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Durham Zeroes In - December 29th, Hour 2
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I wrote a column recently about Hillary Clinton and the Durham investigation.
It's entitled All Roads Lead Back to Hillary in the Great Russia hoax, which is true.
I wrote about it in two books, The Russia Hoax and Witch Hunt, about the collusion fraud.
Because that's really what it was.
And it was all because of Hillary.
It's well established that Hillary is a master manipulator, a skilled schemer, and an inveterate liar.
You know, her list of scandals would make Richard Nixon blush.
But unlike Nixon, Hillary has always managed to escape without any real accountability.
She's the hairy Houdini of scandals.
She manages to miraculously wiggle out of any serious legal peril.
And the latest indictments by special counsel John Durham, looking into the whole Russia hoax, reads like a who's who of Hillary's Rolodex.
Just read some of the recent court filings associated with the last indictment.
Just about everyone closely associated with Hillary was in on the big con that Donald Trump was a Kremlin asset who conspired with Russians to steal the 2016 presidential election.
And Durham, I mean, just read his filings.
He knows that Hillary Clinton and her campaign invented financed, disseminated the Russia hoax to smear Trump.
And Durham's latest court filing shows he's focusing on members of Hillary's campaign who were sending and receiving phony information in the infamous Steele dossier, then spreading it to the FBI and the media.
It was all a fabrication.
Steele's primary source was Igor Danchenko, who allegedly lied to the FBI.
Durham's discovered Danchenko's lawyers, the law firm is the same law firm representing members of the Clinton campaign, which is obviously a glaring conflict of interest.
And the special counsel now wants the judge to explore and expose those conflicts.
But it is not surprising that the Clinton campaign is trying to manipulate the legal system the same way it manipulated the media and the FBI to use false accusations against Donald Trump.
Joining us now is a guy who's knows more about this than anybody I know.
He is John Solomon, who is editor-in-chief of the news and author of Fallout.
The best website for this information is just the news, which is John's website.
John, thanks so much for being with us.
Great to be with you, Greg.
Your latest uh article on this is entitled Durham Zero's In on Clinton Campaign.
Could call some aides to testify.
Talk to us about that.
Yeah, you know, one of the great things about John Durham, you don't see him very often, right?
Try to find a photo of him.
It's hard to find a photo of them, but I'll tell you this.
When you when you put uh put something in the court filing, there's lots to write about, lots to learn.
Uh in a very perfunctory court motion just before Christmas on December 22nd.
John Durham went to the judge and said, Hey, we're we're prosecuting Igor Dancheco, the main source for Christopher Steele's bogus dossier.
He's charged with lying with the FBI, and a funny thing happened.
The same law firm that represents Hillary for America, that's Mrs. Clinton's campaign, and many of the campaign aides in matters before this investigation.
They suddenly showed up and they're now representing Igor Danchenko.
We don't think this is a coincidence.
We think there might be a potential conflict of interest here.
And you, trial judge, please look at this and make sure that we don't have any appellate issues after the fact because of conflicts of interest.
And then he goes into the conflicts.
And he says, listen, it's likely that there are people from the Clinton campaign who may be called as witnesses at the trial.
The interests of Igor Danchenko and the Clinton campaign may diverge, he says.
Igor Danchenko may claim that the Clinton campaign made him write these false things.
The Clinton campaign may say he defrauded us by putting this information in the Steele dossier.
We think this is a big problem.
Check it out, Judge.
A fascinating filing, the first time since this investigation began three years ago that Durham says he might call as witnesses people from the Clinton campaign.
You know, and and they were instrumental in fueling the Russia hoax.
And what was so clever, I mean, say what you will about Hillary.
She's very smart and she's very clever.
And what she does is she keeps her dirty fingerprints off of documents and connections with those who are working on her behalf.
She set up what I've described as the equivalent of a money laundering scheme, except it was an information laundering scheme.
And here's how it works.
Hillary fed money from her presidential campaign to the law firm of Perkins Couie, which hired the opposition research firm of Fusion GPS, which hired ex-British spy Christopher Steele, who hired former Brookings analyst Igor Danchenko, who came full circle back to Clinton ally Charles H. Dolan Jr., among others, to help conjure up the false accusations against Trump.
And it was, you know, additional Hillary Confederates that then shared a few fables of their own.
