tensions between west and iran continue, one area agreement occurred last week when the us and iran conducted a prisoner exchange bringing home an american student held since 2016. in return and iranian scientist was released, the development giving hope to the possibility of the iranian than the americans regarding iran s nuclear program. i hope the exchange that took place will lead to a broader discussion of americans held in iran. we are working to try to develop that and use this as an opportunity to continue that effort. reporter: donald trump made clear he has no plans to lift sanctions on the republic as the company country violates key terms of the 2015 nuclear agreement the united states pulled out of last year but the stalemate between the countries continues. carley: has the trump administration responded to this tunnel? reporter: they have not responded to this report directly but they are aware of
it. dana: incompetence would be bad enough. you have a monster interview coming up on saturday. must-see tv. i am definitely going to be up and watching fox news sunday because you have an interview with james comey, the former fbi director. first and only interview since the ig report came out. is interesting because immediately after it came out, he claimed vindication which is one of the reasons he was asked about this yesterday and there s a lot to talk about because if you go back and look at what he said when he wrote his book, when he left office, he basically said the process was fine and solid, obviously the inspector general has found a lot of instances where it was exactly the opposite of that so i m going to be asking director coming why did you say it was okay when the inspector general found this. dana: a lot of questions to be asked and no one better to ask them.
the still report played a role in seeking a fisa order. fbi leadership supported relying on steel s reporting to seek a fisa order after being advised of concerns expressed by department attorney that steel may have been hired by someone associated with a rival candidate or campaign. rob: big moments in the hour-long hearing with michael horwitz who testified the debunked steel dossier was in fact used by the feds to justify spying on an american citizen. jillian: the doj watchdog downplaying the errors laid out in his report. how serious are these revelations and how they affect the impeachment probe? congressman jim banks joins us, good morning. we learned in this report that
hack for barr. he was being a pr hack, air pr flak for donald trump as well. not a good look for a u.s. federal prosecutor. but, obviously, you look at that statement, it s really distressing because there air lot of people that actually had confidence that he was not going to be corrupted by donald trump. his statement and then what he said in private to horowitz are so different that there s no doubt he has actually been corrupted. he has been compromised. and now you look at that statement, it looks like he s nothing more than a white house flak. i mean, you know, i ll tell you, this is just another example of the white house moving the goal post. first, this ig report was going to be the be all end all. it was going to verify all the horrible things that trump has been tweeting this happened to him, the victim that he is. that didn t happen.
the attorney general should function as the president s personal lawyer. he cut a critical sentence and a half, hiding the first part that said russia worked to secure a trump presidency and the campaign expected it would benefit from their interference. on monday, after barr s own inspector general concluded there was no spying on the trump campaign, barr slammed the report on the president s behalf. clearly spied upon. that s what electronic surveillance is. which led a cadre of conservative lawyers to say that he had grossly mischaracterized and subverted the ig report. but par went further telling nbc s obama administration was the real villain here, even more than the russians. the greatest danger to our free system is that the incumbent government used the apparatus of the state both to spy on political opponents but also to use them in a way that could affect the outcome of the election. as far as i m aware, this is the first time in history this has been done to a preside