Andrew McCabe testifies before Senate Judiciary

THREE YEAH. ALL THE- OKAY. THERE'S A LOT OF. OKAY. HEY WELCOME EVERYBODY. I THINK WE HAVE SOME REPUBLICANS THAT OF LEADERSHIP ELECTION WITH EARLY COMING IN. CAN YOU SAY YOU CAN HEAR IS WORKING. WELL THE ELECTION IS. THERE STILL THE VOTES AND MAY LEAVING TO AND ONE ALL THE CHANNEL REMAIN IN. THE VOTERS CANADA WILL HAVE THAT ON. WITH GOT TO WELL RACE ENJOY TURNED THE CAN THE SENATE. AT THE COMMITTEE WILL KEEP MOVING FOR DOING IT THIS WAY. WE HAVE NEXT WEEK- SOCIAL MEDIA OVERSIGHT. I CAN'T WAIT TO. HAVE THE S. SOCIAL MEDIA SCO DOES COUNT AS THE CANADIAN EXPLAIN THEMSELVES ABOUT THEIR PLATFORMS SO THE STANDARD AND SEVENTEENTH AND- THERE'S A LOT ABOUT HORSES I'LL TAKE A HARD LOOK AT SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS THE EARNED ACT IS- STILL THIS ISN'T IT INFINITELY CANADIAN AFTER HEARING WILL WILL HAVE MARKUP. BUT TODAY WE MANAGEMENT KATIE YEAH NUMBER TWO THE F. B. I. CROSS HURRICANE HE AND HE'S ON A HERE REMOTE. MORE SO TIM SCOTT IN WHEN I'LL DO IS AN INCREASE AT LEAST. BECAUSE HURTING AND LOOKED AT. IN THE ACTIONS THE GENERAL'S REPORT FAST SAID. POLICY VIOLATIONS REGARDING THE WAY THE CROSS OUR HURRICANE OPERATION WAS PERFORMED THE FIVE COURT- BASICALLY REBUKE THE FBI AND THE DEPARTMENT JUSTICE. ALREADY WARM APPLICATION MAY AGAIN IS CARTER PAGE. EVERY PERSON THAT WE TALKED TO BEEN ABLE TO GET A HOLD OF. HAS SAID I KNEW THEN WHAT I KNOW NOW I WOULD NOT SIGN THE CLERK PAGE ONE APPLICATION WILL TAKE THAT TOPIC. MR MCKAY. AND CATERPILLARS. OF POLITICAL PEOPLE WITH THE CANADIANS TO LOOK LONG HARD CRITICISM TO THE RULES OF THE ROAD. THIS WON'T BE THE LAST TIME FOR GOVERNMENTS TRYING TO INTERFERE IN OUR ELECTION. AND THE RUSSIANS DID FOR SURE. TRY TO INTERFERE IN THE TWENTY SIXTEEN ELECTION WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENED IN TWENTY TWENTY. BUT ALSO YOU GOT TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE INVOLVED IN INVESTIGATING CAMPAIGNS. HAVE A EVEN HAND ABOUT IT AND THAT WHATEVER BIASES THEY HAVE DON'T SEEP INTO THE SYSTEM SO THAT ONE CAN IT GETS TREATED DIFFERENTLY THAN THE OTHER. AND WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT THAT TODAY WOULD MISTER MCKAY. THAT EVERY ALLEGATION OF THE CAMPAIGN. BEING INVOLVED WITH FOREIGN ENTITIES ARE. TRYING TO CREATE AN IMPRESSION OF INVOLVEMENT WILL FOREIGN ENTITIES NEEDS TO BE LOOKED AT NOT JUST ONE SIDE OF THE LEDGER. AND I- LOOK FORWARD TO ASKING MR MCCABE DID. DID THE FBI LIVE UP TO THAT WHEN IT CAME TO CROSSFIRE HURRICANE. AND TRY TO FIND OUT HOW THE SYSTEM GOT SO OFF THE RAILS WHEN IT CAME TO MR PAGE. AND THE WARRANT APPLICATION. SO WITH THAT I WILL LOG TURN IT OVER SENATE FEINSTEIN. THANKS VERY MUCH MR CHAIRMAN I APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS ON THE ELECTION I THINK WE ALL SHOULD BE HEARTENED BY THE RECORD PARTICIPATION THE DEDICATION OF OUR POLL WORKERS SENATE ELECTION OFFICIALS AND AS A WAY ON THIS SIDE OF THE AISLE AND I HOPE ON THE OTHER SIDE TO- IN THE RESULTS- SO. WE THANK YOU FOR CALLING THIS HEARING- IT'S PART OF YOUR EXAMINATION OF CROSSFIRE HURRICANE AND THAT'S THE AT FBI INVESTIGATION INTO RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN THE TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN ELECTION A SPECIAL COUNSEL MAHLER TOOK CONTROL OF THAT INVESTIGATION WHEN HE WAS APPOINTED IN TWO THOUSAND SEVENTEEN HE CONCLUDED THAT THERE WAS FOREIGN INTERFERENCE IN THE TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN ELECTION HE FOUND THAT RUSSIA INTERFERED QUOTE IN SWEEPING AND SYSTEMATIC FASHION END QUOTE HE ALSO UNCOVERED NUMEROUS CONTACTS BETWEEN MEMBERS OF THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND INDIVIDUALS LINKED TO RUSSIA. AND HE DETERMINED THAT THE CAMPAIGN NEW ABOUT WELCOMED END QUOTE EXPECTED IT WOULD BENEFIT ELECTORALLY AND QUOTE FROM RUSSIA'S INTERFERENCE THE SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE ON WHICH I SIT CONFIRMED WHAT MOLARS FINDINGS IN A BIPARTISAN REPORT THE REPORT DETAILS RUSSIA'S TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN INTO. AND HOW TRUMP CAMPAIGN MEMBERS WERE INVOLVED THAT INCLUDES CAMPAIGN MANAGER PAUL MANAFORT WHOSE TIES TO RUSSIA MADE HIM IN THE COMMITTEE'S WORDS QUOTE A GRAVE COUNTER INTELLIGENCE THREAT. THESE INVESTIGATIONS MAKE CLEAR THAT THE FBI WAS RIGHT TO INVESTIGATE RUSSIAN ELECTION INTERFERENCE AND THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN'S TIES TO RUSSIA. INSPECTOR GENERAL MICHAEL HOROWITZ ALSO CONFIRMED THAT THE FBI WAS RIGHT TO INVESTIGATE AFTER A TWO YEAR INVESTIGATION HE CONCLUDED THAT THE FBI WAS JUSTIFIED IN OPENING CROSSFIRE HURRICANE. AND THAT THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE THAT THE POLITICAL BIAS IMPACT DID THE BUREAU'S WORK NONE OF THE FOURTEEN WITNESSES THE COMMITTEE HAS HEARD FROM DURING THE CHAIRMAN'S INVESTIGATION HAVE PROVIDED EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY. SO WHERE ARE WE MORE THAN FOUR YEARS HAVE PASSED SINCE THE FBI OPENED CROSSFIRE HURRICANE AND MULTIPLE INVESTIGATIONS HAVE CONFIRMED THAT THE FBI WAS CORRECT TO DO SO. SO I THINK MR CHAIRMAN IT'S TIME TO TURN THE PAGE ON CROSSFIRE HURRICANE I'M GRATEFUL TO FBI DIRECTOR WRAY AND THE CAREER MEN AND WOMEN OF THE FBI WHO WORKED HARD TO SECURE OUR COUNTRY AND ITS SELECTIONS THEY INCLUDE FBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR ANDREW MCCABE WHO I LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM TODAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH MR CHAIRMAN THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I STAND IS MISS MCCABE ARE YOU WITH US. MR MCCABE. COULD YOU SPEAK UP PLEASE SIR. THE SORRY WE'RE NOT GETTING ANY SOUND. BEAR WITH US MR MCCABE WE'LL SEE IF WE CAN IN THE JUSTICE. HELLO CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW YES THANK YOU. VERY MUCH- REGISTER IS ALWAYS THE TESTS ON ABOUT ITS KNEES THE TRIGGER THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT TRUTH IS. I DO THINK GET IT WOULD I SAY NINETY YOU ARE JUST. YES YOU'RE HAVING OPENING THAT I WOULD LIKE TO READ. NEW PLACE GO AHEAD. OKAY CHAIRMAN GRAHAM RANKING MEMBER FEINSTEIN AND DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO TESTIFY TODAY I HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO SERVE AS AN FBI AGENT FOR OVER TWENTY ONE YEARS FOR MY FIRST ASSIGNMENT WORKING RUSSIAN ORGANIZED CRIME I'M IN NEW YORK CITY TO THE LAST YEARS I SPENT AS DEPUTY DIRECTOR AT FBI HEADQUARTERS. I HAVE WORKED WITH THE GREATEST PEOPLE ON EARTH. MEN AND WOMEN DEDICATED THEIR LIVES PROTECTING THE COUNTRY AS AGENTS ANALYSTS AND PROFESSIONAL STAFF MEMBERS OF THE FBI. I KNOW F. B. I. PEOPLE AS HARD WORKING DEDICATED PATRIOTS. WE'RE COMMITTED TO THE RULE OF LAW ABOVE ALL ELSE THE JOBS ARE HARD SOMETIMES DANGEROUS AND OFTEN THEY ARE PUSHED BEYOND THE LIMITS OF THEIR EXPERIENCE INTO VOLATILE UNPREDICTABLE SITUATIONS. FBI PERSONNEL ARE NOT PERFECT. WHEN THEY MAKE MISTAKES THEY SUBMIT TO THE RIGORS OF OVERSIGHT AND REMAIN COMMITTED TO LEARNING AND GETTING IT RIGHT THE NEXT TIME. I WAS HONORED TO BE ONE OF THEM I WAS HONORED TO LEAD THEM AND I AM HONORED TO DISCUSS OUR WORK TODAY. AGREED TO TESTIFY TODAY ABOUT MY KNOWLEDGE OF EVENTS RELATED TO THE US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT ENTITLED. REVIEW OF FOR FISA APPLICATIONS AND OTHER ASPECTS OF THE FBI'S CROSSFIRE HURRICANE INVESTIGATION AND THE INVESTIGATION INTO RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN THE TWENTY SIXTEEN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. BECAUSE I WAS NOT PERMITTED TO CONSULT THE DOCUMENTS THAT MAY HAVE REFRESHED MY MEMORY TO INCLUDE MY PERSONAL NOTES AND MY CALENDAR. I MAY NOT BE AS PRECISE AND ACCURATE AS I OTHERWISE WOULD BE. SHOULD THE COMMITTEES FLEXIBILITY IN CONDUCTING THIS HEARING VIRTUALLY RATHER THAN IN PERSON. WELL I CAN CONTINUE TO BELIEVE IN IN PERSON APPEARANCE. IS A BETTER VEHICLE FOR A FAIR AND VIGOROUS OVERSIGHT HEARING THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE CODE NINETEEN PANDEMIC COMPELS ME. TO BE EXTREMELY CAUTIOUS ABOUT WHERE I GO AND WHATEVER I DO. MY WIFE IS A FRONTLINE FIRST RESPONDERS WHO TAKES CARE OF CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES IN OUR LOCAL EMERGENCY ROOM. I TRY TO AVOID UNNECESSARY CHANCES OF POTENTIAL EXPOSURE THAT MIGHT PUT HER AT RISK AND POSSIBLY ENDANGER HER ABILITY TO CONTINUE CARING FOR OUR COMMUNITY. IN JULY OF TWENTY SIXTEEN THE FBI INITIATED AN INVESTIGATION NAMED CROSSFIRE HURRICANE TO DETERMINE WHETHER AN INDIVIDUAL OR INDIVIDUALS FROM THE TRUMP PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. MIGHT BE COORDINATING WITH THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT TO INTERFERE WITH OUR TWENTY SIXTEEN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. THE CONCERNS THAT LED TO OUR INITIATION OF THIS CASE ARE WELL KNOWN. IN THE FALL OF TWENTY FOURTEEN THE FBI HAD BEGUN TRACKING CYBER ACTORS AFFILIATED WITH RUSSIA. WHO WERE TARGETING US POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS ACADEMIC THINK TANKS AND OTHER ENTITIES IN THE SPRING OF TWENTY SIXTEEN. ACTIVITY INTENSIFIED AS NEW RUSSIAN CYBER ACTORS INVADED COMPUTER NETWORKS AT THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE. AT THE TIME WE DID NOT KNOW WHAT THEY PLAN TO DO WITH THE INFORMATION THEY WERE STEALING FROM THE DNC BUT SOON WE FOUND OUT. IN JULY TWENTY SIXTEEN RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE AGENTS ACTING THROUGH THE ONLINE ALIAS GUSA FOR TWO POINT OUT PUBLISHED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF EMAILS AND OTHER INFORMATION STOLEN FROM THE DNC. WITH THE INTENT OF DAMAGING HILLARY CLINTON ON THE EVE OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION. IS MALICIOUS USE OF STOLEN INFORMATION SIGNALED A NEW LEVEL OF HOSTILITY DIRECTED AT THE HEART OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. SEVERAL MONTHS BEFORE THIS RELEASE AN UNKNOWN TO THE FBI AT THAT TIME. FOREIGN POLICY ADVISER TO THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN GEORGE PAPADOPOULOS INFORMED A DIPLOMAT FROM FRIENDLY FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS BUT THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN HAD QUOTE RECEIPT INDICATIONS FROM THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT THAT IT COULD ASSIST THE CAMPAIGN. TO THE ANONYMOUS RELEASE OF INFORMATION THAT WOULD BE DAMAGING TO HILLARY CLINTON CLOSE QUOTE. IT WAS ONLY AFTER THE DNC INFORMATION WAS PUBLICLY RELEASED IN JULY AT THE DIPLOMATIC COMMUNICATED THE CONTENT OF HIS CONVERSATION WITH PAPADOPOULOS TO THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. SO WHAT DID WE KNOW IN JULY TWENTY SIXTEEN WELL WE HAD KNOWN FOR ALMOST TWO YEARS THAT THE RUSSIANS WERE TARGETING OUR POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS IN CYBERSPACE BY THE SPRING OF TWENTY SIXTEEN WE KNEW THE RUSSIANS AND STOLEN INFORMATION FROM THE DNC. I JULY WE KNEW THE RUSSIANS AND USE THAT INFORMATION IN A MANNER DESIGNED TO HURT HILLARY CLINTON'S CHANCES IN THE ELECTION. AND THEN WE LEARNED THAT FOR THE RUSSIANS ATTACKED US IN INDIVIDUAL FROM THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN MAY HAVE KNOWN ITAK WAS COMING. F. B. I. POLICY SETS THE THRESHOLD FOR OPENING A FULL FIELD INVESTIGATION AS THE MOMENT WHEN YOU HAVE INFORMATION OR CHARGEABLE FACTS. THAT INDICATE A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY MIGHT EXIST WITHOUT A FEDERAL CRIME MIGHT HAVE BEEN COMMITTED. IN JULY OF TWENTY SIXTEEN WE HAD BOTH. RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES ATTACKING OUR DEMOCRATIC PROCESS POSSIBLY IN COORDINATION. WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. WE OPEN THE CASE TO INVESTIGATE AND TRY TO MITIGATE THAT THREAT AND TO FIND OUT WHAT THE RUSSIANS MIGHT HAVE DONE. LET ME BE VERY CLEAR. WE DID NOT OPEN THE CASE BECAUSE WE LIKED ONE CANDIDATE OR DIDN'T LIKE THE OTHER ONE. WE DID NOT OPEN THE CASE BECAUSE WE INTENDED TO STAGE A COUP OR OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT. WE DID NOT OPEN A CASE BECAUSE WE THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE INTERESTING. BECAUSE WE WANTED TO DRAG THE FBI INTO HEATED POLITICAL CONTEST. IN THE CASE TO FIND OUT HOW THE RUSSIANS MIGHT BE UNDERMINING OUR ELECTION. WE OPEN THE CASE BECAUSE IT WAS OUR OBLIGATION AND OUR DUTY TO DO SO WE DID OUR JOB. YOU IG'S REVIEWER FOR FISA APPLICATIONS AND OTHER ASPECTS OF THE FBI THIS CROSSFIRE HURRICANE INVESTIGATION DETAILS A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF ERRORS AND FAILURES RELATED TO THE FISA APPLICATIONS IN THIS CASE. I AGREE TO BE INTERVIEWED IN CONNECTION WITH THE IG'S INVESTIGATION AND I HAVE REVIEWED THE REPORT. I WAS SHOCKED AND DISAPPOINTED THAT THE ERRORS AND MISTAKES BUT THE- I. G. FOUND. TO ME ANY MATERIAL MISREPRESENTATION OR ERROR IN THE FISA APPLICATION IS UNACCEPTABLE PERIOD. YES THE I SHOULD BE HELD TO THE STANDARD OF SCRUPULOUS ACCURACY BUT THE COURT DEMANDS SIZE REMAINS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TOOLS IN OUR COUNTRY'S EFFORTS TO PROTECT NATIONAL SECURITY. THE FBI IS THE CUSTODIAN OF THAT TOOL I FULLY SUPPORT EVERY EFFORT TO ENSURE THE FBI'S USE OF FIZER MAINTAINS THAT HIGH STANDARDS THE COURT AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DEMAND AND DESERVE. THIS COMMITMENT TO THE RULE OF LAW ETHNOLOGY OUR MISTAKES AND DOING EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO ENSURE THAT THEY ARE CORRECTED. WELL THESE ARE THE REASONS I AM HERE TODAY. THEY'RE THE SAME REASONS I HAVE COOPERATED FULLY WITH EVERY INTERVIEW HEARING AN OVERSIGHT EFFORT REQUESTED OF ME. BOTH WHILE I SERVED AND SINCE I'VE LEFT THE FBI. HAVE PROVIDED TESTIMONY TO FOUR DIFFERENT CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES ON THESE AND RELATED MATTERS. I'VE BEEN INTERVIEWED IN CONNECTION WITH THE SPECIAL COUNSEL'S INVESTIGATION AS WELL AS THREE SEPARATE DOJ OIG INVESTIGATIONS. SUBMITTING TO QUESTIONING AND REVIEWING DOCUMENTS OVER THE EQUIVALENT OF SEVEN FULL BUSINESS STATE'S. EFFORT TO PROVIDE THIS COMMITTEE WITH THE MOST COMPLETE ACCURATE TESTIMONY POSSIBLE. I REQUESTED THE FBI ALLOW ME TO REVIEW SOME OF MY FORMER MATERIALS INCLUDING MY CALENDARS AND PERSONAL NOTES. THAT REQUEST WAS DENIED. FORTUNATELY THE BROAD SCOPE OF THESE MATTERS IN THE PASSAGE OF TIME MAKES MANY OF THE DETAILS OF OUR WORK HARD TO REMEMBER. I WILL DO MY BEST TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS TODAY. BUT IT WILL NOT SPECULATE OR GUESS ABOUT DETAILS AND FACTS THAT NOW REMAIN BEYOND MY REACH WITHOUT THE BENEFIT OF REFRESHING MY RECOLLECTION. FACED ON THE RECENT TESTIMONY THE CURRENT FBI DIRECTOR AND OTHER INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS IT SEEMS THAT MANY OF THE SAME SIGNS OF MALEVOLENT RUSSIAN TARGETING THAT WE THAT CONCERNED US IN TWENTY SIXTEEN. WERE SEEN IN THE RUN UP TO THE ELECTION WE JUST COMPLETED. AS BOTH OF FORMER CAREER LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER. AND A SENIOR INTELLIGENCE OFFICER. THERE'S NO A- FIVE BIG. WE'RE A IN THIS IN FORTY. TO COMPLETE READ OUR- YES. I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH THE IMPORTANCE OF FOCUSING YOUR EFFORTS AND ATTENTION OF THIS NATION ON THE DANGERS OF FOREIGN INFLUENCE ON OUR ELECTION. ACTIONS WERE SUCCESSFUL BEYOND OUR WILDEST IMAGINATION ACCOMPLISHING THEIR GOALS IN TWENTY SIXTEEN. THEIR SUCCESSES SERVICE ENCOURAGEMENT OTHER HOSTILE NATIONS INTENT ON UNDERMINING OUR SECURITY SAFETY AND STABILITY. THE RUSSIANS AND OTHERS WILL BE BACK PLEASE DO NOT LET THE RECENT COMP OF THE TWENTY TWENTY ELECTION WE'RE THE NATION. INTO A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY. IT IS UP TO YOU TO ENSURE THE NATION RECOGNIZES THE MAGNITUDE OF THE THREAT POSED BY FOREIGN ACTORS AND TAKE SUFFICIENTLY AGGRESSIVE STEPS TO ADDRESS IT. WITH THAT I'M HAPPY TO TAKE YOUR QUESTIONS. FOR OREGON QUESTIONING ONE OF THE REASONS HE'S NOT ABLE TO REVIEW ITS NOTES IS THAT THE F. B. I. DO NOT WANT HIM TO HAVE ACCESS TO CLASSIFIED INFORMATION. CORONAVIRUSMAY IT WOULD NOT GO INTO DETAILS OF HIS DISMISSAL BUT I DON'T WANT ANYBODY TO HAVE THE LEAD AT THIS IS TO MAKE ANY CHANGES AND I. S. S. IT WAS HIS FORMER EMPLOYER FROM MAINTENANCE. OF NOW. WE'RE QUICKLY DID ANY FROM THE CAMPAIGN ONE OF THE BEING PROCESSED FOR COLLUDING WITH THE RUSSIANS. SENATOR IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THE RESULTS OF THE MODELER INVESTIGATION THAT NO ONE WAS PROSECUTED FOR CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY INVOLVING- EXACTLY WHAT THAT WOULD INCLUDE MR PAPADOPOULOS IS THAT CORRECT. MR PAPADOPOULOS TO THE BEST OF MY RECOLLECTION WAS PROSECUTED FOR MAKING FALSE STATEMENTS TO AFRICA AGENTS THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT LET'S MAKE SURE THAT THE FBI TREATED BOTH SIDES FAIRLY- SENATE FEINSTEIN SUGGESTED IT WAS RIGHT TO OPEN UP THE INVESTIGATION YES THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN YOU SAY IT WAS RIGHT IT WAS YOUR DUTY. LET'S LOOK AT THE ENTIRE RECORD OF THE TWENTY SIXTEEN ELECTION AND SEE HOW EVEN HANDED THE FBI WAS. ON SEPTEMBER THE SEVENTH TWENTY SIXTEEN THE CIA NO NOT THE AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR THE UNITED KINGDOM. IN LONDON BUT OUR CIA SINCE AN INVESTIGATIVE LEAD OVER TO THE FBI. AND THEY INFORMED THE FBI OF US PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE HILLARY CLINTON'S APPROVAL OF A PLAN CONCERNING US PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DONALD TRUMP AND RUSSIAN HACKERS HAMPERING US ELECTIONS AS A MEANS OF DISTRACTING THE PUBLIC. FROM HER USE OF A PRIVATE MAIL SERVICE. HOW MANY AGENTS WERE ASSIGNED TO INVESTIGATE THAT. SENATOR IF YOU ARE REFERRING TO THE MEMORANDUM THE RAW INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM RECENTLY DECLASSIFIED BY THE D. AND I YEAH. YEAH I HAVE READ THAT MEMORANDUM AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT TO BE A REQUEST FOR INVESTIGATIVE ACTIVITY I'M NOT AWARE THAT ANY AGENTS WERE ASSIGNED TO INVESTIGATE THE WAY TO MAKE SURE ONE TIME OUT TIME OUT YOU GET AND YOU GET. A MEMO AN INVESTIGATIVE LEAD WHAT THE CIA CALLS IT. ALLEGING THAT HILLARY CLINTON HAD JUST SIGNED UP ON A PLAN TO TALK TRUMP TO RUSSIA FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES HOW MANY PEOPLE LOOKED AT THAT HOW MANY AGENTS WERE ASSIGNED TO SEE IF IT WAS TRUE OR NOT. DID YOU KNOW DID YOU KNOW ABOUT IT. I WAS NOT AWARE OF THAT MEMORANDUM WAIT UNTIL TIME OUT TIME OUT TIME OUT. YOU GET A CIA MEMO INVESTIGATIVE LEAD MEMO SUGGESTING THAT THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT HILLARY CLINTON IS TRYING TO DIVERT ATTENTION FROM HER EMAIL SERVER PROBLEM. BY CASTING ASPERSIONS AGAINST THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN BEING CONNECTED TO RUSSIA AND YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE. CHAD LIKE TO EXPLAIN TO YOU HOW THAT'S POSSIBLE WHO DID IT GO TO WHO DID IT GO TO. I WILL HOURS OR MAKE SURE HE UNDERSTANDS WENT TO HER DIDN'T MEMO GOES. I HAVE I RECENTLY I READ THE MEMO RECENTLY MY UNDERSTANDING IT WOULD TO THE- TO DIRECTOR CALL ME AND WAS ALSO TO THE ATTENTION OF PETER STROCK. THAT MEMORANDUM THAT YOU'RE REFERRING TO AS I READ IT IS IN RESPONSE TO A F. B. I. REQUEST ORAL REQUEST. FOR AN UPDATE OF THE SORT OF INFORMATION THAT THE CROSSFIRE. HURRICANE TASKFORCE WAS REVIEWING ABOUT RUSSIAN. ACTIVITY IN THE CAMPAIGN THAT'S FROM MY BEST RECOLLECTION THAT'S NOT WHAT I'M- I'M HERE TO TELL YOU THAT THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED IS THAT THE CIA AND WE'VE GOT THE DOCUMENTS SENT TO THE FBI. INFORMATION SUGGESTING THAT HILLARY CLINTON HAD APPROVED OF A PLAN. TO LINK DONALD TRUMP TO RUSSIA FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES AND IT WENT TO PETER STRUCK DEEPLY PETER STRUCK WAS FAIR MINDED WHEN IT CAME TO THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN. SENATE MY EXPERIENCES WORKING WITH PETER STRUCK- YES I BELIEVE HE WAS FAIR AND THE DECISIONS THAT HE MADE THE WORK THAT HE DID. SO DO YOU OBJECT TO MULLER RELIEVING HIM FROM THE INVESTIGATION BECAUSE OF THE EMAILS SHOW THAT HE HATED TRUMP'S GUTS. MY RECOLLECTION STIRS THAT. WE REMOVED PETER FROM THAT TEAM- BECAUSE OF THE ONGOING INVESTIGATION AND IT IS REMOVING MY VALERIE MOVEMENT. YEAH WE HAD CONVERSATIONS- ON THE EVENING THAT I IT WAS FIRST SHOWN THE TEXT MESSAGES BETWEEN MR STRZOK IN THIS PAGE. AND WE MADE THE DECISION TO REMOVE HIM AND REACHED OUT TO- RIGHTS DIRECTOR COLORS TEAM AND THEY AGREED WITH THAT THAT'S MY RECOLLECTION SO YOU BELIEVE THAT PETER STRZOK WAS ON THE UP AND UP WERE YOU EVER WAS IT EVER SUGGESTED TO YOU BY MR PRECEPT THAT MR STRUCTURE NOT BE INVOLVED. IN THIS INVESTIGATION BECAUSE HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH LISA PAGE. SENATE TO THE- I REMEMBER DISCUSSING WITH- BOLTON THIS PRE. AND MR STEINBACH- SO HERE'S A LINK IN THE FAX THREE SET UP SUGGESTED STRUCK NOT BE INVOLVED YOU OVERRODE HIM AND HERE'S WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT. STRUCK IN PAGE PAGE MARCH THIRD TWENTY SIX THANK GOD TRUMP IS A LOATHSOME HUMAN. ALL MY GOD STRUCK TRUMP'S AT EIGHTY HE'S AWFUL STRZOK GOD HILLARY SHOULD WIN A HUNDRED MILLION TO NOTHING. AUGUST TWENTY SIXTEEN PAGE HE'S NOT EVER GOING TO BECOME PRESIDENT RIGHT STRUCK NO NO HE WON'T WILL STOP IT. SO IS IT YOUR TESTIMONY UNDER OATH THAT YOU THINK PETER STRUCK. I HAD NO BIASES AGAINST TRUMP. SENATOR IT IS MY TESTIMONY UNDER OATH THAT THE WORK THAT I SAW PETER STRUCK DO ON THE CROSSFIRE CASE AND ON OTHER CASES WHY DID NOT TAKE. NEED GOOD CENTER DOT I'M HAVING A HARD TIME FINISHING AN ANSWER I DON'T KNOW LEADS PLEASE ACTION OR WHAT AT LEAST FINISH. SO SIMPLY STATING THAT THE WORK THAT I SAW PETER DO ON THIS CASE AND OTHER CASES FROM THAT WORK IN THE DECISIONS HE MADE I DID NOT SEE ANY INDICATIONS OF POLITICAL BIAS DID YOU HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. THAT WHEN THE FBI RECEIVED A MEMO FROM THE CIA ALLEGING THAT HILLARY CLINTON HAD SIGNED OFF ON A PLANNED CONCERNING US PRESIDENTIAL DONALD TRUMP AND RUSSIA HACKERS HAMPERING US ELECTIONS AS A MEANS OF DISTRACTING THE PUBLIC FROM OUR USE OF A PRIVATE MAIL SERVICE. THAT YOU DID NOTHING SHOULD PETER STRUCK HAVE TOLD YOU ABOUT THIS. I CAN'T EXPLAIN TO YOU SENATOR WHAT PETER STRUCK OR DIRECTOR CALL ME THOUGHT ABOUT THAT MEMO BACK TO SHOULD YOU HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED JAMES WHAT I CAN SAY SENATE RIGHT AND THERE'S NOT WHITE AMID I DON'T RALLY PLEASE PLEASE I WANT TO GET INTO THIS. EVERYBODY IS SAYING THAT YOU HAD THE RIGHT TO OPEN UP AN INVESTIGATION AGAINST TRUMP. BASED ON THE US AMBASSADOR TO THE EXCUSE ME THE AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED KINGDOM WHO HEARD A CONVERSATION IN A BAR. WHAT YOU'RE TELLING THIS COMMITTEE WHEN THE CIA INFORMANTS THE FBI ABOUT A PLAN SIGNED OFF BY HILLARY CLINTON TO LINK TRUMP TO RUSSIA NOTHING WAS DONE IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. THERE WAS NO INVESTIGATION OF THAT ALLEGATION AT ALL. WHAT I'M SAYING CERTAIN CENTER IS IT IS NOT CLEAR TO ME THAT THERE IS AN ALLEGATION OF CRIMINAL CONDUCT IN THAT MEMORANDUM THAT IS BASED ON MY CURRENT READING OF IT I DID NOT SEE IT AT THE TIME I CAN'T IT'S NOT. A COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATION IS WHAT WAS OPENED UP AGAINST TRUMP NOT A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION IS THAT TRUE. PAPADOPOULOS WAS A COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATION. THE CASE AGAINST MR PAPADOPOULOS WAS A COUNTERINTELLIGENCE K. SO IF YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATION OPENED UP AGAINST THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN BASED ON OUR CONVERSATION BY THE AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED KINGDOM BASED ON A BAR CONVERSATION YOU'RE TELLING ME THAT SLOW JET. AND YOU PUT ALL THE RESOURCES FOR TWO AND A HALF YEARS RUN THAT DOWN BUT YOU'RE TELLING THIS COMMITTEE WHEN OUR OWN CIA SUGGESTS THAT HILLARY CLINTON SIGNED OFF ON A PLAN TO LINK TRUMP TO RUSSIA FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES YOU DIDN'T DO A THING IS THAT YOUR TESTIMONY. NO SIR THAT'S NOT MY TESTIMONY WILL WHAT HAPPENED STILL GOING. OUT I'M HAPPY TO EXPLAIN TO YOU HOW WE THOUGHT ABOUT THE ISSUE WITH MR PAPADOPOULOS NO THAT'S NOT MY QUESTION NO MY QUESTION IS. WHY DID THE F. B. ACT NOT OPEN UP AN INVESTIGATION BASED ON THE CIAM PUT THE CIA IS TELLING THE FBI THAT THEY HAVE INFORMATION HILLARY CLINTON SIGNED OFF A PLAN TO DEFLECT ATTENTION FOR. INPUT