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The mid-year investigation and among other things criticized what occurred last year with regard to the handling of that investigation. ongoing investigations are -- need to be protected from outside influence. you don't know as an investigator or you shouldn't conclude as an investigator until are you done with the investigation, you shouldn't be reaching your conclusions until that point. and so giving preliminary ideas, advice, guidance, statements, can be misleading. and you should not be reaching final conclusions until you get to the end of the investigation. >> there is a lot of misimpr...

Disturbing about that event, which is that the initial application said that the fbi assessed steel was a direct source. and on october 14th the drafts changed to the exact opposite. what we found is the fbi had no basis for the first statement, no evidence in their file. it turned out the first statement was, in fact, the accurate statement. the point, though, was they had no evidence to support that. and when they flipped it, they had no evidence to support that either. that's the kind of issue that under the basic woods procedures, had someone been doing their job and following up, they wou...

Foundationation for a warrant -- >> let the witness answer the question. >> go ahead. >> do you need to say anything else? >> i'm sorry. >> okay. the incident, the event, the meeting was a briefing and the fbi considered and decided to send that agent there to do the briefing. so the sath was actualagent was the briefing but also for the purpose of investigation. >> okay. i hope that doesn't happen to us tomorrow. i'll be really pissed if it does. okay. so let's play this out. they never told trump about the concerns. is it fair to say there came a point to where surveilling carter page became...

This, unless run a cliff here. >> this is what comey said in 2018. >> it would be nice to have sound. do we have sound? >> never mind, i'll read it. director comey, the reporter is asking him, can i ask you a question on fisa abuse? it's a major issue for republicans. do you have the total confidence in the dossier when you used it to secure a surveillance warrant and also in the substantive renewal, this was asked in december of 2018 about a year ago. comey. i have total confidence that the fisa process was followed, that the entire case was handled in a thoughtful, responsible way, by doj an...

Exculpatory information? >> absolutely. >> they did not? >> they did not. >> why? >> that's the question i can't specifically answer for you. >> can you say it wasn't because of political bias? >> on decisions regarding those fisa matters, i do not know their state of mind at this point. >> so we're talking about actions and what would motivate people. do you think comey and mccabe should have known? >> that's a challenging question as we explained in the report. there were multiple briefings up the chain including to the director and the deputy director. we don't have a clear record of what p...