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Intelligence Failed - July 23rd, Hour 2
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John Solomon is with us.
We saw Tulsi Gabbard knowing about all of this.
We've had now two document dumps.
A lot of this information that we're hearing about are things that John Solomon broke and we reported on on both radio and TV on a regular basis.
And here's what I want you to explain, John, because we're really talking about a grand conspiracy of whether or not deep state operatives, and the term is applicable, put cinderblocks on the scales of not one, not two, but three presidential elections.
I have my way of saying it, but I'll let you say it in your words.
What you have is a repeat pattern of the intelligence and law enforcement community, the federal government, collaborating with Democrat operatives to repeatedly mislead the American people to the disadvantage of Republicans, usually Donald Trump, and to the benefit of Democrats like Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden, who had real legal issues, as we would later come to understand.
That pattern isn't just a political dirty trick.
It could rise to the level of criminality if certain elements are met.
The infringement of civil liberties of people like Mike Flynn and President Trump and Carter Page and others could, if it is a conspiracy, can be viewed as criminal activity.
The effort to hide national security threats like a China intrusion on the 2020 election or the real nature of the Hunter Biden laptop could rise to the level of a criminal conspiracy.
And when you write a official intelligence product for the President of the United States, as John Brennan and his team did in December 2016, which is what today's new revelation is about, and you intentionally violate the roles of the intelligence community to create a false conclusion, you could potentially face criminal activity because you're misleading the highest office of the land.
i think today's revelation is so important to now know it's irrefutable there is concrete evidence that the dirty dossier the steel dossier which had been discredited by december of 2016 was used to make the conclusion that by the way wasn't it really discredited Didn't Bruce Orr in August of 2016 warn them not to use it and he would know?
Let's think of all the things that happened before John Brennan's team uses the dossier in 2016.
Bruce Orr discredits it in August.
In September, the CIA tells the FBI, don't rely on Christopher Steele until you revalidate him because his network of sources has been infiltrated by Russian intelligence.
In November 1st, the FBI fires him because they catch him leaking in violations of his thing.
By December, a spreadsheet has been created of every sentence in the Steele dossier, and it either can be neither corroborated or it has been debunked.
The FBI completed that spreadsheet.
It's at that point that John Brennan forces that bad intelligence product into the intelligence committee assessment.
And I want to take you to a key moment in December, if I can, Sean, just real quickly so you can see how egregious this is.
The intelligence committee was going to brief President Obama in December 8th that, in fact, Russia did intrude in the election, just like you and I reported, but they did not try to tip the election in favor of one candidate or the other.
Did what they've done for elections for many years, which is try to sow chaos and doubt and division in America.
That's a Soviet playbook that Putin knows well.
There was no evidence in any prior election that Putin tried to pick a winner or loser.
And they were going to tell the president, President Obama, on December 8th, once again, that's what we believe happened.
President Obama doesn't take that briefing.
It gets canceled.
The next day, he orders a new review.
He shrinks out most of the intelligence community and brings it down to John Brennan and James Comey and one good guy in this whole episode, the NSA director at the time.
And they come up with an entirely different conclusion.
And to get to that conclusion, to get to that conclusion that Vladimir Putin was helping Trump, which no one in the intelligence community believed, they inject the dirty dossier.
That is what flips this conclusion of the intelligence committee to a different finding.
And then they hang that around Donald Trump so that the beginning of his 2017 presidency is beset by a fake Russia collusion allegation, one that leads to a special prosecutor, years of strife, years of misleading the American people.
That is what Tulsi Gabbard proves today by releasing this House intelligence report.
And by the way, this report was written by Devin Nunez and Cash Patel.
They were always right.
When they went to the podium and said what they said in 18, they were telling the American people the truth.
Barack Obama, John Brennan, James Clapper, Adam Schiff, they misled us.
And that's what this report emphatically shows now.
We now also know that they were warned not to use the Russian disinformation dossier in August of 2016.
And it became the basis for four FISA applications, three of which James Comey himself signed.
And we know that they had no degree of confidence in any of that.
Is that true or false?
I think there was a second warning in September.
So you've got two of them.
You've got Orr and then the CIA and then the FISAs are signed.
I think two were signed by Comey, one by McCabe, and then one by Rosenstein.
So there are four.
I think only Comey did two.
But other than that, 100% accurate.
Okay, we do know post-election that our Intel community, and these are career people, rank-and-file people, determined that as it relates to Trump-Russia collusion, putting aside Hillary's bought and paid for dirty Russian dossier, that they concluded no, there was no assistance.
