those are strong words from andrew mccabe. >> andrew mccabe and his wife were cascaded on twitter and we are now finding that andrew mccabe had it right. he saw threats and he addressed by opening the russian intelligence case bysi putting trump's name in the title of that case and the ig saying he did it right. >> julia ainsley, any action coming in from william barr is really taking the 23-month long mueller investigation and pre-spinning it asn it came ou and i afterwards being derogato about its fiendings. >> strong reaction from the attorney general. he's already saying this report really questions the legitimacy of the investigation which is not what the in spespector says. >> spstop, stop, where does it come from? >> i will read you his words. >> the inspector general reports now makes clear that the fbi launched the intrusive investigation of the u.s. presidential campaign onof the thinnest ofn suspicions that i my view were insufficient to justify the accepts taken. the attorney general disagreeing with his inspector general. there was no evidence of political bias and openin

but fbi officials including comey and andrew mccabe did push to put the answer trump steel file thaton's campaign, they put it in intelligence committee assessment on russia election meddling, they knew by then that his own source was undercutting him, that he cannot be believed, he exaggerates. that that source was surprised that this rumor which was just over beers even made into steel file. go ahead. >> i think that is exactly what were talking about. his idea that the information was unreliable but people are coming forward with a mix of representation of how much they are relying on the steele dossier because how embarrassing it turns out to be at this point is it criminal? >> wikileaks get the dnc hacked e-mails and release them. the democrats go into action, they get the opposition research that the dnc and hillary clinton campaign helped fund then they help get it and it did launch, it was a counterintelligence operation that got launched into trump russia collision probe and they knew it was fake. >> we have to be able to hold people accountable it is not just mistakes being

isn't that pretty high-level pressure by peter struck, lisa page, and andrew mccabe? >> there was certainly that effort exactly as you described. what ultimately happens is mccabe speaks with the head of national security division about it. so they ultimately don't need to do what they're talking about here. but that is absolutely what they're talking about. >> i want to go back to pick up a little bit what senator lankford was talking about with bruce orr. these are quotes in your report by senior department of justice and fbi officials describing orr's interactions. these are descriptions of how these officials thought about. outside of orr's lane, they were stunned, they were uncomfortable with it, out of the norm, bad idea, raised red flags, flabbergasted. fbi should have alerted doj. shocking. inconceivable. those are a lot of senior department of justice fbi officials. what's interesting is how andrew mccabe respondped. he said, here's the responsible thing to do. how do you explain that discrepancy from most of the fbi and department of justice officials and and

andrew mccabe, director clapper mentioned the durham probe, this is by john durham, a u.s.ed by barr. and he also issued a statement yesterday saying, with respect, in effect, i disagree with the ig report's finding. and by the way, we have been able to take advantage of international sources of information and intelligence. so we're waiting to see what comes out of that investigation. are you concerned that that probe might include criminal referrals? >> i'm not, jim. i'm not concerned about mr. durham's investigation for the same reasons i was confident about what would come out of the ig's investigation. we all -- those of us that were involved in the investigation knew from the beginning that there was no political bias involved. we knew there was no coup. we knew we didn't start a hoax. so the findings yesterday were really a confirmation of what we've believed all along. and i carry that same confidence into whatever mr. durham will find. i thought it was remarkable that he commented on the ig's investigation in such a negative way. that's certainly not something we'v

james comey and andrew mccabe. judge jeanine: this guy clinesmith who is a low-level fbi lawyer. he quotes, viva la resistance. what do you think is going to happen, do you think they will go through the impeachment? it seems like they will. will they pay a price for that? >> i certainly think so. i think they will pay a price at the polls. you know better than i do about up things. a lot of is is a defensive mechanism. they are worried about the horowitz report and the john durham investigation. judge jeanine: congratulations on the book. next, i'm going to introduce you to an american hero. one i got to meet personally this week. we'll be right back. this time of year, what do you give? when it's your extra concert, game or special event tickets to vet tix, you're giving our nation's service members and veterans an amazing experience they'll cherish forever. this holiday season, don't just give... vet tix. give something to those who gave. for more information on how you can make a difference right now, go to vettix.org. >> finally tonight the honor of meeting a true american h

