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Consensus reached after multiple days and meetings among officials. We reviewed Department Policies and concluded Assistant Director pre steps exercise of description in opening the investigation was in compliance with those policies. We also reviewed, as we detail in the report, the emails, Text Messages and other documents of those involved in that decision, particularly mr. Pre steps. We didnt find documentary or Testimonial Evidence that indicated political bias or improper motivation influe...

January 2017 when the guy who gave steele all the information disavows the dossier, not only they should have told the court they should have slowed down, do you think the second and third warrants had a legal basis after that point? >> you know, we dont reach that conclusion and im not going to -- >> would you have submitted a warrant application as a lawyer? >> let me put it this way. i would not have submitted the one they put in. >> okay. >> no doubt about it. it had no business going in -- ...

Reporting from christopher steal considering pages election acts for russian 06 fishls, the department was ready to move forward to obtain feis zoo author to surveil page. the steele reporting pushed fisa over the line in terms of establishing probable cause and we concluded that it played a central and essential role in a decision to seek a fisa order. fbi leadership supported relying on steeles reporting to seek a fisa order after being advised of concerns expressed by a department attorney th...

Disturbing about that event, which is the initial application said, as you noted, that the fbi assessed that steele was the direct source or was a direct source, and on october 14th the drafts changed to the exact opposite. what we found is the fbi had no basis for the first statement, no evidence in their file -- it turned out the first statement was, in fact, the accurate statement. the point is they had no evidence to support that. when they flipped that, they had no evidence to support that ...

Whether he was a source for the september 2016 yahoo news article that cited western intelligence sources, quote, unquote? if not, why not? >> they did not ask that question despite having the opportunity to do so. and we got a variety of explanations including that, as to some of these issues, that they didnt want to offend him or jeopardize their relationship with him. >> question two, on october 11th, draft of the vice is a application stating fbi believes steele was the source of the yahoo n...

Win. hes marketing the dossier which is a bunch of garbage to anybody and everybody. to me thats important. is that important to you? >> any evidence of bias is supposed to be disclosed to the court and to the department lawyers. >> okay. so lets play this out. in january 2017 when they figure out the primary sub source and talk to the russian guy that provided steele all the information, what should the fbi have done at that moment? >> two things. reconsidered internally where things stood, and...

This russia investigation? >> on this matter that im handling? >> yeah. >> no one that im aware of. >> following up on a question that senator feinstein asked, did the obama administration or president obama himself, is the one im interested in, know about the counterintelligence investigation? >> i dont know the answer to that definitively. our authority was over the fbi and to look at the fbi and the department activities. >> in january 2018, chairman graham and i wrote to the fbi and the depa...

This matter in january of 2017 oochs. its not -- i might have to go back and look. >> in february he mentioned that steele cant verify. >> correct. >> pretty clear to me. so the court should have been told they were not. >> how did they describe this meeting to the court in the warrant application? >> in the second and third -- in the second and third renewals, the last two applications, they told the court they had interviewed steeles primary sub source upon whom steele relied in writing the re...

Look at christopher steeles russian sources and interview them yourself? did anyone at the fbi ask steele about his sources? did you pay christopher steele? there are reports that you did pay a him. what about fusion gps? did you ever ask glenn simpson or anyone at the company if they ever tried to verify the dossier, because the answer is no, theyay didnt. by the way, then theres the fire support. mr. comey, personally you were aware of course that the fisa judges, did you not know that they we...