I want to tone things down a little bit here and First Express my gratitude for the thousands of men and women who work every day on the front line with the fbi. I come from a background as a prosecutor and our local Law Enforcement work with the fbi every day in our local office in minnesota, and then in the senate, ive had the privilege to work with many, many people in the fbi. And i think the Inspector General hes job is incredibly important. He keeps everyone honest. But i do think this it is important for those t agents an those in Law Enforcement that are watching today that people understand there are people up here that understand that you are simply doing your jobs. Which i think is basically some recommendations Foric Change Wh the Inspector General found in this report. So before iis start my question
i think that it is important to put this discussion in context in the 2016 election which is why we are here today. It is nowe undisputed by our Intelligence Agencies that rus
finding that the investigation and related investigations were opened for an authorized purpose with adequate presented indication, did pre predication. did he agree? that s correct. and we shouldn t minimize the errors but i think it is critical to put them in context. your report doesn t speculate. that s correct. there. and mr. page wasn t indicted? he was not charged as far as i understand. but thege president s campai manager, sdedeputy campaign manager, foreign policyy advise, poern personal attorney and long time strategist were you all either expected or pled guilty? i think i followed the list. i won t disagree. did you identify guy a errors with are a to any other trump
paej wasn t even wo when this started, page wasn t even working for the trump campaign. if the fbi wanted to get trump, there were plenty of people closer to the then candidate, several of whom, by the way, are now convicted felons. part of the reason the top brass appears to be cleared in this report could be they actually found something. why? a fisa warrant needs to be renewed. this one with carter page was renewed repeatedly. now, to get it renewed, the fbi had to come back with new information, not once but three times because that s how many times it was renewed. once again, as every credible source has told us and now this inspector general for the d.o.j., the russia investigation was no hoax. it began with a man named george papadopoulos running his mouth about russia reaching out to help trump and they found meetings and attempts to meet with russians and wikileaks and
potus s pretenders says this is about getting trump. you know what word never shows up in this telephone book sized document? trump. when this started, page wasn t even working for the trump campaign. if the fbi wanted to get trump, there were plenty of people closer to the then candidate, several of whom, by the way, are now convicted felons. part of the reason the top brass appears to be cleared in this report could be they actually found something. why? a fisa warrant needs to be renewed. this one with carter page was renewed repeatedly. now, to get it renewed, the fbi had to come back with new information, not once but three times because that s how many times it was renewed. once again, as every credible source has told us and now this
i have no idea how they can investigate themselves but evidently they continue to believe that they can. they have so many more documents that they have to provide to us that we needed like, yesterday, and i hate to have to continue to, publicly and talk about this that we are still laura: lets remind everyone. a few weeks ago you were on the show, and you essentially threatened rod rosenstein with contempt of congress, or impeachment, if the underlying documents, the computer documents that authorized the probe of surveillance on carter page wasn t released. he did finally then release that, congressman nunez. however now, you are getting slammed in response by cnn and now others that you have asked for these documents and that yo