durham you knew? >> you know, i would love to get durham under oath or have him testify before congress as to the level of involvement and engagement by barr. think about the time when international travel, where the down time you have on the plane you've got to eat, you've got to take walks to where you're going, you got to sit in the back of that car that's driving you, what was said? what was he tasked with? what did barr want him to do? why was barr there at all? to please masters? to please trump? again, the john durham i know, is the guy who would come out and say, i think this was inappropriate. i don't understand what's going on. the tip of the hat as you said to merrick garr, and who did the right thing and stay out of the way, 25 years in the fbi, never got a trip to italy, tried. he they wouldn't let me. i remember them saying we can't let the a.d. of counterintelligence go that long. can't do it. sorry. >> it's an amazing story, and it doesn't sound real. katie, want to bring you in, you a

durham's narrative expected. the 2016 hillary clinton campaign received preferential treatment from the fbi as compared to the trump campaign. durham states the speed and manor in which the fbi opened cross fire hurricane during the presidential election based on raw intelligence reflected a noticeable departure from how it approached prior matters involving possible attempted foreign and election interference plans aimed at the clinton campaign. an important note for the viewers, we're talking about 2016-17. this is when james comey was running the ship over at the fbi. the fbi be since director christopher wray has made a lot of changes and i'll end this with you before i send it back. the fbi put out a statement. fox news has obtained it. had those reforms been in place in 2016, the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented. neil? >> neil: just to understand what they're saying now, the fbi should have never launched this probe. the former president has said this would reveal the crime of the

at all to the durham report?> they have. christopher wray, the fbi director put out a statement saying that a lot of the changes that the fbi has made will make sure that things like this don't happen again. you know, the fbi wants to point out, jake, that a lot of the leadership, a lot of the people who were involved in decisions are in for very sharp criticism from this report, they're gone from the fbi. >> and the current fbi director was appointed by president trump, not that that has stopped him from criticizing christopher wray. let's bring in elie honig and cnn's sara murray. here it is, all 300-plus pages, elie. durham has found that the fbi should never have launched a full-blown investigation into relationships or allegations of relationships between trump, his associates in his campaign and the russian government. what's your response? >> jake, there's no surprise in that conclusion. it was a forgone conclusion from the start. let's remember how john durham came to be special counsel. in the middle of

and durham has absolutely done nothing. i think, in particular, he lacks any kind of legal or moral authority to talk about any kind of confirmation bias or political motivation when his own top aide resigned given just how politically influenced he was by attorney general barr flying around the world dining together. this was a really very poor investigation and has produced next to nothing. >> interesting. nia-malika henderson is with us as well. how much does this feed into trump's claims that the u.s. justice department and the fbi have been, in his words, weaponized? >> well, listen, i think, as you saw from donald trump's tweet, he's going to say this proves his point, that there is a deep state, that it has been out to get him for years, and he's going to pivot from this investigation or the findings from this investigation and say, the investigations that are going into him right now around the documents, around what's going on with january 6th, that those two are somehow tainted and those two are the result of this

>> what happened to durham? where's durham? and by the way, where's durham? he disappeared. >> we do not yet know what the remainder of the john durham's findings are. >> actually, now we finally do know. boy, they have been excited about this for a long time. literally for years former president trump and his allies have been invoking the name john durham or sometimes bull durham as the man who would save them and smite all of trump's enemies. for years they have been heralding the great revelations that john durham would soon reveal about trump's political opponents and the deep state, but that didn't seem to be happening. trump and his allies started pounding their ches and yelling at the clouds about why durham hadn't acted yet, why he http://yet smoked all of his trump's enemies, while they weren't democrats that weren't yet at quant tonmow. he was appointed by trump attorney general bill barr. his assignment from bill barr was to prove that when russia launched its operation to intervene in the u.s. presidentdential election in 2016 toen try to help tru

now, more from durham. fbi records prepared by strzok in february and march 2017 showed that at the time of the opening of crossfire hurricane the fbi had no information in its holdings indicating that at any time during the campaign anyone in the trump campaign had been in contact with any russian intel officials. now, despite the damning important trail, strzok is still spinning. >> this is a predictable sad ending to an investigation that never should have taken place wham we have here is john durham a u.s. attorney taking a roam traditionally reserved for criminal prosecutions and essentially writing a four-year editorial for what he and bill barr thought that donald trump wanted to hear. >> oh, does that mean he just wants to turn the page? what a fraud. now this, was rank abuse of offense and politically motivated use of federal resources. yet durham's conclusion was only that the fbi failed to up hold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law. yeah, it is outrageous this happened. it is a

