administration generally, and whether they were adequately briefing things as different leaders came into play and i think what we might find from this story, ana, is that it may turn out that part of the chaos that president trump created in the department from forcing out his attorney general, from having acting attorney general matt whitaker in between sessions and barr, from having different leadership people a long time until they had a senate these were people briefed as they were coming in, so they could go to congress and say, hey, this is what happened in the past. we want you to know, before the a notification from a provider. and quick answer, if you will, but i do want to askpart garland s statement that stood out you in which he writes he instructed the deputy ag, already working on surfacing
adversaries. your information was collected. we re still trying to piece this all together. the former attorneys general and deputy ag are telling people around them that they were unaware. that you and schiff were ensnared. don t buy it. that s not the way the department works. i know from my experience on the intelligence committee that for special matters whether it involves the members of congress or senior members, you know, senior members in the press. this it would go to the attorney general s office. i m not above the law. if i do something wrong, just like any american, my records, you know, with a warrant, should be reviewed. but i ve been on the intelligence committee going on seven years now. i ve been around before this investigation took place, where there were leaks, unfortunate live classified information. information that i and many others knew about. and no investigation into me or others took place. that s why it looks so targeted.
here is mrs. pelosi and the leadership, the democrat leadership has demonstrated clearly this was all about affecting the 2020 election and has nothing to do with ukraine or 2016 or 2017 or 18 or 19, it s about 2020. i want to get into the fisa court in the fisa rules when you are deputy ag that gave you some responsibility over the fbi and as you look at the horowitz report, is the behavior that it documents by the fbi and the submission to the court is not defensible in your view? no. simply no. how could this happen, you have a wiretap approved by the court submitted by the fbi of an official who is advising a presidential campaign that strikes me as very serious
business when it s a normal course of affairs that kind of a decision with political invocations been alerted at the deputy ag or the ag level? one would certainly think so and i think one of the strongest points and recommendations that michael horowitz makes in that report is there needs to be some kind of a change to make sure that notification to the responsible political leadership with the justice department would occur in the circumstances in the future. there s a lot more that needs to be done to fix this. judge collier s rebuke of the fbi that came in what we heard so far from director ray has frankly been rather timid. most extraordinary the judge collier issue that revealed public. one of the concerns i have, what took them so long. they had information in the real
5 impeachment hearings come to a close, inspector general horowitz takes center stage to rip the fbi failure to meet basic crisis standards and make clear no one is vindicated by this report. we found investigators failed to meet their basic obligations ensuring the fisa applications were scrupulously accurate. does your report vindicate mister comey? it doesn t vindicate anyone including the leadership. heather: our next guest worked for robert mueller and alongside then deputy ag james comey. you to break it down as assistant director chris weber, thank you for joining us this morning. i want to hear from you. your firsthand account. what did you think as you listened to phrases like failure by the entire chain of command being said by horowitz, they found 17 significant inaccuracies and omissions among a host of other things.