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I want to tone things down a little bit here and First Express my gratitude for the thousands of men and women who work every day on the front line with the fbi. I come from a background as a prosecutor and our local Law Enforcement work with the fbi every day in our local office in minnesota, and then in the senate, ive had the privilege to work with many, many people in the fbi. And i think the Inspector General hes job is incredibly important. He keeps everyone honest. But i do think this it is important for those t agents an those in Law Enforcement that are watching today that people unde...

Page are based on an assumption the court has that, hey, we got a bunch of information the first time we heard this case and if we thought it was legitimate to open a case into this guy, the bureau isgu going to have so mu integrity and the department's lawyers will have so much integrity, if there is ever a reason to doubt the information, they will bring us thatdo information. and so inus renewals two, three and found, they bring none of thisun information, right? >> that's correct. they are not telling the department so the lawyers very can decide what to include for the court. >> so i thin...

Guidelines, an investigation has an i authorized purpose if it i open to detect, obtain information or protect against federalio crimes or threats to e national security or to collect foreign intelligence. you found that the investigation at issue today was open to determine whether peoplen associated with the trump campaign were coordinating with the russian government. right? >>go that is the reason the fbi provided. >> and again to be clear, you did not find that tfbi acted improper will when opening this case? >> that's right. >> the department's guidelines also require that decision to op...

Say about that in this setting. >> well, they were producing information.at >> they were producing information. i'm not sure how i would characterize whether they were helpful or not. >> well, one way or the other, far from being a bogus narrative, the russia investigation produced 37 individual indictments, 7 convictions, 5 prison terms. and hopefully, will send a message to adversaries, the russians and other nations, that mr. mueller warned about. that there will be action taken against athem. and i hope that we can come together on a bipartisan basis to reform the -- reform the fisa proces...

That would have enacted other processes. because obviously the fisa process is skreeecret but there needs to be checks and balances to make sure that the information is presented to the fisais judges. unfortunately, a great many of the proposed reforms did not become law, some did in the usa freedom act in 2015. i know it is not your job, but do i think that your report indicates the need for the kind of reforms that i proposed in the nice a court reform act of 2013? >> i think it is important to have consideration of reforms like that. and we don't make the recommendations but we are always a...