i'm glad durham did what he did. think a lot of the people coming in our bill toward donald trump because there is going to be more stuff coming out. you better be worrying about the border, about our country because the illegals will take over this country. the next thing that lady needs to worry about is china buying property over here instead of worrying about digging up more stuff on donald trump. nothing that's been dug up so far stock. we need to worry about present things, not passed stuff and we need to pray. we need to get on our knees and pray. host: it's time for a couple of more callers, winston-salem, north carolina, democrat. caller: good morning. trump always said he wanted to run america like russia. people need to think about the things he had said. joe biden is a lovely age. the older he gets, the more mature he gets. i love my president. before president biden, i didn't have a president. i ran my own country. host: what do you mean you ran your own country? caller: i did what i had to do for me. tr

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the durham report.g this idea of collusion by the russians is somehow ridiculous. host: marcus in hawaii, and independent. caller: there are a few things i think should be brought up that has to do with the durham report, we are at war with russia now. that would not have happened if we had a president negotiating with his enemy. we had zelenskyy on the phone call that got trump indicted for second impeachment. a clear pay off the set up a war and trump was the guy trying to stop it. biden and the bankers, whoever, set up a condition that got trump out of power and now we are in a war because of this. no one wants to look at the fact that hillary clinton had -- murdered by turning over documents to wikileaks. hillary clinton was a criminal. she probably should have been in prison a long time ago. obama, i am not going to indict him because i did not see him as the kingpin. i am putting people behind and biden on the fire line because he was taking payoffs. that is ukraine. that is still in -- that is ze

the durham report has an effect. at a person who had to tell president trump what a golden shower was, joe biden will apologized. it hampered the presidency. we would talk about things, russia, russia, russia. the first true election where people will go to the polls knowing they were lied to about that and hunter and part of the consideration for these voters. >> harris: that election piece is really critical. democrats have to be looking down. they were willing to play with the primary and move south carolina up to get those black votes. and then we just found out that 90%, the following among black voters biden had and now he has 58% and questions have to loom why is that? and should you have moved where you thought you could get the black vote up before iowa? it is a lot going on. doug, i come to you next on this one. bud light not the only company getting a frosty reception to a woke campaign. this miller lite. >> women were among the first to brew beer ever. centuries later how did the industry pay homage to us

durham gone wild. who played ball with durham and who didn't?vernor nikki haley said heads should roll. who thinks will that happen? >> nobody. wouldn't it be nice for the agency to apologize to those whose lives were ruined and garland pick up the phone and say i'm sorry it happened and the press to admit we got it wrong. none of that will happen. people are going to get mad on our side, average everyday americans this is a generational damage to the f.b.i. it will be hard to convince anybody who is a conservative or middle of the road person the f.b.i. is on the up and up. particularly if they still got their thumb on the scale regarding the hunter biden investigation. if you don't see the damage done to the system, they just want to get trump and they don't give a damn how you do it. that's what is so sad. they are marginalizing this report that's damning to the rule of law in america. write it off because they want the outcome of destroying trump. it is a very dangerous and sad day in america when people will not take this seriously. >> bill

once again, another dud by john durham. >> a week from now we'll hardly remember the name durham.story. >> trace: the staggering thing about me, you have msnbc and cnn bringing out the liars to knock down the short. peter schiff, strzok, mccabe, wiseman. all of these people in the report and yet here they are knocking it down. >> the fbi's reputation lies in tatters. the media pushes these lies for three years and now that the report has come out, they're trying to down play it. there's a reason why -- last october, there was a "new york times" poll that showed 84% of americans consider the media to be a threat to democracy including 59% who consider it a major threat. in fact, according to that "new york times" poll, more people consider the media to be a major threat to democracy than donald trump. that's a direct result of this russian collusion conspiracy theory that they pushed on it. >> trace: mark penn, you'd think the media would be angry at all of these sources that misled them for years. >> in fact, i did a poll for the messinger that shows journalists as advocates. ever

