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00:03:54.060And more importantly, what we found out is that they had been briefed on the fact that Hillary and her campaign was going to discredit Trump by claiming Russian collusion.
00:04:08.000Joe Biden was made aware of, uh, Clinton campaign plans.
00:04:14.560Um, he was told in a meeting, August 3rd, 2016, August 3rd, 2016 by then CIA director, John Brennan in the oval with Barack Obama, Biden and James Comey, the FBI director and other senior administration official officials.
00:04:37.140They were discussing Russia's efforts to interfere in the election.
00:04:42.460And according to Brennan's handwritten note and his recollections from the meeting, he briefed on relevant intelligence known to date on Russian election interference, including the, this is in a quote, the Clinton plan intelligence.
00:05:01.740Durham writes specifically director Brennan's declassified handwritten notes reflect that he briefed the meetings participants regarding the alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on the 26th of July of a proposal from one of her campaign advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security services.
00:05:28.560And quote, now, now, how can any American say this is not a big deal?
00:05:36.660Not only did all of this, and we already knew, we knew it came from the Clinton campaign.
00:05:42.980Remember the early stories was this came from a GOP operative.
00:05:50.760They were doing, uh, they were doing research.
00:05:53.120No, no, no, the president, the FBI, the CIA, everyone knew that it was decided on July 26th and then briefed in the Oval in August that Hillary Clinton had something called the Clinton plan intelligence, where she would release things to try to get the spotlight off of her email scandal.
00:06:20.480Durham noted that even though Comey was in attendance at this meeting, it did not spark any FBI action.
00:06:38.420So every time you saw Comey on television saying, well, we don't know, and there's some evidence that we really have to look into, he had been briefed in August and took no action on Hillary Clinton.
00:06:57.840Then when the Durham report came out, not the Durham report, the Christopher Steele file, when that came out, they all knew that that was the Clinton plan intelligence.
00:07:12.320The Durham report goes on to say, none of them had any faith in it at all.
00:07:21.460In fact, while filing for the FISA court filings to be able to spy on Trump, the Durham report says the agents didn't then or in hindsight have any belief that any of these things were true.
00:07:42.320Okay, so let's just start adding up the crimes here.
00:07:48.100You have intel that one campaign is going to release false information to tie them to the Russians.
00:08:14.980But then when they are delivered something that they know comes from the Clinton campaign, they turn on the machine.
00:08:24.840They then start, the FBI then starts leaking this information to the press, which they have zero confidence in.
00:08:41.100Durham noted that during Comey's attendance at this meeting, it didn't spark any FBI action.
00:08:46.580He further highlighted an August 22nd, 2016, email that an FBI cyber analyst sent to the bureau employees and senior intelligence officials informing them of the details of the Clinton plan.
00:09:02.500They failed to remember any follow-up actions the bureau might have taken after the second briefing on it.
00:09:16.060Then the FBI, when they got the steel dossier, remember the one that no one in the administration believed anything in it.
00:09:27.400The one that they knew came from Clinton, the one they had been told months before was coming in the Clinton campaign, what was it, the Clinton plan intelligence.
00:09:43.580When they got it, they went to Christopher Steele, he's the author of the dossier, and offered a million dollars, we'll pay you and pay your primary sources money if anyone is able to prove this.
00:10:05.400So now, when Hillary Clinton's operatives couldn't get anything really solid, they pass it to the FBI, the FBI looks at this and goes, this is garbage.
00:11:20.640More shockingly, according to the Durham report, the FBI had significant evidence that Dechenko himself was Russian intelligence.
00:11:33.420It had closed a counterintelligence investigation into him in 2011 because agents mistakenly believed he had left the country.
00:11:46.240The FBI investigated Dechenko as a possible Russian spy from 2009 to 11 after a colleague at the Brookings Institute, the left-leaning think tank where he worked, told the FBI that Dechenko raised the prospect of paying him for classified information if the colleague joined the Obama administration.
00:12:06.840A second Brookings employee also told the FBI he suspected Dechenko of being connected to Russian intelligence.
00:12:13.560It became a full-fledged investigation when the FBI realized that Dechenko was a known associate of two other spies and had contacts with known Russian intelligence offices and had said he wanted to join the Russian diplomatic service.
00:12:30.900He also told another person that he worked on special matters for the Russian army and that his Russian passport listed him as connected to the Russian military intelligence service.
00:12:43.000They paid him $250,000 to prove that Trump was colluding with people like him.
00:12:54.260He couldn't come up with that evidence.
00:13:01.680Jonathan Turley said the AP tried to dismiss this as not the crime of a century, but Donald Trump termed it.
00:13:10.560But whether or not anyone will ever be held accountable is hard to get around that indeed nothing like this has ever been done before.
00:13:21.400Or that it was so damaging and divisive to our nation.
00:13:26.500What's criminal is that it appears people might get away with it.
00:13:32.280That doesn't mean it wasn't the crime of the century.
00:13:36.000It just means people are not being held to account.
00:13:40.340There is so much wrongdoing involved in all of this.
