and impacted the reputation of the fbi. moreover, the damage caused by their actions extends far beyond the scope of the investigation and goes to the heart of the fbi's reputation for neutral fact-finding and political independence, end quote. i am only repeating what the ig found -- improprieties by the fbi and doj caused such far-reaching damage going to the heart of what is expected from agencies whose responsibility was to remain fair administrators of justice. this hearing and the ig's report underscores the importance of the ongoing joint investigation by the house judiciary committee and the house oversight committee into decisions made by the doj and fbi in 2016. to date, the committees have interviewed several key witnesses and reviewed tens of thousands of documents. while we appreciate the ig and his staff for a very detailed investigation, it is critical for the public to also hear what was not included in the report, due to the ig's refusal to question, quote, whether a particular decision by the fbi and doj w

a different fbi? mr. michel: a very different fbi . right now in the political climate we are in, people feel bad for the fbi, thathe fbi is being maligned. 50 years ago, this was very different. these were constitutional violation, essentially spying on people for their political means. the fbi has evolved, it has changed, it is much more transparent. it continues in many respects to investigate those deemed to be threatening. black lives matter has come under suspicion. or harboring or being some pathetic to those who would promote violence. thoseng sympathetic to who would promote violence. >> can you explain the process of who was targeted, the mechanics of how they were targeted, and what devices were used? mr. michel: i will look at the student organizing committee. hoover wanted to know from his agents in the field, who were the ringleaders? we wanted to stop them. thyshe endeavored to do that included such things as sending fake letters to student's parents, anonymous letters in which they would say to the parents, do you know

in the fbi. i see the fbi up close every day , investigation after investigation after investigation, including in utah, including the states of every state represented on this dais. i can tell you the conduct, the character, the principle that i see in those people every day is extraordinary and would be an inspiration to the members of this committee. that was my point. sen. hatch: there is no doubt that the fbi errors casting a cloud over the handling of the investigation and the investigation credibility. even more troubling is the irreparable harm to the fbi's reputation for neutral fact-finding and political independence. where do we go from here? you kind of indicated that. dir. wray: i think we start by reminding everyone in the fbi, which i said, i think the vast , vast majority of people working there already know this. but i'm not going to leave that to doubt -- that objectivity and the appearance of objectivity have to permeate everything we do. that starts with much of the lessons th

one of the greatest critics of the fbi and gave a long list of the way the fbi made a difference in our lives, one of the greatest critics is his boss, the president of the united states, who has said the fbi is in tatters. he accused it of being politically biases. he is walking a fine line. i agree with phil, did he he di pretty well. he has to defend his agency. he understands the criticism. the president himself is the greatest critic. that's a problem for him. >> hillary clinton just tweeted, responding to someone who had noted that in the report comey also used a gmail account to conduct official fbi business. they say no classified information was there. she tweets, but my e-mails, because she was investigated because she used he personal server. what's your reaction? >> what she could have said is extremely reckless or careless and added that tit for tat moment. she's justified to do so. what i heard from the director were three things. i heard process. i heard objectivity. i heard accountability. three things every criminal should fear. that you have a process by which you are

it appears that comey and some of the fbi leaders were more focused on defending the fbi, the fbi's reputation, their own reputation and were not paying enough attention to what really they should have been doing, which was investigating this laptop to see whether there was any good reason to reopen this investigation. again, three, four weeks would have made a huge difference, again because they send this letter -- comey sends this letter to congress in late october, days before the election. perhaps this could have been wrapped up a month before and that perhaps changed the course of history. >> i mean, josh, evan gives yet another example. i was listening to your conversation with steve before we hit commercial break. of course you're proud of your work at the fbi. but coming out of this report, how concerned are -- that law enforcement agencies are coming out damaged because of this? >> it's extremely concerning. i would say this a damning report, that looks at the actions of the fbi and things that were done we and it took the fbi days to determine to the there's the old add oj, don't chu

in the fbi it's 0. %. in my view, the opinions that matter are the views of the people that know us through your work. but i go around the world and i talk to your partners and the people who know us our brand is doing fine there. thank you. >> when you read this report, if you could sum up your reaction and your -- from having read it in one word, what is that word? and how would you describe your emotional reaction to it? >> disappointed. yes. >> why disappointed? >> have you ever suesed your personal e-mail address for any fbi business? >> not that i can think of. >> some people are going the use this report to criticize the mueller investigation because strzok worked on both investigations. -- [ inaudible ] integrity and credibility, also some people are criticizing you for making mistakes by sharing documents with the congress. how do you respond to criticisms that you might be making mistakes now by sharing investigative materials with congress? >> i think on the first point -- i am not going to spea

