The John Durham Investigation Was Legit

none of these things are mutually exclusive that Donald Trump was in bed with Russia China Saudi Egypt that the steel dossier and Alpha Bank story were massively corrupt joint Israeli Russian intelligence operations that Barr is a traitor and that the German uh investigation has some things to teach us about FBI corruption especially since we just arrested the former head of FBI counterintelligence in the New York field office who was head there during the 2016 campaign all these things can be true and we’re going to talk about them right now guys it’s time for some Game Theory hey there it’s Eric Garland back again with Game Theory today we’re going to be talking about the head of FBI counterintelligence in New York being arrested for being a foreign agent before we get into that I’d like you to hit subscribe we have a bunch of new videos coming up probably about the Durham investigation probably about the The Fallout from doj being penetrated by , 4 secondsForeign agents and also our upcoming series on 18 intelligence agencies how they work and no doubt the news cycle is , 11 secondsgoing to fill up time and lots of things you have questions about um so please hit subscribe uh it’s great , 18 secondsso far uh let’s get into it I’m gonna try and make this video like not nine hours because this is a topic I could , 25 secondstalk about a long time we’ve had two events um that have hit the airwaves pretty close to each other one we find out this , 35 secondsguy Charles McGonagall who is head of FBI counterintelligence in the New York field office , 42 secondswhich was probably the number one Russia focused field office in terms of criminal , 49 secondsencounter intelligence matters that that guy McGonagall was on the payroll of Russian oligarch Oleg , 57 secondsderipaska which is generally bad if you’re in if your job is to catch Russian spies to be on the Russian payroll I think we all , 5 secondsget that uh even amateurs right uh it’s especially interesting when you figure out that uh Paul manafort was also on , 13 secondsthe payroll of Oleg denapaska for many years in fact he went into the Trump campaign owing their posca money so if you’re wondering how we got a , 21 secondsforeign agent in the white house uh maybe the fact that we had some high-level Department of Justice employees actually working for the , 29 secondsRussians uh maybe that gives some insight now the other thing that’s hit the news and this is just in the last 24 hours , 37 secondsum apparently John Durham a legendary prosecutor and Rooter out of corruption in FBI and doj it’s looking like he’s , 46 secondsgetting closer to putting out his public report that explains what his investigation has been up to for now almost four years , 56 secondsum and there’s this huge immune response in the news that uh that this whole John Durham thing it’s all just a big setup , 3 secondsby William Barr and he and who knows how it’s gone on this long and it’s just there’s nothing you want to hear there , 10 secondsthere’s See No Evil Hear No Evil um smell no foreign agents or nothing uh which is interesting because some of , 19 secondsthe people uh making these assessments probably ought to know better um but but here’s the deal John Durham , 27 secondswho you may know uh from his work in New England he he helped root out corruption connected to a mobster by the name of , 36 secondsWhitey Bulger they had uh they had a bunch of corruption in the FBI as well as New England State Police John Durham , 43 secondswas a legendary prosecutor who took those guys out he took on the the Irish Republican Army terrorists he took on , 50 secondsyou know Hitman mob bosses he the guy has no fear and you know frankly he’s a great guy to tap if you think , 57 secondssomething’s been up in an FBI prosecution because he has a lot of experience on how things are supposed to run and how they go badly when either , 7 secondsorganized crime and or hostile foreign intelligence agents get in the mix he’s the guy , 14 secondsso he he’s been looking at the origins of the Russia investigation which is an , 23 secondsframe to begin with because how long has America been investigating Russian influence well about a hundred years because you know they’re very aggressive , 31 secondswith all that spy stuff uh you may have seen uh borisen Natasha moose and squirrel and or a zillion spy movies or , 40 secondsyou know just if you read up at all on the history of Russia’s attempts to interfere in foreign elections common , 47 secondsturn um you know it was very overt prior Stalin Stalin figured out they’re being a little bit loud about it and took it , 55 