Matt Gaetz
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Yeah, do the shoe leather work.
But there's a way that the FBI can involve themselves in these investigations that doesn't strip the agency completely away from their partners to also participate.
And so these whistleblowers were concerned about that.
And then ultimately, they weren't really given much of a platform and-
But isn't the tell in that how it kept shifting?
Like, first it was the emails, and then it was Vladimir Putin had taken over Facebook with $120,000, and then it was actually, like, George Papadopoulos in a London bar.
Then it was Don Jr.
at Trump Tower.
It was an effort to...
obscure the lack of quality in any of these theories by just having a sufficient quantity of them.
Of course, because none of the theories could individually hold water.
And I had a recent conversation with CIA director John Ratcliffe, and I like John, but I chastised him for not answering some of these fundamental questions.
Joseph Mifsud was this professor who was drawn into an intelligence operation against the United States.
He was drawn into that operation either by the United States or one of our allies.
How do we not know the answer to that question?
This was the key thing that we said we were going to uncover when we got power.
And I know they got a lot of work to do to keep the country safe, but I would encourage the director of the CIA to really tell us the CIA's role.
Well, I believe that...
some of this crowd in the Obama administration knew that their direct management of an asset against the Trump administration would create paperwork, payments, complicating things that could be found out.
And so they went to other European countries