>> i don't know what horwitz concluded. i don't know what the fbi director concluded. i am beyond that. i think all the attention should be focused on, let's get a fair investigation of the people who corrupted that investigation, have been engaged in a corrupt investigation from the beginning. beginning. president trump has said over and over again to be, i did nothing wrong. how could this be? now we know how it is. because these people fixed it. that is how it is. please, american people, read this. if you are not disgusted, and you don't demand the justice department begin this investigation and suspend that one of the president and all the people that have been tortured

horwitz?ou don't see that is to let go by what do you call everything that you just reported? it is a political? the report also found that fbi employees received free tickets to sporting events from who? the destroy trump media, so-called journalists. they went on golf outings with media reps. they were treated to drinks and food by reporters. because of everything we just showed you, that report concluded that a comey, page, strzok, and others severely damage the reputation of the fbi. here is what current fbi director christopher wray said about all of these findings. take a look. >> i take this report very seriously, and we accept its findings and recommendations. it's also important, and thougo note what they did not find. this report did not find any evidence of political bias or improper considerations actually impacting the investigation under review. the report does identify errors of judgment, violations of, or even disregard for policy and decisions that come at the very least, with

horwitz that you didn't already know?> i think what's key here is that on one side, seizing upon this thing is saying the prosecutors do not act with bias on their conclusions but what is really apparent in the hearing this morning is that the investigators, several who were completely biased in favor of mrs. clinton gave the evidence to the prosecutors to act on and they were very vitriolic against president trump, and clearly cast a cloud over the evidence that they provided to the prosecutors. >> melissa: what does it go from here? some say the natural progression is to now look at these same folks and how they behave with respect to president trump in terms of the russian investigation and see if in that instance, they did act on their bias. because it's one of the ongoing things that you saw him comment on, with the russian investigation is going to be looked at in depth, clearly with the statements of the text and emails that they had an insurance policy, they were going to stop it which was becoming president of th

horwitz? you can't conclude the obvious bias impacted sum at the upper echelon of the fbi and their work and their so-called investigation? because that would taint the

they are heavily featured in horwitz's report. when you see this, keep in mind, or awaits unbelievably -- this is outrageous -- did not find that by his impact of the fbi

along with horwitz, we are also going to have the current fbi director christopher wray and we expect him to defend the credibility of the bureau and to make the case over how the bureau will regain the public's trust. let me just run through what we are expecting just an hour from now. we will have opening statements from the chairman of the judiciary committee chuck grassley that will go for about 15 minutes and then the ranking democrat, then opening statements from horwitz and ended several rounds of questioning. leading expert told fox news they believe the issue of political bias at the bureau will dominate. >> i think part of the narrative that's going to play out in his hearing is to get horwitz to explain the difference between not finding bias and not finding actions caused by bias. i think that what horwitz said in the report is that there was bias, but he didn't have any documents or no one fessed up to taking action to do with that bias and there is a critical distinction. he refused to make an assumption that these actions were taken for the wrong reason. >> the inspecto

we want to make the most of it to talk about on the radio. >> do you believe because horwitz did findre was bias, rampant bias. but proving that actually influenced the outcome is the issue. >> i run campaigns and i am here to so you comey, weeks before, he did it and worked with the fbi. >> hillary is the reason hillary is not the president of the united states, one of the worst candidates. >> i'm a democrat and i believe that. >> you would also believe hillary is the one who lost this election, not james comey, that is incidental but when asked directly a 4 let's believe the findings in the clinton investigation cast the cloud over the russia investigation horwitz referenced peter stzrok's willingness to reprioritize the russian investigation over the wiener laptop investigation because to find a reason to indict hillary clinton would have meant donald trump would have won and peter stzrok was not willing. heather: he is going to testify and james comey is under investigation for leaks. in terms of both of those eventss how do you think that will influence the russia investigation o

