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The Rich Zeoli Show

Eli Lake: John Durham’s Devastating Report

The Rich Zeoli Show

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4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Eli Lake—Contributing Editor at Commentary Magazine & Host of “The Re-Education Podcast”—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss John Durham’s report indicating the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) did not have sufficient reason to launch an investigation into groundless allegations that there were ties between Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russian officials. What can be done to curtail the FBI’s, seemingly habitual, abuse of power moving forward? You can read Lake’s latest piece at The New York Sun here: https://www.nysun.com/article/devastating-report-by-durham-finds-fbi-lacked-a-proper-basis-for-opening-investigation-of-trump

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0:00.0

This is the only show on your schedule from talk radio 1210 W PhD in the Free Odyssey app

0:07.6

All right, welcome back. We're here today

0:10.2

But it's porcelain shows

0:12.6

Very excited to have a great guest joining us and we're gonna be streaming live on

0:17.6

YouTube right now. So if you're near a computer jump on to the talk radio 1210 W PhD YouTube page and

0:23.8

You can watch my conversation with Eli Lake even though he's only gonna be on the phone, but that's okay

0:29.3

He's always a great guest to have on and he's the contributing editor at commentary magazine and the host of the re-education

0:37.2

podcast Eli how you doing today?

0:39.4

I'm doing great. Thanks for having me on again. It's always a pleasure. It really is and perfect timing too

0:44.4

You know you've been writing for the last several months about the FBI about the

0:48.7

abuses here of our federal government of our law enforcement our national federal law enforcement

0:53.6

I should say you've been you've been all over this and then I think yesterday when the Durham report came out

0:58.2

I actually jumped over to your Twitter feed to see what you were saying about it

1:02.7

And I thought you were spot on so you wrote a piece for the New York Sun about this very issue

1:07.8

What are some of your your top takeaways here?

1:10.9

Well, I mean, I think that one of the big ones is gotta be that

1:15.3

You know John Durham had this disagreement with the Inspector General of the Justice Department Michael Horowitz who issued a devastating report in

1:22.7

2019 that focused on the

1:25.6

Surveillance Act

1:27.2

Surveillance applicant warrant applications for someone in Carter page

1:31.6

But it was an overall was a real indictment of the FBI's investigation

1:36.1

But he said he thought the initial crossfire hurricane investigation, which was opened at the end of July of 2016

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