wray?istopher wray: i appreciate this opportunity to discuss the fbi's response to the report by the justice department's office of inspector general about the doj and fbi activities in the run-up to the 2016 election. i take this report very seriously and we accept its findings as that and recommendations. -- its findings and recommendations. we are already implementing recommendations and are ready to come out from this better and wiser. our mission at the fbi is to protect the american people and uphold the constitution. ,nd to carry out that mission we are entrusted with significant authority. our actions are subject to oversight by congress, courts, and by independent entities like the inspector general. that oversight in my view makes the fbi stronger as an organization and makes the public more safe. i appreciate the inspector general's work in conducting this review. although the report did not find any evidence of political bias or improper considerations impacting the investigatio

wray: yes? reporter: i know you don't want to identify the people who were involved or have been referred to opr, but can you tell us how many have been referred to opr as a result of this report? mr. wray: i can't. that's not a topic i can comment on. i really want to be careful. i know why you're asking the question and i respect that. but it's really important to me to make sure that we don't compound the mistakes that are found in this report by deviating from our process. so i think it's very important that we respect the appropriate process, that it be done right, as i said earlier, by the book. once that process is complete, we will not hesitate to hold people accountable. reporter: [indiscernible] mr. wray: the lessons are, number one, the importance of trying to make sure that we avoid even the appearance of bias in all of our work. that objectivity and the appearance of objectivity matters. there's lessons in there about contacts with the media and appropriate engagement with all of yo

wray -- director ray. dir. wray: thank you i . appreciate this opportunity to discuss the fbi reports about the doj and the fbi's activities in the run-up to the 2016 election. i take this report very seriously, and we accept its findings and recommendations. we are already addressing these recommendations in a number of ways and are determined to emerge from this experience better and wiser. our mission at the fbi is to protect the american people and uphold the constitution. to carry out that mission, we are entrusted with significant authority. our actions are subject to close oversight by the congress, by the courts, and by independent entities like the inspector general. that oversight makes the fbi stronger as an organization and makes the public more safe. i appreciate the inspector general's work in conducting this important review. although the report did not find any evidence of political bias or improper considerations, the report did identify errors of judgment, violations of or disregard for policy, and decisions that

wray: yes. senator graham: i'm one to talk about why you should reconsider your findings. here is what ms. page said on march 4. trump is a loath some human. some human. mr. horowitz: we have weighed out why we were concerned. senator graham: as early as march, these people hated trump and this investigation was anything but by the book and at the end of the day what comey did blows me away as much as it does y'all. i can't believe this happened to my fbi. i told you the story about wanting to be part of the organization. you were smart enough not to take me. if you are on our side of the aisle this does hit hard. we can't just write it off. i think there was a lot of bias that did affect an investigation that is almost impossible to explain using any standard i grew up with as a prosecutor or a defense attorney. this is strauch to page. trump is an idiot. the bottom line is, i'm glad you found what you found. the reason i am not buying it, two people involved, the lead investigator clearly did

wray: disappointed. reporter: why -- [inaudible] -- personal email address for any feb -- [inaudible] mr. wray: not that i can think of. reporter: [inaudible] -- some people are going to use -- some people are already criticizing you, by sharing documents, investigate documents. how do you respond to criticism -- [inaudible] -- by sharing investigative material -- [inaudible] -- mr. wray: on the first point, i'm not going to speak for the office of special counsel. i would note that there are a number of things that we've done both in terms of referring people to o.p.r., but also in terms of reassigning people to try to ensure that we're bringing the right kind of integrity to staffing and all sensitive investigations. as to the congressional question, my view is we have an obligation to be responsive to legitimate congressional oversight. that's part of our job, as i said, at the beginning. we are entrusted with enormous power and so we should expect we're going to get tough questions and we need to be

wray? >> the time of the gentleman has expired. the director may answer. >> congressman, i'll let the report speak for itself. >> thank you. i yield back. >> chair recognizes the gentleman from iowa, mr. king, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i directed my first question to mr. rosenstein. mr. rosenstein, i know that you're a constitutionalist, and i think about the framework we're dealing with here in this article one, asking questions of article two. and i would ask is, in our role of oversight here in our article one role of oversight, is there any information that's housed within the executive branch, anywhere in the executive branch, that would be permanently and forever unavailable to the oversight of the united states congress? >> i don't know that, the answer to that, congressman, with regard to the information of the justice department. there are certain categories of information, as director wray said, we wouldn't wouldn't typically release, and my experience is the c

