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John Cornyn: “The management, upper management of the FBI started the…”

Featuring: John Cornyn, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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On Fox, Cornyn Discusses Confirming Kash Patel, Restoring Trust to the DOJ & the FBI

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But then James Comey got upset because President Trump let him go, and he, he went on a. The warpath, basically, to make sure that a special counsel would be appointed. The management, upper management of the FBI started the Crossfire hurricane investigation based on a bogus Steele dossier. which essentially, as it turned out, ended up being opposition research from the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016. (00:59–01:08)

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Asserts that the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation was based on a false Steele dossier.

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