horwitz, does peter strzok like the president? >> reporter: on capitol hill they hammered michael horwitz about those messages between strzok and former fbi lawyer lisa page. that february/march of 2018, peter strzok said trump's abysmal, he's an idiot, he's a blipping idiot. it sounds like he hates mr. trump. >> his text messages would certainly leave that as the implication. >> that's textbook bias. it's quite definitely a bias allowing something other than the facts to determine your decision. >> rep t general did not try to dissuade republican lawmakers over their concerns. >> i think, frankly, anybody should be concerned about any law enforcement officer expressing these kinds of views. i don't care whether it's a presidential race or a local election. it just shouldn't happen. >> reporter: strzok and page worked on the special counsel team but were removed when the texts were discovered. page has since left the fbi. strzok's lawyer defended his client. >> you can ask anyone who worked with peter, they say he's among the best

the way horwitz did this was both excellent in its thoroughness but also terrible in its conclusion. just like james comey and his press conference, here's what hillary clinton did and why it's all bad. we are going to change the rules and go by intent, she's not guilty. in this case, here's all the bias, all the examples. peter strzok, the guy in charge of the investigation said we will stop donald trump but didn't affect their decision. they are looking for some massive smoking gun is already there but they want to not see. >> melissa: maybe they're about to get to it because if you listen to what jason chaffetz said, this is about what they didn't do with regard to hillary clinton, so is difficult to say how they were influenced but when you get to what they've already said is annexed investigation which is into how they handled the trump probe, you see what they did do and with that action motivated by bias? >> katie: yesterday, inspector general horwitz's testimony in front of the senate judiciary committee, he essentially said that the fbi agents peter strzok and lisa page were

what's your take on how this went down today with horwitz appearing on capitol hill.t's amazing that comey, you see them on twitter in iowa cornfields and he's at various national parks but no time to come to capitol hill. >> comey's strategy on this is to hope it's going to blow over. that it's going to go away, that washington will forget about it. i think the opposite has to happen. ethically have to think about it this way, laura. vic about when we have cases of police misconduct or prosecutorial misconduct in the criminal realm. a cop is found having planted evidence or hiding evidence. we go and look at previous cases that that police officer handed. we want to drill down, find out how bad the problem was. i think we need to do the same thing here. the ig report as far as i'm concerned is the beginning. it's not the end of this investigation. >> laura: let's go to chris han, senator kennedy at one one point was, he seemed bemused by the idea that no bias was found in the report, and he was questioning horwitz on this issue. watch. i think we have the sound. if w

in the case of horwitz, even though he was appointed by obama, i have great confidence in him and i think he proved that last week when he delivered an 18 month study he had. he is going to do further studies. who knows when they will come out and we don't want to say they have to be out on a certain day because we want them to be done right. in his case, i can say i have great confidence in him and it is very successful. >> is the committee operating in a bipartisan fashion? sen. grassley: you mean my committee? >> yes, your committee or the house committee, based on your observations. sen. grassley: our committee, at least on legislation, is working in a bipartisan way. from the standpoint of the last congress, 31 bills got out of our committee, all bipartisan. in the last 18 months, i don't know how many bills, but every bill has overwhelming bipartisan. 18 of them got to a democratic president. we have had a few signed by this president. everyone bipartisan legislation. in myt comes to -- committee, you have to have both the republican and democrat agree to a subpoena. sometimes we ha

host: do you trust the inspector general of the justice department, michael horwitz?st: i go in with the assumption that like other inspector generals, he is independent and will go over the fax. -- facts. host: have you ever met him? guest: no, this is not a personal judgment. i am reflecting on my experience with inspector generals in general. we demand that they be independent, they go over the lead,- go where the facts and not be subject to the political pulling and tugging. host t appropriations committee approved a $675 billion defense bill earlier this week. did you support that? caller: yes. -- guest: yes. host: why? guest: i thought it was a well-crafted bill, basically, that needs our nation's defense needs. a lot of the budgets of previous years have been at least minimized to a great deal. i am talking about the off budget money for overseas operations. we are relying much less on that now. we do need some funding for the compensation for our men and women in uniform. we need some additional readiness funding. there are funds there and elsewhere in the bud

