of which the speaker has so gravely, so gravely, smashed and destroyed. so gravely smashed. not only do they have no right to be on that committee and we re placed on other committees, but concerns over the misuse of intelligence are extremely valid. schiff, who as intel chairman, had all the evidence he needed, falsely claimed in a public memo that the fbi did not abuse the fisa process. later, the doj inspector general released the results of his own investigation exposing that memo as patently false. schiff also played an integral role in claiming that the contents of the hunter biden laptop were part of a russian disinformation packet. we know that this whole smear on joe biden comes from the kremlin. that has been clear for well over a year now that they have
all of this. of course, it comes amidst the backdrop of recent failures on behalf of fbi and doj leadership that really get to the heart of their credibility and the trust that americans have in those is institutions. most notably, of course, you had the fact that the fbi relied upon unverified and what we now know to be unaccurate opposition research funded by the clinton campaign to spy on the trump campaign and abuse the fisa process. and as of yet, no one s been held accountable, sean. no one has been held accountable for that massive abuse of power. i think that is the initial thing that caused a lot of people to lose faith in these institutions. also the head of the doj, merrick garland, right, who the liberal media assured us was a safe, slam dunk moderate pick, well, merrick garland weaponized the power of the doj to go after parents concerned at school
all of this. of course, it comes amidst the backdrop of recent failures on behalf of fbi and doj leadership that really get to the heart of their credibility and the trust that americans have in those is institutions. most notably, of course, you had the fact that the fbi relied upon unverified and what we now know to be unaccurate opposition research funded by the clinton campaign to spy on the trump campaign and abuse the fisa process. and as of yet, no one s been held accountable, sean. no one has been held accountable for that massive abuse of power. i think that is the initial thing that caused a lot of people to lose faith in these institutions. also the head of the doj, merrick garland, right, who the liberal media assured us was a safe, slam dunk moderate pick, well, merrick garland weaponized the power of the doj to go after parents concerned at school board meetings and labeling them
from bad to worse. it is not just that this is so unprecedented to go after a president, to go after a potential presidential candidate, but it is really just the uneven application of the justice. and after years of crossfire hurricane, the abuse of the fisa process, the repudiation of the fisa court to the department of justice, and this kind of now you go back to this kind of trust me mentality, trust us, the goods are there when it comes to trump. nobody believes that as far as they can throw it. when i see our opponents around the world in iran, russia, north korea and china pointing to this as an out of control democratic system, and that s why you have to trust them and go with the more autocratic system, this is devastating on levels that i don t think we fully appreciate yet.
leaks, pursuing leaks of national security information, which was the allegation here. but when you have the department of justice seeking the phone records and the e-mail records of two members of congress, doesn t this raise serious questions about the separation of powers and also about using the department of justice as a political weapon? well, first of all, inspector general michael horowitz is looking into this and he s the same guy, speaking of abuses of power, who uncovered the obama administration abuses of the fisa process. we ll get the facts and we ll have an objective report. we don t know what specifically the investigation was about, what kind of leaks were being done. so we need more information. but the reality its, members of congress have a responsibility to protect classified information and they do not have immunity from being investigated for the because leaking classified information is a crime. they don t have immunity for