a small number of fbi employees connected. confusedn this report the integrity of our workforce as a whole, the fbi as an institution. fair and independent scrutiny is welcomed. and appropriate accountability is crucial. we are going to learn from this report, we are going to be better and stronger, as a result. i also want to be clear about the fbi that i get to see. in the past 10 months, i have been able to visit over 30 of our field offices around the country, and offices overseas. i have visited with folks from every fbi division at headquarters. in office, after office, meeting after meeting, i see extraordinary people doing extraordinary work. again and again i hear remarkable stories, inspiring stories about the work, the mended women the fbi are doing it to protect the people and uphold the constitution. in the past several months, we have disrupted terrorist attacks in places ranging from the fisherman's wharf in san francisco, to a crowded shopping mall in miami. ofmarch, we charged a ring iranian state sponsored ha

at the highest levels of the fbi. how the fbi was politicized. it is all true, and we have a lot of new evidence will share with you tonight. i want to be very clear at the start. i'm not talking about rank and file fbi guys. i'm not talking about them. i predict by the time the story ends, they will end up being the heroes, when they are finally subpoenaed and allowed to testify, and tell their stories about what they saw their bosses were doing. tonight, we'll highlight the stark difference between two investigations. you get the white glove special treatment for hillary clinton, and then the heavy-handed tactics, all in against donald trump. it should shock you if you believe in equal justice under the law, equal application of our laws, and our constitution. with hillary clinton, everyone was given immunity. with donald trump, search warrants, subpoenas, bringing down doors at 6:00 a.m., guns ablaze. the hatred of donald trump from the left in the media in this country knows no bounds. there really was a scheme to protect hillary rodham clint

the fbi has a process that limits the fbi to speak to the media. this is for any organization that quietly investigates between prosecution and a court:of law rather than the court of public public. the inspector general found this was wildly ignored at all levels of the fbi. the report goes so far to describe the culture of unauthorized media contacts, including instances where fbi employees improperly received tickets, golf outings, drinks and other benefits from reporters. as you know, this is totally inappropriate. attachments to the report have identified 50 employees. 50. pro apparently had unauthorized contact with the media. if the inspector general had 50 contacts with his review of this one investigation, a counter intelligence investigation no less, i'm afraid the number of employees engaged in such unauthorized conduct could cross the bureau as likely to be far greater. clearly additional action is needed to identify other personnel engaged in leaks and unauthorized media contacts. i'm not interested in hearing about additional training

at the fbi. do you disagree with that finding in the report, and what do you plan to do about it if you agree with it? mr. wray: as i say, we accept the findings of the report. and the recommendations. we have done a number of things in that regard. first, we have issued a new media policy that is stricter and much more clear than what had been in place before. second, we're going to be doing intensive training on exactly those issues, things like what you alluded to. that includes contacts with the media. third, we're going to make painfully clear to everybody that we won't tolerate noncompliance. and then last, i've asked ropr opr to take aour hard look at whether or not they think the penalties that exist right now are sufficient to deal with that kind of conduct. yeah, sure. reporter: i want to talk a little bit about -- maybe ask you about the reputation of the fbi certainly the fbi's taken a lot of hits from the president, his tweets and certain things he's said about certain investigations

to be with the fbi? thehorowitz: i will let report speak for itself. >> so mr. mccabe, insubordinate, is referred to prosecution, but mr. comey does not and gets to keep his book deals. for we finished this report, mr. comey had been terminated, no look at the fbi. >> but he can still be prosecuted. mr. horowitz: in theory, yes. >> i want to read some evils and text messages from your report. -- i want to read some emails and text messages from your report, and these are by senior members of the fbi. they were involved in the clinton email investigation, the russian investigation, the mueller investigation, and in some cases, all three. 8/16/2015, peter strzok -- bernie sanders is an idiot like trump. , lisa page -- i am no prude, but i am really appalled. by this. trump called him the p-word. the man has no class spirit he simply cannot be president. peter strzok, trump is abysmal. i keep hoping the charade will end. the problem is rubio will likely lose to cruz. got, trump is a loath some human. peter

a different fbi? mr. michel: a very different fbi. right now in the political climate we are in, people feel bad for the fbi, that the fbi is being maligned. 50 years ago, this was very different. these were constitutional violation, essentially spying on people for their political means. the fbi has evolved, it has changed, it is much more transparent. it continues in many respects to investigate those deemed to be threatening. black lives matter has come under suspicion. or harboring or being sympathetic to those who would promote violence. >> can you explain the process of who was targeted, the mechanics of how they were targeted, and what devices were used? mr. michel: i will look at the student organizing committee. hoover wanted to know from his agents in the field, who were the ringleaders? we wanted to stop them. the ways they endeavored to do that included such things as sending fake letters to student's parents, anonymous letters in which they would say to the parents, do you know what your kids are up to? they would work wi