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i'm representing my client. >> andrew mccabe is here.w how i feel about the issue of what client? are you paying? are you working pro bono? i think it's going to matter in terms of privilege and understanding his role in this and understanding what he was really doing. however, if you could put rudy giuliani in a worse place and saying worse things right now, vis-a-vis his client's interest, could you come up with a worse combination? >> you would not. if you are at all engaged in trying to help this president navigate this crisis in his presidency, getting through the impeachment process, the one place on earth you don't want rudy giuliani is in ukraine, taking documents from a known corrupt politician about joe biden and having those pictures on the internet. it's unbelievable. >> and tweeting. you better help with the biden efforts. it will not get united states assistance in his anti-corruption efforts. he is speaking for the united states as the president's lawyer, but maybe not. he also says he's working for the state department or

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but andrew mccabe overruled that decision. did you ever find out why? >> we talk about that in the report, page 64 and 65 about that very issue. he recalls that issue, described mr. mccabe, we have his explanation in there. didn't precisely recall certain events, remembered other events. we laid out in terms of selecting -- he described it having mr. strzok stay on the investigation. >> on august 25th, he was directed to contact the new york office for helpful information. it turned out the helpful information was the steele reporting. did you ever get to the bottom of how andrew mccabe was so far ahead of the rest of the fbi in that? >> again, we asked witnesses about that, including mr. mccabe and we had -- ultimately weren't able to get to the bottom of exactly what caused that delay or what prompted that call. >> mccabe told people he didn't remember doing this. in fact, mccabe told your team he did not remember details about 26 significant events in your report. did you find his memory lapses credible? >> he seemed to be pretty involved in this inve

andrew mccabe, jim baker, thank you for being with me tonight.s not over for you guys because you're stuck in a political vortex but i'm sure it's validating to clear out some of the fog that the president has put over the agency and you both personally. it is always an honor to me to have those men on my show. they are good men, they did a good job and and now you have the inspector general back. it became a metaphor for this deep state nonsense. his lawyer is here next. what is strzok's take, what does the report mean, what is the reality, next. introducing new vicks vapopatch easy to wear, with soothing vicks vapors for her, for you, for the whole family. new vicks vapopatch. breathe easy. that's why xfinity mobile lets you design your own data. you can share 1, 3, or 10 gigs of data between lines, mix in lines of unlimited, and switch it up at any time. all with millions of secure wifi hotspots and the best lte everywhere else. it's a different kind of wireless network, designed to save you money. switch and save up to $400 a year on your wir

i am back with the former fbi deputy director, andrew mccabe.irector, you're mentioned in this report many times and you know all about what happened. so now we have tonight the top law enforcement officer in the country, bill barr, coming out and saying his own inspector general report is wrong and basically calling it a farce. seriously, can you believe this? >> i can't, erin, i really can't. i've never seen anything like it. typically at this point an attorney general would step forward and acknowledge the work of his or her ig and then immediately address what steps they were going to take to address the recommendations in the report. in this case, attorney general barr has decided instead of doing any of that to attack the report and then to continue to flog this false narrative about fbi leadership malfeasance and suggestions of echoing back to all the worst tropes of the deep state conspiracy. look, we have to acknowledge the fact that he does this for one reason. it is a narrative that is politically important to the president. and the a

joining me now former department of justice inspector general, and a man who happens to be andrew mccabe's lawyer. what's your thoughts on the scope and what turned out to be dramatic and force m -- forceful conclusions from mr. horowitz yesterday in. >> it was a broad vindication of not only mr. mccabe but the top leadership of the fbi and the fbi as a whole as having an authorized purpose for the investigation and a valid factual predicate for it. those are the two fundamental conclusions that the ig came to, and it seems supported by the facts. 170 interviews of 100 witnesses. 1 million pages of documents. these are not conclusions that were arrived at quickly or easily. it was the result of a lot of hard work by a dedicated career staff and inspector general's office. >> i want to ask you a little more -- i think people who haven't worked in government don't understand what an ig is, how independent they are and they have their own staff. they maintain their independence by being staffed from the bottom to the top by independent investigators. i wonder if you can explain that. >> sure,