durham, we know all of this.o, and we've made changes into what we're doing here. at the end of the day, for people watching who are trying to remember everything that got us here over the last, what, seven years or something like that, what is the takeaway? what is the end result of all of this? what do we know about collusion or alleged collusion between the trump campaign and the russians? >> i think what we know is that the trump campaign invited this help from the russians. we know from our own eyes and from watching that donald trump asked russia to help him. he did that very publicly. in doing so, brought a lot of these questions on himself. you know, people will say, oh, you know, the media did this, the fbi did this or such, but it was donald trump on the campaign stump that asked russia, you know, if you're listening, to try to help find hillary clinton's emails. and i always go back to that moment because if you were the fbi in 2016 or you were an average american watching this or you were a member of

durham's narrative expected.elieving the 2016 democrat nominee's campaign received preferential treatment. he wrote the speed and manner in which the fbi opened and investigated crossfire hurricane during the presidential election season based on raw, unanalyzed and uncorroborated intelligence also reflected a noticeable departure from how it approached prior matters involving possible attempted foreign election interference plans aimed at the clinton campaign. durham took two cases to trial. he lost them both. but a former fbi attorney did plead guilty to one minor charge. now, durham's critics, bret, have said he and bill barr, the trump attorney general who appointed him were the ones with a politically driven agenda citing a separate 2019 internal doj report concluding the investigation was, quote, justified. the fbi responding today to the report the conduct in 2016 and 2017 that special counsel durham examined was treason. the current fbi leadership already implemented dozens of corrective actions which hav

we didn't hear about him from durham.s the first thing. the second, we didn't hear anything about stephon hall perfect the fbi informant who was moonlighting as some sort of professor out of cambridge. and i think we need to understand why those people were not mentioned and why i'm so happy to see congressman jordan tweeting publicly that he's invited john durham to testify publicly is because we need accountability and transparency is needed for the american public to once again have trust in the system. >> will: yeah, congressman jordan says he wants to have durham report come before congress next week. before we go george i am curious to ask you, did you ever think, what, you sat down in a public in london to have a cocktail with a couple australian diplomats and it would lead to this? you're the start and we now know a false hood. did you ever in your wildest imaginations think that drink could lead to this? >> well, will i'm very happy that durham refuted that bogus premise because he state standard and president tr

durham's answer is no.n the report he writes the doj and fbi failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law. senior fbi personnel displayed a serious lack of analytical rigor toward the information they received. especially information received from politically affiliated persons and entities. durham says that the apparent ploy by hillary clinton's 2016 gain to then tie candidate to russia fell short to mounting of provable criminal offense but given that given intelligence the fbi should have questioned whether leads were coming from trump opponents rather than jumping to russia investigate. the fbi did offer this response, quote: the conduct that special counsel durham examined is the reason that current fbi leadership already implemented dozens of corrective actions which is v. now been in place for some sometime. had those reforms been in place in 2016 the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented. the former president reacted to this report telling fox news for

durham, cannot be overstated. thank you for joining us live temperature is 8:11 here in the east and ashley joins us. you got headlines. >> ashley: start with this, suspect in custody for the baseball bat attack on two of democratic virginia jerry connelly's staffers yesterday. one victim was an intern on her first day. could you imagine? this video of a separate rinse dent shows the suspect chasing a woman and hitting a windshield, this happened about five miles away. both victims are out of the hospital. congressman was not there at the time and says the man acted innige ra. motive for the attack is unclear. turning to biden border crisis, california considering new bill that would use taxpayer dollars to fund a $365 million program to pay unemployed migrants for up to 20 days, this as border crossings continue to surge. elementary school gym in brooklyn is being used as a temporary shelter and parents are outraged. >> we are lacking a lot of programs in the community and you take away one space our children use

the long-awaited durham investigation has just concluded.is the trump-era probe that explored the origins of the fbi's investigation into the trump campaign's ties to russia. we are joined now by cnn senior just i justin correspondent evan perez. they vowed to investigate the investigators, what did they accomplish? what more are you learning about the end of this probe? >> yeah, boris. this is now an investigation, this four years in the making and we finally have the conclusions. more than 300 pages released by the justice department. it has now been transmitted to members of congress who also are going to want to bring john durham in to review some of the findings, but the bottom line is this. the investigation found that the fbi failed in many, many ways, things that we already knew from a previous inspect or general report and i'll read you just a part of it, of john durham's con clugz. he says based on my review of related intelligence activities we conclude that the department and the fbi failed to uphold their important mission of st

