Or not that was done. i m just telling you, that i ve staked my credibility on this that i think that the information that should have been turned over to the fisa court wasn t, and that the fisa process wasn t followed, and that when james comey and adam schiff and others say that the fisa abuse idea is a bunch of nonsense that they re wrong but we ll find out, plus the other point that you ve been talking about maria and are going to talk about, i mean, why is it okay for the obama administration to send people to fbi agents to rome and to coordinate with australia and great britain about foreign interference in our election but when the trump adminitration and department of justice and bill barr go to the exact same places , to determine the exact same type of things, foreign interference in our election, it s all of a sudden political, and that we shouldn t be doing it and i ll tell you what i think the answer is because i think there are a lot of folks that are worried about findi
Important point. i think it s important to make a distinction between former director comey and andrew mccabe and peter strzok and the fisa, the alleged fisa abuses that we re going to find out about. we already know for sure the fisa court wasn t told everything that bruce ohr told the doj and the fbi. there s a difference between t that and between mueller s operation. mueller was asked to do this and he did it. and i know there are some people that disagree with some of mueller s tactics. and i think he should have been much more careful in the team he originally assembled. but i m unaware of one unethical thing that anybody on mueller s team did. and this will end up being, yes, they were too tough with roger stone, yes, they played hardball with
I think you ve raised an important point. i think it s important to make a distinction between former director comey and andrew mccabe and peter strzok and the fisa, the alleged fisa abuses that we re going to find out about. we already know for sure the fisa court wasn t told everything that bruce ohr told the doj and the fbi. there s a difference between that and between mueller s operation. mueller was asked to do this and he did it. and i know there are some people that disagree with some of mueller s tactics. and i think he should have been much more careful in the team he originally assembled. but i m unaware of one unethical thing that anybody on mueller s team did. and this will end up being, yes, they were too tough with roger stone, yes, they played hardball
Should, and i think it required not only release of what horowitz has been finding along the way, but it s clear already, as sol has mentioned, that what happened, the games that were played with the fisa court, essentially is that the inside the department, there was a real debate about this. it went from the fbi to responsible officials. and the fact of the matter is, they proceeded forward with an application to the fisa court and they did not fully disclose what they knew, which is that the information was biased. laura: and at the same time, john, there was pressure put on the process to not indict hillary clinton for her egregious abuse of government protocols and classified information handling. so there was pressure, i think, on comey not to do that, not to pursue that. so, i think there s a lot and
Not only release of what horowitz has been finding along the way, but it s clear already, as sol has mentioned, that what happened, the games that were played with the fisa court, essentially is that the inside the department, there was a real debate about this. it went from the fbi to responsible officials. and the fact of the matter is, they proceeded forward with an application to the fisa court and they did not fully t discloe what they knew, which is thatly the information was biased. laura: and at the same time, john, there was pressure put on the process to not indict hillary clinton for her egregious abuse of government protocols and classified information handling. so there was pressure, i think, on comey not to do that, not to pursue that. so, i think there s a lot and again, it s wonderful that it s