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Beginning. this is trump believed this was going to be huge. >> i think you're going to have a very interesting report coming out with durham. i believe it's bigger and far more far reaching and more powerful than anyone ever thought possible. >> now, donald trump, a candidate was very quick to rush out of an e-mail with the headline i was framed. it goes on to say it was not that. he is exaggerating what mr. durham found. don't want to use the fact he's exaggerating to not get at the fact that the i.g. did find a lot of this too. these are important issues that the fbi krerkt acknowledged. we...

In their interest to be saying i'm about to tell you something that could get very powerful people in our country very upset with us, but here is the information. i'm going to be fascinated to see whether john durham addresses that, including not just the substance but why was it given to him to investigate when that was not as you pointed out not -- >> he didn't have those powers until barr gave them to him. let me ask where the line is between prosecutorial misconduct and bad business? is it proper for mr. durham to defy the findings of an i.g. to secretly get prosecutorial power and bury a ...

The i.g. says yes, they did, but he goes further. when he testifies about his report he is asked about john durham's conclusion they didn't have enough and says i was surprised by that and his concern was not with respect to opening, it was that he thought it would only be opened as a preliminary and agrees that there was enough facts for the fbi to open but sort of a smaller investigation and this is what the i.g. said. who cares. what they did pursuant to the larger investigation could have been done as the smaller investigation. they didn't break rules. the inspector general saying this is ...

That's what criminal cases are for. there was this rel lack of substance to what he was doing and when you have the i.g. already doing an investigation talk about like a total you know, talk about a witch hunt or sort of real wasted resources, you know, there are a lot of things to investigate and a lot of things that can be useful in government. if john durham was just doing an investigation to talk about what are better policies and practices that fbi could have and depoliticizing it, i would have been for that and said great. no agency that can't use greater scrutiny. this was trying to say...

Understand how small the difference is in reality between durham and the ig. because it really isn't a question of -- >> let's back up and remind everybody, i tried to do this in real time, but an inspector general is an agency's own watchdog. the doj's inspector general the only one trump didn't fire. now you can theorize why that might be, but on the question of predication, for the russia probe, he found that it was absolutely appropriately predicated and that there was, quote, no bias. >> and so he found the inspector general that properly predicated called a full investigation. the differ...