go. could be fireworks. welcome to our broadcast today. i m bill hemmer. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. what i like about when republicans run the committees, they re on time. allegations the f.b.i. bias will be front and center. the judiciary committee chairman will question durham on his report. he concluded the bureau had no business investigating the trump campaign. republicans are touting that be in their push to reform the justice department. committee chairman jim jordan. i think today for mr. durham you will hear why it s necessary. he will give detail and add more color to what we already knew, this whole trump/russia thing was a lie. dossier was garbage. they used it anyway to sfie on four american citizens. bill: right now jim jordan is sitting in his seat and could get rolling any moment. one of the democrats is adam schiff. the house could vote to censure him today for pushing the debunked claims of the trump-russia collusion. dan
references the recommendations made by horowitz all of which d.o.j. and f.b.i. have already implemented. your investigation lasted four years, four years and untold sums of money and one conviction. you proed a 300 page report given my republican counterparts plenty of material to spin. george papadopoulos was with the campaign in 2016. may he told a diplomat the trump received a suggestion from russia that it could assist this process with the anonymous release of information during the campaign that would be damaging to secretary clinton. this is a fact that came out during the mueller investigation and your investigation found nothing to dispute this fact, correct? thrill is more detail to that in the report. did you find anything to dispute this report? this fact? no.
any agency or responsibility to donald trump for problems that are trump s and trump s alone. instead, republicans have planned this hearing and constructed an entire narrative around the work of special counsel durham in an effort to distract from the former president s legal troubles and mislead the american public. to be clear, the durham report is by itself a deeply flawed vessel. after four years, thousands of employee hours, and more than 6 1/2 million dollars in taxpayer dollars, special counsel durham failed to uncover any wrongdoing that justice department inspector general horowitz had not already found in 2019. he brought just two cases to trial and lost them both. both defendants were acquitted in mere hours. the single conviction of special counsel durham obtained involved a single charge of lying to the
cost more than six half million and some resigned in protest and took four years to complete, is that correct? no. it s not correct. there were multiple parts of that. did it take four years to complete? correct. with all these resources and people you were sent to help you investigate the investigators you only filed three criminal cases. you only brought two cases to trial, correct? correct. you lost all the cases you brought to trial, correct. ? correct. two your ephors acquitted your defendants of all charges. the one conviction the defendant pleaded guilty to a single count that never went to trial. correct. the prime investigative steps were completed by horowitz. perhaps you were better when it came to your report. from my reading your report did not make any specific concrete recommendations to improve d.o.j. or f.b.i. poll seals or procedures. in fact. your report repeatedly
martha: and is there a big crime here, which you said is the question. whether or not has the research gone awry or bad or whether it goes to a big crime and that is what everybody is watching. let me ask you this. the justice department inspector general horowitz released a report that details widespread shortcomings in how the f.b.i. gets its surveillance warrant. he focused on the so-called wood files. documents meant to insure every statement to the fisa court is true. the report, the i.g. reviewed thousands of applications over a five year period. he will take a broader look at it after he slammed the looking at carter page. where do you see this going? i think we re probably more at the end than the beginning of this, martha. what horowitz suspected was that there was widespread abuse by the f.b.i. of the fisa process and i think the answer he has found is that it s very,