James comey said he was proud of the way that the department conducted business. Watch this. I cannot believe that republicans wouldve wanted it any other way, and we acted in a limited and restrained way. Are you confident that you did everything by the book . And that the fbi, every one around you, did everything byev the book . Yes. No doubt in my mind, but i am not against review of it. That is totallyit fine. Do you think that the Inspector General will findha anything inappropriate . I dont think so, but if they do, they do, and they should be transparent about it. Jason oh, and i think that they will be. So should james comey be proud of his conduct . Joining us with more on the progress, texas congressman john ratcliffe, and former Fox News Contributor trey gowdy, gentelemen, thank you for joining us. I served with both of you in the congress. Congressman ratcliffe, you are a former u. S. Attorney, trey gowdy and i served with you. We both abandon you and left you there to your lonesome on the judiciary committee. But my understanding is that you have had a discussion with the Inspector General just a few days ago, tell us what happened and what transpired. Jason, trey, good to see both of you. I did have the opportunity to meet with Inspector General horowitz last week, we talked about his report, the timing, not the content. And he related that his teams investigative work is complete. They are in the process of drafting the report. I would expect that it will be a draft completed in short order. I will tell you that i dont expect that any w of us are goig to see it any time real soon. He did relate that as much as 20 of his report is probably going to include classified information, so that draft report will have to undergo a classification review at the fbi and the department of justice. So while i am hopeful that we might see it before members of Congress Recess for the august recess, im not too certain about that. Jason this is always the frustrating thing that hasas happened multiple times where we had reports when i was the chairman, when trey gowdy was the chairman, the department of justice would review things for weeks on end, if not months, but it is encouraging to know that the Inspector General is going to be right there around the corner. Congressman gowdy, i have to tell you, you have a very definitive james comey, who thinks that he did everything by the book and that he did t everything that he was supposed to, but you and congressman ratcliffe are the two people that i know of that have actually reviewed the fisa unredacted, the fisa report, is director comey right . Did you do everything the way that he was supposed to . Jason, i just want to make sure that we have the right james comey. Is that the comey that wrote that he did not leak in a memo that he later leaked . Is that the james comey that said he did not do weasel things when he was memorializing what he said was a private conversation . Is that the same james comey that said that the fbi did notwa give a hoot about politics while two of his senior aides discussed two political candidates that a they were supposed to be sinvestigating . The same james comey, the one that you just played . Is this the same one . Jason yes, j yes. It is the same one that took advantage of the Trump Administration by sending fbi agents to interview Michael Flynn while Hillary Clinton had a Small Law Firm when she was interviewed. I just wanted to make sure that was the same james comey. Y i dont know what horowitz will find, i have a lot of confidence in him, he is a straight arrow, he is just looking at the fisa abuse. U. S. Attorney johnki durham is looking into what happened in the late winter and spring of 2016. So your viewers have to have a lot of demarcation. Just remember, peter strzok, if that name sounds familiar, in late july 2016, initiates a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump Campaign. That is july of 2016. Horowitz is looking at the fisa process after that. Durham is looking at the origins of the russia investigation prior to that, and i am hopeful that those two investigations together would shed a lot of light. Can happen, because it has been so america can know what happened, because it has been a divisive two years. Jason congressman ratcliffe, you have been a u. S. Attorney, you and trey gowdy have reviewed the fisa reports, it says verified at the top. And i guess to me if you want to debate what verified means, but you have looked at the unredacted reports. Comey has said he has done everything right, and you said it was not done wrong, but that it was done deceptively, poorly, and maybe exculpatory information was left out. It is horowitz going to be the definitive word . What is his role in this process . I think that he will be one of the more important voices. A lot of folks are looking forwardor to bob muellers testimony on july 17, coming up. But bob mueller will talk about collusion that did not exist. About obstruction that the attorney general found did not exist. You can ask bob mueller ten times in ten different languages, and i dont think there will be any new facts or new conclusions. But Michael Horowitz and his findings and john durham and hit findings, those will be significant. Those relate to not trump h misconduct, but to potential obama misconduct. Look, jim comey says they did everything right, even though as trey pointed out, you have a lead investigator who promised to stop trump. Wanted to prevent him from becoming president. He had a Deputy Director who lied under oath on multiple occasions and was criminally referred. As trey pointed out, director comey himself leaked private