wray. the way i have described my job as a prosecutor to people when i did my own town hall meetings, i would say it's like the show "the law and order." the first half of the show the police do the investigation, the second half of the show the prosecutors make a decision. would you agree with that summary? >> i think so. i guess the way i would put it is we do an investigation, we determine whether or not we think there are sufficient facts to go forward with the case and then we present the facts to the prosecutors who then make the decisions and exercise prosecutorial discretion. i don't think prosecutorial discretion by definition is something the investigative agency decides. >> you might discuss the cases with the prosecutors, but in the end they make the decision? >> yes. >> so if you had been in that place at that moment in time as the fbi direct or would you hav called up in the july decision and the october decision, would you have then called up either the attorney 1yer7b8 gener

wray, mr. rosenstein, was peter strzok the head of any of those investigations? >> congressman, i don't know that i would characterize him as the head of any of the investigations. certainly he played a significant role in the investigations that are described in the inspector general's report, but there was a supervisory chain. as the inspector general found, there were a number of people involved in that chain above him. >> and i know you've spoken already about the ninspector general's report. it came to the conclusion that while he may have had biases, none of those biases played a role in their conclusions, is that correct? >> i would defer to the inspector general's own characterization but my understanding is he found no evidence of political bias impacting the investigation. >> all we had was some talk between friends, maybe lovers, and it was just talk, but no policy and no action to bring about or effectuate any of their beliefs, correct? >> again, i don't know that i want to start ch

wray, director wray. that's the leaks. there's been a lot of talks here about the leaks. i don't have tame to question it now because my time is running out too fast. if i understand -- let me go back. you indicated -- i looked at appendix g and h. i would recommend every one look at appendix g and h to see pictorially orographically what it is you're talking about. although i accept what you say, director, that this is not a reflection on the entire fbi, it's a big deal in terms of numbers and in terms of the issue that is at stake here. so again, back to you director wray. you indicated you adopted a new rule in november. what is that, quickly. >> there's a number of parts to the new rule. the most important of which is to make clear that only certain very select number of people in the organization are allowed to talk to the media without permission and number 2, i'm oversimplifying in the interest of time, number 2 that any contacts from the media to anybody else have to get reported. so that way you can't have somebody say, oh, they contacted me. what i want to be cl

director wray will describe what the fbi is doing to accomplish those goals.artment of justice, our mandatory annual training will include lessons from the inspector general's report, and we are considering other recommendations. we already revised department's confidentiality policies to emphasize that nonpublic sensitive information obtained in connection with our work is protected from disclosure. we intend to enforce that principle on our employees, and we need to demonstrate respect for it ourselves by protecting sensitive information and trusting it to the fbi. a congressional oversight is vital to democracy. by june 27th letter which i will submit for your consideration explains how the executive branch handles congressional oversight requests for law enforcement and intelligence information. the fbi is managing an extraordinary volume of congressional oversight requests, some of which seek details about criminal investigations and intelligence sources. as a result of president trump's commitment to transparency, the fbi is making unprecedented disclosu

wray, director wray, about wanting to be part of the organization. ya'll were smart enough not to take me. the bottom line is if you're on our side of the isle, this really does hit you hard. we can't just write it off. i think there was a lot of bias that did affect an investigation that is to me almost impossible to explain using any standard that i grew up with as a prosecutor or even a defense attorney. this is strzok to page on october 20th. trump is an eff-ing idiot. the reason i'm know buying the clinton investigation was on the up and up is was the two people were involved, the lead investigator clearly did not want to see donald trump become president of the united states. finally, do you agree with me that finding her liable criminally would be inconsistent with stopping donald trump? if they found hillary clinton was criminally liable, that paves the way for donald trump. can you puts those two things together? >> it would depends when. >> how about if it was before the convention? >> conceivably. >> not only clearly conceivably but that's