he's in discussions with andrew mccabe, he's crying.ays maybe i should wear a wire to record the president and as reported in this book, he said it twice. and in one of the meetings someone was taking notes. and so rod rosenstein's public claim was that was a joke or his friends said it was a joke and your witnesses say there was no evidence that was a joke. that was serious. >> that's right. he said it was a joke but if he did it was a joke. no one thought it was a joke. and there were two occasions when he said it. there were notes of the conversation. so there was more than one set of notes documenting that. there's nothing to suggest it was a joke. he's also denied saying he wanted to invoke the 25th amendment. but there are also witnesses to that conversation. and he even named two cabinet level people who were going to support that, namely john kelly, the chief of staff, and sessions, the attorney general. >> the 25th amendment requires a majority of the cabinet plus the vice president. so he was going to begin with jeff sessions

andrew mccabe, former deputy director of the fbi, and former fbi general counsel jim baker. gentlemen, good to have you as always. >> thanks, chris. >> good to be here, chris. >> andrew, what does it mean to new. >> you know, it means a lot, chris. it's not a happy day quite honestly because this is something that we have expected and been waiting for for two years. i knew that we had not ever done anything wrong, so to see the i.g. embrace the unavoidable facts of no bias in the investigation, an investigation that was adequately predicated for an authorized purpose and in fact one that we thought we would be guilty of dereliction of duty had we not begun it, it is satisfying to finally see those words in print. >> jim, did you anticipate this a.g. coming out and raining on his own agency's parade? >> no, i didn't. i probably should have given the statements he made about the mueller investigation. but i did not see that one coming quite frankly, and it was disappointing given, as andy was saying, the conclusions are quite clear that the president's statements over these pas

andrew mccabe was fired from the fbi for lying four times.nk we have a graphic about his various alleged lies. now of course he sued the government saying you wrongfully terminated me. right. look at those lies on the left behind side of your screen. is this a subterfuge? >> he was in the chain of command that approved this bad fisa. it was on his watch that a lot of these omissions and outright lies were presented to the court. these legal stunts on the side are just a distraction. he and james comey tried to pretend they weren't in this line of approval, yet they were deeply involved. they took this case out of the field and took it into headquarters. now it's time for them to be held accountable. andrew mccabe and james comey were at the head of this machine. so far they have been able to bob and weave. it's time for the courts and attorney general barr to mete out some discipline. gregg: the attorney general is seeking john brennan's communications, and i think that would precede the investigation it sell. are they looking into brennan as

no one better to ask than former fbi deputy director, andrew mccabe. >> thank you. always a pleasure. so you handed it to him. this executive summary, this list of 17 wrongs from the the inspectser general makes the case that the fbi was out to get him. one of the pieces is the attorney general feeling the same way. i want you to hear his reckoning of why the fbi didn't give him a defensive briefing. >> they didn'tb do, what i think, would be normally done under the circumstances. which is to go to the campaign. and there are people in the campaign that can be trusted, including a member of the senate judiciary committee and the governor of new jersey, former u.s. attorney. >> his case is clear. you didn't like him, so you left him out there hanging but you took care of clinton. >> this is far from the normal situation you would giveb a defensive briefing to a campaign about. if you heard a campaign was being targeded and-no reason to believe the campaign knew or someone can courtedinating, you would do a defensive briefing. >> that was clinton? >> that was clinton.

