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president, correct? it s appropriate for the justice department and the prosecutor general to cooperate and to exchange information, yes. but to the extent that the president has concerns and to the extent that the attorney general is having u.s. attorney durham look into it, isn t it entirely appropriate for the president to flag this for president zelensky and say that you should be in touch with our official channels? mr. castor, i don t know the precise appropriateness of these kind of relations. now, were you involved, either of you involved with the preparation for the 7/25 call? i was not. i was not. and how do you account for that? i mean, you were the two of the key officials with responsibility for ukrainian policy. if the president of the united states is going to have a call with the leader of the ukraine, why wouldn t you ordinarily be involved with preparation? sir, we work for the department of state in an embassy overseas and in preparation for ....
with the findings in the horowitz report. horrow its seems to be giving the fbi that part of the investigation saying it s a clean bill. they had enough reason to do this investigation. everybody who was interviewed cements to indicate they did not open an investigation. evan perez, thank you so much. joining our panel now, we have with us jim bakker. you are not singled out the report makes clear the fbi failed when it came to the administering the fisa warrants, too much was left out or not presented to the court. do you accept what the inspector general is saying? i am there are two big groups of conclusions, one is, it was not a politically motivated investigation and it was properly predicated with us going-forward with that investigation. it was malpractice for us not to open this investigation. all of the statements that it was a hoax are wrong. the investigation was not a coup or a coup attempt. having said that, he does point out many mistakes that were made wit ....
campaign. he did not do that. and if he abused his power, most likely he would tell president zelensky that he was asking to help his presidential prospects? you would never engage in conduct nor explicitly say, in this case, president zelensky, i m going to bribe you now, or i m going to ask you for a bribe, or i m now going to extort you. this is not the way these things work. getting back to you, we talked about hunter biden. hunter biden had been on the board of burisma going back to 2014, correct? yes. president trump supported ukraine with aid and otherwise in both 2017 and 2018, correct? president trump has done a lot for ukraine. yes. but sir, isn t it correct that president trump did not raise anything about hunter bid skpn his 2017 or 2018. he donnell thiidn t raise any o issues in 2017 or 2018? i don t know that he did or he didn t. that s not something we looked at. you have no evidence that he did, do you? no, but i have no efvidence e did no ....
Virginia. yield back. just for the committee s benefit mr. vinman was not the whistleblower. the whistleblower remained an animus and unlike mr. allen, we never saw mr. allen is willing to give us a transcript. we never saw the transcript from the anonymous whistleblower. there was a complaint publicly disclosed. parliamentary inquiry. i have recognized mr. johnson. the democrats are friends on the other side are trying to obscure the purpose of this hearing and pretend they don t understand the meaning of it. here it is. activists in the f.b.i. and the department of justice have weaponized the full weight of their agencies against everyday americans. it is alarming. examples highlighted by this committee are shocking to the sensibilities of all the people that we represent and they want us to get action and answers and accountability. the f.b.i. here is a couple examples. the f.b.i. sought to label ....
i would consent to enter into the record the global times report that talks about training. it s from the atlantic council digital forensic lab. so ordered. any reason to disagree with that? is this the global times from china? that s what you read. it might be. yeah. would that be as a general matter, i don t take beijing s propaganda. tell me if the allegation is true or false. i don t have any evidence. i don t take beijing s propaganda at face value. fair enough. matt gaetz posted this performative moment. he edited out that moment. wonder why. joining us, retired u.s. army lieutenant colonel vinman, a former director for european ....