secondsmore underground but these guys have been meddling in elections all over the world for as long as the the modern Russian intelligence function has been , 3 secondsout there so what are the origins of Russian intelligence investigation in America uh Russia that’s the origin uh , 12 secondsbut more recently there was an investigation that was initially started by then Attorney , 19 secondsGeneral William Barr and he tapped the then U.S attorney uh in Connecticut guy a guy named uh John Durham to go look at , 29 secondshow the investigation into Trump and Russia was started and ever since it has been that , 37 secondsinvestigation has been characterized as something that’s inherently nefarious and sure enough there was a lot of media , 44 secondsinfluence on the right side trying to characterize it as something they just loved oh we’re gonna get you the whole , 51 secondsthing was completely bogus there was no connection between Trump and Russia um and then on the left side you have Boo this must be very bad because the investigation into Trump and Russia which as we just said by talking about what was going on at the FBI office in New York City probably had a couple , 9 secondsbumps in it since there’s guys on there that ended up being exposed for violating sanctions for being on the Russian payroll so let’s just admit that , 16 secondsmaybe not everything went super great in that investigation right uh for the fact that we even had a guy in that position , 23 secondswho was able to become president and enter the White House um you know maybe mistakes were made right , 31 secondsuh but so on the left side it’s like Boo everything went fine and uh everything you’ve heard has gone great and in , 40 secondsreality it’s much more complicated which is that there was a lot of corruption on all sides of that trade Trump was in , 47 secondsfact uh influenced by Russia he did in fact ask for help from Russia he did get it and he was also embedded with a , 55 secondsnumber of other countries and the investigation into the whole thing was a dog’s breakfast the whole thing was very very messy and it kind of , 4 secondsgoes from the time frame goes from like 2016 to the modern day and like I said I don’t want this to be a seven hour video , 13 secondsbecause there’s so much I could talk about but I do want to get into what the timeline was like do you even do you guys even remember how long you’ve been , 22 secondsthinking about Trump in Russia because I do um because I ended up getting involved in it um so right now I want to take you back , 29 secondsto the Dewey slopes of early 2016.

when you may have heard about Trump having something to do with Russia for the , 38 secondsfirst time let’s go through that timeline and then maybe we can look at what Durham was investigating and you ask yourselves whether or not that was a , 47 secondsworthwhile thing to investigate but first let’s go to the timeline so if you’re older you probably remember , 55 secondswhere where you were when JFK was shot if you’re a bit younger you might remember where you were on September 11 , 3 seconds2001 when The Towers fell and you might also remember the part where , 12 secondsyou initially said wait a minute this Trump guy has something to do with Russia that was a whole lot more uh , 20 secondssubtle than the first two events but they’re no less important as these things go forward uh I’ll tell you I , 27 secondsknow where I was when I went wait a minute there’s a real problem here with Trump and this one country Russia of course if you know Trump’s background , 36 secondsthe fact that he’s organized crime was already a problem the fact that he had rented out an entire floor from Tower to the Saudis for years was a problem if , 45 secondsyou tracked any of this stuff around the the Miss America Pageant uh or any of his stupid stupid businesses this was not an ideal candidate for president of , 53 secondsthe United States by any means but during the 2016 campaign Russia became a particular sticking point and I remember , 2 secondsvery specifically I believe it was his town hall with Matt Lauer and they get talking about world leaders and Donald , 9 secondsTrump comes out and says that he prefers Vladimir Putin to Barack Obama as a , 15 secondsleader in general strong guy smart guy he just likes him better than the current president now if anybody is in , 24 secondsthe intelligence World listening to this at that moment on TV to a potential presidential candidate listening to that , 32 secondskind of talk was incredibly alarming that’s what set my hair on fire and I talked to a lot of my colleagues this is way back early spring , 41 seconds2016.

