in their execution of this investigation. sure. that makes for a really authoritative ig report. if you want to get into the intelligence surveillance court and how it approves most warrants and does it in a nilly willy way and has a high hit rate and you want to change that, that s all policy. that s different from here. what s striking is to see the continuing who will owing out of these controls at the justice department. we are on the case. we ll stay on the story. and we re indebted to you for being part of that. glenn kirschner, thank you, sir. thank you, ari. when i come back in 30 seconds, we have something you may not have heard about yet. new evidence, new reporting on those stories of donald trump in a moscow ritz carlton. we re back in 30. we re back in 30 because when you re ready for what comes next, the only direction is forward.
on 2016, try to relitigate the opening of the russia investigation, because that is the chief republican talking point over on the house side about impeachment, that impeachment, they say, is the end of a year s-long phishing expedition to undo the results of the election. they are not arguing with the democrats argument, which is about impeachment is all about preserving the integrity of the next election. but i ve got to say one other thing is that a lot of people find the timing of this should be fairly curious. you have some of the witnesses, in fact, who spoke to the ig, they told politico that they thought that the standard review process for an inspector general report was rushed so that this entire thing would drop in the middle of the impeachment process. of course, this report came out on monday when house judiciary had that hearing where they weighed all the evidence, and the hearing is happening today, when tonight, as you mentioned, the house judiciary committee starts th
that he still isn t satisfied with the motivation. could that be a window where republicans try to open michael horowitz up and try to expose what they see as bias on part of the fbi. one more quick question. we ve had all this talk about the fbi. christopher wray essentially accepted the findings of the ig report, both the good, the bad, and the ugly. the president didn t like the fact that christopher wray did that. are we at all to infer that christopher wray s job is in trouble? that s a question we re all asking here. i think what s so difficult is that this president has often slammed people in his administration, people who he s appointed, and then they live to see another day. i think it s clear right now that he very much appreciates the strong comments from his attorney general, william barr, but wray is responding the way you would expect someone leading an agency to respond when they have an inspector general report like the one we re seeing from michael horowitz. he wa
healthyfully skeptical or cynical, you would note that there is a multi-100-page report that was months in the making and there were many an anticipatory speech about it, has finally arrived and a bunch of people don t want to talk about it at all. they want to talk about the next one. it s always the next one. so, there s that. that s a bit of a tell. number two, while i think our expert panelists have done a really great job teaching everyone here important distinctions between these type of probes, there s only one auditor the doj under federal law. that s the inspector watchdog. that s the hearing we re going to hear today. ironically, john durham s work will be subject to oversight by whom exactly. michael horowitz, right? right, maya? take james comey, who has been criticized in all sorts of ways. it was a watchdog report that laid out comey made errors by horowitz. they were not crimes, by horowitz on this, right? so when other people come out, whether it s
convicted of serious federal felonies. manport, flynn and stone. and carter page may be the fourth. he was on the show last night and we said to him, you got cleared. you re the one who came out from all of this. but any fair accounting and the report does do this gives you that feeling. 75% of the original people convicted. chuck rosenberg, i want to get you to add some clarity to something. john brennan and i were talking last night. so, bill barr in his interview with pete williams claimed that somebody the trump campaign should have been warned about foreign interference. number one, there was nobody has been able to give us a better we don t know exactly what trump was briefed on the first time he got an intel briefing when he officially became the nominee. we know a briefing happened in august. it was not with any major heads. it was with deputies, it s my understanding. but bill barr said it was the duty and john brennan said that it was the duty of the fbi to