as a director sitting on top of an organization of 38,000 people, you cannot run an investigation seven layers below you. you have to leave it to the career professionals to do. do you believe that? no. i think one of the problems with what happened was precisely that they pulled the investigation up to the executive floor, and it was run and bird dogged by a small group of high-level officials. and the idea that this was seven layers below him is simply not true. neil: and now to add fuel to the legal fire of this whole issue how the investigation started in the first place, you have the fisa providing and demanding the fbi answer questions over surveillance warrants and anything linked to initially tracking carter page. you remember him former acting attorney matthew whitaker with us right now. you know the more time that goes by, matthew, the more kinks we
say going forward we need to correct this process and make sure this is fair, honest, reliable and we have to correct this thing going forward. it s interesting to see whether one of the long-term ramifications of the whole remote 2016 campaign is going to be fundamental reforms in how we conduct surveillance warrants. the spotlight has now been put on the secret court in a way that s never happened before. what would be an appropriate fix? what they did was line. when they falsified records and said he was not working for the cia when he was in fact working for the cia, carter page. they look through and cheese saying don t mind it wants. that doesn t seem like that s a rule change, much like a morality change. that there is a few things you could do. one possibility is you could build my safeguards into the process. either additional levels of review within the government so if an agent is preparing a report you would have three or four other people look at it
president trump? as to the opening, we found no, no bias. no testimony or documentary evidence on that. but as democrats emphasize, the overjaum finding, republicans dug into the major issues the ig pointed out in a just released report. horowitz says referred to cross fire hurricane made significant inaccuracies and admissions in surveillance warrants. although we did not find documentary or testimonial evidence of intentional misconduct, we also did not receive satisfactory explanations for any of the errors or omissions identified. we found and as outlined here are deeply concerned so many basic and fundamental errors were made by three separate hand-picked investigative teams on one of the most sensitive fantastic beasts investigatf n
with fbi agents and their families. these people go to work every day protecting the nation. this is a pattern we ve seen with the president and that s this ongoing political campaign of attack against the fbi to try to undermine their credibility. we ve been reporting on this since the origins of the russia investigation that continues to this day. so it s not surprising, obviously, the language is troubling but that s been the pattern. to the second part about the ig report, it s important for viewers to understand this is what the ig concluded. and you have to understand that two things can be true at the same time. right. on one hand, there was wrongdoing by the fbi as it related to these fisa surveillance warrants. it found some 17 instances by midlevel employees. it also found, and this was the big takeaway, that there was no political bias on the part of the fbi in investigating members surrounding donald trump. and that is important to note because that s been the theme fro
agents who made the final decision to launch the investigation were not influenced by political bias. the president has long said his campaign was illegally spied on, even suggesting former president obama had wiretapped him. it was illegal spying, unprecedented spying. this was an attempted coup. i would say that president obama had to know about it. reporter: but the inspector general says fbi officials made serious errors and omissions in applying for surveillance warrants to monitor the communications of a trump campaign associate, carter page. adding, agents failed to meet the basic obligation to ensure the applications were sk scrupulously accurate. they did not tell doj attorneys about information that may have weakened their case for surveillance. the president pounced. this was an overthrow of government. this was an attempted overthrow and a lot of people were in on it. reporter: but tonight, the president s hand-picked fbi director, christopher wray, saying the