horwitz has the job of speaking truth to power. all ig's has that same responsibility, for mr. horwitz and it is exercised by him in time of put -- intense political and public focus on his work. his resume demonstrates that he is more than able to take on this task. he was appointed the department of justice ig in 2012 by president obama after previously working as a defense attorney in the private sector. previously, as a prosecutor in the always quite southern district of new york and is a top official in the criminal division of the department of justice. in 2003, president george w. bush named him to the u.s. sentencing commission where he served for five years. he has been referred to as unflappable, nonpartisan, and thorough. qualities valued in any inspector general. he is here today to share his views on the current role of the ig's and the area of congressional oversight and he will be doing this before we hear from our two panels. we are very grateful that michael could join with us today and it is a special treat for us to be able to have him share his thoughts with

horwitz for your testimony. you did determined there was political bias against president trump. >> correct. >> the same agents assigned to the clinton investigation also assigned to the russian probe? be my correct do you think the russian probe could potentially could have been intended by the same political bias? be a congressman we focused on the investigation we have the ongoing work we are doing so i will defer. >> but it is reasonable if you found a political bias against the president now assigned to the russian probe that certainly that needs to be looked at the market is a reasonable question that we're looking at on our own. >> i assume you watch the news? >> i tried not to. >> do you believe there is anti- trump bias. >> i will not reply on that. >> you don't have an opinion. >> i do as a private citizen. >> would it surprise you to know 90% of median mom -- mainstream media coverage is anti- trump? >> i don't have an opinion on that. >> would be safe to assume fbi agents watch the mainstream new. >>

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 manager the clinton investigation. next we knew peter strzok, andrew weissmann, those names sound familiar? those anti-trump democratic donors had the same people to finish the exoneration of hillary and put the fix i

welcome inspector general horwitz. >> mr. chairman, before we hear from the inspector general i feel compelled to say something about a topic that is a more immediate priority. we've seen the pictures of immigrant children ripped apart at the border. these are not orders or bargaining chips, they are not there to help president trump built his wall. every day they are separated is a dave we do irreparable harm to the health and well-being. the united states should be better than this. we should not put children in cages. the minute this hearing adjourned sooner if we can we need to work together. >> the gentleman from new york has been given more time that would've been afforded. henry pulled something like that. with that, we will welcome you mr. horwitz for what i think is a hearing on your inspector general report and decisions made and not made in 2016. >> we will be in recess until the capital please restore order. >> no. [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] >> the committee will come to order. ins

host: do you trust the inspector general of the justice department, michael horwitz? guest: i go in with the assumption that like other inspector generals, he is independent and will go over the fax. -- facts. host: have you ever met him? guest: no, this is not a personal judgment. i am reflecting on my experience with inspector generals in general. we demand that they be independent, they go over the lead,- go where the facts and not be subject to the political pulling and tugging. host: the appropriations committee approved a $675 billion defense bill earlier this week. did you support that? caller: yes. -- guest: yes. host: why? guest: i thought it was a well-crafted bill, basically, that needs our nation's defense needs. a lot of the budgets of previous years have been at least minimized to a great deal. i am talking about the off budget money for overseas operations. we are relying much less on that now. we do need some funding for the compensation for our men and women in uniform. we need some additional readiness funding. there are funds there and elsewhere in

again, that was something michael horwitz had that was right, getting attention and the agency won't pay near as much attention to that work, as well. they have limited resources, they have a lot of things they are supposed to be doing, they care a little more deeply about your audit recommendations if congress is breathing down their neck asking what they are doing about it. or if the stakeholders are keeping track and asking what they are doing. it is human nature and it makes perfect sense but i think it is an important thing. i wonder if our panelists think that ig's are doing that, especially if there is anything the inspector general could be doing to highlight that work, with the caveat that there are 73 of us. i wanted to throw that out there, that always becomes a complicating factor when you try to talk about what can ig be doing or what they should be doing. the offices are inspector general are incredibly large, you saw -- over 14,000 employees, some of them are large and some are one or two people. or some are under 10, so, there is definitely not a one-size- fits-all so