we read from your big investigation into the durham probe itself in that when the new durham report cameant to actually start with you. it seems like while we are also conditioned to see the trump right realize their delusions of grandeur in durham, there couldn't have been less for them to grab on to. it really does amount to a grasping at straws. you do a good -- a very, very good sort of fact-based articulation of everything that was already established by the doj's own inspector general, mr. horowitz. there was also the senate republican intelligence -- or the senate intelligence committee report that had already knocked out a lot of the fantasies republicans had for mr. durham before he completed his work to begin with. take us inside what you report today about the reality versus the spin. >> sure. so this was an analysis piece today that you were just reading from, sort of taking a step back. i have been following this investigation closely for years. can't believe it is over finally. i think the big takeaway is, you know, i framed it as the durham investigation failed to deliver.

that coming from john durham. so john durham, we looked at the date, began in may of 2019.may 2019 by attorney general bill barr. so we're four years and two days to be exact over that date. he was special counsel in 2020. he was just the u.s. attorney for connecticut when he began. he became special counsel. we calculated as of last september, he spent over $6 million on this probe, martha. >> martha: $6 million and four years of work went into this roark by john durham. david, thank you very much. with that, we bring in brett toll man, former united states attorney for the district of utah and executive director of right on crime. bret, you followed this story from the beginning very closely. i'm looking at the other networks. there's long faces as they look at this and they put up on their screen that john durham has concluded that the fbi did not have enough substance to launch cross fire hurricane in the first place. brett? >> thanks for having me on. the first conclusion that i have, this really does confirm this was more an op than it was a valid investigation. drive

durham also criticizes doj and the fbi.hey relied on raw, unanalyzed and uncorroborated intelligence. he said they should have done more diligence before they relied on some of the things they relied on including the infamous steele dossier. durham notes there was a predisposition to investigate trump by some members on the team. durham does cite email and text exchanges between certain members of the team that cheerily show they were anti-trump and wanted him to lose the election. >> they do. we'll get to those with andy mccabe, named 60 times almost in this report what he thinks of those text messages. but before you go, there's a departure in the durham report from the mueller report. >> yeah. >> how do you square the two? can you? what should americans take away when they say the mueller report tells us, and the durham report tells us this? >> mueller report says we were right to go ahead. doj's inspector general said there were problems with some of the things the fbi did but the investigation was properly predicated a

durham's alexandria ocasialexcharacterizationsof wh. we portray as deep misunderstanding of not only what we knew at the time but how we make these decisions. >> you have with john durham, look, it's a big fat nothing and it reminds me of the sort of weaponization hearings that are going on where there also is, they are just falling flat on their face because there is no there there. >> bret: that's what you hear there again and again. >> the "there there was that this investigation was launched by mccabe who directed that it be brought immediately, opened immediately. before they even interviewed australian diplomat and that turned out to be a nothing burger. they then proceeded with this investigation which they nigh knew -- they had just received intelligence that hillary clinton's campaign was spreading this information about trump. and, yet, they took this information at face value. they relied upon it. it was unvetted. things happened here that were a radical departure from how these cases are normally hanged handled and completel

in fact, are there people that were highlighted in the durham investigation, in the durham report that talk to on the jewish dibly committee? we're going to give that a good, hard look, but nothing is off the table. s the critical the american people understand how their government, their agencies have been turned on them, the taxpayer, and we get all the facts out there. maria: mr. chairman, thanks very much. we'll be watching. congressman jim jordan. thank you, sir. and be sure to tune in tomorrow morning on "mornings with maria" on fox business, i will be speaking with fbi whistleblower garrett o'boyle. he will join me tomorrow morning first thing on "mornings with maria" on fox business. >>> quick break, and then the g7 summit wrapping up in japan with china's economic coercion among the lead topics as the ccp marches toward becoming a global superpower. congressman michael mccaul is here with reaction to the president's trip to the g7 summit next. ♪ ♪ ct your future. - are, are you qualified to do this? - what? - especially when it comes to your finances. - are you a certified fin

adam schiff rebuking the durham report. the durham investigation was flawed from the start, it began to satisfy trump and resulted in two failures at trial and end with nothing to show for four years of effort. bottom line, fbi had a good reason to investigate, durham didn't. speaker mccarthy questioning schiff's suitability for public office. >> it raises the question about adam schiff. he told the american people he had proof and didn't know the whistleblower and what he put america through and openly lied, raises questions about his character, his standing inside of congress and if he should be in congress. >> lucas: bill barr called the fbi's investigation an abomination, guys. >> steve: lucas, you and i were conversing viit text, media outlets won big awards and some suggested they give them back. you remember something from history about somebody getting an award. >> lucas: in 1932, "new york times" received pulitzer prize for saying stalin did not starve the ukrainians, this was genocide. >> ainsley: they gave it bac

