Fox News "Hannity" - Transcript Interview with Lindsey Graham
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Now, Lindsey Graham, senator from the great state of South Carolina -- so I'm wondering if Hillary, Rosie, and Kathy Griffin, and Barbra Streisand -- I'm wondering if their money is going to be impactful to the people of South Carolina which I imagine really don't want Hollywood liberals or liberal politicians telling them what to think and how to vote.
SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM, R-S.C.: It's the most expensive money you will ever receive.
What we are going to do is let people in South Carolina know where the $13.9 million is coming from, and what it is about Jamie Harrison that all these people like? I think we'll put a proposal together here soon.
But let me tell you what's coming up from the Judiciary Committee. You have followed this more than anybody probably in the country. Remember the Horowitz report indicated that an intel analyst and a case agent interviewed the Russian sub-source in January for three days, and again in March. And they actually produced a memo of about 40 pages detailing how unreliable the dossier was.
You also have to remember that they renewed the warrant in April and June of 2017. Here's what I'm here to tell you. I want that memo out to the public so they can read it for themselves. I think we're days away from having it declassified it, not weeks.
And here's my point, anybody that read that memo or was briefed about the memo and continue to use the dossier to get a warrant against Carter Page in April and June of 2017, they're in big time trouble.
HANNITY: That's -- well, they also went before the first one. They were told still has an agenda, they were told Hillary pays for it. They were told it was unverified. Comey signed off on three of them, even after -- the third one being after this happened.
GRAHAM: This is -- this is -- this is different. Let me tell you why it's different.
Yes, you had the State Department saying, beware. You had Bruce Ohr in November of 2016 telling McCabe you can't trust Steele's information. You need to verify it. That's all true, but this is different.
They actually found the guy who put the dossier together. He wasn't a sub- source for Christopher Steele. He was an employee of Christopher Steele. The Russian was on Christopher Steele's payroll, he wasn't a contractor.
But after you talked to the guy who put the memo together, and you got a 40-page document explaining why it's not reliable, and you use it after that, you're really in trouble with --
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HANNITY: But, Lindsey, let me argue a little bit with you, here. Remember, top of a FISA warrant -- I haven't seen one in my life, but people have told me the word "verified" is on top of it. Rod Rosenstein, he has to be verified is on top of it. Rod Rosenstein, he has to be verified by career officials. We now know it was completely unverifiable.
And they're only looking into its veracity after two of the warrants were already signed off on? That means they use unverifiable information, and they were also warned about it. So, there's no excuse any way you look at this.
GRAHAM: Right. Well, one is, if I'm told, be careful, don't use this, you need to check it out. If somebody fails to do it, yes, they're in trouble. But if you know, if you've actually been told by the person who prepared it, you shouldn't use it, that's a crime.
HANNITY: I would argue both are, but I'm not the lawyer. We'll leave that up to Durham and Barr -- hopefully soon, hopefully soon.
GRAHAM: Right, yes.
HANNITY: And Robert Wray, clean up the premier law enforcement agency in the world. Do your job. And it will be interesting to bring Bob Mueller.
GRAHAM: Amen --
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HANNITY: Will you bring back Mueller, Comey, McCabe, Yates, for example, Strzok and Page?
GRAHAM: Yeah. So, in September, we're going to bring Comey and McCabe in. Yes, absolutely.
I've got three weeks between now and the August break. We've done about six interviews, and there's another document coming out that you've never seen or heard about before that's incredibly damning. The FBI knew that the document was unreliable in January and February and they continued to use it in April and June.
Somebody can go to jail over this. Stay tuned.
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