you can't have a culture where somebody in the fbi, we, including the fbi agent, won't let that happen, have the tools of the fbi and department of justice at hand. these are very dangerous words and certainly i think fbi director wray needs to understand, this is not just an issue of training. this is an issue of intent. that is what troubles the american people. that is what troubles all of us when you look at comey culture, unilateralism, of leaks, changes standards as they deliberated but knowing that there was this political overtone i think really is troubling. >> it was also, one of the other texts from even a different age sent where they said trump voters were low to middle class -- they talked about their mental capacity and just, really degrading terms about a huge swath of america, people who voted for president trump. i mean can you imagine if, for example, there were texts between nypd officers or any police law enforcement where they talked about a group of human beings in such derogatory terms like that, they, how could you trust them to enforce the safety and law aroun

so tarnish the fbi's reputation. big conclusion here -- no bias found, and bigger conclusion, we would probably be exactly where we are right now, investigating what we're investigating right now, whether that behavior was different or the same. >> pete williams is back with us. pete, what else do you have? >> well, final thoughts from me, katy, on this segment. first of all, one of the things that the ig did was look back at some of the steps that the fbi took in the investigation that have been criticized by some members of congress. for example, the ig looked at the fact that during the hillary clinton interview with the fbi, two of her lawyers were allowed to be in the room, both of whom were potential witnesses in the investigation. the ig says that's not -- that violates the rules but it didn't find that it had any effect on the interview. secondly, the fbi decided not to gather up all the potential computers and phones that were used by people associated with the campaign fundamentally after the fbi reached th

working for the fbi. so this man is only here because of the fbi. and yet curiously, he's still here. there is no way this man has a visa. there is no way a criminal spent ten years in russia, pulled a gun in los angeles and went to prison for it. there is no way he's in the country without the fbi sponsoring him. if he is, i got a bridge in brooklyn for you. >> we should note the fbi has not commented to nbc news. greenberg, the man that you say you believe is an fbi informant, that the man -- >> it's certain, he's a russian -- it's certain, he is an fbi informant. the question is whether he took the day off that day to meet as a private citizen. >> the man who did try to offer dirt on hillary clinton to you and roger stone said in the text message to the "post" that he had not been acting on the fbi's behalf when he met with stone. there's also a question of timing. there are those who will wonder if this is coming out now because of what happened with the ig report and what happened with this spygate theory not being anything there, and that this

fbi attorney number to send an instant message to fbi attorney number one commenting on the amount of money the subject of an fbi investigation have been paid while working on the trump campaign. fbi attorney one says is it making you rethink your commitment to the trump administration? fbi attorney number two says hell no. >> the ig report, there's five people been kicked off the campaign. if there's five people been kicked off the campaign or off the mueller team, how is it possible if you look at the rest the people that are there, they were all clinton donors. i don't know how this is going to end up fairly. i don't know. >> laura: should we learn the names of these attorneys who were sending these messages who were part of the resistance? >> i don't know why. unless they are and are undercover agent. >> laura: it says they are attorneys. >> this is the type of stuff that always happens. >> laura: now i know you how you feel because i feel like it's happening to the whole country now. there was another issue involving fbi employees at every level of the organization. this is from

fbi comey lied. lied by oshg mission to the president and said director of initial intel jim clapper and john brent an may preapproved to be the most revator indicating officials in history of any administration. inconstitutionalized deception as a tool of gentleman. and: wow! i love that column. number 1. number 2, the iran deal fit perfectly into your analysis does it not? what did we learn today n >> yes, i think it does. it results from two things. one, they felt they were so moral and nobel that any means necessary was justified them to achieve them. more importantly ben rose said they created an echo chamber of journalists. there was no independent audit on them. if you were charitable you would say they just misread human nature. they think they'll be paid in time or more likely the iranians looked at that as weakness to be exploited. if you were less charitable you would say they did anything to get a signature achievement before he went out of office and they had some warped view that the ir

