MVP of the #MichaelSussman trial Robert Mook throws Hillary Clinton under the bus, tells the prosecution that HRC made the call to release the Trump-Alfa Bank story to the press.
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That is today's bombshell testimony from her 2016 campaign manager. She agreed that they should take the Trump-Russia collusion story to the press. So who told then Clinton attorney Michael Sussman to take that trumped-up Trump-Russia story over to the FBI and to let them know about it? Sussman says he was just being a good citizen, but Hillary Clinton was paying him at the time. One agent at the FBI who was given the goods said there was nothing there, that it didn't make any sense to him and that he didn't think it should be pursued. So then they gave it to another agent named Peter Strzok. And he and Jim Comey launched an investigation known as Crossfire Hurricane. They made sure the papers heard about it, and then you know it was off to the races. In moments, former House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes, now CEO of the Trump Media and Technology Group, but first to David Spunt, our correspondent who is live at that courthouse watching it all unfold in Washington. Hi, David. Hi, Martha. Good afternoon to you. Quite a day here in federal court, Robbie Mook, Hillary Clinton's former campaign manager in 2016, revealed to jurors today and really surprised attorneys that his former boss, the candidate Hillary Clinton, said it was okay to go ahead and release this story, this unvetted now debunked story, to the media. These are accusations, and it went ahead to the media. Clinton then tweeted October 31, 2016, "Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump organization to a Russian-based bank." Then Clinton, a now national White House national security adviser, said in a statement that same day, "Jake Sullivan, this secret hotline may be the key to unlocking the mystery of Trump's ties to Russia." Martha in 2016, Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussman told the FBI he had evidence of a secret communication
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