conversations with the president. He has a different definition of the word proud, when he saysnt he is proud of all of that work. We will find out. Michael horowitz, i do think that his findings will be significant, jason, because it presents a real potential problem for the democrats. Right now we already know, bob mueller has told us that a Democratic Administration started an investigation into a conspiracy with russia that did not exist. That is bad enough. It would be a whole lot worse if it turns out that that same Democratic Administration continued that investigation by breaking rules of the fisa court. If that happens, you can pretty much put a pin in any impeachment balloon, because it would be hard for the democrats to say, well, we started an investigation that we should not have. We continued it by breaking the rules, but we want to impeach a president for trying to obstruct that investigation that never should have started. Jason congressman gowdy, lets go back to director mueller, who is coming to testify. You are no longer on the committees that would best questioning him. What are the democrats up to . Why would they do this . If you were on the republican side of the aisle, what kind of questions are you going to ask mueller . Well, first, the easy part, while the democrats doing it . They are never held accountable by the d. C. Media. They brought Michael Cohen and john dean as either fact witnesses or experts, you wouldve been excoriated as a chairman if you had brought two witnesses like that, but they have a safety net. An they are never criticized. B you are calling someone who does not want to come, who is not going to deviate from the four f corners of his report some of us did not even think that the report should be public. We sure as hell do not think he ought to be testifying. But they get a passport what should republicans do . They should prepare. You have the best lawyer at your guest tonight. Im not worried about john ratcliffe, hes fantastic. But they need to think of the trenches or buckets, what did he find . No criminal collusion. What did you not find . An indictable obstruction of justice defense. What did he not bother to look for . Johnny mentioned collusion between the Trump Campaign and russia. Lu we do know one campaign was getting dirt from russia, did mueller bother to find out whether the russian government was feeding that dirt through Christopher Steele to fusion gps . Did he even ask . And the legal issue that is really important, and johnny just touched on it, if you can resist an unlawful arrest, can you really obstruct an unpredicated investigation . Which it is important where mueller began, and i dont think he began by figuring out the origins of the russia probe as it relates to trump. But we will find out. Prepare, set low expectations, it is 5 minutes. It is impossible to unlock thect mysteries of the world in 5 minutes. I wish that they were not having the hearing. Im really glad that we got a good lawyer like Johnny Radcliffe on judiciary. Jason a lot of us wish you just pour all of the questions into that bucket, but gentlemen, it was a pleasurere and an honor to serve with all of you. I think you for your service. In congressman ratcliffe, we wish you the best, godspeed in the upcoming hearings. Again, thank you, gentlemen. Tonight we are just 17 days away from one of the most anticipated public testimonies this year. Bob mueller is set to face questions from members of the house intelligence and judiciary committees on wednesday, july 17th. And while democrats will be happy to keep the pnony russian happy to keep the phony russian collusion narrative alive for a few more weeks, republicans are planning to demand answers surrounding the political bias inside muellers witch hunt. In 2017, despite conducting an extremely sensitive, highprofile investigation into the Trump Campaign, mueller filled his staff with big time democratic donors, Hillary Clintons former lawyer, and two of the biggest trump hatersti in the fbi, peter strzok and lisa page. How could anyone in the right mind think that is appropriate . Joining us now with analysis is fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett, ohio congressmann mike turner, and florida congressman matt gaetz. Both congressmen will get to question him later this month, because turner being on the Intelligence Committee, and congressman gaetz on the judiciary committee. So thank you for being here, iud want to start this up by going to gregg jarrett, you have done as good of a job as anybody ive seen documenting and laying out to the conflicts of interest that lots of us from day one were concerned about with director mueller. Run through these conflicts in the team that he assembled. The most egregious conflict of interest is that mueller was meeting with President Trump the day before he took the job as special counsel. L. They were in the oval office. I talked to the president about it when i was in the Oval Office Last week. And so i would ask this question, isnt it true, mr. Mueller, the president explained his reasons for firing james comey that day. And the answer i know is yes, which means that mueller was a witness in his own prosecution case. You cannot be a prosecutor and a witness at the same time. Its against the rules. Its also against ethics. Jason it never slowed him down before, did not slow him down on the Hillary Clinton investigation. The other major conflict of interest is the key witness in any obstruction case is james comey. Y and james comey and Robert Mueller, long time friends, colleagues, and allies, mueller was comeys mentor. How is that fair to the president , because mueller has to decide if he believes that comey or the guy who fired my friend, comey . That is a major conflict of interest, he should have disqualified himself. Jason congressman gaetz, i want to go to you, youre on the judiciary committee, what kind of questions and what can youdi get out . Mueller is a reluctant witness. He does not want to come. He was issued a subpoena. He says that he is going to confine his report to what was issued in his report. So what do you think you can draw out from him . When Robert Mueller leaves capitol hill, i think the American People will see that there was no collusion. And there was oceans of bias. I think bias will be the word of the day, from the assembly of the mueller team to hise and dealings with peter strzok and lisa page. Lets remember that Robert Mueller had fired those people from his team. But when i question peter strzok about interactions when he wasas fired, i was shocked at the lack of curiosity of Robert Mueller, he never asked what peter strzok meant by the insurance policy. Io he never delved into these secret meetings in Andrew Mccabes office where a lot of the actors that you lay out in your book, the deep state, were assembling and engaging in their discourse and planning. And you also dont see any questions from mueller to strzok, what peter strzok meant when he said there was no way that they would lead to donald trump be president. So if mueller did not have those questions for strzok, we will certainly have those questions for mueller. Jason you are exactly right, because at one point presented information by the Inspector General mueller, where is the bias . He thought there was some line at some point, but all of the other examples are just as egregious if not even more egregious. Now congressman turner, one of the Big Questions i think i hear a lot when i am out in the heartland talking to people is when did bob mueller know when did he actually find out and determine that there was no collusion . And why did he not inform at least the Intelligence Committee, if not the public . You know, jason, you are hot on the trail of this when you were chairman of the oversight committee. And it goes really to the beginning of this investigation. Because all of those, brennan, comey, clapper, all testified, even at the inception of this, that they had no evidence of collusion. Certainly are a committee, Intelligence Committee, prior to the Mueller Report reviewed the evidence and came to the conclusion that there was no evidence of collusion, and obviously it does not conclude that the president committed a crime. But i think that mueller weakens his credibility when you read the report. When he includes statements as we do not exonerate the president. Mueller only gets its authority from that delegated to him from the attorney general and the department of justice. And nobody in the department of justice has the ability to exonerate anyone. It is disingenuous. It just shows his bias, he wants to leave the impression that his report impugns a president even though he can find nothing that the president has done. Jason you bring up a good point. And gregg, i want to ask you, there are a lot of things that mueller did not look at. If you look at the instructions on what he was supposed to do, how did he exclude so many things . How is it possible that you can investigate russian interference in our election without examining the Hillary Clinton campaign and the dnc paying for russian disinformation to then peddle to the media and the fbi touson influence the campaign . Yet there is no mention in there of Christopher Steeles dossier or Hillary Clinton or fusion gps. Or Glenn Simpson or the actions of comey and clapper spreading and peddling the false information to influence the election. So this was an entire whitewash of what should have been investigated by Robert Mueller. Jason congressman gaetz, i was talking to trey gowdyle earlier before we were on the air, one of his observations was that the one person that they went out and got a fisa warrant against was carter page. And he is the one person that was not indicted at all. So how do you get into and it is hard with just 5 minutes to mueller and being able to look at what they did and did not do . It is important to remember that there was an fbi investigation of President Trumps interactions or his campaigns alleged interactions with russia that predated mueller, and even in that investigation, peter strzok and lisa page text to one another that there is no there there. There is no evidence. And so it is entirely appropriate to open those doors by asking what evidence Robert Mueller and the special counsel reviewed that mightve been tainted or miscast as a result of its development by people who had a known bias against President Trump. I think looking at the work that mueller did in his report, we will have to look at what were the inputs and what were the potential pollutants to the inputs regarding political bias. Frankly, and i think that a lot of this was miscast and developed by people in the Obama White House like clapper, brennan, thats why the work of the Inspector General as well as the work of attorney general barr are so important to make sure that we find out who was responsible for the terrible lie told to the American People for two years. So i will be spending my fourth of july weekend rereading the russia hoax so that i am ready to use my 5 minutes well. Jason very good. Congressman turner, i do not expect you to lay out the questions that you will ask in advance, but you have a very important role. You have dedicated a big part of your career and time in d. C. On the Nat