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Just looking at the tip of the iceberg. youre generally under a lot of time pressure, doing the best you can. to mayas point, that a lot of the inspector generals findings didnt have to do with so much violating existing regulations, but prescribing new regulations for the future which can be better. you have to really read this report carefully to parse out where the inspector general is putting blame and not putting blame. >> you seem to be making a subtle report, if the reports conclusions ar...

Uncharacterist uncharacteristic, flowery, heated opening. fisa court identified 25 cases in which it was misled by the fbi. internal fbi of 2006 dozens of inaccuracies provided by. fisa court. lets have a fullsome conversation about this about the future of the fi sachlt court and representations made to it. >> senator durbin basically accusing republicans of cherry picking this. trump allies are using some of these issues to try to muddy the waters on the broader conclusions. take attorney gene...

Work on the same thing. his statement read, in part, and we quote, based on the evidence collected to date and while our investigation is ongoing, last month we advised the inspector general that we do not agree with some of the reports conclusions as to predication and how the fbi case was opened. that, right there, is not done. u.s. attorneys work for the justice department. they do not traditionally comment on ongoing matters. and on nicolle wallaces broadcast today, the former inspector gene...

That that we issued last year on the midyear investigation and among other things, criticized what occurred last year with regard to the handling of that investigation. on going investigations are -- need to be protected from outside influence. you dont know as an investigator or you shouldnt conclude as an investigator until you are done with the investigation, you shouldnt be reaching your conclusions until that point. so giving preliminary ideas, advice, guidance, statements, can be misleadin...

Their lives have been destroyed by scum. okay? by scum. >> welcome back. there was president trump speaking at a campaign rally last night lashing out over impeachment. continuing his criticism of the fbi and the russia investigation. calling the fbi scum. which was at the center of todays senate hearing. with the justice departments inspector general. and when it comes to what exactly the i g concluded, apparently its going to depend who you were listening to. ended up having influence in some ...

>> 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 midst of his own work on the same thing. his statement read, in part, and we quote, based on the evidence collect...

Make of it? what are your concerns going forward? >> this was a striking angctiony the attorney general to try and continue to pump up these fake conspiracy theories that republicans in support of trumps campaign to discredit the ongoing impeachment inquiry have been spreading. later this morning, were going to have a hearing on the senate judiciary committee about inspector general horowitzs investigation, an investigation that concluded that the fbi was without bias and properly and well-found...

That you found no documentary or testimony evidencent of politic bias in opening the investigation or seekingn fisa authority for carter page? >> i dont believe they undermined any of i our conclusions. it would have been good to have their evidence, like it isbe normally. >>is do you think that the findings inin your report are inaccurate because you r lacked the authority to compel witnesses? >> not in this instance, no. >> in april 2019, attorney general barr told congress, quote, i think spy...

Happened today is that horowitz explains this effort at spin on monday and says that the decision to open the investigation taken by m mr. prestep who was the head of counter intelligence, right? is that the job you held? >> yes. >> was right, it was properly predicated, it had probable cause. that all that durham was weighing in on was that the next step was something he didnt see the same way. lets watch that sound. >> durham tasked by attorney general barr to also investigate the origins of t...

Supervision that can well go on particular case. >> you make no finding that it was attributable to deep state or conspiracy or any such motivation. we make no findings, we explain in there that we did not have document testimony evidence that it was intentional and we point out the lack of satisfaction explanations and from there, i cant try any further conclusions. other than you do, what you go with is there is a failure of management and supervision over this complicated process that needs t...