Greg Jarrett hosts a gripping hour as he breaks exclusive news: the DOJ and FBI have launched a criminal investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey. Jarrett and Mike Davis from the Article III Project dissect the mounting evidence of perjury, conspiracy, and election interference tied to the now-debunked Trump–Russia collusion narrative. With new revelations from the CIA report, this episode explores how the intelligence community weaponized false information to try and destroy a presidency. Guests & Social Media: Mike Davis (Article III Project) X (Twitter): x.com/mikedavis708 Website: article3project.org Follow Sean Hannity on Social Media: Facebook: facebook.com/SeanHannity X (Twitter): x.com/seanhannity Truth Social: truthsocial.com/@SeanHannity See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
I'll be filling in over the next couple of days while Sean is off.
I'm a Fox News legal analyst, an attorney by trade, a defense attorney.
Before we do anything, though, I do want to offer our sincere thoughts and prayers to the families of the people in Texas who have lost their loved ones.
We know at least 119 people are dead in the flooding there.
170 others are still missing.
So again, our prayers to the people of Texas.
Well, let's move along to our main subject today, and you'll find it actually on my website at thegregjarrett.com.
A new CIA report finally reveals the secret plot to take down President Trump.
And in fact, late yesterday, we found out, Fox News exclusively, that the Department of Justice and the FBI are now investigating criminally the former CIA Director John Brennan and the former FBI director James Comey.
And this is long overdue.
It took only nine years when you think about it.
But in my opinion, the crooked duo of James Comey and John Brennan are finally belatedly, maybe going to be held to account.
They could and should, in my opinion, be indicted and prosecuted for their diabolical scheme to frame Donald Trump in the infamous Russia hoax.
Brennan and Comey were instrumental in perpetrating the dirtiest trick in American political history.
And their goal was to drive Trump from office, not because he did anything wrong, not because he was a stealth Kremlin agent.
No, but because these people like Comey and Brennan and Clapper and Obama and Hillary and the whole gang, they hated Donald Trump.
They loathed his policies.
They despised the person.
So what did they do?
They conjured up a phony case against Trump by peddling a pernicious lie that Trump colluded with Russia to rig the 2016 presidential election.
And their principal piece of so-called evidence was a document that was known infamously as the dossier.
Now, it was secretly financed by Hillary Clinton's campaign.
It was written by an ex-British spy, thought he was James Bond, but he was really Inspector Clouzeau.
And then they leaked it to everybody, particularly the Trump-hating media.
And the dossier itself was complete garbage.
So much so that Comey's FBI debunked it almost immediately.
They even fired the dossier's author, Christopher Steele, for lying as a source.
But Comey concealed those inconvenient facts and exploited the document as this cudgel to bludgeon the newly elected president.
Comey also stole and leaked even more specious documents to deliberately trigger the special counsel, his old friend and mentor, Bob Mueller, who in the end, two years later, found no Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy.
It was, as the title of my first book, The Russia Hoax.
Comey was aided and abetted by others in the Intel community, Brennan and James Clapper, the director of national intelligence.
All of them plotted to smear Trump and to ruin him politically.
Now, is that criminal fraud on the government?
Sure looks like it to me.
Is it a conspiracy to deprive Trump of his rights under color of law, which is a federal crime?
Yeah, as a lawyer, I'd say so.
Last week, the current CIA director, John Ratcliffe, declassified and released an internal agency review of what those guys did.
I'm tempted to call it stunning, but it's really not.
Because there's almost nothing in that new CIA report that wasn't already in my book called Witch Hunt that came out in 2019, six years ago.
Citing previously hidden records, this CIA review concluded that Brennan, in particular, pushed for the phony dossier to be included in an important document known as the Intelligence Community Assessment, otherwise known as the ICA.
They did it to propel this false narrative against Trump.
Senior CIA experts on Russia objected strenuously.
What did Brennan do?
He sidelined them.
He silenced them.
The CIA deputy director was so outraged, he warned Brennan in writing, you can't do this.
If you include the dossier in any capacity, you will jeopardize, quote, the credibility of the entire intelligence assessment.