wray does it every day.t down with a team of attorneys from the department of justice all of whom review that, provide a briefing for us about what's in it and i reviewed that one in some detail and can tell you that the information that is public about that doesn't match with my understanding of the one that i signed. but i think it's appropriate to let the inspector general complete the investigation. these are serious allegations. i'm reviewing the finished product. the inspector general finds i did something wrong i'll respect that judgment. i think it's highly unlikely given the way the process works. >> yield back. >> chair recognizes miss jackson lee from texas. >> let me thank the ranking member who remains on the floor. i know he is en route. i'm almost believing that i've just a tended or in the midst of a monster ball and we're looking for monsters wherever we can find them. as i was on the floor as i was on the floor, i heard someone say mr. deputy attorney general they are interested in holding

let's ask you about chris wray.e is getting criticism for his statement on thursday that perhaps he doesn't understand how big of a problem he has at the fbi. or is he just an understated person? >> one side for chris wray is that this is not an institutional problem. it's a problem that exists for several time and almost all of them are now gone and the fbi still consists of selfless human beings that risk their lives to keep us safe. the other side is this is deeper than he knows and people are allowing their political opinions to guide their law enforcement judgment and he needs to make sure that that doesn't happen again and he can't act like everything is rosy. those are the two sides of him. i think he woke up this morning to more criticism than he expected because the picture he painted in his press conference thursday was a rosy one of the fbi. one that i don't think is shared by anybody in d.c. today. >> dana: we'll keep an eye on that hearing and when the inspector general and fbi director speak, we'll go

wray? congressman, as i have said repeatedly, i do not believe on ial counsel mueller is any kind of witch-hunt. counsel has l actually been remarkably 22 uctive in its work, people and businesses have been charged with 75 criminal charges. been five guilty leas from michael flynn, rick gates, george -- and rich -- one person has already been sentenced. you can compare that to the ken starr whitewater investigation hich lasted four years and produced nothing or the seven congressional committees that after the ben gazi wholly grail and came back with nothing beloved mr. gowdy that took more than three years nd yet in less than two years we've got 22 people and companies charged. have there been any complaints pleas with ilty those criminal indictments from any members of congress that you're aware of, mr. rosenstein? i could make two corrections. i spent 28 years in federal law years in the 9 service of government. sometimes i round it up to 30. with regard to the starr investigation i woul

i hope director wray understands this. this is an issue not just the credibility of the organization, this inherently a threat to the democracy, a threat to the fbi. it is certainly a threat to the trust that we put into them. and it needs more of a, an attention from the fbi director than merely issue of training. i think comey did unbelievable damage to the fbi. we're seeing it now in the ig's report. melissa: right. >> we felt it as he was undertaking the investigation of the clinton emails and also then when it came to light that he had both presidential campaigns under fbi investigation but now we're actually seeing as applied to the individuals very troubling words were being used. >> wasn't just the two of them. many other people were texting very similar things we've seen through this investigation. obviously they felt like they were working in a culture this was okay, accepted by their boss. they felt it, said it to each other, and were willing to text it to each other. what is the remedy for that? you said it is

wray, mr. rosenstein. i realize that neither one of you wore there when this happened but you're both there now. russia attacked this country, they should be the target, but russia isn't being hurt by this investigation right now. we are. this country is being hurt by it. we are being divided. we've seen the bias. we've seen the bias. we need to see the evidence. if you have evidence of wrongdoing by any member of the trump campaign, present it to the damn grand jury. if you have evidence that this president acted inappropriately, present it to the american people. there's an old saying that justice delayed is justice denied. i think right now all of us are being denied. whatever you got, finish it the hell up. because this country is being torn apart. i would yield back, mr. chairman. >> either of the witnesses care to respond to the -- >> no -- about those text messages and nobody is more offended than i about what what's reflected in those messages. with regard to the investigation, i've heard suggestio

wray, thank you for your service. i hope you pass along my thanks to the men and women who serve the department of justice and the bureau. this morning donald trump, our president, tweeted -- when is bob mueller going to list his conflicts of interest. mr. rosenstein, does mr. mueller have any conflicts of interest? >> mr. chairman, if there were any conflicts of interest that were brought to our attention, i would discuss it with mr. mueller, and there could be review in the department if there were credible allegation of a conflict of interest. so i'm not aware of any disqualifying conflict of interest. >> in your experience at the department, are you aware ever in your experience with the department's history of an unindicted subject of investigation being given evidence that exists in the case where that person's a subject? >> i wouldn't want to comment on what's ever happened, but generally that would not be our practice. >> and do you intend to change that with the request that rudy giuliani, the president's cou

