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Sara Carter Show

Reps. Scalise and Collins: It was a coup and indictments are coming

Sara Carter Show

M3 Media

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Sara A. Carter hosted a special episode interviewing two lawmakers, Rep. Scalise and Rep. Collins, about the Obama administration's 'unmaskings' and if justice is coming. Scalise and Collins both defined the malfeasance as a coup and said they're expecting indictments form John Durham's office. Carter also took a look back at her coverage of the investigation and talked about her experience telling the story.

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0:00.0

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0:10.0

America has been almost four years, almost four years since the very first source came forward and told me that there was an operation going on against then President-elect Donald Trump.

0:28.0

And before that, you know, it was during the campaign, the Trump campaign and the FBI and the ongoing lies that were being told to the American people.

0:42.0

And now, and now thank God for a director of national intelligence, Rick Grinnell, who said enoughs enough and just declassified the names on the Obama list of those Obama officials that were requesting basically to unmask conversations that Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, who was then the National Security Advisor for President Trump,

1:11.0

after the November election when he was selected by President Trump to be a national security advisor, people from the Obama administration were listening in on phone calls he was making communications with foreign leaders.

1:27.0

48, 48 separate requests for his name to be unmask by 16 senior Obama officials.

1:38.0

You know, it's really interesting is that everybody's focusing on, of course, former Vice President Joe Biden, who also made those requests.

1:46.0

And Samantha Power, we know she made enormous requests in actually in the document that a DNI Rick Grinnell released, she made seven requests to basically unmask Lieutenant General Michael Flynn.

2:01.0

Seven, but I want you to think about this towards the end of Obama's tenure.

2:08.0

You and ambassador, you and ambassador Samantha power actually made close to 300 unmasking requests.

2:19.0

From 2013 until the end of Obama's tenure unmasking requests went up triple nearly 300%.

2:31.0

It's incredible. The abuse of power that was residing within the Obama administration.

2:38.0

The abuse of power just trampling all over the fourth amendment.

2:43.0

It was like they weaponized the entire system against their political enemies and that's exactly what they did.

2:49.0

And that's why since the very beginning, I remember 2017, it was I was at circa John Solomon and I and actually Eli Lake wrote the very first stories on unmasking.

3:03.0

And I remember when Congressman Devon Nunez, I actually remember when he first came out and talked about all of these strange findings, how the left and the Democrats attacked him.

3:14.0

They went after him. They made up stories about him how he was rushing to the White House in the middle of the night, you know, to get documents that weren't even valid that all of this was made up.

3:27.0

No, Congressman Devon Nunez has been vindicated.

3:33.0

And by the way, so has Lieutenant General Michael Flynn. What is happening to him is the biggest travesty of all because the Department of Justice has actually asked.

3:43.0

We know all this information now. Let me just reiterate what we have found out over the past week, because I can lose you here.

3:49.0

But basically, this is what we have discovered that the FBI through Bill pre-ships notes. Remember, he's the deputy counterintelligence guy over at the FBI.

3:59.0

He was in meetings with then deputy director Andrew McCabe and director James Comey. He leaves those meetings and he's writing down notes. We have his notes now that basically say, you know, we're going to go in there and interview him. What is the objective to get him to lie or to get him fired to get Michael Flynn to lie or to get him fired.

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