the same cannot be said for everyone at the fbi. and president trump approves tariffs on $50 billion of goods from china. this move is likely to provoke a strong reaction from beijing. and several people in the hospital after a roller coaster derails in florida. some victims falling more than 30 feet to the ground. can you imagine? welcome back to k early start. i m dave briggs. i m christine romans. we start with the republicans quick to seize on the report. the inspector general calling the actions of fbi director james comey extraordinary and insubordinate. he was not motivated by political bias. this details numerous failures heading the e-mail probe and concluding the actions cast a
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i want to get your take on some of the key findings of this ig report, mr. horowitz s report about how the doj and fbi handled the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. one of the things that it found is this newly revealed text message between two fbi agents, peter strzok and lisa page, that were working on the e-mail probe and then subsequently for a time on the mueller russia probe. lisa page texts, trump s never going to become president, right? right? peter strzok writes back, no, no he won t. we will stop it. the president responding to that, congressman, this morning, saying, quote, it doesn t get any lower than that. do you agree with the president on that front, that text messages between fbi agents working on both of those probes are wholly inappropriate? i agree that the fbi agents should not have been using their official cell phones express their personal opinions. but the key finding of the ig investigation as stated by christopher wray yesterday is that none of the p
this. it s about what s not been found in the ig report, not about the hypothetical who would have led the president to bolster his own claim would be. but the idea you re going to take the ig report that was focused on the hillary clinton e-mail probe and conflate it what s happening right now with the russia, mueller collusion probe is self-serving and not consist with the fact of the ig report. you cannot conflate the two, and christopher ray didn t do so. i want to tell our viewers that was nelson and not me. nelson, i m suffering. i know how you feel, brother. i m dealing with it right now. should i come back to you because i wanted to ask you the next question. are you okay? i think you can go ahead. so nelson, is he saying that sessions should un-recuse himself unilaterally and put a stop to this entire investigation? you can t un-recuse yourself
jennifer rogers, to you, our legal analyst, former federal prosecutor, to the president s assertion that the ig blew it on one of its main findings in the report, but also at the same time that the ig report on the hillary clinton e-mail probe, quote, total thtally exonerates based in any shred of fact, this wasn t a report on the mueller russia probe. it doesn t exonerate him in there. he wants to have it both ways. it doesn t exonerate him on russia. doesn t show bias on the part of the fbi and the clinton e-mail probe. i think they wanted to get out of this, something to hold on to say they were on clinton s side, not on my side. they didn t get that. it doesn t do what they had wanted. what is the biggest takeaway from the ig report overall? well, just exactly that. that while jim comey had violated protocols, which we already knew, of course, there is no bias there.