really credibly on the inspector general and his team. there are a number of serious flaws and irregularities in the fisa process which you talked about before. those shouldn t be poo pooed or swept under the rug. the fbi is going to embrace those and commit themselves to reforms that the department of justice will support. but on the grievances of congressional republicans that asked for this investigation, that this was a witch hunt, this was an effort to foment a cue, there could not be a more utter and complete repudiation of those conspiracy theories. and the meticulousness with which the investigation was conducted is laid out in hundreds of pages for the american people to see. this is a dense report. it s 470-something pages and also single space, small type, and at times it s got so much
on abuse of power and the other on obstruction of congress. that s breaking news, from elliot engel, the chairman of foreign affairs, one of the committees that has been investigating this thing, saying at the press conference the chairs of the committees, we may be getting the articles of impeachment against the president as early as then. so it s just a remarkable bookend on this time in our history, right, the night before we re apparently going to get the impeachment articles against donald trump, for him inviting a foreign country to interfere on his behalf of the 2020 election, the eve of those impeachment articles being unveiled. we also get the validation that the russia investigation was sound and when the fbi looked at russia interfering in our election, and started investigating whether anybody on the trump campaign was wittingly or unwittingly coordinating with
the original decision to open an investigation into flynn. as of today, that inspector general report is out. if you read the judge in mike flynn s case, it s easy to imagine that you might be a little bit annoyed at this point if in fact you delayed the sentencing because of what you believed were good faith assertions from mike flynn s lawyers that this new report was going to change everything, it was going to, you know, make the case against mike flynn fall apart. it was going to expose the dastardly fbi for only having pursued flynn because of some political vendetta against flynn or donald trump. whatever else they thought this would give him. you might imagine the judge today having the opportunity to see this report might be annoyed. the inspector general report out today does discuss the fbi opening their investigation into mike flynn and they conclude that it was no problem. ig took a hard look at it t seems pretty kosher, definitely nothing wrong with the mike
specifically on this inspector general s report which doesn t just clear the fbi and the justice department in term os of their handling of the mike flynn investigation. it concludes this whole fantasy that the whole russia investigation was a deep state plot designed to sabotage donald trump s political chances, the inspector general chased down the fuzzy threads of their hair ball conspiracy theory and found it to all be nonsense. look at the conclusions of the report. there s a long executive summary. look at that. look at the conclusions. conclusion page 410, quote, the decision to open the investigation was by bill prista. we concluded, meaning the inspector general s office, concluded that prees tap s exercise of discretion in opening the investigation was in
that there was any sort of antitrump political bias that was motivating or driving any of these decisions. they debunked the idea that the christopher steel dossier against trump was the basis for opening the fbi investigation. it absolutely was not. and oh, by the way, no, there was no spying on the trump campaign. so you re not suggesting though that spying occurred. i don t well, i think spying did occur. yes, i think spying did occur. spying did not occur according to the justice department. justice department s inspector general report came out today concluding definitively that the trump campaign was not spied on. which you would i mean, given the seriousness of the allegation that the trump campaign was spied on, given the fact that the attorney general