Chris Wallace: Russia Investigation Did Not Start with Dossier or the FISA Warrant

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WALLACE: "You’re right on a couple of points. Directly to Rush Limbaugh, my dear friend Rush, there is an investigation going on. And it's the Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, who's a straight shooter, pretty critical of the FBI when it came to how they handled the Clinton investigation last year. And they will say the same thing — they’ll have a report on the Trump investigation. You are exactly right. When the report comes out, particularly on obstruction, it is not a clean bill of health. Barr ended up saying he didn’t think there was a basis for prosecution but exactly as you point out they’re going to able to say well, he did this or this happened. And there is only one other point I do want to make. And I know this is going to drive some of our viewers nuts. The Trump investigation did not start with the FISA warrant and Carter Page and even the dossier. It started in June and July of 2016 when George Papadopoulos had spoken to a Russian agent and spoke to an Australian diplomat and said he had heard they had information on — dirt on Hillary Clinton. That’s when the investigation started. It wasn’t October, it wasn’t September. It was in July and it was George Papadopoulos. Not to say that the FISA warrant — let me finish. Not a legitimate basis for inquiry but that is not where the investigation started. It is just a fact."