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.at 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. john jerome is conducting his own investigations. after the ig report came out, he issued a statement saying he disagrees with several of the report s findings. in particular about why the russia investigation began.
is finally out and is taking shot a republican lawmakers, feels vindicated. he wrote in a washington post op-ed that there was no illegal wiretapping, no informants inserted into the campaign. there was no spying on the drum campaign. the fbi his work was received due to the threat to a president and they believe all threats to the president must be destroyed to matter the cost of the nation. here now, mark meadows who attended a briefing, there are a couple of hours before the rest of us got a hand on it. very familiar with it. good to see you this evening. yes, good to see you. obviously jim comey has not read the report. that shouldn t surprise any of your viewers. didn t review the phis applications either and has suggested that somehow he s vindicated is just not actually portraying the facts the way that i ve seen them, the way that i ve read them.
congress. senator grassley, always good to have you with us, sir. thank you very much for being here. thank you, martha. martha: what was your reaction to your report when it came out today? getting a look at the 740 odd pages? every american citizen ought to be concerned with the fbi and protecting your civil liberties because we have seen as a result of the horwitz report that the fbi will use any guys, rumors, and distortions against established practices to get whatever excuse they can to spy on a presidential campaign. this is a big deal for presidency campaigns. you can do it to any american citizen. martha: essentially saying that it was some low-level attorneys who made mistakes on some of these requests, to
it was aboveboard, why did director wray say we will change 40 different steps if it was a good report? martha: director race and he was disturbed by the omissions and the inaccuracies in the fisa reports and the headline suggestion here is those inaccuracies were completely innocent, that they were just things that they were up on. not saying that i believe that, i m just telling you what the headline is. every time they started getting information, martha, the information they got back was, you know what question mike there s not a case here. they surveilled some more. there is not a case here. and then back in 2017 when they knew there wasn t a case, they continued on. that s on director called me. i ll come in your program had to hand had to i think he touched on
american interests to serve vladimir putin in moscow. many nongenus is believed it was true. they repeated the allegation every single day for every single year because that s what they do best. but the much more interesting and important question has always been this: what did senior law enforcement officials think of the story? did they really believe it was possible that donald trump was working for russia? and if so, what evidence they have russian mark if they have no evidence, why did they open the investigation and what are they continuing? for years, every american regardless of party has been interested in knowing the answer those questions and for more than a year, the inspector general s office has worked to find the answer. the report finally came public, and even before it did, some of the mouth breeders on television were happy to guess its conclusion. they proclaim the fbi complete innocent of all wrongdoing