change in policy? we begin america reports with the white house walking back president biden s comments about china and taiwan, and all comes as president biden faces a series of crisis here at home while claiming a recession is not inevitable. i m sandra smith in new york. great to be back with you, john. john: great to be back. let me be the first to officially well come you. the president wrapping up a trip, up and down stock market, fears that gas prices will hit $6 a gallon nationwide and potential food shortage, to leave americans scrambling to feed their fires. sandra: the president admitting it will take time to lower gas prices and ease inflation but the u.s. economy is performing better than the rest of the world. we have fox team coverage now, byron york is standing by. john: jacqui heinrich is travelling with the president live in tokyo. what about the comments regarding taiwan and china? jacqui: john, the fact the president made those comments standing
Consensus reached after multiple days and meetings among officials. We reviewed Department Policies and concluded Assistant Director pre steps exercise of description in opening the investigation was in compliance with those policies. We also reviewed, as we detail in the report, the emails, Text Messages and other documents of those involved in that decision, particularly mr. Pre steps. We didnt find documentary or Testimonial Evidence that indicated political bias or improper motivation influencing his decision to open the investigation. While the information in the fbis possession at the time was limited, in light of the Throw Threshold established by department and fbi predication policy which, by the way, is not a legal requirement but a prudential one in the fbi and Department Policies, we found that Crossfire Hurricane was opened for an authorized
investigative purpose and with sufficient factual predication. This decision to open Crossfire Hurricane which involved the activitie
attorney michael sussmann s meeting with the fbi. he is walking away from the camera. defendant michael sussmann was charged with lying to the fbi, when he said he had communications with a back channel with ties to the kremlin. the government says he was delivering it on his own, not on behalf of any client, the government says he lied. prestep spoke to james baker, the fbi general counsel who met with michael sussmann and prestep took some notes on that meeting. prestep told the journey he does not recall much of that meeting or his notes and could not give specific details. a guilty verdict here, john, could strengthen sussmann s testimony and it could also be damaging to john durham, ultimately the trial is expected to roll on through this week.
ship. a question as griff pointed out how many people on the democratic side of the aisle are going to stop following nadler, schiff, pelosi, and i got to tell you i just i think it s an absolute sham. brian: jason, i tuned in last night, another network because i thought our prime time was smart enough to dip in and out. it s the same argument over and over again. the same argument since september. the same argument for the last three weeks. the same argument from two days ago. they don t listen to each other. they talk through each other and it goes around in a circle which makes me want to switch gears and talk about something you know quite well because you have a relationship with michael horowitz, the ig report. first off, what did you glean from yesterday that you didn t pick up in the 434 pages? i thought the report itself was stronger than ever. i think i actually understand this idea of was there bias at the inception and that whole question is whether or not the proper
no evidence that quote political bias or improper motivation influenced it. so, based on your investigation, personal political views expressed in text messages did not motivate the opening of the investigation of ties between trump campaign advisers and russia. is that correct? that s correct. ultimate lip, we concluded that those text messages, which we found last year were entirely inappropriate didn t ultimately make, play this, play the role in mr. prestep s decision to open the investigation. thank you so your investigation also uncovered text messages between other fbi employees expressing support for candidate and president trump. correct? that s correct. so, fbi employees held personal political views that were both favorable and unfavorable toward the candidate