he supposedly said this to papadopoulos, something about e-mails.the excuse and the -- well, actually, it's not the excuse, it is the reason why, the documented reason why they opened the investigation on july 31, 2016. now, what i mentioned in my testimony and in my questioning, it's clear that the fbi did not open the investigation on july 31st. that's the paperwork. what we're trying to figure out is when did the fbi really start to run the investigation, what types of processes did they use, what was the predicate. because, look, it really appears like they were spying on the trump campaign. so let me, if i may, start with there was an event at cambridge university where carter page was invited to it. in addition, steven miller and other trump campaign people were invited in june, in late may, early june. they get an invitation to a symposium that was held in cambridge in early july. now, at this, at this symposium you have characters like the british historian christopher andrew, you have people like the former head of mi-6, richard deerlove. t

denies mentioning that to papadopoulos. he denies that papadopoulos mentioned anything to him about hillary clinton's emails. in fact, mifsud denies mentioning them to papadopoulos in the first place. so how does the fbi know to continually ask papadopoulos about clinton's emails for the rest of 2016? even more strangely, your sentencing memo on papadopoulos names him for hindering the fbi ability to potentially detain or arrest mifsud, but the truth is mifsud waltzed in and out of the united states in december 2016. the u.s. media could find him, the italian press found him, and he is a supposed russian agent at the epicenter of the purported collusion conspiracy. he's the guy who knows about hillary clinton's emails and that the russians have them. but the fbi failed to question him for half a year after officially opening the investigation. and then, according to claim one, page 193 of your report, once mifsud finally was questioned he made false statements to the fbi. but you declined to charge him. is that correct? you

that to papadopoulos. mifsin denies mentioning them to papadopoulos in the first place. how does the fbi know to continually ask papadopoulos about clinton's emails for the rest of 2016? even more strangely, your sentencing memo on papadopoulos blames him for hindering the arrest or detain mifsid, who waltzed in and out of the united states in december 2016. the u.s. media could find him. italian press found him. a supposed russian agent at the epicenter of the purported collusion conspiracy. he is the guy who knows about the hillary clinton emails and that the russians have them but the fbi failed to question him for half a year after aofficially opening the investigation. and then according to volume i, once mifsid was finally questioned he made false statements to the fbi. but you declined to charge him. is that correct? you did not indict mr. mifsin? >> i'm not going to speak to the series of happenings as you articulate them. >> you did not indict mr. mifsin? >> the gentleman's time has expired. >> pa

the government didn't turn it over to papadopoulos' lawyer. and papadopoulos' mention in the fisa warrant application to spy on carter page. if that is exculpatory they had a duty to tell the fisa court and they didn't do it. >> sebastian we watched the mueller hearing based on what gregg is talking about and what we talk about here director mueller with all due respect didn't w acknowledge many of the things and he said he didn't even look at the genesis of this, which very well may have been the russians trying to plant information, correct? >> more than 100 times in just the first session in front of congress, bob mueller, this bent cop, this bad cop said "sorry, i'm not going to answer that."s how does that occur, jason? either you take the fifth or you are under oath and you have to answer. i couldn't get away with that. this is clearly becausely this was an operation using russian propaganda. remember, christopher steele said i have very good ties in moscow. he served in moscow as an intelligence officer and this man admitted in a britis

glassner passed on word of papadopoulos's interest to another campaign official who notified papadopoulosail that she had been told by glassner to introduce papadopoulos to sam clovis of iowa, the trump campaign's national co-chair and chief policy adviser. now here is the magic of a campaign. listen to what the president says to "the washington post" editorial board 19 days after that. >> george papadopoulos, he's an oil and energy consultant, excellent guy. >> excellent guy, michael. is this kind of freelancing, the name salad we just read aloud, common? >> no. i don't think it's common. i don't think it's common as other campaigns would function. but i think what you're talking about gets at the question in the mueller report about the trump campaign. was the trump comparison disorganized, it allowed people like george papadopoulos who had had sort of weird connections to different foreigners, particularly these russians, people talking about russian emails, into the inner circle of the campaign? was it because it was so atypical that they were able to be on foreign policy advisers to

