Seem to have everything thats been a response to everything that the democrats have done. They announced impeachment charges, Michael Horowitz report. Bill barr is out there. Articles are introduced. Horowitz testifies today. On one hand they get exactly what they want. They create sort of confusion about mueller, the obsession to get trump. That story is out there. It seems as if this is part of a strategy the way the Trump Administration has used the government to respond to impeachment. Last night in hershey, pennsylvania, i was there, covering President Trumps rally. He talked about the ig report. He talked about the ongoing Impeachment Inquiry. He claimed that he was spied on. This is the counternarrative that has been building on the Trump Campaign, on the white house side, the Republican Party for a long time. When you read the igs report there was not an intention, according to horowitz, to spy. What was going on was Counterintelligence Investigation about possible russian inte
russian hacking of democratic campaign computers. materials stolen by russia had been released online including by wikileaks, and the u.s. intelligence community assessed in august of 2016 that, quote, russia was considering further intelligence operations to impact and disrupt elections, end quote. against this backdrop, the fbi was obligated to investigate possible ties to the trump campaign. according to bill precept, the fbi assistant director who authorized opening the investigation, other officials conveyed a similar obligation and sense of urgency to investiga investigate. david laugh man, a national
bill: another alert now. 9:32. the f.b.i. s handling of the f.b.i. email matter under the microscope again. three officials from the bureau will answer questions on the hill. griff jenkins is on the hill. fox news confirm the joint investigation run by goodlatte and gowdy of the house judiciary committee plan to interview three key witnesses officials involved in the handling of clinton s email probe. here they are. the former head of the f.b.i. s counter intelligence division. former head of the f.b.i. s national security division and another man who led during the first seven months of the clinton investigation. precept s name should ring a bell.
he oversaw strzok. the decision to call clinton s email handling extremely careless. he played a role, as did strock in the current russia probe. we reached out to congressman ron desantis a member of both of those committees and had this to say. the hillary case merely scratches the surface of questions regarding bill precept. he needs to be questions about his actions regarding the so-called russia collusion case including his trip to london in may 2016 and his relationship with the f.b.i. informant. meanwhile democrats have derided this joint investigation as partisan and congressional sources tell fox news the three individuals will not be testifying before the committee but rather interviewed behind closed doors by staff. none of those potential witnesses could be reached for comment this morning. these interviews will be the panel s first since october. bill: more to come. griff, thank you. we ll dig a bit deeper later this hour. bob goodlatte is on that
and providing witnesses related to the trump russian investigation. the justice department is on a very short timeline to deliver. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge joins us. the letter obtained by fox news confirmed that as part of the deal house investigators will get access to the remaining documents without reductions by tomorrow. key witnesses part of former director comey s inner circle will be interviewed this month. those witnesses include demoted fbi agent peter strzok who sent anti-trump text messages. fbi lawyer lisa page. as well as fbi general counsel james baker. i knew to the list is the fda s head of counterintelligence, bill precept who comey testified made the decision not to brief congress about the russian case during his last year s election. republican chairman devin nunes writes the committee is extremely concerned by indications that top u.s. government officials investigating the trump campaign