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The Byron York Show

When Trump-Russia wiretap was 'dry hole,' FBI wouldn't stop digging

The Byron York Show

Radio America

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

There's an incredible amount of information in special counsel John Durham's new 306-page report on the disastrous misdeeds and mistakes committed by the FBI and other government agencies in the Trump-Russia investigation. Here is one of many fascinating episodes.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Byron, Yorkshire, Mount Chitchat, Mount Caps, we'd like to get right

0:07.4

into it.

0:08.4

And what we're going to get into today is, yes, the Durham report.

0:12.2

And actually we're going to get into a special part of the Durham report.

0:16.8

I mean, there's an incredible amount of information in this new report from the Special Counsel

0:23.2

John Durham, 306 pages, and it's about the really disastrous things, the mistakes, and

0:32.0

also the misdeeds of the FBI in the Trump-Russia investigation.

0:39.6

And the one episode I want to talk about now is it was an episode in which something

0:47.4

the FBI was trying, didn't work, and they called it a dry hole, but they just kept on

0:56.7

digging, wouldn't stop, kept doing it, even though they knew there was nothing there.

1:04.1

Okay, so set it up a little bit.

1:06.6

People who follow the investigation are familiar with the case of Carter Page.

1:13.0

In 2016, Carter Page was a short-term, low-level foreign policy advisor to Donald Trump's

1:20.5

2016 presidential campaign.

1:24.1

Now Page had been trying to make it in the energy business, and he had a number of contacts

1:29.8

with Russia as people in the energy business sometimes do.

1:35.4

And he had actually helped U.S. intelligence agents investigate some Russian spies in

1:42.6

the few years before 2016.

1:46.3

But in 2016, he becomes the focus of all this theorizing about collusion.

1:53.6

And he was associated with the Trump campaign, and there were some high-level FBI officials

1:57.2

who suspected that Carter Page was involved in a collusion plot between Russia and the

2:03.8

Trump campaign.

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