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REPORT: Dianne Feinstein Says Someone ‘Pressured’ Her To Release Fusion GPS Transcripts, Backtracks

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Jan 10, 2018 DailyWire.com

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) appears to have made a startling revelation about why she released the Fusion GPS transcripts on Tuesday — she was “pressured” to do so.

The revelation came from CNN Congressional Correspondent Manu Raju, who tweeted: “FEINSTEIN says she’s sorry to Grassley for not giving him a headsup about the release of the Fusion GPS transcript. ‘I meant to tell him, and I didn’t have a chance to tell him, and that concerns me,’ she told us. ‘I just got pressured, and I didn’t do it.'”

FEINSTEIN says she’s sorry to Grassley for not giving him a headsup about the release of the Fusion GPS transcript. “I meant to tell him, and I didn’t have a chance to tell him, and that concerns me,” she told us. “I just got pressured, and I didn’t do it.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 10, 2018

Sean Davis, co-founder of The Federalist, was the first to notice the overlooked detail and was quick to point out its potential seriousness. Davis tweeted: “Wait. She was ‘pressured?’ By whom? That seems like a pretty huge detail. Was it a donor? A party boss? Federal officials? Who ‘pressured’ her?”

Wait. She was “pressured?” By whom? That seems like a pretty huge detail. Was it a donor? A party boss? Federal officials? Who “pressured” her? https://t.co/AcVxOP0TYS
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) January 10, 2018

What did Feinstein say when you asked her who “pressured” her to release the transcript, @mkraju? Surely you asked her that.
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) January 10, 2018

And what did Feinstein say, @mkraju, when you asked her how she had time to make massive redactions at the demand of Fusion GPS, but didn’t have time to tell the committee chairman what was happening?
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) January 10, 2018

UPDATE: Feinstein later claimed, according to Raju, that she was not pressured to release the transcripts and her office claimed that she “misspoke.”

Asked who pressured her, Feinstein says: “I wasn’t pressured” without reconciling her two statements. Her office later said she misspoke and wasn’t pressured to release transcript.
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 10, 2018

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