reporter: hi, mike. from whistleblowers to sur styling americans, the fbi has had a lot to answer to this past week, starting on monday with the release of the durham report which concluded the agency did not have sufficient evidence to open investigation into then-candidate trump and, quote, our investigation also revealed that senior fbi personnel displayed a serious lack of analytical rigor towards or the information they received, especially from politically-affiliated persons and entities. this is an investigation with no basis, and that makes a lot of people mad. that hurt the previous administration for about two years. it is critical the american people understand how their government, their agencies have been turned on them, the taxpayer. reporter: republicans want durham to testify on capitol hill this week. there are democrats downplaying the report, some outright dismissing it. this is an investigation that started in a flawed manner, it was conducted in
flawed conclusion. reporter: separately, past laws were admitted by the fbi when it comes to abusing warrantless tools and technology. court filings show that the agency conducted 278,000 data way searches on americans database searches on americans between 2020 the-2021 under the foreign intelligence surveillance act. there were definitely some issues on how fisa was used and utilized, and there have been dozens of reforms that have been made over the course of the last year or so to crease the those issues address those issues. reporter: a senior fbi official did tell fox news data base procedures have been changed so that those errors do not happen again. mike: alex, thanks a lot. for more on this, let s bring in today s political panel, gareth that joins gareth that joins and kristin hawn, democratic
reporter: hi, mike. from whistleblowers to sur styling americans, the fbi has had a lot to answer to this past week, starting on monday with the release of the durham report which concluded the agency did not have sufficient evidence to open investigation into then-candidate trump and, quote, our investigation also revealed that senior fbi personnel displayed a serious lack of analytical rigor towards or the information they received, especially from politically-affiliated persons and entities. this is an investigation with no basis, and that makes a lot of people mad. that hurt the previous administration for about two years. it is critical the american people understand how their government, their agencies have been turned on them, the taxpayer. reporter: republicans want durham to testify on capitol hill this week. there are democrats downplaying the report, some outright dismissing it. this is an investigation that started in a flawed manner, it was conducted in a flawed