(1 of 2) Hannity transcription
Hannity: "More information on today's testimony, joining us is Texas Congressman John Ratcliff" (who is smiling like a dog who just stole a bucket of KFC) and from The Hill John Solomon, Congressman, let us talk about what we learned today: Is it true, did Bruce Ohr ever testify before Robert Mueller? Did that come up today?"
Ratcliff: "It did come up, Sean, I have to be careful, I know your viewers want information, but there's a confidentiality agreement, but you have good sources, I listened to your monologue and you have good sources and you're on track with respect to…"
Hannity: "Well, I heard he never testified to Robert Mueller, and you're smiling, so I'm guessing that's a good guess" (Ratcliff still smiling, now chuckling, as is John Solomon) "John, wouldn't that mean a lot, if he didn't testify before Mueller, considering we have 60-some odd pages of notes, all the meetings, and the fact that he said, under testimony today, that this Steele dossier could never be used in a court of law, but it was used as the basis for a FISA warrant to get FISA court approval on spying on Americans?"
Solomon: "Yeah, listen, many of the members I talked to said they thought that was one of the most important revelations today, that Bruce Ohr said he's never heard, nor has his wife have ever heard from Special Counsel Mueller. If Mueller wanted to get to the bottom of this, the questions that Congress has raised that are now in the public, whether the FISA warrant was legitimate and the origins of this investigation were legitimate, you would think that the very least he'd want to talk to Bruce Ohr and find out why he was playing an intermediary role. I was told today emphatically that Bruce Ohr has said he was never interviewed - I think that raises a lot of questions for people in Congress - what is Bob Mueller really up to?"
Hannity, to Ratcliff: "He worked – now we have 63 pages of texts, emails and handwritten notes, Congressman, between Ohr and Steele. Steele had already been fired for lying and leaking. He got paid, not only by Clinton through Fusion GPS, and the DNC through Fusion GPS, but he was also on the record as hating Donald Trump, saying he was "desperate" that Trump not get elected and passionate about him not being President. Did he comment on any of that today?
Ratcliff: "He did, I can probably summarize it the best way like this, um, when the Department of Justice walks in to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and says "we want a warrant to spy on an American citizen", and the central piece of evidence in our case is a dossier, there's an obligation to say, "oh, and by the way, the #4 person in our organization and his wife have major, prominent operational roles with respect to how that dossier was put together, how the FBI received it, and by the way, they were paid handsomely by third parties for that. Those are what we call material facts, material facts that have to be disclosed, and in this case, they weren't."