cetera. the director acknowledged your findings. and, in fact, he is moving ahead to make improvements to the fisa process and as he put it to make the fbi a much stronger institution. >> that's correct. >> would you agree that it is a major decision to seek authority from a fisa court to conduct surveillance on ant american? i agree. >> if fbi officials were politically-motivated and wanting to conduct surveillance on a particular american, wouldn't the decision to seek fisaee approval be a point wher political bias could affect the process? >> could. >> yes. >> yes. >> actually, that would be a pretty good time for any kind of political bias to manifest itself. but here, you found no evidence of political bias in deciding to seek fisa approval. >> we did not find such evidence. >> when you released your report on monday, both the attorney general and mr. durham immediately issued public statements that challenged the