was it for political reasons, mike horowitz says there's plenty politics but made a legal decision one decision, i don't know if the politics are there, i will give the benefit of the doubt to horowitz. rob: that's just the hillary investigation. we have the whole thing spinning off into horowitz looking into the mueller investigation and whether or not peter strzok took what a lot of people take weak evidence in dossier and at least tried -- >> i don't think -- i know you want me to answer this, i don't think whatever hops to strzok -- happens to strzok matter in mueller probe. he got a job in hr, from which he was apparently, we don't know yet, apparently fired yesterday. his tweets have gotten him in trouble but the government has done the right thing when they learned about them. jillian: there are a number of recent fbi-doj depastor and we have a whole list of them. among them peter strzok is demoted, still there, that's one of those glaring things right now. >> the demotion -- jillian: maybe, as of now anyway. >> the demotion is what i was talking about a few moments ago. bob mu

lou: if anybody is depending on miking horowitz and the inspector general's office for justice in the justice department and the fbi, it's going to be a hell of a long wait. if this report demonstrates anything, in my judgment, it is that they're exactly what chris farrell said they are, the inspector general's office is where truth goes to die. that's a damn shame. but it's now up to the president to bring trump justice to bear. and that means clean this place out, absolute transparency and roll up these corrupt figures and do it now before they become too powerful for even the president. we used to say that we were concerned about an imperial presidency. too much power. but the truth is, we have a congress that is now inconsequential within w, we haa president who's impotent against these forces, they become the deep state, political forces among themselves and this president is being intimidated by that very force that is trying to carry out a coup against his administration. it's got to stop. it can only stop i think with a man with his historic standing and his guts and brains to

jon: our next guest will be one of the first lawmakers to question inspector general mike horowitz whene testifies before house judiciary and oversight committees on tuesday. joining me now republican congressman mike jonson of louisiana, member of house judiciary committee and former constitutional law attorney. so quite a resume for what is about to come. what is question one for mr. horowitz, the inspector general? >> well, we have a lot of questions for him. this report really was a bombshell, i think that's the right explanation and summary of it. it's over 500 pages. documents a lot of information and much of this we have been requesting through house judiciary committee and house oversight committees going back since last fall. we've just now seen some of the revelations and they are explosive. we have a lot of questions for the director to go through, the inspector general to go through and explain more of what they found, why they don't believe that this really did affect the outcome of the election and more people should probably lose their job at the fbi. jon: yeah, well, you

doj inspector general mike horowitz and fbi chief chris wray testified but comey declined to appear.et's discuss with chris han and matt schlapp. along with peter schweizer, author of "the new york times" best seller "clinton cash." peter, we haven't seen you for a while. what's your take on how this went down today with horwitz appearing on capitol hill. it'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

we may get more information when mike horowitz the inspector general testifies for two days next week. ashley: should be interesting. >> i predict this, you will get subpoenas from congress looking for drafts of the report. only that came out from the final version. did you gin something up? dial something back. ashley: change it from grossly negligent to extremely careless, those types of things? >> exactly. exactly. ashley: great stuff, judge. >> pleasure, ashley. ashley: for more analysis i want to bring in former trump campaign manager corey lewandoski. i would imagine you're disappointed with the gist of this report, after 18 months, this is what we get. a former director of the fbi, perhaps went rogue, in his own direction, was unsubordinate, that is about it? >> clearly jim comey, has one of the greatest messiah complexes we've ever seen in a public official. this is man dictating what was right, what was not right, regardless what the standard operating procedure was in the fbi. he at his own discretion, when to open, when to close investigations into hillary clinton. he at hi

horowitz at this time, thank you. plus mike -- [ applause ] >> thank you so much for all of your work and for being here. before i introduce our moderator for the first panel, i just want to share a few thank you's with you, the person who really organized and is the driving force of this symposium is linda goodstein's who is either my staff director for my own committee staff director or chief of staff in my office for more than two decades. i just want to give a special thanks to linda the status in the back of the room. [ applause ] her codirector alisa being of the 11 center of washington operation, she is also with us today. thank you for all of the great work you do. now, let me introduce a moderator for our first panel, she will introduce the members of the panel. eleanor hill served as the ig for the department of defense, with great distinction. she conducted that office with fairness and integrity and honesty. she served as the dod ig for five years before that, she was the staff director for senator sam nunn on the p