denies mentioning that to papadopoulos. he denies papadopoulos mentioned anything to him about clinton's emails. how does the fbi know to continuously ask papadopoulos about clinton's emails for the rest of 2016? even more strangely, your sentencing on pop cop louse blames him for hindering the fbi's ability to detain or arrest miffsin, but the truth is miffsid came in and out of the united states in december of 2016. the u.s. media could find him. the italian press found him, and he's the supposed russian agent at the epicenter of purported collusion. but the fbi failed to question him for a half a year after officially opening the investigation. and then according to volume one, page 193 of your report, once miffsid finally was questioned he made false statements to the fbi. but you declined to charge him. is that correct? you did not indict mr. miffsid? >> i'm not going to speak to the series of happenings as you articulated them. >> but you did not -- >> time of the gentleman has expired. >> pardon? >> you did not indic

the diplomat tells papadopoulos -- that papadopoulos tells the diplomat russians have dirt on clinton. diplomat tells the fbi. what i'm wondering is who told papadopoulos? how did he find out? >> i can't get into the evidentiary -- >> yes, you can because you gave us the answer. page 192 of the report you tell us who told him. joseph misfeud. he told papadopoulos and the mysterious professor who lives in rome and london, works at two different universities. he told papadopoulos he's the guy who starts it all. and when the fbi interviews him, he lies three times and yet you don't charge him with a crime. you charge rick gates for false statements. charge paul manafort and charge michael cohen and michael flynn a three-star general with false statements but the guy who puts the country through the whole saga starts it off for three years we have lived this now. he lies and you guys don't charge him. i'm curious as to why. >> well, i can't get into it and it's obvious i think we can't get into charging decisions. >> when the fbi interviewed him in february, when the special counsel's off

and march 2 of 2016, papadopoulos sent glassnerner e mail.ner passed along word of papadopoulos's interest to another campaign official joy luts that was told to introduce papadopoulos to sam clovis chief policy adviser. now, here's the magic of a campaign. listen to what the president says to the "washington post" editorial board 19 days after that. >> george papadopoulos, he's an oil and energy consultant, excellent guy. >> excellent guy, michael. is this kind of freelancing the name salad we just read aloud common? >> no, i don't think it's common. i don't think it's common as other campaigns would function. but i think what we're talking about gets at the question sort of in the mueller report about the trump campaign. was the trump campaign disorganized it allowed people like george papadopoulos who had had sort of weird connections to different foreigners particularly these russians that people talking about russian e mails into the inner circle of the campaign? you know, 'twas because it of sos a typical that they were able to be on fo

denies mentioning that to papadopoulos. he denies papadopoulos mentioned anything to him about clinton's emails. how does the fbi know to continuously ask papadopoulos about clinton's emails for the rest of 2016? even more strangely, your sentencing on pop cop louse blames him for hindering the fbi's ability to detain or arrest miffsin, but the truth is miffsid came in and out of the united states in december of 2016. the u.s. media could find him. the italian press found him, and he's the supposed russian agent at the epicenter of purported collusion. but the fbi failed to question him for a half a year after officially opening the investigation. and then according to volume one, page 193 of your report, once miffsid finally was questioned he made false statements to the fbi. but you declined to charge him. is that correct? you did not indict mr. miffsid? >> i'm not going to speak to the series of happenings as you articulated them. >> but you did not -- >> time of the gentleman has expired. >> pardon? >> you did not indic

were they targeting george t papadopoulos? were they targeting the trump campaign?id this happen? the fact that they went on the record, yes, they were spying. >> sean: they spied on foreign soil, they spied in the fisa warrant that allowed them a back door into the trump campaign and then transition and presidency. mark meadows, what are the five big topics you want republicans to absolutely hammer mueller on? >> well, one, why did he not get to the bottom of the dossier that was false, that we know is false? the credibility of russian dossier, why did they not get to the credibility of christopher steele? o why did they make connections to russia when they weren't there? you know, some of the reporting tonight would indicate that. then ultimately, who was the one who led this investigation? was it a trap? was it t something that was set up? we are finding each and every day that this whole collusion narrative that was out there that adam schiff and jerry nadler keep talking about was really not there. and then, finally, did the spying that actually occurred, why d

