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that headline that you re mentioning right now, the report that the inspector general is close to finishing his report about the chain of events that led to the investigation of the 2016 campaign for the trump campaign, specifically one individual. now, the justice department s inspector general, michael horowitz, told congress late friday that he s nearly finished with the report for viewing whether the fbi followed the law when it applied for a warrant to surveil carter page. page was investigated over concerns of russian interference in the election. some have said that the surveillance was an abuse of power. this is the letter that horowitz sent to congress late friday. he wrote, quote: we have now begun the process of finalizing our report by providing a draft of our factual findings to the department and the fbi for classification determination and marking. now, horowitz says this has been an extensive process, that they have collected over one million records for review and cond
this as well as review the report. here s what one republican senator had to say earlier this week. the senate judiciary committee will call mr. horowitz, and he will testify under oath about his report. we re going declassify as much as we can including the fisa warrant applications, let you read it for yourself. transparency and accountability is my goal. reporter: and while this report is now being reviewed, there s still no exact timeline, neil, of when it will be completely finished. that is still up in the air at this point p. neil? neil: all right. mark meredith, thank you, my friend. senate judiciary committee member is joining us right now, a very crucial fellow, you know him well, senator john kennedy from the state of louisiana. what do you want to know about what s in this? number one, i would ask the attorney general to work sunday. he probably does anyway. after church, read the report american people. released to the
committee chairman trey gowdy. good to have you back. how are you. i m fine. neil: help me with this. it s conjecture at this point. we do know that the attorney general has the draft of the report, but i don t know if he can put out anything on the draft. what do you think he s doing with it. two things, number one, classification review. i think it s in everyone s best interest to have as much of this material public as possible, but there are certain equities you have to protect. so there s a classification review, but secondarily, and this is true with every ig report. you send the report to the agency or the entities involved for a fact check. so, in other words, bill barr can t tell michael horowitz, go found different facts, but if there s an error, if you know, look, mike is good, but he s not perfect. just like judges circulate opinions and other folks will send memos to their partners,
say, look, did i get this right, that s what the ig is doing. he s saying look at this, if you see any factual error, bring it to my attention before i make it public. neil: if it s proven or at least the inspector general laid the groundwork that all of this started on a lie, or on a fiction, what is andy barr times, what does attorney general barr did with that? it depends and there will be two fictions, if you will. remember, neil, there s the spring of 2016 which is when we think the russian investigation began and that led to the peter strzok opening the file in july and then you ve got fisa. so there are two lines of inquiry. whether or not the original investigation was factually predicate, that s important and then you have the use of the dossier and the surveillance of american citizens. so my guess is horowitz has looked at both. if he finds malfeasance then