strzok was the number two in the counter intelligence unit of the fbi. he is very senior fbi agent. he signed off on the opening of the russian investigation. this is somebody very far up the chain. this is not a line person not that it would be any better you might think it might not have any influence. catherine herridge brought up a great point which is that this is not dealing with the russia investigation at all. this is all dealing with the hillary clinton investigation. unfortunately, i mean, i think that people at the department, the ig can conclude that there is no documentary evidence that political bias affected decision-making but it's kind of hard not to draw conclusion if you look at the way the clinton investigation was handled and then compare it to the russia investigation, which isn't part of this report. it's kind of hard to ignore the glaring differences in terms of on one side have you got people, you know, voluntary statements are given, witnesses are immunized. lawyers are allowed to be in who are also witnesses. it's all treated with kid gloves. on the russia

the fbi. reporter: the report was very critical of former fbi director james comey. calling him insubordinate at one point, specifically for a news conference he held last july saying that hillary clinton or any prosecution or anyone in their right mind would not prosecute hillary clinton for possibly mishandling classified information. he apparently did not tell the attorney general exactly what he's going to do. that's why the inspector general's report says he was insubordinate inform a tweet comey said he respects the d.o.j.-i.g. office, which is why i urge them to do the review. the conclusions are reasonable, even though i disagree with them. i pray no director faces it again. thanks to the i.g. and the people for hard work. the democrats say this report has no bearing on what happened in the russia probe going forward. >> in the days ahead, the president and allies will try to twist themselves into pretzels and use this report to undermine the special counsel in the russia probe. unfort

one of the fbi agents in the interview said on election day to another fbi agent, you should know that i'm with her. now her was clinton, right? >> correct. >> how do you feel about that? >> very concerned. >> okay. eventually very concerned gets to be enough already. i'm very concerned, you know -- one, i'm glad i don't text and e-mail, that's one thing i'm glad i don't do, but circumstances -- have you ever proved a case by circumstantial evidence, director wray? >> yes. >> well, i'm going to write you a letter and talk to you about why you should reconsider your findings as to whether or not it affected the investigation. here's what ms. page -- mr. -- ms. page said on march 4th, 2016. god, trump is a loathsome human. how do you feel about that? i mean, she's entitled to her opinion. >> i think we've laid out here why we were so concerned about it. >> well, when you add it all up, as early as march these people hated trump and this investigation was anything but by the book and at the end of the day what comey did just blows me away as much as it does y'all, and i can't believe that

they were pulling them off the fbi devices. they each had their own fbi phones. they were pulling them. as we got these texts and found these concerning messages in 2017, we then asked the fbi for all their text messages. when we got all their text messages, as you know, we found a window, a period of several months where there were zero. we then went and got their phones and said, okay, if the fbi isn't collecting, we're going to try and extract them from the phones. we did a first run through using our cyber forensics capabilities, collected material. we then went to our outside vendor that we use to see what else that contractor had. we did another go around with some additional tools, found more. we then went to the defense department. same thing. >> i'm thankful that i was yielded time. i got the gist of it. you had to jump through all kinds of hoops to retrieve it. >> correct. >> the point is, when you did get it, mr. rosenstein decided we couldn't get it until your report came out. he sat on it for a month of time. >> i can't speak to how they -- >> well,

fbi peter strzok was picked to lead the fbi's investigation into what russia did in july of 2016. it was a counterintelligence investigation that begun in late july, 2016, and he was leading it. and at about the exact same time he was picked to lead it, this dispassionate and fair fbi agent was calling trump a disaster, destabilizing for the country, i'll leave out all the "f" adjectives he used to describe that. i'll just go with disaster and destabilizing. same time his fbi lawyer, girlfriend lisa page was telling him he was meant to protect the country. this neutral, dispassionate fbi agent said i can protect the country at many levels. same time peter strzok who was picked to objectively, fairly, neutrally look into the russia investigation was talking about an insurance policy with andy mccabe and lisa page in the event donald trump became the president. all of this was happening at the same time peter strzok said he could smell the trump support in southern virginia. all of this was at the same time that this fbi agent said a trump presidency could be "f"ing terrifying and i

of the fbi going forward. how might he try to fix it right now? were you surprised? where were you surprised, if you were, by his response? >> certainly, i was. he doesn't -- didn't address specifically his concerns about the reputation. instead, i think what i was really surprised about was certainly the passion with which the fbi director spoke about the reputation of the fbi, saying how this was an issue that was near and dear to his heart. he listed and went into sort of a litgroup of things he looks ao gauge the fbi. he didn't want to specifically address the repeated attacks by the president, by members of congress who repeatedly take jabs at the fbi, at the russia investigation and the fbi agents who are working that investigation. >> what does this report mean for the credibility of the fbi's clinton e-mail probe? >> for the e-mail probe, it does bolster the idea this was done properly. the report certainly even mentioned there were things that james comey could have mentioned to explain why there were

