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Of it. the oig report makes recommendations that when it comes to certain types of sensitive investigations like this one involving a campaign, that there should be more senior justice department official oversight like the deputy attorney general and as harry knows, when it comes to other kinds of sensitive issues such as asking for a warrant on a member of the media, there is a lot of oversight by doj directly and thats one of the important recommendations that the oig makes for going forward,...

Errors and omissions. heres what he told fox. >> significant errors in the fisa process, and you say this was handled in a thoughtful and appropriate way. >> hes right, i was wrong. i was overconfident in the procedures that the fbi and justice had built over 20 years. i thought they were robust enough. its incredibly hard to get a fisa. i was overconfident in those. >> the president is still tweeting he wants jim comey to go to jail. >> real sloppiness is also a pretty generous account about wh...

With chris wallace on fox news yesterday. >> significant errors in the fisa process, and you say that it was handled in a thoughtful and appropriate way. >> hes right, 00 i wi was wron. i was overconfident in the procedures that the fbi and justice had built over 20 years. i thought they were robust enough. its incredibly hard to get a fisa. i was overconfident in those. >> joining me right now, former federal prosecutors harry littman and shannon woo. . whats your reaction to see comey speaking...

Question. you also lay out how important you think it is to get the likes of mulvaney and bolton and others to testify. if it is so important, what about hunter biden? would you trade, i dont know -- its strange to call it a trade but thats essentially what it is. would you be willing to go along with hunter biden being called to testify to get mulvaney and bolton in? >> i dont think hunter biden is going to be able to shed any light at all on the presidents extortion scheme with respect to -- >...

Signed off on several of those documents for that security aid freeze. he also -- chuck schumer would also like to see documents from the white house, from the office of management and budget and from the state department that house investigators were not able to obtain. hed like to see those documents subpoenaed. now, chuck schumer, the top democrat in the senate is counting on all of this on fairness, in a bipartisan process he would like to play out. he writes the trial must be one that not o...

It. >> significant errors in the fisa process and you say it was handled in a thoughtful and appropriate way? >> hes right, and i was wrong. i was overconfident in the procedures the fbi and justice had built over 20 years. i thought they were robust enough. its incredibly hard to get a fisa. i was overconfident in those because hes right there was real sloppiness. 17 things that should have been in the applications or at least discussed or cakized differently, it was not acceptable. and so hes ...

I was over confident in the procedures that the fbi and justice had built over 20 years. i thought they were robust enough. its incredibly hard to get a fisa. i was overconfident in those. >> thats james comey admitting the inspector generals report revealed real sloppiness in the surveillance of a former trump campaign aide in 2016. we should also note, one of the worlds i think foremost experts on the whole fisa process is here. you worked very, very seriously on just this subject for years be...

Committee is planning to hire van drews former staffers. president trump is suggesting jail time for the former fbi director, james comey. comey said there was sloppiness in the obtaining of fisa warrants, the justice department internal watchdog determined the fbi was justified opening the investigation and found there was no bias. but the inspector-general found serious errors in the way the probe was conducted. >> significant errors in the fisa process. and you say that it was handled in a ...

Remove the president. but youre saying if just three republican senators take a stand that would at least ensure a fair process in the senate. explain. >> right, so a majority of the senate sets the rules for the trial. i think its important to understand they take a fresh oath. theyre not supposed to be whipped the way you normally do on legislation. theyre supposed to sit and listen and act as jurors. before the trial they typically have agreed on a set of rules and procedures that was unanimo...

Her press conferences the desire to have the focus on the other things that the house is doing at the very same time of impeachment but if i could i wanted to ask you about one because this is a historic week on impeachment, i want to ask you about the next step. when it comes to the next step, speaker pelosi, she needs to announce who the house managers are of the senate trial. that sounds maybe in the weeds for folks but essentially its the prosecutors as you think of this as a trial to take p...