Thank you all very much. Mr. Horowitz thank you very much. Mr. Horowitz, thank you. I appreciate what you have done. Do you have your team with you . Would it be ok if they raised their hands . If they are ok with it, im ok with it. Thank you all. You have labored hard and your work product is impressive. I just want to thank you all for what you have done for the country. Mr. Horowitz, i am dying to hear from you. I will take a little bit longer to try to lay out what i think is before us as a nation to crossfire hurricane was probably the best name ever given to an investigation in the history of investigations, because that is what we wound up with, crossfire hurricane. There has been a lot of media reports about your report before it was issued. And i remember reading all these headlines lawful investigation with a few irregularities. Everything ok, lowlevel people kind of got off track. If that is what you get out of this report, you clearly didnt read it. If that is your take away, that this thing was lawfully predicated and thats the main point, you missed the entire report. How do you get a headline like that . That is what you want it to be. You want it to be that and nothing more. I can assure you, if this had been a democratic president going through what President Trump had gone through, that would not be the headline, the headline would be the f. B. I. Takes law in own hands, biased agents cut corners, lied to court, ignore exoneration. So the first thing i want you to know is how the cake is baked here. My goal is to make sure that people, when this is over, whether you like trump, hate trump, dont care about trump, you look at this as more than a few irregularities. Because if this becomes a few irregularities in america, then god help us all. The people in charge of the investigation were hand picked by mr. Mccabe, who is now a cnn analyst. High up in the fbi. The number two guy. The first question i will ask in a bit is, is this the best of the best . Are these people normal representatives of the department of justice and the f. B. I. . I hope you will say no, because i believe it to be, no. If i believed otherwise, i would be incredibly depressed. So, ladies and gentlemen, i will assume something for the sake of argument, there was a lawful predicate to open up a counterintelligence investigation. The standard to open one up is about like that. I also want you to know that a counterintelligence investigation is not a criminal investigation. They are not trying to solve a crime, they are trying to stop foreign powers from interfering in america. That a counterintelligence investigation is designed to protect americans from foreign influence. I want the American People to know there was an effort to affect Hillary Clintons campaign by foreign actors. The f. B. I. Picked up the effort, briefed her about it and they were able to stop it. We will be receiving a defensive committeeomorrow as a from the f. B. I. , to tell us all about what we should be watching for, and there may be some specific threats against us, i dont know, but i know they will brief us to protect us, not to surveille us. Here is what i want every american to know, from the time they opened up crossfire hurricane, to this debacle was over, they never made any effort to brief donald trump about suspected problems within his campaign. They had one briefing, talking about, you know, the russians are out there, you better beware. Nothing about carter page, nothing about George Papadopoulos, nothing about the other people that they thought might be working with the russians. Why did they not tell him that . I hope you can give us an answer. Bottom line, ladies and gentlemen, a counterintelligence investigation is a good thing, until it becomes a bad thing. Because it doesnt take much to open one. And the worst thing can happen, is for people to open one up was to open one up whose real purpose is not to protect an american, but to surveil them. Senator feinstein found herself in a situation all of us may one day find ourselves in. A longtime employee was suspected of having ties to a Foreign Government. They informed her and they took action. How easy would it be for someone to come to our campaign as a volunteer. You dont know who they are, you just appreciate any help you can get, how easy would it be for all of us to get caught up in this scenario . I hope all of us would appreciate, if you really believe there is somebody in my Campaign Working with a foreign power, please tell me, so i can do something about it. Why didnt they tell trump . We will figure that out later. But i think it is a question that needs to be asked. So, for a moment, lets assume there was a lawful predicate to open up a counterintelligence investigation. What has been described as a few irregularities, becomes a massive, criminal conspiracy over time to defraud the fisa surveilto illegally american citizens and to keep an operation open against a sitting president of the United States, violating every norm known to the rule of law. Many of you are prosecutors, many of you have been u. S. Attorneys. Many of you have been defense attorneys. Trumps time will come and go. But i hope you understand what happened here can never happen again, because what happened here is not a few irregularities, what happened here is the system failed. People at the highest level of our government took the law in their own hands. And when i say defraud the fisa court, i mean it. To your team, you were able to uncover and discover abuse of power i never believed would actually exist in 2019. How bad is it . It was as if j. Edgar hoover came back to life, the old f. B. I. The f. B. I. That had a chip on its shoulder and wanted to intimidate people and find out what was going on in your life, and the law be damned Martin Luther king, and just fill in names. Who ran this thing . The people were handpicked by mccabe. The number two guy at the f. B. I. The