Swalwell: Mr. Durham, my MAGA colleagues want you to be someone you're not…they want you to join the law firm of 'Insurrection LLC', which, incidentally, and probably appropriately, is chaired by a guy that never passed the BAR exam.
Lieu: Mr. Durham, you can hold yourself out as an objective Department of Justice official, or as a partisan hack, and the more that you try to spin the facts and not answer my questions, you sound like the latter.
McClintock: Was Danchenko a Russian intelligence source?
Durham: Mr. Danchenko had been investigated by the FBI for espionage, they closed the case when they mistakenly thought he had left the country. Mr. Danchenko's status in connected with that espionage matter was never resolved by the bureau, the bureau, in fact, never opened or perused it.
McClintock: He was the source for much of the Steele dossier.
Durham: He said that he was responsible for eighty percent of the intelligence in the dossier.
McCLintock: Who commissioned the Steele dossier?
Durham: The Steele dossier was done by Fusion GPS, who was hired by Perkins Coie, who represented the Clinton campaign.
Jayapal: Mr. Durham, I think you were given an impossible task by Attorney General Bill Barr. He asked you to figure out how to make Donald Trump's Spygate claims true. But you couldn't do that because you quickly realized that the claims were false, and so you set about, as many republicans on cable news do, try to find a way to blame Hillary Clinton for Donald Trump's woes.
Gooden: Did the FBI open Crossfire Hurricane without speaking to the people who provided the information?
Durham: Yes.
Gooden: Did the FBI open Crossfire Hurricane on a Sunday, only three days after reviewing the information?
Durham: Yes.
Gooden: Did the FBI open Crossfire Hurricane without any significant review of it's own intelligence database?
Durham: Yes.
Gooden: Did the FBI open Crossfire Hurricane without interviewing the essential witnesses?
Durham: Yes.
Gooden: Did the FBI open Crossfire Hurricane without using any of the standard analytical tools typically employed in evaluating intelligence?
Durham: Yes.
Gooden: Did the FBI consider the possibility that it was the target?
Durham: It didn't appear so to me from the evidence.
Gooden: Can you tell us why, and under what motivation, would a prosecutorial agency act in such a way where it willfully ignores multiple instances of exculpatory evidence throughout the course of it's investigation.
Durham: In my experience, that is not the norm. That is not how the FBI performs. In this particular case, as is reflected in the report, there appear to be persons in the FBI who were central to opening the investigation, that had rather strong views concerning then candidate Trump.
Chairman Jordan: This is straight out of the movies….you can't make this stuff up. But that's what Comey's FBI did.
Moore: Did the [Steele] dossier come from President Trump's political opponents?
Durham: It was funded by the Clinton campaign and the DNC…that's how it was paid for.
Durham: The Clinton campaign funded the information that showed up in the [Steele] dossier. The Clinton campaign funded the information that was put together concerning an alleged secret communications channel between Trump and Alpha Bank, which was presented to the FBI through Mr. Sussmann.
Dean: We have a very dangerous former president, and criminal indictments to come. A mess of Mr. Trump's own making, I am baffled of this committee's lifting up of a corrupt president.
Kiley: Mr. Schiff, in 2017, 2018, made statements such as, "The Russians offered help [to Trump], the campaign accepted help. The Russians gave help, and the president made full use of that help, and that is pretty damning." He also said there's clear evidence on the issue of collusion. He said, "I think there's plenty evidence of collusion or conspiracy in plain sight." Mr. Durham, are those statements supported by the conclusions of the Muller Report?
Schiff: Will the gentleman yield?
Kiley: No. Mr. Durham, are those statements supported by the Muller Report?
Durham: I don't believe so.
Durham: He was sentenced to twelve months probation for [laughs] fabricating a document that was used to get a surveillance order on an American citizen.
Durham: I know that the people with operational, people doing the investigation, were told they could not interview Mr. Page, until the 7th Floor authorized it, and then the director didn't authorize the interview of Mr. Page until March of 2017.
Van Drew: Danchenko was a foreign agent, who the FBI was paying hundreds of thousand of taxpayer dollars, tells a blatant lie, which leads to four FISA applications, and lays the foundation for the Trump Russia Collusion Hoax…one of the greatest disgraces this country, in my opinion, has ever seen. Americans are literally paying the price for this corruption…Mr. Durham, is it accurate to say the Crossfire Hurricane investigators made little to no effort to corroborate Danchenko's events relating to Millian?
Durham: That would be correct.
Van Drew: And is it accurate to say that despite not corroborating this information, that Crossfire Hurricane still used the Millian accusation to bolster the Carter Page FISA applications.
Durham: That information was used in the initial FISA application, and the three renewal applications.
Van Drew: So the answer is yes.
Durham: Yes.
Spartz: This case has all classic earmarks of collusion and cover-up. However not one person went to jail, and Clinton campaign operatives like Jake Sullivan now have the highest national security position in our government, who is driving a very slow response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.