Believe that the situation we have and why were here this morning is because this case is unique and unprecedented. So why are cases normally not handled out in the public . All the other cases that came before either this committee or the Senate Committee whether or not they met the criteria of urgent concern were forwarded because they involved members of the Intelligence Community who were in organizations underneath the dnis authority and responsibility. This didnt come that way because it involved a member, an individual, who is not a member of the Intelligence Community underneath the authority of the dni. S they is different from all others in the past i am aware of. I want to get into how this all got out in the public. This has been orchestrated effort over two weeks. We were first told about it a week and a half ago. We were told specifically that whistleblower did not want to get this information out, they did not want it to leak out. There were only a few potential groups o
the report doesn t say they accelerated the efforts. other pundits noting that the ig didn t talk to the white house mocked the report. talk about a lack of perspective and the padding in the overreporting from trump apologists. it sounded if the inspector general s auditioning to become the inspector general at mar-a-lago. this is almost a whitewash of what occurred. the media have made numerous mistakes about trump and his team. msnbc s lawrence o donnell apologized for claiming that russian oligarchs helped arrange bank loans to drum. nbc, the new york times and washington post were tracked and stories that the fbi warned rudy giuliani that he was a russian target. this report doesn t mean police didn t overreact and gassing the demonstrators and doesn t address donald trump holding the bible outside that fire damaged church but it s striking that some of the media are dismissing the finding that the essence of
could pose in front of the church they said. sick police on peaceful protesters so he can make a big show of being, you know, the little big man walking to a closed down church. now inspector general s report makes clear the media narrative was wrong. the ig said park police had planned for hours to clear the park outside the white house to build taller fences and a top commander was stunned when then attorney general bill barr who came to inspect the area told him of trump s plan. trump says the report totally exonerated him. some journalists are delivering straightforward accounts but being met by skepticism. it does sound like the park police accelerated their efforts when they found out the president was coming. how do they square that. the report doesn t say that they accelerated their efforts. other pundits noting the ig didn t talk to the white house or other agencies mocked the report. you talked about a lack of perspective in the padding and
the ig didn t. no. but i do think given the context, it s extremely important that the ig did not accuse this, this investigation of political bias. which has been the central claim the trump administration has made. it s important that people across the aisle recognize that the fbi is a flawed institution and that power like that should not go unchecked, but what do we want from former officials who screwed up if not to be willing to get on tv, which no one is make iing them do and say yes, screwed up? i don t think though the public feels comfortable hearing that a preimminent law enforcement agency is flaw edfl. even though it may be truthful, it s not an image when see see it as the top law enforcement of the nation. how else do we fix these problems if not for people taking responsibility for them? this administration never takes responsibility for anything ane
there was there was a lot going on around this that is not the subject matter of horowitz s report but i think has a direct bearing perhaps on what was going on in the fbi. nbc s pete williams joins us from the justice department. fascinating interview, pete. you asked him what kind of bias, he wouldn t answer that. i want to go back to after reviewing a million documents, interviewing a hundred people, he didn t find documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation influenced decisions to open the investigation into trump campaign aides. barr s take is what, the ig didn t look hard enough? reporter: well, he is focusing on what the inspector general also said, that although he found no evidence of political bias, especially in the way carter page surveillance application was handled, there