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Attorney general barr before it was released? >> yeah, as standard process, we provide this to the attorney general and to the fbi director. >> did he suggest any changes? >> he didnt suggest any changes. >> did attorney general barr provide any evidence that caused you to alter this key finding that the fbi investigation had an adequate predicate? >> no, we stand by our finding. >> reporter: president trump tweeting from the white house, "they spied on my campaign!" >> and you didnt find a deep...

After debate starts tonight, the committee is expected to vote tomorrow to advance the impeachment proceedings to the full house lester >> you dont have to look far for political fireworks in washington tonight the justice departments inspector general is done now being grilled by a senate committee on hi conclusions about the fbis investigation of the trump campaign as democrats and republicans zeroed in on different parts of his report. here is pete williams. >> reporter: inspector general mic...

Washington post" pointing out, pleaing that he had been vindicated. the inspector general was asked about this at the hearing today. well talk about. >> former fbi director james comey said this week that your report vindicates him. is that a fair assessment of your report? >> you know, i think the activities we found here dont vindicate anybody who touched this. >> so you heard the mans answer. do you view as a vindication of comey? >> in a top line sensuoe, absolutely. what the president has b...

It was misleading to the court. >> and he said his report did not vindicate anyone. >> former fbi director james comey said this week that your report vindicates him. is that a fair assessment of your report? >> you know, i think the activities we found here dont vindicate anybody who touched this. >> horowitz however defended his findings that investigators did not spy on the trump campaign. >> during your investigation, attorney general barr stated his belief that quote spying on the trump cam...

Activities we found here dont vindicate anybody who touched this. >> so you heard the mans answer. do you view it as a vindication of comey? >> in a top-line sense, absolutely. what the president has been complaining about for the last two-plus years, three years, is that political bias and political motive influenced the work of the fbi. the inspector general said definitively that that did not happen. now, the inspector general also made a very important finding that there were numerous proced...

Trump campaign adviser carter page. >> we are deeply concerned that so many basic and fundamental errors were made by three separate hand-picked investigative teams on one of the most sensitive fbi investigations. >> would you have submitted a warrant application as a lawyer? >> let me put it this way. i would not have submitted the one they put in. they certainly misled -- it was misleading to the court. >> reporter: republican pounces on the problems. >> this wasnt jason bourne. this is bevis ...

Didnt completely offer the fbi a clean bill of health either, wolf. >> the fbi for the way it handles key parts of the investigation, right? >> reporter: that is absolutely right. horowitz paid a withering portrait of how the fbi bungled getting a court order to monitor carter page and outlined serious problems that the inspector general found persisted for months and months and his office faults not only those who prepared the warrants to monitor page but top fbi leadership overseeing the russi...

The ig finds there is no bias on the trump campaign but there were numerous mistakes in the investigation put horwitz also asked about attorney general barr saying that the trump campaign was spied on. >> if you dont have the legal at >> absolutely. >> is thats buying? >> its illegal survives. >> whatever illegal surveillance means, they did it. >> dana: saying that the court clears him of any wrongdoing. >> james comey said this week that your report vindicates him. is that is fair assessment o...

Thanks, lady. taxi! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ >> continuing coverage of the senate judiciary committee on the inspector generals report now. my thought, in the hearing you had senator graham asking horowitz the inspector general, saying does this report vindicate jim comey, the former fbi director, as hes climbing this week? and horowitz says the activities we found here dont vindicate anyone who touch this. essentially, its willful ignorance and exc...

We believe that implementation of those recommendations including those that seek individual accountability for the failures identified in our report will improve the fbis ability to more carefully and effectively utilize its important national security authorities like fisa while also striving to safeguard the civil liberties and privacy of impacted u.s. persons. the oig will continue to conduct rigorous oversight of these matters in the months and years ahead including the recommendations that...