already tonight, just a reminder for folks, inspector general horwitz is the one who did refer criminal charges potentially against andrew mccabe. it is because of an internal referral of his that we know about the page-strzok pet texts that went public. robert, my question for you, do you think that the inspector general will recommend a referral for any charges against the big like comech, or mccabe, which wasdy done in a dferent situation? >> i think he will make a criminal referral against mccabe, i think he may make it a criminal referral against comey -- >> shannon: you do? >> most of his criticism will be focused on the lack of leadership, will be focused on his dereliction of duty, failure to follow doj protocols, failure to follow fbi procedures, which will reveal a discrepancy and double standards, which will go to the justice committee congressman was saying, that the only explanationor this discrepancy and double standard between the clinton investigation at the trump investigation, where in one case there was a real crime that was covered up with the fbi and doj, and the ot

horwitz and your colleagues and i hope it doesn't get distorted through the process. >> the gentleman from wisconsin is recognize. >> we have spent a lot of time onon this but obviously they have said things you would consider they had a strong bias to mrs. clinton, correct? >> we were concerned about their bias. >> by the way if something happens if they make a decision that favors ms. clinton and they talked about bias, towards ms. clinton you will not say that necessarily affected their decision? >> i don't know if that is right but we look for the evidence to see if we can find evidence ofhe bias. >> but if they make a decision that happens to favor mrs. clinton or mr. trump that by itself did not say that is an indication of bias? >> i would say with regards to the october decision to not prioritize the russian investigation we reach the determination were concerned it could have been. >> there were five other people you mention that apparently said things that would indicate they did not like mr. trump. >> three others plus the two. >> a total of five did you find anybody else e

horwitz. the i.t. worker who managed the clinton server lied to the fbi repeatedly. he denied to leading to clinton emails, he denied that the clinton staff ever asked him to delete emails, he denied knowing emails were under a reservation order. he had a call with clinton's lawyers. -- to delete used the clinton emails, invoked the fifth amendment to avoid questions about that call, even sent an emails sang he was part of the "hillary cover up operation." he later claims that was only a joke. there was no search warrant or to know for the laptops what he did. he did not get the meal or muellert, not -- the treatment, no pressure to flip or testify against his lawyers. quite the opposite, he got immunity. this is an example of a double standard in these two investigations and why more and more people believe the investigation lakhs fairness. comey pressure the team to close the case before the party convention. and he had already made up his mind to close it before the work has done. is it improper to set a deadline to close a case based upon the calendar? mr. horowi

horwitz agreed to testify on june 18th. >> donald trump demanding a next democratic aide accused of bankruptcyot get a plea deal, the justice department must not let debbie wasserman schultz off the hook, it is the key to much of the corruption we see today. where is there? really bad. accused of double billing for it services, and kept on debbie wasserman schultz as payroll. >> immigration debate stalling on capitol hill, house republicans spending hours trying to work out their differences protecting illegal immigrants brought to the us as children. paul ryan says no deal was reached, lawmakers have come to consensus on daca. jillian: the opioid epidemic, the trump administration releasing and detailing the dangers of prescription drugs. >> i thought i had it under control. i didn't know. >> the ad is one of four released on tv and social media telling true stories of young people harming themselves to get drugs. >> washington dc becoming the district of champions. wasting the stanley cup for the first time in team history after an epic come back. >> score! >> the go-ahead goal taking them t

. >> michael horwitz is slated to testify before congress next week.r at a rampant pace. forces havlery strikes against isis by 300% since march. the surge carried out by operation roundup, obliterating 280 isis targets on the iraqi syria border. secret service agents busting a white house contractor wanted for attempted murder. edwards taken into custody a check point when heading to work. authorities in maryland saying henvolved in a shootin last month. the secret service doesn't know what edwards's role was at the white house but i'm sure they will find out. results starting to pour in from eight state primaries but all eyes on california. gavin newsom and donald trump's pick john cox advancing to the state's general election. >> voters will have achoice bets going to stand up to donald trump and a foot soldier in his war on california. mark my words, i have never backed down from a fight. >> be careful, mr. newsom. it wasn't donald trump who made california the highest taxed state in the country. it was gavin newsom and the democrats. >> bob mendez