supervisory agent, the Deputy Assistant director for counterintelligence is peter strzok, a big player in all things crossfire hurricane. Lisa page, you may have heard of her. Who was she . F. B. I. Lawyer working for mccabe. These are two central characters in this debacle. Let me tell you a little bit about who these people are and where they are coming from. Thanks to a lot of hard work by people from mr. Horowitz at the f. B. I. And others, here is what we know. Strzok, the front line supervisor february 12, 2016, oh, he is abysmal. I keep hoping the charade will end and people will just dump him. The problem then is that rubio will likely lose to cruz. I never quite made it come and i can understand why they would not consider me a serious candidate. The Republican Party is utter shambles. When was the last competitive ticket they offered . March 3, 2016, page god, trump is a loathsome. Strzok oh my god, he is an idiot. Newsrooms around the country, people are nodding. This represents the attitude of a lot of people in america, and you can have that attitude, but you shouldnt be in the journalism business, you should not be at the f. B. I. If you are in the military and you said anything like this a commanderinchief, youd be charged with a crime. Remember the mcchrystal debacle where they had a ballroom discussion with a reporter from the Rolling Stone . What is the take away . Dont go to the bar with a Rolling Stone reporter. They started talking about how they didnt like joe biden. I was one of the first people who said, that was out of bounds. You can have all the political opinions you want, but if you are an officer of the u. S. Military, you will park those opinions and you will not speak ill of the commanderinchief. That obviously is not a rule of the f. B. I. And the department of justice. March 16, 2016 i cannot believe donald trump is likely to be actual serious candidate for president. July 16, closer to when this thing opens, and well donald trump is an enormous douche. Again, a lot of people agree with that. Trump barely spoke, but the first thing out of his mouth was, we are going to win. So the whole thing is like living in a bad dream, july 19, 2016. Trump is a disaster, i have no idea how destabilizing his presidency will be. You are entitled to believe that, but you should not be an investigator. July 30 2016 when the investigation is open damn, this feels momentous and this matters. The other one did, too, but that was to make sure we did not fsomething up. This matters. Super glad to be on this with you. I hope you understand what this was about. August 8, 2016 three days before strzok was named the front line supervisor he is not ever going to become president , right . Page to strzok. No, we will stop it. These are the people in charge. August 15, 2016 i want to believe the path he threw out for consideration in andys office, that there is no way he gets elected, but i am afraid we cant take that risk that the American People will pick their president , is what they are saying. It is like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you are 40. August 26 2016 just went to a southern virginia walmart. I could smell the trump support. People in charge october 11, 2016 currently fighting with stu for the fisa. He was a lawyer who thought this thing was not on the up and up, stood his ground until he couldnt stand it anymore, eventually got run over. October 19, 2016 i am all riled up. Trump is an fing idiot, is unable to provide a coherent answer. The New York Times probability numbers are dropping everyday. I am scared for our organization. november 3, 2016 oh my god, this is fing terrifying. Referencing an article entitled a victory by trump remains possible. November 9, 2016 are you ever going to give out your calendars, some kind of depressing. Maybe it should be the first meeting of the secret society. November 13, 2016 i bought all the president s men. I figured i need to brush up on watergate. November 13, 2016 two pages away from finishing all the president s men. Page to strzok, did you know the president resigns at the end . Strzok to page what . That would be so lucky. May 18, 2017, the date page accepted a position on the special counsels team for me, in this case, i personally have a sense of unfinished business. Now i need to fix it and finish it. Strzok who gives a f if one more assistant director, or whoever, an investigation leading to impeachment . May, 2017 you and i both know the odds are nothing if i thought it was likely, id be there, no question. I hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern there is no big there, there. Talking about impeachment. May 22, 2017 i am torn. I am more replaceable than you are in this. I am the best for it, but there are others who can do it ok. You are different and more unique. This is yours talking to page. Alright. Thats the front line supervisor and the lawyer to mccabe. There is a guy named kleinsmith who, eventually alters and email alters an email from the c. I. A. To the department of justice and the f. B. I. Mr. Horowitz and his team found this out. How they did it, i will never know. I am jumping ahead here, but when you read this report, what they find is that a lawyer supervising the fisa process at the f. B. I. , according to mr. Horowitz, doctored an email from the c. I. A. To the f. B. I. , and he will be referred for criminal prosecution. Why is that important . Carter page, who has been on the receiving end of all this, the foundation to believe he was a Foreign Agent comes from a dossier that we will talk about in a minute. In that dossier, provided by Christopher Steele, and we will talk about him in a minute, they claim that carter page meets with three people known to be russians, russian agents, People Associated with russia. Carter page, while being wiretapped by his government, says, i dont know two of these people, and to this day, there is no proof that