director wray: disappointed. >> [indiscernible] director wray: not that i can think of.scernible] director wray: well, on the first point, i'm not going to speak for the office of special counsel. i would note that there are a number of things that we have done, both in terms of referring people to opr and also in terms of reassigning people to try to ensure that we are bringing the right kind of integrity to staffing and all sensitive investigations. as to the congressional question, my view is that we have an obligation to be responsive to legitimate congressional oversight. it's part of our job. we are entrusted with enormous power. questionsexpect tough and we need to be responsive and cooperate with that. we also have an obligation to protect sources, methods, and not compromise on ongoing criminal investigations. to it here to things like grand jury secrecy. the challenge is to make sure we do both. i think we have struck the right balance so far. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] he has attacked the credibility of the fbi. do you think this report validates his crit

liz: we are awaiting fbi director christopher wray.ntarily will be holding a press conference at the bottom of the hour to talk about the findings of the i.g. report. let's bring back bill mcgern. bill, what is the fallout of this report? >> i think we're going to see it. look, remember the inspector general is going to testify before congress. they're going to have a lot of follow-up questions from the 500 pages, and i think we're going to hear from other fbi officials too. liz: here's the thing, fbi director christopher wray is about to speak. james comey is still a witness in the robert mueller probe. >> right. liz: and he's been a prominent critic of trump. he's connected to the fisa warrants on carter page and others. bring that all together. >> we have another inspector general study into the russian investigation, right? liz: and the fisa warrant process? >> right, this stuff hasn't come out yet. this was just the hillary clinton e-mails and remember this was because democrats complained that mr. comey had thrown the election to

director wray can explain it, too, sir. my responsibility at that time was to approve filing of fisa applications. the attorney general, the deputy and the assistant attorney general. at the time, that position was they can. it's my responsibility do that. i had been relieved of that responsibility. director wray still does it everyday and i don't know what his process is, sir, but we sit down with a team of attorneys from the department of justice. all of whom reviewed that provide a briefing for us and , i've reviewed that one. the information that is public about that does not match with my understanding of the one that i signed but i think it's , appropriate to let that inspector general complete that investigation. these are serious investigations. i'm reviewing the finish product, sir. if the inspector general finds i did something wrong i'll respect that judgment but it's highly, highly unlikely sir given the way the process works. >> yield back. >> chair recognizes the gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson-lee, for fi

director wray explained the process. he's got hundreds of people working around the clock trying to satisfy these requests so whether you vote or not is not going to affect it. you're going to get everything that's relevant that we can find and produce to you. i support this report, sir. i'm not trying to hide anything from you. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman from georgia mr. johnson for five minutes. >> gentlemen, appreciate your service. i've been impressed with your intelligence and honesty and integrity in this very difficult environment that we find ourselves in and it's a situation where the majority is hurting this country. we're hurting our country with what we're doing today. what we're doing today is holding an emergency hearing, a so-called emergency hearing based on allegations that political influence or political bias within the fbi and the doj haas somehow led to an illegitimate result in the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. that's an investigation that was conducted originally. it was conducte

i think it's important, sir, this gives me and director wray an opportunity to explain the wray we run our organizations, there are going to be mistakes, but there are commitments to following the rules. there are violations in the rules, we understand that. we're making every effort to make sure that doesn't happen on our watch. with 155 employees, we're going to have issues as well, but i can assure you we'll deal with them appropriately. with regard to my commitment, congressman, the attorney general has been very clear about his desire to ensure that the department follows regular order. we follow these traditional rules and practices. if we adhere to these rules, there will sometimes be skeptical questions because we're not able to respond publicly to criticism. but at the end of the day, congressman, i can assure you cases we bring on our watch are going to be in compliance with the rules. so i hope that over time seeing us follow the rules, the american people will regain whatever confidence they've lost. as director wray said, these folks we work with day in and day out, they a