>> the durham report confirmed our biggest fears that our u.s.ey players are on network payrolls. former fbi deputy director andrew mckaine cabe, now at cnn. >> it continues to fuel a false narrative about alleged fbi malfeasance that continues to this day. >> former andrew mueller now with nbc. >> john durham big fat nothing. >> journalists point out most of did you remember's findings have been previously reported and no one has gone to jail. former a.g. bill barr says he appointed durham simply to get at the truth. the "new york times" and "the washington post" shared for coverage of the russia probe. the board says it can find no inaccuracies in the stories. no one in the media which were so invested in the trump russia story is apologizing or even debating whether they overcovered and overbehind it. in hindsight the breathless treatment of each blip in the investigation is hard to defend. bret? >> bret: howie, thank you. turning now tout series i have done on fox nation i'm exploring the history and legacy of the korean war. as you will lear

we know john durham's report details stunning failure by the fbi and doj in the trump/russia probe and igniting a firestorm across the country. >> this flimsy beginning turned into the massive controversy and everyday, bombshell after bombshell. pulitzer prize upper won on complete bs and it is disgusting. >> todd: tomi lahren here to react next. i told myself i was ok with my moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis symptoms. with my psoriatic arthritis symptoms. but just ok isn't ok. and i was done settling. if you still have symptoms after a tnf blocker like humira or enbrel, rinvoq is different and may help. rinvoq is a once-daily pill that can dramatically relieve ra and psa symptoms, including fatigue for some. it can stop joint damage. and in psa, can leave skin clear or almost clear. rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections, including tb. serious infections and blood clots, some fatal; cancers, including lymphoma and skin cancer; death, heart attack, stroke, and tears in the stomach or intestines occurred. people 50 and older with at least one heart disease risk factor

durham. >> thank you. chairman pfluger, ranking member magaziner, and distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. my testament will provide an overview of the complex threat to the homeland from the government of the people's republic of china. let me be clear about the intent of my opening statement and testimony. at no time should anything i communicate be taken as aspersions against the people of china or against any chinese or other asian americans in the united states. my comments and testimony pertains solely to the actions, policies, practices and procedures of the chinese government. the increasing aggressive activities of prc represent significant threats to the homeland as a prc continues to challenge the united states by using whole of government approach to undercut our competitiveness and democracy. the prc uses an innovative combination of traditional and nontraditional intelligence tradecraft, cyber espionage come and predatory economi

durham name checked you.tigation gathered evidence that showed a number of those closest to the investigation believed that the standard arguably had not been met, even strzok, that is you, who drafted and approved the opening ec, said there's nothing to this but we have to run it to ground. his view would seem to dockate the opening at the most a preliminary investigation. did you in fact oppose opening the mueller investigation? >> well, you know, no, i didn't. in fact, john durham did not interview me except in a narrow scope before i went into the grand jury related to the investigation, so had he interviewed me, there would have been a wide variety of things i would have said. first and foremost, the initial allegation was extraordinarily serious. it was potentially a threat to the national security of the united states, and it absolutely merited opening a full investigation. and the ig found it was proper and in accordance with doj and fbi regulations and finally after years of independent investigation

i'll read you just a part of what durham says. he says in short, the fbi discounted or willfully ignored material information that did not support the narrative of a collusive relationship between trump and russia. and he also goes on to say, an objective and honest assessment of these strands of information should have caused the fbi to question not only the predication of crossfire hurricane, which is the name of this investigation, but also to reflect on whether the fbi was being manipulated for political or other purposes. anderson, the bottom line from john durham, though, is that, you know, he doesn't recommend any major changes for the fbi and the way they handled politically sensitive investigations. >> in the report, durham talks about something called the clinton plan. what is that? >> well, this was something that emerged back in 2020. there was some information that was declassified by john ratcliffe, then the director of national intelligence. it appears that back in 2016, the intelligence community got some intellige