michael horwitz, the inspector general, will be testifying. i want to get your reaction. this is a photo showing the president saluting in north korean general. it has been posted on a number of websites. should the president have done this? rep. emmer: i am not in charge of what the president does. unless of course there is something that falls within the jurisdiction of congressional oversight, etc. the president is his own person. if you want to do something like that, that is entirely is right to do that. republicans were very critical of barack obama when he bowed to a saudi prince. rep. emmer: ok. steve, i'm not going to take sides one way or another. i think that is a problem we have. this is not directed at you. the people that want to participate in these kinds of discussions that old election certificates, it is for me to control my behavior, to answer my behavior. if the president thinks this is appropriate, it is his right to do it. salute to the a korean general, but that doesn't mean i'm going to weigh in on who is better, who is worse, who is right, who is

comey, why he used the language he did, his conversations with lorna lynch, these are things like a horwitzill have answers to in a way that nobody has gotten answers yet. it will be important to have those answers so we can move on. >> the inspector general's review has put top fbi official andrew mccabe in legal jeopardy, sending a criminal referral to the us attorney in april. the anticipation is growing as final preparations are underway for the historic summit between donald trump and kim jong un but first the pres. is heading to the g-7 summit today where tensions are at an all-time high with world leaders. jackie ibanez joins us with those details. >> only 4 days remaining until the much-anticipated face-to-face meeting between donald trump and kim jong un. the commander-in-chief brushing off recent criticism saying he is fully prepared ahead of the historic talks, meeting with the prime minister of japan. >> i'm very well prepared. it is about attitudes, willingness. >> the latest fox news poll showing 66% of americans think donald trump should meet with the rogue regime's leader. 2

important because you can look at all the different decisions that got weighed by inspector general horwitz advocate them in isolation of the clinton emails and say that looks reasonable. might not have been what i had done but okay. but what you don't get is comparing how they handled the email investigation to how they handle the trump russia investigation so if you look for example at the decisions they make to give a guy immunity even though they had i'm glad evidence that he had lied to the fbi and was involved in the destruction of evidence they make a case for why it was reasonable to give the guy immunity and if you look at that in the abstract and say maybe not what i would have done but reasonable you don't get to compare that to the five guys that mueller has investigated where the lies that were told were not near the core of what he was investigating and yet having them over the barrel he prosecuted every single one of them for false statements and got them to cooperate in that fashion. >> a lot of people putting the side-by-side have those same questions tonight. thank you for

. >> horwitz testified they were to investigate james comey. and private conversations with donald trump. >> we receive that from the fbi, we are handling that recover and we will issue a report when the matter is complete. >> former new york city mayor turned pres. trump attorney rudy giuliani. >> can you assure the american people there are no ongoing leaks for many office? >> i'm not aware of any. we are aggressively investigating a number of leaks. >> the fbi director said have a dozen employees would be disciplined when he emphasized the mistakes and bad judgment. >> this is focused on a specific set of events in 2016 and small number of fbi employees connected with those events. >> one republican was not satisfied. >> remember who that small number of employees was, the director of the fbi, deputy director of the fbi, leader of the clinton email investigation and the russia investigation. >> reporter: the inspector general will testify in front of two house panels. in a separate development after months of pressure the lawyer for peter st

horwitz participated and other heads of committees participated. it went fairly well. that kind of more because it's oncer to work with staff you've met them and interacted with them than if you have to wait until there's a crisis so what we have been -- the todom we have been trying impart on the i.g. community as a legislation committee. big pieces of legislation that went through the committee recently was the and wepowerment act worked with both hougher and hs-gac on that. the legislation committee, when congressionalh staffers, we ensure we meet with both a minority and majority, preferably together. we want to make sure everybody understands what was said in the there's no questions about something being left out of a briefing that was provided to somebody else. that the rightre parties participate in the we give, even if it's something that the legislation committee isn't in as others.lved a briefing, we had with the science and technology committee on a piece of were draftingey concerning fizma. was somewhat i.g. involvement but there were other issues aspects,

