igor danchenko work at the brookings institute and tried to get somebody in the brookings institute toasked them would they trade classified information for money. this person reported it to the fbi. they launched an investigation. it was never closed. despite that, they paid him hundreds of thousands as a confidential source even though there was information that he was -- that he had connection with russian intelligence. >> >> it's a fair point. james bovarb wrote this in the "new york post." nothing has been done by congress or federal courts to revoke the fbi's prerogative to fix the 2020 election. the on thing that would awaken the media is if the president invokes the will of the fbi instead of the will of the people. a strong statement but some fairness in there. your thoughts. >> i found the report an astounding document. durham doesn't use the word political bias. he's very careful. he then paints a picture in which every investigation related to democrats is immediately halted and every instigation is immediately advanced to the head of the pack and blown up and leaked to the

it's almost, what is it, a seven year saga with characters from igor danchenko to mark sussmann.he key as you pointed out and clear in the durham report. the democratic party and hillary clinton not just funded but seeded these false stories, they created them with shady characters and no backing and then peddled it out to the media but, more importantly, because we know the media's full of buffoons, willing buffoons, to the fbi, and the big question i think is, why did the fbi just accept all of this without investigation? are we to now assume that the fbi, like the media, is simply a bunch of partisan hacks willing to engage in disinformation for accomplish a political outcome? >> well, some of them clearly were. the fact is that comey, when comey said i never that you had i'd say these words about that hotel scene, he has no defense other than saying i really am not very good at what i do. either he was bias or the most pitiful excuse of an fbi director in the history of that bureau. because early on american intelligence threw a red flag on the steele dossier and said it actu

the investigation, that lawyer michael sasman, who convinced the fbi to launch russiagate, that igor danchenko who wrote the details of the cooperation between trump and moscow, were justified by the trial in the case of perjury , and hillary clinton herself was not even charged. this seriously destroys, uh, the positions of democrats , especially representatives, then hillary clinton, who claimed that it was precisely the victory in collusion with russia that was ensured by trump interference in the american electoral process in 2016, russia was accused by the special services. the united states was investigated for almost 2 years by the former head of the fbi, robert mueller, on april 19, the ministry of justice published its final report, in which the special prosecutor admitted that he did not reveal trump's collusion with russia regarding the current report. drama chief it experts call the loss of confidence of americans in the law enforcement system the consequences. according to polls, 86% of the population already does not believe in it. artyom crossolin anna pogonina lead. and now it'

now, further on page 13 regarding the subsource, igor danchenko, danchenko was unable to provide any corroborating evidence to support the steele allegations and further, described his interactions with his subsources -- this is my favorite -- prime or and speculation. more over, notwithstanding the repeated assertions in the carter page fisa applications center field's subsource danchenko was based in russia. danchenko for many years had lived in wash! but the fbi never corrected this assertions in three subsequent page fisa renewal plaigsz. in 2017 the fbi engaged danchenko as a confidential source. none corroborated steele's reporting. this was a rotten operation from the get-go. the speed and manner in which the fbi opened and investigated crossfire hurricane during the presidential election seen is raw up and lied uncorroborated evidence departure how it went about investigations of the clinton campaign. >> i do think i could have and should have done a better job answering questions earlier. i really didn't perhaps appreciate the need to do that. what i had done was allowed. it

the first michael sussman, cyber lawyer with ties to the clinton campaign, the other igor danchenko, russian intelligence. the steele dossier full of salacious allegations. a former fbi attorney pleaded guilty to altering a document used to surveil a trump campaign aid. the fbi was then under the leadership of jim comey. has changed many times since then. several layers of leadership. the affair putting on a today. have those reforms been a place since 2016 the missteps identify the report could've been prevented. this report reinforces the importance of ensuring the fbi continues to do its work with the rigor, objectivity, and professionals in the american people deserve and rightly expect. president biden's attorney general merrick garland received this durham report on friday, looked at it over the weekend, gave it to congress and transmitted it to the public without making any changes. it is the way that durham wanted to be. >> martha: david spunt, thank you very much. this has been, as david said, four years and millions of dollars in the making. in just the first few pages you

a former intelligence analyst nan igor danchenko. prior to that a year against he took michael sussmann, well-known in democratic community to trial. lost those trials. kevin klinessmith was an fbi attorney that helps falsify a document. he pleaded guilty in 2020 to falsifying that document. that again was used to actually obtain these surveillance warrants against carter page, a man that we have spoken about many times over the years. many believe that he had connections to russia. turns out he did not have the connections to russia and was not a russian agent. he was surveilled by the government and that fisa warrant was reflewed over and over again. so kevin klinesmith is the only victory if you want to say in a courtroom for john narrative, this narrative, 306 pages shows four years, almost to the day, bill bar told him, to begin his job being loo -- looking at the origins of the trump russian collusion. here we are. >> neil: seems like more punishment should have been needled out. you're looking at the legal gravity of. you have

it was he who was one of our compatriots named igor danchenko, who was the compiler of the famous russianourt, but he was acquitted in court, that is, john did not succeed in condemning anyone from reality, but as a result of a higher report, in which it was again confirmed that, in general, there was no expansion gate and it was such a witch hunt on the ladder so that's great. now, of course, the agenda has gone the other way. nobody remembers this anymore. but maybe there will still be one positive moment if they try to re-engage the russian theme in the line, interference. on the choice of 24 years. well, i hope to still laugh society will be more skeptical about it . i do not agree that the mountain gave birth to a mouse. i think some kind of mountain, because look, if we remember the history, the hotel between break-ins. e. so that nixon's resignation to the hotel took place . several years have passed. and today this is the story that has been revealed. this is, in fact, the story of the scale of watergate. that is, this is a government conspiracy to change the power in the country.