wray, mr. rosenstein, i realize neither one of you were there when this happened, but you're both there now. russia attacked this country. they should be the target. but russia isn't being heard by this investigation right now. we are. this country is being hurt by it. we are being divided. we have seen the bias. we have seen the bias. we need to see the evidence. if you have evidence of wrongdoing by any member of the trump campaign, presented to the damn grand jury. if you have evidence that this president acted inappropriately, present it to the american people. there is an old saying that justice delayed is just denied. i think right now all of us are being denied. whatever you got, finish it the hell up because this country is being torn apart. i would yield back, mr. chairman. >> either of the witnesses care to respond? >> i would respond i certainly share your views about those text messages and nobody is more offended than i about what is reflected in those messages. with regard to the

because as director wray said, these folks we work with day in and day out. they are almost all there to do the right thing and to the extent that we're not, we'll hold them accountable. >> thank you, i yield back. >> the we recognize the gentleman from illinois, mr. gutierrez for five minutes. >> mr. rosenstein, the president likes to use the term 100%. i want to make sure that i'm 100% sure, the president of the united states did appoints you to your position. is that 100%? >> yes, sir. >> enter ryan, you're the new fbi director, i knew the other director before he was fired by the president. is it 100% that the president appointed you. >> yes. >> 100%, there's no wiggle room here, it's 100% like the president says, i want to ask you, they keep talking about the 13 angry democrats that are running the investigation. mr. wray, are you one of those 13 angry democrats that my republican colleagues keep referring to? >> well congressman, of course i'm not working on the special counsel investigation. >> but you're the head of the fbi. are you, are you a democra

director wray explained the process. he's got hundreds of people working around the clock trying to satisfy these requests so whether you vote or not is not going to affect it. you're going to get everything that's relevant that we can find and produce to you. i support this report, sir. i'm not trying to hide anything from you. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman from georgia mr. johnson for five minutes. >> thank you, gentlemen, i appreciate your service. i've been impressed with your andgence, your honesty, integrity in this very difficult environment that we find ourselves in and, basically, it is a situation where the majority is hurting this country. we're hurting our country with what we're doing today. what we're doing today is holding an emergency hearing, a so-called emergency hearing based on allegations that political influence or political bias within the fbi and the doj has somehow led to an illegitimate result in the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. that's an investigation that was conducted origina

wray: i think congress has a job to do. and we have a job to do. and together we're trying to work through the various issues that are presented by the tensions between congressional oversight and, as i said earlier, protection of sources, methods, trade craft, ongoing investigations and things like that. we're committed to trying to work through those things with congress. >> one more question. mr. wray: yes? reporter: identified the people who were involved or have been referred to o.p.r. but can you tell us how many have been referred to o.p.r. as a result of this report? mr. wray: i can't. that's not a topic i can comment on. i really want to be careful. i know why you're asking the question. i respect that. but it's really important to me to make sure that we don't compound the mistakes that are found in this report by deviating from our process. so i think it's very important that we respect the appropriate process, that it be done right, as i said earlier, by the book. once that process is complete, we will not hesitate to hold people accoun

rosenstein, wray. wray is somebody that president supported. why is it difficult? not to pull politics into this but just negotiating document releases and fisa applications, why is it so hard? >> at the end of the day, this isn't very difficult, at the end of the day they are beam i.r.s.ed by -- they are embarrassed and they are trying to obfuscate or make it difficult for what we believe in some cases are illegal activity. that is the truth. give you an example of that. we had material provided. page and a half that was redacted for issues of national security. when we finally get the information it's paying $70,000 for a conference table. that had nothing to do with national security. it was embarrassing to them. that is a small example but it's not the important example. the more important examples are the meaningful questions how they inducted the investigation and they hide and delay and this is like hide the bunny. we will give you 880,000 pages of documents mr. rosenstein mentioned today. when we really only want a few hundred. they make us bureau through t

policy is what would have been our lead had it not been for the hearing with michael horowitz and wray. melissa: lots to go around they need to all sit down and get something done on immigration, everyone is at fault here that does it for us. david: evening edit starts right now. >> the public trust is negative ly impacted when law enforcement officials make statements reflecting bias. we did not have confidence for the decision of deputy assistant director strzok to prioritize the russia investigation, we're following up on the weiner laptop was free from bias in light of his text message. we also found that in key moment s, then fbi director comey departed from fbi and department and his decision to negatively impacted the perception of the fbi and the justice department as their administrator's justice liz: okay, we're going to bring you the fireworks of what happened on capitol hill with that ig report and testimony there you're looking at a live shot of the white house homeland security secretary kristen nielsen about to speak at the white house press briefing about the controvers

