too far but essentially wasted americans times and efforts is now coming with the is dotted and the ts crossed. david spunt has more from the justice department. good afternoon. 306 pages from john durham transmitted this to attorney general merrick garland friday. garland looked it over, decided to release it to the public. did not change one word. he didn t add anything. so now it s public. durham says the conclusions from his own research and we re talking four years, he said those conclusions are sobering. may 13th, 2019, when he came on board at the request of then attorney general bill barr to look at the origins of the trump russia collusion narrative. he lost two high profile cases in court but secured a guilty plea from a former fbi attorney. this today is his narrative to the public after four years of work. the cost over $6 million in taxpayer money. first we have to do back, neil, to the years 2016 and 17. the primary focus of this report. the overarching theme
arrested another suspect who is on the terror watch list. he came in south of san diego. he was from afghanistan. the fbi is investigating him. he s one of dozens of terror watch list names who have crossed in to the country over the last several months. president biden though was pretty sanguin on how things are going. he s pleased since the end of title 42 last week. watch. how you think things are going at the border, sir? much better than you all expected. do you have any plans to visit the border? not in the near term, no. just be disruptive. not anything else. when i went to bo s bench at the four miles up, i met two people come up to me, a bunch of people. that s why i was late. i was taking a lot of pictures. came up and said, we want to st. paul s in scranton. martha: never know who you run into from scranton as the public changes the subject from the border to folks he ran in to on the bike path. let s go to joe concha, a fox news contributor and brandon
to be asking about the sensitive matters that involved presidential candidates in an election year. pretty condemning. it s a compliment to john durham. this is one tough cookie. his job was to go after official misconduct that was a big priority for that office. you may remember, he sent to jail the republican governor of connecticut. that s how tough this guy is. appointed by a republican president. didn t stop him from doing the right thing, this is an explosive report. be interesting to see, to read it all and look at it and hear more about it. it s damning of the leadership of james comey and the attorney general of the united states under barack obama. martha: karl, there s so much egg on the media right now that pushed this story and enabled it over and over again without doing the kind of fact checking that it required. given the magnitude of what they
andy mccarthy for rolling with this. we have this copy that is was made available to fox news by a member of congress and sent to fox digital. we are getting a look inside it. let s go to david spunt who is standing by. hi, david. from the justice department, we know attorney general merrick garland received this report from special counsel, john durham last friday. garland read it with his team. we re told by the senior doj official. he didn t take anything out or didn t add anything to this 306 pages. directly transmitted it to capitol hill and now we know the report is public. it s important that we go back to the years when this happened. 2016, 2017. a very volatile time in this country no doubt. so when we hear about the fbi, we re hearing about under the leadership of then fbi director james comey. the fbi out with a new
this is the fbi statement. the conduct in 2016 and 17, that special counsel durham examine temperatured reason the current fbi leadership implemented dozens of corrective actions which have now been in place for some time. had those reforms been in place, the missteps could have been prevented. i m summarizing there. karl, thank you very much. what a story this is. that s the story for today. i ll see you tonight on the five. neil: the fbi went too far, a special counsel saying the fbi had no reason to launch a probe of donald trump and a possible russian connection to his election. that s the john durham report and the revelations are stunning. they point to a bureaucratic jihad against the former president at a time when he was just trying to get established as president. that was then. the revelations in this report and whether or not the fbi went