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Tremendous pressure to clean it up so he did what he could. but like president trump said, well, let me say this, the reason president trump says the conclusions are ridiculous is because the mans not stupid. you look at what findings they have and theyre good, theyre right on, they get good investigation, but they should have come out sooner than they did and then the conclusions just dont match up to the facts. >> julie: the facts is what everybody wanted to hear. the president says this of th...

Information about confidential law enforcement investigation to reporters and did so apparently in exchange for gifts like golf outings and tickets to sporting events. that shows a problem throughout the fbi, particularly not just among agents but also among the leadership. >> arthel: youre a former doj official. how many people work for the fbi? >> well, look, its true that there are thousands of people that work for the fbi. but the fact that you had this generally widespread problem for examp...

The way the president does and somehow affected the election. jon: but when you have peter strzok, a top fbi official, participating in the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and he writes to his lover that we are going to stop donald trump from becoming president and then he winds up on the -- on the mueller-russia investigation team, it just smells. >> it doesnt smell if you read the report. smells what you do what all republicans an some democrats are doing, taking things out of context. wh...

Figures and they listen to him go and talk and they go, there goes that. just throw that sheet of paper out. michael, one of the claims that the president made is the ig report shows no collusion, no obstruction. but the report did not make any conclusions about the russia investigation. you heard jeff reporting that as well. why would he say that it does? >> because he is trying to cast doubt on the mueller investigation. he is trying to look for any shred of evidence or anything that he can us...

Investigation together. but i do want to point out the president insisted it does exonerate him. the report itself did not weigh in on that. but youll see this report going forward. >> should there be a second special counsel? is that on the table now to investigate the fbis role in the 2016 election against trump? and obviously so given whats in the ig report? >> thats a question we will have to be asking people like speaker ryan in the coming days to see if the conclusions changes the calculus...

The d.o.j./i.g. office, which is why i urged them to do this revi review. the conclusions are reasonable, even though i disagree with some. i pray no director faces this again. thanks to the i.g.s people for hard work." what do you think your now former colleagues should do with the information they have here? theyre going to make their way through 500-plus pages and have to chart a path forward. we heard christopher wray, the head of the fbi, talking a little bit about what that pat mig h might...

>> i think its really unfortunate that giuliani and the president have launched this campaign of trying to convince the american people that the inspector general report clears donald trump of any charge of collusion with russia. thats monot what it does and n what it was intended to do. it was an investigation to see if the fbi conducted itself properly during the e-mail investigation. but the average person doesnt have time to sit down and read it cover to cover. its irresponsible for the pres...

Its 568 pages blasting james comey and the fbi for actions they took during the 2016 campaign. there is, however, something in here for everyone, it seems. let me read a little bit of it here from michael horowitz. we found no evidence that the conclusions by the prosecutors were affected by bias or other improper considerations. we determined they were based on the prosecutors assessment of the facts, the law and past department practice. joining me now, our colleagues from the rfk building in ...

Secondly the report does to the reach conclusions about that. did that affect the russia probe in some way in the future? it doesnt appear that it did. and in fact, its about as related to the russia president obama as the report that will come out on russia and fifa for the world cup. those are both about russia but the conclusions will be about something entirely different. i dont see any way other than confirmation by us to explain what the president and others are saying. he sees a report on...

Was an unprecedented case and i felt that the procedures required things to be different because i couldnt just go to the attorney general and preview what i was going to say because she could be criticized because she had not recused herself in the first place. he had to make a judgment call. we did disagree and give director comey some credit because he said afterwards i dont agree with all of the conclusions in the report, but i respect the process and i say good on them for putting a judgmen...