war. although, as everyone has pointed out this morning, there s nothing on paper that says that, there s nothing concrete that we know about as of this moment. the president said that details on verification are being worked out right now, poppy. abby, thank you. david chalian, our political director, back to you. just to be very clear here, and laura makes a good point, did the president even read the i.g. s report before making those assertions this morning. it s very unclear to say the least. horowitz, the i.g., found no evidence, quote, from the report, to connect the political views expressed in the text messages between peter strzok and lisa page, no evidence to connect the text messages to specific investigative decisions. that is critical and it is something ignored by the president this morning. right. that is the piece that the president said he believes is where the i.g. blew it. he thought the whole report was fantastic because it takes down
continue challenging the credibility and integrity of each other. and, you know, there s going to be stuff in here that s going to be pulled out and used for purely partisan reasons. i don t think there is any avoiding that. you know, the notion that the average american is going to read 500 pages of this i think is a little farfetched so it s going to be another political weapon as we go forward. develin, we re glad you read all 500 pages and gave us this first draft on history. thank you so much for your reporting today and spending time with us. thank you. when we come back, a trump ally describes the president s attacks on mueller s probe as demonstrably false, but cautions with today s i.g. report as we ve been discussing he has fresh ammunition. also ahead the new york attorney jenna cueses the president and his three kids of persistent illegal conduct. we ll tell you about that new lawsuit. stay with us. just another day on the farm. or is it? this farmer s morning start
ally the president very likely to overplay his hand with today s findings. so, a couple of reactions. first, i m relieved. i m relieved that the i.g. has determined after going through all the legal decisions that indeed the final outcomes are not something that needed to be changed and so, therefore, we don t have a fruit of the poisonous tree. we re not in a place right now that we shouldn t be. that s a relief for me. i am disturbed, nicolle, to hear about the texts and the e-mails and this new additional text that s come to light where pete strzok said to lisa page, we ll stop trump. i don t know the context of that. it could be that a counter intelligence professional was deeply disturbed that someone with trump s connections to a foreign government was possibly going to be the president of the united states. but the bottom line is my question, are we where we should be? would anything be different if anything was played out differently? and the answer appears to be no.
but under his terms of something that was important for the american public to know. it s vastly different, a foreign power trying to meddle with the most sacred part of our life versus a child molester with a few e-mails on his laptop. frank, i saw you nodding. this is what comey spent a lot of time in his book and now addressed in the i.g. report, the disparity with which he s treated the hillary case in terms of feeling compelled to go forward to congress and public and not feeling compelled to do the same when the russians are meddling with our election. and i respectfully disagree with his judgment on that. americans want know what they re looking on facebook and on twitter is coming from the russian intelligence service especially when it s cohappenin during campaign. top secret, classified information, a forward moving case, but something needed to come out publicly to say, look, we have a problem here and at least the social media propaganda could have been pointed out.
that press conference, why didn t you tell him not to send that her? i don t think they have a good answer. devin, you write a good story. you and your colleagues, i assume you read the whole thing and had this first draft of history of today apartments s the i.g. report. the conclusion is jim comey basically acted was in subordination to loretta lynch. there is an answer this this report, right? right. that is a pretty serious charge. i think one of the things the report really exposes and under lines is how bad a relationship there was between jim comey and loretta lynch when she was the attorney general. i do think it s a little i think it s a little strange to say that the report just shows that the president is wrong because hopefully the fbi is held to a higher standard than a bunch of conspiracy theories. i do think it s a fairly damning report for the fbi. i think the d.o.j., justice department comes off fairly much better by comparison. but i think this is going to be