Harris Faulkner: This story is breaking WIDE open

Harris Faulkner: This story is breaking WIDE open

>> Harris: DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DROPPED A BOMBSHELL OVER THE WEEKEND. SHE SAYS THE MASSIVE RUSSIA HOAX WAS DIRECTED BY FORMER PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA. NOW SHE IS SENDING EVERYTHING SHE HAS FOUND TO THE U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AND IS ASKING THE DEPARTMENT TO PROSECUTE. HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE MEMBERS ARE CALLING FOR ACCOUNTABILITY. >> THERE NEEDS TO BE CRIMINAL PROSECUTION AND ARRESTS. LYING UNDER OATH. PUTTING OUT A FALSE INTELLIGENCE REPORT. THAT’S A VIOLATION OF 18 U.S. CODE. IF WE DON’T STOP THIS. IF WE DON’T ACTUALLY SAY THIS WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. THIS IS NOT A DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN THING. IT IS ABOUT THE HEALTH AND SANCTITY OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC. THERE NEEDS TO BE ARRESTS. THIS IS NOT PARTISAN, JUST ILLEGAL WHAT THEY DID AND WE’RE SIMPLY UPHOLDING THE LAW. >> Harris: DAVID SPUNT IS IN WASHINGTON. >> TULSI GABBARD SAYS THE OBAMA TEAM PREVIOUSLY FOUND NO RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN THE 2016 ELECTION AND SUDDENLY BEFORE DONALD TRUMP TOOK OFFICE IN EARLY 2017 SHE SAYS THE OBAMA TEAM CHANGED ITS NARRATIVE. A DECLASSIFIED COPY OF THE DAILY BRIEF OR OBAMA DATED IN DECEMBER. WE ASSESS RUSSIAN AND CRIMINAL ACTORS DID NOT IMPACT U.S. ELECTION RESULTS FROM CONDUCTING CYBER ELECTION ACTIVITIES AGAINST INFRASTRK TOUR. SHORTLY BEFORE TRUMP TOOK OFFICE THE INTELLIGENCE CHANGED AND ALLEGATIONS ABOUT RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE TO HELP TRUMP WERE RAMPANT. >> THERE IS NO QUESTION IN MY MIND THAT THIS INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA ORDERED BE PUBLISHED, WHICH CONTAINED A MANUFACTURED INTELLIGENCE DOCUMENT. WORSE THAN POLL ITIZATION OF INTELLIGENCE. IT WAS MANUFACTURED INTELLIGENCE. >> DEMOCRATS SAY OBAMA’S TEAM WAS ALWAYS CONCERNED ABOUT RUSSIA SEWING DISCORD ONLINE AND OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS TO RUIN CLINTON AND HELP TRUMP. THE CHAIRMAN OF THE INTEL COMMITTEE MARCO RUBIO RELEASED A REPORT SAYING THE COMMITTEE FOUND NO EVIDENCE THAT THEN CANDIDATE DONALD TRUMP OR HIS CAMPAIGN COLLUDED WITH THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT TO MEDDLE IN THE 2016 ELECTION. THE COMMITTEE FOUND EVIDENCE OF RUSSIAN MEDDLING. SENATOR JIM HIMES A DEMOCRAT FROM CONNECTICUT ON THE INTEL COMMITTEE. >> TULSI GABBARD ACCUSING A FORMER PRESIDENT OF TREASON. LET’S SEE IF THEY BRING CHARGES. THEY WON’T. THERE IS NOT A JUDGE IN THE LAND, NOT A SINGLE JUDGE, WHO WILL TREAT THIS WITH ANYTHING OTHER THAN LAUGHTER THAT WILL BE HEARD FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC IN THIS COUNTRY. >> GABBARD WANTS THE D.O.J. AND F.B.I. TO INVESTIGATE AND WANTS CHARGES. UNCLEAR IF ANY CHARGES WILL BE FILED AT THIS TIME. CERTAINLY SOMETHING WE’LL WATCH, HARRIS. >> Harris: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. TEXAS CONGRESSMAN PAT FALLON IS ON THAT HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE THAT IS DRIVING HARD FOR WHOEVER MAY HAVE BROKEN THE LAW TO PAY FOR IT AND SITS ON THE INTELLIGENCE AND ARM SERVICES COMMITTEES. GREAT TO SEE YOU TODAY. TALK TO ME ABOUT JUST THE TOP LINE