durham took two cases to trial, lost them both. a former fbi attorney did plead guilty to a minor charge. and he, john durham and bill barr, the trump attorney general who appointed him were the ones with a political driven agenda, citing a report concluding the fbi investigation was justified, called the horowitz report. fbi says in a statement the conduct in 2016 and 2017 that special counsel durham examined was the current leadership i am implemented dozens of actions, and had it been in place in 2016 the missteps could have been pre prevented. durham, no longer special counsel, he's invited by jim jordan to appear before congress next week, i'm told the conversations are taking place behind the scenes and to stay tuned, sandra. >> sandra: we will for sure. thank you very much on that for us. john. >> john: bring in andy mccarthy, former u.s. assistant attorney and fox news contributor. depending which side of the political aisle you are on, you have a different opinion of what the durham report brings, if you are a republican y

durham didn't have much luck in the courts., four years after he started, durham's harshly critical report saying he relied on raw, unanalyzed and uncorroborated intelligence along with seriously flawed information has plunged us all back into the same old, familiar debate, the story that seemingly will never end. i'm howard kurtz and this is the "mediabuzz." ♪ ♪ ♪ howard: the report by special counsel john durham exploded like a neutron bomb, and the media are deeply divided over his conclusion that the fbi acted on such flimsy evidence that its investigation of possible collusion between donald trump and the kremlin never should have been launched. first among those claiming vindication, the former president. >> this was a coup that they were looking at. these are sick people. howard: and many of those on fox news and elsewhere joined in castigating the mainstream media's handling of the 300-page report. >> there are so many media organizations who have so much egg on their face today. >> i was disgusted. i was so sickened al

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back to the durham report. responsible for what i call successful dirty trick in american political history? we'll have an answer to that question after this. ♪ market is open and the dow industrial over 100 points, massacre up about 40 points. according to the durham report, there is a key meeting at the white house in august of 2016. attended by vice president joe biden, president barack obama, attorney general lynch and james comey from the fbi. judicial watch president tom knows about this and he joins us now. what's the significance of the meeting? >> the obama administration had good reason to know the leaves they were supposedly chasing about russia collusion were made up by hillary to keep herself out of jail continued. stuart: was the obvious? >> it was in the durham report reconfirms because we know this, no matter where they looked the couldn't find russia collusion and have begun buying in the early part of 2016, the couldn't find anything and us kids were coming in and couldn't verify anything and

durham is read. until its culture is restored to the bureau will continue to stray further from fidelity to the law. if you look at russian collusion, twitter files, the hunter biden laptop, is there a culture problem here in their assessment, nicole? >> there seems to be a pattern of over and over we are seeing politicization of the fbi and that is entirely unacceptable. americans deserve to have an unbiased and neutral criminal justice system in the art states of america. in a, fbi, they need to make some major cultural changes. there needs to be accountability. there needs to be shifts in leadership, whatever needs to happen, americans deserve better and they say, you know, many are saying, this durham report, this is not legitimate. this is not, you know, that is not the fbi sa saying that. i can tell you right now, as a former agent, back in 2019 when the inspector general's report came out, it was very clear that the fbi had failed. the fbi field and they made major mistakes and the fbi admitte

durham did not find any of that., i have to imagine that those who are looking for it have to be very disappointed in what the report found, but it's good for the country in the sense that this wasn't a politicized investigation. >> i mentioned 295 pages, it was not that, but it was 300 pages. on page 295, when you see durham say, yes, there should've been an investigation launched, even with his, point of view, he does reach that conclusion. but it's a different type of an investigation. >> that's right. so the inspector general actually testified about this back in 2019, i think it was. but it's years ago in which he said, look, i did determine as the inspector general that they could have opened a full investigation, there is no political bias. it is true that john durham has strangely spoken out about an ongoing investigation that he has and says that he doesn't agree with me. but he does agree that this could have been a preliminary investigation, which is just a policy difference internal to the fbi's to how mu

what we have herrhe is john durham, the u.s. attorney , taking a role traditionally reserved for criminal prosecutions and essentially editing a four year editorial for what hite and bill barrt do thought that donald trump wanted to hearwa. n th >> oh, does that mean he just wants to turn the page? what a fraud., wa now, this was rank abuse, abuseu of office and a vindictive, improper, politically motivated use of federal resources.yet yet durham'sdu conclusiorhn was only that the fbi failed to uphold their important theimission of strict fidelity w to the law. yeah, it. is outrageous thatorse this happened and it is arguably worse thaners watergate when you look allng the facts. but the truth is , n o one isknow going to do anything about it. i' now, how do we know this? well, let's say, look, no further than how the press is treating the biden family money train. now, thi moneys last week, right. congressman jim coleman put out all that documentation, all the bank records showing money from foreign sources to members of the bi

