Nellie Ohr transcript reveals details from Steele meeting one day before Trump-Russia investigation began

A newly released congressional transcript from Nellie Ohr — Justice Department official Bruce Ohr’s wife — details her meetings with Trump dossier author Christopher Steele, including one the day before former FBI agent Peter Strzok opened the Trump-Russia investigation at the FBI. The transcript also reveals her research on any connections between Russia and President Trump, the Trump family, and Trump associates while she worked at Fusion GPS. She also declined to answer most questions related to her husband, who served as an unofficial backchannel between Steele and the FBI.

Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, went to the House floor to put the 137-page transcript from her October testimony in front of a joint session of the House Judiciary and House Oversight Committees into the record. "Thus far, I have released four transcripts of interviews related to apparent wrongdoing at the FBI and Justice Department. Today, I release the fifth. The American people deserve transparency. They deserve to know what transpired at the highest levels of the FBI and the origin of the probe into President Trump's campaign," Collins said.

The testimony focused heavily on her time with Fusion GPS and its relationship with the DOJ. Nellie Ohr met with Steele three times, the last of which was on July 30, 2016, one day before the FBI initiated a counterintelligence investigation into possible links between the Russian government and the Trump campaign. It is believed that Peter Strzok signed the order that launched the inquiry.

Taking place at the Mayflower Hotel, Nellie Ohr said her husband Bruce Ohr was in attendance along with an unknown associate for Steele. Bruce Ohr was formerly the associate deputy attorney general and director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. He was demoted after it came to light he met with Steele and Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson. At this meeting, Nellie Ohr said she learned for the first time Steele also worked at Fusion GPS. Ohr said she understood Steele was trying to convey to her husband his "concern" about his information regarding Trump, believed she saw at least one page of the so-called Trump dossier, and was hoping it would make its way to the FBI. "My understanding was that Chris Steele was hoping that Bruce would put in a word with the FBI to follow-up on the information in some way," she said when asked if words like "investigation" or "inquiry" was brought up during the discussion.

Fusion GPS is an opposition research firm, and in 2016 it had been hired by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee through the Perkins Coie law firm. Besides hiring Nellie Ohr, Fusion GPS had also hired Steele, whose unverified dossier would form a large basis the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications used to obtain surveillance warrants against Trump associate Carter Page. Its co-founder, Simpson, met extensively with Bruce Ohr, as well as numerous journalists to whom he provided Fusion GPS’s anti-Trump research. When Ohr was hired by Fusion GPS, Simpson knew her husband was working at DOJ. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, asked Nellie Ohr: “Did he know at the time that he hired you that your husband worked for the Department of Justice?” Ohr replied: “Yes.”

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INTERVIEW OF: NELLIE OHR

Friday, October 19, 2018

https://www.scribd.com/document/403480906/10-19-18-Nellie-Ohr-Interview#fullscreen&from_embed

Attorney Mark Geragos, dropped from CNN, says 'lame-ass' outlet should be renamed 'Cut and Run Network

Mark Geragos, a camera-ready attorney linked to lawyer Michael Avenatti's alleged extortion plot, isn't leaving his CNN perch quietly. Geragos, 61, made hundreds of appearances on CNN while working for the news organization. CNN dropped him after the Wall Street Journal reported Geragos was named a co-conspirator with Avenatti in a $20 million extortion attempt of Nike. Geragos wasn’t charged in the Avanatti complaint. The Los Angeles-based legal analyst on Tuesday told a radio host CNN is a “lame-ass organization” that should change its name to “Cut and Run Network.”

“I’ve been texted by all of their anchors who are as outraged as I am," Geragos said. “God forbid that I start telling some of the stories for how I’ve covered for that lame-ass organization. Geragos claimed CNN bookers and anchors are eager for him to return to the network's airwaves. They're particularly interested in having him discuss the Jussie Smollett case, concerning a Chicago-based actor who allegedly engineered an assault against himself so he could call it a hate crime — only to have the charges dropped after a plea agreement with his lawyers.

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Republicans won't act on Obamacare repeal until White House delivers proposal

Republicans in Congress are giving President Trump the cold shoulder as he pushes them into another risky political battle to replace Obamacare, insisting they won't act until the White House delivers a detailed proposal. The Trump administration is pursuing a federal lawsuit that could invalidate the Affordable Care Act signed by former President Barack Obama nine years ago, removing popular coverage protections for Americans with pre-existing medical conditions. Fearing a voter backlash, Republicans who for years championed repealing the law are balking at the president’s latest attempt to fulfill a 2016 campaign promise, believing the window for success has closed.

The GOP would much prefer to keep the spotlight on Democratic plans to abolish private insurance and put healthcare under government control. Roy Blunt of Missouri, the fourth-ranking Senate Republican and the party’s chief policymaker, said there have been no internal discussions on healthcare and emphasized there are no plans to develop alternatives to Obamacare absent clear direction from Trump. “We’ll be eager to see the president’s proposal,” Blunt, chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, said Wednesday.

“I’m anxious to see what the White House is going to recommend in terms of a healthcare delivery system that looks like somebody designed the damn thing on purpose,” added Sen. John Kennedy, R-La. Asked if Trump or his deputies have assured Republicans that the administration will provide congressional Republicans with a blueprint, Kennedy conceded they have not. “I’m assuming they will.” Special counsel Robert Mueller this week gave Trump a clean bill of political health ahead of 2020, concluding the president didn’t collude with Russia to defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton 2016. On Capitol Hill, Republicans celebrated, amplifying the White House message that the federal probe was a waste of time driven by bitter partisans on the Left and in the media on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.

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87 percent of GOP approve of Trump, near all-time high, 7-in-10 rip Mueller ‘witch hunt’

President Trump is at a near all-time high in support from Republicans, partly driven by their overwhelming belief that the Russia collusion investigation that exonerated him was a “witch hunt.” The latest Economist/YouGov survey put his GOP support at 87 percent. And that was before the report from special investigator Robert Mueller cleared the president of collusion with Russians in the 2016 election he won and Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton lost.

Said the analysis, “President Donald Trump has enjoyed solid support from Republicans throughout his presidency. In the latest Economist/YouGov Poll, which went into the field just before the Attorney General released his four-page summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election on Sunday, 87 percent of Republicans approve of the way President Trump is handling his job, which is among the highest levels of approval from Republicans in the Trump administration.”

The survey also revealed a huge gulf between Democrats and Republicans over Mueller. It found that 68 percent of Republicans believed it was a “witch hunt,” and 18 percent a “legitimate” probe. But among Democrats, 82 percent called it “legitimate,” and just 7 percent a “witch hunt.”

Interestingly, YouGov pollsters said that they never found overwhelming belief that Trump colluded with Russians, despite the wave of media stories that suggested he did. “There was never a massive public belief that the president himself colluded with Russia. In an Economist/YouGov Poll conducted earlier this month, just 41 percent said they believed the president accepted Russian help; even fewer, 31 percent, thought he asked for it,” said the new analysis.

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>>5941472

The wind just got blown out of their sails, indeed!

>>5940959

Praying for you have been there. Has any consideration been made to the more northern part of the state..say Tampa area..bigger cities have better qualified Drs.