mr. guliani? mr. horowitz: our investigative work is still ongoing and put this in here so that the readers and the public could see our concerns about the number of contacts with media, but i'm not in a position to speak to any nvestigative outcomes. senator: do you believe disclosures of this sort especially during an election are appropriate, or lawful? mr. horowitz: i don't think it is. i was a former prosecutor and worked with f.b.i. agents and all of us would have thought that was entirely inappropriate. senator: the report sa says that you and i quote will separately report on those investigations as they are concluded. does this mean that this leak investigation is ongoing? mr. horowitz: our work remains ongoing and when we can do it, we will do so. senator: republicans in congress have pressured the department of justice to reveal details about special counsel mueller's investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election and possible obstruction of justice. as a result, sensitive inf

mr. guliani during the campaign. in fact, mr. guliani based so on tv. the president says this report totally exonerates him and says there's no collusion with the russians. inspector general horowitz, did your report even consider the question of collusion? >> our report is focused on the fbi and department's handling of the clinton e-mail investigation. it touched on the russia investigation as we laid out here when we found the text messages in the july-august time period and the decision that was made in october about whether to proceed or not proceed with the wiener laptop. that was the sum total of our -- >> nothing in the report that says it exonerates the president from any question of collusion with the russians. says nothing one way or the other, is that correct? >> we did not look into collusion questions. >> i note the president says it totally exonerates him even though there's no conclusion one way or the other. >> now, director wray, after learning that the fbi utilized a confidential source during the early stages of the russia investigat

mr. guliani. was he correct?> senator, i can't speak to what director comey -- >> was he correct that there is an an internal investigation john going to the leak to

mr. guliani all over the media as of late, in full force. what is your take on mr. guliani's media tour, we'll call it? what's behind it? >> i think it's in part because as he has said, that much of the remedy if there was criminality would be impeachment. so it's really a political process. what i think he's trying to do is kind of delegitmize the entire investigation. if something arises where there is an impeachment proceeding, they've muddied the field, saying donald trump has been treated unfairly. what i found interesting today is it's not even clear rudy guliani agrees with the entire memo which was not written when he was on the legal teal. it was written by paul dowd. george stephanopoulos asked him whether the president can end cases and that would not be obstruction of justice, a pothetical, what if the president murdered somebody and there was an investigation into that, the president could close that down and guliani said well, i wouldn't go that far, that was written by john dowd, you would have to ask him that. it's not clear that rudy guliani himself