I want to tone things down a little bit here and First Express my gratitude for the thousands of men and women who work every day on the front line with the fbi. I come from a background as a prosecutor and our local Law Enforcement work with the fbi every day in our local office in minnesota, and then in the senate, ive had the privilege to work with many, many people in the fbi. And i think the Inspector General hes job is incredibly important. He keeps everyone honest. But i do think this it is important for those t agents an those in Law Enforcement that are watching today that people understand there are people up here that understand that you are simply doing your jobs. Which i think is basically some recommendations Foric Change Wh the Inspector General found in this report. So before iis start my question
i think that it is important to put this discussion in context in the 2016 election which is why we are here today. It is nowe undisputed by our Intelligence Agencies that rus
that time do you agree with attorney general barr that the investigation was predicated on the thinnest of suspicions? iin won t get into a comparin of his view. he is free to have his opinion. we have our finding and as i said, i stand by our conclusion. and your conclusion that it was sufficient presented indication to open the investigation based on the low threshold required by department and fbi policy. . thank you very much. we ve talked a lot about page. just briefly when papadopoulous. i don t want anybody to believe that anybody namedul in the initial investigation has been convicted of being an a little of the russians. has anybody associated with the trump campaign been charged with a crime colluding with russians? not that i knowg of as i si here. i d think we d know by though. mr. papadopoulous was being surveilled by the fbi 1245r, is correct? the confidential human yourself? yes, they did see operations