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Them and b, the remaining percent, its very easy to pursue an appropriate investigation. >> director wray, were glad youre there your agency is incredibly important to the american people and theres been a massive breach of public trust and theres a lot of people pulling for you. >> mr. horowitz, you just testified just now that president obamas comments about the clinton investigation in 2015 caused you concern. so you must be very concerned about president trumps on doing comments about the cu...

Kennedy with your one question and senator whitehouse with his one question and then if the other two dont show up, well stop. >> general horowitz, i wanted to ask you about assistant attorney general peter kadsic. i understand he was an assistant attorney general and attended all the senior staff meetings. at these meetings, the attorney general was in attendance and various investigations by the fbi were discussed. i also understand that mr. kadsic was a good friend of john podesta. mr. podest...

Mr. podestas communications devices as a third part. >> would you do that? >> let me talk to the team. ill get back to you. >> my point, he already was giving inside information to the chairman of the hillary clinton campaign. he did it once. while his sons job request was pending. it would seem to be a reasonable possibility that he did it other teams as well. im not alleging it. i just want to know. thank you. >> thank you to our witnesses for your hard work and a long hearing. i want to begin...

As a witch hunt. you and i both know the justice department has uncovered on going interference with the 2016 election, has charged 20 individuals and three companies with crimes. trump campaign and officials have admitted to acting as indisclosed agents for pro russian companies, bank fraud, tank crimes. just ask you a concluding question. do you believe the investigation in the 2016 election is important and should be completed without interference? >> i believe that mr. mueller is conducting ...

All of those derogatory and prejudicial comments about hillary clinton in jury. so commenting publicly about unchartable conduct is not fbi policy then or now, correct? >> senator, im not aware of any policy that permitted it at the time. as i said, were working on policies to make even more clear things that may have been less clear before. >> good. thank you. mr. horowitz, id like to follow up about the difference between gross negligence and extremely careless. you said it was just a politica...

In an investigation. >> absolutely. >> okay. my time is up. >> senator sass. >> thank you. mr. horowitz, who is sheryl mills and heather samuel son? >> mrs. mills was a counselor at the state department for mrs. clinton and -- >> why do they show up in your report? >> several reasons. on the one hand, after they left the state department and secretary clinton left the state department, they culled through secretary clintons e-mails to decide which ones they concluded were work related and which ...

Russians to engage in further efforts to go after mrs. clinton. you know, i want to know, theres been calls for a special counsel. this is for you, mr. horowitz. should there be further investigations to what happened regarding the clinton investigation? >> as inspector general, thats most clearly not my decision to make. the last thing im going to do is step outside the authorities youve given me, the congress and the igf. >> so you cant respond to that? >> no. >> is there anything in this repo...

Sticking up for your organization. director horowitz, thanks for the thoroughness here. i want to go back on something thats been touched here. i want to hammer it home. theres prosecutors and investigators all over this country who look up to you, who looked up to director comey and who take a lesson from what they see. when i heard director comey have derogatory investigate ty information about an uncharged person, i was stunned. director comey, you said the rules about that are there for a re...

Committee. he said that when youre trying to get information out of a witness who -- a subject -- i dont remember the term that he used, but when youre trying to get information and compel them and may take a long time, if you have to subpoena them, you would do things like this. can you think of any examples like that? >> again,s already testified to my experience. im reluctant to ever speak in terms of something never ever happening. because in my experience, theres very few absolutes in this ...

In terms of classified information. the leak unit is targeted very specifically on anything that has to do with leaks of classified information, mishandling, et cetera. >> id recommend to you that you may want to have a leak investigation yaw it in for nonclassified leaks. theres serious problems when they happen as well. with the time ive got left, id like to change topics once more and go back to the meeting between hillary clinton and -- between bill clinton and loretta lynch on the tarmac in...