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Investigation, including one that was an expletive ridden exchange where the agents were enthusiastic ally talking about trump's election and their desire to investigate the clinton foundation. you found that too, didn't you? >> that is correct. that's in the report. >> i think it was potentially problematic whether they're pro trump or pro clinton. i assume the fbi investigators can have strong views on motorcycle politics, but the question is does it impact their work. >> they should never be using their government devices to have political discussions whether they're working on a sensitive ...

Investigating the trump campai campaign. the report comes on to call the conduct of the agents on the supervisors involved to be "serious performance failures" which you noted were failures for which you did not receive. serious performance failures. failures without any type of -- jim comey astoundingly, astonishingly considers a fulfilled mission. a mission that includes among other things protecting the rights of the american people. that could be protecting the american people and upholding the constitution, i just can't understand it. and that's simply not good enough. it might be good en...

And those need to be taken into account. >> performance failures, lying. i mean, there was a lot going on in the department. they were not just mistakes as somebody casually mentioned. these are not just mistakes. this was bad conduct. it was intentional. so i do think that as we see this move on, move forward, anybody involved in those malicious activities is gone. so a little bit about policy and procedures just very quickly. the ig's office previously identified a pattern of lakes and improper contact between fbi employees and the media. part of the decision to work the cross fire hurricane...

Debrief foreign agents? >> i would have to talk with h him. >> predication involves a threshold, does it not? >> correct. for opening an investigation. >> and when you have hit your predication threshold, more evidence -- as long as the evidence is adequate, more evidence doesn't take it away, correct? >> correct. so i'm also trying to figure out how it is that, even if he had more evidence that you did not have come up that takes away from your conclusion that predication was adequate. >> i think you'd have to ask him or the attorney general. >> i can't -- so you describe serious performance ...

We were not holding or referring people for performance failures simply because they expressed support or lack of support for a candida candidate. >> whether pro trump or pro clinton. thank you. there was one occasion where i think bias did impact one or more russian works. the fbi appropriately kept quiet about the trump russia investigation during the 2016 election. the same can be said about the clinton administration. rudy giuliani and others appeared to receive highly sensitive leaks from the new york fbi field office, leaks that likely contributed to director comey's public announcement ...