I was like hey what’s up with this because in terms of statecraft we don’t make comment on other leaders especially , 50 secondsif somebody’s going to be head of state because you know you’re going to have to deal with that country no matter which political party gets in uh it you know , 58 secondsit’s why we don’t interfere with each other’s political elections and you know make comments on politics in their countries , 7 secondsprincipally because we usually don’t understand exactly what’s going on over there but mostly because we have to be friends or we have to relate to that , 15 secondscountry even we’re not friends no matter which party is in power do we have our our preferences absolutely in general , 23 secondsand sometimes they’re even the right preferences to have but during election campaigns uh we do not , 30 secondsExpress opinions and there’s an old saying it’s really stopped the last few years but that politics stops at the shore so you know where uh any other , 39 secondscountries involved it becomes diplomacy and not politics and you don’t mix these two well Donald Trump like he broke all the other rules why not this one too , 48 secondsuh he says oh no I have my preferred leader and he’s a dictator this is very very alarming so for me I start talking , 56 secondsto my friends in the intelligence Community going what’s up and I get reminded uh hey go go look up some of , 3 secondshis background and it did not take long as like oh this guy’s got a problem uh and as I said before Saudi China he’s , 10 secondsgot problems all over the place but he’s got a special bunch of deals going with the Russians and this stuff starts to look alarming now the year goes on , 20 secondsyou get to the middle of the Year people start becoming aware of a guy named Paul manafort now Paul’s a guy from New Britain Connecticut and uh his family is , 29 secondsa construction company and uh there’s some interesting parts of uh of of the family’s activities uh like for some , 37 secondsreason manafort construction was Johnny on the spot they like got the sole contract to excavate the World Trade Center that’s pretty interesting also , 45 secondsthey like stepped up when Adam Lanza shot up Sandy Hook in late 2012 manafort Brothers was there , 53 secondsto to break down to excavate Adam lanz’s house for free all that’s kind of weird but in the modern day uh what the , 2 secondsWashington um conicente thought about uh manafort was well this is something I heard from , 8 secondsfrom my network what that guy I mean look this is a guy who worked was , 17 secondspartners with Roger Stone they ran the torturers lobby he represented Ferdinand marcos’s interests I think mabuto Seiko , 26 secondsevery kind of dictator you could imagine that was Paul manafort’s dream clientele and his most recent client had been a guy named Victor yanukovic in the , 34 secondsUkraine who really represented Vladimir Putin’s interests so the fact that that dude was in the United States no longer doing Eastern European , 42 secondspolitics but doing American politics for this mob dude from Queens well all this was very very alarming so , 51 secondsuh the summer goes on and actually it becomes more public knowledge that this guy’s got Russia ties he steps aside uh , 59 secondsin favor you know of a real cool customer that we could all get along with Steve Bannon totally nothing creepy about that guy at all uh but so manafort , 8 secondssteps back but the Russia stuff continues by the end of summer or so you’ve got Donald Trump is talking about , 15 secondsuh how hey Russia if you’re listening uh we’d love to get Hillary’s emails , 22 secondsthere now it’s one thing to say that you prefer a politician from another country it’s bad but you know it’s it it can , 31 secondsalways get worse like you could just come right out and ask a hostel foreign intelligence service to help your , 39 secondspolitical Campaign which he did and then they did they they came out with uh with , 45 secondspropaganda and hacked materials that they gave to the US media which was only too happy to talk about this stuff as if , 54 secondsit didn’t even need checking as if they couldn’t talk to anybody from the intelligence services that would say yo we don’t run stories based on that stuff , 3 secondsbecause the classic techniques are you take something out you leave some stuff in that you like and you add some stuff that’s fake entirely so that’s why we , 11 secondsdon’t generally allow foreign intelligence services to act as certain as sources for our media but there we , 18 secondsare and as you recall the uh then we get into the debates those are a whole another traumatic issue for lots of us having to watch those things but you get , 27 secondsto October 16 and there’s a lot going on um you get some stories that creep out into the public , 35 secondsConsciousness that that are coming we now know from a couple operatives Glenn Simpson from , 44 secondsFusion GPS and Christopher Steele who is an MI6 officer they’d been putting together this thing that has now become known as the Steele dossier and they , 52 secondswere shopping it to journalists during the campaign and some were biting on this so we’re starting to to read and I , 59 secondsbelieve Mother Jones and Yahoo um and eventually slate in New York Times stories about Donald Trump’s , 8 secondsrelationship to Russia principally Michael iskoff and David Corn were writing about yes he’s got some uh he’s , 15 secondsgot some Russia ties in there um slate runs a story about how there’s maybe some Communications between a , 23 secondsserver a Trump Tower and Alpha bank which is a bank in Russia known to be connected to the Russian mob so that , 30 secondsstory makes it out and then the New York Times comes out and takes a completely different angle and says that according to the FBI now I don’t believe they’ve , 39 secondsidentified their sources but remember the head of counterintelligence the FBI was working for the Russians uh , 46 secondseventually uh that that investigating Trump the FBI found no links whatsoever , 52 secondsbetween Trump and and Russia uh which if you’d seen where he had just held his , 59 secondsMiss Universe contest uh you know you expect the FBI to be at least as good as a rudimentary Google search , 7 secondsum and so then we have the setup for the next few years uh November 8th comes up and of course , 16 secondswe’re all shocked Trump actually wins and there’s a few more uh russia-related events that happen like right off that , 24 secondsfreak some of us out quite a bit uh Russia celebrates his win and in fact they make Trump a Cossack of the Russian , 32 secondsEmpire like right away next day or within a week um they give him the highest civilian honor possible they really Embrace him , 40 secondsand if you recall that period of time it’s very chaotic it wasn’t very clear who was going to run the White House or , 47 secondsnothing uh so much so that uh you know we were starting to see some of the foreign the foreign connections seep out , 56 secondsthere he goes to hire this guy Mike Flynn who had been head of the defense intelligence agency and that everybody in my community of intelligence was like , 5 secondswhoa that guy that guy’s back too um and they were going to make him National Security advisor , 12 secondsand while that’s all forming up yours truly December 11 2016.