TRUMP IN A BAD LIGHT REGARDING RUSSIA THAT CAME IN SEPTEMBER TWENTY SIX THINGS. YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT APPARENTLY CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO THIS COMMITTEE IN AMERICAN PEOPLE WHAT THE FBI DID NOTHING REGARDING THAT ALLEGATION. I CANNOT SIR EXPLAINS TO YOU. WHAT PETER STRUCKER ANYONE ELSE THOUGHT ABOUT THAT AT THE TIME BUT I CAN EXPLAIN TO YOU. THAT'S YOUR INFORMATION IN THAT MEMO I ACCEPT THAT YOU BELIEVE THAT MR PAPPA DOPPLER SHOULD BE LOOKED AT I'M NOT ARGUING WITH YOU. I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW YOU CAN TELL HOW THE FBI OPERATED. YOU'VE GOT A TIP FROM A AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR THE UNITED KINGDOM. TALKING ABOUT A BAR CONVERSATION WITH MR PAPPA DOCKLESS ABOUT RUSSIA HACKING AND THAT LEADS TO TWO AND A HALF YEARS OF TURNING THE COUNTRY UPSIDE DOWN. YOUR OWN CIA INFORMS THE F. B. I. IN SEPTEMBER THAT THEY HAVE INFORMATION THAT HILLARY CLINTON HERSELF SIGNED OFF ON A PLAN TO DIVERT ATTENTION FROM HER EMAIL PROBLEMS TO TROT BY LINKING HIM TO RUSSIA FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES. AND MR STRUCK NEVER TOLD YOU ABOUT IT THE FBI NEVER OPEN UP AN INVESTIGATION THEY NEVER HIRED ONE AGENT THAT REALLY IS DISTURBING TO A LOT OF US. NOW LET'S GO TO THE WARRANT IN JUNE TWENTY SIXTEEN SKEWS ME TWENTY SEVENTEEN DID YOU SIGN OFF ON THE CARTER PAGE ONE APPLICATION. IN JUNE OF TWENTY SIXTEEN YES SEVENTEEN I'M SORRY SEVENTEEN I'M SORRY TWENTY SEVENTY OKAY. DID YOU KNOW AT THE TIME THAT THE CIA- WARNED. THE FBI ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS TO BE CAREFUL USING THE DOSSIER IT WAS INTERNET RUMOR. I DID NOT KNOW THAT AT THE TIME AND I'M I DON'T KNOW THAT NOW OKAY WELL WE GOT A LIST OF. A C. LIST OF C. A. INFORMS THE FBO THAT FBI THAT CARTER PAGE HAD APPROVED. HAD BEEN APPROVED AS AN OPERATIONAL CONTACT FROM 200-082-2013 DID YOU KNOW THAT THE CIA HAD TOLD THE FBI THAT IN AUGUST OF TWENTY SEVENTEEN. YES SIR. THE REASON THAT'S IMPORTANT THAT WOULD EXPLAIN WHY MR PAGE WAS ACTUALLY TALKING TO PEOPLE WHO CLAIM TO BE TALKING WITH DID YOU KNOW. DID YOU HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH MR OR ABOUT THE RELIABILITY OF CHRISTOPHER STEELE. I HAD A CONVERSATION IN OCTOBER OF. TWENTY SIXTEEN ABOUT WITH MR OR ABOUT HIS INTERACTIONS WITH- MISTER STEELE DID HE TELL YOU SHOULD BE CONCERNED TO BE CAREFUL. I DON'T REMEMBER HIM SAYING I SHOULD BE CONCERNED OR BICKER IN THE FALL OF TWENTY SIXTEEN THIS IS TEST MARKETING COMMITTEE YOU PUT MR K. BONUS HEY YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS YOU NEED TO VERIFY. I CERTAINLY GAVE HIM THE SAME CABBIE ODDS IN THE CABBIE OUTS WERE THAT STILL HATED TRUMP. YES YOUR CONCERNS YES WHAT DID WHAT DID YOU SAY WHEN YOU TOLD THEM THAT YOU WERE CONCERNED ABOUT YOU NEED TO BE CAREFUL FOR LACK OF A BETTER TERM. I THINK HE UNDERSTOOD BECAUSE HE ALSO WORKED ON RUSSIA CRIMINAL MATTERS SO WE HAVE MISTER OR UNDER OF SAYING THAT EXPRESS CONCERNS DO YOU STRUCK AND OTHERS ABOUT THE RELIABILITY OF MR STILL YOU DON'T REMEMBER THAT. SENATOR I DON'T REMEMBER THE SPECIFICS OF OUR CONVERSATION HOWEVER WE WERE ENGAGED IN TRYING TO DETERMINE- AND VERIFY THE STATEMENTS AND MR STEELE'S REPORTING AT THAT TIME SO K. CERTAINLY CONCERNED ABOUT THOSE THINGS. WERE YOU AWARE OF THE SUBS WORST INTERVIEW IN JANUARY AND MARCH. TO THE FBI WAS AWARE THAT- AND INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE TEAM THOUGHT OF AS- ONE OF THE PRIMARY SOME SOURCES HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AND THAT THEY WERE INTERVIEWED DID THEY TELL YOU ABOUT THE SUBSTANCE OF THOSE INTERVIEWS. BUT NOT IN DETAIL SO YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT IN JANUARY THE SUB SOURCE TELLS THE FBI HE HAD NO IDEA WHERE SOME OF THE LANGUAGE A TRIBUTE TO HIM CAME FROM HIS CONTACTS NEVER MENTIONED SOME OF THE INFORMATION ATTRIBUTED THEM HE SAID HE DID NOT KNOW THE ORIGINS OF OTHER INFORMATION THAT WAS SUPPOSEDLY FROM HIS CONTACTS HE DID NOT RECALL OTHER INFORMATION TRIBUTE TO HIM OR HIS CONTACTS. STILL USED INCORRECT SOURCE CHARACTER RATIONS CHARACTERIZATIONS FOR THE PROMISE OF SOURCES CONTACTS- THAT IN MARCH HE SAID HE NEVER EXPECTED TO STEAL TO PUT HIS STATEMENTS AND REPORTS ARE PRESENT THEM AS FACTS THE STATEMENTS WERE WORD OF MOUTH AND HEARSAY CONVERSATIONS HAVE BUT FRIENDS OVER BEERS OR STATEMENTS MADE IN JEST THAT SHOULD BE TAKEN WITH A GRAIN OF SALT WAS ANY OF THAT EVER COMMUNICATED TO YOU. NO SIR NOT THAT I CAN RECALL IF YOU KNEW THEN WHAT YOU KNOW NOW WOULD YOU HAVE SIGNED THE WARRANT APPLICATION. IN JUNE OF TWENTY SEVENTEEN AGAINST CARTER PAGE. I KNOW SIR GET. FINALLY WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR RUINING MR CARTER PAGE'S LIFE. IT'S NOT YOU IT'S NOT ROSENSTEIN IT'S NOT COMING IT'S NOT SALLY YATES. WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR PUTTING TOGETHER THE INFORMATION PROVIDED TO THE FISA COURT THAT WAS COMPLETELY DEVOID OF THE TRUTH LACKING MATERIAL FACTS COMPLETELY REPRESENTED WHAT MR. PAGE DID AND HOW YOU DID IT WHO SHOULD WE LOOK TO FOR THAT RESPONSIBILITY. WELL SIR I DON'T AGREE WITH THE WAY THAT YOU CHARACTERIZE THE THAT'S WHAT THE COURT SAID. I THINK IT HAS THE I. G. POINTED OUT THE CONCLUSIONS OF THAT REPORT WHO'S RESPONSIBLE MR OKAY EVERYONE WHO EVERY PERSON EVERYBODY'S RESPONSIBILITY NOBODY'S RESPONSIBLE. SURE IT WOULD HELP IF YOU DON'T ALLOW ME TO FINISH MY ANSWER I THINK IT MIGHT BE EASIER TO UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION IS WHO'S RESPONSIBLE OUR- AND I THINK THAT. WE ARE ALL RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WORK THAT WENT INTO THAT FIGHT I AM CERTAINLY RESPONSIBLE AS A PERSON IN A LEADERSHIP POSITION WITH OVERSIGHT OVER THESE MATTERS I. ACCEPT THAT RESPONSIBILITY FULLY. JIM INSULATOR. LATER DEVISE A COURT. I SIGNED A PACKAGE THAT INCLUDED- NUMEROUS FACTUAL ERRORS OR- FAIL TO INCLUDE INFORMATION THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN BROUGHT TO THE COURT AND PUSHING DOWN ON WHAT SHOULD BE DONE TO YOU AND OTHERS. WELL SENATOR I THINK WE'RE WE ARE DOING THAT WITH THIS PROCESS I THINK THE AFTER OUR EFFORTS SHOULD BE FOCUSED ON FIGURING OUT HOW THESE ERRORS TOOK PLACE IN ENSURING THAT THEY DON'T HAPPEN AGAIN. THAT STARTS WITH THOSE WHO COMMITTED THE PROBLEM BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE SENATE FINANCE ACT. WELL MISTER CHAIRMAN I HOPE YOU KNOW. IS IT THIS IS DIFFICULT. FORCES ONE HEARINGS OPEN AND THEN THEY GET OPENED AND REPORTS GET DONE AND THEN THEY GET CASTIGATED FOR DOING IT. AND IN HIS FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY FOUR PAGE REPORT. IG HOROWITZ CONFIRMED THAT THE FBI HAD A LEGITIMATE REASON TO OPEN THE CROSSFIRE HURRICANE INVESTIGATION. ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR DISAGREED WITH THE IG'S FINDINGS AS SINCE REFERRED TO IT AS THE BOGUS RUSSIAGATE SCANDAL. SO IF THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE HEARD THIS KIND OF THING HAPPENING AND- ONE WITNESS TOLD THE IG THAT QUOTE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A DERELICTION OF DUTY AND RESPONSIBILITY OF THE HIGHEST ORDER NOT TO INVESTIGATE. DO YOU AGREE WITH THAT. I'M SORRY SENATOR OUT I ABSOLUTELY AGREE THAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A DERELICTION OF DUTY FOR US DID NOT INITIATE- THE CROSSFIRE HURRICANE INVESTIGATION IN THE WORLD THAT WE GET NOW IS I UNDERSTAND IT IT WAS A COUNTER INTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATION INTO TRUMP CAMPAIGN TIES TO RUSSIA. YOU OPEN A COUNTER INTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATION INTO TRUMP HIMSELF AFTER HE FIRED FORMER FBI DIRECTOR CALL ME AND LINK COLLEAGUES TERMINATION TO THE RUSSIA INVESTIGATION I DON'T KNOW WHETHER THAT'S TRUE OR NOT I'D LIKE TO KNOW YOU SAID THAT IF THE FBI FAILED TO OPEN AN INVESTIGATION INTO TRUMP UNDER THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES WE WOULDN'T BE DOING OUR JOB I BELIEVE YOU SAID THAT ON SIXTY MINUTES. SO I THINK IT'S PRETTY CLEAR OPENING A COUNTER INTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATION INTO A PRESIDENT IS AN EXTRAORDINARY STEP. WHY DID YOU SEE IT