So it all comes, she not only approved a plan to smear Trump, approved the plan on July 26, 2016.
But then it's some of her people that are feeding the lies for the dossier.
It's incredible.
And you know, it's one thing to lie in a political campaign, because you know people will say that goes on all the time in politics.
They were lying to the FBI.
When the emissaries of the Clinton campaign, the people like uh Michael Sussman, the lawyer, uh Christopher Steele, the uh British MI6 uh investigator, uh uh the fusion GPS founder, Glenn Simpson, they all bring things to the FBI trying to convince the FBI that Donald Trump should be investigated.
They are now committing a crime if they're giving that information knowingly and willfully.
Now that's the point that Durham makes in this uh court filing, which is they're gonna try to point fingers at each other because somebody here knew they were misleading the FBI.
And I think that this such a remarkable thing to look back now.
When we started this, we didn't even know Hillary Clinton had hired Fusion to hire Steele to hire uh Dan Senko.
They fought very hard to prevent that discovery from coming out.
They uh uh Devin Nunes had to go to court to force the disclosure of the revelations.
Uh John Durham had to fight a grand jury subpoena fight to get access to some of the records at the Perkins-Coey law firm.
But now that all these things are put together, it is clear from start to finish this was a political dirty trick designed to get the FBI to fool the FBI into investigating Donald Trump so it could be leaked to the media and dirty up Donald Trump before election day.
You know, the other villain in all of this, and I I've written about it extensively in in both my books, uh The Russia Hoax and Witch Hunt is James Comey.
I mean, Comey's FBI knew the dossier was a complete fabrication that Steele was a con artist who had lied to them.
In fact, the FBI fired Steele as a confidential source.
But but none of that seemed to matter to Comey.
I mean, the his Bureau exploited the lies to seek four successive warrants from the Pfizer court to spy on Trump campaign associate Carter Page ruining his life, deceiving the judges, and defrauding the court.
And the FBI also used the phony document as a pretext to investigate Trump, concealing his innocence from Congress and the American people.
It's despicable, isn't it?
It is.
And you know, we forget because there's so many different moments in this investigation where the facts yelled, stop, don't do anything more, you're going down a bad path.
One of those moments was early September of 2016 when another intelligence agency, the CIA, sent a warning to the FBI to James Comey and to Peter Strzok, the lead investigator, saying, hey, we have evidence that Hillary Clinton has authorized a dirty trick that she's going to try to gin up these Russia investigation uh uh charges to get uh to get uh the attention off of her email scandal, which was still percolating in the fall of 2016.
For the FBI to get that warning from the CIA before they ever went to a FISA court, before they ever said, hey, we think this Hillary Clinton funded Christopher Steele dossier is credible evidence to get that warning, not disclose it to the court and to proceed with an investigation that they knew was a political dirty trick.
That's what makes this so hideous.
This can't be blamed on Keystone Kant.
There was clear warning signs, and the FBI participated in the political dirty trick.
They didn't get taken for a ride, they chose to participate in it.
And they knew Trump was innocent literally days before he was inaugurated.
Yes.
Because the FBI tracks down through steel his primary source, which is this guy who's a Brookings institution analyst, Igor Danchenko.
And Brookings is a long ally of the Clintons, right?
Absolutely.
So they track down Danchenko.
And you know, he's he sort of takes the attitude, okay, you got us.
It was all a lie.
These were all exaggerations.
It was speculation, conjecture, it was gossip, rumor, innuendo, and we put it all in the dossier.
Uh and so there you have Comey and the FBI knowing just before the inauguration that it's all a lie, but they conceal it from the American public and Congress and everybody.
And they proceed full steam with their investigation of Trump, which which disables his presidency to some extent for three years.
Yeah.
These are amazing moments when you think about it.
So those interviews in January with Danchenko also are going out at the same time that the intelligence analysis unit is going through every sentence of the uh dossier and saying, this isn't true.
That isn't true.
This isn't corroborative uh isn't corroborated, this can't be corroborated, this is internet rumor.
Ninety percent of the statements that the FBI Intelligence Analysis Unit looked at in the dossier, they concluded were either false, uh unsupported, meaning they couldn't be proven, or internet garbage.
They know all of that before they go to the FISA court and get the first renewal in January of 20 uh 17, which is just days before President Trump is about to take over.
