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To anything, including what time it starts and ends each day. so democrats hope that since mcconnell only had 53 republicans and theres at least three or four republicans who might not want a speedy trial, who might want to make this look at legitimate of a process as possible, that perhaps mcconnell isnt going to get exactly what he wants. >> leigh ann caldwell, thank you so much, appreciate it, my friend. back in 1998, republicans initiated impeachment proceedings against bill clinton in oct...

Defense counsel instead of members of congress. its pretty disappointing. >> its interesting. i was talking to congressman mike johnson, and he was speaking about wanting bipartisanship and a bipartisan process in the house. i challenged him and said if, in fact, you feel like what the house did was not a bipartisan approach to this impeachment inquiry, why not have a bipartisan approach in the senate trial and have testimony as senator chuck schumer is asking for? >> right. >> and he kind of av...

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

Process. what is the likelihood that its going to happen and the timing to which we could see some changes being made and would the public even be made aware of these changes made? >> in fact, yasmin, christopher wray upon receipt of this report had a news release ready to go where he announced a series of changes and reforms to the way the fbi will approach these fisa applications, who will approve them, various technical things. horowitz response was, yeah, thats a good start but we would like...

Everyone knows he rigged the trial. if theyre not going to hear any evidence, if senators announce that theyve already made up their minds, they dont need to look at the facts, that doesnt clear the president if hes not convicted in the senate. thats just a political endeavor to protect a man who is guilty of abusing his power. >> do you think that the house judiciary committee could have done differently, done things differently this week to present the case of impeachment to the american peopl...

Mine, he speaks frankly and i do too. im not sure what rudy is doing over there, mr. giuliani is a private citizen, he has the right to travel and do whatever he wants. if hes going to do his own investigation or work on a documentary, that was the other rumor we heard, i dont know, i dont have any control over his actions. what im focused on is this impeachment proceeding and our duty as members of congress to follow the constitution and there are high standards here. theres a reason that only ...

And that filtered through to the fbi. a guy named bill priestap, a nonpolitical public servant, made the decision to open the investigation. horowitz testified not only did he find no evidence of bias, he pretty much communicated to the senators that he believed that decision was made on the up and up. he couldnt say the same thing about the 17 errors in the carter page fisa, there may have been some bias, not necessarily political bias, it could have been prosecutorial bias. but it wasnt the cl...

Used to have confidence in the fisa process, after that senate hearing, not so confident. i think there is a bipartisan agreement that there should be reforms here. but they dont go to the question of political bias at the opening of this investigation because there is no evidence that there was any, yasmin. >> brendan, talk about the political optics here, especially for the president, who has basically been up against jim comey for quite some time, and hearing jim comey basically say he takes ...

In an interview just yesterday with chris wallace, the former fbi director was pressed to explain inspector general michael horowitzs report on fbi process, and heres what comey had to say. >> 17 significant errors in the fisa process, and you say that it was handled in a thoughtful and appropriate way? >> yeah, hes right. i was wrong. 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 fi fisa. ...

Omissions were in the fisa applications, progressives and civil libertarians have argued for years that the fisa process is being abused. and now that the republicans are outraged and affect people like carter page, is there an impetus to reform the process? >> fisa was passed in 1979 and there has been a number of additions to that to ensure that when federal law enforcement or the intelligence community looks to get electronic surveillance on an individual, especially an american citizen, that...