we suggest you should not associate with them. instead of trying to shoehorn an investigation that might have, they hope, t maybe would develop information about the president. you should only be seeking to protect the campaign, the campaign leaders, the president. laura: yeah, well, they didn t do that. simply barr mentioned that. barr hasas made that point. i think it is a very valid point. laura: simply put to you, jeff, what should it durham do now? we know a lot of these facts,d for whatever reason, horowitz didn t want to come to those conclusions are didn t feel it was hisom place, perhaps. given what we know now, what dos you hope that durham actually concludes? i know john durham. i respect him highly. i asked him to do an important matter for me, shortly after i became attorney general. he has the power that mueller
he can claim whether it is or not, but if it looks like a pig and smells like a pig, and if you see and hear with these individuals say, you don t need the inspector general to tell us whether they are biased or not, we can make that conclusion ourselves. laura: congressman, thank you so much. great to see you tonight. one of the shocking revelations from horowitz s testimony, contrary toelk what the media claimed, trumpmp did not receive defensefr briefing on russian interference, as the fbi previously contested. in fact, they use that briefing, an informational briefing in august of 2016, to gather and record information for their counter intel probe. isn t that cute? and then they entered that information into their cross fire hurricane file. horowitz says this is obviously very disconcerting. joining us now is jeff sessions, former ag and a candidate for u.s. senate from alabama. jeff, what revelation from the ig report of all of them really
in the room being briefed by the government about the russians? they didn t name the third person, but peter strzok was involved in drafting the fbi portion of that briefing, specifically the way the agent involved, the special agent involved, was discussing the matter with the campaign, as strzok was involved in the counter intel investigation. how is that right? this is very, very troubling to me. let me tell you what a low level, peripheral person like page or papadopoulos, were not on the inside of the trump campaign. if the fbi had information that those people may be involved, unsecure activities connected to foreign powers, they should warn the campaign,it normally. the right thing to do is to say mr. president, campaign manager, these individuals, we have troubling information about them. you should be very careful with them.
strzok. if it looks like a pig and smells like a pig, and if you see and hear with these individuals say, you don t need the inspector general to tell us whether they are biased or not, we can make that conclusion ourselves. laura: congressman, thank you so much. great to see you tonight. one of the shocking regulation s from horowitz s testimony, contrary to what the media claimed, trump did not receive defense briefing on russian interference, as the fbi previously contested. in fact, they use that briefing, an informational briefing in august of 2016, to gather and record information for their counter intel probe. isn t that cute? and then they entered that information into their cross fire hurricane file. horowitz says this is obviously very disconcerting. joining us now is jeff sessions, former ag and a candidate for u.s. senate from alabama. jeff, what revelation from the
i also thought, you are correct to pointnt out, he absolutely dd not say there was no bias, he just said the investigation had revealed no bias, as he saw it. attorney general barr has more information. laura, the inspector general can only investigate or interview people now on the department of justice payroll. he cannot interview cia laura: limited. defense officers or anyone else. laura: this is limited. i want to ask you about peter strzok s involvement, jeff, in that august 2016, 17, 2016, briefing, apparently mike flynn and another individual from the campaign. where you at that briefing, august 17th, 2016? were you there? repeat that? laura: august 17th, 2016, were you one of the individuals