Brennan didn't care.
He directed exactly how the Intel assessment would be written.
He even handpicked the analysts who compiled the bogus information.
And to stifle dissent, which was growing, 13 other key Intel agencies were deliberately excluded.
To put it bluntly, Donald Trump was set up.
According to the new CIA review, Comey and Clapper were all in on Brennan's scheme.
In an interview with the New York Post last week, Ratcliffe said, and I'm quoting here, this was Obama, Comey, Clapper, and Brennan deciding we're going to screw Trump.
All of them knew the dossier was junk, which motivated them to prop it up as reliable.
How did they do that?
They put it in the ICA, and then they leaked it and propagated it as mutual corroboration.
It was a clever ruse, an illusion.
They went out there and they said to the media, the dossier has to be true because it's in the intelligence assessment.
In my book, Witch Hunt, I exposed what John Brennan did, how he insisted that the dossier be included in the classified Intel report, but then he appeared before Congress and under oath said that the dossier was, quote, not in any way used as the basis for the intelligence community assessment.
And James Clapper's testimony, the DNI, nearly identical.
Let me quote from chapter two of my book.
Brennan and Clapper were spinning a deception.
A prominent colleague contradicted them and produced documents as proof that they were not telling the truth.
In a classified letter to Congress, NSA Director Michael Rogers disclosed that the uncorroborated document, the dossier, did factor into the ICA report.
Having been caught in a falsehood, Clapper then repudiated his earlier statement.
Brennan continued to deny it all.
End of quote.
Chapter 2.
Neither Brennan nor Clapper was ever prosecuted for perjury, and neither was James Comey, who knew the dossier was pure fiction, but he used it to sign three separate warrant applications to spy on Trump associate Carter Page, deceiving the FISA court.
He told the court that the dossier was credible.
He told the court and the judges that Christopher Steele was reliable.
He didn't tell them he'd fired Steele for lying.
He didn't tell them that he knew the dossier was junk.
What did the judges do?
They believed Comey and they issued the warrants to spy, which gave the FBI a back door to spy on the entire Trump campaign.
None of that seemed to bother news organizations.
MSNBC promptly hired Brennan.
Clapper went to work for CNN.
And I described in my book what they did from their new media purchases, purchased.
Here's a quote.
The two super spooks launched an all-out attack on Trump, exploiting their new television platforms to advance the toxic fiction that the president was a secret Russian asset who colluded with Putin in the bowels of the Kremlin.
It didn't matter to CNN that a House intelligence committee report determined it was Clapper who had leaked news of the phony dossier to the network before Trump had ever taken office.
Who did he give it to?
He gave it to Jake Tapper, Jake the fake tapper, CNN's lead anchor.
So when you think about it, the collusion narrative itself was a conspiracy.
The collaborators like Comey and Clapper and Brennan, they knew it was all a lie.
They manipulated the dossier and the intelligence community assessment to peddle their fairy tale.
With Hillary and her Confederates, they engineered the Russia hoax.
Any crimes committed here?
That's the question.
Now that the DOJ and the FBI have a criminal investigation of Comey and Brennan, what potential charges might they be looking at?
Well, the first comes to mind is perjury and making false statements.
Another one is conspiracy against rights under color of law.
It's 18 U.S.C. 241-242.
What does it mean?
It means when two or more people plot to violate somebody's constitutional or federal rights, here Donald Trump, while acting under the authority of law, you're committing a crime.
Fabricating evidence to support a criminal case would absolutely qualify as deprivation of rights.
Also, election interference, depriving somebody of their right to vote or the right to hold federal office.
So I think that's something that the Department of Justice will be looking at.
Now, what about the Statute of Limitations?
I've heard several people say, oh, you can't bring any criminal charges.
Statute of Limitations is run.
So the statute of limitations on conspiracy, on perjury, on false statements is five years.
On government fraud, the statute of limitations is seven years.
But wait a minute.
The statute of limitations is told, which is a legal term.
What does it mean?
It means suspended if the incriminating evidence is concealed fraudulently.
