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Working at the fbi? >> my understanding and some are. >> why are they still there? >> you have to ask director wray. >> about carter pages relationship with other intelligence agencies and our government who directly misled the oi about that? >> that person is still there. >> laura: does that took your breath away? it took mine when i watched it live. apparently the fbi is just letting rampant political bias run amok in the agency. you heard the inspector general saying they are still working at...

Mitigating fact. >> why wasnt it? >> thats the question that michael horowitz was unable to answer as well. >> and he said he was unsatisfied with what he heard from the testimony of everyone involved here. that oh, it was we were overloaded with work. he said he couldnt figure out -- there was no satisfactory explanation for it. he infers maybe it was political. >> thats a really big leap, i think, for horowitz or barr or any of the republican senators to make yesterday. and heres why. you have...

Facts. what the director signs off on is an affirmation that the fisa is for an appropriate or authorized purpose. the director suspect attesting to the accuracy of the facts. thats what the case agent does. he attests to the agents acc accuracy of the facts. >> on the specifics, though, for instance the idea that the fbi interviewed one of christopher steeles sources. that wasnt put in application. you agree that was a mistake. >> absolutely. absolutely. the mistakes outlined by the ig in the d...

>> same answer. >> your response? >> well, certainly people in charge of organizations are ultimately responsible for the things those organizations do. that would include director comey and i in this issue as well. however, i think its really important for your viewers to understand how this works in the fbi. essentially each case is run by a case agent. and the responsibility for the development of the investigation and particularly important here, the verification of facts that go into a fisa...

Now like to sandra, he is not a source, he is an aggregator of information. steele had not been in russia since 1998 when his cover was blown. he hasnt set foot in the place in 20 years. he is operating in reliance on a network of sources vis-a-vis him the information is all second hand and third hand at best. so he is not a source. he is not somebody that you would in an ordinary case say to the court you can rely on this persons information. he is somebody who is like a case agent, who accumul...

People that those who executed this exercise, which should have been called operation takedown trump, because thats what they were doing. that they are still getting a taxpayer-funded paycheck, they are still getting taxpayer-funded benefits, and vacation time. when they take off for christmas, theyre going to be on the taxpayer dime. around here, so from time to time you will hear about those that went after the late senator stevens. one of them is still working for the u.s. attorneys office up...

Thats a problem. that is how out of touch washington, d.c., -- even the inspector generals report, there are so much a part. the doj and the fbi, they dont see their mistakes. that is one of the reasons that donald trump won and 2016. people are fed up with this. this elitism with the substantial u.s. relationship between the agencies here in washington, d.c. there is a lot in here that we are going to go to. we want to know. $95,000 paid to christopher steele, why was this information from the ...

He will talk presumably about his communications with roger stone. yesterday we had the case agent, they are sort of laying out how stone lied to congress. today they played recorded excerpts of stones testimony to congress. but here is an example of how devastating some of the evidence is temperature question, on the day roger stone testified to the committee and said his intermediary was not an email guy, how many written communications did he have have credi credico? 72. so stone said he had ...

Bombshell revelations are already falling. prosecutors claimed that the same day news broke that the democratic party had been hacked, that roger stone had three calls with then presidential candidate donald trump. they also claim stone lied to congress to protect then candidate trump. shimone is our crime and justice reporter. what did we talk about yesterday on day one? food poisoning, fainting and lawyers arguing. so what does day two entail? >> much more serious business here in court this a...

Remember, and eventually we were able to make it work. but it was tough. and as i came up with a solution, the case agent was on the phone with the team that was in the state park, and they dug it up 30 minutes later. after they recovered all of the 12 packages from virginia, the next battle was the coded locations for seven more packages buried in maryland. this is a code i had never seen before because this code was from the toothbrush case. so now we have a whole new problem, and a whole new ...