here's where i depart from christopher wray. i don't think it's my job to prove bias impacted the investigation. i think it's his job to prove that it did not. here's what i know, they exonerated her before the interview. they said she did nothing wrong before they even bothered to talk to her and this same group said donald trump should not be the president and/or should be impeached before the investigation began. if that is not textbook bias which is the prejudging of an outcome. that's what bias is between you prejudging the outcome. we are prejudging her innocence before we talk to her. we are prejudging his guilt before you even look into the fact pattern. that is bias. and yes, it impacted the outcome. the most important element is intent. that's what they all told us, she did not have the intent to commit a crime. the best way to figure that out is to talk to her but they went into the interview saying the only thing shall be charged with is maybe lying to us. if your donald trump or any other defendant in the country, h

luckily wray has a solution. forward, he said, fbi employees will receive professional antibias training. now, that might not make. the criminal investigations less corrupt, but it will definitely bring a heightened sense of sensitivity to questions of transgender bathrooms and toxic masculinity. that might make you feel better. fox chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has been on this from the very beginning and joins us now with a report. what would you say is the sum of the impression that you get of director comey from this report, catherine? >> well, this is the report right here, tucker. and it's, as you mentioned, over 500 pages long. and the bottom line with director comey is that the inspector general found that he was insubordinate when he made that july 2016 public statement about the clinton email case where director comey recommended against criminal charges for the mishandling of information and the inspector general said that comey deliberately hid what he was going to say from his b

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i suspect we'll hear more from christopher wray. it was subjected there is disciplinary steps to be taken because it's not just pete strzok and lisa page. three people were exchanging these inappropriate messages and the inspector general points out there were inappropriate contacts with the media that occurred during process -- during the course of this investigati investigation. nobody comes out looking good from this damning report. although no political bias. we'll hear from christopher wray this hour. he's about ready to begin his news conference. president trump has consistently and repeatedly attacked james comey. let's go to jim acosta, what's the reaction to this watchdog report? >> the findings basically lay into how the fbi and justice department conducted themselves during the clinton e-mail investigation. here is how white house press secretary sarah sanders addressed the matter when she was asked about it. >> it reaffirmed the president's suspicions about comey's conduct and political bias among members of the fbi. >>

. >> christopher wray backing the mueller probe despite the backlash.ing the congressional hearing that he is determined not to repeat the mistakes in the watch dog report on the handling of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. he tried to distance himself from james comey. >> i don't know i can speculate what i would have done at the time. i cannot imagine the situation where i unilaterally assume for myself as the fbi director a charging decision and announce it in the news conference. >> wray went on to tell lawmakers changes were on the way and how it handles sensitive investigations. comey is a focus of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. here is manu raju with more. >> reporter: good morning, kraidave and christine. the inspector general report detailing what happened with the clinton e-mail investigation and stating significant missteps along the way. most notably james comey. then the fbi director from members on both sides of the aisle because of the way he announced the findings of the investigation. republicans and democrats yesterday

director wray, was mr. comey telling the truth in that?s an internal investigation ongoing to the leaks to mr. giuliani. was he correct? >> senator, i can't speak to what director comey was or wasn't -- >> i'm just asking, was he correct that there is an internal

meddling, is at risk of impeachment and the president's hand picked director of the fbi christopher wray describes his new job as, quote, staring down the barrel of a contempt citation. and brand-new reporting from "the new york times" out in the last 30 minutes sheds new light on rosenstein's private anger over being used to rationalize the firing of fbi director james comey. the times reporting that in public mr. rosenstein has shown no hint that he had second thoughts about that role, but privately, quote, he expressed remorse at the tumult it unleash the. he said the full story would vindicate him. according to one person with whom he spoke shortly after comey's firing, rosenstein was shaken, unsteady and overwhelmed. another person in touch with rosenstein around that time said he sounded frantic, nervous, upset and emotionally disregulated. in one of these conversations with the acting fbi director at the time, andrew mccabe, rosenstein became visibly upset. joining us now from "the new york times" mike schmidt who just broke this story, nbc news intelligence national security repo