michael horwitz, the justice department inspector general, lindsey graham may have put it best by saying all these new revelations, anybody in washington, immigration and child migration. and democrat elijah cummings admitted democrats at the hearing would rather talk about, talking about in stark terms rather than all the new information. >> we will not keep kids in internment camps indefinitely and hidden away from public view. what country is that? i am talking to my republican colleagues. we need you to stand up to donald trump. >> back to the no, he's not going to be president, we will stop it. what do you think the it is in the phrase we will stop it? >> it is clear from the context, we are going to stop him from becoming president. >> did you find fbi attorneys who manifest against donald trump? >> we did. we have three additional fbi agents as we detail in the report. >> reporter: peter stzrok was escorted out of fbi headquarters, what took a year to get that done and it appears he still has a job tonight. shannon: that is what his lawyer says. the president meeting with house re

horwitz did answer a question, he found bias among individual fbi agents and prosecutors made a majority picture people say is staged. >> people trying to figure out what you believe about the trump administration policy that separates kittens from their parents at the border at this disturbing picture went viral online. a lot of people assume it showed a child upset about being separated from their parents, turns out that is not the truth. has a antonio vargas posted it on twitter saying this is what happens when a government believes people are illegal, kids in cages. it turns out the picture was taken at an event protesting the trump administration's 0-tolerance policy so that boy is not a detainee. kevin said liberals continue to push false narratives and lies. this photo is from a protest in texas. facebook user kelly says the famous boy everyone claims is caged up, more fake news. he did not intend to deceive people, despite that picture being fake there are plenty of other images fueling anger and outrage over the policy. rob: these cages have been around longer than the trump adm

michael horwitz will be on capitol hill monday to testify.ou, heather. >>> daylight savings time year- round. the idea is gaining momentum and sacramento.>>> new information about a police shooting in san francisco and of the armed suspect who has been shot by police before.>>> some equipment failed on a power pole, but it starts a fire in the north bay. why that has lit up concern about a repeat of octobers fire disaster. >>> new attend. new information about a police shooting that injured a suspect in the north beach neighborhood of san francisco. at a tunnel meeting tonight police said the suspect ran from officers who stopped him in a group of other men about having open alcohol containers on grand avenue. police say as he was running away he took off his jacket and pulled out a 45 caliber glock with an extended maga and a laser sight. according to police one officer shot him in the back twice and he fell to the ground. he is still in the hospital recovering tonight. this is actually the second time he has been shot by police in san franc

fbi director christopher reich and justice department inspector michael horwitz are due to testify.page report concluded that former fbi director james comey made a serious error in judgment when announcing the n weeks before election day in 2016. that report also detailed text messages between fbi employees the criticized president trump. >>> president trump and vice president mike pence will speak today at the national space council policy meeting at washington, d.c. the president will give the keynote address. he is expected to focus on a joint venture between the governor and businesses to put people on the moon again. that meeting is also likely to include discussions about handling space traffic, including debris orbiting the earth. it poses a threat to satellites. >>> a south bay group will protest president trump's support of a reinstatement of a question on the 2020 census that asks about citizenship. the critics say the question is intended to intimidate people and also drive down the number of immigrants who take part in the census. santa clara county supervisorgr that wi

fbi director, christopher wray and inspector general, michael horwitz are expected to testify. the 600 page report released on thursday concluded that fbi director james comey made a serious error in judgment in announcing the reopening of the clinton email investigation less than two weeks before election day 2016. the report details text messages between fbi employees that were critical of president trump. >>> let's take a peek outside. it is getting warmer. >> inland, we are warming up a little bit. there is still talk on the coast. it is a different twist. a year ago we were baking. 108, concord, 106, livermore. even san francisco set a record height one year ago. not today. that he is somewhere else. a fog bank this morning except monterey. a breeze held it out. it is starting to sneak back in. nothing compared to saturday, when it would punkers. west, northwest and 15 at sfo. there is still a breeze, but a lot of 70s. concorde and livermore, 75. san jose, 74. upper 60s and low 60s around the bay. temperatures are running 1-6 degrees lower. san jose is plus 6. mountain vie