isn't this bias, isn't this bias, isn't this bias, and mike horowitz will have to answer.nspector general. >> i'm looking for democrats going through the same report saying, ultimately, you have no criticism, ultimately you found no bias. so each side wants its political narrative. then i'm going to look for, inspector general, is this the final version of your report? was there a version before this? where are the drafts and what was changed, and why was anything changed. neil: wow. why would you ask that, by way? >> i wouldn't ask it, but i expect that those looking for something beneath the surface, a feeling that the report may have whitewashed a portion of the fbi, was this a stronger version first, did somebody ask you to change it. did the guy next to you give you all the documents you want. the guy next to him is the director of the fbi, or did he hold anything back? and by the way, mr. inspector general, when you learned that the former director of the fbi used his own private gmail account for government business, did you look at those e-mails? did you discover w

. >> you mention the mike the horowitz will testify on the hill.ow explosive do you think the hearings are going to be? >> i think they'll be pretty explosive. committee he is testifying from front of has a lot of trump allies who are really ready to question him. we're already seeing them basically question why this report had all the details saying comey did a lot of things wrong but then the ultima the conclusion did not go as far as they would like to see. so we're already seeing them say expect questions about the conclusion. these text messages. unless -- they're going to be hammering that. >> i'm going ask you about protocol. you spent your career in intelligence with the cia. how important is protocol on the level that's being discussed in this report? >> i was around plenty of investigation that is were very complex. both at cia and state department when i was there. and i had a window on a couple. any investigation of this size is going to have two things involved in it that make for a result like we're seeing now. one is a lot of people

. >> reporter: after jake horowitz at "mike" heard alice share her story, he says he knew it could helpgger problem. >> the purpose of the story was to shine light on a woman who has a heartbreaking story, but also shed light on a deeper issue, criminal justice reform. >> it's like an unexecuted sentence of death. >> reporter: the video mike created of alice went viral, seen over 4 million times, including kim kardashian west, who turned into johnson's biggest supporter, hiring her own legal team to look at alice's case. >> genuinely for months working behind the scenes to get alice johnson released. >> reporter: kardashian's determination bringing her to the oval office, the moment captured photo was surreal. a validation of the amount of work kim kardashian west had done. >> reporter: kardashian after her meeting with trump. >> i really strongly believe that she is someone that has completely rehabilitated herself. >> reporter: and then on wednesday, the announcement comes. >> i mean, it came as a surprise to all of us. >> reporter: kardashian herself delivering the news to johnson, d

want to take you to capitol hill at this hour, senator mike lee of utah is currently questioning justice department inspector general michael horowitz along with fbi director christopher wray. michael horowitz is the one on your right speaking at the moment both are appearing before the senate judiciary committee testifying on the bombshell report on how the fbi handled or mishandled the investigation of hillary clinton's e-mail server. edward lawrence is on capitol hill. edward this thing is supposed to go on for a while right? what is the committee focused on so far? >> it has been a lot of question about this bias within the report. fireworks started right from the beginning but this is more a lecture from the senators to an fbi director using that information that was in the inspector general's report and the committee of the chairman senator chuck grassley says the clinton e-mail investigation was handled differently than the russia probe. listen. >> the justice department faces a serious credibility problem because millions of americans suspect that there is a double standard. they see a story of kid-glove treatment for one si

