illegal spying. michael horowitz will present findings to show that while the lawyer to manipulate the document, i did not change the ability of the application. the attorney who would alter the document was fired. while that will help the president s narrative and the middle of impeachment inquiry, there are reports that former fbi director james comey and his deputy andrew mccabe did not act with political bias when dealing with this application. the president has targeted both men publicly. december 9th, monday december 9th followed by that testimony on monday. ed: david s pond, thank you. as it gears up for his first official hearing next wednesday, the white house has formulated its that s done like counter strategy. don mcgann must testify, we ve learned the president has met with democrats and former clinton strategists for advice
republican foreign policy circles. remember, when they were in florida, john bolton was looking over the shoulder of those florida election officials. he s been in the trenches for a long time. it s a little hard for me to imagine going to capitol hill and promoting the case that adam schiff is pushing. i think it s an interesting question and he seems to be want to be called. he wants to be subpoenaed. ed: brit hume, happy thanksgiving. same to you. ed: a live look where we are waiting for president trump. the vice president is on the stage now. dueling reports could soon come to a head and washington. adam schiff announcing his committee will deliver a report on impeachment shortly after thanksgiving while the panel keeps moving forward with their own hearings. the justice department michael horowitz is also preparing to drop his review of surveillance of the trump campaign during the 2016 race.
republicans call fisa abuse but a much broader examination, we think, into some of the origins of the trump/russia investigation in 2016. and now we learn that as part of that the inspector general of the justice department michael horowitz prepared a separate report on james comey, the fired f.b.i. director. that will be released sometime before the bigger report is released. we think that it concerns mostly comey s handling of the so-called comey memos. those are the memos he wrote up about his conversations with president-elect and then president trump and then he specifically leaked some of those to the new york times with the hope of setting off a firestorm that would ultimately result in the appointment of a special counsel. ended up he was very successful on that score. jon: senator lindsey graham
said he thinks we ll see the report show an effort to defraud the fisa court by feeding it false information. you ve seen a lot of this from republicans. we do know that the f.b.i. presented information from the so-called steele dossier, the discredited dossier that had all these all gigss about trump and russia. the f.b.i. included some of that in the application for a warrant to wiretap carter page. what we don t know is what else was going on? we hope to learn that from the horowitz report. jon: it will be fascinating reading when it does come out. byron york. sandra: republicans reacting to the surprise resignation of johnny isaacson. how democrats are reacting and what it could mean for the balance of power in the senate. jon: also hurricane dorian now threatening to deliver a
of the fbi of the justice department michael horowitz. do we know if that meeting if how that meeting went had anything to do with the decision to file these tonight? i think they certainly did. this was a last ditch attempt to getting to and try to head something like this off. other members were in that meeting. people like trey gowdy and bob goodlatte, two powerful committee chairman didn t come away necessarily with the same rejection of what doj had to say. so it really is sort of where these members were going into the meeting is kind of where they were when they left. so it didn t solve anything. that s why they came out andified the impeachment articles pretty much right away after this meeting. kyle cheney, joining us on short notice tonight after these impeachment articles were filed, kyle. thank you very much. good to have you with us tonight.