No one should consider themselves vindicated if they were connected to this, his detailed report outlining 17 specific instances the fbi made significant errors, he understands people have a hard time shocking that up purely to incompetence. Lets go to Trace Gallagher to kick off the latest on the impeachment markup. The markup session in the House Judiciary Committee allows two things, giving the committee 5 minutes to make opening statements. And it offers lawmakers a chance to shape the final version of the articles of impeachment which in this case is a partisan proceeding as evidenced by these remarks from Committee Chair and ranking member. One indisputable truth has emerged, if we do not respond to Donald Trumps abuses of power the abuses will continue. The only abuse of power is the majority raising the fastest they have ever had, the clock in the counter determining what impeachment looks like. That is abuse of power. The markup could happen to our and the vote could happen next week although the totals are influx. Some centrist democrats in districts donald trump won are pushing for centuries to impeachment. Even Michigan Democratic representative lisa slotken who called for impeachment hearings is now undecided and she acknowledges pressure in her swing district. Phones are ringing off the hook. We cant pick up the phone fast enough and it is people on both sides, strongly against and strongly for and i assume that will persist. Reporter house members lashing out at moderates calling censure own headed and one of the dumbest ideas. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez calls a slap on the wrist, i have 15yearolds in my district who gets into Rikers Island because they a jump a turnstile and cant afford to dollars and . 75. That would be news to prison officials. Impeachment is the talk of the town but there is very little talk about the house Canada Agreement or usmc a which is being touted as a win for nancy pelosi but also a victory for donald trump which means Democratic Senators running for the white house would not touch it with a 10 foot monmouth poll which shows Public Opinion on impeachment has not budged. Shannon thank you. Blistering testimony from the Justice Department watchdog, michael norwood, the Inspector General decried what he called the failure of the entire chain of command in the fbi russia probe. Heres mike emanuel with what we heard today from horwitz. Justice department Inspector General says candidate donald trump in his 2016 campaign were never notified about possible russian infiltration. Or the only briefing they received was an investigation in disguise. What that fbi agents by not donald trump was doing the briefing but also using it for the purpose of investigation. Michael horwitz testified before the senate Judiciary Committee about the findings in his 434 page report, Lindsey Graham pressed horwitz on the alleged abuses regarding the fisa warrant is surveilled trump aid carter page. They lied to the court about what the interview was about. Is that a fair summary so far . To it was misleading to the court. Donald trump insisted the fbi spied on his 2016 campaign and while democrats maintain horwitzs report says thats not the case horwitz did note the bureaus sent agents to interact with and even record trump associates. They sent spies to record senior members of the campaign in the middle of the president ial campaign. They send confidential human sources to do this. The watchdog says his team uncover troubling actions. So many basic and fundamental errors were made by so many handpicked investigators. Crews asked horwitz about his finding of 17 specific errors or omissions in the fisa application for carter page and a lawyer at the fbi creates fraudulent evidence, alters an email, that is in turn used as the basis for a sworn statement to the court that the court relies on. Mi stating that accurately . That is correct. Lawmakers on both sides call for fundamental reform to the fisa application process. We have to address the underlying program, the system in the hands of a few bad people can do a lot of damage. Lets have a full some conversation about the future of fisa court and representations made. The ranking democrats outside the significance of the error suggesting to republicans it is time to move on. Didnt find a deep state conspiracy against candidate or donald president we found no bias. Or west was asked about criticism from attorney general william barr when he did not engage. My defense our team and our work is we stand by the report, nothing i have heard changes our view. I didnt think the ig job to be popular. James comey said this week this report vindicates him but horwitz says his work did not vindicate anyone involved in the process. Mike emanuel on capitol hill, thank you. Fox news alert, the primetime markup of the impeachment playing out tonight. Almost immediately the proceeding broke into a fire debate, one of the key players in the committee room, the ranking republican on the House Judiciary Panel congressman doug collins, good to have you back with us. I want to play something adam schiff had to say about why democrats are doing what they are doing. Uses take. We stand here today because the president s continuing abuse of power has left us no choice. To do nothing would make ourselves complicit in the president s abuse of his high office, the public trust in our national security. He said donald trump left them no choice but to do what they are doing. The radical left is left adam schiff no choice about what to do, the left is driving this, you heard that on your earlier report, Ocasio Cortez will not even tolerate a censure application from her moderate democrats, there does need to be a censure or an impeachment because the president did nothing wrong. Adam schiff has trouble telling the truth. The interesting thing is he has trouble, only has trouble talking when it is time for the committee to do anything. When he is in front of the tv camera he has no problem spreading his version of truth. The problem we have is democrats promised their base something they are now having to deliver whether they believe it or not. Shannon what next . Can republicans offer amendments, do you have a voice in the process . You guys complain about not having a seat at the table . You have a seat in the debate, will you have an impact from your side of the aisle . We will talk about the facts. This is only the third hearing in Judiciary Committee to present the facts and the facts are really there, there was nothing like a print quote quote or extortion or bribery, they at the end of the day got the 8, they did nothing to get the aid and everything went forward. The interesting issue is they dont want to deal with those facts and couple democrat said and even the press said they are not dealing with fact of the case, we dealt with the facts and they are pretty simple, nothing happened. When you have truth on your side it is easy to debate, or is the law professor said last week, something may have happened, you have a real problem with impeachment. What do you say to folks like jerry nadler who said as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee that if we dont allow the we dont move forward with this we will allow situation which the president Disregards Congress by not complying with things like subpoenas and other document request whether it is democrat or republican it is not Something Congress should allow. Should we establish that type of president . Chairman nadler is exaggerating point. Chairman nadler has not