responsibility as impossibility reaching work done at lower level. chris: then there is, the worst misconduct. in august of 2016, just two weeks into the investigation the cia tells the fbi that it actually has a relationship with carter page. that when he has these meetings with the russians, he actually goes back and tells the cia about it but you never tell the fisa court that. in fact, in 2017, an fbi lawyer doctors a document, the cia said, oh, carter page he is a source and he puts in the application, he is not a source. i take issue, i ll answer the question, one of the predications of your question, the inspector general did not find misconduct by any fbi people. he found mistakes. chris: that is not true. in the case of kevin clients smith he referred it for criminal investigation. that is not been resolved. lawyer changing email to partner on the time.
that brought it over. doesn t make it part of the broader mosaic, makes it the center peas of the whole fisa application. i don t understand it to be saying that. i could be wrong about that. chris: i got his quote here. he says, we concluded the steele reporting played a central and essential role in the decision to seek a fisa warrant, that it pushed the fisa proposal over the line in terms of the establishing probable cause. i mean he says what he says. words mean something. yeah. i agree with his characterization. i m just, i don t see the disconnect between the two of us, i m sorry i m missing it. chris: you don t see a difference it is part of a broader mosaic and played an essential role in establishing probable cause? it was one of a bunch of different facts that were assembled to apply to the court. it was the one that convinced lawyers they had enough now with that added to the pile to go forward. chris: i guess the question is, it seemed you were minimizing the role of
e. host of ground game comcast. katie pavlich. let me start with you. democrats are hanging their hat in terms of the i.g. report, in finding investigation of the trump campaign was legitimate i opened. there was no political bias. republicans on repeated abuses or errors in the fisa process. who has the better side of that argument? i think republicans do. democrats should be very concerned what the i.g. laid out in his testimony and his report. james comey, former fbi director in his interview with you continues to refer to omissions, mistakes, sloppy behavior, but you don t omit information like carter page is an asset for the cia in fisa application if you don t do that on purpose. that is not something you forget about. you don t fail to take out information that christopher steele is connected to the clinton campaign through the dossier by mistake. these are things obviously
allowed you to surveil carter page who was a former foreign policy advisor to the trump campaign. again, here is what you said about the fisa process and what the inspector general horowitz said this week. take a look. total confidence that the fisa process was followed and that the entire case was handled in a thoughtful, responsible way by doj and the fbi. we identified significant inaccuracies and omissions in each of the four applications. seven in the first application, and a total of 17 by the final renewal application. chris: 17 significant errors in the fisa process and you say that it was handled in a thoughtful and appropriate way. he is right. i was wrong. i was overconfident in the procedures that the fbi and justice had built over 20 years. i thought they were robust enough. it is incredible hard to get a nice sat i was overconfident in those. he was right, there was real sloppiness. 17 things that either should have been in the applications or
reporting played a central and essential role in the decision to seek a fisa order. chris: horowitz says it wasn t part as you told bret baier, it was not part of a broader mosaic. he said it played an essential role in establishing probable cause. he said in fact he says if it hadn t been for the steele dossier the fbi wouldn t even have submitted a fisa application that had been reviewed in april of 2016 or august of 2016. decided not to do it. they get the steele dossier. they do i had. it was not part of a broader mosaic. that is what you said sir? i m not sure he and i are saying different things. what his report says the fbi thought it was a close call until they got the steele report, put that additional information in and that tipped it every to be probable cause. it s a long fisa application. includes steele material. lots of other material i don t think you are saying different things, i think you are, sir because he is saying you re saying part of a broader mosaic just one