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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It was a bombshell press conference at the White House,
Tulsi Gabbard coming out and talking about this possible criminal
referral to the Department of Justice for an investigation, and
it all revolves around Russia collusion, and now it involves
a former president by the name of Barack Obama. I
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want you to take a listen to what Tulsi Gabbard
had to say at the White House Press briefing room.
She's the Director of National Intelligence and she is now
officially hinted that former President Barack Obama has in fact
been referred to the Department of Justice for a criminal investigation. Now,
she did not address the constitutional obstacles or a prosecution,
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but what she did do is lay out the facts.
Here she is, in her own words at the White
House podium.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Thank you very much, good afternoon. At President Trump's direction
and with the support and coordination the House Intelligence Committee
Chairman Rick Crawford, today we've released a declassified oversight Majority
Staff report that was produced in September of twenty twenty.
The stunning revelations that we are releasing today should be
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of concern to every American. This is not about Democrats, Republicans,
This has to do with the integrity of our democratic
republic and American voters having faith that the votes cast
will count. There is irrefutable evidence that detail how President
Obama and his national security team directed the creation of
an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false. They
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knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered
in the twenty sixteen election to help President Trump win,
selling it to the American people as though it were true.
It wasn't. The report that we released today shows in
great detail how they carried this out. They manufactured findings
from shoddy sources, suppressed evidence, and credible intelligence that disproved
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their false claims. They disobeyed traditional trade craft intelligence community standards,
and withheld the truth from the American people. In doing so,
they conspired to subvert the will of the American people
who elected Donald Trump in that election in November of
twenty sixteen. They worked with their partners in the media
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to promote this lie, ultimately to undermine the legitimacy of
President Trump and launching what would be a year's long
coup against him and his administration. We're here today because
the American people deserve the truth. They deserve accountability, and
they deserve justice. The records that we released on Friday
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that were ode and I records, Senator Chuck Grassley's release
on Monday of what is known as the Clinton Annex,
which was an appendix to the Department of Justice Office
of Inspector General's twenty eighteen report, as well as the
House Intelligence Committees Oversight Majority Oversight report that we're releasing today,
all come back to and confirm the same report. There
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was a gross politicization and manipulation of intelligence by the
Obama administration intended to delegitimize President Trump even before he
was inaugurated, ultimately usurping the will of the American people.
I'm going to go over the key findings from the
House Intelligence Report, which investigated the claims that were made
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by an intelligence community assessment ordered by President Obama and
published in January of twenty seventeen. First, Putin's principal interests
relating to the twenty sixteen election were to undermine faith
in the US democratic process, not show any preference of
a certain candidate. In fact, this report shows Putin held
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back leaking, held back from leaking compromising material on Hillary Clinton,
prior to the election, instead planning to release it after
the election to weaken what Moscow viewed as an inevitable
Clinton presidency. In the January twenty seventeen Intelligence Community assessment
that President Obama ordered John Brennan, whose CIA director at
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the time, and the Intelligence Community intentionally suppressed intelligence that
showed Putin was saving the most damaging material that he
had in his possession about Hillary Clinton until after her
potential and likely victory. The report goes into great detail
about the information that Russia and Putin had which on
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Hillary Clinton, which included possible criminal acts like secret meetings
with multiple named US religious organizations in which State Department
officials offered, in exchange for supporting Secretary Clinton's campaign for
the presidency, significant increases in financing from the State Department.
They also had documents that showed the patronage of the
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State Department to State Department employees who would go and
support Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. There were high level DNC
emails that detailed evidence of Hillary's quote psycho emotional problems,
uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness, and that then
Secretary Clinton was allegedly on a daily regiment of heavy tranquilizers.
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Then CIA Director Brennan and the Intelligence community mischaracterized intelligence
and relied on dubious, substandard sources to create a contrived,
false narrative that Putin developed a quote unquote clear preference
for Trump. Brennan and the ICE misled lawmakers by referencing
the debunked Steele dossier to assess quote unquote Russia's plans
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and intentions, falsely suggesting that this dossier had intelligence value
when he knew that it was discredited. The intelligence community
excluded significant intelligence and ignored or selectively quoted reliable intelligence
that contradicted the Intelligence Community assessment's key findings on Putin's
alleged support for Trump. Including this intelligence reporting would have
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exposed the ICA's claim as implausible, if not ridiculous. The
Intelligence Community assessment omitted reliably sourced information, such as how
some Russian intelligence officials were quote unquote planning for candidate
Hillary Clinton's victory, while others assessed neither Trump nor Clinton
would respect Russia's interests, as was reflected in the Ode
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and I documents that we released on Friday. Multiple intelligence
community assessments released in the months leading up to the
November twenty sixteen election concluded that Russia had neither the
intent nor capability to impact the outcome of the US election.
