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🗓️ 10 July 2025
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0:00.0 | This is CBS, I on the World. I'm John Batchel. |
0:07.0 | Russia Gate. That was then. This is now. But now includes new remarks by the Director of the Central Intelligence, Mr. Ratcliffe, |
0:18.0 | by the FBI, and the person of number two at FBI, Denbenjino, |
0:24.1 | and by other dignitaries in and around the Trump administration, |
0:29.9 | and those of us who have long memories for the original Russia Gate, |
0:33.9 | we have information from Mr. Ratcliffe and the CIA of what was done in 2017 that led to the lengthy investigation of Donald Trump as an agent of Vladimir Putin and ended with everybody saying the word hoax. |
0:50.8 | I welcome Andrew McCarthy, National Review Online, and that is MacArthur American Greatness, |
0:56.8 | two gentlemen who are with me through the discovery phase, 2017, 2018, 2019, that ended in |
1:04.4 | the word hoax. |
1:06.5 | Andy, I begin with you because there is the implication, at least in some of the story presentations, |
1:12.3 | the Washington Examiner, the New York Post, and Fox News, |
1:16.8 | that there is an investigation underway at the FBI dealing with the information in the Ratcliffe release |
1:24.6 | about Mr. Brennan, who was DCI, and Mr. Comey, who was the director of the FBI |
1:31.3 | in those early months of 2017 when we learn now that Russia Gate was growing in momentum. Is there |
1:41.7 | here anything that suggests criminality or a move towards criminality, |
1:47.3 | hence the implication of an investigation? Good evening to you, Andy. |
1:51.5 | Good evening, John and Thaddeus. I don't think there's any basis for a criminal investigation. |
1:59.2 | We're talking now about mainly events that took place nine years ago in the run up to the |
2:07.9 | 2016 election and then the immediate aftermath of it when undoubtedly the intelligence community |
2:17.0 | and the FBI did collude with the Clinton campaign |
2:20.5 | in order to promote the suggestion that Trump was a Putin puppet, as Mrs. Clinton put it. |
2:29.2 | But ever since then, John, there's been innumerable congressional investigations, Justice Department |
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