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Usually what is happening is the inspector general will be very, very critical, and the attorney general will say wait a second, hold on, my people did a legitimate thing here. you've got those roles reversed. you've got the inspector general saying this was legitimate and the attorney general saying my own department wasn't doing well enough and i disagree with that finding. >> lets remind people, what and who is the inspector general? this is an independent person. this is someone who works for the justice department but does independent inquiries separate from the attorney general. this is ...

On a low level lawyer falsifying a document, but the investigation was properly predicated and there was no political bias. the attorney general apparently doesn't like the finding of the investigation being properly predicated. what's your reporting? >> right, so our reporting is that the attorney general has raised these concerns and objections internally, that he does not believe the fbi basically had a legitimate basis to open this probe into trump based on what it had heard about what george papadopoulos, the campaign aide had told the australian ambassador in london. that was the foundat...

Independence, and so this is a conflict that is basically going to just spill into the ongoing debate that we've had over the origins of the russia probe, the scrutiny that the federal -- that the fbi and the doj had of president trump. this has been a partisan fighting issue for a long time. the i.g. is supposed to be able to come into the middle of that and settle that. the i.g. is being challenged on one of the key findings in his report by the attorney general. that is only going to fuel the parties in rancor over these issues. >> do we know how the attorney general is going to express his...

Importance, and the two things i'm looking for is the full narrative and anything important that we missed in the covering of the hearings. >> adam schiff said we will see that today, so we're waiting for that release. it could be imminent, jeffrey, david, kaitlan thank you very much. new details about the justice department inspector general report into the origins of the fbi russia investigation ahead of its release next week. "the washington post" reports -- and this is what's stunning -- attorney general william barr has told associates he disagrees with the justice department's inspecto...

It all comes out in one package next week. b barr has taken a number of different routes. he could take any number of avenues. i explained with the standard procedure is for what may happen, but frankly we don't know yet exactly how he's going to voice these concerns more publicly. >> he already has launched another investigation into this, he's got a backup investigation in case he doesn't like this one, with u.s. attorney john durham. president trump pointed to that and said that's the real investigation we're all waiting for. thank you. >> they have been waiting for this i.g. report for yea...