fbi agents should be infuriated by that i'm infuriated because i love the fbi. these people don't love the fbi. i do. >> sean: i was just going to say. i want to make sure the person people understand. this is not the rank and file. this was literally ripped out of the hands of rank and file. brought into the seventh floor. the you were echelon of the fbi. i guess the most important thing here is especially from your perspective and the president's perspective. if you treat one candidate one way and you literally have crimes and the evidence is inconvo vert tillable. i never saw a better case for obstruction than hillary did for deleting emails, acid washing and breaking up devices. if you are going to treat her that way. and you look at the bully tactics that have been put together by weissmann and beginning strzok and team mueller put together, how could any american at this point entire constitutional republic. >> i think, sean, i feel that this whole thing has made fools of all of us. i mean, they think we are idiots. we supplied 1.4 million documents. we su

one of the fbi agents in the interview said on election day to another fbi agent, you should know that i am with her. "her," was clinton, right? >> >> correct. >> how do you feel about that? >> very concerned. >> eventually very concerned seems to be enough already. i'm glad you found what you found, mr. horwitz. i'm not buying that the clinton email and prestige was on the up and up. >> sean: i am not buying it either. you still think political bias didn't play a role in the fbi's decisions? at the center of all this is fbi trump-hating agent peter strzok. he is being subpoenaed by the house judiciary committee in order to better determine why the fbi and the doj withheld many of his anti-trump text. we still haven't gotten them all. remember, he was the lead fbi agent in the hillary clinton investigation. he is the one who vowed to stop a trump presidency in a text with his girlfriend, lisa page. according to the ig report, page was a high-ranking fbi attorney who was used by andrew mccabe. yeah, that andrew mccabe. of course they bypass the fbi's chain of command and he got to manag

fbi, jim, comey's chief of staff has also left the fbi. why is peter strzok still there in light of what we learned from the ig's report? i think that's an important question for mr. wray and mr. rosenstein when they come in front of congress. i don't know jon all right that was congressman jim jordan. so he says that, you know, peter strzok's job in his view ought to be pretty tenuous at the fbi, what do you think? >> no question about it. i agree with jim wholeheartedly. peter strzok in the evidence in the inspect general's report was main offender and in charge of both of these investigations. he slow-walked the clinton investigation after the weinel laptop was discovered and all the rest and overemphasized really the ataxer i think, that was involved with president trump and the russia investigation. he had a clear bias, he said it in his own words, we would really like to question him as well. i think there's no question about it that he needs to be removed from the fbi because, again, it goes to the people's faith in our very system.

doubt about the fbi's handling of it impacted the fbi. we found that senior employees would be willing to take official action to impact electoral prospects to be deeply troubling to the core values of the fbi and the justice department. with regard to the decision to close the investigation we found no evidence that the conclusions by the prosecutors were the result of improper considerations including political bias, rather they are exercises of those prosecutorial discretion based on their assessment of the facts, the law past apartment practice. our review included a fact-based detail decisions that were the subject of controversy. it is necessary to select decisions because it would have been possible to re-create and analyze all the decisions made in a year-long investigation. examination we considered whether particular decision was an effective choice or whether the evidence indicated it was based on improper consideration including political bias. this is consistent with handling surpassed reviews and recognizes and respects init

obtained their phones from the fbi. these are now fbi devices we're talking about. and our cyber forensic material extracted the missing texts from the phones. we first used our own tools to do that. that was step one. we went to a contractor that we used, a vendor that we used to see whether there were additional tools. we did a second extraction and gained more. we went to the department of defense to see if they had additional tools. they said yes and we used them and extracted more texts. we went to the fbi and said okay, here's the step we've taken. would you do anything different through? they said they wouldn't. we did a quality control check following the rules. our forensic examiners and they discovered in that last search which occurred last month in may that the phone had a database on it that was also doing a collection of text messages. they extracted those messages from the phone and found the second part of the august 8 text, no, no, we'll stop it. that was found in early may. because of that fourth effort to extract information from the phone, it tur

we have 37,000 fbi employees. agents, analysts and staff. and scores of task force officers that work with them. and every day, every day all around this country and around the world, those people are having to make important decisions that protect lives. the opinions of the people that they have to engage with on that work, those are the opinions that matter to me. that's what i'm focused on. as far as the report goes, there's some sobering lessons in there and we're going to learn those lessons and we're going to act on those lessons and that's the way the fbi's always handled these things in the past and that's what made the fbi stronger over the last 110 years. reporter: do you believe members of congress are acting in good faith in their oversight effort, given that the fbi has disagreed with some of the characterizations of meetings and various things that have come out? mr. wray: i think congress has a job to do. and we have a job to do. and together we're trying to work through the various issues that are psented by the tensions betw

