kgb disinformation. fort deet rubbing, maryland, millions of people still believe that to this day. kgb disinformation. vladimir putin is the heir to uri andropov both as the head of russian intelligence and as the strongman leader of russia. and, garrett, there's a straight line that runs through these stories from the end of world war ii to today. people think the cold war was then in the 20 century, and this nightmare we're going through now with russia attacking our democracy, that's a whole different story. they're one story. >> so one of the things about the book that struck me was that, or you know, you have written so much about the cia before creates a lot of its successes and myriad failures. i'm not spoiling the thesis of a book called "legacy of ashes," but your sort of general belief has been that there are more failures on the cia's books than successes. i'm curious how this project and looking at this 12 years later changed your perception of the cia, changed your belief in how in the role

and that, russian disinformation was contained within the steel dossier? >> mister chairman first let me say. i will answer a question this way. i think the inspector general's report, about the crossfire hurricane investigation, describes conduct that i consider unacceptable, and representative of who the fbi is as an organization and cannot be allowed to be repeated. i've and to blunted over 40 corrective measures to address those issues. some of which you're touching on is relevant as well to the ongoing john durham investigation, which which we are fully cooperating even to the point of having agents who are working on it with him. i want to be a little bit careful about how i win on that. of course as you know, the justice department has concluded that the carter page applications at least after that date, should not have been submitted. i believe -- of course all of this happened before he became fbi director. the doj officials who around at the time have now said they would not have signed those applications. i think to some extent that speaks for i