I agree, hersh backed out. But that dude from fox news didn't hear him wrong. That was the implication in the episode 5 by Isakoff about the fox people. why? hersh's audio is out there. That's him. he said he would never give up the guy at the bureau. But he said he saw it. Can't walk that back once the genie's out of the bottle. Again, isakoff lied. And Hersh implicates Rich. and covers the Russia angle. so, I'm just listening. Let's see the FBI reports. let's see what they have on Rich. why are you against that?
Hersh never claims to have seen the report. He claims to know someone who says they saw it but won’t associate himself with the veracity of that claim. That’s the walk back from Hersh.
We don’t really know who Malia Zimmerman’s source is. We have no idea if she talked to Hersh. We don’t know if she talked with someone in government.
What seems most likely to me, is that Butowsky gave the recording of his conversation with Hersh to Zimmerman and she used that as the basis for the Fox News, despite having no confirmation or corroboration that Hersh’s source exists at all. That’s what seems most likely to me, but I can’t prove it.
No one in any of the podcast claims Hersh didn’t make this claim of an FBI report to Butowsky. They do cast serious doubts on Hersh’s story because how he walked it back both at the end of the phone call and in a subsequent email he wrote to Butowsky. There was no lie from Isakoff.
It should be pretty clear by now there is no such FBI report. The only indication that there ever was one came from this claim from Hersh that he won’t stand by.