I I’ve collected my own open source intelligence for the , 21 secondsthe month before that based on my years of experience uh sometimes getting tired by the Russians myself definitely my , 28 secondslast year of going wait we don’t say we like Vladimir Putin on the debate stage that’s not done uh but in the month , 35 secondsafter the election it takes me about 30 days of getting about one hour sleep per night I come out with this thread on Twitter it starts out hey guys I’m , 43 secondshearing this meme that Obama and Clinton have just given up hey guys it’s time for some Game Theory which was is not the title I would have picked ultimately , 51 secondsbut I was just shotgunning the whole thing uh and I was thinking about um hey we need to approach this like strategic tabletop gaming at the Pentagon which is assign every country their own team and play as that team you ask yourself in strategic gaming not at , 8 secondsNash equilibrium type Game Theory or economic Game Theory anything sorry economists I know some of you uh you know filled your Pampers over that one , 16 secondsbut if you’re doing strategic simulation gaming a la Pentagon style you each take a team you get your briefing book you , 24 secondslearn as much as you can about what what’s really going on in that uh with that country you try and understand where they’re coming from what their , 32 secondsgoals are and uh you go around and you say okay this thing happens and everyone takes a turn uh it’s a little like Risk uh , 40 secondsessentially so I decided to do that as the Russians go one of the Russian is up to right now what do they want though , 48 secondsthey’ve been drastically reduced in stature uh they’re very powerful they have really good covert operations which I still stand by , 56 secondsum clearly they they had the head of our FBI counterintelligence New York I mean those guys can dunk I mean like look you know Shaq doesn’t have a bunch of , 4 secondsdisrespect for LeBron James right these guys can both Ball but you got you have to respect the other team that can dunk and drain three-pointers from the , 13 secondsoutside you know what I’m saying um so I just got on Twitter and just started talking about okay let’s just talk just some start any , 22 secondsinfluence operations and unlike a lot of what’s come up in the the disinformation analysis space online in the open source , 31 secondsI started on the left and not the right I to be between you and me I thought Fox News and that stuff was just a little too obvious why start with Fox News we , 40 secondsall know it is foreign influenced garbage let’s start on the left with Wikileaks and Chelsea Manning and Edward , 48 secondsSnowden and Glenn Greenwald and all them what was the goal of that it was to create disharmony and get distrust , 57 secondsbetween Americans and their intelligence services and their military and look we just had you know all these years 16 , 4 secondssolid years in Iraq and Afghanistan these things had not gone well there was a lot of distrust about what was said was Intelligence it really kind of , 13 secondswasn’t um or wasn’t very accurate and there’s a lot of distrust there and the the Wikileaks operations really fan the , 20 secondsflames on that so I started there and of course Wikileaks had a lot of help from the Russians and others by the way , 28 secondsum and then then you go over to the right side and you look at that so I wrote This Thread and it kind of blows up uh some 10 million people saw it and , 37 secondsit got an immediate negative reaction uh but it happened to be three days after President Obama , 44 secondshad ordered a full assessment from the intelligence Community uh three uh three agencies in particular NSA CIA and FBI , 53 secondson what the hell just happened there was very clearly a lot of foreign influence um now what came out about a month later on January 10th 2017 was the delivery of , 8 secondsa report a fairly rudimentary report about Russian influence operations and there had been a ton of Russian influence operations I mean hell the guy , 17 secondswho just won the White House asked for them he asked for influence operations from the Russians and wouldn’t you know , 24 secondsit they obliged I mean what look if you were in Russian intelligence position wouldn’t you guy who’s going to be president who will look super bad if you , 32 secondsdo that thing and you kind of have them in your pocket as if you don’t already through haven’t bought his house for twice the price through Dimitri rabovlev , 39 secondsdown in Florida a few years ago you have all these levers on the dude that do not involve girls peeing on them by the way you have real leverage like money and , 48 secondsknowledge of how businesses are set up all that dude begs you for help you can help you’re that’s