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Department. thats sad as well. i am profoundly sad about everything thats happening here. and its just really unjustified. the facts do not support his assertions with respect to the investigation that we conducted. i was one of the people at the top of the fbi at the time. and i know we werent involved in some plot to overthrow the united states dwoft obviously. we were conducting lawfully authorized investigative activities to protect the country from russia. the focus was on russia, not on tr...

Process the most intrusive technique you can use. you can their phone calls and their emails and their tax. you can mirror their hard drives. you can look at every aspect of someones life with a fisa order. its extremely intrusive. find out that there are 17 different errors, omissions, and unsupported assertions and there is absolutely terrifying to me. weve go got a make sure that te people that did this are coming to be held accountable. its the coming leadership team. it comes for the top. >...

Accuracy reviews known as the woods procedures, designed to ensure that fisa applications contain a full and accurate presentation of the facts. department lawyers and the court should have been given complete and accurate information so they could have meaningfully evaluated probable cause before authorizing the surveillance of a u.s. person associated with a presidential campaign. that did not occur. and as a result, the surveillance of carter page continued even as the fbi gathered informatio...

Course flies in the face of president trumps continued assertions that the russia investigation targeted him and his campaign unfairly. the lavrov meeting comes after the justice department concludes that that investigation wasnt unfair, it was brought under -- it was brought properly with proper predication. lavrovs in the oval office on the day we get the impeachment articles against president trump. and while the presidents impeachment scandal is still and i think will forever be shorthanded ...

Of any sort of improper bias or political intentions on the part of the fbi. that conclusion from the inspector general yesterday of course flies in the face of president trumps continued assertions that the russia investigation targeted him and his campaign unfairly. the lavrov meeting comes after the justice department concludes that that investigation wasnt unfair, it was brought under -- it was brought properly with proper predication. lavrovs in the oval office on the day we get the impeach...

The original decision to open an investigation into flynn. as of today, that inspector general report is out. if you read the judge in mike flynns case, its easy to imagine that you might be a little bit annoyed at this point if in fact you delayed the sentencing because of what you believed were good faith assertions from mike flynns lawyers that this new report was going to change everything, it was going to, you know, make the case against mike flynn fall apart. it was going to expose the das...

Important here is that an independent justice department watchdog who reports to barr and who can be fired by the president has now debunked every sensational claim that president trump has made about a deep state out to get him. the russia investigation was legitimate. there was adequate predicate, there was no spying on the trump campaign. none of these preposterous assertions have been borne out. >> that was an interesting sequence because the inspector generals report comes out and then the ...

Against mike flynn and the investigation into flynn. well, now as of today, that inspector general report is out. if you were the judge in mike flynns case, its easy to imagine you might be annoyed at this point if you delayed the sentencing because of what you believed were good faith assertions by mike flynns lawyers that this new report was going to change everything. it was going to make the case against mike flynn fall apart. it was going to expose the dastardly fbi for only having pursued ...

The family member, and that family member is ivanka trump. joining our discussion is james b. stewart, "new york times" columnist and cnbc contributor, he is the author of "deep state: trump, the fbi and the rule of law." you covered so much of this ground in your book. here is the report everybody was waiting for. any reader would not be surprised by your report. >> im very -- glad that the inspector essentially confirmed everything that i found. we all interviewed the same people. and i think ...

Distort statistics to make it appear the united states was winning the war when that was not the case. nbc news has not independently verified the documents and interview notes as obtained by "the washington post." the military times asked senior military leaders about this report. they put it this way. army command sergeant major john troxell, the senior enlisted adviser to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, army general mark milley told reporters that while he had not fully read "the w...