I want to tone things down a little bit here and First Express my gratitude for the thousands of men and women who work every day on the front line with the fbi. I come from a background as a prosecutor and our local Law Enforcement work with the fbi every day in our local office in minnesota, and then in the senate, ive had the privilege to work with many, many people in the fbi. And i think the Inspector General hes job is incredibly important. He keeps everyone honest. But i do think this it is important for those t agents an those in Law Enforcement that are watching today that people understand there are people up here that understand that you are simply doing your jobs. Which i think is basically some recommendations Foric Change Wh the Inspector General found in this report. So before iis start my question
i think that it is important to put this discussion in context in the 2016 election which is why we are here today. It is nowe undisputed by our Intelligence Agencies that rus
is thatpo correct? we have actions taken here that werect not consistent with the rules, practices, policies. and we couldn t reach a condition sclu conclusion is what motivated that. is it worse to have a foreign governmentha trying to meddle i our elections or worse to have you are on own government meddling in o the election? because i think that is what this report shows. it shows that our government, the most powerful law enforcement agency in the nation, the fbi, effectively meddled in and on goinging on presidential campaign. and the thing that gets me, you expect it from foreign government cans. not saying thatgn it is good, b you expect it. they have been doing it for years. russia has been doing it for years. china, others. andch we know what steps to tak. we have to take them more effectively, bute when our own government does it, how can the american people have confidence and what do we do? and there is one actor here i