another lever you can use , 55 secondsso they do that um are there other countries like you know Israel and Saudi and others that , 4 secondsare trying to influence Trump that have intelligence operations going you betcha absolutely but you know the probably the , 12 secondsstrongest influence on the 2016 election were those Russian influence Ops especially the Cyber operations the , 20 secondsoperations through social media so the intelligence Community does an assessment that means drop everything , 26 secondsand analyzes one topic as much as you possibly can and they came out and they said yeah there’s a lot of Russia here , 33 secondsnow it was Jan uh it was January 10 2017 when they report to Congress now something else happens on that day , 41 secondsBuzzFeed publishes a document that was handed to them on background that turns out was , 49 secondsitself a foreign intelligence operation and that was the Christopher Steele dossier which for those of us in the , 56 secondsworld of intelligence who produce human intelligence that is not intelligence that’s gathered from a satellite or signals or hacking computers necessarily , 5 secondsbut talking to human sources it looked like a raw generally unfinished product or sorry not quite a product it’s it’s , 12 secondslike you know an update you might give to a client of here’s what we’re hearing so far it didn’t have a lot of conclusions it had a lot of innuendo in , 21 secondsit which didn’t make it particularly newsworthy especially not if you figured out who was paying for it this is a product that was originally , 29 secondsfinanced by a billionaire named Paul singer who has a lot of ties to Israel and this was set up it was paid through , 38 secondsthe law firm of Perkins cui that represents the DNC and the Clinton foundation so right there we got some , 44 secondsquestions and they subcontract to Fusion GPS who in turn works with an , 51 secondsold MI6 spy by the name of Christopher Steele who is a Russia expert but also a guy named donchenko who was a , 59 secondsyoung man who really much very much appears to be Russian intelligence and a guy named Chuck Dolan who was a democratic operative who had worked with , 8 secondsthe clintons as far back as the 90s he ran the Massachusetts Democratic party and most recently he’d been working for Vladimir Putin so , 17 secondsthat’s the dossier and that totally eclipsed the narrative of what the intelligence Community was , 24 secondstrying to tell us about okay we had Russian intelligence operations that influences how much that’s hard for us to assess we haven’t , 33 secondsgot the tools on that what’s one of the reasons a couple good reasons that the USIC wouldn’t have tools to assess just , 41 secondshow much the Russians had influenced an election one way or the other one they’re not mind readers uh they can’t see inside your brain to , 48 secondssee what crapola you saw on your dad’s Facebook that influenced you and two they’re not supposed to look at U.S soil , 56 secondsthey’re not the intelligence Community is supposed to look out at other people not in at us with the exception of the FBI and even then it’s not supposed to , 4 secondsbe a Stasi East German secret police force that is listening in on your conversations over breakfast cereal it’s supposed to try and catch the foreign , 12 secondsspies on our soil and possibly also the people the American citizens that they might be working with they’re not , 20 secondssupposed to study us like you know zoo animals or something so if that’s something we could not assess we’ve got , 28 seconds18 agencies out there there’s a series coming on this channel uh 18 different agencies um and they had no ability to assess , 37 secondsexactly how much Russia impacted the election or not just that they tried and they did and there were penetration of , 45 secondsdifferent machines all over the place and there was definitely influence in the social media space and then you have over at BuzzFeed , 53 secondsyou’ve got these photocopies of this document with the the yellow highlighter on it that’s just like oh there’s some , 1 secondsexual this and there’s this guy Carter page and he’s doing all this stuff and , 8 secondshere begineth what they what bar uh framed up as an investigation into the , 15 secondsroots of trump Russia because you have a four or so months after uh you know the release of buzzfeed’s , 24 secondsthingy as well as the U.S intelligence Community report and we had a few little uh you know events along the way like we find out Mike Flynn was talking to the , 32 secondsRussian Embassy on the run-up while Obama was still president and then Flynn gets taken out uh he gets uh you know he , 41 secondshe quits because he’s not entirely uh honest with everybody about having been in touch with the Russian