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>> that certainly what he says although not as colorful or at great length, and you heard john durham, the u.s. attorney who is conducting this investigation raising the same concern. again i go back to when he was directly asked, did he say anything, i stood by my conclusions and he hasnt changed his position. >> just to look at the political side of this, just sort of watching how all of this worked, you think about the things that president trump said, and he was very outspoken last night at ...

Department of justice did not know what was in the horowitz report until it appears four to six weeks ago. horowitz was wrapping up his report, writing it up and then drafting his conclusions, which seem to take quite a long time. you remember, sandra, there was a long time we thought it might be out in the spring, then moved to summer and now it is out today and well get set and ready to listen. one of the critical factors in all these hearings is always listen to the way the senators, republic...

Of "do your job," a behind-the-scenes look at their organization following a team scout. when questioned, the crew immediately turned over all footage to the league and cooperated fully >> is it fair to call the patriots cheaters? >> yes. >> reporter: in 2007, the patriots were fined for spygate, filming play signals of an opponent and in 2015, there was also deflategate >> its a terrible headline for the patriots because half the country already thinks theyre a bunch of cheaters. so everybody i...

>> oh, yeah, i think it was definitely appropriate because i think it was necessary to avoid public confusion. >> john durham is a u.s. attorney, serving in connecticut. he was hand selected by that man, ag barr, to investigate the origins of this russia investigation over and above the dojs own internal inspector general report, which weve been talking about, because it was issued yesterday. but durham took the unusual step of releasing a statement, reacting to the ig report while hes in the mi...

Conversation for experts and lay viewers alike. im wondering if you can walk us through as what you saw as important bottom line coming out of the first part of this hearing. >> well, bottom line, michael horowitz who is a highly respected inspector general, neutral arbiter, if you will, defending his report and conclusions. those conclusions include something for everyone, which is what lindsey graham is seizing on, very clear mistakes made by the fbi in the first approval and subsequent reappr...

I would say those are not fair. yesterday, attorney general barr went on a tv to challenge the validity of the findings of your report. and suggested that his own fbi agents have acted in quote bad faith and with improper motives. and that it was premature to conclude otherwise. these insinuations are inconsistent with your report. and one justification that he gave foron disregarding the key finding in your report was that unlike the investigator he handpicked, mr. durham, you could not compel ...

Horowitz, who found no bias to say you better ask somebody, ask someone who might be lying about his report. glenn kirsher. your view, sir? >> ari, the thing is, ig horowitz met with ag barr, john durham before reaching his conclusions and gave them every opportunity to say please show me whatever evidence you have may impact my conclusion, that may show im wrong, that this was a fairly opened investigation, that there was enough evidence, adequate predication as they say. neither ag barr, nor j...

The next car the dog cant catch? >> it sure does, because, you know, bill barr seems to be slipping in his representation of the president. bill barr successfully got out in front of the mueller report and basically mischaracterized it, poisoned the well of public opinion, so to speak. this time, he got caught short, because ig horowitzs report came out first. bill barr had every opportunity to be part of that conclusion that was reached. and all ag barr could do was try to snipe at those conclu...

So barely mentioned. im not trying to minimize fbis mistakes here, but keep it in context. the fbis errors in carter pages case do not undermine the unanimous assessment that russia and not ukraine interfered in our election. is that correct? >> we describe in the report the information about russias -- the conclusions about russias meddling in the 2016 election. >> i remember in one of the political events, mr. trump said, russia, if youre listening, take a look at this. the trump campaign seem...

The real interference in the 2016 election wasnt russia at all, it was ukraine instead. u.s. intelligence agencies have reportedly concluded and briefed the u.s. senate on their conclusions that the russian government, russian security services have been promoting that lie about ukraine as a disinformation effort that is designed to benefit the kremlin. so i know you know how all of those individual dots, right? but its amazing to see them connect on a day like this. its an amazing thing to have...