There was no collusion with Trump and Putin and Russia in any way, shape, matter, or form.
And that intelligence was repeated again and again.
Is that true or false?
It is true.
And let me add one thing that's so important.
Part of the conclusion of it, the part of the reason that the career people did not believe Putin was trying to help Trump was that in October, when most Americans make up their mind, in October 2016, when Hillary Clinton's race was tightening, she was actually in danger of losing, Russia pulled all of its active measures.
They stopped any influence campaigns they have.
If you were trying to help Donald Trump, the moment you would most help him is in October when voters are making up their mind.
Russia pulled back and held back its information.
That fact, which they had through intercepts and human intelligence, led very strongly to the right conclusion, which is Putin wasn't trying to pick a winner or a loser.
He was just trying to sow dissension.
But James Comey and John Brennan try to hijack that finding and get to a different conclusion, and they have to use the dossier to get there.
So, in other words, after the Intel community, the rank-and-file career people concluded that there was no collusion with Trump and Russia, that information was passed on to the higher-ups.
And as time went on, as we got to December of 2016, Then those people in the highest levels of power within these agencies, and I'm talking about Clapper and Brennan, et cetera, that they took this information, they corrupted it, or to use your words, polluted it to say the exact opposite of what they had, what their rank and file had concluded.
Is that true?
Do these declassified documents prove that?
They do, as do the emails from the whistleblowers that we reported on last week.
That is 100% true.
Next question.
And did Obama and Biden and Comey and Clapper and Brennan and Susan Rice did they all have a meeting about this very, very issue, this very issue?
And did that not lead to Susan Rice's CYA only just a couple of minutes before Donald Trump was sworn into office in 2017?
The CYA memo about a meeting that had taken place weeks earlier.
Did they when she said, you know, by the book, Obama said, by the book, Comey said, by the book, did that all happen?
It did.
I don't know whether that meeting prompts the memo or whether Susan Rice just does it to create the CYA, but you're 100% right.
And there's been a lot of debate in the last 24 hours about Barack Obama.
He did the Sergeant Schultz from the old television show many years ago, Hogan Heroes.
I know nothing.
I know nothing.
You did it much better than I did.
Let me tell you what Barack Obama's not telling you when he makes that statement.
In July 2016, he attended the meeting with John Brennan that emphatically told him Hillary Clinton was going to create this fake scandal.
He knows that before the FBI starts a crossfire hurricane.
As president of the United States, knowing it's a false allegation, he doesn't stop the Russia collusion investigation.
In December, when he knows that the intelligence community is going to come in and say Russia didn't try to help Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton win, they just interfered in their normal way.
He stops that briefing and orders a new review.
And that leads to John Brennan's hijacking of the intelligence community assessment.
In January, January 5th is the date, January 5th, 2017.
Barack Obama presides over the meeting where FBI DOJ officials are conspiring to figure out how do we keep an investigation of Mike Flynn going.
They have that meeting because the day before, the FBI career people had decided that Mike Flynn did not commit a single crime.
He should be cleared and the investigation should be ended.
And instead, they come out of that meeting trying to lure Mike Flynn into an interview where they can then charge him with lying.
Barack Obama attended all three of those meetings.
He cannot claim he wasn't an actor in this.
He cannot complain he wasn't the conspirator in this political conspiracy, whether it rises to criminality, I don't know yet.
But he was in all three of those meetings, and his statement last night was dishonest.
Quick break more with the founder, editor-in-chief, and chief investigative reporter John Solomon, JohnstonNews.com on the other side.
Then your calls, 800-941-Sean, as we continue, and later, Bill O'Reilly, much more.
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All right, we continue with John Solomon.
He is the founder, editor-in-chief, and chief investigative reporter at justthews.com.
He broke a lot of these stories involving the Russia-Russia-Russia hoax.
Let's go to the part of the grand conspiracy on another level.
Let's go to 2020.
And true or false, in March of 2020, did the FBI corroborate the authenticity of Hunter Biden's laptop?
Did the FBI then come up with a plan to meet weekly with every big tech company and pre-bunk whether or not that laptop would be true, knowing that Rudy Giuliani's attorney, Bob Costello, had a copy and would likely drop that, which happened in October of 2020 before the election.
And when they corroborated it in March of 2020, then they met weekly with big tech companies.
Then the New York Post drops the story.
And then the New York Post, then people like Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey request, you know, is this what you were warning us about?