>> i have a little more confidence in "the new york times" story than george papadopoulos. plays out as to who is the course in there. there was a placement put in there. they were trying to figure out. it is a defensive counter intelligence investigation. they are trying to find out, did the russian government actually penetrate to a presidential campaign. you are going to take this maneuver for sure. >> michael, people want to know what the trump campaign was like. we read from the mueller report. pap contacted trump campaign manager cory on linkedin as people do. glass ner passed along word of pap interest to another individual that she had been told to introduce pap to sam clovis the cochair and chief policy advisor. here is the magic, listen to what the president says to the "washington post" editorial board 19 days after that. >> george papadopoulos he's an oil and energy consultant, excellent guy. >> excellent guy, michael. is this kind of freelancing the name salad we just read aloud common? >> no. i don't think it is common as other campaigns would function. i thin

foote and tremblay, george papadopoulos, from his public report.t sounds like john durham is looking to get to the bottom of it all. solomon, this is huge and these questions should be asked tomorrow. >> absolutely. i can report tonight that john durham's investigation, the one that bill maher launched, is seeking to interview one of the key witnesses and it is a challenge to one of the key conclusions in the robert mueller report. if you concluded, he said that his contacts with the trump campaign and george hopwood papadopoulos was the omission .4 the russian narrative. evidently, he used that to get to some russian contacts and talk about some russian emails. we now know that ms. cera has been contacted by germs prosecutors and he is prepared to provide evidence from his clients showing that it was not some professor, he was a long term western intelligence cooperator who is tasked specifically to approach papadopoulos and introduce him to russian figures in the spring of 2016. if that is not -- if what is been portrayed for the last three years

he told george papadopoulos. george papadopoulos tells the d diplomat. the diplomat tell it s the fbi. the fbi starts the investigation. the central figure who launches it all lies to us and you guys don't hunt him down and interview him again and charge him with a crime. here's the good news. >> the president was falsely accused of conspiracy. james comey when we deposed him told us they have nothing. at the end of your 22-month investigation you find no conspiracy. what do the democrats want to do? keep investigating. keep going. maybe a better course of action, maybe a better course of action is to figure out how the false accusations started. maybe it's to figi.here toodnew. exactly what bill barr is doing. thank goodness for that. that's what the attorney jerngel is doing. >> time for the gentleman has expired. in a moment we'll take a very brief five-minute break. i ask everyone in the room to remain seated and quiet while the witness exits the room. i also want to announce to those in the audience that you may not be guaranteed your seat if you le

kennedy: george papadopoulos thank you. >> thank you.: that right, topical storm is next, stay with me. fact is, every insurance company hopes you drive safely. but allstate actually helps you drive safely... with drivewise. it lets you know when you go too fast... ...and brake too hard. with feedback to help you drive safer. giving you the power to actually lower your cost. unfortunately, it can't do anything about that. now that you know the truth... are you in good hands? the doctor's office might mejust for a shot.o but why go back there when you can stay home with neulasta® onpro? strong chemo can put you at risk of serious infection. in a key study neulasta® reduced the risk of infection from 17% to 1% a 94% decrease. neulasta® onpro is designed to deliver neulasta® the day after chemo and is used by most patients today. neulasta® is for certain cancer patients receiving strong chemotherapy. do not take neulasta® if you're allergic to it or neupogen (filgrastim). an incomplete dose could increase infection risk. ruptured spleen, so

