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We do at that point is make the referral to prosecutors to assess them because thats who needs to make the decision whether or not there will be charges brought. >> director wray, what happened next? >> as inspector general horowitz said, those were referred to the prosecutors at the justice department. theyre the ones that made the decision, as i understand it from inspector general horowitzs report, the prosecutors at the justice department on two separate occasions, both in 2020 and then agai...

That the indianapolis folks most responsible concealed information from certain people at headquarters at different stages. thats part of the problem. we have implemented changes now that go to the point that youre getting at, which is the transfers between field offices. weve built in a number of additional checks. one of those three or four additional checks that weve built in now gives headquarters program management visibility which is there to monitor so they can ensure, as a second, third,...

You didnt treat this like that. >> the pattern is so horrifying to us. thats what these young women said today. they also said my abuse was enough. mckayla maroney said it specifically. if they werent trying to protect me, who were they trying to protect? why was one credible allegation of abuse not enough? these women were traumatized over and over. >> harris: weve got about a minute before we wrap. there was a theme today among lawmakers questions for wray and horowitz. why are people then, ev...

General horowitz office, which i think is as appropriate. so thats really a discussion between his office and the justice department. but if i can be a constructive part of that, given how strongly i feel, as i hope the committee can tell, im happy to do whatever i can that would be appropriate. >> next question, why didnt the childrens unit at headquarters play a greater supervisory or coordination role here? for example, by ensuring that the correct office at fbi handled this matter, and why d...

0 i was never prompted. >> senator padilla? >> i think i had a female in the room at the olympic training center, but i cant say for sure. >> i feel like we all have the same people. >> if i recall, my direct communication was with a male in the room. >> okay. senator padilla? >> good morning. i want to start by thanking chairman durbin and all those who have made this hearing possible and to the panelists. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. i admire and respect each one of you for choo...

Been completely -- >> neil: so you do not believe they were just sloppy here. they were delivering deliberately so to push an agenda even though inspector horowitz -- >> that was not the case. inspector horowitz said, he did not find any evidence or testimonial or written that suggested that these were in bad faith more politically motivated. but we also heard the attorney general barr say he cannot rule out bad faith and until durum comes back, to me, some of these look like it. >> neil: matt w...

Investigation was predicated on the thinnest of suspicions? >> well, im not going to get into a comparison of his view. hes free to have his opinion. we have our funding and i stand by our conclusion. >> again is? >> sufficient predication to open the investigation based on the low threshold required by the fbi and department policy. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. just, we talked a lot about, briefly, about papadopoulos. i dont want anybody to believe that anybody named in the initial -- ...

Whats so interesting is, this is somewhat predictable. you talked about this. you have the republicans and the democrats. republicans seem to be focusing on fisa abuse yet democrats focusing on this narrative there was no political bias. one thing interesting listening to senator cruz, he seemed to book end his argument with political talking points. started saying we need a justice department thats non-partisan. i think people agree. launched into the fisa abuse and at the end says the fbi in h...

Primer on everything the opposite that youre taught when a new employee of the doj, whether prosecutor or fbi agent. if i boiled it down to three lessons, never play politics. never, ever comment on a pending kags or investigation and always let your facts dictate your conclusion. never start with a conclusion and fill in the facts. hes violating all three of those. >> back to your last point on bill barr in a second. and jogging back prior to senator klobuchar we heard from senator ted cruz? fa...

Help states to secure our elections but also to get in place requirements to push those states without backup paper ballots fully 11 of them to get those backup paper ballots and make sure we have better communication between federal and state authorities to do something about the propaganda by actually moving forward on the bill senator mccain had and senator graham and i now have honest ads act requiring those social media companies and ive absolutely no idea why we dont do that, to play by th...