go. could be fireworks. welcome to our broadcast today. i m bill hemmer. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. what i like about when republicans run the committees, they re on time. allegations the f.b.i. bias will be front and center. the judiciary committee chairman will question durham on his report. he concluded the bureau had no business investigating the trump campaign. republicans are touting that be in their push to reform the justice department. committee chairman jim jordan. i think today for mr. durham you will hear why it s necessary. he will give detail and add more color to what we already knew, this whole trump/russia thing was a lie. dossier was garbage. they used it anyway to sfie on four american citizens. bill: right now jim jordan is sitting in his seat and could get rolling any moment. one of the democrats is adam schiff. the house could vote to censure him today for pushing the debunked claims of the trump-russia collusion. dan
new charges, or wholesale changes in how the fbi handles politically-charged investigations. so, jessica is here with that story, but also evan perez is joining us from washington. okay evan, just walk us through the bottom line of this report. well, the bottom line after four years, alison, this is all we got from john durham. there s a lot less here than certainly donald trump was paul promising us for many months, remember he was out there saying durham is coming, and he was expecting people to go to prison. as you pointed out, durham does not make any new prosecutions at the end of this report. but you know, he did find a lot of mistakes by the fbi in the way they conducted this investigation back in 2016, and he believes that a lot of it has to do with confirmation bias, not political bias. again, a finding that i think the former president would not be very happy with. i will read you just a part of what the report says, it says that based on the review of crossfire h
main stories on newsnight, which isjust getting under way on bbc two. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it s time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are, but from the ten team, it s goodnight. controversy rages over rape trials withoutjuries in scotland. could a new pilot scheme improve convictions rates in rape trials, or undermine the principles ofjustice? we ll be speaking to a former snpjustice minister, who is implaccable opposed and the head of rape crisis is scotland who backs the principle. also tonight. the afghan interpreters and their families promised safety in britain, but stuck, some now for a year, in hotels in pakistan, under effective house arrest. now i m stuck here. the taliban are threatening me. i can t go to afghanistan, and i can t go to the uk. i m stuck in the middle of things. fresh momentum for donald trump as the fbi is heavily criticised for its handling of its investigation into alleged ties betw
five minutes of questioning each. we have over 40 members here. it will be an interesting hearing, guys. dana: thank you for setting us up on that and we ll get back to you if anything else breaks. bill: as we wait for this to begin let s bring in john ratcliffe. former director of national intelligence. a couple basic questions. what do we learn today from this witness? when i became dni, i met with him and we reviewed the intelligence i had from the i.c. and intelligence he was finding from the department of justice and f.b.i. and asked him where is the evidence or intelligence that justifies opening crossfire hurricane and he said there isn t any. that s reflected in the report. what is significant about that and the focus today will richlyy be on the fact that when you talk about spying on a presidential campaign, the
general that had other findings. it found the fbi investigation was justified and unbiased, so how does that report square with the new one? yeah look, there s a lot of differences between the two reports, but we will highlight just one of them, here. one of them has to do with lisa page, who was a former fbi lawyer, and peter strzok who was leading a counter intelligence activities at the fbi. in the durham port, he says that peter strzok and lisa page were directly involved in matters relating to opening crossfire hurricane, and then of course if you compare that to what the horowitz report says, he says that lisa page attended some of the discussions regarding opening up this investigation, she did not play a role in the decision to open cross fire hurricane, or the four in the investigations. these two became, certainly a