Jim Himes actually said...
This is all a campaign to make sure that if and when that information emerges, that the institutions that would out that information, the FBI and the DOJ, have been sufficiently slandered, sufficiently called into question that Americans just throw up their hands and say, I don't know what is true.
Context
Himes warns about the dangers of undermining trust in the FBI and DOJ in relation to potential damaging information about the president.
12/20/2017