Phillip Mudd to James Woolsey: You Can’t Tell Me Nothing ‘Smells’ on Trump-Russia Back Channels

RUSH EXCERPT:
MUDD: "Nonsense. Let's talk about context. Once you have a nominee of an American political party, you start to receive top secret intelligence briefing. That's going back to the middle of last year. When you're president elect, you have intelligence briefings as often as you want. Those presumably include not only strategic issues but on something that was debated as early as last fall. Russian involvement in the American elections. Meanwhile, we have an FBI investigation open in mid 2016. If press reports are accurate, last year a representative of then incoming President Trump decides in this environment, where there are allegation public about Russian involvement in the elections, that representative will meet with the individual that is Ambassador Kislyak who's at the center of those allegations. And we don't know what they discussed because the White House hasn't told us. And you're going to tell me that doesn't smell?"