probe, and debunking claims of some kind of treasonous anti-trump witch-hunt. even though the report debunks those trump claims, it shines the light on some of the failures of the investigation s practices, especially regarding warrants. the report finding, quote, basic and fundamental failures in aspects of the bureau s surveillance. nbc news summarizing it as the inspector general found part of the warrant system has become, quote, a mess. although the report dee bunks donald trump s main complaint about the probe, he bill barr i seizing on this warrant issue. clearly the dossier they relied on to get the warrant was a complete sham. they hid information about the lack of reliability even when they went the first time for the warrant. a complete sham. now, let s remember. the surveillance and investigative techniques began
vote against impeachment no matter what. the left-wing of the democratic party no matter what. those folks in middle, get the facts out, see what happened but what we want the government to do focus on things that matter in their daily lives, keeping the economy growing, cost of health care, educating their children. those sorts of things. my guess a fair number of moderates out there, if you put some truth serum in there, look, try to reach a deal. if the president will agree to make all witnesses available, secretary of state, chief of staff, tell us what happened, get the facts out there under oath and house would agree to issue a report finding what the truth was, not impeach the president, let voters decide, my guess what a lot of moderates in their hearts would like to see. mike: president trump face as deadline late sunday afternoon to decide whether he has attorneys participate in the house judiciary process. do you expect he will send his attorneys or stay away, and hammer the
julia kayyem and ross garber, cnn legal analyst. greg, let me begin with you. what s the significance of this report finding that there was, in fact, no spying? frankly, bianna, it s not surprising to those of us who were at the fbi or doj at the time. i think for the most part the president s allegations and accusations at the time were seen as absurd and irresponsible and it appears as though according to the reporting that this oig report will confirm that there was no spying. there was no misconduct at the senior levels of doj or the fbi. there was no political politically motivated efforts to get the president and it simply didn t happen, but again, those who know how the fbi and doj works knew that that wouldn t be the case at the outset. and we ll know more once this report officially does come out. ross, we know the president wasn t the only one promoting these theories.
mueller. ooen when the president is denying this happened or trying to minimize it. this report finding that russian b troll farm meddled on social media in a way designed to hurt hillary clinton and help donald trump. they re clear about that. and secondly that no demographic group was targeted more frequently an african-americans in an effort to suppress the black vote. can t say it was successful, but it was suppressed. even more important and what s new are the recommendations, which really called for some sweeping changes in how the government deals with social media companies, including legislation that would require them to disclose who s paying for online ads. we have in this country for television ads what we don t for online. there were many facebook ad, some paid for in rubles in the 2016 election. so while and this is really the second of five volumes that the senate intelligence community is going to release.
tom. today the senate intel committee came forward with the first volume of its report finding essentially the same, russia was very active in trying to disrupt the 2020 election. here is the minority leader and majority leader of the senate. there are only two inferences, neither good. one is the republican side doesn t care about interference in our election, and the other is they want it because maybe they think it will benefit them. it s just a highly partisan bill from the same folks were sent to your typing up a conspiracy theory about president trump and russia and who continue to ignore this administration s progress at correcting the obama administration s failures on this subject in the 2018 election. bret: thoughts? i mean, where does this part go, the election security part? there is no interest, really, as it appears from leader mcconnell and republicans to do that side of things, and functionally, i think we this