On December fifth of twenty sixteen, the FBI and od
and I gave the House Intelligence Committee its first post
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election classified briefing, in which there was no mention of
Putin aspiring to elect Trump by either agency. The Presidential
Daily Brief, drafted on December eighth of twenty sixteen, stated
that no Russian or criminal actors impacted vote counts. This
document was pulled just hours before it was to be
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published due to quote unquote new guidance. If it had
been published, it would have been briefed to both President
Obama and President elect Donald Trump. On December ninth, twenty sixteen,
a National Security Council meeting was called to gather President
Obama's senior national security officials, which included CIA Director Brennan
then Obama, dn I, James Clapper, Susan Rice, and others.
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Following that secret meeting, DNI, Clapper's assistant sent an email
to the intelligence community with the subject line potus tasking
on Russia election medaling, tasking ODNI leaders to create a
new assessment per the President's request. The House Intelligence Committee
Oversite report that we released today reveals that quote unlike
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routine intelligence community analysis, the Intelligence Community Assessment was a
high profile product ordered by the President and President Obama.
It directed senior intelligence community agency heads and created an
intelligence community assessment limited to just five analysts using one
principal drafter. This is not something that occurs in the
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normal path of producing an intelligence community assessment that reflects
the views across the intelligence community. The production of this
Intelligence community assessment was subject to unusual directives directly from
the President and senior political appointees, especially the former Director
of the CIA, John Brennan. The House Intelligence Committee Oversight
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report also shows how later that same day, on December ninth,
Brennan ordered the publication of quote unquote substandard reporting on
Russian activities.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
A bombshell at the White House Press briefing room today
is Tulsi Gabber, the Director of National Intelligence, laying out
evidence of the conspiracy that was against Donald Trump, that
was put out there by none other than President Barack Obama,
and the evidence that has been found related to this
directly points to President Obama. Here is more of what
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she had to say at the White House Press Briefing Room.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Had previously been withheld from publication of prior assessments because
the information was judged quote to have not met long
standing publication standards. Some of the information later used in
the Obama ordered assessment, over the objections of veteran CIA
officers was quote unquote unclear or from unknown sources. The
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Intelligence Committee's oversight report reveals that CIA Director Brennan overruled
senior CIA officers who challenged the Obama ordered intelligence assessment,
stating quote, we don't have direct information that Putin wanted
to get Trump elected. Yet the Obama directed assessment was
published on January sixth, twenty seventeen, which explicitly stated, quote,
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we assess Putin and the Russian government aspired to help
President elect Trump's election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary
Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him, end of quote.
The CIA and FBI, then led by John Brennan and
James Comy, expressed high confidence in this judgment, while the
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NSA expressed moderate confidence. Yet, as the report we released
today shows, the ICA the Intelligence Community assessment did not
cite any report, where Putin indicated helping Trump win was
an objective. The opposite is true with regards to the
Steele dossier. We now know that one of the source
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documents that the Obama administration used in the creation of
this intelligence assessment in January of twenty seventeen was none
other than the discredited, unverified Steele dossier. The House Intel
report states, quote, contradicting public claims by then CIA Director
Brennan that the dossier was not in any way incorporated
into this intelligence assessment. The dossier was referenced in the
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intelligence assessment's main body text and further detailed in a
two page assessment annex. John Brennan lied, and he denied
using this dossier in this intelligence assessment that President Obama
ordered because he knew it was discredited, it was a
politically motivated, manufactured document. He directed senior CIA officials to
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use it anyway. CIA officer told the House Intelligence Committee
staff as they investigated this quote, the director of the CIA,
John Brennan, refused to remove it, and, when confronted with
the dossier's many flaws, responded, quote, yes, but doesn't it
ring true? Even the bipartisan Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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report published in twenty twenty, criticized the FBI's handling of
the Steele dossier, noting its completely unverified nature and purposeful
side stepping of intelligence community procedures in its use. Now
President Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, James Clapper, James Coby,
and others, including their mouthpieces in the media, knowingly lied
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as they repeated the contrived narrative that was created in
this January twenty seventeen intelligence community assessment with high confidence
as though it were fact. John Brennan, as CIA Director,
stated in a memo to his agency staff in December
of twenty sixteen, saying, quote, there is strong consensus among
us on the scope, nature, and intent of Russian interference
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in our presidential elected election. This was reported by NBC
News confirming that Brennan, along with James Clapper and James Comey,
agreed with the CIA's assessment that Russia intervened to help
Trump win the presidency. As Obama's Director of National Intelligence,
James Clapper was tasked with overseeing the creation of this
