Posted on 03/04/2017 11:15:53 AM PST by SeekAndFind
There’s a caveat to this claim: Sen. Coons hasn’t actually seen the transcripts. Nevertheless, Coons tells MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell he “believes” they exist.
“Is the FBI Director being forthcoming enough with the intelligence committees?” Mitchell asks. Sen. Coons replies, “I think it’s important that the outcome of that counter-intelligence investigation be fully shared with the intelligence committees, both in the House and the Senate.
“There are transcripts that provide very helpful, very critical insights into whether or not Russian intelligence and senior Russian political leaders, including Vladimir Putin, were cooperating, were colluding with the Trump campaign at the highest levels to influence the outcome of our election. And if that information is stonewalled or hidden away and if we are not able to get that on the Senate intelligence committee, House intelligence committee then I think that has real consequences for our democracy.”
Sen. Coons then urged Director Comey to complete the investigation and share all of the “products” with the intelligence committees. Andrea Mitchell then asked Coons to clarify what he was saying. “Do such transcripts exist? Is that what you’re saying?” she asked.
“I have not seen them. I believe they exist,” Coons replied.
So far as I know this is the first time anyone has claimed the FBI has proof of such collusion, but the general complaint about the FBI not being forthcoming enough has been made previously by Rep. Adam Schiff on the House side. From the LA Times:
“We cannot represent to the American people that we’re doing a thorough job if the Department of Justice or the FBI is unwilling to tell us what indeed they’ve looked at, what leads they have followed, where they have found substance and where they have not,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) told reporters shortly after his committee was briefed by FBI Director James Comey.
The New York Times story that really got this ball rolling a couple weeks ago claimed the FBI was investigating contacts between Russia and the campaign but also reported no evidence of collusion had been found:
American law enforcement and intelligence agencies intercepted the communications around the same time they were discovering evidence that Russia was trying to disrupt the presidential election by hacking into the Democratic National Committee, three of the officials said. The intelligence agencies then sought to learn whether the Trump campaign was colluding with the Russians on the hacking or other efforts to influence the election.
The officials interviewed in recent weeks said that, so far, they had seen no evidence of such cooperation.
Has something changed or is Sen. Coons speculating about transcripts he admits he has not seen? Also, how does he know they exist or have any idea what they say if the FBI is withholding them?
That drawing would actually convict Trump in “Idiocracy” and on most college campuses.
I can’t wait till lyin Ryan gets his a$$ kicked.
What bothers me the most is that these guys are all lawyers.
Aren’t they suppose to know the answers to all the questions before they ask them?
Aren’t they also suppose to know already and exactly who had any kind of communications with Russians, before they point their finger?
Do they already have the goods to spring, how ever weak it may prove to be?
First it was “no one in the Trump Campaign had any contact with Russians...”, or whatever.
Then comes Flynn and phone calls.
Now comes Sessions, and two of his aides.
Aide #1
Aide #2
Then it breaks for Jarred Kutchner and his meeting in TT.
This is what the media uses as “Drip, drip” and innuendo, when in reality there is absolutely NO SUBSTANCE to the contacts & meetings.
They are setting the table while laying a slow boiling trap to turn the screws tighter on Trump.
WTH are we doing about it? We are in power, but no counter attack from Justice, or FBI, IC, or Congress is being mounted against these communists.
So frustrating not to PUNCH BACK, using the same tools against them.
Who is in his camp? Who will help here?
Glad God has this in hand.
HotAir is aptly named. I have not seen the photos and transcript of Coons’ sexual activity with his dog but I am certain that they exist. Investigate.
which is why I watch One America News mostly. No talking heads spouting their bias opinions, but I do get more news from around the world in half an hour than I do off Fox in a day.
Sounds like something to which it's worth listening.
Thanks to all the DE RINOs who voted against Christine O’Donnell, this is the kind of ruler we get. The other idiot Tom Carper speaks only when he’s up for reelection. That’s so we can’t say that Democrats elected a dead man.
This is the guy who called himself “the bearded marxist”?
HotAir and Levin are on the same ship to Vicious Ville.
They flout their intellect, generically, to draw a paycheck, but are entrenched and on the NeverTrump diet.
Their number of clicks and hits, by now, have got to be around their ankles. We’re gone, and Trump voters in large numbers were never with them in the first place. Hope they both starve on the public wire.
Thank goodness Breitbart squashes even the need for Levin and Hotair.
Obamaq wiretapped Trump campaign.!!!
Keep leaving your bread crumbs for the IRS and reorganized 3 letter organizations.
no they won’t. I have called the idea of a civil war happening nonsense. I may be completely wrong. I don’t see Trump leaving office either. I may be completely wrong about that. You are in the know. How much danger is there really?
This isn’t even fake news. It is Hotair using NY Slimes Junk News posing as news.
Junk News like junk food will kill you...................eventually................
Dr. Oz: EEG Brain Scans Reveal Fake News Threatens Your Health
Observer ^ | 2/23/17 | Dr. Mehmet Oz
Posted on 2/23/2017, 9:55:44 AM by Mozilla
Our show will spotlight a first-of-its-kind social experiment to identify the dangerous and disruptive effect of fake news on our brains. We had high profile fake news creator Jestin Coler craft two fictional stories: one designed to prey on liberals and another on conservatives.
Women read the articles, not knowing they were fake, as neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen gathered quantitative EEG assessments.
The findings supported results of a functional MRI study recently published in Nature Scientific Reports, which showed how challenging a person’s political beliefs could activate the parts of the brain associated with emotion and self-identity.
A self-described liberal woman in our social experiment reported feeling sad after reading a fictional article on illegal immigrants, but revealed stronger irritation and anger when processing a fake story about a jailed climate change researcher. Simultaneous changes in her brain activity were also much greater when processing the climate change story and correlated with a strong emotional response of angst and fear.
A conservative woman demonstrated opposite reactions. For her, the article on illegal immigration elicited changes in brain activity changes that you would see during a physical threat.
The women were not told that the articles were fake until they were seated on stage. What happened next was startling. First, the women understandably, but awkwardly, tried to defend why they believed the false stories, rather than expressing frustration that they had been duped. This natural human tendency was highlighted by one woman’s comment that while the news was fake, it reinforced a truth she felt about our country—so the piece was tolerable.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3528304/posts
So protect your mental health by never watching ABCNNBCBS and Faux liberals.
Never read any article by the NY or LA Slimes, Compost, SF Gay Rhonical, WSJ supposedly about President Trump.
Then: Donate Monthly to Free Republic and don’t read posts labeled as Fake News or Not Even News. Let Trump drive the liberals and their mediots even more insane and depressed with his real news from Tweets and his controlled Press Conferences!
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I don’t think any of their delusions will come to fruition, but if they do we must all stop our jobs and bring the country to a halt. And fight if necessary. I really hope it doesn’t come to that as I don’t want to get shot. And I don’t want to shoot someone. but I will if it comes to it. I will take the situation day by day as we all must.
Guess you missed the whole last 24-hour news cycle
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