10:00 hour and the hearing set to begin shortly. bill: reading on page 4. we found that members of the crossfire hurricane team the group of f.b.i. agents who did the investigation, failed to meet the basic obligation to insure that the carter page/fisa applications were scrupulously accurate. we identified significant inaccuracy in the missions in each of the four applications, seven in the first fisa application, a total of 17 by the final renewal application, ted cruz on camera. 9:59 here in new york as we are set to begin a brand-new hour and get into this hearing of potentially explosive hearing on the hill getting underway in moments. michael horowitz, the inspector general. we re waiting to hear from him and we will in a matter of moments. the origins of the russia investigation about to unfold. new hour begins right now from new york city. great to have you along with us today. i m bill hemmer as we get set for yet again an interesting today.
that fbi put forth to the fisa court, a significant number of pieces of evidence do not support their theory of the case and that was never told to the justice department lawyers who are the ones who are the gatekeepers and have to be able to make that decision. they are the experts, not me. can we speak for a moment to the steele dossier? i believe we have a new a definitive statement about what impact that had on the initiation of this investigation. what was your conclusion? in terms of the initiation, it was not known to the team that open the investigation at the time they opened it. so you have concluded in several different ways that there is no evidence of political influence for the opening of this cross fire hurricane investigation. is that correct? that s correct.
we concluded the crossfire hurricane team s receipt of steele s election report played an essential role in the decision by the fbi to support the fisa surveillance targeting carter page and ultimate decision to seek the fisa order. schiff also wrote the courtrt approves surveillance of page, allowed fbi to collect valuable intelligence. ap as horowitz lays out on page 476, mr. congenital liar, the fbi was not able to gather any valuable intelligence, was not able to corroborate anything in the dirty, unverifiable, debunked, clinton bought and paid, russian, steele dossier that they used and needed, it was central to get the warrant. let s read it.op the cross fire hurricane team had not corroborated any of the
applications. it s not like doj didn t know. one of the senior department of justice officials, bruce ohr, his wife worked at fusion gps, the oppo research company being paid by the dnc. and he became the principal liaison with christopher steele without telling anyone at the department of justice that he was essentially working on behalf of the clinton campaign. who at the department of justice and by the way, several democrats, it s interesting seeing democratic senators wanting to defend this abuse of power. several senators. senator feinstein said the fbi didn t placed spies in the trump campaign. senator leahy said something similar. it may be true, not spies in the trump campaign but reading for your report and page 4 of the executive summary, your report says thereafter the cross fire
perfunctory briefing to the term campaign, lasted about 13 minutes, i think you indicated in your report. they had implanted into that group and agent, and fbi agent that was part of the investigative team for a cross fire hurricane, is that correct? that s correct. there was one fbi agent there and they chose agent from the counterintelligence investigation. to arm them with information, so that they could prevent the russians and infiltrating their campaign, the briefing such as it was had a dual purpose. they actually prepared themselves going through mock briefings. headed by peter strzok, lisa page, and possibly this