They knew the truth was, it was real, but they didn't tell big tech companies the truth, did they?
They did not.
Now, now, those weekly meetings started before they knew that Giuliani had the laptop, but those weekly medians become the vehicle by which they suppress the laptop story.
And then that suppression continues on in the form of Mike Morrell, who then organizes that letter.
The former deputy CIA director, former.
Was it Mike Morell?
I thought it was Wink and Tony Blinken.
Well, Blinken asked him to get it started, but Morell is the organizer.
Just think about this.
John Brennan's successor, his deputy, is the guy that helps organize a letter at Tony Blinken's recommendation, according to Morrell's own emails, to then say the laptop is Russian disinformation when it was just the opposite.
It had already been authenticated.
All right.
Last question, because of the constraints of time.
Only reason, I'm not trying to rush out here because all of this is important, and we'll have more of this on TV tonight with you.
And then can you argue for the third presidential election in a row that all of the weaponization and lawfare used against Donald Trump were more cinder blocks for a third presidential election put on the scales of an election to destroy Trump legally by weaponizing the justice system and having a two-tier justice system just to prevent him from ever winning?
Did that happen too?
It did indeed.
And it is.
Is that a grand conspiracy?
Well, those are the three cinder blocks that are at the heart of the Cash Patel FBI criminal investigation that was opened in April that we call the Grand Conspiracy Investigation.
And all three of those are literally parts of where Cash Patel has been leading the FBI and the Justice Department.
Here's the next thing that's going to happen, John.
If the Justice Department follows his protocol, and I believe it will under Pam Bondi, when you have a conspiracy case like this against the mob or the drug cartels, the first thing you do is you create a federal strike force that then goes into action.
You get your best and brightest agents and prosecutors, you put them on one team, and you go through the overt acts.
I believe Pam Bondi's at that moment now where she has to make a decision.
Will she do that?
I think she will.
You create a federal strike task force.
What does that mean?
It means John Brennan, Barack Obama, James Comey, and all the gang that we've been talking about, they're going to be facing a strike force just like a mob boss did, just like a drug cartel kingpin did.
That's going to be the next decision for justice in the next few weeks.
Amazing.
And I have every belief that the American people will, it'll take their breath away that the depths with which this scheme to stop Trump every step of the way was put in place and how our entire constitutional republic, frankly, in my view, my estimation, based on what I know, what we've reported and what you've reported, was put in jeopardy the entire time.
And thankfully, it's now coming to light.
Let's see what happens with it.
John Solomon, editor-in-chief, founder, chief investigative reporter, justthenews.com.
Thank you, sir.
We'll see you tonight on TV.
Sounds great.
I know.
It's just shocking.
So shocking in so many ways.
Oh, that Russia collusion happened.
I spent three years of my life covering all of this.
Tulsi Gabbard, newly declassified information, gave a mini presser at the White House earlier today.
And here's some of what she said, which we played earlier.
There is irrefutable evidence that detail how President Obama and his national security team directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false.
They knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help President Trump win, selling it to the American people as though it were true.
It wasn't.
The report that we released today shows in great detail how they carried this out.
They manufactured findings from shoddy sources.
They suppressed evidence and credible intelligence that disproved their false claims.
They disobeyed traditional tradecraft intelligence community standards and withheld the truth from the American people.
In doing so, they conspired to subvert the will of the American people who elected Donald Trump in that election in November of 2016.
They worked with their partners in the media to promote this lie, ultimately to undermine the legitimacy of President Trump and launching what would be a years-long coup against him and his administration.
Information implicates former President Obama in criminal behavior.
We have referred and will continue to refer all of these documents to the Department of Justice and the FBI to investigate the criminal implications of this.
For even Obama, the evidence that we have found and that we have released directly point to President Obama leading the manufacturing of this intelligence assessment.
There are multiple pieces of evidence and intelligence that confirm that fact.
Wow.
Anyway, here to shed some more light on this and give us more analysis of this.
Alan Wilson, South Carolina Attorney General, currently running for governor, supports the efforts of the Department of National Intelligence and Tulsi Gabbard as they now push for a, what may end up being a special prosecutor or counsel involved in this.
You know, I've gone over this now with Bill O'Reilly and with John Solomon and my own analysis and my own reading of now what has been two document disclosures, two declassifications that have taken place with Tulsi Gabbard.
And what is what is beyond frustrating to me, it seems like deep state operatives, to use the appropriate term in my view, have now put cinder blocks on the scales of three presidential elections.
