Fox News’ Sean Hannity told viewers on Monday he was aware of emails from top administration officials under former President Barack Obama — and they could seriously damage special counsel Robert Mueller’s controversial investigation.
The emails are reportedly from former CIA Director John Brennan, whose security clearance Trump revoked last week, regarding his knowledge of the debunked Steele dossier during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Brennan claimed he only became aware of the dossier, funded in-part by Hillary Clinton’s team and used as an excuse to wiretap Trump’s presidential campaign, when he heard about it on the news in Dec. 2016.
That may not be true. Brennan seems to have been briefed by former FBI Director James Comey as far back as Sep. 2016 — and there’s speculation he was the source that leaked information to former Sen. Harry Reid, a then-leader of the Democratic party.
Reid later formerly asked Comey to investigate the Steele dossier accusations, which lead to Obama’s wiretap of Trump Tower.
“I know I’m just a talk-show host and we don’t do investigative reporting, but we’ve beaten everybody — everybody — as it relates to this story,” Hannity said Monday when talking with investigative reporter Sara Carter. “By the way, that was targeted at people who know who they are. I just want to say, isn’t there an email chain that might prove this point?
“There’s actually a series of emails that people want to obtain,” Carter replied. “That is why Congress … why Judicial Watch and others are suing for Brennan’s communications as well as Comey’s.”
“And they may actually prove that [Brennan] did do this and he lying about the Reid stuff?” Hannity asked, implying that he knew the answer. “Is that what your birdies were telling you? Because that’s what my birdies are telling me.”
You can watch the clip here.
Carter and Hannity discuss Brennan and the dossier around the 2:40 mark —