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It is the Democrats, not Trump, who are cooperating with Russia to tear this country apart.
Here's the transcript from the video:
Jim Jordan:
Thank You Mr. Chairman. Dr. Hill, during during your deposition I asked you was Christopher Steele's dossier a Rabbit hole. Do you remember remember the answer you gave to me?
Fiona Hill:
Yes. I thought it was a rabbit hole.
Jim Jordan:
And you also said a couple pages later in the deposition, or in the transcript that I have here of your Deposition, that you thought he got played. Is that fair?
Fiona Hill
That is fair. Yes.
Jim Jordan:
I was struck by a number of things you said in your statement. A number of things I thought were right on the target. And what one was on page seven. You said this, "President Putin and the Russian security services Weaponized our own political opposition research." And that is exactly what happened in 2016. Exactly What happened. You called it. You knew it. You saw it.
The DNC hired Perkins Coie who hired fusion GPS who hired Christopher Steele who talked to Russians who gave him a bunch of dirt bunch of National Enquirer garbage that he compiled in a dossier and Our FBI used it. They used it as part of their investigation that they opened in July of 2016 where they spied on two American citizens associated with the presidential campaign.
My guess is that's probably never happened in American history. And exactly What Dr. Hill talked about is what happened in 2016. Exactly what she talked about. And for 10 months Jim Comey and his team did an investigation. And after 10 months they had nothing because we deposed Mr. Comey. And he told us after 10 months we didn't have a thing.
But that didn't matter. That didn't matter. We got the Muller investigation: 32 million dollars, 19 lawyers, 40 FBI agents, 500 search warrants, 2,800 subpoenas. And they came back this spring and what they tell us? No collusion, no conspiracy, no coordination. But the guys on the other side don't care. They don't care.
They're doing what, Dr. Hill said a number of important things in her opening statement. They're doing exactly what Dr. Hill talked about. "The impact of a successful 2016 Russian campaign remains evident today. Our nation is being torn apart." Torn apart. I've never seen it this divided. And it's not healthy. It is not healthy for our culture, our country, not healthy for our nation. But that's what these guys are doing. No conspiracy. No coordination. No collusion. But they don't care.
Now this. This whole impeachment thing, as the witness said yesterday, the witness said yesterday without an announcement from Zelensky about an investigation, they weren't going to get a call with the president, they weren't going to get a meeting with the president, and they weren't going to get aid from the United States. But guess what? Ukraine, they got a call, they got the meeting and they got the money. And there was never an announcement of any type of investigation.
This is, but they don't care. They're gonna move forward there's gonna be some kind of report they're gonna send some, I assume something to the Judiciary Committee and the process is gonna go forward and there'll be a trial in the Senate.
All based on some anonymous whistleblower who came forward with no first-hand knowledge, who's biased against the president, who worked with Joe Biden. Now all this. Now all this. This is, Dr. Hill's, right. She said she said it. We've got to stop this. But they're not going to. And they're doing it all eleven and a half months before the next election.
And I think maybe the most telling thing is what the Speaker of the House said Sunday. Speaker the house said Sunday. This is scary. Speaker the house said Sunday, National Sunday morning TV show, she said the president is an "impostor". The guy that 63 million people voted for who won an electoral college landslide, the Speaker of the House of Representatives called the President of the United States an imposter. Sad. It is sad what the country is going through. I wish it would stop but unfortunately, I don't think it is.
Mr. Chairman I yield back
The phony witch hunt against Trump resulted from Russians using the Democrat's opposition research program as a weapon against the US and the Democrats fell willingly cooperated. It is tearing our country apart.
Fiona Hill served as an adviser to President Obama.
From Fiona Hill's opening statement:
https://www.vox.com/2019/11/21/20975734/impeachment-hearings-read-fiona-hills-opening-statement
President Putin and
the Russian security services operate like a Super PAC.
They deploy millions of dollars to weaponize our own
political opposition research and false narratives. When
we are consumed by partisan rancor, we cannot combat
these external forces as they seek to divide us against each
another, degrade our institutions, and destroy the faith of
the American people in our democracy.
Here's the transcript from the video:
Jim Jordan:
Thank You Mr. Chairman. Dr. Hill, during during your deposition I asked you was Christopher Steele's dossier a Rabbit hole. Do you remember remember the answer you gave to me?
Fiona Hill:
Yes. I thought it was a rabbit hole.
Jim Jordan:
And you also said a couple pages later in the deposition, or in the transcript that I have here of your Deposition, that you thought he got played. Is that fair?
Fiona Hill
That is fair. Yes.
Jim Jordan:
I was struck by a number of things you said in your statement. A number of things I thought were right on the target. And what one was on page seven. You said this, "President Putin and the Russian security services Weaponized our own political opposition research." And that is exactly what happened in 2016. Exactly What happened. You called it. You knew it. You saw it.
The DNC hired Perkins Coie who hired fusion GPS who hired Christopher Steele who talked to Russians who gave him a bunch of dirt bunch of National Enquirer garbage that he compiled in a dossier and Our FBI used it. They used it as part of their investigation that they opened in July of 2016 where they spied on two American citizens associated with the presidential campaign.
My guess is that's probably never happened in American history. And exactly What Dr. Hill talked about is what happened in 2016. Exactly what she talked about. And for 10 months Jim Comey and his team did an investigation. And after 10 months they had nothing because we deposed Mr. Comey. And he told us after 10 months we didn't have a thing.
But that didn't matter. That didn't matter. We got the Muller investigation: 32 million dollars, 19 lawyers, 40 FBI agents, 500 search warrants, 2,800 subpoenas. And they came back this spring and what they tell us? No collusion, no conspiracy, no coordination. But the guys on the other side don't care. They don't care.
They're doing what, Dr. Hill said a number of important things in her opening statement. They're doing exactly what Dr. Hill talked about. "The impact of a successful 2016 Russian campaign remains evident today. Our nation is being torn apart." Torn apart. I've never seen it this divided. And it's not healthy. It is not healthy for our culture, our country, not healthy for our nation. But that's what these guys are doing. No conspiracy. No coordination. No collusion. But they don't care.
Now this. This whole impeachment thing, as the witness said yesterday, the witness said yesterday without an announcement from Zelensky about an investigation, they weren't going to get a call with the president, they weren't going to get a meeting with the president, and they weren't going to get aid from the United States. But guess what? Ukraine, they got a call, they got the meeting and they got the money. And there was never an announcement of any type of investigation.
This is, but they don't care. They're gonna move forward there's gonna be some kind of report they're gonna send some, I assume something to the Judiciary Committee and the process is gonna go forward and there'll be a trial in the Senate.
All based on some anonymous whistleblower who came forward with no first-hand knowledge, who's biased against the president, who worked with Joe Biden. Now all this. Now all this. This is, Dr. Hill's, right. She said she said it. We've got to stop this. But they're not going to. And they're doing it all eleven and a half months before the next election.
And I think maybe the most telling thing is what the Speaker of the House said Sunday. Speaker the house said Sunday. This is scary. Speaker the house said Sunday, National Sunday morning TV show, she said the president is an "impostor". The guy that 63 million people voted for who won an electoral college landslide, the Speaker of the House of Representatives called the President of the United States an imposter. Sad. It is sad what the country is going through. I wish it would stop but unfortunately, I don't think it is.
Mr. Chairman I yield back
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