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Joining me now to break down the report is dr. ben strauss. ceo and chief scientist of climate central. ben, really good to see you. how dire is this warning? >> i think it's quite dire. it's a very important warning we all need to take quite seriously. >> why are we not more alarmist about it? scientists haven't been alarmist about it until relatively recently. the idea i guess was from what i read that you don't want to freak people out. is it too late? should we have been alarmist much sooner? >> actually, there's been research on this and scientists have tended to make mistakes to err on t...

You may remember that this all started with a spectacular tweet by the president on one saturday. when he said that his phone had been tapped. that obama had authorized a tap of his phone in trump tower. none of that has ever come true. and according to people familiar with this report that we've talked to, it's generally supportive of what the fbi did. it says there was no political motivation at the top of the fbi or the justice department in conducting these investigations. and then this latest bit of the puzzle, which says they're concluded that the fbi didn't spy on the trump campaign. >>...

Were important to the president. >> and the president's suggestion that giuliani may have been working for other clients is contradicted by giuliani himself, who said this in a new york times report earlier this year about ukraine. my only client -- only client -- is the president of the united states. he's the one i have an obligation to report to. let's kick things off with nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. pete, this ig report has found that, i guess, the fbi did not spy on the trump campaign. what -- what can you tell us? >> basically, that. that people have seen the draft repo...

Somewhat controversial. because some people we've talked to say that the report will be critical that the application didn't say, well, on the one hand, there's this. but on the other hand, there's these reasons to think that the people we've talked to may not be credible. that's typically not the way warrants are prepared. but nonetheless, apparently that's one of the things the report will say. >> pete, thanks very much. we appreciate it. i'm joined now by matt, national security reporter covering the justice department at the washington post. he's one of the reporters who broke the story on...

>> i think they're looking at sort of two different things. my understanding is that, remember, the horowitz report was very narrowly-focused. the primary focus of the horowitz report is the fisa application, the foreign intelligence surveillance act application, for the -- for the warrant to eavesdrop on carter page, the former trump campaign advisor. that's the guts of the report that horowitz will be putting out. that's why he put his report out. it was after claims, especially by house republicans, that the fbi had abused the process. and i think there will be a lot in the report from, acc...