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In the end, someone as beloved by the news media as james comey had to answer for the 17 omissions. over the weekend, comey appeared on fox. he said this about the i.g. report. >> hes right, i was wrong..g i was overconfident in the procedures that the f.b.i. and justice had built over 20 years. i thought they were robust enough. its incredibly hard to get aug fisa. i was over confident in those. he is right. there were sloppiness. 17 things that should have been in application or discuss and ch...

Both. either way its not reassuring. in the end, someone as beloved by the news media as james comey had to answer for the 17 omissions. over the weekend, comey appeared on fox. he said this about the i.g. report. >> hes right, i was wrong. i was overconfident in the procedures that the f.b.i. and justice had built over 20 years. i thought they were robust enough. its incredibly hard to get a fisa. i was over confident in those. he is right. there were sloppiness. 17 things that should have been...

Claiming to be vindicated of all wrongdoing. why would james comey do is a that? its like he didnt think you had the internet and couldnt read the report for himself. maybe hes so used to being treated as untouchable he believed that he was. but in end as always happens the reality intruded. the i.g. report didnt actually vindicate james comey. instead it revealed frightfuln abuse of power for the f.b.i. that he ran that should terrify americans left, rightat and center. inspector general horowi...

In the indictment of rudy giulianis associates that were just indicted in the last few months. i think anyone who asks -- lawyers ive read this quote to, theyre floored by it, its an admission in some ways, and also saying this in the middle of the investigation is something the southern district of new york and the fbi is looking into. >> add it toed bucket of current investigations. >> yeah. >> lets switchgears and talk about fired fbi director james comey. he was wrong about his confidence us...

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...

Release of justice departments inspector general which found 17 different errors and omissions in the fisa warrant application against carter page. that same warrant did not reveal any evidence to support president trumps claims his campaign was illegally spied on or wiretapped or that the investigation was driven by political bias, a point comey drove home. >> the fbi was accused of treason, of illegal spying, of tapping mr. trumps wires illegally, of opening an investigation without justificat...

Page who was a former foreign policy advisor to the trump campaign. again, here is what you said about the fisa process and what the inspector general horowitz said this week. take a look. >> total confidence that the fisa process was followed and that the entire case was handled in a thoughtful, responsible way by doj and the fbi. >> we identified significant inaccuracies and omissions in each of the four applications. seven in the first application, and a total of 17 by the final renewal appli...

Fbi conducted this entire investigation. here is how he reacted to the i.g.s findings of whatever you want to call it, in the handling of the fisa applications. >> these irregularities, these misstates, these omissions were knot sat satisfactorily explained. i think that leaves open the possibility to infer bad faith. chris: given the repeated errors, some say abuses of the fisa process, does attorney general barr have a point. >> no. he does not have have factual basis as attorney general of th...

E. host of ground game comcast. katie pavlich. let me start with you. democrats are hanging their hat in terms of the i.g. report, in finding investigation of the trump campaign was legitimate i opened. there was no political bias. republicans on repeated abuses or errors in the fisa process. who has the better side of that argument? >> i think republicans do. democrats should be very concerned what the i.g. laid out in his testimony and his report. james comey, former fbi director in his interv...

Day. >> it went as expected. >> aye. reporter: 23-17 party line judiciary committee vote charging the president with abusing the power of his office over the ukraine scandal and obstructing house democrats attempt to investigate him for it. the move sets stage for a full house vote this week where democrats currently hold 233 seats. would only need 216 votes. while new fox polling suggests the nation remains split on impeachment, with no change since early october. though majority of those surve...