and i ll also say the ranking member there collins was talking a lot about theater and how it was all theater. but really, i saw the democrats trying to get some narrow questions answered and i saw the ranking member engage in a conspiracy theory about cnn being tipped off by somebody to stake out stone s house before the arrest. go to their twitter feed if you re interested in how that happened. it s called good old fashioned reporting. i guess we see the guerilla warfare is taking hearings and making them about things that has been on conservative blogs. bruce ore, and the democrats are trying to get straight answers on narrow questions. what are we expecting to see when we come back? who s up next? who s on the agenda, and who are you interested in hearing their questioning most? so these hearings always interesting. as you get down, you get to
conversation about your friend, bruce ore, so understand where this is going. this is going to be a long day for everybody. it s not going to turn out well. i testified in the house and the senate. i ve testified before numerous committees including this one, the house judiciary committees. you get all sorts of questions. you some are good and thoughtful. some are incomprehensible. what you always do is treat the members with can respect. they have an oversight function. it s their time. their questions. they get to ask what they want to ask. it does pain me that the acting attorney general of the united states was not able to say there forthrightly that ore has been a long-standing public servant. that s what he is. and not just the standup generally for the department, but to stand up for the people who have been specifically under attack. to me that s deeply disturbing. this is somebody you have
been a gap in that discovery. just another question is is if anybody outside this, would you view this as problem? this looks like this is something i m asking in your final days, would this with b a problem with doj. it seems to appear that this was given pre or prior knowledge not given through normal channels. only one network was there. i share your concern with the possibility that a media outlet was tipped off to the indictment or arrest before that information was made available to the public. one of the other issues, and this is since we re going to go down this. this is a question that s not known familiar, and it should be. is bruce ore still employed with the department of justice? to answer your question directly, mr. collins, bruce ore
curve on malfeasance and how this russia probe began. if you compare the buzzfeed story that you say everyone ran with anonymous sources that turned out it looks like not to be true. on the other hand, bruce ore at the justice department and this transcript on the record that we now see kim strassel and you and others have been reporting on where he says i warned people at the fbi that this was political information the dossier. paid for by the clinton camp and yet they ran with it anyway. most of the media, my point is, are not going with that on the record transcript. they are ignoring it, mollie, they run watt noe with e anonymous sources. all these stories go against the administration ran without evidence. on the other hand have you dozens, if not hundreds of stories based on factual evidence and the record showing problems with the fbi s procedures and how they handle things when it came to the 2016 campaign and thereafter. when they were actually wiretaps campaign officials, s
fisa abuse recounted by the chairman. bruce ore and his wife s involvement in the dossier and finally you knows the counterintelligence investigation by the fbi with no legal standards, no probable cause no, reasonable suspicion simply because they put arrogance and audacity of the fbi to do this was really quite breath-taking and you could tell from william barr s response. he has his work cut out for him, sean. sean: you put out a list of specific people, specific crimes. right. sean: you and i could never understand why jeff sessions never followed up and applied the law as it s written. out when asking that s all we are asking for. he wasn t really the attorney general. the de facto attorney general was rod reserve stein. and he was angry at trump for getting blamed for writing the recommendation that comey be fired he is