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Chris wray, the fbi director, said in defending the criticism that the ig leveled really came in with against them. it is an affront to these people who are professionals, who work with rigor and care and lots and lots of unpaid hours. its an insult to call them that. the facts that come out dont match with what the administration wants to hear. >> mike, outline for our viewers what trump and bar are distorting about what the inspector general actually said. >> barr is taking on the issue of whe...

And yet, thats what were seeing all the time, every time the facts that come out dont match withom what the administration wants to hear. >> hey, mike, outline for our viewerse what trump and barr a distorting about what the inspector general actually said. >> well, barrs taking on the issue of whether the fbi cleared the threshold to open up such an important investigation. and barr is saying the fbi, in his view, should have needed more to do this to go to this extreme level, to look at the co...

The senate to select and remove somebody. we just cant have any prosecest having an attorney general who will protect them from criminal actions that theyve taken. were no better than some, you know, banana republic right now, and was -- and thats exactly what donald trump and william barr are moving us towards. there has to be a higher threshold for somebody becoming attorney general of the united states. that is the one area of reform that i think a lot of people are going to be looking at whe...

Case that the predication was proper. predication is sort of a fancy and legal word. what it means is basically this. an fbi agent cannot open a case based on a hunch or suspicion or a fevered dream or because he doesnt like her next door neighbor. she needs some quantum of proof, she needs some evidence. a threshold, and we call that predication. and the inspector general found they absolutely had predication to open this case. so for the attorney general to say that is not true that the inspec...

Nothing but an interest in unseating this president, i found it striking, too, if i could merge our two themes. chris wray, the fbi director, said in defending the criticism that the ig leveled really came in with against them. it is an affront to these people who are professionals, who work with rigor and care and lots and lots of unpaid hours. its an insult to call them that. the facts that come out dont match with what the administration wants to hear. >> mike, outline for our viewers what tr...

Screwing around with the democrats, right? thats one of the concerns. it was the russians who hacked into the dnc, got their emails. >> correct. >> its okay for everybody to be concerned, what are the russians up to. i get that. its okay to look at whats the standard to start one of these things? >> there are two types of investigations, one has relatively low thresholds. >> lets assume the relatively low threshold was met. would it be fair to say if you stop there in looking at your report your...

Not say. >> going overseas. >> no idea, you have to talk with him. predication involves a threshold, did it not? when you hit your threshold, more evidence does not take it away, correct? >> correct. >> em also trying to figure out how it ends that even if he has more evidence that you did not have that takes away from the conclusion that the predication was adequate. >> you have to ask the attorney general that. >> you cant think of a way to get there? >> i dont know, we standby our findings. >...

>> so this entire argument appears to be the fbi had a flimsy basis to open this investigation in the first place. he says that all the time. the word is predication. a fancy word for saying did you have legal grounds to do this or not? his argument, just a random conversation with george pop top liss low-level campaign aide and wasnt enough to do something as important as opening a vast investigation on the trump campaign. but inspector general michael horowitz interviewed over 170 people over ...

Threshold and that was the decision, that was our position and doj agreed with that position. they wrote the package, they included the infamous footnote that explained the provinence of that information and so i dont regret moving forward with that package. >> thank you very much, deputy director. i appreciate your time tonight. >> my pleasure. next, president trumps defense of saudi arabia alienating him from members of his own party, members that he desperately needs right now in congress, ...

Couldnt pull it out of a light up. is very unfortunate that you have the dni, head of cia, and the fbi all essentially warring with each other over the steele dossier and the fact that the fbi can watch an investigation and spy on americans with its very low freshman wow threshold should be the most problematic part of this report. the fact that fisa can be abused in such a way because if you are omitting critical information and you are getting a warrant to spy on someone with those omissions, ...