this is what he said about the durham report. what is your response?hn durham is wrong, don't think this investigation was legitimate. it is disappointing. it continues to fuel a false narrative about alleged fbi malfeasance that continues to this day, almost seven years after the events in question. >> reporter: what you make of the response? >> he was the one that made the decision to open up a full-blown investigation that became the special counsel's investigation. he can't admit i will -- that he was wrong. we worked together at doj, he had a bit of an air about him. he was unwilling and inflexible as they related to this. what durham found was an exhaustive, well-documented sort of story about what happened, the decision points that would ultimately be found to have no collusion between donald trump and russia. my hats off to john durham for doing a thorough exhaustive job, well written reports. i think john durham is more independent then mr. mckay. aishah: he has the invitation to testify. i want to ask about your time at justice. the key take

durham and says attributable to the fbi the conduct in 2016 and 2017 that special counsel durham examinedrship already implemented dozens of corrective actions which have been in place for some time. had those reforms been in place in 2016 the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented. this report reinforces the importance of insure the fbi continues to do its work with the rigor, objectivity and professionalism the american people deserve and rightly expect. all right. let's talk about the legal aspects of it and remind us, john durham brought a couple cases and didn't get a prosecution in either one. >> he brought two cases, one ken mentioned the kevin clinesmith case, there was a guilty plea in that case for falsifying a document used for the fisa case, but a case there was a lawyer against michael sussmann false statements to the fbi acquitted at trial and another one against a defendant against danchenko found not guilty in a case alleging that he was acting as an agent of a foreign government. there's not a lot of steak for the sizzle here. the good news is that it

but we didn't hear about him from durham. that's the first thing.ything the second w ae didn't hearall anything about stefan halper, the fbt thi informant who was operating as a moonlighting, as some sort oting as sof profen of cambridge. and i thin neek we needrstand to understan wd why those peoplh were not mentioned and why i'm so happy to see congressman' jordan tweeting publicly that he's invited john durhamcause we to testify publicly is because we need accountability and transparency is needed for the american public to once pu havn have trust in the system that congressman jordan has said he wants to have durham report to to to come beforee congress next week. >> i'm juswet beforeek we go , george , i am curious to ask, you , did you ever think what i you sat down in a pub in london to have a cocktail with a couple of australian diplomats? and it would all lead to this? you're the start, man. i mean, and it's we know nowls a falsehood. did you ever, ever, ine u ever i your wildest imaginations thinki that drink could

>> after durham was appointed by bill barr, former president trump and his allies claimed that durhamld be able to prove the fbi's investigation was nothing more than a political witch hunt. but the report released yesterday offered no significant new evidence to support those claims. >> i'm waiting for the report, like everybody else. >> reporter: a nearly four-year investigation is over. special counsel john durham releasing his findings in a 300 plus page report. he states that the fbi used raw, unanalyzed and uncorroborated intelligence to launch cross fire hurricane. the year-long fbi investigation into former president donald trump's associates and russian officials. but when it came to weighing concerns about hillary clinton's campaign of alleged election interference, the fbi applied a different standard. durham determined there was no concrete proof of collusion between trump's 2016 campaign and russia before the start of that fbi investigation. in his harshest criticism of the fbi, durham says the agency didn't interview any essential witnesses and didn't do a significant re

where's durham? and by the way, where's durham? he disappeared. >> the long awaited durham report is now finally out, but it fails to prove the deep state conspiracy against donald trump that the former president and his allies claim that it would. we'll explain what it actually says just ahead. >>> plus, an update on the progress of debt ceiling talks ahead of another high stakes meeting today at the white house. also we'll look at the latest on ukrainian president volodymyr you len skae's european tour aimed at restocking his arsenal. >>> good morning and welcome to "way too early" on this tuesday, may 16th. i'm jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. after four years of investigating the fbi's investigation into possible collusion between the trump 2016 campaign and russia, special counsel john durham finally released his findings yesterday. in a 300-page report durham, who was first appointed by then-attorney general william barr back in 2019, accused the bureau of acting negligently but did not reveal any bombsh