lawfully and of course it says that there was not political bias in there opening of this investigation. of course we alsoen see that th fbi certainly, you know, broke rules later on in its application to wiretap carter page. i think going forward what we re going to gosee, because the president has already said that he believes another investigator, john durham, is going to give him the results that heiv wants, that bill barr has already said he believes thatid spying happened and stil trying to figure out whether it was legally predicated. and he batted down saying we re now going to see a situation where we have a federal prosecutorer basically underos tremendous pressure to deliver results of an investigation that has been pre-judged not only by his boss, the attorney general, but by the president. that s going tohe be a very triy situation for him to navigate. it s goingm to raise questionss to whether or not this investigation could be fair. and tove his credit, john durha hast
fbi s russia investigation.ss trump has insisted the intelligence community was spying on him and his campaign as part of the, quote, deep state conspiracy. they were spying on my campaign, and it went right up to the top. how did it start? you had dirty cops. you had people that are bad, fbi folks. before i ever even announced, they were spying. i was spied on. what they did to me was illegal. they spied on our campaign. who would think that s possible? today the department of justice inspector general michael horowitz issued his nearly 500-page report, which found no evidence to support those claims. quote, the fbi had an authorized purpose when it opened crossfire hurricane, the investigation into the trump campaign, to obtain information about or protect against a national security threat or federal crime. we did f not find documentary o testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation influenced the decisions. the i.g. s report did find,
twitter feed that he is obsessed and consumed by impeachment, and i think we ll just see more evidence of that tomorrowment i thin it will be fascinating to see how he reacts on twitter, how he reacts in his conversations with the press in the oval office andti what the y at the white house is like as he tries toou go about his busines while he g feels personally und siege. katie benner, back to your beat and the report that came out today. i saw former federal prosecutor elie honig wrote tonight that in the oldha days, an attorney general who had accused a government of spying on a presidential candidate might resign on the day when the counterevidence comes out. obviously not going to be the case here. i didse note devin nunes on fox news tonight speaking unchallenged about a spy ring as if nothing had happened. what happens now? okay. so,ka yes, just quick top line, the report indeed was a mixed bag. it does say that there was no illegal spying. it says that this was predicated