IN ALL OF THIS. HOW IS THIS DIFFERENT FROM WHAT WE KNEW UNDER TRUMP’S FIRST TERM, FOR INSTANCE? >> WHAT WE’VE FOUND IS THAT THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY UNDER BARACK OBAMA WAS EITHER ETHICALLY INCOMPETENT OR IT WAS A COORDINATED EFFORT TO MANIPULATE INTELLIGENCE FOR POLITICAL GAIN. FROM WHAT I CAN TELL YOU IS THE PREPONDERANCE OF THE EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THAT IS MORE PROBABLE THAN THAT THAT THAT HAPPENED. AS WE INVESTIGATE THIS FURTHER. I HAVE A LOT MORE REASON TO DO WHEN I GET BACK TO WASHINGTON TODAY, IS CAN WE GET TO A REASONABLE DOUBT THRESHOLD? WHAT I HAVE SEEN THUS FAR IS TROUBLING. IT COULD BE WATERGATE-ESQUE. >> Harris: CAN YOU SHARE ANYTHING? PEOPLE ARE CURIOUS TO KNOW, EVERYBODY WAS DIGGING FOR THIS TO DEFEND WHAT THE PRESIDENT WAS CALLING THE RUSSIA HOAX AND HE WAS RIGHT. SO WHY NOW? CAN YOU GIVE US A TID BIT OF WHAT YOU THINK WE NEED TO KNOW? >> I THINK I WANT TO CLEAR SOMETHING UP. THERE IS RUSSIAN ATTEMPTED INTERFERENCE AND THEN THERE IS COLLUSION BETWEEN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND RUSSIA, WHICH NEVER HAPPENED, RIGHT? SINCE LENIN, SINCE 1922 WHEN IT BECAME THE SOVIET UNION THEY’VE TRYING TO MEDDLE IN WESTERN DEMOCRACIES. OF COURSE THEY’VE TRIED TO INFLUENCE THINGS AND I’M SURE THEY WERE A PARTY TO A LOT OF TERRORISM WE SAW IN THE 70s IN EUROPE, ETC. TO SAY THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HIS CAMPAIGN WERE COLLUDING WITH RUSSIA IS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT TOPIC WHICH THERE IS ZERO EVIDENCE THAT THAT EVER HAPPENED. THERE IS ALSO ZERO HARD EVIDENCE THAT RUSSIA EFFECTIVELY ALTERED THE OUTCOME OF THE 2016 ELECTION. >> Harris: THAT’S IMPORTANT TO KNOW. YOU HEARD DEMOCRATS SAYING THAT AT EVERY TURN. ALL RIGHT. I WANT TO GET TO THIS FROM INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST MATT TAIBBI. LET’S WATCH. >> THE INVESTIGATION IS NOW AIMED AT THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE AND IN PARTICULAR BARACK OBAMA BECAUSE OF DECISIONS THAT WERE MADE TO SUPPRESS THE PRESIDENTIAL DAILY BRIEFING AND GO AHEAD AND ORDER A NEW INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT THAT ULTIMATELY WOULD HAVE MUCH MORE AGGRESSIVE CONCLUSIONS ABOUT TRUMP AND RUSSIA. >> Harris: WOW. THIS IS REALLY PROBLEMATIC BECAUSE THIS MAKES IT LOOK LIKE IT WAS GOING ON FAR BEFORE TRUMP EVER WAS IN HIS FIRST TERM AS PRESIDENT. WHAT WOULD THE GOAL HAVE BEEN BY OBAMA IF THAT’S TRUE? >> BEFORE THE NOVEMBER ELECTION, IT WAS TO MAKE SURE THAT HILLARY WON. AFTER WARD IT WAS TO DISCREDIT AND START THE REALLY TAR AND FEATHERING CAMPAIGN THAT NEVER ENDED. OTHER NETWORKS THAT DIDN’T VALUE THE TRUTH AT ALL BUT VALUED SPIN OVER THE TRUTH WOULDN’T STOP WITH IT. THAT’S WHAT IS TROUBLING. THIS IS AN EGREGIOUS AND CRIMINAL VIOLATION OF THE HATCH ACT AS WELL IF WHAT WE ARE FINDING CAN HOLD UP. >> Harris: IT’S GREAT TO HAVE YOU TODAY. THE STORY IS BREAKING WIDE OPEN. PLEASE COME BACK AS WE LEARN MORE.

Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, joins ‘Faulkner Focus’ to discuss Director National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassifying reports claiming former President Barack Obama’s administration manufactured intel in the Trump-Russia collusion investigation. #obama #trump #us #usnews #politics

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