Seem to have everything thats been a response to everything that the democrats have done. They announced impeachment charges, Michael Horowitz report. Bill barr is out there. Articles are introduced. Horowitz testifies today. On one hand they get exactly what they want. They create sort of confusion about mueller, the obsession to get trump. That story is out there. It seems as if this is part of a strategy the way the Trump Administration has used the government to respond to impeachment. Last night in hershey, pennsylvania, i was there, covering President Trumps rally. He talked about the ig report. He talked about the ongoing Impeachment Inquiry. He claimed that he was spied on. This is the counternarrative that has been building on the Trump Campaign, on the white house side, the Republican Party for a long time. When you read the igs report there was not an intention, according to horowitz, to spy. What was going on was Counterintelligence Investigation about possible russian inte
gener general. the fbi investigation the subject of this report crossfire hurricane was opened in july 2016 days after the fbi received friendly reporting from a foreign government. the reporting stated in a may 2016 meeting trump campaign foreign policy adviser george papadopoulos, quote, suggested the trump team received some kind of suggestion, closed quote, from russia, that it could assist in the election process with the anonymous release of information during the campaign that would be damaging to candidate clinton and then president obama. following receipt of that information, the fbi opened crossfire hurricane. given the nature and sensitivity of such an investigation, we would have expected fbi personnel to faithfully adhere to the fbi s detailed policies, practices and norms. the fbi has developed and earned a reputation as one of the
team that examined more than 1 million documents in the department s and fbi s possession including documents other u.s. and foreign government agencies had provided to the fbi. our team conducted over 170 interviews involving more than 100 witnesses, and we documented all of our findings in the 434-page report that we issued this week. i would encourage everybody to read the report. although i understand 400-plus-page reports can be hard to get through. we have a pithy 19-page summary with it which i d encourage people to read at a minimum. i want to commend, also, the tireless efforts of our outstanding review team for conducting such rigorous and effective independent oversight. it s exactly what we are supposed to do as inspectors