assessment in January twenty seventeen by President Obama, and he
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expressed confidence in its findings in a twenty eighteen interview
with the Harvard Gazette, he talked about how he provided
Trump with the same classified assessment that President Obama received,
which included the high confidence judgment that putin directly ordered
the hacking and election interference. Clapper then went on to add,
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I think they, the Russians, actually influenced the outcome. This
is a brief summary of the details that you'll find
within the House Majority Staff's report in their investigation into
the Obama directed January twenty seventeen intelligence community assessment that
leads us to the very same conclusion that we announced
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in the release of our documents on Friday. The implications
of this are far reaching and have to do with
the integrity of our democratic republic. It has to do
with an outgoing president taking action to manufacture intelligence to
undermine and usurp the will of the American people in
that election and launch what would be a year's long
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coup against the incoming president of United Donald Trump. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
This is shocking, but also not surprising based on what
we know about what the Left has done to try
to take out Donald Trump. But we are hearing the
name of Barack Obama and exactly what he was trying
to do. And if you look at the shocking main
points here, the Director of National Intelligence is accusing the
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former president Barack Obama and his team of a treasonous conspiracy,
saying that they clearly manufactured intelligence assessments, accusing Russia of
aiding Donald Trump in twenty sixteen, and intentionally, as she
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Not only did Tulsi claim that Obama administration knowingly lied
to the American people and fabricated all of the intel
on Russia, but this is the first time we've seen
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through evidence, real accusations that Barack Obama and his entire
national security team directed a false, intelligent assessment. She is
now using the word treasonous to describe it. Now they're
backing this up with actual documents and a referral, apparently
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to the DOJ and the FBI. Gabbart said she referred
the declassified documents the Justice Department and the FBI for
possible criminal investigation into the Obama era officials. She also
used the word irrefutable evidence, asserting that the documents prove
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and provide irrefutable evidence that Barack Obama ordered the fabrication
and that is something that all of us need to
get our head around. A former president of the United
States America while he's president, wanting to overthrow the will
of the people, ordering the fabrication of evidence to then
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have a coup attempt against Donald Trump. Now I want
to be clear, I think there's people that we believed
were in the deep State that we're doing this. This
is the first time we're seeing this come down as
a directive at the highest level of the United States government.
Now Obama's office is pushing back. Obama's spokesman dismissed these
allegations is quote bizarre and weak and quote a distraction
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from other issues like the Jeffrey Epstein file. Not to
be clear, if that is your best talking point, if
you're the Obama team right now, you have very big issues. Now.
There's also critics that are coming out and they're circling
the wagon. Senate Intelligence Vice Chair Mark Werner called the
move a reckless effort quote to a peace Trump risking
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exposure of sensitive sources and methods. So the deep state
is fighting back right now. Now. Trump's strong support is
coming from people around him who experience everything that happened
him in his first administration and also when he was
out of office. Let's not forget the rating of mar Lago.
Let's not forget the indictments of President Donald Trump. Let's
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not forget they went after his family and his businesses,
and they lied about multiple things to try to take
him out of the race so that he could not
be the president of the United States of America. You
look at all of this, and what Gabbert delivered was
a sweeping expose on the Obama team and their intelligence narrative.
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She made it clear through the evidence that she put
out there that this was nothing but a politically motivated
attack orchestrated at the highest levels of our government. That
is why she used the word treasonists. And passing all
of this material to law enforcement for investigation is also
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a very, very big moment. The question now is how
will Democrats respond and what will they do to fight
back Barack Obama? James Comer, James Comy, I should say,
and all of these others, the CI director, d and
I director, they all knew Russia did interfere in the
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twenty sixteen election. They knew it because they fabricated the
intelligence to justify a multi year long effort to overthrow
Donald Trump. This was a deliberate campaign, I would argue
of treason. It was a deliberate campaign of treason aimed
at removing a legitimately elected president of the United States
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of America. And what Tulsa Gabbert is now doing, is
she's exposing this treason. What's even more shocking now is
the fact that we have the names and the only
thing left to do is to hold these people accountable.
We also have other information, and I'm gonna let you
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hear some of this in a moment, but I want
to also put this in your brain so you understand
this isn't just the part I just described, which is
bigger than Watergate or any other political scandal of my
lifetime in politics. But we also now know that Hillary Clinton,
and again, listen very carefully to what I'm about to
tell you Hillary Clinton's twenty sixteen campaign officials, we are
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now being told we're in direct contact, not indirect, Okay,
not like through middlemen. They were in direct contact with
the White House, with the Obama administration to dig up
dirt on Donald Trump and attempting to link him to Russia.