Whatever you want to say about going for the first FISA warrant in October, knowing that they'd been warned by CIA, and by January, they had such overwhelming proof that the steel dossier was uh false.
They had a legal obligation to tell the court.
They concealed it, they doctored documents like Kevin Kleinsmith did.
These this was the FBI just wasn't being taken for a ride.
You see acts of complicity in causing this investigation to go forward in the absence of any evidence of wrongdoing.
You know, this was the biggest and dirtiest political trick ever perpetrated in American politics.
And I agree.
And it then precipitated the greatest mass delusion in American politics, that Trump was this Russian asset.
And it was all just made up.
And you know, people keep saying to me, it's the most frequent question I get, it's probably yours too.
Why haven't more people been held accountable?
Why hasn't Hillary uh been held accountable and legally?
And what's your answer?
You know, I think it is a slow process because the people that have the most to hide are fighting grievously to not get information to John Durham.
We know that there were grand jury fights specifically over the uh uh Perkins Cuey Law firm records.
John Durham had a pierce attorney client privilege in order to get access to some of these records that lead to the indictment assessment.
You then need to get people to roll up, much like you do in the mob cases, right?
The process has been slowed, not just by COVID, but by the resistance of the Clinton campaign and the people engaged in wrongdoing in their uh failure or unwillingness to cooperate, in some cases, resist giving information to the investigation.
So it's been a slow process, but one of the things you learn when you follow Durham long enough.
This is a very patient, persistent man.
He does not go away.
You may not see him often in public, but he is incredibly focused.
And the activity in the grand jury the last few months is more robust now than it was a year ago.
He is continuing to drill down and find crimes and why it may be a long time coming.
I think you're gonna see some more indictments.
And I think his final report will create an enormous amount of shame on a large part of official Washington, not just a few individuals.
Yeah, and the media especially.
All right.
Uh John Sullivan, you're the best.
Uh your website is just the news.com.
People should go to that for the latest.
Thanks very much.
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Well, in the last hour I let loose on Joe Biden.
and he richly deserves the harsh criticism.
I described him as not bright and utterly incompetent.
What has he given us?
Well, his first year of the presidency, we've got record inflation, soaring gas prices, spiraling crime, the border crisis, the pandemic surge, the list goes on and on.
Two pollsters will join us in a moment.
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Well, we talked about Joe Biden and his many promises and many failures.
And let me just remind you of some of the most notorious failures.
When he was running for president, Biden promised he would quote, shut down the virus.
Said it over and over again.
Now, of course, he says, well, there's no federal solution to this.
Even though he tried his own federal solution, The federal vaccine mandate and uh the federal variety of federal mask mandates, but now he says there's no federal solution.
He never had a plan.
He never had a solution.
He just made it up.
And the other thing he said during the presidential campaign was quote, anyone who is responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president, referring to Donald Trump.
And at the time there were 220,000 COVID deaths, but since Joe was sworn in, an additional 350,000 more people have died.
More people have died of COVID under Biden's watch, even though he said he was going to shut down the virus.
So by Joe's logic, he shouldn't be president.
Should he?
Well, his surrogates, his handlers of the White House, are doing their level best to put lipstick on a pig.
For example, uh Ron Klain, chief of staff to the President of the United States, recently uh retweeted that, gee, you know, 2001, quote, really wasn't that bad.
Seriously, record inflation, soaring gas prices, people are paying four or five bucks a gallon at the pumps, spiraling crime, the violence, the looting.
The crisis at the border is just getting worse.
Kannala Harris, who was supposed to solve it, hasn't done a darn thing.
Supply shortages, the pandemic surge today.
The United States State set a record for the number of daily COVID cases.
Yep, didn't happen.
Who can forget the Afghanistan debacle?
The five trillion dollar socialist entitlement Lollapalooza that fell flat.
Oh yeah.
Hasn't been a bad year at all, really.
You wouldn't blame Donald Trump if he were to say, miss me yet.
Let's talk about it now with a couple of pollsters, because the people in Florida, according to these pollsters, do miss Donald Trump.
John and Jim McLaughlin join us.
They are brothers, they are polsters, they're founders of McLaughlin Associates.
It's a polling company.
It's used by world leaders.
And gentlemen, thanks so much for being with us.
John, let me start with you.
You guys did a recent uh Republican-only poll uh conducted in Florida.
What did you find?