Embassy , 50 secondsspecifically about don’t worry we’ll take those sanctions off you uh who cares what the current president just did we remove him but by May 9th of that , 59 secondsyear 2017 Trump fires James Comey why well that we still haven’t figured that out now he he , 7 secondsdoes invite the Russians over to the Oval Office in a clear breach of protocol the next day and says well I’m , 15 secondsso glad I got that nut case Jim Comey off my back he was giving me trouble about you guys as if he doesn’t have an Israeli agent in his office as well as , 22 secondsas if the guy who set up his campaign is an emirati agent he has the Russians over and we just , 29 secondsmake it Russia Russia Russia um and here is where the framework of the trump-russia thing happens is like , 37 secondsthere had been a backlash to things like my thread that Trump has you know and also the the dossier itself Trump has , 46 secondsconnections to Russia but that’s crap that’s some internet stuff even though the uh the intelligence Community come out and said I don’t know Russia , 53 secondsdefinitely helped the dude why you know maybe they just they think he’s cute you know probably more complicated than that but , 1 secondyou know it was pretty clear by May when he has the Russians into the Oval Office oh my God it’s Trump and Russia when in , 8 secondsreality it’s Trump Saudi Egypt you know Emirates is all these different players that are part of this foreign , 16 secondsattack on U.S democracy uh and of course right after Trump comey’s dismissal we get this guy Robert , 24 secondsMueller who had been comey’s boss prior to that he had been the second longest serving director of the FBI in history , 31 secondsand as you all remember they looked at things for a couple years and started dropping some very heavy indictments on , 39 secondsfolks they start Prosecuting Paul manafort Mike Flynn Russian Intelligence Officers that are named first name , 46 secondspatronymic middle name last name stuff that’s never happened before there’s not there’s clearly a whole lot of Russia , 54 secondsgoing on and today we know that Rod Rosenstein had been in there tightly controlling what Mueller could look at , 1 secondand what he could charge based on it was so much tighter than like uh the Ken Starr uh investigation of Clinton where , 9 secondshe could go and investigate any any molecule that had ever been on Bill Clinton’s butt um Mueller wasn’t given that he was , 17 secondsgiven tight set of four questions that he could look into involving four individuals and he still comes out you , 25 secondsknow getting enough to criminally charge Intelligence Officers something that never happened like that ever before unbelievable stuff , 33 secondsnow we’re going to skip ahead to to 2019 when Mueller’s getting ready uh to present his findings we of course get a , 42 secondsnew Attorney General William Barr who one of the first things he does in office is come out and give a blatantly , 49 secondsprejudicial public statement about Mueller’s work before it’s been before it’s been put out for Americans to just , 57 secondsread and and for other experts to look at and interpret for the public Barr comes out and says oh I didn’t really , 5 secondsfind anything I mean remember we’ve indicted his campaign manager who’s connected to Russia we’ve indicted his , 12 secondsNational Security advisor who had taken money from Russia everybody else too but also Russia uh you know they did Roger , 19 secondsStone they did Russian Intelligence Officers and then Barr comes out and says oh they didn’t find anything which this , 30 secondshey what are all the real connections that Barr has what’s Barb been up to nobody looks at that they’re just like oh well he’s a trump , 38 secondsbad guy and he says that there’s no Trump Russia so maybe Mueller we shouldn’t have put all our hopes and dreams in them as if that’s you know , 45 secondsanybody looks to the FBI director or much less the former FBI director and 23 prosecutors for hopes and dreams , 54 secondsum you know we usually use other sources of inspiration and Faith these are these are dry very business-like government professionals generally so the The , 3 secondsNarrative framework that we were all just holding on just hoping for Mueller to lift up our hearts and souls it’s not the Hallmark Channel people this , 11 secondsis the FBI and the doj they’re doing a tough job usually in a very dry manner um so , 18 secondsso that’s that’s March 2019 or so April 2019 Mueller puts out the 700 page book , 26 secondsthat I I am one of six people that have actually read uh and then he testifies in July and if you read the book and you , 34 secondslisten to the testimony there was clearly a ton of completely inappropriate relationship between Trump , 42 secondsand the Russian