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
gps. not necessarily when the investigation was going on but you could reasonably assume she had relationships there. but when they cut off steele as a source of information for the fbi, did i hear you right that multiple times the fbi seemed to warmly receive feedback from steele through ore? we identified 13 occasions. and so this guy on the org chartuy that s up here working r the deputy attorney general never communicated with any of his staff or any of his superiors that he was doing this. that s wacorrect. probably because if he asked for approval, he wouldn t have gotten that s essentially what he said. so he wanted to apologize instead of ask for approval. now, what the american people need tono know is these aren t people that aren t walking down the hallway and in the meeting with the directory of the fbi. i mean, lisa page right here is on this org chart. she s the special counsel to andye mccabe. as a matter of fact, it looks like strzok and page were in the o
i had to septemberd a message. if he asked me to do something i m actually going to go do it. i m not a politician, chris. i m going to be an entrepreneurial business executive that s going to try to inject some accountability into the system and what i told the people that work forme in the communication the department rjt i would like the leaks to stop. now all of the cynics around here and the tweets saying the leaks are never to go going to stop. you say you are acorrect. the but if i can dial back the leaks in h the department that i am representing and the department that i am running, then i will feel i ve accomplished something on behalf of our president. i don t think i can stop the leaks senior people that are leaking on each other. i would tell my 0 colleagues to stop doing that. the it eembarrassing and makes you look very small when you re leaking on your colleagues. that s not good team sports. i also told the guys in the