no one better to ask than former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. andrew, thank you.lways a pleasure. >> sure. >> so you handed it to him. this executive summary, this list of 17 wrongs from the inspector general makes the case for the president and his defenders that the fbi was out to get him. now, one of the pieces of it is the attorney general feeling the same way. i want you to hear his reckoning of why the fbi didn't give the president a defensive briefing the way they did hillary clinton. listen to this. >> okay. >> they didn't do, i think, what would normally be done under those circumstances, which is to go to the campaign, and certainly there were people in the campaign that could be trusted, including a member of the senate judiciary committee and the governor of new jersey, former u.s. attorney. >> his case is clear. you didn't like him, so you left him out there hanging, but you took care of clinton. fair criticism? >> not a fair criticism. so here's how that works. this was far from the normal situation that you would brief -- give a defensive briefing t

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she's a former fbi lawyer, special counsel to deputy fbi director andrew mccabe.a page has been the target of unrelenting attacks from president trump and his allies ever since the justice department published her personal text messages two years ago. this is her first television interview since leaving the fbi last year. miss page, thanks very much for being here. >> thanks so much for having me. >> i want to talk to you about a million different things but let me just ask you if i got anything wrong in terms of sketching what i understand is the broad outlines of your career there. >> no, not particularly. i wasn't -- i wouldn't want to take credit for boston or snowden. it's really how i met andy mccabe, through the boston bombing and then through the work post-snowden and assisting the white house in the post-intelligence reforms. but i can't say i played an investigative role in either one of those. >> so you were involved in the response to those incidents but you don't want to take more credit than you deserve for having been involved in those -- >> that's

early in 2016 she was working a special case to fbi director andrew mccabe. she worked on the clinton e-mail investigation. that same year she would also play a smaller role in the russia investigation. and when that became the mueller investigation she briefly worked on that team as well. but in the summer of 2017 after james comey was fired by the president as fbi director, after robert mueller was appointed special counsel, after all that was all under way lisa page was told at the fbi she was under investigation herself for political text messages. in a groundbreaking interview that lisa page just did with molly jonfast at the daily beast page described viscerally what it was like to have her text messages discovered and investigated by the inspector general. she said, quote, at the end of the july in 2017 i was informed by the doj inspector general's office i was under investigation for political text messages. and honestly at the time i have no idea what they're talking about and initially they're very coy about it. they don't tell me umuch about it. wh

i'll get reaction from a andrew mccabe. we want to welcome our viewers in the the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> break news tonight as president trump is just hours away from impeachment. he's unloading in an angry rambling letter to nancy pelosi. it's six pages filled attacks on democrats accusing them of an illegal attempt. pelosi is calling the letter ridiculous and really sick. president's most telling remark may be what he said in the oval office earlier today taking zero responsibility for his actions leading to this grave and divisive moment in american history. the full house scheduled to vote on two articles of impeachment tomorrow. the ground rules are being hammered out in econocommittee tonight. the president is venting. he's denying any blame as impeachment is about to become a reality. >> reporter: impeachment is becoming and president trump is taking some very personal swipes at democrats as the house is one day away from this impeachment vote. the pr

of time to rehearse their answers to the question or excuse for example on significant issues andrew mccabe told investigators 26 times he did not recall some of those involved claim vindication as a result of the report i appreciate ms. horowitz testimony last week reporting it doesn't then dictated anybody at the fbi that touch this including the leadership are finally i would argue the process for investigating and adjudicating alleged crime is completely backward. the oversight of public awareness is the last step of the process instead of the first. those investigations are the primary excuse for documents of oversight and public disclosure with the improper investigation of those scandals congress should increase the stance and early in the process. this would result in more timely transparency while having this adversarial process with balance and fairness they can be referred to for further investigation to prevent the fair adjudication by the justice department to be appointed only as a last resort, not a first i'm sure we will spend crossfire hurricane investigation and inspector