Federation and its intelligence Services if nothing else you gotta go check out the fact that , 49 secondsmanafort hands off data from the Republican National Committee incredibly valuable down to the precinct polling , 57 secondsdata he hands it off to Constantine kilimnik who they describe in the news has a Russian military linguist guys let , 6 secondsme just uh let’s get into this if anybody is a military linguist they’re a spy that’s it they’re not forests , 13 secondsthey’re not a barber uh they’re not an interior decorator they’re spies that’s what a spy is that’s somebody who studies foreign , 22 secondslanguages for the military and if you’re in Russia you’re never an ex-spy you’re a spy until uh they put you up the , 29 secondschimney or in a box that’s it and that’s and that’s not my words that is the pep talk they give you on day one over there , 36 secondsso manafort was working with this guy Constantine kilimnik who he’d known for years who’s a Russian spy so very clearly they caught this they caught , 44 secondsthese guys working with Russia now do they work with all sorts of other foreign intelligence Services yeah it’s really annoying actually , 52 secondsbut they work with Russian intelligence and then the doj put a cap on who could get , 59 secondscharged for what so Mueller’s hands are pretty well tied and the News comes out and says oh well he didn’t find anything and they write some snarky stories about , 8 secondssome people had Mueller votive candles and it was all very dismissive and very inaccurate but around that time Barr , 16 secondscovers everybody’s tracks hires Durham to go look into the very dodgy creation , 23 secondsof the Steele dossier the alpha Bank story and how that disinformation ended up getting used in official fisa warrant , 33 secondsapplications by the FBI and uh I think this is where we’re going to have to like table this for some more , 40 secondslike another episode here for for all the various details there’s so much wrong with what went on with Crossfire , 48 secondshurricane with the fisa Warren applications on Carter page who turns out was a CIA asset for us doesn’t mean , 56 secondshe was an intelligence officer he had been to the Naval Academy and uh he had served his country in that manner uh he may have been screwing around and they I , 4 secondsdon’t know all the the circumstances of it but he may have been messing around and he certainly had been targeted by the Russians in 2013.

that’s the kind of , 12 secondssituation where our CIA might tap you and go hey how about you go fool around on them some more but just tell us what they’re thinking when you get back , 19 secondsthat’s being a Ci or a confidential informant for the CIA and this is the thing that really deserved Durham’s , 28 secondsattention and got plenty of it and it’s why they got a guilty plea out of a guy named kleinsmith who was assistant general counsel and who was the liaison , 36 secondsbetween the FBI and the CIA where they they add the FBI asked CIA hey it’s called deconfliction hey is this your , 45 secondsguy we have this guy he’s messing around with spies we see him around here is he one of yours is he kind of supposed to be fooling around with supplies right , 52 secondsnow and if the answer is yes then you don’t put a fisa word on that person because that’s an invasion of their their civil rights because they’re , 59 secondsserving their country and we don’t want uh you know multiple multiple reporting streams there about what this guy is up , 8 secondsto kind of like the agency that’s handling that asset we let them handle that asset uh well the CIA said yeah , 16 secondsCarter page he’s one of ours Believe It or Not guys I know the hat and all that surprised me too kleinsmith turns around and he and his , 24 secondsboss James Baker who ends up as general counsel of Twitter by the way after the fact they lie about it they say nope we talked to the CIA everything’s cool and , 33 secondsso they throw a fisa warrant on Carter page and some other individuals and the the fisa warrant gets leaked to a Rupert , 41 secondsMurdoch Outlet heat Street and that ends up as part of uh the narrative out there and so , 49 secondsthere’s this turns out there’s this whole relationship between the FBI that’s investigating this stuff and the media you are not supposed to compromise , 58 secondsthese investigations while they’re going on it’ll make everybody act differently so you know when you when you back up and you look at what was going on in , 7 secondscrossfire hurricane what was the relationship between this counter-espionage team at FBI and then later on that same counter Espionage , 15 secondsteam and the Mueller investigation and the prosecutions you understand why this could be a seven hour video there was so much going on , 24 