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
a report from a friendly foreign government that heard that the trumpd campaign had received se kind of suggestion that russia could help themgg by releasing information that was damaging to hillary clinton. is thatam right? that s correct. as a former prosecutor, i know that it is critical that the fbi isha able to take an action like here to investigat threats to our national security. do you think that interference in our elections by a foreign government constitutes a national c security threat? yes, i do. does anything in your report call into question the finding in the special counsel s report thatpe the russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in a sweepingal and systemic financi? no, it doesn t and we cite the report here in a footnote laying out all the different reports that had been released on that issue. does anything in your report