let's take a look at it with our in-house investigator andrew mccabe. andrew, thank you so much for being with us tonight, very important. the first question i don't know if either of us know the answer to and i'm going to ask it to a member of the committee later in the show. these phone logs never came up during the testimony. do you think that -- couldn't be an oversight. was there some kind of rule about what could be asked about and what couldn't in that testimony? >> i doubt it, chris. i don't think so. as we've said many times before, this is an impeachment, it's not a criminal proceeding, not a grand jury proceeding. so, in other words, if the phone records were obtained through grand jury subpoenas, there would be some restrictions on how you could publicize that information that's protected by grand jury secrecy. none of that really applies here. i think other factors may have led the committee to stay away from the phone records in those public hearings. first and foremost, many of the folks that are captured on the phone records didn't actual

let's turn defies abuse, andrew mccabe blaming it on the lowest level of fbi agents as did jim comeyh his seven layers below him. listen to what andrew mccabe said. >> the biggest mistake i think is a process that was in place essentially left so much responsibility on the lowest level of fbi agents involved in those mistakes are baked in and become very hard for the many, many layers of oversight to uncover. lou: fred, that's about as chicken whatever as it gets. this is one of the leaders of the fbi blaming the rank-and-file for his actions and those of his colleagues at the top of the manure pile. >> the head of the fisa court made a remarkable statement today scolding the fbi and the justice department and frankly she was not angry because of the mistakes or errors she knows the court was lied to, misled with open tory information deliberately withheld. lou: why play pattycake, why not get warrants out for people's arrest. that is criminal conduct. >> intelligence was weapon nice to hurt this president, this was not a mistake, this was criminal misconduct and i don't agree with w

and later, a look at cable interviews with andrew mccabe and lisa page. did they get off easy?oward: rudy giuliani went to ukraine with a reporter for one american news, functioning almost as a cohost. language not usually heard in a news report. >> we talked to witnesses who destroy adam schiff's base lis impeachment case. -- baseless impeachment case. democratic 'em peoplement delusions and nefarious charms against giuliani. giuliani debunks some central premises. howard: giuliani acknowledged he led an effort to oust marie yovanovitch because he viewed her as disloyal. he confirmed to the new york times he gave his information to mike pompeo and believes she should have been fired. as for the new yorker story? >> now, this hit piece -- and it's a hit piece -- also has you on the record admitting that you forced out marie yovanovitch. you said you needed her out of the way, but you're personal attorney for the president, why did you need her out of the way? >> i forced her out because she's corrupt. howard: so was rudy giuliani confirming he forced her out? doesn't this show

he was in close communication with andrew mccabe.ow andrew mccabe had meetings with lisa page as well as peter strzok. they wanted to stop the president. they wanted to coup the president of the united states. this is what they wanted, and this is what they did. laura, this was not their first rodeo and the fisa court knows that. they knew they had applications in there fudged by the fbi. this was supposed to be there top brass. this was supposed to be there top brass. so how can sba or chris wray chris wray say nobody made a mistake when premier agent made more than 17 errors? >> laura: how does christopher wray say? he's like to stockpile on the fbi. >> it might be unfair to christopher wray and others but a wholesale change who's running the agencies because this is simply corrupt. i want to go back to what dinesh d'souza said. if there was no political bias on spying on team trump why was the team trump only spied on? how many democratic presidential candidates or presidents were spied on? this is obvious what is happening here w

whether it's brennan or andrew mccabe.n-biased commentators. while i respect their service to the country and you cross that line, you are no longer offering objective commentary, you are peddling disinformation. liz: greenwald says the reports of fisa warrants were not based on the steele dossier. the i.g. report is showing devin nunes was pretty much right. and cnn contributor, andrew mccabe, he knew the problems. why didn't you report the problems on cnn? >> they should be looking at that hiring and the role that person is playing in this overall campaign. we have seen this time and time again with the media going with their prebaked narrative. they will do whatever it takes to make that the reality. ebb if the news and the facts don't lead that way. they are no different than the fbi agents who held the facts back to keep their investigations going. the media is doing the same thing. liz: if the president ran through the red light with the ukraine issue, then he should be called out on it. we questioned whether the fac

