some of which contain classified information, and of course the inspector general found that james comey mishandled that, disclosed it without authorization, much like hillary clinton despite mishandling classified information he was not charged. i know there s been a lot of focus about why that is not the case, but to me the most important takeaway of that first part was that the inspector general found that james comey led his personal desire for a specific outcome against donald trump to influence his official actions. the inspector general and obama- appointed inspector general not a partisan republican, found that james comey had targeted donald trump even before their first meeting, and so i think that s an important takeaway as we look to the second fisa abuse part of the inspector general s report, and i think people should feel good about the fact that you have an inspector general who has criminally referred now both the director of the fbi and the deputy director of the fbi
and when we knock out this wall imagine the closet space? yes! oh hey, son. yeah, i think they ll be fine. voya. helping you to and through retirement. maria: welcome back we re awaiting a report from the department of justice inspector general michael horowitz unifies a abuse against the trump campaign and that has been completed now and the doj expected to be released within the coming weeks and joining me right now is congressman from texas john ratcliffe a member of the house judiciary and homeland security committees also a former federal prosecutor congressman good to see you this morning thanks so much for being here. always good to be with you maria maria: we got the ig report on james comey and your reaction from that and what should we expect from this upcoming fisa i g report? well the first ig report that you mentioned was just a sliver, how james comey handled the memos he created of his conversations with president trump.
those are the things i d like to work on and find bipartisan response but we have to have willing partners on the other side as well. maria: right well will you have a willing partner? there are a lot of things you want to look at for example, look at the abuse you ve talked about so much in terms of the doj and fbi during 2016 with the ig report on james comey, and we re expecting to get the fisa report, from the ig. your reaction and anticipation of that? i m very looking anticipated to thatment i think the ig report is something that should concern every american i don t care if you re republican or democrat because then we should have bipartisan support because you don t want a department of justice to use a secret court to spy on americans i don t care who that is, and look james comey has become the ultimate joke. he tweets out i m not a liar and a leaker and actually you re both so i think the fisa report, the horowitz report comes out further, as mr. durham is continuing to l
and james comey under oath and shape the investigation that way maria: so just to be clear, richard burr and mitch mcconnell were not there with you because you were too tough on mueller. because you were doing your job. well, there were a number of senators that whose support i would have liked that i didn t getterly on. again, i think we need to focus on what s questionable, what s at stake there, maria. maria: yup. the priorities moving forward is we ve got unfortunately, the socialistic wing of the democratic party controlling the united states house of representatives. we need to change that. maria: i m talking about the republicans though here, congressman good to see you. thank you so much. congressman john ratcliffe. you bet. maria: meanwhile peter navarro one of the presidents trade advisors will talk about that new meeting on the calendar for the chinese and u.s. legislators back in a moment.
comey and andy mccabe, and that s the per issues of fisa abuse. maria: yeah, and so where does that stand though? because we know that the ig has criminal referred criminal action against andrew mccabe and he s just got a job on, you know , another network. he s going about his life, james comey no charges so far, so what are you expecting in terms of this decision that the doj needs to make in terms of a potential indictment of andrew mccabe? yeah, i think that s a lot of people, a lot of interest in that and i think that s going to be a decision that has to be made very quickly to remind your viewers it was last year that the inspector general found the deputy director mccabe authorized the disclosure of sensitive investigative information to a reporter, and then, more importantly, repeatedly lied about it to investigators. so as your viewers also know, the department of justice has through the special counsel recently made a cottage industry