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I want to tone things down a little bit here and First Express my gratitude for the thousands of men and women who work every day on the front line with the fbi. I come from a background as a prosecutor and our local Law Enforcement work with the fbi every day in our local office in minnesota, and then in the senate, ive had the privilege to work with many, many people in the fbi. And i think the Inspector General hes job is incredibly important. He keeps everyone honest. But i do think this it ...

Page are based on an assumption the court has that, hey, we got a bunch of information the first time we heard this case and if we thought it was legitimate to open a case into this guy, the bureau isgu going to have so mu integrity and the departments lawyers will have so much integrity, if there is ever a reason to doubt the information, they will bring us thatdo information. and so inus renewals two, three and found, they bring none of thisun information, right? >> thats correct. they are not...

Guidelines, an investigation has an i authorized purpose if it i open to detect, obtain information or protect against federalio crimes or threats to e national security or to collect foreign intelligence. you found that the investigation at issue today was open to determine whether peoplen associated with the trump campaign were coordinating with the russian government. right? >>go that is the reason the fbi provided. >> and again to be clear, you did not find that tfbi acted improper will when...

Say about that in this setting. >> well, they were producing information.at >> they were producing information. im not sure how i would characterize whether they were helpful or not. >> well, one way or the other, far from being a bogus narrative, the russia investigation produced 37 individual indictments, 7 convictions, 5 prison terms. and hopefully, will send a message to adversaries, the russians and other nations, that mr. mueller warned about. that there will be action taken against athem....

That would have enacted other processes. because obviously the fisa process is skreeecret but there needs to be checks and balances to make sure that the information is presented to the fisais judges. unfortunately, a great many of the proposed reforms did not become law, some did in the usa freedom act in 2015. i know it is not your job, but do i think that your report indicates the need for the kind of reforms that i proposed in the nice a court reform act of 2013? >> i think it is important t...

Proceeding, when you might be suspected 6 something that would open a surveillance warrant against you, the assumption would be if you cant be there to defend yourself, streets because the department and he lawyers are so screw juppe on you sxrup uhe husband, if there is any information that might exxon rate you, they would say the bar is high and well air on the side of privacy unless we believe there is a good reason to pursue this investigation. so mike lee has warned me for 4 1/2 years the p...

A report from a friendly foreign government that heard that the trumpd campaign had received se kind of suggestion that russia could help themgg by releasing information that was damaging to hillary clinton. is thatam right? >> thats correct. >> as a former prosecutor, i know that it is critical that the fbi isha able to take an action like here to investigat threats to our national security. do you think that interference in our elections by a foreign government constitutes a national c securit...

Report, that your findings showed a grotesque abuse of power? >> we did not say that in the report. >> and would you agree with that characterization? >> we did not reach a conclusion like that. so i wouldnt agree with that at this point. from --ld from my standpoint, people can have that viewpoint. but that wasnt our conclusion. >> and just one last question. those fisa warrants. they were renewed a number of times, correct? >> three times. >> based on your experience and maybe your report, the...