kennedy: george papadopoulos thank you. >> thank you.: that right, topical storm is next, stay with me. of savings and service. whoa. travis in it made it. it's amazing. oh is that travis's app? it's pretty cool, isn't it? there's two of them. they're multiplying. no, guys, its me. see, i'm real. i'm real! he thinks he's real. geico. over 75 years of savings and service. who used expedia to book the vacation rental that led to the ride ♪ which took them to the place where they discovered that sometimes a little down time can lift you right up. ♪ flights, hotels, cars, activities, vacation rentals. expedia. everything you need to go. kennedy: paris, france, record high 114 degrees saturday, things are so bad, parissians are forced to bathe twice this month, this is the top call tomorrow, topic one, alabama, a cop called for back up, he got it. ♪ yeah ♪ take -- old town road. >> crooning cop found a loose goat on the street, handled the situation be high lip-sync number one sung in country, he got a butt load of hits. the cops are reaching

diplomat tells papadopoulos the russians have dirt -- excuse me, papadopoulos tells the diplomat the russians have dirt on clinton, they tell the fbi. what i'm wondering is who told papadopoulos? how did he find out. >> i can't get into the -- >> yes, you can. you wrote about it. you gave us the answer on page 192 of the report, you tell us who told him. joseph nipson is the guy who told papadopoulos. he lives in lond ns and teaches at two universities. this is the guy who told papadopoulos. he's the guy who starts it all. and when the fbi interviews him, he lies three times and yet you don't charge him with a crime. you charge rick gates for false statements and paul manafort for false statements, michael cohen for false statements, you charge michael flynn, a three-star general with false statements. but the guy who puts the country through this whole saga starts it off, for three years we've lived this now. he lies, and you guys don't charge him. i'm curious as to why. >> well, i can't get into it and it's obvious that we can't get into charging decisions. >> when the fbi intervie

he told papadopoulos, papadopoulos tells the diplomat, the diplomat tells the f.b.i., the f.b.i. opens the investigation july 21, 2016 and here we are three years later july of 2019 the country has been put through this and the central figure who launches it all, lies to us, and you guys don't hunt him down and interview him again and you don't charge him with a crime. here is the good news. here is the good news. the president was falsely accused of conspiracy, the f.b.i. does an 10-month investigation. james comey told us at that point they had nothing. you do a 22 month investigation, you find no conspiracy, and what do the democrats want to do? keep investigating. they want to keep going. maybe a better course of action, maybe a better course of action is to figure out how the false accusations started. maybe to go back and actually figure out why joseph was lying to the f.b.i. here is the good news, here is the good news. that's exactly what bill barr is doing. and thank goodness for that. what they're doing. they'll find out why we went through this three-year saga and get

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 next steps. but i said on this program yesterday, watch bob mueller's performance. >> you did. >> i sa

remember both carter page and george papadopoulos gave possibly exculpatory information that the fbid over when they took out the fisa, particularly on carter page. both men have stated over and over again that they told stefan halper that they were not involved with the russians. that they were not in any way, shape, or form working with the russians and there is a belief among members of congress at that information was never passed on. >> sean: gregg, this week is a great opportunity for the republicans if robert mueller is true to his word and his opening statement is really going to be the mueller report, than the is republicans will get 5 minutes as an awful lot of questions that are not in the mueller report. when did you know about the dirty dossier? did you know the dirty dossier -- when did you find out that the dirty dossier was used as the bulk of evidence to give a fisa warrant to spy on the trump campaign and tradition and presidency? when did you first know that there was no collusion and determined to no collusion with russia? all of this, i'm going to lay out my vers

diplomat tells papadopoulos -- papadopoulos tells diplomat russian has dirt on clinton. what i'm wondering is what told papadopoulos. how did he find out? >> i can't get into the evidence findings. >> yes you can. you gave us the answer. you tell us who told him. joseph nipson. told padopouloss the guy who the mysterious professor who lives in rome and london. this is the guy who told papadopoulos. he's the guy who starts it all. when the fbi interviews him, he lies three times and yet you don't charge him with a crime. you charge rick gates for false statements. you charge paul manafort for false statements. you charge michael cohen with false statements. you charge michael flynn but the guy who puts the country, starts it all for three years, he lies, you guys don't charge him. i'm curious as to why. >> well, i can't get into it. it's obvious i think we can't get into charging decisions. >> when the fbi interviewed him in february. when the special counsel's office interviewed him, did he lie into you too? tthat. is h igenc russian intelligence? >> can't get it into th