horwitz was supposed to speak. doesn't happen. what about june 11?ple are looking forward to june 12. that's singapore. they are about to have an explosive report that swamped. i use that word intentionally. swamped by singapore. my thing is, i'm not interested in comey and hillary's emails. i am intereste in hillary's emails when she was secretary of state. i am interested in the impact of peter strzok and page and what they did and what the fbi was up to when they should've been legitimately investigating both sides. if you talk about comey and hillary's emails, i have no interest. mccabe lying and leaking to "the wall street journal" and the battle between comey and mccabe ands telling the trh, that interest me but hillary clinton is old news. i would rather look at walter mondale and why he lost 49-want to. >> kimberly: we know why. >> juan: dana, do you have anything on this? >> dana: the report will be out when it's out. >> juan: the other thing i wanted to ask you about his paul manafort and the personnel being put on him. apparently mueller's

the fbi director christopher write a and inspector general michael horwitz could face tough questionsthey appear before the senate judiciary committee. president trump weighed in this morning on twitter. comey gave strzok his marching orders. mueller is comey's best friend. witch hunt. >> reporter: the two want very different things. starting with the democrats, they want to disentangle what the fbi found about comey. and they are very worried that republicans have confused and could not flatd these issues and will try to use the negative things in this report about the fbi and jm to attack robert mueller and the special counsel's investigation. they want to make sure they separate those two things out as much as possible. i expect a lot of the questions will focus on that. as for republicans, you highlighted it. those text messages from peter strzok who had been involved in the mueller probe will be a big focus. do they represent bias? a fatal bias that could have existed in that probe? why were not they revealed to congress sooner? expect a lot of questions on that. within the last

and we do know that michael horwitz has already started his next investigation. which is the trump-russia investigation. >> laura: he is on to the next term paper, right? >> it is already underway. >> laura: when he interviewed on strzok was it multiple times? >> no, no, strzok has been cooperating. that's why he did not get fired right away. he will be interviewed three, four, five, six times. the interview him and then interview somebody else. he did not answer a question a certain way. he will be interviewed multiple times. he may even be given immunity at certain point but the criminal proceedings against james comey and others. >> laura: i want to play something from james clapper, he was on with hugh hewitt, and they were talking about whether or not information was leaked to cnn and participation of the new job. let's watch. >> i had no idea that i would end up working for cnn. in january, i had not thought about it. and the only reason i was appearing on television immediately after i left the government was the main motivation was to defend the intellige

horwitz, president trump has claimed fbi officials are biased against him and in favor of former second hillary clinton. let me make sure i have understood this. it's in your investigation, did you find that the fbi took any investigative step based on political bias against the current president? >> no. the one area where we were concerned about bias was in the october time period and the weighing of agent strzok between focusing on the russia investigation, the weiner laptop, and our concern about his decision, given the text messages. >> did you conclude that any -- that we should have concern about the initiation or ongoing conduct of the special counsel investigation based on those texts? >> we didn't look at the special counsel investigation in this revere. -- this review. >> the department policies that are in place for a reason. and it was wrong to deviate from them and it would be wrong to deviate now. >> is one of the most important takeaways. >> jesse: this is a fox news alert. hello, everybody. i am jesse watters. welcome to the "the five." we are awaiting a white house pres

that moment in time, when he left that out to horwitz, when he made that statement, he was basically we are going to go after drum, even if it means going after the people around him. even if it means putting this information out there in the media, even if it means arresting people for crimes that were committed ten years ago or maybe 1 they are not even crime, just getting that around the president. the chaos he really has been the fbi and the people on the seventh floor at the doj, and not even so much the russians anymore. real chaos in our country is coming from them. >> sean: c rosenstein said, i'm not trying to hide anything. i made a short list, wrote it down before the show. we'll stop trump, they had data from everybody from a period of time, he withheld the fact that strzok of rudolph contreras, he begged up to the last minute, paul ryan, not to release but became the nunes memo which told us about fisa abuse. the doj tried to hide the fact that two of the most important investigative investigators on the hillary and russia probe were anti-trump. five months after strzok a

