mr. nunez and myself, mr. nunez, you are recognized. >> mr. mueller, it's been a long day for you. and you've had a long, great career. i want to thank you for your long time service starting in vietnam. obviously in the u.s. attorney's office, the department of justice, and the fbi. and i want to thank you for doing something you didn't have to do, you came here upon your own free will, and we appreciate your time today, with that i yield back. >> thank you, sir. >> director mueller, i want to close out my questions, turn to some of the exchanges you had with mr. welsh a bit earlier. i'd like to see if we can broaden the ap toer tour at thed of the hearing. receiving assistance during a presidential campaign is an unethical thing to do. >> and a crime. >> and a crime. >> and a crime in given certain circumstances. >> to the degree that it undermines our democracy and institutions, we can agree it's also unpatriotic? >> true. >> and wrong. >> true. >> the standard of behavior for a presidential candidate or any candidate shouldn't be whether something is criminal, it should be held

nunez. >> thank you, mr. chairman. welcome, everyone, to the last gasp of the russia collusion conspiracy theory. as democrats continue to foist this spectacle on the american people as well as you, mr. mueller, the american people may recall the media first began spreading this serious theory in the spring of 2016 when fusion gps funded by the dnc and the hillary clinton campaign started developing the steele dossier. a collection of outlandish accusations that trump and his associates were russian agents. fusion gps, steele, and other confederates fed this to naive or partisan reporters and to top officials in numerous government agencies including the fbi, the department of justice and the state department. among other things the fbi used dossier allegations to obtain a warrant to spy on the trump campaign. despite acknowledging dossier allegations as being salacious, and unverified, former fbi director james comey briefed the allegations to president obama and president-elect trump. those briefings conveniently lea

nunez. >> thank you mr. chairman. welcome everyone to the last gasp of the russia collusion conspiracy theory. the democrats continue to voice this spectacle on the american people as you, mr. mueller. the american people may recall the media began spreading this conspiracy theory in the spring of 2016 when fusion gps funded by the dnc and the hillary clinton campaign started , aeloping the steele dossier collection of outlandish accusations that trump and his associates were russian agents. fusion gps and other confederates spread these two naive or partisan reporters, and to top officials in numerous agencies including the fbi, the department of justice, and the state department. used other things, the fbi dossier allegations to obtain a warrant to spy on the trump campaign. despite acknowledging these as being siliceous and unverified. james comey briefed these two o presidentrump -- t obama and president trump. they were conveniently leaked to the press, launching thousands of stories based on the word of spy.eign

nunez? >> thank you, mr. chairman. welcome, everyone, to the last gasp of the russia collusion conspiracy theory. as democrats continue to voice this expect tackle on the american people as well as you, mr. mueller, the american people may recall the media first began spreading this conspiracy theory in the spring of 2016 when fusion gps, funded by the dnc and the hillary clinton campaign started developing the steele dossier, a question of outlandish accusations that trump and his associates were russian agents. fusion gps, steele and other confederates fed these theorys to naive reporters and top officials in numerous government agencies, including the fbi, department of justice and the state department. among other things, the fbi used

nunez. >> thank the gentleman for yielding. mr. mueller i want to make sure you're aware of who fusion gps is, they are a political operations firm working directly for the hillary clinton campaign and the democrat national committee. they produced the dossier, so they paid steele who then went out and got the dossier, i know you don't want to answer any dossier questions, so i'm not going there. but your report mentions natalia 65 times, she meets in the trump tower, it's an infamous trump tower several times. the meeting was shorter than 20 minutes, i believe, correct? >> what we have in our report it reflects it was about that length. >> do you know, so fusion gps the main actor of fusion gps, the president of the company, or the owner of a company. working for hillary clinton glenn simpson, you know how many times glenn simpson met with natalia? >> no. >> would it surprise you to know the clinton campaign dirty ops arm met with natalia more times than the trump campaign did? >> i'm not going to get into it as i indicated at the

mr. mueller. >> i mean dagen, i thought nunez radcliffe, jordan nailed it. jim jordan bringing up joseph , as we've talked about and, of course, had had george papadopoulos who told pus about entrap. but that journal was reached out to go to rome to meet important people, one of whom was joseph and lied to the fbi three times and he was not charged. this was really for me such an important point that jim jordan brought up because if, in fact, it becomes that we find out that he was, in fact, working for western intelligence, working for the fbi, then we know. entrap. exactly what i've been expecting for the last two years but there's the evidence that it was just entrapment they just trapped him to drop this news on his lap so that he would go to tell the president which he did not. >> everybody asked the question what's next? what's next is inspector general report from horowitz without maybe in september, and then john durr ram investigation and what plin city graham is doing in the intelligence committee in the senate. as you've pointed out those are the