four layers of supervisors on top of him. including comey. that s why the i.g. finds this guy was looking for things that are wrong. this i.g. made a criminal reference. this was obama s guy, picked by him in 2011. not just obama s guy. he s a good friend of comey. but he was looking for things in this report. he went easy on comey. i m sorry. he s history. i want to say what he did find, and i agree, is that the russia collusion investigation with str strzok, page, and other agents was filled with people who were anti-trump. he has five guys. that s a lot. out of the dozen and dozens working on the probe? strzok ran it. four layers of people on top of him. but he ran the day today investigations. they were removed he was removed when the texts were leaked by people outranged.
don t you think it sets the tone? your guys are accepting the findings of the report but not the conclusions of the report because he says multiple times in here wait. wait. everybody gets this wrong. everybody gets this wrong. true about comey. not true about the russia investigation. they never investigated the russia investigation. it s not about the russia investigation. it says though some of strzok s cast a cloud, we did not find evidence to connect the views with any specific investigative decisions. i don t believe that. you accept the findings but not the conclusions? that s a little convenient. it s not convenient. if a man says about my client he shouldn t be president, i m going to do everything to stop him and he s an fbi agent, i m sorry, the guy shouldn t be involved in the case, and i can conclude that a case in which they can t come up with a single piece of evidence about collusion to this day but this i.g. report wasn t about that. i know it wasn
terrible picture for the leaders of the fbi because it shows that there s a combination of incompetence. it appears they simply dropped the ball. they had no idea that people underneath them were not doing the work they were supposed to be doing. i ll read you a part of this. they gave various explanations for why they didn t take action on the weiner laptop but the inspector general says we found these explanations to be unp unpersuasive justifications for not acting sooner given the importance of the information and the clinton investigation kbro group had sufficient information to take action early in october and knew it would need a new search warrant to review any of the clinton-abedin e-mails. when october comes along, late october comes along, one of the reasons why comey decides to
this report finds then fbi director james comey did not act with bias but did violate norms of the department of justice so we now have this reaction coming straight in from james comey himself. i just want to read part of this for you. this is an opinion piece just published in the new york times. here s one quote we re pulling. i do not agree with all of the inspector general s conclusions but he writes i respect the work of his office and salute its profl i profl i professionalism. this is how the process is supposed to work. phil mudd and jeff toobin are with me. phil mudd, what do you think of comey s words? what he did violated principles. he should not have done it and you get a get out of jail free
say that there was a conspiracy, that it was pervasive throughout the fbi, that it did affect either the hillary clinton investigation or it did run over into the russia investigation, which the president has said is rigged because these same people were investigating him. so, you know, the inspector general stopped short of doing that but that will not stop political opponents from saying it. which is exactly where i wanted to go next. we had this first press conference. we re going to see sarah sanders in that white house briefing room momentarily. let me just go out on a limb, everyone, and assume that they re going to take this victory lap, right? we keep hearing these words witch hunt from the president. she ll say it s justified, but i think also, jeff toobin, you ve been so great on this, it s so important not to conflate. comey can screw up, violate the