As you were playing those clips of these people
like Mourning Joe seemingly befuddled
saying that by no account is any of this true,
I would challenge them to see if they've actually read
the documents,
every single page of the documents that we've released over the last couple of weeks. If not, go to odni.gov.
G-O-V. It's all right there for anyone to see. And those who go in and read this will see
how President Obama directed that a National Security Council meeting be called to talk about Russia, that the report that came out of that meeting
was filled with tasks that were delivered
by James Clapper's assistant to John Brennan and to other elements of the intelligence community. John Brennan was the head of the CIA at the time, all saying per the president's
direction, per the president's order, and very specifically they were tasked to create an intelligence assessment
that detailed how Moscow tried to influence
the election, not if, but how.
And this was the beginning of this manufactured
intelligence assessment, where they knowingly
wrote things in this assessment that were false. And they knew they were false. They knew that they were basing it on discredited
intelligence
or documents like the Steele dossier that was politically motivated and that they knew was false.
And this was how they came up with the rush hoax that was then weaponized and used to try to delegitimize the president, President Trump, and to try to ultimately enact this years-long coup throughout his entire 4 years of his first administration.