We'll work our way backwards.
And in 2024, it was all the weaponization from 20 to 2024 to make it impossible for Donald Trump to be a viable candidate.
If you look at the 2020 race, we know that the FBI had verified the authenticity of Hunter Biden's laptop.
They knew that Bob Costello, then Rudy Giuliani's attorney, had a copy of that laptop.
They knew that it would leak.
And they spent the summer of 2020 meeting with big tech companies on a weekly basis, warning them about that they may be victims of a Russian disinformation campaign that may involve Hunter and Joe Biden and even Barice Maholdings.
And then when the New York Post story did break, in fact, a lot of these companies, including Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, then running Twitter, said, is this what you've been warning about or is this true?
They would not give them the answer that they knew to be true is that the laptop was, in fact, authentic and that they had discovered that back in March, which means that they actively participated in influencing the election because that would have had a big impact, in my view, on the election results.
And you worked your way back to 2020.
We're discovering through these declassified documents that FBI director at the time, James Comey, ignored key critical evidence in his determination about Hillary Clinton's top secret classified information.
I would argue to give her a pass.
We know that he himself and others were warned not to trust the dirty Russian disinformation dossier that Hillary Clinton paid for.
There was Russian election interference, but that only came from that side.
And that, in fact, this unverifiable, completely debunked now information was used for four FISA applications to backdoor spy on Donald Trump, both as a candidate, as a transition team, and as a president.
To me, it sounds like cinder blocks on scales of elections.
Do you see crimes or a need for a huge investigation?
What do you see in this?
Sean, absolutely.
And you said at the very top of the block of time here, you said this is how shocking this is.
This is only four days since all of this stuff has been revealed.
And the question that I keep asking myself is if you look at how the intelligence assessment that was issued leading up to December 7th was that Russia had nothing to do with tampering in the 2016 election.
And then you look at January 6th, the real controversial January 6th in 2017, that there was a newly issued intelligence assessment that's saying Russia did tamper at the 2016 election.
And you realize that the president of the United States directed that that new assessment be issued.
Then the question I have for people is, do you think Barack Obama would have reconvened the National Security Council and ordered a new assessment if Hillary Clinton had won?
And the answer is no, he wouldn't have.
The people around Barack Obama and the Obama administration are the same people who weaponized the criminal justice system against President Trump while using that same criminal justice system to protect the Biden family.
These are the same people that weaponized the legacy media as well as our social media overlords against President Trump.
These are also the same people who weaponized the intelligence community industrial complex against the president.
So now they're calling all of us crazy and have called us crazy.
They've called you crazy, John Solomon crazy, for daring to believe our eyes, our lying eyes, as opposed to them.
So I would love to see a full-on investigation and a full vetting of the truth for the American people.
We owe the American people nothing less.
What do you make of Tulsi Gabbard's comments from earlier today?
I think she's incredibly courageous.
I mean, she used very bold language, you know, treasonous conspiracy.
She called out the president.
She called out everyone in his National Security Council.
I mean, she stood up there in front of the American people and laid it all out and stood up against, you know, the legacy media.
So, I mean, I'm very, very proud of her.
I'm very impressed with the fortitude and the courage that she has had.
And now they're going to go after her like nothing you've ever seen.
But I stand behind her, and I'm going to call on other attorneys general in this country to stand for a full accounting and a full investigation.
And Pam Bondi, who is a good friend of mine, I have full faith and confidence that she will put the best people on this, and we will get an accounting of what happened four or five years ago.
If you take a look at some of the declassified materials that have come out to this point, we find that rank and file, career intelligence officials came to a very different assessment than what ultimately evolved after Obama and his cronies at the highest levels of these three-letter agencies got their hands on it.
In other words, they said, no, there was no Trump-Russia collusion.
And then all of a sudden, that emerged into there was, which emerged into this narrative that literally took up an enormous, inordinate amount of time during Donald Trump's presidency.
Do you believe that the evidence is now showing that they purposely, to use John Solomon's words, polluted and corrupted that information for political purposes?
And if they did, what is the crime?
Well, I absolutely agree with John Solomon.
I do believe that they polluted this whole process for their own personal political agenda.
And again, the same people around President Obama during that period of time are the same people that were driving everything against President Trump during his first term, as well as all the criminal trials and the civil cases going against him when he was out of office and are the ones trying to discredit the president now.
Obviously, I want to withhold my final judgment on what crimes have been committed until we get something more from the Department of Justice.