they spine for the by the better part of the years year and then same with papadopoulos . the used human sources. that to be a scary. never forget what emmett flood wrote to the atty. gen. when he said if they can do this to a presidential campaign and a president of the united imagine with they can do to you and i. imagine what they can-- that's why the investigation bill barr is doing and the one michael horwitz is doing are so darn important. that kind of stuff should never happen in this country but we know that it did. the atty. gen. of the united dates says he doesn't think it was properly predicated so let's figure out if it was or if it wasn't. think god that's exactly what he's doing >> you have no concerns? >> if you were falsely accused you would be to have to. that's the problem and this whole thing has played out over three years. remember what we learned today? they didn't even charge the guy who started the whole darn thing. he was the first guy to tell papadopoulos. they charged everyone else who gave false statements. they charged 13 russians no one has he

. >> before you arrested george papadopoulos in july of 2017, he was given $10,000 in cash in israel. do you know who gave him that cash? >> again, it's outside our gambit and questions such as that should go to the fbi or the department. >> it involved your investigation? >> it involved persons involved in my investigation. >> thank you, sir. >> we will stand in recess for five or ten minutes. please, folks, remain in your seats, allow the director and mr. zebley to exit the chamber. >> the first half of the second part of this day has concluded, about 1:15 minutes or so. robert mueller opened up by trying to clarify about what he earlier said in response to ted lieu from california. the question being, you did not indict donald trump, is that because of the olc, the office of legal counsel stating you cannot indict a sitting president? correct? mueller said, that is correct. he opened up this statement today by saying that was not the correct way to phrase it. as we say in the report, as i said at the option, we did not reach a determination as to whether the president committed a c

papadopoulos. in one of these meetings, he is talking to a foreign diplomat, and he tells the diplomat the russians have dirt on clinton. that diplomat contacts the fbi, and the fbi opens an investigation based on that fact. open the2016, they investigation based on that information. they diplomat tells papadopoulos -- he tells diplomat the russians have dirt on clinton. the diplomat tells the fbi. who told papadopoulos? how did he find out? mr. mueller: i cannot get into the evidentiary findings. >> yes, you can. you tell us who told him. joseph smith said did. the mysterious professor who lives in rome and london. him. joseph nipson is the guy who told papadopoulos. he lives in lond ns and teaches at two universities. this is the guy who told papadopoulos. he's the guy who starts it all. and when the fbi interviews him, he lies three times and yet you don't charge him with a crime. you charge rick gates for false statements and paul manafort for false statements, michael cohen for false statement

george papadopoulos and carter page. they went to the fisa court to use the now famous dossier as part of the reason to get the warrants with carter page for better part of a year and mister papadopoulos to use human sources from the moment papadopoulos joined the trump campaign all these people all over the world the fbi even sent a lady posing as somebody else even dispatched her to london to spy on mister papadopoulos. in one of the meetings he's talking to a foreign diplomat and said the russians have dirt on clinton. so then contacts the fbi in the open an investigation based on this fact and this is pointed out in the report. , 2016 opening of the investigation based on that piece of information. doesn't that tell my thong - - excuse me so what i am wondering how did papadopoulos find out. >> i cannot get into that. >> issue can you gave the answer page 192. you tell us who told. joseph the guy who told papadopoulos the professor who lives in london rome this is the guy who told papadopoulos he is the guy who start

papadopoulos. >> sue hester. basically want to follow up with united save the mission and matt has already talked about. this project is not ready today for your approval. this site as well as the surrounding area is struggling with food processing, which is ironic coming back to la cocina. this area of the mission was zoned cm. in the 80s, crop them had passed and really locked in office development as a use, it was defined in the planning co code. so, when ucsf took over the building, they were exempted from the planning code. university of california san francisco operated this building as a billing facility for many years. so no one was being attention to making the site comply with the planning code, because ucsf is exempt. they need to pay fees, they need to go before the planning commission. none of this ever happened. today they are trying to clean the whole thing up by building a bit of housing on their end, maneuvering some office space. i would ask you to please continue this hearing, get la cocina's a

