liberty mutual insurance. moments from now, the justice department s watchdog will be back on capitol hill facing grilling again by lawmakers on his report about the fbi s handling of the clinton e-mail probe. doj inspector general michael horowitz will testify. this comes days after the release of that internal justice department report that faulted the fbi and the doj for how it handled the probe. horowitz with fbi director christopher wray went before lawmakers yesterday in the senate. insisted the while mistakes in judgment were made, political bias did not affect the outcome.
breached protocol and was insubordinate but was not politically motivated in his handling of the hillary clinton e-mail probe. president trump has touted the report s findings as proof the justice department was out to get him and declared that it cleared his name. but the inspector general disputed those claims today. there is nothing in the report that says it exonerates the president from any question of collusion with the russians. it says nothing one way or the other, is that correct? we did not look into collusion questions. with us tonight to talk about it, cynthia alksne, a former prosecutor and veteran of the civil rights division at the justice department. cynthia, welcome back to the broadcast. i m about to ask you about the inspector general. is the only reason we re talking about this the fact that the president erroneously came out and said that the document cleared him? probably. you know, he likes to lie about things, so that s not surprising that he s chosen th
handling of the hillary clinton e-mail probe. president trump has touted the report s findings as proof the justice department was out to get him and declared that it cleared his name. but the inspector general disputed those claims today. there is nothing in the report that says it exonerates the president from any question of collusion with the russians. it says nothing one way or the other, is that correct? we did not look into collusion questions. with us tonight to talk about it, cynthia alksne, a former prosecutor and veteran of the civil rights division at the justice department. cynthia, welcome back to the broadcast. i m about to ask you about the inspector general. is the only reason we re talking about this the fact that the president erroneously came out and said that the document cleared him? probably. you know, he likes to lie about things, so that s not surprising that he s chosen this. but the inspector general s report did not go into either the collusion or ev
former fbi director james comey breached protocol and was insubordinate but was not politically motivated in his handling of the hillary clinton e-mail probe. president trump has touted the report s findings as proof the justice department was out to get him and declared that it cleared his name. but the inspector general disputed those claims today. there is nothing in the report that says it exonerates the president from any question of collusion with the russians. it says nothing one way or the other, is that correct? we did not look into collusion questions. with us tonight to talk about it, cynthia alksne, a former prosecutor and veteran of the civil rights division at the justice department. cynthia, welcome back to the broadcast. i m about to ask you about the inspector general. is the only reason we re talking about this the fact that the president erroneously came out and said that the document cleared him? probably. you know, he likes to lie about things, so that s no
mueller is comey s best friend. witch hunt! the president is connecting dots that aren t there. the justice department watchdog could not prove that politics drove investigative decisions in the clinton e-mail probe. the inspector general did, however, find an apparent bias against officials like this message about strzok that he was referring to. the strzok text have some republicans who have repeatedly said, let mueller do his job, they re worried among them trey gowdy. gowdy angered, you remember, some on the right, many of them, actually, who were upset that he shot down the president s baseless accusations that the fbi implanted, quote, spies in the trump campaign.