horwitz, the inspector general who has penned this long report that is going to come out this afternoonow the doj and fbi handled the clinton email probe, whether it was politically motivated, what was done right, what was done incorrectly. he is someone that you worked with back in the day. you worked with him at the doj. he's been roundly praised by republicans like oversight chairman trey gowdy, like cummins on the left. what can you tell us about him? >> he is a excellent lawyer, good background as a prosecutor. he's very, very meticulous. i remember one anecdote about him that he used to come to these meetings when he was chief-of-staff with only a single note card for notes, so obviously very good memory, very thorough. and he's really a one of the best igs. really i've known a lot and he's very just focused on doing a very rigorous comprehensive job and he's not going to be swayed by anybody else's timetable or anybody else's agenda. >> and in the fast and furious case during the obama administration, the report on the fallout from that, he even gained a lot of credit from member

what are still your burning questions from michael horwitz? >> first of all, we made it very clear that we thought that his was a very in-depth comprehensive report but as he noted repeatedly during the hearing yesterday, it is only a partial investigation of what the fbi was doing in the treatment of these campaigns, both in 2016 and in the aftermath into 2017. peter strzok who was a lead investigator in both the clinton email case and in the russia collusion case has agreed now to come and testify -- >> yes, when will that happen? you don't know a date yet? >> no. we're about to issue a subpoena because we're happy to have him voluntarily appeal but he has to do it on our timetable. he can't put it off and put it off. a subpoena is about to go unless his attorney is calling our counsel right now saying we are ready for an agreement on a date for the appearance. >> i know that one of the big sticking points is whether or not there was bias and it sounds like what the ig report says is there was no evidence. they couldn't find any evidence of

a source close to therocess and specs michael e horwitz to brief lawmakers on thursday morning, thenost a report on the mind. the report, which includes a classified section, he said to be longer than the 500 page investigation into the fast and furious scandal. a former justice department officials of the inspector general normally gets cooperating witnesses like the former fbi director a chance to respond and that may explain the delays. >> one possibility is that there are a lot of people who take strong exception to what the inspector general is about to say. they want to push him off his conclusions. they maybe want to introduce additional evidence that vindicates them in the inspector general has to give them time to submit that. >> in a separate development, the republican chairman of the senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee is asking the current fbi director to explain my names and initials text messages between fbi agent peter struck and why lisa page. there is no national security region and the redacted for congressional oversight. >> we've been doin

think it's important to listen to part of the exchange from yesterday, when meadows was questioning horwitzbout the identity of these individuals whose names were not used in this report. let's watch. >> you said, i think i'm correct, that they did not want that divulged because they actually worked in counterintelligence. is that correct? >> that is what we were told by thfbi. >> those two attorneys, do they not work for trish anderson? >> they work in the office of general counsel. >> would one of those attorneys be sally moyer? >> i'm going to differ -- >> they don't work and counterintelligence. if that is the reason the fbi is giving, they are giving you false information because they work for the -- >> laura: guy, what is going on here? is this -- could this be a potentially criminal wrongdoing on the part of the fbi for not mislabeling, and properly identifying the general identity of these actors in this report? why do we have to keep their names a secret? to me, if they are working for the general counsel, why are we keeping their names secret? >> laura, it makes no sense. it is a

right now, horwitz is going to testify on monday.ing to try to may be explain why, in spite of these prejudicial statements, the report and the actions were not sufficient to call for a criminal charge against anyone. to speak of what he needs to say is, look, i could not prove that their body is influenced decisions. i couldn't prove it. >> judge jeanine: gregg, i got to show you this. this is proof. it's called 500 pages of proof. >> it is a compendium of bias, if you will. but the horowitz said, look, did it influence the decision to clear hillary clinton? i can't prove it through i testimonial or documentary evidence. of course he can't. nobody puts their crimes in writing.ct nobody confesses to horowitz, "we did it for political reasons and obstructed justice. >> judge jeanine: this is crazy. tom fitton, i've tried a lot of murder cases with absolutely no eyewitness testimony, it's called circumstantial evidence. this is more than circumstantial. this is what people are saying. they are describing what they are state of mind is.