00:13:43.360But let's point out one big lie that we always knew was a lie, which the report now confirms.
00:13:50.680Do you remember when Adam Schiff, then the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, claimed he had seen evidence that he couldn't share with us demonstrating the Russian collusion?
00:14:02.840Now that the report verifies there never was anything.
00:15:33.020I'm not going to be happy until people go to jail.
00:15:35.700Now, the FBI did come out and they said in their statement,
00:15:41.660the conduct in the 2016 and 2017 special counsel Durham examined was the reason that the current FBI leadership already implemented dozens of corrective actions,
00:15:52.300which now have been in place for some time.
00:16:54.220Anyway, if you watch the news and you're watching anything from the left, you are going to hear a completely different story on the Durham report.
00:17:06.140And you're going to hear that they have absolutely nothing.
00:17:51.060And you make a good point, um, which the, the left-wing media are trying to glom onto.
00:17:56.340Well, if it's so bad, why were there no prosecutions?
00:17:59.240Durham actually talks about this in his report.
00:18:02.180And I'm going to paraphrase him here, but it's that all the cases he was going to bring had to be brought in D.C.
00:18:08.720because that's where the crimes were perpetrated.
00:18:10.240You're not getting a fair trial or a jury of your peers in D.C.
00:18:15.440D.C. is, uh, uniformly left-wing, went 95% for Democrats.
00:18:20.560And in political cases, which this clearly was, they're, they're going to vote the way they would vote at the ballot box in the voting booth, not based on what the facts and the law are.
00:18:30.780That's a real problem because we have all of these important cases of corruption are going to have to be tried in D.C.
00:18:44.320You know, the founders, they didn't want D.C. to be a state because they didn't want this district that houses the entire federal government to be able to hold the federal government hostage and get what it wants.
00:18:53.680We actually have that now, regardless of whether D.C. is technically a state or not.
00:18:58.620I think you have to completely get rid of the D.C. trial court and the D.C. circuit court, and you have to farm out these types of cases randomly to field offices and U.S. attorneys throughout the country.
00:19:11.560Get rid of D.C. being able to control what happens in these cases and send these cases to Nebraska, Texas, Tennessee, Idaho.
00:19:23.780So, Sean, they show that the FBI knew, the CIA knew the former president, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden.
00:19:39.120They all knew that Clinton, they even had a name for it, the Clinton investigative project or something.
00:19:48.220They knew that she, early in the summer, had made the decision to try to tie Donald Trump to Russia.
00:19:56.540So, they knew that, and they were, they, she was doing it to get people off of her trail for the, the emails that were on her server.
00:20:08.360And they, the FBI didn't do anything on that.
00:20:11.440And then when they got the documents that they knew were from her team, they knew there was nothing in that, but they launched this investigation and then started leaking these things to the media.
00:20:24.760How is this not massive election interference?
00:20:44.280Watergate was a two-bit break-in that happened once at a party headquarters.
00:20:48.300This was an entire coordinated effort across the whole of the U.S. government, the intel community, the CIA, the FBI, that was perpetrated against a political campaign, against a president, and against the American people who elected him.
00:21:03.580Everyone involved should be in prison.
00:21:06.380I mean, this, this is so much bigger than Watergate and so much more destructive because we now know with complete certainty that the FBI itself is not a law enforcement organization.
00:21:19.080It is a vassal for the Democrat Party, and it exists to do nothing other than what the Democrat Party wants.
00:21:25.200And I would say the CIA and all of the intelligence agencies are on that same track, if not leading it.
00:21:34.040I mean, look at what they did with Hunter Biden.
00:21:37.200The next election, they already plant, they have the laptop, and they know about it.
00:21:44.260And then our intelligence community meets with social media and says, you know, they're going to probably come out with something on Hunter Biden, but be careful, be careful, because Russian disinformation.
00:21:55.620And then they knowingly, to help the Biden campaign, they write something that was written with their understanding that it was to be used to help Biden win at a debate.
00:22:09.760I mean, it was a former acting director of the CIA who put that letter together, but it's actually even worse than what you described.
00:22:18.740We broke a story last week based on evidence that congressional investigators have in the weaponization committee that the CIA itself was soliciting signatures for that letter, which they all knew was a lie.
00:24:15.940And I think it comes back down to Congress having to once again do its job.
00:24:21.360Over the past 30, 40 years, Congress has really enjoyed outsourcing all of its actual duties under the Constitution to the administration, to the executive branch.
00:24:30.260They like this because they don't have any more accountability anymore.
00:24:33.420They just get to go out and play politics and blame the executive branch.
00:24:37.400It's time for them to take back their Article I authority and actually do oversight.
00:24:41.840All these agencies exist at the pleasure of Congress.
00:24:45.460They exist because Congress funds them and Congress created them.
00:24:48.620And I would say it is long past time for Republicans to get a spine and to get some intestinal fortitude and do their jobs and rein in these agencies, if not defund them entirely.
00:26:01.880And this isn't necessarily bad news because our Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve say this is absolutely untrue.
00:26:09.960So it is a conspiracy theory, I'm sure.
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