he said particularly, he was struck that they were not confident that his decisions were not made on the basis of political bias. they say there were reports filled with statements of bias. the inspector general was saying that, he can t say conclusively that whatever bias they found influence the outcome of these actions. so that s a difficult thing. so the people involved said i wasn t influenced by political considerations and so the inspector general said there was some problematic troubling cases of bias but i did not find evidence that they were outcome determinative. martha: and what do you think of that? he is the inspector general for the agency, and they figure out whether there was any political bias involved. it s a very difficult thing to
lester holtz? he told lester holds that he fired him because of the investigation. maybe that is the case, but i think he was telling the truth to lesser holds. martha: he has cited a number of reasons and we are all very aware of that sound bite. i agree with you that he absolutely said that. but when you look at the rod rosenstein memo and all the reasons he outlined, and with regard to the fact that the five fbi agents have now been referred to for investigation for bias as a result of this, your thoughts on that? i hate reading the stroke and page exchange, that is not how fbi agents should conduct themselves and i think that they should be referred for an internal investigation, as it relates to their jobs. but there was a finding that it did not affect any investigation actions that they took, nor should it. i have brothers who are police
obstruction be james comey in this report. the inspector general said to come i m not going to make assumptions about how bias may have influenced the outcome. i haven t found any documentary evidence that shows that that was a result. that was basically the argument of the trump team. there were legitimate reasons to do what he did. that is exactly what the inspector general decided today, there were legitimate reasons for what he did and he won t make assumptions of any violations of law. martha: thank you so much. up next, a veteran journalist provokes a head-scratcher about president trump. with all these tweets and all that other stuff, he may have some idea what he s doing. martha: and corey stewart ran on the trump agenda and just one the republican senate primary race in virginia.
criminal charges. and in parentheses, absent a a confession or false statement, and the interview had little outcome on the investigation, how can that be? it can t be, it shouldn t be. i think we have to look at bias here. they were biased to come up to a conclusion, and i don t know the answer to that. but i know that, it s not our job to make it prosecuted solution. you don t formulate your investigation based on a preconceived notion of innocence or guilt, that s where the fbi operates. martha: i think it s interesting because most of the headlines coming out of this, but i actually started reading it, he couldn t understand where that take away really came from. but christopher wray spoke about this today, let s put of this chart that s part of the report that shows the pattern of leaks
said the work on the hillary clinton probe was flawed after the doj watchdog report slammed the director is insubordinate among other things. the report caused quite a stir as you can imagine and back here in new york, the attorney general filed a lawsuit. they chose today to do that against the trump foundation. always good to see you, jonathan. you know, you look through these text messages between these members of the fbi and there s a whole other set that came out when they talk about how upset they are, about the outcome and they are so concerned that they had something to do with it and how they can live with themselves. the suggestion that there wasn t a bias, it seems so difficult to swallow. and notably, the inspector general is not saying that. the inspector general did not say there was an absence of evidence of bias, he said the contrary.