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the 39 page report that examined andrew mccabe. this president and his attorney general are distorting fact and playing with the system. but the truth is just not that complicated. people around this president have been up to no good from the start. the institutions that are designed to catch that worked. the only question is what should be the consequence. now, the smears never stop. the president is still peddling lies tonight now about the fbi. just a little. >> they spied on our campaign, okay. lives have been destroyed by scum, okay, by scum. >> he calls the fbi scum. i never imagined a president and he just keeps disappointing. there is no proof of spying, zero, and we'll take you through it with an fbi vet who is owed an apology by our president next. a lot of folks ask me why their dishwasher doesn't get everything clean. i tell them, it may be your detergent... that's why more dishwasher brands recommend cascade platinum. it's specially-designed with the soaking, scrubbing and rinsing built right in. cascade platinum's uni

joining us now is andrew mccabe, t thanks for being here. >> sure. >> michael horowitz found no biastigation was launched. period. >> full stop. >> okay. however, the fisa application process he said was a mess. and he said that everyone all the way up to the senior leadership which includes you is responsible. so let's listen. >> does your report vindicate mr. comey? >> it doesn't vindicate anyone at the fbi who touched this including the leadership. >> does it vindicate mr. mccabe? >> same answer. >> your response? >> well, certainly people in charge of organizations are ultimately responsible for the things those organizations do. that would include director comey and i in this issue as well. however, i think it's really important for your viewers to understand how this works in the fbi. essentially each case is run by a case agent. and the responsibility for the development of the investigation and particularly important here, the verification of facts that go into a fisa package, that happens at the case agent level between he and his first level supervisor. once that case is ma

joining me is andrew mccabe, the former deputy director of the fbi.r audience, you cannot talk about the contents of the ig report. the details of what's inside it. you are legally bound not to because you have reviewed portions of it because you were interviewed for it. however, you can talk about "the washington post" story this morning which is that the attorney general of the united states will apparently disagree with one of the key findings that has been reported inside the report that the fbi investigation was properly predicated. what does it mean that the attorney general disagrees with that? >> well, it's really fascinating, john. i can say in the course of my -- the entirety of my experience in the fbi, i dealt with many reports from investigators and from the ig's office. and i have never seen an attorney general essentially preempt the conclusions of an ig report. but this attorney general, with this attorney general, it seems oddly familiar. the report in "the washington post" really kind of takes us back to the way the attorney general

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i would imagine that if i was andrew mccabe, or if i was james comey -- and by the way,,i usually say to j. edgar hoover. he is given a hoover has run for his money. he has really distinguish himself for stinking at that job. >> bret: speaking of said former fbi director, here is a throwback from "special report," april 2018. >> bret: when did you learn that the dnc and the clinton campaign had funded christopher steele's work? >> isolate on that for a fact. >> bret: what do you mean? >> i've only seen that in the media. my understanding is the activity was begun, that steele was hired to look into, first bonded by republicans, then picked up -- the important thing was, picked up by democrats opposed to donald trump. >> bret: did you want to know who it was funded by? >> i wanted to know what i knew, it was funded by people politically opposed to donald trump. >> bret: in the report, fbi and department officials told us the steele report push the fisa proposal over the line in terms of establishing probable cause. fbi leadership supported relying on steele's reporting to seek a fisa o

. >> martha: do you know if he has spoken to john brennan, james clapper, andrew mccabe?re they included in the investigation? >> i am actually not following it closely to know who he is talking to. >> martha: would you expect that they would be included based on the leadership issues that you have brightened up about to the intelligence agencies? >> i don't want to speculate on how he will take the investigation. >> martha: we learned a lot about the fisa abuse situation. do you believe that durham's investigation is broader scope in terms of the intelligence agency better being looked at? >> oh, yes. he is not just looking at the fbi. he is looking at other agencies and also private and departments, and also private actors. so it is a much broader investigation. and also, he is not just looking at the fisa aspect of it. he is looking at all the conduct, both before and after the election. >> martha: with that include the cia? nsa? >> it would include agencies that could have been involved in this. but we are getting a lot of cooperation from those agencies. you have to