mike emmanuel shows us what's going on. >> with department of justice inspector general horowitz expected to release his report this week, key lawmakers are anxious to learn his findings. >> hear him say one way or the other whether or not the clinton e-mail investigation was professionally done on the up and up and what he thinks about the fisa warrant. >> a senior house republican says he expects the ig report to be tough on former fbi director james comey. >> it's going to in my opinion justify and then some the firing of this person who made decisions that he could do what he wanted to do and not just in the case of the actions with this president, but even beforehand, time and time again, comey from day one assumed that he could do whatever he wanted. >> the house judiciary chairman says some of the ig's findings will likely reveal there was illegal activity. >> i do believe that there have been laws broken. i think that the matter with regard to andrew mccabe and leaks related to that reflect on that. >> there's also the broader issue of whether it's worth giving former fbi director andrew mccabe immunity to get hi

mike emmanuel shows us what's going on. >> with department of justice inspector general horowitz expected to release his report this week,awmakers are anxious to learn his findings. >> hear him say one way or the other whether or not the clinton e-mail investigation was professionally done on the up and up and what he thinks about the fisa warrant. >> a senior house republican says he expects the ig report to be tough on former fbi director james comey. >> it's going to in my opinion justify and then some the firing of this person who made decisions that he could do what he wanted to do and not just in the case of the actions with this president, but even beforehand, time and time again, comey from day one assumed that he could do whatever he wanted. >> the house judiciary chairman says some of the ig's findings will likely reveal there was illegal activity. >> i do believe that there have been laws broken. i think that the matter with regard to andrew mccabe and leaks related to that reflect on that. >> there's also the broader issue of whether it's worth giving former fbi director andrew mccabe immunity to get him to t

mike pompeo ripping into china yesterday, saying china is the most predatory government in the world, committing larceny. we'll dig into that one. >>> and a new bombshell revelation from d.o.j. inspector general michael horowitz, they're looking whether bias at fbi did lead to the start and the launch of the russia probe. i'm going to play that you sound. >>> this hour, president trump will meet with house republicans, trying to hammer out immigration compromise to address the controversy and separate families at the border. money, politics, we deliver the debates behind tomorrow's headlines. i'm elizabeth macdonald, "the evening edit" starts right now. . liz: let's get to your money first. dow did tumble more than 400 points at its low, retraced and closed down 287 points to end the day 24,700. wiping out gains for the year, the trade dispute heating up, the russell 2000 hit an all-time high, so did netflix. ba, caterpillar, 3m, boeing, account for half the losses in the dow. let's get to nicole in the thick of the action on the big board. reporter: to your point with the dow dropping 287 points, 1.1%, the steepest drop we've seen on the dow jones industrial average since late may. sell-off was broad-based,

mike lee was fantastic. senator lindsey graham was able to piece it together and pressed michael horowitz on this question.nsurance plan, they mentioned andy, who is it? andy mccabe. what did an did i mccabe say what is this plan? he said he didn't remember. peter strzok remembered to lisa page. one of them is lying. that is moving an investigation further. steve: so, you know there were some great questions but there weren't such great answers although this was a stunner. remember when james comey on the way out, he delivered to a friend the professor, up at columbia who is also a lawyer and had special status with the fbi some documents regarding memos he had taken and his meetings with president trump, he leaked them to try to get them in the paper to get a special investigator. there was some really secret stuff on those memos. are they going after comey? listen to this. >> are you investigating comey's handling of his memos and does that include the classification issues and should mr. comey expect a report when it is complete? >> we received a referral on that from the fbi. we are handling that refer

mike is not on. >> do i get ten more seconds? >> absolutely not. >> mr. horowitz, isn't it true that regarding the fbi's investigation of hillary clinton's e-mail servers, also called the mid-year review your report found quote unquote no evidence that the conclusions of the department of justice prosecutors were affected by bias or improper considerations? >> correct. >> and isn't true that the report found that decisions made during the 2016 campaign mid-year review were quote unquote based on the prosecutor's assessment of the facts, the law and past department practice? >> correct. >> now turning now to agents stuk and page, it is true that your report says that their actions brought discredit to themselves, correct? >> correct. >> however, it's also true that you, quote, unquote did not find documentary or testimonial evidence directly connecting these political views that these employees expressed in their text messages and instant messages to the specific investigative decisions that you reviewed? >> correct. >> now unpack that for that. how could it be tha