lastly, the fbi said the following and i quote. although no bias or other improper consideration was found in the fbi's decision or reaction the appearance of bias is disconcerting and potentially damaging to the fbi's ability to form performance missions. law enforcement must not only avoid actual bias but also the appearance of bias. >> thank you senator feinstein. senator warner. >> thank you. two quick points. one, this is an example of where the system work. there were concerns raised. the inspector general did a thorough and lengthy review. the white house and its allies continue to make ad hominem attacks on the integrity of virtually everyone who works at the department of justice and the fbi. i hope we are going through a bit of applause. their two conclusions i draw from their prey. one, no political bias in two the actions of the then fbi director more than one time actually benefited mr. trump's campaign and his election chances so i hope we can put this behind us and continue to allow the mueller investigation and the

do --id the drg or fbi ?oj or fbi do >> i am not permitted to discuss any classified information in an open setting, but i can assure you we are working with oversight committees and producing relevant evidence. >> did the obama administration direct anybody to make contact with anybody associated with the trump campaign? >> i understand your interest. i am not permitted to discuss this. >> the american people need to know where the counter were thence powers -- counter intelligence powers unleashed inappropriately? we talk about the mueller investigation, it is really the rosenstein investigation. memo saying comey should be fired. you signed a extension for carter page. so it seems like you should be recused from this more than jeff sessions, because you were involved in both decisions. why haven't you done that? you if it wase appropriate for me to recuse, i would be more than happy to do so. and let's unveiled handle this. -- and let somebody else handle this. >> the ig report makes it clear jim gummi sho

our attrition rate in the asian population in the fbi is 0.8%. so in my view, that use that matter, the opinions that matter of the people know us to our work it when i go by the country and around the world and i talk to our partners, i talk to the victims and talk to the people who know us, our brain is doing just find it there. thank you. >> when you read the support and you could sum up your reaction from having read in one word, what is that word and how would you describe your emotional reaction to a? >> disappointed. yes? >> why disappointed? [inaudible] not that i can think of. >> some people are going to use this report to criticize mueller. what is your opinion -- [inaudible] some people are criticizing you for making this statement by sharing documents with congress. how do you respond to criticism about sharing investigative material? >> i think on the first one undergoing to speak for the office of special counsel. i would note that there are number of things that we've done both in terms of referring people to opr but also in terms

the fbi is ushed attack. it reminds me of joe mccarthy. >> we're seeing in these constant attacks which are undermining indeed confidence in the legitimate institutions of our government. elizabeth: there's a distinction, christian, between the institution and the individuals in the institution. the inspector general report is basically talking about individuals, not the institution itself. when you hear the media and the analysts talk about it, it's as if they don't understand that point. your take. >> i think so. you know, the fbi field agents whom i deal with from time to time are mote fied by this, by what has become of their agency and the leadership. make so mistake. if what these senior small percentage of bad eggs at the fbi, if this was undertakening by people in the military, people would recognize it as an attempted coup. what donald trump is doing by criticizing the number of bad eggs, it's important open essential for the future of the fbi. elizabeth: is the president attacking the bureau or the

the fbi is out of control. the current director chris wray acknowledged as much today at the press conference. luckily wray has a solution. going forward, he said, fbi employees will receive professional antibias training. now, that might not make. the criminal investigations less corrupt, but it will definitely bring a heightened sense of sensitivity to questions of transgender bathrooms and toxic masculinity. that might make you feel better. fox chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has been on this from the very beginning and joins us now with a report. what would you say is the sum of the impression that you get of director comey from this report, catherine? >> well, this is the report right here, tucker. and it's, as you mentioned, over 500 pages long. and the bottom line with director comey is that the inspector general found that he was insubordinate when he made that july 2016 public statement about the clinton email case where director comey recommended against criminal charges for the mi

he's talking about the fbi. the fbi and the doj is trying to undermine an election. no one elected peter strzok. no one elected jim comey. the fact they are unresponsive to our request for information shows us they are still trying to obstruct this investigation. take on top of that the fact that you have this partisanship inside the fbi. then you have 13 partisan hacks, whether they are hillary clinton donors or dnc donors that are part of the mueller investigation. if you are going to do an investigation, get out the partisanship. there is a lot of investigators, prosecutors who haven't given any money to any political candidate so we can trust these investigations. this is insane stuff. we have to clean house. charles: strzok insinuated there was some sort of insurance policy to stop trump. some say maybe it was the actions he took to divert people away from the hillary clinton email scandal to the russian probe. the good news among all of this is our economy. particularly in states like wisconsin. i think this is resonating with the general public more than capit