Well, we found that uh there's a lot of buyer's remorse for all the reasons you said there, but among Florida Republican primary voters for the Save America Pact that we did right before Christmas, uh 600 uh Republican primary voters, they they approve of Donald Trump 92 to 8, 73 strongly approve, but Joe Biden, 5% approval, 94% disapprove, 91% strongly disapprove.
They also Kamala Harris, 93% unfavorable to only 4% favorable.
And Hillary Clinton, because she's talking about running for president, 96% unfavorable to only 3% favorable.
So they keep on attacking President Trump.
They're strengthening him in his base, and he's getting stronger and stronger as they do this because the buyer's remorse, as you so well described, where in our recent polls in November, two-thirds of America say the country's on the wrong track.
They say the economy is getting worse, 62% to 31%.
And uh they just like when you were talking about uh Afghanistan, uh 58% think she surrendered Afghanistan and the Taliban.
And that was uh uh that was a while back, but in but 59% in that poll I'm quoting from November, I think Joe Biden should have a cognitive test and make it public.
So he's got serious problems.
Yeah.
I mean, he really does.
Uh I I mean, I I'm hard pressed to remember a Democrat in the White House who has tanked in the polling and approval ratings as much as Joe Biden has.
Although Jimmy Carter didn't do so well, but his was more of a long slide.
Let me turn to your brother Jim O'Glancolan.
Jim, uh what's your takeaway from these poll numbers?
Greg, you laid it out really, really well, and as I was listening to you, you know, you talk about the big lie.
Well, the big lie is the Joe Biden presidency.
And just as John was saying, not only we're seeing in good legitimate national polls, because you still have a lot of these media pollsters that are still cooking the Biden numbers.
But what from what we're seeing is his negatives nationally are between about 56 to 58 percent.
John and I also poll in a lot of these key battleground states like North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Nevada, et cetera.
What you're seeing in those states is his negatives in those battleground states, again, are 56, 57, 58 percent of the vote.
So what does that tell you?
When you're running against these Democrats, you only need about 90 percent of Joe Biden's negatives in order to win.
He's making our job as Republican pollsters and consultants really, really easy.
And to your point, I have we have never seen a president in modern polling in the first year of his presidency be this unpopular.
And if you don't believe the polls, look what happened in places like Virginia.
Look what happened in places like New Jersey.
John and I, we worked on races in New York, especially places like Nassau County, where Republicans haven't won a presidential election since 1988.
Republicans swept across the board in Nassau County, New York.
So those are the kinds of victories, and that's the real problems that the Democrats have right now.
You know, uh whenever someone wins the White House, the ensuing midterm elections that follows, there's always a loss of seats for that party that won the White House.
I think the average is somewhere around 25 to 30 seats are lost.
Um but you know, from what I'm reading now, uh uh you know, Biden's party, the Democrats are really gonna take a shellacking it, and you can see it coming because uh a total now of twenty three Democrats have in Congress have said we're retiring, we're quitting, we're moving on, we're going elsewhere and we're not gonna run for re-election uh compared to thirteen Republicans.
So these polling numbers, this polling data that you've come up with, what is it portend for 11 months from now?
Well, the uh the generic ballot that we have in our national numbers is Republicans are decisively ahead by six, seven points, which is similar to a poll I delivered to Speaker Gigrich and the Republican leadership in 1994 when we took over 60 House seats from the Democrats.
So the Democrats can see it coming.
I wish the election was tomorrow, but they can see it coming, where it was why they're pushing the envelope on gerrymandering in every state they control, whether uh Illinois, California, New York, etc.
Uh New Jersey, you can see that they're trying, even when they have redistricting commissions to push as many Republicans out of office by gerrymandering as possible because they know we're likely to take the House and even the Senate.
Uh and and also now the Democrats, because they can't pass the bill back better, inflation spending bill with trillions of waste, they're now talking about changing the election laws to gut voter ID laws to have mass mail out ballots to enable ballot uh harvesting.
So uh uh, you know, when they start doing that that they want to change the rules uh on the elections to go back to what they did with the irregularities in uh uh in 2020 and and then put it on steroids, you could tell there's their polls are really bad for them right now.
And even in New York, you got Governor Hochel.
We we we beat her on three props where they wanted same-day registration in a state where they don't have voter ID.
They wanted to have no excuse absentee ballot harvesting.