negotiated in good faith with this administration. I was in the Judiciary Committee when president obama was an officer we had this problem with attorney general holder at the time with the fast and furious negotiation. Is always tension between the executive branch and congressional branch, that is happen forever but this is the fastest you regard impeachment and for one of them to be obstruction of congress is simply a joke. 72 days to get here in which they never negotiated. Chairman advocate never get anything from the department of justice for the administration. Chairmanship negotiated with the department of justice and got documents. Charlotte elliott angle got most everything he ever needed. This administration has been committed to being part of the investigation in which they are properly done. Chairman nadler never tried to engage properly in how you get documents and requests from the administration. Shannon you were at the white house today, an executive were dealing with antisemitism on College Campuses saying if these colleges dont crackdown on the movement against israel they could stand to lose federal funding, the aclu responding speech criticizing the Israeli Government or any government is political speech protected under the first amendment, cannot be suppressed, the aclu is long defended freedom of speech. Of the administration attempts to undermine every amusing this order we will see it in court. Your response . They had to have a fundraising letter from somewhere. I would love to see them defend antisemitism. This is the same organization that goes after others who defend who go after people based on race, color, National Origin or anything else but this is where we deal with one of the hottest topics on most campuses, the bds movement, all focused on israel. Interesting to me that the aclu would want to go after those hatefully targeting the Jewish Community and antisemitic language but no surprise because we have antisemitic congressman who do it all the time. On that note we will watch as you will be marking up again. Thanks for joining us. The house approving a 700 billion defense package authorizing the creation of Donald Trumps space force and Congressional Republicans compromise with the majority to provide 12 weeks of paid parental leave for federal employees, the bill includes a 3. 1 military and the repeal of the widows tax on military death benefits. It will now go to the senate. 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You did something similar when he was referred for criminal prosecution, demanded apologies, he has amazing pride in his behavior given all the bad things that came out about it. This couldnt have been more definitive with the Inspector General said, that no one was vindicated, he laid out so many problems with the fisa process, not just the 17 errors on the warrant to spy on carter page but Everything Else to deal with the process. One of the things most scandalous is learning the fbi knew the dossier was complete and utter rubbish by january 2017, continue to leak about it suggesting they took it seriously and comey himself was suggesting it was a legitimate document when they knew sources were denying it saying this was not Accurate Information and should not of been taken seriously. Shannon the 17 significant errors or omissions, this is what the Inspector General said before the senate testifying. I think it is fair for people to look at all of the 17 events and wonder how it could happen. Shannon it raises the question about how can you say theres not political bias if you have somebody who doctors a document to say the opposite of what it did say and uses that for fisa application, the average person out there is not going to buy it. The president and his allies throughout 200 different conspiracy theories of political bias and come political conspiracy the last few years and managed to land wanted to and that is the entirety of it so what do we have . A whole bunch of these theories the president put out, the white house, president obama, the dossier was used to create the investigation, that there was political bias to launch the investigation, no, confidential informants were used improperly, no. You had a fisa warrant against one individual who was nobody, they didnt know who he was and there were issues for how it was done. It should not happen. But nothing in this massive report from the ig found that it was political bias, nothing found this had anything to do with the larger issue of the russia investigation, it is barely a footnote in what Robert Mueller laid out in his report. Shannon the 17 mistakes, errors, omissions, were simply is that a bigger problem than saying we are not going to assign this to bias, tough equation for people to make sense of. First of all he doesnt say there was no bias, he says he cant make a determination one way or the other, he doesnt have positive evidence that there was bias but he did say when you move from the question of opening the investigation to the misrepresentations in the fisa warrant it becomes more murky in terms of determining bias. One of the things i complain about with the way this all plays out in the way the Inspector General who i know for a number of years and think highly of but one of the real problems here is if you were to try a case as a prosecutor or any kind of trial lawyer to a jury of Justice Department lawyers and they all thought the way horwitz presented it today you would never convict anyone. Thank god we actually try cases to commonsense people because you never get positive evidence, you never get testimony of somebody who says i am biased or document that says i am biased. You evaluate the conduct before you and draw irrational inferences from what people say and do and as or what himself said, the bias question is an open question. I want to do a lightning round to hear from all 3 of you on this but i want you to weigh in on whether or not or to what level surveillance was used or confidential human intelligence was used and those kinds of things because there has been a lot of backandforth whether this is semantics on that point. Was the Trump Campaign spied on or that is totally phony . One of the most ridiculous arguments in recent months, wiretaps, national security, confidential human sources, overseas intelligence assets, is that spy or not . Of course it is buying. You might not use that term if you are a lawyer or something but the rest of us use the normal term for these things which is buying. It is absurd to say otherwise. Bradley . They spied on george papadopoulos, they spied on carter page, these were nobodys on the periphery of anything of the campaign, they were not spying on donald trump or Michael Flynn and they werent spying on donald trump junior or any other senior members. I did wiretap cases for 20 years and i felt if the defense lawyers didnt accuse me of spying i probably wasnt doing my job. It makes no difference what you call it. Monitoring, spying, electronic surveillance. The question is is it properly predicated under the law. If it is that is what we ought to be focused on. What you call it is beside the. Shannon will there be major changes to the fisa court system . I hope there are. The fact that even republicans are admitting problems with an unregulated court, that is good news. Your concerns . I certainly have always been willing to get more reforms, we did some in 2014, Lindsey Graham wasnt there. Hopefully hes there now. You practiced in these arenas. What do you say . Im a 25 year naysayer on fisa. It should never