The statute then begins to run or commence the very moment all of that hidden evidence is discovered.
So if the newly constituted CIA under Radcliffe and other agencies like the FBI under Cash Patel have found recently incriminating evidence that Brennan and Comey or others lied or committed fraud or deprived constitutional rights, any charges are not barred by the statute of limitations.
So we're going to have to see where this goes.
I am going to be talking very shortly with Mike Davis, who is the founder and president of Article 3 Project.
We're going to be talking about James Comey and John Brennan and James Clapper and Peter Strzok and Lisa Page and the whole gang that, in my judgment at least, should have had criminal charges brought against them long ago.
I'm Greg Jarrett, filling in for Sean Hannity on the Sean Hannity Show.
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Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show.
I'm Greg Jarrett, filling in for Sean Hannity.
I'm Fox News legal analyst, and shortly I'll be talking to Mike Davis, founder and president of Article 3 Project.
We're going to be talking about this new DOJ FBI criminal investigation into John Brennan and James Comey.
John Brennan claimed that he never saw the steel dossier until December of 2016.
Really?
Read page 69 of my book, Witch Hunt, Chapter 2.
You'll find that Brennan actually got his hands on it as late as August of 2016 and concocted a plan with Harry Reid, the leader of the Senate, to send a letter to Comey accusing Trump of being a Russian agent and citing the dossier.
And the plan was, if you send that letter, we'll leak the letter to the media and the media will go wild.
What happened?
That's exactly what happened.
We'll be right back.
Hello, everybody.
I'm Greg Jarrett, filling in for Sean Hannity on the Sean Hannity Show.
Happy you're with us.
We have a terrific guest coming up now, founder and president of Article 3, Project Mike Davis.
And we do want to talk about the breaking news that occurred yesterday, late in the day, that the Department of Justice and the FBI have opened a criminal investigation into John Brennan and James Clapper.
The sources say that the referral they received from the CIA director, John James Comey, excuse me, that the referral was received, and it has to do with Brennan purportedly lying in his testimony before Congress.
So joining us now is Mike Davis.
And Mike, thanks for being with us.
Let's focus a little bit on John Brennan.
What are your thoughts about potential criminal charges against him?
You and I, Greg, have been talking about this for years.
And the Justice Department, it seems, according to the Fox News reporting, is opening up a criminal probe on this.
What happened was that in 2016, Hillary Clinton's campaign and Hillary worked with the Obama White House, including President Obama himself, Vice President Biden, the CIA director, the FBI director, Comey, Clapper, the Attorney General, they made up the Crossfire hurricane investigation to go after President Trump.
They lied to the FISA court.
They used the steel dossier with evidence they knew was false.
They got spy warrants on the presidential candidate Donald Trump.
They continued to spy on the president when he won office and when he was in the White House, they hobbled his presidency because they alleged that President Trump was a Russian agent, right?
Which is just insane.
And they did this, in my view, because Hillary had her illegal home server as Secretary of State with our nation's most classified secrets.
But more problematically, for Hillary, she had the Clinton Foundation pay-for-play foreign bribery scheme evidence where the Clinton Foundation is taking millions of dollars to underwrite the Clinton's lavish lifestyle.
And maybe, just maybe, Clinton's doing official acts in exchange.
She bleached bidding her server.
She destroyed the phones with a hammer.
But what she didn't expect was that foreign governments, adversarial governments like Russia and China and others, probably hacked her server and had a copy of that.
And they were afraid that server was going to come out before the 2016 election and destroy her campaign.
And so what did they do?
They made up the Russian collusion hook.
So if that server information did come out, they can blame President Trump and his campaign and say it was a campaign dirty trick.
And you say, oh, that's crazy.
How could you possibly think that they did the same thing in 2020 with Hunter Biden's laptop?
They had 51 former Intel officials work with the CIA saying that this had all the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign.
So they were able to ignore the Biden family bribery, tens of millions of dollars, and say it was a campaign dirty trick.
That's exactly what they did in 2016 with Hillary's home server.
They obstructed justice by doing, this is the biggest scandal in American history.
