today. that s a republican out of georgia doing the questioning. michael horowitz on the hill telling lawmakers he referred the former f.b.i. director james comey to the d.o.j. for criminal prosecution. deputy assistant a.g. under george w. bush tom dupree. how significant is that? a bit of a mini bombshell. the fact is jim comey has been trying to spin that inspector general s report as really vindicating him and giving him a clean bill of health. i think horowitz s testimony makes clear that s not at all what happened. the inspector general was so concerned by what he found jim comey did that he referred him for criminal prosecution, which as far as we know is a first in the history of the nation. bill: will he then be prosecuted? is that a foregone conclusion or not so fast? well, i would say not so fast. as we know it looks as though
community agreeing to testify behind closed doors to the house intel committee over a whistleblower complaint. here is the report. washington post says it concerns a promise made by president trump in a phone call with a foreign leader. griff jenkins sorting through it live on the hill now. hello. bill, yeah, we re here outside the intelligence committee room but we haven t actually seen inspector general michael atkinson comet. the hearing was supposed to start at 9:00 a.m. no one has laid eyes on him. this hearing along with a washington post article is likely going to spark a stand-off between the intelligence community, congress and the white house. in this post article this quote in particular getting a lot of attention. trump s interaction with a foreign leader included a promise regarded as so troubling it prompted an official in the u.s. intel community to file a formal whistleblower complaint with the inspector general. said the official speaking on the condition of anon
prosecutions go. bill: you call this a bombshell. i would say a mini bombshell. bill: when do we see the report? i think we ll see it in the next few weeks. there is a fair amount of work to do in terms of what they can let loose. we re in the final stages. the fact that they re making decisions as to what is redacted and what is not redacted means the report is pretty much done and a question of disclosure at this point. bill: i m told this report will be made public when that date is set by horowitz and his office and not by bill barr. we re watching that for more clarification. thank you, tom. tom dupree in d.c. congressman mark meadows will be our headliner and join us in the 10:00 a.m. hour. sandra: looking forward to that. first lady melania trump on hand for the reopening of the washington monument with a ribbon cutting just moments away. what crews have added after three years of construction.
jessica, they are making the case this was not them. it went to edit. the facts were taken out in the editing process. final thoughts. it s a confusing trail. originally pitched as a news piece, it went to editorial. everyone wants to hang them out to dry. we need to see the book but i would push back on the idea there was no new information. there absolutely was new information. for a lot of people longstanding issues since those kavanaugh hearings with the justice s temerment and how exposed himself to be hot headed and yelled at amy klobuchar and lied about the devil s triangle and not being an alumnus and he talked about the clintons. he was use standard gop talking points in a hearing. sandra: do you think any of the democrats called for his impeachment based on the original report should speak out now? there are a number of people who think he should be
i think judge kavanaugh deserved better because i think if they had done a full report, he could have been properly exonerated. instead. a judge jeanine: do you know what a full juan: weight. republicans have said i will never let hillary clinton have an appointment to the supreme court in four years. people like richard burr, ted cruz, rand paul. judge jeanine: keep the politics out of it, juan. do you know what a 302 is? have you ever looked at a 302? how did you get your hands on it? juan: from the fbi. judge jeanine: they are nothing more than investigative reports. they are not recorded. there s no audio. it s the fbi s approach or assessment of what the person said. it doesn t come jesse: if they wanted a fuller investigation, they could ve started this in august. greg: we know politics is poison. i am an agnostic when it comes to religion, but i know one thing in my 12 years of catholic church. crucifixion was an important