political bias the other way, the federal prosecutor looking into this, just agreed some parts of the ig report in ways that it s even worse. disagree that the flimsy predicate used to start the investigation was sufficient among other things. tucker: amazing. amazing. but it s not a big deal, mollie don t you worry. it s important to note that carter page was in fact exonerated here. claims that he s not a russian asset are shown to be true, that claims he s a russian asset shown to be false. tucker: i hope he sues the other cable channels. they destroyed his life! they owe him. mollie, thanks so much. after the ig report came out, durham issued a rare statement, disagrees with several part of the findings especially why the russia investigation s happened.
problems with steele. the report says the fisa application was inaccurate, incomplete, or unsupported. it says, for example, the fbi failed to look at some of the problem in steele s past work. that was never addressed. tucker: there is the understatement of the week. in fact, steele s so-called dossier was absurd. no judgment news outlet would run it. so clearly false that the washington post kept its distance. it s up to buzzfeed to run it, a cats blog. the one that no one would print because it was so false committee use it as a pretext to spy on the trump campaign. a a keep in mind, when you are
couldn t pull it out of a light up. is very unfortunate that you have the dni, head of cia, and the fbi all essentially warring with each other over the steele dossier and the fact that the fbi can watch an investigation and spy on americans with its very low freshman wow threshold should be the most problematic part of this report. the fact that fisa can be abused in such a way because if you are omitting critical information and you are getting a warrant to spy on someone with those omissions, there is something that is dreadfully wrong with the system and i hope people go then i hope they read that aspect of it because not only is the relationship between christopher steele on the fbi very curious, but also, who have clear abuses of the system that we need to throw nothing but sunlight and figure out what s really going on.
probable cause but it was based on a bunch of junk. let s bring in ian prior he served as doj spokesman when the special counsel began its probe. he joins us from d.c. ian, what is your headline regarding the ig report that we have been waiting for for so long? my headline for the ig report is less what s in the ig report and more about what john durham said about the ig report. he said that look, i disagree with some of the conclusions here. my investigation, which is not limited, like the inspector general, has turned up things that are quite different from what the inspector general said about the of the investigation. john durham, this is a serious prosecutor. this is not somebody who is partisan or political. he is nicknamed the bull. he has gone after the math i can t. he has gone after the clan. he led the investigation into the fbi s protection whitey bulger. this is a very serious prosecutor. and for him to come out with that statement, that means he s got the goods on someb
because in 2019, being a progressive means taking the sides of bureaucrats with guns the matter what the evidence is. watch. the headline will be whether you are a trump supporter or trump skeptic that the fbi is exonerated today from the oft repeated smear that there was some sort of campaign it s good news no matter where you stand on the political spectrum in 2019. martha: keep in speed to keep in mind when she uttered those words, she had not even read the ig report. this is what happens when you have former flaxen spokesperson on journalism. the actual report was something of a disaster for the fbi. obvious to anybody who read it, even people who work at msnbc. what it basically said that the fbi screwed up at basically every level, failing to pay enough attention to potential