You had President Obama, Vice President Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the presidential candidates, the head of the CIA, the head of the FBI, the Attorney General, all conspiring to lie to the FISA court, to make up the Russian collusion hoax, to help their candidate, Hillary Clinton, and try to take out President Trump.
And this is ongoing warfare against President Trump.
The Mar-a-Lago raid was to go get back the declassified crossfire hurricane records that President Trump declassified and took his personal copy before he left office in 2021.
That's what this is all about.
You know, not only did John Brennan state publicly that he never put eyes on Steele's dossier until December of 2016, which is simply untrue.
And he also said, I never shared it or briefed it.
He did.
He briefed the gang of eight on Capitol Hill in the summer of 2016.
And then in August, August 25th, he went to Harry Reid and briefed him.
And Reed, it was a setup.
Reed sends a letter to Comey accusing Trump of being a Russian agent.
And they leak that letter to the media.
And, you know, the New York Times and the Washington Post are off and running.
Here is, let me play a quick soundbite of John Brennan talking about the Steele dossier.
Here it is.
Do you know if the Bureau ever relied on the Steele dossier as part of any court filings?
Applications, petitions, pleadings?
I have no awareness.
Did the CIA rely on it?
No.
Why not?
Because we didn't.
It wasn't part of the corpus of intelligence information that we had.
It was not in any way used as a basis for the intelligence community assessment that was done.
It was not.
We now know, Mike, that's completely untrue.
It was in the ICA, the intelligence community assessment.
How do I know that?
Because I saw it.
And so, I mean, I think that's one of the many deceptions that the lawyers of the Department of Justice are looking at, don't you think?
Mike?
Yeah, it would have to be what the Justice Department is looking at.
That would be a key predicate to open this investigation is that perjury.
And I also want to remind people, even though this crossfire hurricane criminal conspiracy or alleged criminal conspiracy started back in 2016 and you say, well, that was over eight years ago.
That's beyond the five-year statutes of limitation.
Remember, with conspiracy, the statute of limitation does not end until the last overt act of the criminal conspiracy.
So this is an ongoing criminal conspiracy.
This is an ongoing cover-up, and the people involved with this alleged conspiracy have not disavowed the conspiracy.
So the Justice Department absolutely can pursue charges for conspiracy.
There's not a statute of limitation issue.
No, there isn't.
And also because if there's fraudulent concealment of the incriminating evidence, that tolls or suspends the statute of limitations.
And beyond that, the most recent testimony by Brennan was in 2023, just two years ago.
And there's a five-year statute of limitations that's standard on false statements as well as perjury.
So if he was lying two years ago, I mean, there's no limitations problem, is there?
Not at all.
And again, stepping back, let's not lose the force through the trees here.
This is the biggest scandal in American history.
You have a white force working with a presidential candidate to politicize and weaponize.
law enforcement and intel agencies to go after the other presidential candidate to make sure that he doesn't win the election.
And unfortunately for President Obama and Vice President Biden and the Attorney General and Comey and Clapper and Brennan and the rest of these guys allegedly involved with this criminal conspiracy, they missed.
And President Trump got into office and he declassified those crossfire hurricane records and they missed again when they tried to bankrupt him for non-fraud, throw him in prison for life four times for non-crimes, throw him off the ballots.
And even when Trump's opponents defunded his Secret Service, underfunded his Secret Service protection, and President Biden said to put a bullseye on Trump's head after Biden said he was the gravest threat to American democracy, an existential threat.
So they missed.
They missed every time.
And now they are going to face accountability from the Justice Department as they should.
Not only that, John Brennan, at one point in time, claimed that Trump had committed treason by virtue of being a secret Russian agent.
And then when the Mueller report came out that day, he was asked on television his reaction to it.
And he said, gee, I guess I had bad information.
And I thought there was more there than there really was.
This was the CIA director, right?
He's at the top spook.
He's supposed to know more intel than anybody.
And yet he said, oh, gee, I guess I got bad information.
I mean, that's pretty absurd.
I want to turn to James Comey because here's the thing about Comey.
He always hated Trump.
I'm not quite sure why.