AS NECESSARY UNDER THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES. SENATOR THERE WERE- A LOT OF THINGS THAT WERE CONCERNING US AS WE WENT THROUGH THE OPENING IN THE PROCESS OF UNDER CAESAR SAY WHAT THEY WERE I THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO THIS CONVERSATION. SURE SO WE KNEW THAT THE RUSSIANS HAVE BEEN TARGETING US WE HAD REASON TO BELIEVE BECAUSE OF THE FRIENDLY FOREIGN GOVERNMENT INFORMATION THAT THE CAMPAIGN HAD BEEN AWARE OF THAT AND MIGHT HAVE COORDINATED WITH THEM IN THOSE ACTIVITY SO THAT'S WHY WE INITIATED THE CROSS. INVESTIGATION AFTER AS WE PROCEEDED WITH THAT INVESTIGATION- WE HAD A SERIES OF ALARMING- INTERACT I SHOULD SAY DIRECTOR CALL ME HAD A SERIES OF ALARMING INTERACTIONS WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP. IN WHICH IT BECAME PRETTY CLEAR TO US THAT HE DID NOT WANT US TO CONTINUE INVESTIGATING WHAT THE RUSSIANS HAD DONE HE ACTUALLY ASKED AT ONE POINT THAT WE- STOP INVESTIGATING- GENERAL FLAN. EVENTS FIRED DIRECTOR COMEY WHEN WE SPRAY ALSO ASKED THAT WE STATE PUBLICLY THAT HE WAS NOT UNDER INVESTIGATION. WHEN WE DIDN'T DO THAT AND WE DIDN'T CLOSE THE INVESTIGATION A JOURNAL FINDS FIRED DIRECTOR COMEY. HE THEN STATED PUBLICLY THAT HE WAS IN FIRED DIRECTOR COMEY THINKING ABOUT THE RUSSIANS HE THEN TOLD THE RUSSIANS THAT HE HAD FIRED DIRECTOR CALL ME AND THAT THAT HAD RELIEVED A LOT OF PRESSURE THAT HAD BEEN ON HIM SO. WE HAD MANY REASONS AT THAT POINT TO BELIEVE. THAT THE PRESIDENT. MIGHT HIMSELF POSE A DANGER TO NATIONAL SECURITY AND THAT HE MIGHT HAVE ENGAGED IN OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE IF THE FIRING OF THE DIRECTOR IN THOSE OTHER THINGS WE'RE GEARED TOWARDS ELIMINATING OR STOPPING- OUR INVESTIGATION OF RUSSIAN ACTIVITY. SO WHAT. WAS FOUND ON THAT POINT. WELL THAT'S THE POINT- A SENATOR IN WHICH WE HANDED THE INVESTIGATION ON THIS FIRST FOR PEOPLE AND THE INVESTIGATION OF PRESIDENT TRUMP AN INVESTIGATION OF FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL SESSIONS OVER TO THE SPECIAL COUNSEL TEAM. AND I AND I THINK YOU KNOW WE ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. AT THE CONCLUSION OF THAT INVESTIGATION THE DETAILS THAT ARE PROVIDED IN THE MOTHER REPORT I THINK PROVIDE- PRETTY SOLID- RESULTS THAT THAT. VERIFY AND THAT ARE ARE CONCERNS WERE VALID- SO ACT I AM VERY CONFIDENT IN THE IN THE WORK THAT THE SPECIAL COUNSEL DID AND I THINK IT IT'S APPROVE THAT ARE CONCERNS AT THAT TIME WERE WERE- LEGITIMATE. WOULD YOU GO INTO SOME OF THOSE CONCERNS AND- WHAT THE REPORT SHOWED. SURE SO WE ARE OPEN THE INITIAL CROSSFIRE HURRICANE INVESTIGATION BECAUSE FOR DONNELLY THE STATE AND SOME GEORGE PAPADOPOULOS WHICH INDICATED THAT PEOPLE MAYBE MR PAPADOPOULOS MAYBE OTHERS AFFILIATED WITH THE CAMPAIGN MIGHT BE COORDINATING WITH RUSSIA- YOU MIGHT MY RECOLLECTION OF THE RESULTS OF THE SPECIAL COUNSEL'S INVESTIGATION IS THAT THEY FOUND I THINK IT WAS OVER A HUNDRED DIFFERENT CONNECTIONS BETWEEN PEOPLE AFFILIATED WITH FOR PART OF THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND THE RUSSIANS ARE POOR PEOPLE ASSOCIATED WITH THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES SO. CLEARLY ARE CONCERNED THAT THERE MIGHT BE CONNECTIONS HERE THAT WE SHOULD BE LOOKING INTO TO ENSURE THERE'S NO DANGER TO NATIONAL SECURITY WAS PROVEN TRUE- ON THE OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE SIDE I THINK IS. WELL KNOWN DIRECTOR MULLER CAN THAT HE COULD NOT INDICT OR RICK OR SEEK AN INDICTMENT OF A SITTING PRESIDENT DUE TO DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE POLICY HOWEVER THE VOLUME TWO OF THE MOTHER REPORT LAYS OUT IN PRETTY- PRETTY EXCRUCIATING DETAIL- AT LEAST TEN DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF BEHAVIOR OR ACTIVITY THAT THE PRESIDENT ENGAGED IN. AND I THINK TO THE BEST OF MY RECOLLECTION IN AT LEAST EIGHT OF THOSE CATEGORIES THE ELEMENTS OF THE OFFENSE OF OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE EVIDENCE TO PROVE EACH ELEMENT OF THE OFFENSE OF OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE ARE PRESENT IN THOSE YOU KNOW CATEGORIES OF BEHAVIOR SO- IT'S A FAIRLY. SIZEABLE LEGALISTIC AND I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT EXPLANATION BUT IT IS A FAIRLY COMPELLING CASE THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS IN FACT ENGAGING IN BEHAVIOR THAT YOU COULD EASILY CATEGORIZED AS OBSTRUCTION JUSTICE SO ONCE AGAIN OUR CONCERN THAT THE PRESIDENT MIGHT BE OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE WAS VERIFIED BY THE RESULTS THE MOTOR. THANK YOU THANK YOU MR CHAIRMAN. SENATE CORNYN. MISSED RICAIN ITEM REVERE. THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE I REVERE. THE FBI. BUT WHAT'S HAPPENED OVER THE LAST FOUR YEARS REVEALED AN FBI GONE ROGUE. THAT IS INTERFERED. WITH NOT JUST ONE CANDIDATE BUT WITH TWO CANDIDATES. FOR PRESIDENT UNITED STATES STARTING WITH HILLARY CLINTON. AND THEN OF COURSE INVESTIGATION OF THE CURRENT PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. HOW IS IT THAT THE FBI. DECIDED TO INTERFERE IN THE ELECTION BUT NOT JUST ONE BUT TWO CANDIDATES. FOR PRESIDENT THE UNITED STATES. WELL SENATOR I DON'T AGREE WITH YOUR CHARACTERIZATION OF OUR WORK AS HAVING GONE ROGUE- AND I WOULD ALSO SAY THAT AT NO TIME WHILE I WAS IN THE FBI DID WE MAKE A DECISION TO INTERFERE IN ANY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WE DID YOU DID YOU PARTICIPATE IN THE DISCUSSIONS LEADING UP TO THE JULY FIFTH TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN PRESS CONFERENCE. THAT DIRECTOR CALL ME HELD UP ON THE EMAIL INVESTIGATION DICK DID YOU AGREE WITH THAT AND DID YOU SUPPORT HIS DECISION TO GO PUBLIC WITH THAT ANNOUNCEMENT. SENATOR I WAS A PART OF THOSE DECISIONS AT THE TIME I SUPPORTED IT AT THE TIME I FEEL VERY DIFFERENTLY ABOUT IT NOW- I'M HAPPY TO GO INTO DETAIL ABOUT THAT IF YOU'D LIKE. AND YOU UNDERSTAND THAT- WHY YOU THOUGHT THAT FIRING. OF RUSSIAN INVOLVEMENT WITH- PRESIDENT TRUMP YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH THE ROD ROSENSTEIN MEMO WHICH WAS AT LEAST IN PART. THE REASON WHY DIRECTOR CALL ME WAS FIRED CORRECT. I LEARNED OF THE- YES YES I BECAME FAMILIAR WITH THAT EVERY DAY THAT- DOCTOR COMES FIRED. WHAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS FOR K. B. IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH DIRECTOR CALL ME DID DIRECTOR CALL ME NO. EVERYTHING YOU KNEW. OR DID YOU SELECTIVELY. TELL HIM MORE REPORTED HIM ABOUT THINGS THAT THE F. B. I. WAS DOING. WELL I CAN'T SAY SENATOR I KAPAG I CAN'T SAY WHAT DIRECTOR COMEY NEW BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT DIRECTOR CALL ME AND I. ATTENDED NUMEROUS MEETINGS TOGETHER BRIEFINGS EVERY DAY THAT IT WAS MY PRACTICE TO DISCUSS ALL OF THE MAJOR ISSUES THAT WE WERE DEALING WITH THAT I WAS DEALING WITH WITH DIRECTOR CALL ME SO WE SPOKE FREQUENTLY ABOUT- IN MOST TOPICS I CAN'T. TELL YOU WITH PERFECT ACCURACY EVERYTHING THAT WE TALKED ABOUT BUT WE TALK A LOT SO HE WAS PRETTY. TO SPEED ON WHAT WAS GOING ON AT ALL TIMES. DID YOU OR DIRECTOR CALL ME CONSULT WITH ATTORNEY GENERAL LYNCH OR DEPUTY ATTORNEY GEN. SALLY YATES ABOUT THE COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATION OF THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN. YES SIR OUR TEAM MET WITH THE FOLKS THE DOJ LEADERSHIP OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY DIVISION- WITHIN A DAY OR SO OF OPENING THE CROSSFIRE HURRICANE INVESTIGATION AND INFORM THEM OF WHAT WE HAD DONE AND WHAT WE THOUGHT ABOUT THE CASE AND THE PEOPLE WHO ARE BEING INVESTIGATED. AND THEN- DIRECTOR CALL ME NOT WELL I ONE SPEAKER DIRECTOR COMING I HAD FOLLOW UP CONVERSATIONS WITH- DEPARTMENT LEADERSHIP- IT IN THE DAYS THAT FOLLOWED AND MANY TIMES DURING THE COURSE OF THE INVESTIGATION. MR MCCABE. WHO SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. FOR THE SUBMISSION OF THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT. APPLICATION THAT. CONTAINED A LIE ABOUT CARTER PAGE. WITH REGARD TO HIS ACTIVITIES ON BEHALF OF ANOTHER AGENCY OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. AND WHO SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR RELYING. ON THE NOW DISCREDITED. STEELE DOSSIER. I THINK THAT'S THE QUESTION PEOPLE WOULD LIKE AN ANSWER TO WHO SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. SENATOR I THINK- ALL OF THE PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THIS WORK. SHOULD BE AND HAS BEEN HELD ACCOUNTABLE- I FEEL LIKE D. OVERSIGHT PROCESS THAT WE ARE ENGAGED IN NOW. THE PARTICIPATION AND COOPERATION AND THE EFFORTS OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL I THINK ALL OF THESE ELEMENTS OF THE WORK THAT THE FBI HAS DONE INTERNALLY TO ADDRESS- EVERYTHING FROM INDIVIDUALS TO PROCESSES INVOLVED THAT HE DOES ARE ALL ESSENTIAL STEPS TO ENSURE THAT. THIS WEEK THESE ERRORS ARE FIXED AND THAT WE TAKE APPROPRIATE STEPS NOT TO MAKE THEM IN THE FUTURE. WELL IT'S TWENTY TWENTY. AND THESE OCCURRED BACK IN TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN. I DON'T THINK THE I CERTAINLY DON'T HAVE ANY CONFIDENCE THAT- THE PEOPLE WHO WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS DEBACLE. OVER THE LAST FOUR YEARS WILL ULTIMATELY BE HELD RESPONSIBLE I HOPE I'M WRONG. SO I DON'T AGREE WITH MY FRIEND FROM A CALIFORNIA THAT'S NOW'S THE TIME TO TURN THE PAGE WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT NOTHING LIKE THIS EVER. EVER HAPPENS AGAIN. THREE ANY CANDIDATE. OR ANY PRESIDENT REGARDLESS OF THEIR POLITICAL PARTY. I HAVE TO TELL YOU. MY BIGGEST CONCERN MR MCCABE. IS THAT THE FBI UNDER JAMES COMEY. AND UNDER YOUR- LEADERSHIP IS DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE F. B. I. CAN DO THIS. WHAT THEY DID TO HILLARY CLINTON A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT I'D STATES AGAINST THAT CAN DO IT TOO DONALD J. TRUMP BOTH AS A CANDIDATE AND CURRENT PRESIDENT I'D STATES WHAT CHANCE. DOES AN AVERAGE CITIZEN HAL. IF THEY'RE UNDER INVESTIGATION BY THE FBI LED BY. LED BY LEADERS AND UP THE FASHION THAT- YOU AND MR COMEY LED. IN THE TIMING OF THESE INVESTIGATIONS WHAT CONFIDENCE CAN AN AVERAGE CITIZEN HAVE. THAT THEY WOULD HAVE ANY CHANCE AT ALL. SENATOR I DISAGREE WITH YOU I THINK THAT- ALL AMERICANS SHOULD AND DO HAVE GREAT CONFIDENCE IN THE FBI TODAY AND DURING THE TIME I WAS THERE BEFORE THAT THE FBI CONDUCTS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF INVESTIGATIONS ACROSS ALL PROGRAMS EVERY SINGLE DAY THE FBI GOES TO GREAT LENGTHS TO ENSURE THAT THEY RIGHTS. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF THOSE SUBJECTS OF INVESTIGATIONS WITNESSES WE COME ACROSS AND THE SOURCES OF INFORMATION WE WORK WITH OUR- ARE PROTECTED DURING THE COURSE OF THOSE INVESTIGATIONS THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT KICK THAT WE MAKE WE DON'T MAKE MISTAKES WE DO WE'RE- AN ORGANIZATION OF HUMAN BEINGS AND PEOPLE MAKE MISTAKES- AND WHEN THAT HAPPENS I THINK WE GOES THROUGH. A RIGOROUS PROCESS TO ENSURE THAT WE DON'T MAKE THOSE MISTAKES AGAIN WHEN YOU LIKE WHEN WE MAKE THIS SIX OTHER PEOPLE. PAY THE PRICE APPARENTLY. LET ME JUST ASK ONE FINAL QUESTION MR MCCABE. ON MARCH THE SIXTEENTH- YOU WERE TERMINATED BY THE FBI. FOLLOWING AN INVESTIGATION OF THE OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL AND THE FBI'S OFFICE OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY WHICH FOUND THAT YOU HAD MADE AN UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE TO THE NEWS MEDIA. AND LACKED CANDOR INCLUDING UNDER OATH ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS ISN'T THAT CORRECT. SENATOR IT IS CORRECT THAT I EIGHT- WAS THE SUBJECT OF A BIASED DEEPLY FLAWED AND UNFAIR INVESTIGATION BY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL AND I'VE BEEN PRETTY CLEAR IN MY VIGOROUS OBJECTION TO THAT INVESTIGATION AND ITS FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS THAT FILED A FEDERAL LAWSUIT- AND I THINK I WOULD REFER YOU TO THE SPECIFIC COMMENTS IN THAT LAWSUIT IT'S NOT PROPER FOR ME TO DISCUSS THE DETAILS OF THAT INVESTIGATION NOW THAT IT'S IN FRONT OF A FEDERAL JUDGE. THANK YOU SIR DURBIN. THIS GERMAN. ANYWHERE ACROSS AMERICA WHO TUNED IN TO THIS HEARING AS A RIGHT TO BE CONFUSED. IF YOU WERE TOLD THIS IS A HEARING ON A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION THAT'S TRUE. BUT NOT THE ONE THAT OCCURRED A WEEK AGO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN FOUR YEARS AGO. YES WE ARE FOCUSING ON A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION BUT WE ARE EXAMINING FOR THE FOURTH TIME. THE ROLE OF RUSSIANS IN THE TWENTY SIXTEEN ELECTION. FOUR YEARS AGO AND MORE IMPORTANTLY WE ARE DISCUSSING PRESIDENT TRUMP'S CONCLUSION DESPITE INTELLIGENCE EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY THE RUSSIAN COLLUSION WAS A HOAX. FOR THIS SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE IT'S ALL ABOUT HILLARY. IT'S ALL ABOUT OUTGOING PRESIDENT TRUMP'S BIZARRE THEORIES OF JUSTICE. THIS IS A LAST DITCH DESPERATE UNDERTAKING TO DEAL WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP'S GRIEVANCES ABOUT THAT ELECTION. WE'VE ALL CONSIDERED THE POINT CARTER PAGE WAS NOT TREATED PROPERLY BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE SINCE MARCH. HOW MANY MORE TIMES DO WE NEED TO SAY. I WANT TO SAY IT AGAIN TODAY BECAUSE I STILL BELIEVE IT. BUT WHAT ARE WE ACTUALLY FACING HERE. WHAT IS THE STATE OF PLAY IN AMERICA TODAY THAT THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN. WELL LET'S TAKE A FEW ITEMS WE DID HAVE AN ELECTION. A LANDMARK MOMENT IN HISTORY. A SITTING PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. WHO IS ROUTINELY DISRESPECTED THE RULE OF LAW UNDERMINED DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS PUT ITS OWN INTERESTS AHEAD OF THE INTERESTS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. IGNORED SCIENCE AND PUBLIC HEALTH WHEN IT COMES TO THIS PANDEMIC AND VIOLATED BASIC STANDARDS OF HONESTY AND THE DECENCY IN UNPRECEDENTED NUMBERS A CLEAR MAJORITY OF AMERICANS VOTED TO SAY THAT'S IT WE'RE FINISHED WITH YOU. AND REPLACE HIM WITH PRESIDENT ELECT JOE BIDEN AND VICE PRESIDENT ELECT KAMEL HARRIS IT CERTAINLY TWO SENATORS WHO SERVED HONORABLY ON THIS COMMITTEE. THE ELECTION SENT A CLEAR MESSAGE. IT'S TIME TO STOP RE LITIGATING. ISSUES OF THE LAST ELECTION. IT'S TIME FOR FINALLY TO PUT BEHIND US THE DIVISIVENESS AND VITRIOL OF THE TRUMP ERA AND BRING OUR FRACTURED COUNTRY TOGETHER TO ADDRESS COVID NUMBER ONE AND PUT OUR COUNTRY BACK ON ITS FEET. BUT HERE WE ARE TODAY. SEVEN DAYS AFTER THAT ELECTION. IN OUR COMMITTEE IS HOLDING ANOTHER PARTISAN HEARING TO ADVANCE PRESIDENT TRUMP'S THEORIES. THIS IS THE FOURTH HEARING THIS YEAR. ON THE LAST ADMINISTRATION THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION'S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IN RESPONSE TO PRESIDENT TRUMP'S REPEATED CALLS TO INVESTIGATE THE INVESTIGATORS. AND TO TRY TO REWRITE THE STORY OF RUSSIA'S INVOLVEMENT IN THE TWENTY SIXTEEN CAMPAIGN. MEANWHILE ALL SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE THAT WE SET ON HERE HASN'T HELD A SINGLE OVERSIGHT HEARING ON THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IN THIS CONGRESS. ANY ISSUES WE MIGHT WANT TO RACE. I CAN THINK OF A FEW. PERHAPS WITHOUT EVEN INVESTIGATE THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND THERE'S A ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY. I REGRET WHAT HAPPENED COURT PAGE I'VE SAID SO BEFORE. BUT I ALSO REGRET WHAT HAPPENED TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED INFANTS TODDLERS AND CHILDREN WHO WERE PHYSICALLY REMOVED FROM THEIR PARENTS. BY THE ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND THE FACT THAT FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY FIVE OF THOSE CHILDREN STILL OR IN AN ABANDONED STATUS TODAY FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY FIVE. SO MY QUESTION IS HAS BEEN ASKED TO THE WITNESS BEFORE US TODAY IS WHO SHOULD BE HELD RESPONSIBLE. WHY WOULDN'T THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE EVEN CARE TO HAVE A HEARING WHY WOULDN'T THE IMMIGRATION SUBCOMMITTEE WHICH I. AM A RANKING MEMBER ON WITH THE SENATOR FROM TEXAS EVEN HAVE ONE HEARING ON THAT ISSUE NONE. BUT THIS IS THE FOURTH HEARING WE'RE HAVING GOING BACK OVER THIS WELL PLOWED GROUND. THERE ARE SOME TIMELY ISSUES RELATED TO DEPARTMENT JUSTICE WE MIGHT EVEN HAVE CONSIDERED TODAY LET ME GIVE YOU ONE. YESTERDAY ATTORNEY GENERAL BILL BARHYDT ISSUED A MEMO AUTHORIZING FEDERAL PROSECUTORS TO QUOTE. PURSUE SUBSTANTIAL ALLEGATIONS OF VOTING AND VOTE TABULATION RICK REGULARITIES. PRIOR TO THE CERTIFICATION OF ELECTIONS. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S MEMO REPRESENTS ANOTHER INSTANCE OF HIS SACRIFICING THE REPUTATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. TO SERVE THE POLITICAL INTERESTS OF PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR IS CLEARLY ATTEMPTING TO FABRICATE A VENEER OF LEGITIMACY FOR THE BASELESS CLAIMS OF VOTER FRAUD MADE BY PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HIS SUPPORTERS. AND HE'S DOING SO OVERRIDING LONG STANDING DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE POLICIES THAT WERE PUT IN PLACE TO PREVENT THIS VERY TYPE OF POLITICAL INTERFERENCE IN ELECTION SEASON. LET ME TELL YOU WHAT THE PREVIOUS GUIDELINES. HISTORY GENERALS HONORED SAID QUOTE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE OF A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION COULD IMPACT THE EDUCATION OF ELECTION LITIGATION AND CONTEST IN STATE COURTS ACCORDINGLY IT IS THE GENERAL POLICY OF JUSTICE DEPARTMENT NOT TO CONDUCT COVERT INVESTIGATIONS END OF QUOTE. ATTORNEY GENERAL BROWER JENNISON THAT STANDARD YESTERDAY. A BAR MEMO PROMPTED THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE DIRECTOR OF ELECTION CRIMES BRANCH TO RESIGN FROM HIS POSITION AND ISSUE THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE MIGHT WANT TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT NO I'M SORRY WE'RE BACK RE LITIGATING THE TWENTY SIXTEEN ELECTION WE'RE GONNA GO THROUGH THAT ALL OVER AGAIN MAYBE A FIFTH TIME. INSTEAD OF ASKING PERTINENT AND RELEVANT QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY. MR RICHARD PILCHER WHO RESIGNED FROM THAT POSITION. NO TO THE BARS MEMO QUOTE ABROGATED THE FORTY YEAR OLD NON INTERFERENCE POLICY FOR BALLOT FRAUD ALLEGATIONS IN THE PERIOD PRIOR TO ELECTIONS BECOMING CERTIFIED AND CONTESTED INTO COURT. THE GENERAL BAR CAME BEFORE ME IN MY OFFICE I ASKED HIM. POINT BLANK WHY DO YOU WANT TO BE DONALD TRUMP'S ATTORNEY GENERAL WELL HE SAID YOU SHOULD SEE THE LIST OF OTHER PEOPLE WHO MIGHT. ALSO CONSIDER. I THOUGHT THAT I SHOULD STEP IN AT THAT POINT IT SECONDLY SEVEN WANT TO PRESERVE THE REPUTATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. IS THERE ANYONE ON OUR OFFICE COMMITTEE WHO BELIEVES THE GENERAL BARS ACTIONS YESTERDAY PRESERVE THE INTEGRITY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. WERE BASELESS CLAIMS ARE BEING MADE ABOUT VOTER FRAUD. YOU KNOW WHAT THE LITIGANTS RECORD IS IN COURT SINCE THE ELECTION. PROTESTING THE OUTCOME OF THE ELECTION. ZERO FOR TEN THEY HAVE NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER OF ELECTION FRAUD IF THEY DID THEY WOULD CERTAINLY BRING IT FORWARD I WANT TO CLOSE BY THANKING FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH OF TEXAS FOR STEPPING UP AND DOING THE HONORABLE THING ERIC KNOWLEDGE JINPING TO NOW PRESIDENT ELECT JOE BIDEN BUT HE DID WIN. BUT HE WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT AND HE PRESIDENT BUSH AS A PROUD REPUBLICAN. THOUGHT THAT IT WAS TIME FOR HIM TO STEP UP FOR THE GOOD OF THE REPUBLIC. ARE YOU THANK CENTER AT DURBIN I'D LIKE A RESPONSE ON THE COMMENT SHE MADE ABOUT THE COMMITTEE WHAT WE'RE DOING AND WHY. NUMBER ONE WE ARE GOING TO INVESTIGATE HOW THE CARTER PAGE ONE APPLICATION WAS SUBMITTED NUMEROUS TIMES- TO THE FISA COURT WITH INACCURATE INFORMATION I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO HAVE A OF A PERSON WHO SIGNED IT SAY IF I KNEW THEN WHAT I KNOW NOW I WOULD HAVE SIGNED IT. TO ME IS ACTUALLY PRETTY STUNNING IN THE COMMITTEE IN SEPTEMBER THE TWENTY NINTH RECEIVED INFORMATION FOR DIRECT DIRECTLY UP. THAT IN SEPTEMBER OF TWENTY SIXTEEN SEPTEMBER THE SEVENTH. THE CIA INFORMS THE FBI. THAT CANDIDATE HILLARY CLINTON APPROVED OF A PLAN CONCERNING US PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DONALD TRUMP. AND RUSSIA HACKERS HAMPERING US ELECTIONS AS A MEANS OF DISTRACTING THE PUBLIC FROM HER USE OF A PRIVATE EMAIL SERVER. IF YOU GO LOOK AT THE CLASSIFIED INFORMATION THERE'S MORE THERE. I GUESS WHAT WE'RE SAYING. IS THAT YOU ACCEPT WITHOUT ANY DOUBT THAT THE FBI SHOULD HAVE LOOKED AT ALL THINGS TRUMP BASED ON PAPPA DOUBTLESS. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A DERELICTION OF DUTY NOT TO DO SO WHAT WE'RE SUGGESTING IS THAT WHEN THE CIA INFORMS THE FBI. THAT HILLARY CLINTON MAY HAVE SIGNED OFF ON A PLAN. TO LINK TRUMP TO RUSSIA FOR POLITICAL REASONS NOBODY DID ANYTHING. THERE WAS AN INVESTIGATION OPENED. MR MCKAY DIDN'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT IT. THE FBI DIRECTOR SAYS IT DIDN'T RING A BELL. THE PERSON THAT WENT TO WAS PETER STRUCK WHO IS INCREDIBLY BIASED AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP SO I GUESS WHAT WE'RE SAYING IF YOU BELIEVE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A DERELICTION OF DUTY. NOT TO LOOK AT TRUMP BASED ON A STATEMENT BY THE AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR THE UNITED KINGDOM. REGARDING A BAR CONVERSATION AND LONDON THAT LED TO EVERYTHING WE'VE DEALT WITH FOR TWO AND A HALF YEARS WE WERE WONDERING. JUST OUT LOUD HERE HOW COULD YOU IGNORE THE CIA INFORMATION PROVIDED TO THE FBI THAT THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT SIGNED OFF ON A PLAN TO LINK TRUMP TO RUSSIA POLITICAL REASONS WHICH MAY EXPLAIN SOME OF THE GARBAGE YOUR CROSSFIRE HURRICANE. NOW YOU'RE OKAY WITH THAT WE'RE NOT YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY PERFECTLY FINE WITH THE FACT THAT THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT THE UNITED STATES IN TWENTY SIXTEEN. THE CIA HAD INFORMATION SHE SIGNED OFF ON A PLAN TO LINK THE REPUBLICAN CANADA RUSSIA FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES AND NOBODY DID ANYTHING YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY FINE WITH THAT WE ARE NOT. THAT IS A BIG DEAL TO ME BECAUSE THIS WON'T BE THE LAST ELECTION WILL EVER HAVE. IN IT YOU CAN'T LIVE IN A COUNTRY THIS WAY YOU CAN'T LIVE IN A COUNTRY WHERE THEY TAKE A CIA LEAD AND PUT IN THE GARBAGE CAN'T. NOBODY DO ANYTHING. THAT'S JUST NOT FAIR TO THIS COUNTRY. BEST THAT'S GOT TO STOP YOU CAN'T HAVE TWO STANDARDS WILL YOU HELP ME MAKE SURE MAHLER DON'T GET FIRED YES. MULLER GOT TO DO HIS JOB WELL HERE'S WHAT WE'RE UPSET ABOUT NOBODY TOOK ALLEGATIONS FROM THE CIA'S SERIOUSLY ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON'S EFFORT TO SIGN OFF ON THE PLANT IT MAY NOT BE TRUE BUT SOMEBODY SHOULD A LOOK AT IT. NOBODY CARED OVER THERE. I THINK MOST PEOPLE ON THIS SIDE OF THE AISLE BELIEVE THAT WHEN IT CAME TO CLINTON. AND TRUMP. THE FBI A AND ALL THE PEOPLE INVOLVED A CROSSFIRE HURRICANE SHUT OUT ANYTHING. THAT WOULD CHANGE THE NARRATIVE THAT TRUMP WAS BEING INVOLVED WITH THE RUSSIANS THEY IGNORED EVERY STOP SIGN ABOUT CARTER PAGE THEY KEPT IGNORING INFORMATION BECAUSE THEY WANT THAT OUTCOME AND THEY DIDN'T LIFT A FINGER TO INVESTIGATIVE LEAD FROM OUR OWN CIA MR CHAIRMAN THIS JERMALL RESPOND YES PLEASE. RESEARCHERS WHAT YOU'VE JUST SAID IT IS SO ALARMING THAT WE SHOULD HEAD SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY A THOROUGH NONPARTISAN INVESTIGATION OF THIS WHOLE CROSSFIRE HURRICANE. WELL IT TURNS OUT WE DID. INSPECTOR GENERAL MICHAEL HOROWITZ IN DECEMBER OF TWENTY NINETEEN FOUND THAT F. B. I.'S CROSS FOR HURRICANE INVESTIGATION WAS QUOTE OPEN FOR AN AUTHORIZED PURPOSE HAD ADEQUATE FACTUAL PREDICATION AND WAS NOT INFLUENCED BY BIAS. FBI DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER WRAY CHRISTOPHER RAY GREED THAT IS A MORE PRESIDENT TRUMP ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR PERHAPS MEMBERS OF THIS COMMITTEE WANTED TO HEAR SO THEY'VE TRIED TO RE OPEN THAT INDEPENDENT IG INVESTIGATION EVERY PARTISAN WAY IMAGINABLE THIS IS THE FOURTH TRY IN THIS COMMITTEE I'M NOT. WHAT WITH ALL DUE RESPECT SIR DURBIN DOES IT NOT BOTHER YOU AT ALL THAT THE CIA TELLS THE FBI