let s turn to brit hume who watched this with much of america. let s start with reliance on the steel dossier. if you look at what horwitz put together, he talks about for a large section of attorneys putting this together it was something that tipped them towards assessment of probable cause. it was described by the institute general is essential which does not square with what comey said about how the process worked and what role the dossier played and for him to now be saying it doesn t allege any misconduct by the fbi s laughable. it isn t just sloppiness, it s not sloppiness, it was a series of errors all of which pointed in the same direction, all negative for the president, exculpatory information known to fbi people was kept away from the fisa judges, this to any definition is misconduct.
investigation. justice department watchdog michael horowitz testified before the senate judiciary committee about the findings in his 434 page report. chairman lindsey graham press horowitz on the alleged abuses regarding a fisa warrant to survey all trump and carter page. they lied to the court about what the interview is about. is that a fair summary so far about the january 2,017th it was misleading to the court. insisting that the fbi lied to the 2016 campaign and horwitz did note that they sent agents to interact with and even record trump associates. they sent spies to record senior members of the campaign in the middle of a presidential campaign. they send confidential human sources to do those. the watchdog says he uncovered troubling actions. picked by three investigative
you see politics. democrats believe that the president was absolutely wrong to my campaign was spied upon, the inspector general says that there was no political motivation. republicans believe that this is a flawed process and the if you are screwed this up and they were right to raise the kind of issues she discussed earlier. i think the broader question as a former white house deputy chief of staff, don t care who it is, don t care for the president is or isn t, if the fbi believes an aide close to the potential united states being infiltrated by foreign government, it should investigate. bret: somebody who did not come out well was jim comey, the former fbi director. going to get you to comment but i want to play this about the steele dossier specifically, and this previous interview to what horwitz said today. funded by republicans. my understanding is the activity is the gun, that fisa
just a moment. the justice department s inspector general went over his detailed report calling out fbi leaders today what he termed basic and fundamental errors. republicans and democrats have different takes, obviously, and pointed questions on the motivations but we have fox team coverage. jeff program at the capitol previewing the impeachment session, john roberts at the white house has reaction from the president to all of it, but we ll begin with chief correspondent mike emanuel and what we learned from inspector general michael horowitz. inspector general michael horowitz says candidate donald trump and his 2016 campaign were never warned about possible russian infiltration. in fact, horwitz says the fbi briefing they received was an investigation in disguise. was that fbi agent spying on donald trump when he went in there? speak with the agent was actually doing the briefing but also using it for the purpose of
understands why people would question there would be bias when there s so many mistakes leading up to the investigation of a presidential candidate. democrats backed very questions of a witness, trying to make it all the way through and horwitz would repeatedly shoot them down and say, i can t really say that. i can t really say this is valid. opens the question if there was really media bias. can t say 100% it wasn t there, just didn t find any evidence. here s senator ted cruz on the email part of it, the fraudulent email. a lawyer at the fbi creates fraudulent evidence, alters an email in turn used as a basis to the sworn statement of the court that the court relies on? by stating that accurately? speaker that is correct. bret: jim, what s the sense of democrats coming out of the ig report of how they are coming out it? it s a rorschach test for how