world s premier law enforcement agencies in significant part because of its adherence to these policies and its tradition of professionalism, impartiality and non-political enforcement of the law. however, our review identified significant concerns with how certain aspects of the investigation were conducted and supervised, particularly the fbi s failure to adhere to its own standards of accuracy and completeness when filing applications with for foreign intelligence surveillance act authority known as fisa, to surveil carter page, a u.s. person who was connected to the trump for president campaign. we determined that the decision to open crossfire hurricane was made by then fbi counterintelligence divisions assistant director bill pre stap and his decision reflected a
discussion with a reporter from the rolling stone ? what s takeaway? don t go to a bar with the rolling stone reporter. they were talking about how they don t like joe biden. i was the first to say that is out of bounds. you can have all the political opinions you want. if you re an officer in the united states military, you will park those opinions and you will not speak ill of the commander in chief. but that obviously is not a rule at the fbi department of justice. march 16th, 2016, i cannot believe donald trump is likely to be actual serious candidate for president. july 16th, we re getting closer to when this thing opens, and while donald trump is an enormous douche. again a lot of people agreed with that. the first thing out of his mouth was we re going to win so big. the whole thing is like living in a bad dream. july 19th, 2016. trump is a disaster. i have no idea how destabilizing
not have to answer. was he a true believer when he said the opposite? reporter: it s a great question. is he someone who, like so many republicans have, accepted that president trump has the political capital to dominate this party for now and in the future. he is not ready to contest that in any way. in that 2016 primary campaign in which senator graham ran, that was the last gasp for many republican leaders in terms of countering the trump politics. bob costa, stay near your camera and newsroom if you will. we ll keep watching these opening statements. i want to build on that point, senator mccaskill and bring you back in. part of the suggestion there with reporting, that lindsey graham and bill bar plans this o out, return of the four-page letter approach, something news
his presidency would be. and a lot of people believed that. you re entitled to believe that, but you should not be an investigator. july 30th, the investigation is open. and damn this feels momentous, about the investigation, because this matters. the other ones did, too, but that was to ensure we didn t f something up. this matters because this matters. so super glad to be on this voyage with you. i hope you understand what this voyage was about. august 8th, 2016. three days before stzrok was named the front line supervisor. he will never become president, right? page to strzok. no am, he won t. we ll stop it. these are the people in charge. august 15th, 2016, i want to
lisa page, the inspector general found, had absolutely nothing to do with the opening of any of these russian-related cases, yet we re hearing about texts related to her relationship with pete strzok. let s slow down on that fact che check. you re speaking about the person that the president has attacked, former fbi official suing the federal government over this. there s a lot to be debated there and plenty of people would read this, or that text, and say they disagree with it or they don t like someone talking about their favorite candidate that way, be it trump or obama. your point here, though, is that is not 20 or 10% relevant but zero relevance because she didn t open the probe? lindsey is laying the foundation for bias and prejudice, saying these are the people who ultimately helped weigh in on these cases and look at their mind-set at the time. the problem is that we should be having a discussion whether cases were properly opened following the rules and after