Dispute. Now turning attention to the ron johnson letter if i may. Yes. On august 31st, Senator Johnson is getting ready to travel to ukraine on September 5th with senator with murphy. And he wanted johnson wanted the aid released so he calls the president and sought permission to be the bearer of good news. Right. The president said im not ready to lift the aid. They had this Senator Johnson, he writes a tenpage letter, very detailed, and he gives some remarkable detail and i would like to read it. Its on page 6. I this is Senator Johnson speaking, he said i asked him whether there was some kind of
arran arrangement where ukraine would take some action and the hold would be lifted. Without hesitation, Senator Johnson says, President Trump immediately denied such an arrangement existed and he started cursing. He said, no way. President trump said no way. I would never do that. Who told you that . And Senator Johnson goes on to say that President Trumps reactionnt here was adamant, vehe
criminal, this fbi lawyer who s named in the ig report will be criminally prosecuted. and no one is saying that isn t absolutely the right thing to do. it is the president and his attorney general, though, that are nowey trying to deflect attention to their investigation. does that make you nervous? it makes me nervous. i mamean, having put all their eggs in thell horowitz basket a having been disappointed because he found no political bias, they have to move the eggs somewhere else. durham seems to have a basket. why not put em there? you know,pu one of the things tt strikes me as unusual in the aft aftermath of the release of this report, and it s an important report, and that we re not just seeing dualing statements, we re seeing multiple statements. normally, when the inspector general, any agency releases a report, critical of the agency. the head of the agency and maybe the person in charge of that part that has been criticized will stand up together. and they ll say, you know
thank you. without objection, the hearing will stand in recess for 15 minutes. we have been watching testimony in today s impeachment hearing for the house judiciary committee. fiworks there. we re also following another huge story breaking since we ve been on the air. the report from the justice department watchdog michael horowitz on the origins of the russia probe and the conduct of the law enforcement officials behind it. the inspectornd general report finds the investigation was both legally justified and not influenced by any political bias. thosey critical of the handlin of a wiretap warrant at the probe s outset today s report debunks some of the president s signature smears against the fbi that it was involved in some sortvo of deep state conspiracy withf the goal of undermining s campaign. as of this u hour, both the
william barr has traveled around to at least a couple of foreign capitals with him gathering evidence on the origins of the russia investigation. he said, our investigation has included developing information from other persons and entities. both in the u.s. and outside the u.s. based on the evidence collected to date and while our investigation is ongoing, last month we advised the inspector general we do not agree with some of the report s conclusions as to predication and how the fbi case was opened. yeah. this was not something that doj does. you don t ever foretell what your investigation is finding because you don t know what it s going to find until it s over. right. and you end up then getting stuck. by the way, you can tell nobody here is worried about prosecuting any cases because i mean, the notion that they re going to criminally prosecute somebody based on and have this report. it would be counter to that. i mean, typically, the fbi and doj is focused on one thing.
and applying the law to the truth. those facts. this is so far off field, this is ispolitical. this is totally political. and it is a dangerous moment for our country that the doj has i mean, doesn t the meeting on the tarmac with bill clinton and the airplane look quaint now? actually, that s a perfect it looks quaint. we have been talking about what feels like a frantic public-relations effort. two statements released from william barr on a report he s had for some time. an extraordinary report about ao open,t ongoing investigation. some of the most sensitive intelligence and law enforcement in our country. and now, guess who s weighing in? guess. guess. guess. donald j. trump. let s listen. okay. thank you very much. the ig report just came out. and i was just briefed on it and it s a disgrace what s happened with respect to the things that were done to our country. it should never again happen to another president.