimately was benefiting from this if they're giving information about then Canada Trump? Do they know who there were I think?
Presumably, they would have they would have tracked that acquisition all the way back from mr.. Sources to mr.
Steele diffusion GPS and potentially to the candidate
Potentially they could have known
And then used this channel as they've used our social networking and media sites for disinformation which is an old Russian and Soviet?
Tactic to spread disinformation to achieve their their political aims do you think this is ultimately for Russia more about?
interfering in the the integrity of our process or about particular candidates
I think the jury's out on that frankly I for sure I believe it's it's it's designed to interfere in the integrity of the process
and soil our democratic institutions
But let's see where the facts lead us
There's also questions about mr.
Steele himself who infusion GPS
To hire him and why who suggested it was that someone in the private sector was it a government or former government official
We don't know that either. She if if indeed this basically the this federal investigation
Led by Robert Muller was was largely triggered by or triggered in part by this dossier
how
Troubling is that to you that an entire federal investigation would be premise taun a document like this
It's troubling in a lot of respects not the least of which we have a retired British mi6 officer who was involved in
Obtaining information on behalf of one campaign against another candidate that at the very least is unseemly
If not risking some sort of political blowback. I would never imagine myself collecting information on the Tories for labour
It's just odd
and to the extent to which that played a role in the investigation and the intensity of the
intensity of the
investigation when there are great concerns I'd like to see if the Special Counsel would ask our intelligence community to take a hard look at
The dossier and see whether any of that information if any of it could be corroborated
Yeah, almost almost none of it has been so true Daniel. Thank you very much. Thank you time
You know of what you speak so we love hearing from you. All right well George Washington's church says a plaque
Honoring the first president. It's got to come down
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