exculpatory information? absolutely. they did not? they did not. why? that s the question i can t specifically answer for you. can you say it wasn t because of political bias? on decisions regarding those fisa matters, i do not know their state of mind at this point. so we re talking about actions and what would motivate people. do you think comey and mccabe should have known? that s a challenging question as we explained in the report. there were multiple briefings up the chain including to the director and the deputy director. we don t have a clear record of what precisely they were told and as you know as information flows upstream would you be surprised if it didn t make it up the system? this earth shattering? i won t speculate. did strzok know? so, mr. strzok s there are three iterations of the team. mr. strzok actually transitioned off as the, on this matter in
thank you. as i sit here, i am only going to speak with what s in the report. okay. go ahead. and as i mentioned in my statement, the comment was that mr. papadopoulos had made a suggestion that there had been a suggestion to the trump campaign that the russian government could provide information that would be damaging to candidate clinton and then president obama. so your report states that you didn t find documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation played a role? that s correct. the thank you. and up didn t find a deep state conspiracy against candidate or president trump? as to the opening, we found no bias, no testimonial documentary on that. and no rational for a deep state that
we looked at mr. prestop as i noted who was the decision-maker. we did not find any everyday in his e-mails or texts of having engaged in any bias or having any bias. our fbi corrector wray provided a written response to your report accepting all of your findings. these include the key finding there was quote an authorized purpose and actual factual pred indication for the investigation. by contrast, attorney general barr expressed his doubt about the legitimacy of the fbi s investigation in press statements. did attorney general barr provide any evidence that caused you to alter this key finding that the fbi investigation had an adequate predicate? no, we stand by our finding. thank you. during your investigation, attorney general barr stated his belief that quote spying on the