Fox News "Hannity" - Transcript Interview with Lindsey Graham
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Here with reaction, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham.
One thing I'll say, great questioning there, like Rod Rosenstein.
But I'll tell you the difference between you and me, you said I believe you didn't know. I'm not sure I believe that, Senator. I'm not sure at all.
GRAHAM: Well, I can't -- well, I can't prove that she knew, so I'm just going to base on what I can prove. Here's what I can prove, that Jim Comey has become radioactive, people are running away from him like he's got the plague. Rosenstein said, no, I wouldn't have signed the warrant if I knew then what I know now. Sally Yates threw him under the bus, that he went rogue, that he set up General Flynn for, as you say, to manufacture a crime.
So what's the takeaway here? That Comey set on top of one of the most corrupt investigations, Crossfire Hurricane, in the history of the FBI, and the rats are jumping ship. Bad day for Jim Comey.
HANNITY: That I agree. And also, we -- she puts in that January 5th Oval Office meeting --
GRAHAM: Right.
HANNITY: -- she puts the Logan Act, which nobody's ever been prosecuted for and been existence --
GRAHAM: Right.
HANNITY: -- since 1799, she puts those words in the mouth of Jim Comey.
GRAHAM: So here's what I can tell you that if Comey's writing a book, it should be called "rogue". The best way to describe his tenure is FBI director is he was rogue, that he ran every stop sign.
There's no way in hell that he didn't know the dossier had been basically proved to be unsound by the Russian sub-source interview in January. My goal is to prove that he did know and he got warrants against Carter Page anyway.
Here's the point: that Rosenstein and Yates are running away from Crossfire Hurricane. She threw Comey under the bus.
So there will become a time to sell your book. Jim Comey, you can come to the Judiciary Committee and sell your next book because you got a date with the truth, my friend.
HANNITY: Ah, can't wait and I'd like to know what John Durham is going to do.
Here's what we also know -- we know that Jim Comey was warned before the first FISA application by the State Department.
GRAHAM: Yes.
HANNITY: We know he's warned by Bruce Ohr.
GRAHAM: Right.
HANNITY: In detail, don't trust Steele. He has a political agenda, Hillary paid for it, it's unverified, signed it anyway.
After he signs it, then again, that was the bulk of information Sally Yates and Andrew McCabe said, no dossier, you don't have a FISA warrant, but he told Donald Trump a couple of months later, it was salacious and unverified. He lied in either case, somebody, because he's contradicting himself.
Then we also know he signed another FISA warrant after his own FBI found out from the sub-source, none of this is real.
GRAHAM: Yeah.
HANNITY: None of this is verified. And he signed it again.
That is premeditated fraud on a FISA court, Senator, with whether Jim Comey, Mr. Higher Honor, wants to admit it or not, I'd get indicted, why hasn't he been?
GRAHAM: Well, I don't know what Durham's going to do, but I know what the hell I'm going to do. I'm going to call the intel analyst and the case agent who interviewed the Russian sub-source in January, March and April, and asked them once you found out the dossier was a bunch of garbage, did you tell anybody about it? And I'll be shocked if they didn't tell McCabe and Comey.
So we'll get to the bottom of it. Stay tuned.
HANNITY: OK.
GRAHAM: All I can tell you is that Jim Comey is about as radioactive as you can get. If you don't believe me, ask Sally Yates.
HANNITY: When are you calling Comey?
GRAHAM: In September.
HANNITY: You want to make a bet?
GRAHAM: What's the bet?
HANNITY: He'd call the Fifth Amendment, he'll invoke it.
GRAHAM: Time will tell.
HANNITY: Thank you, Senator.
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