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Matt Gaetz: “Obama on December 9 calls in Clapper, Brennan, Comey, and…”

Featuring: Matt Gaetz, Republican | Former U.S. House, Florida's 1st District

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But it got reinvigorated after that. Of course it did. All of that got dispensed with. Then Trump won, which people weren't expecting. And Obama on December 9 calls in Clapper, Brennan, Comey, and says, you guys have gotta go out and reignite this Russia thing. And in that effort, you see all of this offense against George Papadopoulos, you see the activation of foreign intelligence networks to try to create some predicate for spying on the Trump campaign. (1:01:44–1:01:52)

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