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WHEELER: "Well, the Durham investigation is in real trouble. One of the things that — and Tom mentioned this briefly, but one of the things that Sussman revealed overnight is that Durham didn’t interview — like, one of the allegations in the indictment is that Sussman was coordinating with the Hillary campaign on these Alfa Bank allegations back in October. Sussman was like, 'Name the people.' In October Durham said, 'I don’t have any people.' In November he first interviewed a Hillary staffer. He hadn’t actually investigated this. We also learned recently that even though Durham and Bill Barr flew to Italy to get the phones from Joseph Masoud, who, remember, is that Italian who was talking to George Papadopolous, he never walked across DoJ to get the phones from James Baker, who is the single witness to this conversation with Michael Sussman. He didn’t find out that DoJ IG had two of those phones until January, and then after he revealed that he had these phones that he should have looked four years ago, he then had to disclose that he had been told about one of these phones back in 2018 but he didn’t remember it anymore. So what you've got — and those aren't the only things that Durham has had to admit that he didn’t do before charging Michael Sussman. He didn’t investigate how the FBI killed a story that 'The New York Times' was going to come out with before the election, partly because of what Sussman did, which counters all of the motivation that Durham says he's working on. Durham didn’t investigate that until after he charged Sussman either. So, Sussman on Friday probably is going to submit a motion to dismiss this entire indictment, and probably what last Friday’s stunt was about for Durham was an attempt to preempt that, an attempt to pretend that this investigation isn’t kind of post-hoc a discovery of things. For example, he didn’t investigate what the FBI’s relationship is with Rodney Joffe before he charged Michael Sussman. He only pulled those communications when Sussman said, 'Why don’t you go find out what kind of relationship the FBI really has with Joffe?' And he discovered there were thousands of communications. So, Durham is very close to position where Sussman is going to have the opportunity to say, 'You didn’t do an investigation before you charged me.' And a week before he probably is going to have to do that, this stunt comes out and you have all these people who were witnesses, who fed these conspiracy theories to Durham on the front end, who then go on Fox News and make false claims about it. That’s what the story is about. It's Kash Patel garbage in, Kash Patel garbage out, and then Trump threatening to kill people as result."