in 2018 you were the ranking member, the top democrat in the minority in the intelligence committee. devin nunez then republican cherish issued a report talking about all the problems with the fisa warrants and the fbi case. you defended the fbi s use of fisa warrants to surveil carter page in a lengthy memo. here you are discussing that. this is important for the public to see the facts that, the fbi acted appropriately in seeking a warrant on carter page. they re not part of some deep state as the president apparently would like the public to believe. chris: after reading the i.g. s report, which discusses 17 serious rare roars of omission errors, of omission, some would say misconduct on the part of the fbi do you still think the fbi act the appropriately as you said there? well i think this is consistent with the ig report. they were right to seek a fisa on carter page. there wasn t some deep state conspiracy. there was no spying on the trump
day. it went as expected. aye. reporter: 23-17 party line judiciary committee vote charging the president with abusing the power of his office over the ukraine scandal and obstructing house democrats attempt to investigate him for it. the move sets stage for a full house vote this week where democrats currently hold 233 seats. would only need 216 votes. while new fox polling suggests the nation remains split on impeachment, with no change since early october. though majority of those surveyed, believe he did abuse his power. the impeachment is a hoax. it s a sham. reporter: the president meanwhile remained defiant, buoyed by the fact of the gop controlled senate made it clear if there is a trial they won t remove him from office. and perhaps, by the release of the long-awaited inspector general s report, investigating fisa abuse and origins of the russia probe, which found significant inaccuracies and omissions, made in applications to surveil trump campaign aid
to surveil trump campaign aid carter page. inflaming the president s rhetoric that his campaign and indeed his presidency were spied upon. inspector general horowitz said he was deeply concerned there were so many basic fundamental errors made by three hand-picked investigative teams. though, he said he was unable to prove any political bias. chris? chris: kevin corke, reporting from the white house. kevin, thank you. joining us now, former fbi director james comey. director, welcome to fox news sunday. thanks for having me. chris: you have been taking something of a victory lap since the i.g. report was released earlier this week. the question is whether or not it s justified. here are you and the inspector general, michael horowitz answering the same question. do you think this is vindication? it is. i mean the fbi has had to wait two years while the president and his followers lied about the institution. finally the truth gets told. does your report vindicate
to surveil trump campaign aid carter page. inflaming the president s rhetoric that his campaign and indeed his presidency were spied upon. inspector general horowitz said he was deeply concerned there were so many basic fundamental errors made by three hand-picked investigative teams. though, he said he was unable to prove any political bias. chris? chris: kevin corke, reporting from the white house. kevin, thank you. joining us now, former fbi director james comey. director, welcome to fox news sunday. thanks for having me. chris: you have been taking something of a victory lap since the i.g. report was released earlier this week. the question is whether or not it s justified. here are you and the inspector general, michael horowitz answering the same question. do you think this is vindication? it is. i mean the fbi has had to wait two years while the president and his followers lied about the institution. finally the truth gets told. does your report vindicate