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Has been more amateurish than the senate intelligence committee. a lot of the policy committees, they get partisan. the intelligence committees are doing important things. should be above partisan politics. the senate intelligence committee is handled itself extremely professionally. i think most people agree the house committee has evolved a bit. we have to get the intelligence committees back to where they are which is basically above the partisan, you know, atmosphere that has gripped this ho...

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Internal program audits in various departments of government. and just about all of our departments of government right now. so when sessions looks at the landscape here and sees the politicization of our intelligence committees on the hill, especially in the house. he says, i have a mechanism here to resolve this, its the i.g. if i do it, in -- as a political appointment of the president, were not going to get out of this political tangle. hes looking for an official who can do the job in a cre...

Indifferent to the purposes of the institutions of our government. its astonishing. >> youre the former nsa inspector general. an inspector general, right, is the right person to investigate this, correct? >> exactly the right sort of person to investigate it. igs as we call them are in charge of internal investigations and internal program audits in various departments of government. and just about all of our departments of government right now. so when sessions looks at the landscape here and ...

The fbi from an organization that was really kind of law enforcement organization to one that really was a counterterrorism organization. he did a really fine job. hes also one of the most honorable people i know. hes a fair minded person. and he will take this wherever it leads. i just wish that we could let him do his job, and i mean that. not just about statements out of the white house. i mean that also out of the congress on both sides. i keep hearing dueling memos and so forth from the int...

Demasking requests that rice asked for there was intelligence being leaked right and left to the press hurt trump as a candidate. there were leaks to the press to ruin general flynn ohio think is a good man that the administration is obviously behind. she knows that were on to her. all of this was done, martha, most of this before the election because the obama administration didnt think hillary clinton would lose. and i think this is all catching up to them now. >> in terms of brennan and clapp...

It says the enforce began in 2014. no americans had knowledge of the so-called russian operation. rachel: so where does the probe go from here? pete: here to discuss is chief political correspondent for "the washington examiner" and fox news contributor byron york. byron, we have been covering this story all morning long. indictment of russians, no collusion with americans. what does it say about the special counsel going forward? >> well, it says that he is basically established what has been r...

Charges of russian collusion has clearly been ridiculous and not true. >> not a surprise either. intelligence committees known almost everything in this indictment. a lot of it has actually been reported in the press. and remember there was just a huge excitement over the facebook ads a while back with the intelligence committees. which really added up to very, very little. >> most of them ran after the election. >> mike: fbi got a tip about this young man that fell through the cracks. as a dad ...

Accuracy. heres what he said reiterating that point. >> we had then and continue to have now grave concerns about the accuracy of the memorandum because of omissions. we provided thousands of documents that were very sensitive and lots and lots of briefings and its very hard for anybody to distill all that down to 3 1/2 pages. >> what is the pushback from the fbi? did this harm their ability to investigate the intelligence process that exists here in the u.s.? >> i think the biggest casualty her...

Stick that goes into play. they dont understand how important this position is and how much classified the most sensitive classified information we have goes through this individuals hands to the president, jared kushner. dozens of changes to his disclosure forms. still doesnt have clearance. as many as 30 or more. what can you do about it? >> thats absolutely right. >> theyre not doing anything. they could do this, but they arent, apparently. >> an administration that got elected by criticizing...