the fbi is out of control. the current director chris wray acknowledged as much today at the press conference. luckily wray has a solution. going forward, he said, fbi employees will receive professional antibias training. now, that might not make the criminal investigations less corrupt, but it will definitely bring a heightened sense of sensitivity to questions of transgender bathrooms and toxic masculinity. that might make you feel better. fox chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has been on this from the very beginning and joins us now with a report. what would you say is the sum of the impression that you get of director comey from this report, catherine? >> well, this is the report right here, tucker. and it's as you mentioned over 500 pages long. and the bottom line with director comey is that the inspector general found that he was insubboard nant when he made that july 2016 public statement about the clinton email case where director comey recommended against criminal charges for the mis

fbi agent 2. i'm numb. later, same day, "i'm so stressed about what i could have done differently ". last one. day after the election attorney 2. i can't imagine the systematic disassembly of the progress that we made the last eight years. the affordable care act is gone. who knows if the rhetoric about deporting people and crap is true. i feel like there's going to be a lot more gun issues, too. general, do you believe in the tooth fairy? >> nope. >> do you believe in the easter bunny? >> nope. >> do you believe that jimmy ho hoffa died of natural causes? >> not based on what i read. >> do you honestly believe that the american people are doing to look at this report and look at those e-mails and not believe that there was bias and people acting on bias and that the fix was in at the fbi? >> i completely understand the concerns, senator and that's why we laid this out here and that's why we found that it impacts the credibility of the handling of the investigation and the -- what we say here is not, as sen

what comey did with the fbi and lynch before that handcuffed the fbi and the doj. the question is -- that's one in one bucket. comey's truthfulness in regard to his book and interactions with donald trump are in a different bucket. comey puts republicans and democrats in difficult situations. >> laura: why do you think comey did not tell loretta lynch about this july press conference? >> it's incredible. there is not one criminal prosecutor at the federal level that works at the fbi. they work at the dolenc. -- doj. he can to consult with the doj. why didn't lynch recuse herself. -- doj. he can to consult with the doj. why didn't lynch recuse herself? no need for comey to become the investigator. that's a bad mix. loretta lynch said i will accept the fbi's recommendation and the fbi took and it ran beyond that. >> laura: sal, your reaction to this leak. he was insubordinate. maybe you have heard this word used to describe a high ranking government official other than someone in the military. you don't usually hear that. what is that? defying protocol? is this just

they were pulling them up the fbi devices. they each had their own fbi phones. they were pulling them. as we got these texts and found these concerning messages in 2017, we then asked the fbi for all their text messages. when we got all their text message, as you know, we found a window, a period of several months. >> right. >> there was zero. we then went and got their phones and said, okay, if the fbi isn't collecting them, we're going to try to extract them from the phones. we did a first run through using our cyber forensics capabilities, collected material. we then went to our outside vender to see what else that contractor had. we did another go round with some additional tools and found more. we then went to the defense department, same thing. >> yeah, i'm thankful that he yielded me time, but i got the gist of it. you had to jump through all kinds of hoops to retrieve it. the point is when you did get it, mr. rosenstein decided we couldn't get it until your report came out. he sat on it for a month of time? >> i can't speak to how they -- >> it's not the

do --id the drg or fbi ?oj or fbi do >> i am not permitted to discuss any classified information in an open setting, but i can assure you we are working with oversight committees and producing relevant evidence. >> did the obama administration direct anybody to make contact with anybody associated with the trump campaign? >> i understand your interest. i am not permitted to discuss this. >> the american people need to know where the counter were thence powers -- counter intelligence powers unleashed inappropriately? we talk about the mueller investigation, it is really the rosenstein investigation. memo saying comey should be fired. you signed a extension for carter page. so it seems like you should be recused from this more than jeff sessions, because you were involved in both decisions. why haven't you done that? you if it wase appropriate for me to recuse, i would be more than happy to do so. and let's unveiled handle this. -- and let somebody else handle this. >> the ig report makes it clear jim gummi sho

