biased i mentioned kevin kleinsmith.e standards hillary clinton's conflicts of influence or investigated to a phony charge to get on russian collusion was, willful ignorance they ignored evidence it was used by the clinton campaign to execute a political dirty trick. in russian disinformation. the fbi may have begun as a russian intel operation. the fbi probe. but is number one no basis for investigation. they were not going after a crime they're going after an individual, donald trump. >> that's the most shocking thing. you strip away that legalese and technical language in the report, the hillary clinton campaign came up with the dirty, dirty political campaigns trick. it only got legs because they were able to convince people who are of their same party. the leadership of the fbi. the leadership of the intelligence agency under the obama frustration under the democratic party to a willingly take it or dupe them into taking and use the vast powers of the government to pursue the candidate of the other political party d

kevin kleinsmith ended up pleading guilty.e two cases durham himself brought against christopher steals source, while his main source, igor dichenko and also against michael salzman , a clinton campaign lawyer, those did result in a not guilty verdict spy juries. i was in the room for both of those trials as a reporter and was able to see everything that went into it. there was a lot of, i would say, interesting and new evidence about the clinton campaign's involvement in pushing the allegations that these two men were pushing, whether you gordon checo pushing the dossier or michael salzman pushing what we know now are untrue allegations related to a russian bank called alpha bank, secretly communicating with the trump organization. they were new details unearthed about the clinton campaign involvement in all of that, those did result in not guilty verdicts for those two men. host: the reports cited confirmation bias on the part of the fbi, but not political bias. guest: so, i do think that perhaps political bias can be hard t

former fbi lawyer kevin kleinsmith.wo cases that durham took to trial ended in acquittals. i want to begin with our senior justice correspondent evan perez "outfront." evan, tell us about the report, the size, the length, the scope and what you learned from it. >> reporter: well, 300 pages from john durham after four years really summarizes what he thinks that the fbi should never have really gone the extra step of opening a full investigation. he says there was plenty of reason for them to do a preliminary or even an assessment, which is much lower-level investigation by the fbi. but he says that the fbi repeatedly ignored exculpatory information that maybe would've explained a lot of the suspicions they had about trump and members of his campaign. i'll read you just a part of what he says here. he says, based on the review of cross-fire hurricane and related intelligence activities, we conclupd that the department of the fbi failed to unhold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law in connection with cert

this guy kevin clinesmith, where are the defendants? kleinsmith actually altered the basis for a warrant. he is still practicing law. durham lost two cases. certainly, i have to tell you i am disgusted. it's all words. more disgusted that the fbi comes out and said his head those reforms been in place, none of this would ever have happened. that is baloney and i'll tell you why it's baloney. because we have people protesting the supreme court justices home trying to get them to change an impending decision, federal statute. there was no arrest. we have the doj saying parents are domestic terrorists. we had -- have been having an out-of-control intelligence agency. 51 intelligence agents lying about russian disinformation. doj, fbi. they are not afraid of anything anymore because none of them are having their feet held to the fire. "the new york times" with "the washington post" going to return the pulitzers? >> martha: absolutely. jesse, you look at this case. i think about that day james comey was fired and the horrified reactions from other netw