donald trump and his 2016 campaign a man jailed as part of the pro forma trump advisor george papadopoulos claims he was set up by investigators he was a foreign policy adviser during donald trump's 2016 presidential campaign and pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. in 2017 about his contacts with officials linked to russia he was jailed for 12 days and discovered he still serving a 12 month supervised release parties going underground spoke to george papadopoulos among the topics broached allegations that a strike he was spying on him and feeding information to british intelligence you can watch the interview unfold it is today. april 20th 2016 i reached out to for the 1st time by the australian government in london where they began to tell me that donald trump was a pariah and that he's a danger to the world and he's going to fact the trans-pacific partnership and up and the security architecture of the world i laughed it off because many foreign governments at that time were basically you know suggesting similar things about him i didn't understand that i was actually being spied on by

to the jailing of a member of donald trump's foreign policy advisory panel is a name is george papadopoulos his new book deep state. it's how i got caught in the cross has of the plot to bring down president trump details how he did time for deleting his facebook account he joins me now from los angeles george welcome to going on the ground if any before any of our view is think that you work with the russians mainstream media talking about that fee is just to say always in the book you make it clear you consider yourself an american patriots i'm going to begin. at the beginning of the book is it would but with boris johnson who's tipped to be the next prime minister here in britain how on earth did you get into a situation where you were asking an f.b.i. agent whether they had contacted boris johnson that's that's a great point and thank you very much for having me what you're referring to is a meeting i had with the moeller team in december of 20172 months after my name one public regarding my guilty plea and i was in discussions with team basically trying to actually understand what was

remember, at the center of the case against george papadopoulos.hile jim comey cast him as a russian agent, mueller's report makes no such claim. if questions about whether or not there's undisclosed ties to the west have yet to be answered. if you're to respond to all of this is ranking member of the house intelligence committee, republican congressman devin nunes. congressman, it's really great to talk to. your work on this case. i think when we look back on it, you will be remembered for it. if you've done incredible work and i deeply appreciate it. having said that, the core of the conspiracy theory against donald trump has been that he had some ties to the russian government, relayed information to trump campaign member george papadopoulos, and that set off this tide of the fbi investigatory trail. but congressman, bob mueller, after millions of dollars, 500 search warrants, multiple fbi agents interviewing people, makes no such claim in his report. he said there are russian connections. that's far different than him being a russian agent. wha

political analyst and editor it inus me internet media project and in london we cross to marcus papadopoulos he is the editor of politics 1st magazine our gentleman cross type rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate a let's go to markets 1st in london the the resumption of u.s. china trade talks is taking a lot of headlines as it should it's a very important issue on the back of the g. 20 but we have this special purpose vehicle being established is established now in europe to bypass the american swiss system for the europeans to trade with iran i wonder when the donald is back in washington and how he's going to respond to that because i think we all know how he will go ahead marcus the introduction of the insects payment system by the u.s. and as a way of trying to circumvent the american restrictions on countries wanting to trade with iran and the in 6 payments system is not only a goodwill gesture by the european institute on it is also the europeans trying to keep it on in the j.c. you know a do you and it is also a way of the europeans retai

led to the jailing of a member of donald trump's foreign policy advisory panel is name is george papadopoulos his new book deep state targets how i.