number two, the text messages between fbi agent peter strzok and fbi lawyer lisa page, this hung like a cloud over the clinton email investigation. the inspector general found that there was no documented evidence that political bias infected the clinton email investigation. in other words, that it change the steps they took me investigation. prior to comey's statements in july 2016. last month, a new text message was uncovered between strzok and page where they talked about stopping donald trump. the inspector general said that in the latter stages of the email case, agent strzok made the priority of the russia investigation are not the clinton emails command that explained why there was such a delay to go through a newly discovered emails that were found in late september on anthony weiner's laptop that he shared with his wife, clinton aide, huma abedin. on attorney general loretta lynch, the inspector general found she showed bad judgment when she met with bill clinton on the arizona tarmac in june of 2016 and that she clearly did not understand the implications and sort of the bad

the disclosure of fbi attorney one and fbi attorney two. i think you said they did not want that divulged because they worked in counterintelligence. >> yes. >> but you know who the people are? >> correct. >> and i would say based on your report i know who they are, and -- and what i guess i'm concerned about is you know that they don't work for the counterintelligence division. >> well, two of the agents do. >> i'm talking about attorneys. >> there's justice. >> you had a dialogue between attorney one and two. >> correct. >> those two attorneys, do they not work for trish anderson. >> they work in the office of general counsel. >> one of those attorneys be sally moyer? >> i'm going to defer to -- >> but they don't work in counterintelligence. if that's the reason the fbi is gisk, they're giving you false information because they work for the general counsel. >> they were talking about -- >> is the other one kevin kline bringing some they were talking about the other attorney there that we have. there are text messages in here that they wer

doj and fbi. fox news also obtained an inspector general, testifying supporting documents, a memo from that committee here. in this memo it does say there is evidence that a foreign actor was able to hack into hillary clinton's open email server and have access to at least one email that was labeled secret. a number of lawmakers very concerned. we'll hear more as we go through this 500 page report that has been released by the inspector general's off. ashley? ashley: edward, thank you very much. we'll come back to edward as more details come out as we poor through 500 pages of report. joining me for the initial summation, fox news senior judicial analyst, judge andrew napolitano. judge, so he deviated what would be considered norms with regard to procedure. he was even insubordinate but no political bias. my question is, so what? >> my response is so what. if this is the most damning part of the report about jim comey he should go out with his wife and celebrate tonight. there is nothing new here.

fbi material. the fbi has indicated that. one might of had classified information in it. i can imagine the inspector general saying okay, that's fine. feel you can remove any files you want and lick them to the media. that train is going to come and it's not going to be good for comey. >> bret: the first story and the one that's gotten a lot of attention, with the administration is doing, what democrats are doing, what congress can or should do on this case with separating parents and children along the border. >> it's a sad story because as usual in washington, there is truth and falsity on both sides. everyone spinning this and in the middle are these kids. the fact is the administration does not have to separate the kids from their mothers. that's a choice. it's a policy choice. it's also true that this issue has been forced by a change in policy to treat these as criminal matters. something many citizens support. donald trump was brought to power because he pledged to get tough on immigration.

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learning that the anti-fbi trump hater, peter strzok is escorted from fbi headquarters, why does he still have a job? james comey under investigation, andrew mccabe may face criminal charges. robert mueller's pitch hunt has been exposedtor rampant huge political bias as the origins of the so-called investigation were clearly illegitimate. president trump has been vindicated. less an week since the inspeckior general's r is released but there's clear evidence there is a deep state in the country and it's slowly crumb nling before our eyes. definitely without a doubt as i predicted the year of the boomerang much the i.g. michael horowitz back on the hill in an extremely contentious hearing. we have all of the highlights and we'll roll out the rampant bias from the lead investigator, peter strzok, destroyed any credibility that has surrounded mueller's partisan witch hunt. news about rod rosenstein and his ongoing obstruction and mueller's pit bull, an dry weissmann, he's the subject of freedom of information lawsuit surrounding his bias. was at hillary's so-called victory party. the united

learning that the anti-fbi trump hater, peter strzok is escorted from fbi headquarters, why does he still have a job? james comey under investigation, andrew mccabe may face criminal charges. robert mueller's pitch hunt has been exposed for rampant huge political bias as the origins of the so-called investigation were clearly illegitimate. president trump has been vindicated. less an week since the inspector general's r is released but there's clear evidence there is a deep state in the country and it's slowly crumbling before our eyes. definitely without a doubt as i predicted the year of the boomerang much the i.g. michael horowitz back on the hill in an extremely contentious hearing. we have all of the highlights and we'll roll out the rampant bias from the lead investigator, peter strzok, destroyed any credibility that has surrounded mueller's partisan witch hunt. news about rod rosenstein and his ongoing obstruction and mueller's pit bull, an dry weissmann, he's the subject of freedom of information lawsuit surrounding his bias. was at hillary's so-called victory party. the united st