opening of the investigation or the decision to use certain investigative tools during the investigations. well, president trump as you might think didn t like those directors comments by the head of the fbi, tweeting i don t know what report the kurnlt director of fbi christopher wray was reading but it sure wasn t the one given to me. with that kind of attitude he ll never be able to fix the fbi which is badly broken despite having the greatest men and women working there. you ve been in one of those big agencies and i just want to know who the hell is trump talking ability? he s attacking and trashing the new fbi director he appointed because the new fbi director can read. and the report by the inspector general is clear as a bell and says there were some mistakes but there wasn t any politics involved in the decision to approve those fisa decisions to investigate the trump campaign. no politics, no bigotry, no
and i think in some people s minds, including mine, it should be grounds for disciplinary referral against durham. that s saying something. back with us, paul butler, former federal corruption prosecutor notably. these days a georgetown law school professor and frank figliuzzi, former fbi assistant for counterintelligence. frank, i want to read you a tweet from the president about, as he called him, the current director of the fbi. imagine waking up and you are the current director of the fbi and wondering how much job security you have when your boss is saying this on twitter. do we have that? there we go. i don t know what report current director of the fbi christopher wray was reading, but it sure wasn t the one given to me. with that kind of attitude, he will never be able to fix the fbi, which is badly broken, despite having some of the greatest men and women working there. he called the fbi scum tonight at his rally.
about, as he called him, the current director of the fbi. imagine waking up and you are the current director of the fbi and wondering how much job security you have when your boss is saying this on twitter. do we have that? there we go. i don t know what report current director of the fbi christopher wray was reading, but it sure wasn t the one given to me. with that kind of attitude, will he never be able to fix the fbi, which is badly broken, despite having some of the greatest men and women working there. he called the fbi scum tonight at his rally. how does it feel these ways to be an fbi veteran? brian, this has moved way beyond morale as an issue. we re now looking at a threat to the independence and neutrality of the fbi. it s essential for the fbi to remain independent of pressure and political influence. but in the last 24 hours, all we ve seen is pressure and
director of the fbi christopher wray was reading, but it sure wasn t the one given to me. with that kind of attitude, he will never be able to fix the fbi, which is badly broken, despite having some of the greatest men and women working there. the fact that he puts current before his name might be a bad omen. joining me now, josh geltzer, h worked at the justice department. so fbi director wray ordered over 40 corrective measures thanks to problems spotlighted in the inspector general report. but the fact that the president is attacking chris wray for accurately quoting conclusions from the very same report, what does that tell you? well, case kate, as you know, logic and the law are not always in congruence. here they are, the president s take on this, his statements about it, whether you look at it legally or logically are just completely nonsensical. and what it tells us is that once again, the president is
one given to me. with that attitude, he ll never be able to fix the fbi which is badly broken despite having the greatest men and women working there. so much to discuss with a terrific panel. evan perez, you covered the fbi and the justice department and have for some time. what did you make of bill barr s comments? it was an extraordinary interview, simply because we re not used to hearing an attorney general say things like this, especially about a report from the internal watchdog, the inspector general, who did find some problems in the one aspect of this case that really again, there are 17 instances where things were left out or put inaccurately in the carter page fisa. but that is not the entire investigation. i think that s what bill barr is doing. he is essentially taking the criticisms, which are valid, of the one part of this, which is the carter page fisa, and extrapolating it to the entire investigation. if you look at the mueller report, you ll see why there was