i mean but there's this sense of process here i agree with marcus papadopoulos i mean the dollar isn't going to collapse overnight but it's starting a trend and starting a trend where if you want to avoid political problems maybe diversify your portfolio and not rely so much on the dollar and of course with the political and geopolitical events going on in the middle east i mean the petro dollar is at stake here nothing short of that go ahead well right now 60 percent of the savings you know around the world are done in dollars only 20 percent of the savings are done in europe's but that is the trend more and more savings are done in your office in japanese yen chaney's you on people are diversify in their investments in order to shield themselves from you know basically a from confiscation you know exactly the reason why russia has spoken so much about switching to. our own currency is between us and china between us and iran and other countries the reason is you know 12 biggest russian company is were under sanctions last year and when it was announced in april 2000 it was then that

that the papadopoulos.e denies papadopoulos mentioned anything about the hillary d deniesemails and mifsu mentioning that the papadopoulos in the first place. how does the fbi to continually ask papadopoulos about clinton's emails for the rest of 2016? strangely, your memo on papadopoulos blames him for hindering the fbi ability to potentially detain or arrest mifsud, but he waltzed in and out of the united states in december 2016, the u.s. media could find him and the italian press could find them and he is a suppose it russian agent at the epicenter of the reported collusion conspiracy, the guy who knows about hillary clinton gmail's and that the russians have them. at the fbi failed to question him for a half a year after officially opening the investigation. according to body one, page 193 of your report, once mifsud was questioned, he made false statements to the fbi. you declined to charge him. is that correct? you did not indict mr. mifsud? >> i will not speak to the series of happenings as you artic

we'll call papadopoulos and find out what happened. we'll wait on the fisa report.into the surveillance of the fbi and organizations of campaigns, make sure that we know what we're doing and protocols in place going forward. to ensure that we don't play politics with the law. >> and george papadopoulos pled guilty to lying to the fbi in connection with bob mueller's probe in 2017. and spent two weeks in prison last year. he has been a vocal critic of the fbi. and in a recently published book titled "deep state target," he claims that american and international intelligence agencies tried to sabotage trump's presidential campaign. >>> in a new hurdle in the fight over tax returns, the president is suing the house ways and means committee as well as new york officials as a way to prevent his tax records being turned over to congress. the law seeks to block the application of a new york state law that enabled the ways and means committee chair to obtain trump's tax record from the state commissioner. it also asks the court to block the returns from the state. and asks

to the jailing of a member of donald trump's foreign policy advisory panel his name is george papadopoulos his new book deep state targets how i got caught in the crosshairs of the plot to bring down president trump details how he did time for deleting his facebook account he joins me now from los angeles george welcome to going on the ground if any before any of our viewers think that you work with the russians the mainstream media talking about that for years just to say obviously in the book you make it clear you consider yourself an american patriot i'm going to begin.

that months earlier trump campaign advisor george papadopoulos had told us truly is top diplomat in britain that russia had dirt on hillary clinton in the form of thousands of emails and that russia had indicated it could help the trump campaign by releasing those stolen e-mails to damage candidate clinton in fact the mother report concluded that trump campaign welcomed encouraged and expected to benefit electorally from russia's efforts we should be grateful for the work that law enforcement does to stop foreign governments from interfering in united states elections this is especially true now with another presidential election ahead we know that russia's efforts are ongoing and that other foreign powers will not hesitate to exploit opportunities to interfere in our elections and democracy you have warned us directory that russia is quote adapting and upping their game and quote and have described russia's efforts to meddle in the 2018 midterm elections as a quote dress rehearsal for the big show in 2020 and quote you have also stated that quote an enormous strides and quote have been mad

remember at the center of the case against george papadopoulos.le jim comey cast him as a russian agent, mueller's report makes no such claim, and questions whether or not they should as undisclosed ties to the west. you have to be answered pretty here to respond as ranking member of the house intelligence committee devin nunes. congressman nunez, it is really great to talk to you. i think when we look back on it, you will be remembered for it. you have done some incredible work. having said that, the core of the conspiracy theory against donald trump has been that joseph smith stood had some ties to the russian government, relayed information to trump campaign member george papadopoulos and this set off the tie of the fbi investigatory trail, but bob mueller after millions of dollars, multiple fbi agents interviewing people makes no such claim in his report prayed he says that he has russian connection, that is far different than him being a russian agent, what are we missing here? >> well, you know, there is always this saying where there is smo