the agents. it did note several errors and irregularities during that inquiry. tomorrow, the inspector general himself, michael horowitz, will testify before the senate judiciary committee to answer for his work in effect. here is what the president had to say about horowitz as he offered a straight-up misrepresentation of the report s findings. this report was great by the ig, especially since he was appointed by president barack hussein obama. attorney general barr is voicing his objections to the ig report. here is what he told our colleague, pete williams. in one area i do disagree with the ig, and that was whether there was sufficient predication to open a full-blown counterintelligence investigation, specifically using the techniques that they
oh, yeah, i think it was definitely appropriate because i think it was necessary to avoid public confusion. john durham is a u.s. attorney, serving in connecticut. he was hand selected by that man, ag barr, to investigate the origins of this russia investigation over and above the doj s own internal inspector general report, which we ve been talking about, because it was issued yesterday. but durham took the unusual step of releasing a statement, reacting to the ig report while he s in the midst of his own work on the same thing. his statement read, in part, and we quote, based on the evidence collected to date and while our investigation is ongoing, last month we advised the inspector general that we do not agree with some of the report s conclusions as to predication and how the fbi case was opened. that, right there, is not done.
political bias in what the fbi did. and i just think that s really important to that understand that has been the central claim of the president for two years now, since he first tweeted in march 2017 about how the fbi and barack obama wiretapped him. he has accused the fbi to act politically to stop him. here we are with this report on that has examined pretty much everything that there is on the fbi and doj side and there s nothing to actually substantiate that. michael shcmidt, jeremy bash, carol leonnig, thank you. attorney general barr, two former justice department officials are waiting to join us to weigh in and later she knows a thing or two about russia s tactics because she has seen a thing or two as u.n. ambassador. pulitzer prize winning author
more to do this to go to this extreme level, to look at the connections between four campaign officials and russia. barr is putting a lot of weight and emphasis on the durham investigation, that is sort of the next chapter in the russia saga, a larger look at the origins of the investigation.er we saw this highly unusual thing yesterday where durham put out a statement in the middle of this report coming out, basically to say that he disagreed with the sort of central contention about the decision to open the investigation. we usually don t hear from investigators mid investigation. barr also saying today he thinks that durham will be done by the middle of next year, by the summer. often times in investigations we re not told when the end is going to be.
paul butler, is the attorney general, to coin a phrase, muellering the inspector general report? what he did by setting public opinion into the fermament, knowing the mueller report was voluminous. he has now put out this predefinition of the ig report, even though the author will be appearing at a senate hearing tomorrow. it s the ag s words that got circulation because they were delivered over the mainstream media today. attorney general barr is the attorney general of president trump s dreams. he s a fixer. he represents the interests not of the united states, but of donald trump. when the attorney general descents from an inspector general report he or she is supposed to write a letter that becomes a formal part of the report that states the objections. that s not what the attorney