I mean, I know that, you know, he hated Trump's policies.
He hated Trump personally.
He thought he was uncouth.
He thought he was rough.
He didn't like the whole MAGA movement.
But here is Comey being interviewed about his negative opinion of Donald Trump from the start, which is why I think that really motivated Comey to launch Crossfire Hurricane.
Here it is.
Take a listen to this.
It seems to me that in your dealings with Donald Trump, from the very get-go, from your first meeting with him before the inauguration in January of 2017, you, very far from bringing a blank slate to your view of him, to your meetings with him, you were deeply suspicious and skeptical of Trump from the start.
And that comes out clearly in your recollections in your memoir.
Sure, that's because I'm a human being.
That's not a political judgment.
I evaluate people who work for me.
I evaluate people I work for.
With respect, it becomes political.
If you're from the very get-go, likening the way in which Trump deals with you and with situations, likens him to a mafia don, a mafia boss.
I mean, that's not just personal.
That becomes political.
I don't see it as political.
I didn't think he was.
The director of the FBI, concluding that Donald Trump from your earliest meetings is, in essence, the political equivalent of a mafia boss?
Sure, not in the sense that he's robbing banks, but in the leadership culture he creates, that's what struck me.
That's not a political judgment.
That's a judgment based on reason and logic and experience.
Some of what you write, and I'm guessing it's based on contemporaneous notes, is actually just downright personal.
Some of the asides about, you know, his look, his hair, the size of his hands, which you were making observations like this in the very earliest meetings with him, suggests you had an animus towards him.
Yeah, I reject that.
If you read my book, you'll see I'm actually trying to be an author, and as an investigator, I have a pretty good eye for detail.
So I describe my high school boss, I describe other bosses, I describe people I worked with in great detail.
And so, yes, I noticed Donald Trump's hair color, how he dressed, how he sat, how he spoke.
That's not a political judgment, that's an observation.
But it smacks of a negative opinion that you brought to the table.
I had a negative opinion of him that was fact-based.
I had serious concerns about his ability to respect the obligation to tell the truth.
All right.
It wasn't fact-based at all.
We found that out if you read the Mueller Report.
It was all made up by Comey and Hillary and Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS, Perkins Cooey, the law firm that was funneling the money to Steele.
And Comey never talks about how he fired Steele for lying, another deception to the FISA court.
But that was an interview by a very good host on BBC.
And Mike Davis, you know, it speaks volumes about James Comey.
He comes across as a total weasel, doesn't he?
Yeah, and remember this.
Remember, it was James Comey who was in the January 4th, 2017 Oval Office meeting with Obama, Biden, Susan Rice, Folly Yates, the Attorney General, and they talked about making up the Logan Act.
Biden, remember, raised the Logan Act.
This was in Peter Strzok's notes from that meeting.
And Biden used the Logan Act.
They had never prosecuted under the Logan Act, and they used the Logan Act as a bogus pretext to go after General Flynn and to go after Trump as part of this Russian collusion hook.
So this idea that Comey was just a Boy Scout who had an open mind before President Trump went into office is nonsense.
They sent Comey into the Trump White House in the early days to try to set up a perjury trap on Russian, this Russian collusion hoax.
This is, again, the biggest scandal in American history.
There is clear evidence that the prior regime and their intel agencies and law enforcement tried to take out a presidential candidate and then tried to take out the sitting president of the United States and then tried to take him out again after he left office when they figured out he was running again.
Yeah, I'm glad you brought up the Logan Act, which doesn't allow private citizens to interfere in American foreign policy.
But it is common, as I wrote, ad nauseum, not just in my two books, but in columns for Fox News and my own website, that incoming administrations always talk to foreign leaders before the new president takes office.
There's no Logan Act violation.
So, you know, Comey and the others just made that up as a pretext to go after Flynn, to go after Trump.
I mean, one of the many phony pretexts that they invented to go after Donald Trump.
And it should be so blatantly obvious to just about anyone.
Mike, hang on for a couple of minutes.
If you will, we're going to squeeze in a quick commercial break, come back, a couple more questions for you.
