Stunning developments. The president was briefed on the ig report earlier today and it reaffirms the president s suspicions about comeys conduct and the political bias among some of the members of the fbi. Jesse special report anchor bret baier. Im sure you have not read the entire thing. Bret do you know how many trees weve killed . We are all printing it. Dana and im sure you all are reading it. Jesse what jumps out at you so far . Bret the big loser james comey. This ig really goes after the former fbi director for his decisionmaking. Two, the other loser, peter strzok and lisa page and those Text Messages that surfaced, more of them, and this report. The biggest of which will be im sure grasped upon by President Trump and his supporters. Seven words in answer to attacks from lisa page to peter strzok. Trump is never going to become president , right, right . Strzok responds no, no he wont. We will stop it. That, in and of itself even though we dont have the full context, just that
Evening im chuck todd here in washington. Welcome to mtp daily. We begin tonight with the breaking news this hour. Folks, the reaction is coming fast and furious to this explosive report from the Justice Departments Inspector General Michael Horowitz who this afternoon released this scathing 568page report. By the way, we double sided when we printed it out here. This is the double sided version. It faults the fbi for its handling of the clinton email investigation during the heat of the 2016 election. Folks, this isnt just about the 2016 election. This report comes at a time when the president ratcheted up his criticisms and attacks on the fbi as he tries to undermine the russia investigation. He started tweeting about that again today. We are expecting, by the way, fbi director chris wray to hold a Rare Press Conference in 30 minutes or so. Dont go anywhere. He is going to be sponlding to the ig report, no doubt talking about ways they may move forward. You will want to stick around
Briefed on this new fbi supplemental background check on Premium Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Capitol hill is where the action is this morning. Garret, lets start with you. You are stationed in a hallway. I know you cant get too close to this secure facility where senators and staff have the opportunity to look at this report. Tell me who youve seen in and out so far and how this goes, how this unfolds. Reporter sure, hallie. This is the only game in town in the u. S. Senate today. Everything has stopped while senators get a chance to review this report. Committee hearings are canceled and delayed so that every senator, and well start with republicans, have a chance to go in and review what is in this fbi report. Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley had a chance to review it this morning. He just put out a statement saying there was nothing in there that changed his view on kavanaugh and looks forward to voting yes. Dianne feinstein was in there earlier this morning and over t
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