the investigation just a couple of days before the election. and a lot of republicans felt comey gave clinton a pass when he stood there and chose not to charge her. also revealed in this 500-page report, more of these anti-trump text messages between this fbi official and former fbi attorney. the most damaging, quote, we ll stop from becoming president. evan perez, what are your biggest takeaways? i think the most important point that the inspector general makes is really addressing the criticism that has been coming from the president, from a lot of republicans in congress, which was that this investigation was done in a politically biased manner, that she should have been charged, hillary clinton should have been charged and she wasn t because there was interference, political interference in the way this investigation was done and the inspector general found that that is not so. at least there s no evidence of that. and you just pointed to the key quote in there where they said
situation and whether or not they had an informant who was talking to people in the trump campaign? it comes from a third world model, something that sort of small countries do. i want to find out what was that all about? you can t have one administration spying on another. maybe it happened, maybe you didn t, but the department of justice and the fbi gave clinton a pass. if he had done what she had done he would be in jail right now. i ve seen bias at the department of justice regarding the clinton email investigation. i ve seen bias against president trump that the fbi and the department of justice. i ve seen documents from a paid political informant, foreign agent working with the russians paid by the democrats to get a warrant on an american citizen. that all bothers me so i hope somebody will look at it, maybe mr. horwitz is the right guy but i think we need a special counsel. martha: a second special counsel? this just really stinks to high heaven. i m all for mueller doing
the chairman and i have looked real close at the fbi investigation of the clinton e-mail scandal and i ve come away believing that it was sodly done, that there were conflicts of interest that may have resulted in giving clinton a pass. the steele dossier was paid for compromised him. and we believe the fisa warrant process was reviewed. i call on us appointing a second counsel to investigate the vet ors. y investigators. you are supposed to do the whole truth. the only remedy is second special counsel. the fbi and department of justice won t be putting handcuffs on their receives. sources telling us tonight
benefitted the trump campaign. we know the trump campaign benefitted russia at the republican national convention by taking out language favorable to ukraine and unfavorable to russia. and thanks to a free press we now know there s been communications between the two sides. the issue now is was there some sort of understanding or quid pro quo between the trump campaign and the russians that they would mutually benefit each other. getting back to the attorney general jeff sessions now ruling out a second special counsel, at least for now, i want you to listen to what the president s allies have been saying in recent days. listen to this. the chairman and i have looked real close at the fbi investigation of the clinton e-mail scandal and i ve come away believing that it was shodly done, that there were conflicts of interest, that there was political bias that may have resulted in giving clinton a pass. the steele dossier was paid for by the democratic party through
this minimal investigation he s doing is in effort to sing for his supper, appease donald trump, but i think giving any light to this is in effort to distract away from a lawful investigation into what russia did, who they worked with, and make sure anyone who worked with russia is held accountable, and so i think he s throwing meat out there to appease the president. republicans, many of them, many of your republican colleagues, members of the congremedia have a list of concerns. they wanted to address, not by some sort of career justice department official prosecutor by by a second special counsel. listen to this. chairman and i looked close at the investigation of the clinton e-mail scandal, coming away believing it was shotingly done, conflicts of interest, there was political bias that may have resulted in giving clinton a pass. the steel dossier was paid for