secondsthere and uh just to sum up uh and we can get into this in in Greater detail in future videos here , 32 secondsum bar sorry not bar pardon me Freudian slurp there Durham ends up charging a number of individuals he gets a guilty , 40 secondsplea out of Kevin kleinsmith the assistant uh general counsel he goes after an attorney who had been a doj employee but worked for the private , 49 secondsLaw Firm Perkins cui a guy named Michael Sussman for lying to the FBI about oh gosh was that were the clintons our , 56 secondsclients geez I can’t remember very clearly he was lying he said oh I I didn’t remember whether , 3 secondsyou know we we had told the CIA and the FBI that we really worked for the Clinton campaign or if we were just , 10 secondsconcerned citizens he was not convicted but um the whole story of how he was relating to the FBI and the CIA and , 19 secondstrying to push this narrative that was definitely worth inquiry definitely worth investigation and in my opinion worth prosecution and if nothing else , 27 secondsreading all the different pleadings from that case tells you there’s a whole lot going on also the story of how the steel , 35 secondsdossier was produced so they they charged a guy named Igor donchenko who appears to be a Russian intelligence , 42 secondsofficer who was in the United States and worked with this guy Chuck Dolan to create the Steele dossier through the fusion gsps guys Fusion GPS have been , 51 secondsworking for prevazon which was a front for the Russians bottom line you had Clinton campaign operatives working with Russian operatives financed partially by guys tied to Israeli intelligence a lot going on there but you know if you , 8 secondslook at uh if you if you look at the coverage of the New York Times uh that the New York Times is pushing on , 16 secondsDurham’s potential public report which may be a lot more impactful than the individual prosecutions that taught them , 23 secondsso much they’re saying there’s nothing to see here and look New York Times is the outlet that worked with somebody , 30 secondsdirty at the FBI to say investigating Trump the FBI which is a which got 35 000 special agents right 15 000 analysts , 39 secondsthe whole 50 000 of those guys saw no connections between Trump and Russia whatsoever which was just unmitigated , 48 secondsum so the at the New York Times does not get an opinion about this not one that you should pay any damn attention to since they are involved in some form of , 57 secondsconspiracy maybe it was just a conspiracy to commit terrible journalism but conspiracy nonetheless could be worse than that , 4 secondsum so that’s where we are there we’re going to start talking about Durham we’re going to start talking about geez what kind of a culture did some parts of , 12 secondsthe FBI have such that the head of counterintelligence in New York felt like it’d be okay if you worked for uh a Russian oligarch that’s all very valid , 21 secondsstuff and do not let anybody on MSNBC or New York Times or anyone anywhere shut that down and also just because you see , 29 secondsthese super ugly figures on the right wing side of propaganda don’t necessarily throw out the whole , 36 secondsstory because that’s the whole gag here is you have the truth then you have people on the left who have an inaccurate version of people on the , 44 secondsright who have a completely totally inaccurate version of it and you know the reality of this is very sticky it is , 51 secondsvery complex I mean look I could clearly go for seven hours right we got to break this up there’s so much to learn here , 59 secondsum you know that it’s not gonna fit into easy sound bites here so don’t take any wooden nickels on that stuff and there’s , 7 secondsgonna be more to come uh you know it probably take me again another six and a half hours just to get through in a condensed manner what we’ve learned so , 15 secondsfar from the Trump Russia investigation and from Durham’s investigation into the corruption thereof but there’s probably going to be more information that comes , 24 secondsout of Durham I’m certainly not going to be uh I’m not going to be ignoring it and we’ll be talking about it soon but first , 31 secondsif you made it this far why don’t you hit subscribe if you’re not already a subscriber click the click the Bell to be notified hit like and my favorite , 39 secondspart ask some questions you gotta have a bunch of questions how much was Hillary Clinton really involved in this did she , 46 secondsknow uh you know is steel a bad guy does what does British intelligence think of him I may not have the answers to those questions but you should ask them , 55 secondsuh of Matt I’m Eric Garland you can catch me on Twitter at Eric Garland leave us a comment and see you next time , 2 secondson game three today thanks