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This scandal runs extremely deep, folks, Clinton aids. By the way,
we now know for a fact, on a campaign, we're
texting and emailing the White House. We're texting and emailing
the State Department, We're texting and emailing the National Security
Council and many other agencies. I also want to be
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clear what I'm calling for. I'm calling for people to
be arrested, because if there are no arrests, then nothing changes.
And people think they can just do this whenever they
don't like the outcome an election. By the way, if
a Democrat wins an election, the election should not be
stolen by Republicans. Whoever the American people choose to be
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the president United States of America, whether it's a Jimmy Carter,
a Barack Obama, a Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, if they
choose that person in a free and fair election, then
that person, okay, should be the president United States of America.
And no one, and I mean no one should be
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able to overthrow the will of the people or the
will of the voters, period, full stop, period, full stop. Now,
I want to go back to what I was playing
for you, and again the clips I've been playing were
from two thousand and eight teen. You heard Jihan Ratcliffeho's
now the CIA director, saying this. You had Devin nunya
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Is saying this as well. He was on Intelligence Committee
in the House at the time, and they were saying
exactly what now has become reality. We have the receipts,
the paperwork for it. Keep listening.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
How involved with John Brennan?
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Totally involved? Was totally John Brennan was one of the architects.
In my opinion. You look at Brennan, you look at Clapper,
you look at them. But ultimately the president knew everything.
The president knew everything. President Obama and Vice President Biden,
they knew everything.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
And Comy and Brennan and Clapper, they all were terrible
and they lied to Congress. They spied on my campaign,
which is treason. They spied both before and after I won.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Join me now is the woman herself, the Director of
National Intelligence, Telsea Gabbard, Director, thanks very much for being
here this morning.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
Good morning, Maria.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Thank you. What was the most damning thing that you
learned after looking through all of these declassified documents?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Maria, the implications of this are frankly thing short of historic.
Over one hundred documents that we released on Friday really
detail and provide evidence of how this treasonous conspiracy was
directed by President Obama just weeks before he was due
to leave office, after President Trump had already gotten elected.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
This is not a Democrat or Republican issue. This is
an issue that is so serious it should concern every
single American because it has to do with the integrity
of our democratic republic. What we saw occur here, as
the documents we released detailed, was that we had a
sitting president of the United States and his cabinet and
leadership team, quite frankly, who were not happy with the
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fact that President Trump had won the election, that the
American people had chosen Donald J. Trump to be the
next president commander in chief of the United States, and
so they decided that they would do everything possible to
try to undermine his ability to do what voters task
President Trump to do. So, creating this piece of manufactured
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intelligence that claims that Russia had helped Donald Trump get
elected contradicted every other assessment that had been made previously
in the months leading up to the election that said
exactly the opposite, that Russia neither had neither the intent
nor the capability to try to quote unquote hack the
United States election for the presidency of the United States.
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So the effect of what President Obama and his senior
national security team did was subvert the will of the
American people, undermining our democratic republic and enacting what would
be essentially a year's long coup against President Trump, who
was duly elected by the American people.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I want to go back for a moment to put
this in context. If you look at the confirmation hearings
of the Trump administration, do you remember how nasty it
got withoud Told Gabbard, who's now the Director of National Intelligence.
Do you remember how much Democrats are going after her?
And there was somebody saying, well, it's because she used
to be a Democrat.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
The reason why it got so nasty with Tulsi Gabbard
is because they knew exactly what she was going to do,
and they knew exactly what she was going to uncover,
and they knew that she would expose the biggest scandal
in my lifetime in politics. You want to know why
the left went after her so hard to try to
derail Remember, I mean, it was touch and go or
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be like, No, I don't know if Tulsi Gabbard's gonna
make it right, Like that's what was said over and
over again. I don't know if Tulsi's gonna make it through.
And why was that a possibility? Because the left didn't
want her in that job. The left wanted to do
everything that it could to make sure that this never
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ever saw the light of day. And if that meant right, like,
let's be clear, what did that mean. It meant Tulsi
can't get the job, because if Tulsi gets the job,
we're screwed. If Tulsi gets in here and she does
and digs the way that believe we believe that she
will dig, If she goes in and she digs the
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way that we think she will, then we're in deep, deep, deep,
deep deep trouble. Fast forward to where we are right now.
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