director wray, was mr. comey telling the truth in that? he said here that there was an internal investigation ongoing about the leaks to mr. giuliani. was he correct? >> senator, i can't speak to what director comey was or wasn't -- >> but was he correct that there is an internal investigation ongoing on the leaks to mr. giuliani? >> senator, for reasons that i'm sure you can appreciate, i can't confirm or deny the existence of an ongoing investigation, whether there is one or isn't one. one of the main lessons of this report -- >> the only reason i raise it is it was an open hearing. former director comey said there was an internal investigation. >> there were a number of things i probably would have done differently. >> george? do you want to take a stab at that? >> i'm certainly not going to comment on whether or not there is an open or ongoing investigation one way or the other. we have, over the years, refused to do that and i'm not going to change the policy now. >> you and i have known each other a long time. i assume that's the ans

christopher wray as house republicans dig for answers in the russia probe. >>> good morning, everybody. it is friday, june 29th. 'em' yasmin vossoughian alongside louis burgdorf. we're going to begin with that deadly shooting that happened at the "capital gazette." three senior law enforcement officials tell nbc news the suspect has been identified add jared ramos. he was charged with five counts of first degree murder. a bail hearing has been set for later this morning. ramos sued the "capital gazette" for defamation. a court ruled in the "capital gazette's" favor and an appeals court upheld that ruling. police were note fided about an active shooter yesterday. phil davis who was inside of the building tweeted this. a gunman shot through the glass door to the office and opened fire and on multiple employees. in a later interview davis said it was quote, like a war zone inside the newspaper's offices. he said he and others were hiding under their desks when the gunman stopped firing. authorities took a suspect into custody without exchange of fire. editors at the "capital gazette" cont

director wray said he put in new requirements to make sure they're not leaking to the press. think about that all of those contacts, you have the fbi, the world's premier law enforcement agency leaking to the press about ongoing investigations while at the same time they're not giving information to congress. now, what's happened in just the last couple weeks, what we've seen and this is why i was very concerned about what chairman godgowdy and speaker ryan had s, because they went on a limb protecting the department of justice and i said wait a s that occurredn the lastor couple weeks, how did those occur? where did this information come from? and what we have found now is that we know at midnight just a week ago, at midnight the department of justice put out something on republicans saying that we had not read documents thhe department of justice had provided for us to read. now, that is a major leak of a classified meeting that also happens to be false because they knew that we ran out of time and didn't have time to actually read these documents. but they did that to emba

wray, you agree that the fbi is responsibility is to prevent attacks on america? >> that's one of many of our responsibilities, yes. >> would you agree that in 2016, russia electronically, through weaponizing social media and hacking emails, attacked our democracy? >> i think that's a shorthand for what was in the intelligence community. which i have every reason to accept. >> this morning, mr. wray, the president tweeted, russia continues to say they had nothing to do with meddling. do you believe that russia had something to do with the meddling that occurred in the last election? >> as i think indicated, i think the intelligence community's assessment, which i agree with, is that russia attempted to sew discord in our country in an effort to influence the last election. as the deputy attorney general mentioned, there's also now an indictment through the special counsel's office that speaks to much the same subject. >> mr. wray, has president trump personally told you to use your resources at the fbi to counterfuture election meddling by the russians? >> we did

also, the fbi director christopher wray in the hot seat today.heir agency's actions surrounding the 2016 election. we'll bring you that as soon as it begins. also this morning, president trump seemingly giving russia clearly the benefit of the doubt over election meddling against what our own intelligence agencies have said. just minutes before details about his upcoming meeting with vladimir putin were announced, he took to twitter to write, russia continues to say they had nothing to do with meddling in our election. let's go to abby phillip who joins us at the white house. the timing is interesting to say the least here, abby. >> reporter: really it is. it is also, i think very consequential because this is a commentary that president trump has repeated over and over again. he often repeats it around the time he's meeting with vladimir putin and now we know they are meeting in the summit in helsinki and the president is saying contrary to his own national security advisers that repeating russian talking points saying russia continues to say th