he ever met two of those three. The third person, he says, yeah, i met him. I told the c. I. A. About my meeting because i was a source for the c. I. A. So they would have you believe that carter page is working against our government, not with our government. So carter page, in the summer of 2017, is trying to tell anybody and everybody i was working with the c. I. A. I reported my contact with this person, and nobody believed it. The c. I. A. Had told the f. B. I. It was true earlier. But it never made it through the system. Somebody got so rattled at the f. B. I. , they asked mr. Kleinsmith to check it out. He checks it out, he communicates with the c. I. A. Is carter page a source for you . In an email exchange, they say, yes he is. What does mr. Kleinsmith do . Alters the the email to say, no, he is not. And you caught him. I dont know how you caught him, because youve got to dig into this email chain. It would be like getting a lab report from the f. B. I. The fingerprints dont match, and the agent says they do. That is how bad this is. Now, let me tell you a little bit about mr. Kleinsmith, if i can find it. This is the lawyer supervising the process, the guy that altered the email because he didnt want the court to know was actually ae source. Why does it matter . Because if the court had known there was a lawful reason for mr. Page to be talking to the russian guy, he wasnt working against his country, he was working with his country. Which undercuts the idea he is a Foreign Agent. That is why kleinsmith lied, because he didnt want to stop this investigation. This is after the election i am so stressed about what i could have done differently. The day after the election i am just devastated, i cant wait until i can leave today and just shut off the world for the next four days. I am sure a lot of people felt that way after trump got elected, maybe still feel that way, but you shouldnt be in charge of supervising anything about donald trump if you feel that way. I just cant imagine the systematic disassembly of the progress weve made over the last eight years. The Obama Administration. The crazies won finally. This is the lawyer that they put in charge of supervising the work process. This is the tea party on steroids, and i am sure there are newsrooms all over america saying, thats absolutely right. What is wrong with that . Nce is stupid. Whatever. This is what the guy is saying right after the election. And it is just hard not to feel like the f. B. I. Caused some of this. Some members of congress are staying in washington this weekend ahead of the articles of impeachment of President Trump. Today they are holding a pro forma session in the house. It is possible they could file a report on articles of impeachment resolution. We expect this to be a brief session with no legislative business or vote. We will return to the testimony of Inspector General horowitz. After this live coverage of the u. S. House. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, december 14, c. , 2019. I hereby appoint the honorable kathy castor to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Pray. In conroy let us gracious god, we give you thanks day. Iving us another you have blessed us with all good gifts and with thankful express our gratitude. You have created us with serve other to people in their need, to share and her in respect affection and to be faithful in the responsibilities we have given. In this moment of prayer, please of this the members peoples house as the chamber wisdomietly the gifts of and discernment that in their do s and actions they will justice, love with mercy and with you. Y may all that is done this day be or your greater honor and glory. Amen. He speaker pro tempore pursuant to section 7a of House Resolution 758, the chair of the last days proceedings is approved. The chair will lead the house in the pledge of allegiance. And to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Pursuant to section 7b of House Resolution 758, the house busy agenda for the house next week. Wednesday, they plan to take up articles against President Trump and hold a final vote which would set up a trial in the senate. Later in the week, the usmca trade agreement. Follow coverage of the house on cspan. We take you now back to the Justice DepartmentInspector General, Michael Horowitz before the Senate Judiciary committee. That the small predicate you need has been met. Happened after they opened it up . What did they find . Where their suspicions validated . Were theirted suspicions validated, or did they find at every turn, it is really not true, and they ignored it . One of the first thing they tried to do was to get a warrant under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to follow carter page, a volunteer for the campaign, and american citizen. They applied for the warrant internally in august of 2016, and the lawyer say, you dont have enough. Why . Because they had nothing. Maybe this reasonable articulation is this small, but to get a warrant from a court, youve got to have probable cause. But the lawyer is saying, you dont have it. Everybody is frustrated, folks. Thats not the right answer. Mccabe suggests, so the number two guy at the f. B. I. Suggest, lets go look at the steele dossier, maybe that will get us over the hump. Stay tuned. We will talk about that in a minute. September 19, for the first time, they introduced the steele dossier into the warrant application process. It works. September 21, they get a signoff, lets get a warrant. The dossier got them to where they wanted to go. As you say, mr. Horowitz, it was central and basically outcomedeterminitive. Without the dossier they go nowhere, with it, they are off to the races. Who is Christopher Steele . You think these other people were bad . Wait till you hear about this guy. Christopher steele was a former mi6, is that right, 6, 5, whatever it is he was a british agent, retired. He had a new