Barr emphasizes:
“Their case collapsed after the election and they never told the FISA court and they kept on getting renewals on these FISA applications. The question really is: what was the agenda after the election? They kept on pressing ahead after their case collapsed. This is the president of the United States they continued to investigate.”
(All dates in 2016):
“What I find particularly inexplicable is that the Obama administration talked to the Russians, but not to the Trump presidential campaign. On August 4 Brennan briefed the head of Russian intelligence; he calls the head of Russian intelligence and says, ‘We know what you’re up to. You better stop it.’ He did it again later in August. And then President Obama talked to President Putin in September and said, ‘We know what you’re up to. You better cut it out.’ So they go and confront the Russians, who clearly are the bad buys, and they won’t go and talk to the Trump campaign…”