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Findings of the report that they were justified to open up an investigation into whether or not there was any connection between the trump campaign and russia. >> correct. i.g. has lower threshold opening an investigation f. they hear from somebody something could be going on, you can start an investigation, the threshold is low. from there, the i.g. report showed the investigation continued and continue itd and continued and toefdz contrary showing nothing wrong being done by trump campaign. th...

You with obstruction of congress, that is silly. abuse of power, based on one evidence, they have, he released to the public himself. two articles of impeachment that are lowest threshold. >> harris: fascinating. you thought democrats might try more of kitchen sink type thing. >> bribery, mueller, emoluments. >> harris: was the president relieved the list wasnt longer? >> no, the president shouldnt have none of these come forward. he did nothing wrong. censure would come up, no, you dont censure...

F.b.i. and for all intelligence agencies and thousands of law enforcement officers who work there. the president wants to make sure this kind of thing never happens again to him or any other president going forward. >> harris: senator warner tweeted this just now. mr. barr is acting incredibly bad faith with revisionous campaign to undermine thorough two-year i.g. investigation. the attorney general is substituting convenient facts. back and forth on twitter and back and forth on camera has been...

But until we could cross a certain threshold of enforcement for our workers rights and environment and for the prescription drug issue as you know they were three of the areas we had put out there. i want to thank our chairman, ritchie kneel chair of the ways and means committee. the eight members of the task force who i will acknowledge momentarily but thanking them for their leadership in negotiating on different segments of the legislation. i also want to thank richard, the president of the a...

Investigation, when it started looking into it? was there enough there for them to dig? and the report yesterday basically saying, yes, the fbi did the right thing by starting this investigation. they acknowledge that the threshold to start an investigation is fairly low, but that that threshold was met. i think ultimately if youre the president and you look at the results of yesterday, if you could have -- if you could change anything and switch it and you could have had the political bias by t...

I know you took almost two years to come to these conclusions but i dont believe it and therefore im running my parallel investigation with john durham. as president trump said last week, maybe anticipating the report wasnt going the way he hoped for, he said the big one to wait for is the durham report. >> but its the narrative that theyre trying to advance here is indelibly muddied by this ig report. you cant undo that. republicans who were inspect i suppose a political response here, politica...

Rolls out today. >> clint, i know that youre familiar with inspector general horowitz report issued today and i know that youre familiar with the attorney general bill barr, his response to that report trying to step on it. so given your experience, your background, i want to ask you, what do you think is the threshold that bill barr might have for starting an investigation? >> thats great, mike, thats a good question because i have no year out. were one year out from the election. i have no ide...

Essentially explaining to people outside of law enforcement that when you see enough suspicious activities, its your job in law enforcement to investigate. . it doesnt mean you made a decision. you simply have an obligation to investigate where you suspect there might be crimes. what does it say to you that bill barr doesnt think there was any reason to investigate? >> i dont know what his basis for saying that is. the ig interviewed scores of people. the people who decided to open the investiga...

Together, in fact the campaign knew all about the russian hacking, knew and were totally in ka hocahoots and if they had investigated it. what would that have said about the fbi? >> there would have been hearings for the gross misconduct if they hadnt opened some investigation. the threshold for opening an investigation, even a full investigation which they were authorized to do here, is pretty low. this was well predicated. he was critical of how they happened. none of those were political in n...

Conclusion that they met that very low threshold to get the investigation started. the problem for the fbi, and for democrats that want to somehow declare that as of the victory, everything after that is an indictment of the process. even if there was a basis to open it, everything that came after it was exculpatory. there was no reason to continue to play the second part of this that is really important, when they got to the stage of a fisa application in october, as you see and hear, this repo...