opposition research paid for by the clinton campaign. what other reform need to be put in place to change this process? we had an important discussion. as we take up fisa reform, there is path to accountability, hold people accountable for misusing law enforcement arm of government and there are ways to clean up fisa. trey: chairman, the media and so democrats like to tell us the fbi fixed the things that led them astray in 2016. do you believe that or is there more work that the bureau needs to do to restore the american people s confidence? we have seen the fbi, powers and tools being used in ways that have appearance of
the steele dossier, russia collusion document itself, came from the clinton campaign and there was, as you were describing the clinton plan communicated to try to propagate this and tie the president to it. durham says the whole investigation that happened at the f.b.i., including the mueller investigation itself, should not have happened. there was no evidence to go over the bar enough to cause an investigation to occur. he considers it wrongdoing on the part of the f.b.i. the problem is there is no one held accountable. that is why we re holding hearings over the next two days. why aren t people being held accountable and how do we need to change the laws so it doesn t happen to a president again. bill: are your democratics colleagues moved by this? this shows that the law enforcement arm of our government could be used for political means and doesn t matter what political stripes you have, it is wrong and something of grave troubling.
good point. just the style of the wind up, if you will, to use a baseball metaphor, is radically different than, katie, what we have seen from jack smith, right? and michael makes an exceptional point here. there is a pending motion that has been filed by donald trump that has not been ruled on yet, and actually have the states response that we just filed, looks shifty. and we are trump is saying, in another one of those fake electors is saying, is, look, this is so unusual. this entire special grand jury looks like it is already biased and tainted. and his whole process seems to already be skewed. and then, to michael s point, the more unusual it is, that feeds into the narrative of donald trump of, this is just a witch hunt. this is just the politicization of a law enforcement arm. and so, if you are going to have this much of a preview of what that movie is, it better be a blockbuster. right.
and then, to michaels point, the more unusual it is, that feeds into the narrative of donald trump of, this is just a witch hunt. this is just the politicization of a law enforcement arm. and so, if you are going to have this much of a preview of what that movie is, it better be a blockbuster. right. and to michaels point, it hopefully is a blockbuster, because everyone should be accountable. we have heard fani willis say, no one is above the law. we have heard many prosecutors and d.a.s see that, and if it s true than don trump should also be on an indictment. michael, to katie s point about donald trump and their legal team trying to get this whole thing thrown out, willis s office has been very clear. basically, their explanation is, has effectively been you have had two years to try and raise your hand to stop this. you can t do it right now on the eve of evidential indictment. do you think there is any concern in terms of his argument hold water with a judge? no. i mean,
of this. how they have weaponized and exaggerated the numbers on domestic extreme terrorism. they will use what happened here in washington and then add those numbers in the different field offices to exacerbate and expand the numbers balsd on what they not really are. basically completely misleading the american public on the level of domestic terrorists and domestic extremism cases. the fbi has. number of different things. and one of the witnesses is going to talk about how the bureau specifically is going after pro-life pregnancy centers. i mean, this is 100 percent stuff you see in china, communist china, communist russia. this isn t the type of behavior that we should be having in the united states, what the fbi has become is the law enforcement arm of the democratic party. you know, congressman, we have to get to this because house democrats are now attempting to work around republicans to raise the u.s. debt ceiling through something called a discharge petition. look, the fact