andrew mccabe is here. it's good to see you as always. to the side because the president, he doesn't care about the institution. he doesn't care about now necessary or acceptable something is. if it's getting a bad result where he has an interest, it's going to be treated this way. that's who he is. put the adjective to the side. you guys hid exonerating -- big word. i'm not making fun of the president. that means you had proof of innocence on this president and you hid it. i don't see that in the ig report. >> that's because it's not there. that's not what the ig report concludes. the ig report found numerous and significant mistakes with the fisa, with the initiation and the three renewals that came behind it. the sort of mistakes that were made were representing a certain fact, later finding out through investigation that fact might not be true and failing to point that out to the court. so things that went to the balance between derogatory information about the subject of the application and information that tended to -- tends to show

also, the report shows, and we have some graphics made, top fbi officials james comey and andrew mccabe who were at the fbi at the time did not act with political bias. the investigation was properly predicated but there are several of missions and inaccuracies in the phis application. there are 17 significant errors of omission in the carter page phis application. there was an audit today and this is significant, by the department of justice inspector general to look into the future fisa processes to prevent future errors that we have seen today and there are some errors. the fbi did rely on that steele dossier with salacious information about now president trump for the carter page application but did not press christopher steele the man behind the dossier for his funding source. a low level fbi attorney took part of an email from another government official and put it into an email used for the page application and that did not affect the overall validity of the application. basically, what we can tell from this document, there are parts that democrats will celebrate, there are parts

that's a problem. >> okay i am seeing andrew h mccabe's fingers all over this thing. i'm also seeing him saying can't recall toy six times on significant issues. i am not buying it. bulimic aback to state department involvement i understand you are limited but iim want to ask them questions are you aware of why high-level officials meeting with steel and forwarding his report to the fbi customer choir were they? >> nothing i can say isan from speaking with ms. cavallaro, it was because she thought she had to tell them because they needed to know. but as to the others why they're doing what they're doing i do not know. >> did you have any meeting notes or documentation on those contacts? >> we obtain certain information from the state department for like ms. kadlec's notes on variable speak with her. >> you did requesting interview with jonathan weiner. >> correct. >> do you know why he wouldn't cooperate. >> i do not know. >> why did you and to interview him what information did you think you knew. >> his information about his and involvement we wanted to tie off the

st tand once you get the ball rolling, you know, the probe, we didn't get a witness and it was andrew mccabe in for, it was a couple of months but once we get deputy director mccabe in, a couple of weeks later, we got director comey, chief of staff. a couple of weeks later, the witnesses start. once you get the ball rolling, again, not always 100% of the terms. somtimes deal with agency imes lin camera, but once you get the ball rolling, usually, it leads to positive results and historically, has allowed the congress to do its work. >> and were any of those things done here? >> no. >> in fact, they decided, we're not going to subpoena certain people that are important. is that fair to say? and we're not going to go to court and enforce them. so these people, these folks caught in the interbranch struggle. and that's an unfortunate position for any employee. >> one of the concerning things. dr. cufferman who has been described by dr. fiona hill and a number of witnesses as a solid citizen, a good witness, he filed a lawsuit in the face of the subpoena and a judge was assigned to a judge leon.

director james comey and andrew mccabe do you feel vindicated tonight that this report concludes that you did the right thing. you know as i said i've known all 'd along that we did the right thing not just me but the group of people that i worked with at the f.b.i. the f.b.i. fulfilled his mission protecting the american people and the pulled in the u.s. constitution however what they seem to be saying about how they've been vindicated and how the f.b.i. did nothing wrong doesn't seem to match what's being said by inspector general horowitz james comey said this way. the your report vindicates him is a fierce winter. you know i think the activities we found here don't and vindicate anybody who touched this all the horowitz or for it seems to join many recent reports in washington d.c. that were expected to clarify points of disagreement between trump and his opponents and just like many of these other reports while it was expected to shed some light and bring some clarity to the issue it's simply up for interpretation with trump's supporters seeing their report one way and traps crit