White House adviser Peter Navarro said newly declassified documents related to the FBI's 2017 investigation into President Donald Trump provide a detailed look at how the Russia investigation was initiated and who was involved, arguing that Congress should issue subpoenas to further examine the matter.

During a recent interview, Navarro discussed documents he said were released following efforts by investigative journalist John Solomon, with support from administration officials, and argued they reveal the chain of command behind the FBI's investigation.

"Russia, Russia, Russia-the hoax."

Navarro began by recounting events surrounding the 2016 presidential campaign, arguing that the investigation stemmed from the Steele dossier and allegations involving Russia.

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"Things start in the 2016 campaign when Hillary Clinton's campaign authorizes this phony Steele dossier, and they try to wrap Russia around the president's neck, but they don't go directly after him."

According to Navarro, investigators instead focused on several Trump associates.

"They go after people like Carter Page, and George Papadopoulos, Mike Flynn was just bogus stuff. Okay, didn't work."

Navarro then turned to the opening of the FBI's investigation into Trump after he took office.

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"The boss gets elected. Now we're five months into his term, and May 16, 2021, something unprecedented, remarkable, and disgusting happens. The FBI initiates an investigation of Donald John Trump under the assumption that he's a tool and a pawn of Vladimir's Putin's Russia."

Navarro argued that the newly declassified documents provide details that previously were not publicly available.

"Okay, now here's what's we know this kind of by anecdotally, but what we got from John Solomon's dogged efforts in Pulte, and the president's direction, is newly declassified documents, which give us the formal opening document of that investigation, all of the approving officials, and importantly, Steve, the chain of command all the way up to the top, down to the implementing FBI agents."

He identified several officials whom he said appear in the documents, beginning with then-FBI Counterintelligence Division Director Bill Priestap.

"Come May 16th, there's the opening communication. The bad guy here at the top is the counterintelligence division director. He's a guy named Bill Prestop. Bill Prestott, remember that name, and he consults with the FBI's general counsel, James Baker, and in this opening communication, they say we're investigating Trump."

Navarro said then-Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe informed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that the investigation had been opened.

"And what happens then is you've got you've got the acting FBI director, the next name Andrew McCabe, notifying the Deputy General Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that they're opening the matter. So you got Baker, Pre-Stop, McCabe, and Rosenstein."

He argued that the following day's appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller accelerated the Russia investigation.

"So the very next day, Steve Rosenstein appoints Robert Mueller the special counsel, and the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax takes flight."

Navarro also referenced former FBI Director James Comey, arguing that his firing became part of the rationale used during the investigation.

"Now James Comey's in this hoax as well, because the investigation is open in part because they use Comey's firing to argue that somehow that was Donald Trump trying to suppress the Russia probe."

He also pointed to members of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, including Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.

"And then the pre-step communication is based on a predicate that's been established by the Crossfire Hurricane team and two very familiar names there is is Strzok and Page, the star-crossed lovers at the FBI, who were just virily anti-Trump."

Navarro then discussed several FBI agents whom he said played operational roles in the investigation.

"So we've got Page, Strzok, Rosenstein, we got Mueller, McCabe, Baker, and Pre-Stop identified, and then you go down to the agent level."

He specifically mentioned Stephen Somma, Joe Pientka and Walter Giardina.

"You've got case agent one. This was the guy who screwed up the the Carter Page FISA warrant. His name is Stephen Soma. You have another guy Pientka, and then the guy I call Laforas Gump of the Russia hoax and the and the anti-Trump activity. The guy who arrested me, Walter Giardina."

Navarro alleged that Giardina was involved in reviewing the Steele dossier during the early stages of the investigation.

"And what's important about Giardina is he was one of the initial recipients, Steve, of that phony steel dossier, he vetted it, and allegedly Giardina said, 'Oh, that's genuine. Let's go.' And then later on, whistleblowers allege that he had his laptop erased and things like that."

Concluding his remarks, Navarro argued that the declassified records provide Congress with a basis to conduct additional oversight.

"So the point is that we have an opportunity now. We know exactly what that investigation said in terms of its opening communications, we know what the chain of command looks like, and it's time."

He said he believes Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan should issue subpoenas to further investigate the officials involved.

"And what I call for in the piece is for, at a minimum, subpoenas issued by Grassley's committee, Chuck Grassley on the Senate side, and Jim Jordan on the House."

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