strzok. if it looks like a pig and smells like a pig, and if you see and hear with these individuals say, you don t need the inspector general to tell us whether they are biased or not, we can make that conclusion ourselves. laura: congressman, thank you so much. great to see you tonight. one of the shocking regulation s from horowitz s testimony, contrary to what the media claimed, trump did not receive defense briefing on russian interference, as the fbi previously contested. in fact, they use that briefing, an informational briefing in august of 2016, to gather and record information for their counter intel probe. isn t that cute? and then they entered that information into their cross fire hurricane file. horowitz says this is obviously very disconcerting. joining us now is jeff sessions, former ag and a candidate for u.s. senate from alabama. jeff, what revelation from the
question number three, did the fbi make any kind of use of the information garnered in the defense briefing, for example, to inform its leader interview with michael flynn? so i don t know definitively whether that did occur but that s the stated purpose for the agent being present. lastly, campaigns placed trust in the fbi to provide an environment of cooperation and honest assessments about the risk of foreign threats. how can the fbi repair that trust after abusing the briefing process? that s where we make the recommendation. this kind of strategic briefings as the chairman mentioned, for members of congress, for private citizens, companies when they get attacked, on their computer systems.
question three. did the fbi make any vittive use of the information garnered in the defense briefing, for example, to inform its later interview with michael flynn? i don t know definitively whether that did occur. that was certainly the stated purpose for the agent being present. lastly, campaigns place trust in the fbi to provide an environment of cooperation and honest assessments about the risk of foreign threats. how can the fbi repair that trust after obviousing the briefing process? well, that s where we make the recommendation. we think the fbi has to clearly state what its policy is. it does these kind of strategic briefings, as the chairman mentioned, for members of congress, for private citizens, companies when they get attack ed on their computer systems, for example, for transition
surveyed come we thought it was one or two at one point but four people were surveilled. george papadopoulos, michael flynn. laura: mena forte, paul manafort. paul manafort. and the allegations, the russians trying to make and roads into the presidential campaign and normally would have led to a defense briefing of the higher officials in the trump campaign so they could be on their guard. they deliberately chose not to do that because they were trying to entrap the campaign. and the notion that this ig report exonerates well we were a little afraid someone might release information. yeah that is utter nonsense. this is spying on the opposition political campaign. and mccabe, i m sorry if you think that is calling it as it is but it is calling it is as it is. you spent on the political campaign and you want to be in jail for it. this is a travesty.
surveyed come we thought it was one or two at one point but four people were surveilled. george papadopoulos, michael flynn. laura: manafort paul manafort. paul manafort. and the allegations, the russians trying to make and roads into the presidential campaign and normally would have led to a defense briefing of the higher officials in the trump campaign so they could be on their guard. they deliberately chose not to do that because they were trying to entrap the campaign. and the notion that this ig report exonerates well we were a little afraid someone might release information. yeah, that is utter nonsense. this is spying on the opposition political campaign. and mccabe, i m sorry if you think that is calling it as it is, but it is calling it as it is. you spied on the political