Chairman Jordan: Nothing has changed, and frankly, they're never gonna stop. Seven years of attacking Trump is scary enough, but what's more frightening; any one of us could be next.

Chairman Jordan: Guess who gets it the worst? Whistleblowers. If you dare come forward and tell congress what's going on, look out. They will come for you. They will take your clearance, they will take your pay, they will even take your kid's clothes.

Nadler: Republicans have planned this hearing, and constructed an entire false narrative around the work of Special Council Durham, in an effort to distract from the former president's legal troubles, and mislead the American public. To be clear, the Durham Report is, by itself, a deeply flawed vessel.

Nadler: Over the ensuing years, Mr. Durham constructed a flimsy story, built on shaky inferences and dog-whistles, to far-right conspiracy theorists.

Durham: While I'm encouraged by some of the reforms that have been implemented by the FBI, the problems identified in this report, anybody that actually reads the report, the details of the report, the documented portions of the report, I think will find that the problems identified in the report are not susceptible to overnight fixes

Johnson: I'll try to set the table here at the outset, from twenty thousand feet.

Johnson: The FBI and the DOJ have been turned into activated political weapons against citizens, and even a former president, because of their opposing viewpoints.

Nadler: Mr. Durham, your report reads lie a defense of the Trump campaign and an attack on Hillary Clinton…Donald Trump wanted you to investigate the investigators to show the deep state conspiracy, but you never found one.

Nadler: Some of my colleagues across the aisle have started calling this the 'Russia Hoax'. It's the theory that Russia did not actually interfere in the 2016 presidential election.

['Russia Hoax' actually refers to the false claim that Donald Trump was colluding with Russia]

Democrats will not be able to trip up Durham.

Durham: We interviewed the first supervisor of the Crossfire investigation, the operational person. We showed him the intelligence information, he indicated he had never seen it before. He immediately became emotional, got up and left the room with his lawyer, spent some time in the hallway, came back…

Chairman Jordan: He was ticked off, wasn't he? He was ticked off , because this is something he should had as an agent on the case. This is important information that the director of the FBI kept from the people doing the investigation.

Durham: the information was kept from him.

Cline: The FBI did not have an adequate basis on which to launch Crossfire Hurricane, correct?

Durham: That's correct.

Cline: The FBI failed to examine all available exculpatory evidence, correct?

Durham: FBI leadership continued the investigation even when case agents were unable to verify the evidence, correct?

Durham: That's correct.

Cline: The FBI did not interview key witnesses in Crossfire Hurricane, correct?

Durham: Correct.

Cline: Individuals within the FBI abused their authority under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, correct?

Durham: Correct.

Cohen: Mr. Trump has called Mr, Barr a, 'gutless pig', a 'coward', and a RINO. Which of those is correct, which isn't?

Durham: In my experience, none of those is correct.

Cohen: So Mr. Trump isn't that good of an expert on character and judging people. In your opinion, he isn't, because he's not a 'gutless pig', but Trump says he is.

Durham: That's outside the scope of my report.

Hank Johnson: None of the individuals you prosecuted were ever charged with being part of a hoax, or a fraud, or a with hunt, or a politically-motivated, deep state conspiracy against Donald Trump, isn't that correct?

Durham: We charged Mr. Sussmann with having knowingly providing false information to the FBI regarding Alpha Bank.

Johnson: But he was acquitted though, right?

Durham: That wasn't your question.

Durham: People get phone calls all the time from individuals who claim to have information like that.

Schiff: The son of a presidential candidate gets calls all the time from a foreign government offering dirt on their opponent, is that what you're saying?

Durham: I don't that's such as unique, in your experience.

[the phony phone call to Schiff kek]