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Donohue commented internally, pure insanity. one other interesting thing from the emails of mark meadows, he started raising this name, jeffrey clark. get jeffrey clark involved. >> we spoke with former ambassador bolton about that. he was in the civil rights division. where does he fit in this and how much pull did he have? >> so bolton was correct jeffrey clark falls below rosen and donohue in the pecking order. clark was trying to run the coupe from inside d.o.j. he was connecting with trump trying to get them to send this crazy letter to georgia which he refused to do. jeffrey clark tried ...

Congress and the opposition. >> neal, when the times report sorting that the attorneys general did sign off on it, what is your reaction as someone who has worked inside doj. >> something like this would ordinarily require at least deputy attorney general sign-off, if not attorney general. when i was acting associate attorney general, i couldn't have done this. you needed someone at the very pinnacle to do it. now, what i think the possibility is, is that these records were swept in by mistake. they were actually targeting someone else, then they learned about schiff and schiff's family or wha...

Flaws at the fbi in terms of applying for and obtaining electronic surveillance warrants. that has to be fixed. that's a big deal, but i think comey can claim vindication and properly so because what he has been saying all along and the inspector general agreed, is that political bias and political motive never infected their work. >> how do you think it's going over inside doj, inside the fbi to see adults who know better, a u.s. attorney in the middle of an active investigation passing judgment on it, an attorney general interpreting an i.g. report differently from what we can read on the pa...

Electronic surveillance. that has to be fixed. that's a big deal. i think comey can claim vindication and properly so, what he has been saying all along and the inspector general agreed political bias and motive never infected their work. how do you think it is going over inside doj, inside the fbi to see adults who know better. a u.s. attorney in the middle of an active investigation, passing judgment on it, an attorney general interpreting ig report differently from what we can read on the paper. how is this going over on the inside? >> not well. i saw a lot of friends and various positions ...

Activities we found here don't vindicate anybody who touched this. >> so you heard the man's answer. do you view it as a vindication of comey? >> in a top-line sense, absolutely. what the president has been complaining about for the last two-plus years, three years, is that political bias and political motive influenced the work of the fbi. the inspector general said definitively that that did not happen. now, the inspector general also made a very important finding that there were numerous procedural flaws at the fbi in terms of applying for and obtaining electronic surveillance warrants. tha...