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John Ratcliffe: “John Durham, on the day that inspector general came out with…”

Featuring: John Ratcliffe, Republican | Director of the Central Intelligence Agency | National

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We already know that two out of the four wiretaps into Carter Page were illegal. Do you think all four were illegal? I do. And the reason, you know, John Durham, on the day that inspector general came out with his report, indicated that he didn't think that there was proper predication or may not have been proper predication to begin with. The very first one, we know for a fact, as you correctly point out, that even the FBI director admitted to me last week that at least two of the four were illegal surveillance. (05:35–05:48)

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