But I stand 1,000% behind Tulsi Gabbard and you and everyone else calling on a full vetting and a full accounting.
We need an investigation.
We need a full report on this.
And I don't want the report coming from members of Congress, even in our own party.
I want the report coming from the law enforcement community and the Justice Department as it stands right now.
If you were the Attorney Jeremy and you are the Attorney General of South Carolina, how would you approach this from an investigative standpoint based on what we now know that has been declassified?
I mean, full transparency.
I mean, Tulsi Gabbard's released all the documents that she has found.
I think we have to allow the Justice Department an opportunity to appoint a special counsel if that's the direction they decide to go.
We have to give them an opportunity to put things together.
And I think Attorney General Bondi needs to have a press conference.
My recommendation would be to her that trust and credibility must be restored into the criminal justice system at the federal level, as well as the intelligence community.
And the only way to do that is to allow the American people to have full sunlight, full transparency, full accounting, make everything available on public portals, on the websites, give us access to everything, and then let us look for ourselves.
I don't want talking heads on the left-wing media news outlets telling me what I should believe.
I want to see it for myself.
And that's what the Attorney General ought to do, in my opinion.
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All right, we continue now with South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is with us.
What about Cash Patel, the FBI director, and his investigation that he opened weeks ago into this grand conspiracy that this has now gone on through three presidential elections?
Is it possible in this great country of ours, this great constitutional republic that we live in, that in fact that there are people at the highest levels of government that did try to influence the outcome of elections with disinformation?
I mean, listen, it shatters people's trust and whatever trust and faith some of us had in the federal government, which I really haven't had a lot of in the last 10 years, but it has shatters people's faith and confidence in law enforcement.
You know, when Cash Patel came in, I heard that he cleaned out the top floor of the FBI building and got rid of all of the institutional people and started rebuilding his senior leadership team.
I thought that was a great beginning to his administration at the FBI.
Get rid of the old and put in fresh new people that don't have any political leanings or at least aren't beholden to political interest and empower them to go find the truth.
And I'm glad to see what he's done thus far, and I trust that this investigation will reveal the truth eventually.
Well, I think it will.
But I mean, just based on what we're seeing now, there certainly seems to be a corruption of information for the purposes of undermining a newly and duly elected president of the United States.
And it did consume three years of Trump's presidency.
So it seems pretty overwhelming as we begin our investigative part of it.
Just your knowledge of the law on the periphery, what might they be looking at legally in terms of laws that were broken?
I would imagine if you're trying to influence the outcome of an election, that there's got to be statutes that are applicable.
Well, absolutely.
And in this particular case, it's going to come down to intent and authority.
What authority did the president have?
Was he acting within the confines of his constitutional authority?
And then what was his intent?
And again, obviously, there's a Supreme Court case on President Trump regarding presidential authority and what is and what is not considered criminal or sanctionable conduct, and they're going to have to apply that.
But right now, this is the post-election of 2016, going into December of 2016 and January of 2017.
Was President Obama Trying to undermine, intentionally undermine President Trump as he entered the office.
What did he know?
When did he know it?
Obviously, I think the evidence bears out right now that he had a motivation.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have reissued that intelligence assessment.
Hillary Clinton won.
There would have been no reissuing.
He would have gone with what they had because it wouldn't have mattered to him.
But Trump was coming into office and they had to stop him.
They had to undermine him.
That is what I believe.
But I'm going to reserve my final judgment until we get a full vetting in an investigation.
Well, do you think, for example, in 2020, when they knew and they had validated the authenticity of Hunter's laptop and they were meeting weekly with big tech companies, and even though they knew the truth when the story broke publicly, they would not validate that for the very companies that they were warning that they might be victims of a disinformation campaign of.
Does that sound like election interference to you?
It very well could be, Sean.
I mean, absolutely.
It could be election interference.
And again, I want to see more information, but absolutely, these people were colluding with the big tech bros, the tech overlords.
They were colluding with folks within the criminal justice system, the FBI.
They've been colluding with folks across the political spectrum to undermine President Trump.
And that's why, you know, I want to see Cash Patel and Pam Bondi.
I want to see them shine a full light on this thing.
I appreciate what Tulsi Gabbard has done.
Put it all out there.
Let's investigate it and let's hold these people accountable under criminal law if we can.
At a minimum, let's at least shame the hell out of them.
Yeah, I agree.
Anyway, we appreciate your time.
Attorney General, South Carolina, Alan Wilson.
Thank you, sir, for being with us.
We appreciate it.
Sean, thank you.
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