They needed to change the state constitution.
We beat them nearly three to two in every one of those propositions in a two to one Democrat state last November, and now they're coming back and they're saying they're gonna do it by legislation anyway, and she's gonna do it in a speech on on January 5th, because she's afraid of losing to our client Lee Zeldon for governor.
So uh the Democrats they really need to be watched because their corruption uh is just they it's unbelievable how corrupt they are and what they're gonna try to do.
New York City, they want to let non citizens vote that 85% of all Americans oppose.
So uh so we've got to stop them from doing that.
You know, i it's like the Democrats are self destructing, right?
I mean, they claim that inflation, oh, it's just transitory, it'll be over in a in a nanosecond.
Well, tell that people to people who are paying, you know, four and five dollars at the pumps.
The average American is paying three thousand five hundred dollars more uh on average because of the record inflation, the worst inflation in decades.
Uh, you know, we every night you know if you tune into the news, you see, you know, the smash and grab looting, the homelessness, you know, all of that that Biden said he was going to solve, he didn't.
He was really in favor of the defund police, and now you've got blue state mayors uh begging for federal law enforcement help like uh the mayor in Chicago, Lori Lightfoot.
Uh, you know, and as I mentioned, the pandemic surge, he promised to solve it, it's only gotten worse.
I mean, this has really been an embarrassment of self destruction, hasn't it?
Yeah, and and what's really interesting, Greg, is when you look at Joe Biden's negatives, you know, they're high overall on his overall job approval, but then when you start asking about specific issues, just as you mentioned, things like the economy, inflation, crime, national security, etcetera, his negatives get even worse on those issues.
Like he's better than two to one negative right now on uh immigration.
And what what you're seeing is what drives his negatives is one people are saying he's incompetent, people are saying he's a radical, extreme big government socialist, so he's literally out of touch with mainstream America right now, and plus now he's also taken a character hit with folks.
And one of the things that we deal with all the time, we've done a lot of focus groups recently.
And when we ask voters, and these are among swing voters, these aren't among partisans, many of which actually voted for Joe Biden when we ask them, what is Joe Biden's greatest accomplishment?
They laugh at you.
And we try to probe and say, come on, there's gotta be something good that he did.
What what is his greatest accomplishment?
What has he done?
Well, they literally can't come up with anything.
Some people will start joking, he got up, he got out of bed this morning, or he read the teleprompter.
But literally, they can't give you one accomplishment.
And what's happening is he's dragging down the entire Democratic Party, and they're failing, and they've gone way, way too far to the left.
It's not even a question of being liberals anymore.
It's a question of they become big government socialists, and the American people understand it, and that's not what they're looking for out of Joe Biden and the Democrats.
Yeah, I mean, it it doesn't help that whenever the public sees him, he seems to stumble fumble and mumble, struggling to put together a subject with a predicate.
I mean, he seems lost, confused.
Uh, you know, now and again he has a moment of clarity, but it doesn't last very long.
None of that helps the image.
And you know, in the television and social media age, image is important.
What people see, what they hear from their their president, that matters.
John and Jim McLaughlin, uh brother polsters, founders of McLaughlin and Associates, a polling company.
Thank you so much for being with us.
We appreciate it.
Thank you, Greg.
Keep keeping pleasure, Greg.
Thank you so much.
Happy New Year, Greg.
Happy New Year to you guys too.
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Well, today, um, we learned that the United States hit a record of daily COVID cases.
This after Joe Biden said a year and a half ago and a year ago that he was going to quote unquote shut down the virus.
He knew he couldn't do it.
He didn't care.
He was saying anything he could to get elected, because that's what slimy politicians do.
And now, of course, Americans have reacted with anger and frustration, and it's reflecting in his polling numbers, which are, you know, in the dumpster.
Uh they continue to slide, now down to 40, 39, 38, 37%.
And, you know, they're going down like the Hindenburg, fast and burning.
Kamala Harris, just as bad, even worse.
Um, all of this could have been prevented in many ways.
I wrote a series of columns back in March and April of 2020, amid the ordered business closures as well as the isolations, the quarantines, and I said that's the wrong thing to do.
I laid out the arguments that the solution is worse than the problem, and of course, it didn't really work.
And now it's heresy if you talk about closures.
We'll talk about it with a couple of doctors who wrote a book.
We'll be right back.
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