GARLAND TO BE QUIZZED ON RUSSIA'S GUY IN THE '16 FBI - 2.27.23
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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🗓️ 27 February 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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EPISODE 142: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:42) SPECIAL COMMENT: Merrick Garland is going to appear in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday morning. And it looks like there'll be yet another new and big and shiny thing to ask him about, about the arrested ex-FBI man Charles McGonigal and the Russian linked via Paul Manafort to Trump, Oleg Deripaska. Once, McGonigal was in charge of investigating Deripaska. The next thing you knew, he was WORKING FOR Deripaska. Exactly WHEN that happened keeps changing. 2020? 2019? Now it's 2018? Could it have been 2016? Judiciary Chair Dick Durban and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse want to know, and they want to know if Garland knows if McGonigal was aware of his FBI New York Field Office and how it was already trying to fix the 2016 election for Trump by forcing James Comey to re-smear Hillary Clinton eleven days before the election.
Meanwhile Trump CAN get the GOP nomination because the GOP hierarchy is moronic: it actually believes it has "cornered" him by demanding a pledge of all would-be nominees to support whoever gets the nomination because OF COURSE he always lives up to his promises. And Tucker Carlson doubles down on the January 6th video scam.
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| 0:59.0 | Oleg Deripaska. |
| 1:01.0 | And when two democratic members of that committee pull on this mechanical thread on Wednesday, |
| 1:05.7 | they hope Garland will say something that confirms that this is a story not just about |
| 1:11.5 | mechanical and Deripaska, but about mechanical and Deripaska and Trump. |
| 1:18.0 | Business Insider, which has been running rings around the rest of the news media combined |
| 1:22.2 | on this story for months now, now reports that in 2018, McGonigal, either before his |
| 1:28.9 | retirement from the FBI or just after his retirement from the FBI and way before his |
| 1:34.4 | arrest, went to London to meet a Russian, unnamed, who was under so much suspicion that |
| 1:42.4 | the British authorities had that Russian under surveillance. |
| 1:47.4 | Every time you turn around, this pile of smelly stuff involving this guy McGonigal seems |
| 1:52.1 | to have grown in size while you weren't looking at it. |
| 1:56.4 | At the end of last month, McGonigal was arrested on charges that he was working illegally |
| 2:00.5 | for Deripaska in 2021, and that he traveled to London to meet with Deripaska. |
| 2:07.3 | Read the indictment and the first version of the Deripaska saga, and it looks like that |
| 2:11.5 | meeting definitely took place in 2020, maybe 2019, but definitely not in 2018 when Deripaska |
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