OF A PLANNED ELLERY CLINTON MAY HAVE SIGNED OFF ON AND NOBODY LOOKED AT. MAY I JUMP IN PLEASE. ACTUALLY IT DOESN'T OKAY I'LL TELL YOU WHY IT DOESN'T. V. FBI IS AN AGENCY OF LIMITED AND SPECIFIC JURISDICTION. IT HAS THE ABILITY TO PURSUE PREDICATED CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS AND I THINK WE'VE ALL AGREED THAT A POLITICAL CAMPAIGN CHOOSING TO TIE. POLITICALLY. THE OPPONENTS TO A FOREIGN COUNTRY IS NOT A CRIMINAL ACT THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN TRIED TO DO THAT TO JOE BIDEN WITH CHINA ALL THROUGH THIS CAMPAIGN IT'S NOT A CRIMINAL ACT AND IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT THIS AS A COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATION THE OBVIOUS DIFFERENCE IS THAT THE INFORMATION THAT THE FBI WAS RECEIVING ABOUT CARTER PAGE IN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN IS THAT THERE WERE CONTACTS. CONTACTS BETWEEN RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE OPERATIVES AND TRUMP CAMPAIGN OPERATIVES. WHEN YOU HAVE CONTACTS GOING ON THAT DOES LIGHT UP A FLAG ON A COUNTER INTELLIGENCE FRONT AND I DON'T SEE HOW ANYBODY COULD DISAGREE THAT THAT'S THE CASE BUT WHEN YOU HAVE A CAMPAIGN MAKING ITS INTERNAL CAMPAIGN POLICY TO TRY TO SAY EITHER WELL BIDEN TO CLOSE TO CHINA YOU CAN'T TRUST HIM OR TRUMP'S TOO CLOSE TO RUSSIA AND YOU CAN'T TRUST THEM. I DON'T THINK THE FBI HAS A LOT OF BUSINESS. INTERFERING IN THAT TYPE OF PUBLIC CAMPAIGN POLITICAL DEBATE AND I WOULD BET YOU THAT IF THE F. B. I. WAS LOOKING AT WHAT. THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN SAID ABOUT BIDEN WITH RESPECT TO CHINA AND WHETHER THEY HAD A STRATEGY TO TRY TO TIE BIDEN TO TRUMP. TO TRUMP TRUMP. YOU WOULD BE BESIDE YOURSELF WITH. IRRITATION AND ANGER THAT THE FBI HAD TAKEN THAT STEP AND YET HERE EUROPE'S CORY AND F. B. I. FOR. STAYING AWAY FROM TAKING THAT STEP. WITH RESPECT TO AN INTERNAL POLITICAL STRATEGY OF THE HILLARY CAMPAIGN RIGHT I DON'T SEE HOW THAT GETS YOU TO OTHER CRIMINALITY OR- THE TYPE OF CONTACTS WITH A FOREIGNER. POWER THAT RADIUS ON OUR INTELLIGENCE CONCERNED SO THAT'S MY YOU YOU KEEP ASKING THIS QUESTION THERE'S MY ANSWER WELL LET ME GIVE HIM MY REPLY TO YOUR ANSWER WILL GET SENT EARLY IN THIS CASE THERE WAS NO CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION OPENED IT WAS ALL COUNTERINTELLIGENCE. BASED ON A CONVERSATION BY THE AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED KINGDOM WITH PAPPA DOUBLES IN A BARN WE GOT THE TAPES AND PAPADOPOULOS SAID ON TODAY NO I'M NOT WORKING WITH THE RUSSIANS I'D BE TREASON THEY USE THAT STEP AT THE OPEN UP WHAT NOW IS CALLED CROSSFIRE HURRICANE IN THE MULLER INVESTIGATION I GUESS WHAT THE ONE THING YOU'RE OVERLOOKING HERE IS IT THE STEELE DOSSIER WAS PREPARED BY CHRISTOPHER STEELE WHO WAS ON THE PAYROLL OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. HE WAS WORKING THROUGH FUSION GPS THAT WAS BEING PAID BY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HE CREATED A DOCUMENT THAT WAS A BUNCH OF GARBAGE. THE STATE DEPARTMENT CALLS OVER TO THE FBI AND SAYS THIS GUY WANTS. TRUMP NOT TO WIN IN THE WORST WAY. BRUCE OR AND A BUNCH OF OTHER PEOPLE WARNED THE FBI THAT THE CHRISTOPHER STEELE DOCUMENT IS SUSPECT AT BEST. THE CIA INFORMS THE FBI THAT THIS INTERNET RUMOR SO THIS IS A SITUATION WHERE IF THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN. IN FACT CREATED THIS IMPRESSION THAT TRUMP WAS WORKING WITH THE RUSSIANS TO OUR- CHRISTOPHER STEELE WHO WAS ON THE PAYROLL THAT YEAH MAYBE THAT MAKES IT ALL MAKE SENSE. MAYBE THAT EXPLAINS THAT THIS DOSSIER WAS PREPARED. BY A POLITICAL PERSON BY PERSON ON THE PAY ROLL THAT WAS USED TO GET A WARRANT AGAINST AN AMERICAN CITIZEN. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I KNOW OF THAT OPPOSITION RESEARCH WINDS UP BEING USED BY THE FBI TO GET A WARRANT AGAINST AN AMERICAN CITIZEN. A MEMBER THE OTHER CAMPAIGN I AM VERY SAD THAT THE CIA'S. INFORMATION ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON SIGNING OFF ON A PLAN TO LINK. TRUMP TO RUSSIA WASN'T LOOKED AT BECAUSE IF YOU LOOKED AT IT THAT MAY BE EXPLAINED CHRISTOPHER STEELE AND THE DOSSIER. SENATOR LEE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH MR CHAIRMAN. ACCORDING TO BILL PRIESTAP IS HAND WRITTEN NOTES FROM THE JANUARY TWENTY FOURTH TWO THOUSAND SEVENTEEN MEETING A MEETING THAT YOU MR MCCABE ATTENDED THE F. B. I.'S STRATEGY WITH GENERAL MICHAEL FLYNN WAS TO QUOTE. GET HIM TO LIE SO WE CAN PROSECUTE HIM OR GET HIM FIRED AND ALSO IT QUOTE IF WE CAN GET HIM TO ADMIT TO BREAKING THE LOGAN ACT GIVE THE FACTS OF THE PART OF JUSTICE AND HAVE THEM DECIDE CLOSE QUOTE. THIS WEEK IT IS TYPICAL FOR LEADERSHIP AT THE FBI TO STRATEGIZE AS TO HOW TO GET SUBJECTS OF AN INVESTIGATION TO LIE AS IN THIS CASE. IN AN INFORMAL INTERVIEW WITHOUT COUNSEL PRESENT. WELL I CAN'T I'M NOT GONNA SPEAK FOR MISTER PRECEPTS NOTES BUT I CAN TELL JUST ASKING WHETHER IT'S PHYSICAL. I CAN TELL YOU THAT IT IS COMMON TO DISCUSS BEFORE AN INTERVIEW THE MANY DIFFERENT WAYS THAT THAT INTERVIEW MIGHT TURN OUT AND ONE OF THOSE WAYS IS THAT THE SUBJECT OR THE WITNESS YOU'RE INTERVIEWING MIGHT BE DELIBERATELY DECEPTIVE AND SO IT IS COMMON TO THINK THROUGH HOW YOU WOULD HANDLE THAT. OKAY NOW IN ISRAEL TO INTERVIEW- PETER STRUCK STATED QUOTE BEFORE THE INTERVIEW. MCCABE. THE FBI GENERAL COUNSEL AND OTHERS DECIDED AGENTS WOULD NOT ONE FLYNN THAT IT WAS A CRIME TO LIE DURING AN FBI INTERVIEW BECAUSE THEY WANTED PLANNED TO BE RELAXED AND THEY WERE CONCERNED THAT GIVING WARNINGS MIGHT ADVERSELY AFFECT THE REPORT. CLOSE QUOTE. IS IT NORMAL FOR FBI LEADERSHIP TO INSTRUCT AGENCIES TO NOT INFORM. INTERVIEW WEEZER'S THEIR RIGHTS IN INVESTIGATIONAL INTERVIEW. THERE IS NO REQUIREMENT TO TELL ANY WITNESS OR INTERVIEWEE THAT IT IS A CRIME TO LIE TO THE FBI- IT IS VERY COMMON FOR AGENTS AND THEIR SUPERVISORS TO DISCUSS HOW THEY'RE GONNA HANDLE THESE DIFFERENT ELEMENTS OF AN INTERVIEW BEFORE THEY GO IN AND DO IT BUT I SIMPLY DON'T DO THAT ALL THE TIME IN ONE OF THE REASONS YOU DON'T DO THAT ALL THE TIME IS BECAUSE YOU RELY ON. INFORMAL INTERVIEWS YOU GET A LOT OF INFORMATION OUT OF THEM AND IF YOU'RE CONSTANTLY WARNING THEM IN ADVANCE- A AND MAKING THEM FEEL LIKE THEY'RE TARGETS THAT'S A PROBLEM BUT IT ALSO CAN BECOME A PROBLEM IN ANY INVARIABLY DOES. WHEN PEOPLE IN AN INFORMAL INTERVIEW ARE LOWERED INTO AN INFORMAL INTERVIEW WITH ONE SET OF EXPECTATIONS THAT YOU'VE CREATED FOR THEM AND YOU ROUTINELY DASH THE NO ONE SCHEDULING THE JANUARY TWENTY FOURTH MEETING WITH GENERAL FLYNN. YOU THREATEN TO ELEVATE THE ISSUE OF FLYNN'S CALL. WITH KISLYAK. TO THE DEPARTMENT JUSTICE. IF HE APPEARED AT THE INTERVIEW WITH COUNCIL. STATEMENTS MADE BY GENERAL PLANNED DURING THIS VERY SAME INTERVIEW WHERE YOU ADVISED HIM TO APPEAR ALSO WERE USED AS THE BASIS FOR HIS PROSECUTION. WHO IS IT IS IT STANDARD PRACTICE FOR THE FBI TO THREATEN HIGH LEVEL ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS IF THEY REFUSE TO APPEAR FOR INTERVIEWS WITHOUT COUNCIL OR AT LEAST- WITHOUT SOMEBODY FROM THE WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL'S OFFICE. WELL THE PREMISE OF YOUR QUESTION IS ABSOLUTELY FALSE I DID NOT THREATEN GENERAL FLAN WITH ANYTHING GENERAL FLYNN AND I'D DURING A VERY SHORT CONVERSATION- I ASK GENERAL FLYNN IF HE WANTED TO HAVE. REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL'S OFFICE FOR HIS OWN ATTORNEY. ATTEND THE INTERVIEW AND I SIMPLY TOLD HIM THAT IF THAT WERE THE CASE THAT I WOULD NEED TO AGENTS TO ALSO BRING AN ATTORNEY FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE GENERAL FLYNN VERY QUICKLY REPLIED THAT SHE DIDN'T WANT TO BRING AN ATTORNEY TO THE INTERVIEW WHICH IS CERTAINLY HIS RIGHT. AND WE PROCEEDED AND THAT WAY OKAY. I'M LOOKING AT YOUR NOTES REGARDING YOUR CONVERSATIONS WITH GENERAL FLYNN. WHAT I EXPLAINED TO LIEUTENANT GENERAL FLYNN THAT MY DESIRE WAS TO HAVE TWO OF MY AGENTS INTERVIEW MOST QUICKLY QUIETLY AND DISCREETLY AS POSSIBLE. HE AGREED AND OFFERED TO MEET WITH THE AGENTS TODAY WE HAD SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT TIMING AND ULTIMATELY AGREED. TO CONDUCT THE INTERVIEW AT HIS OFFICE IN THE WHITE HOUSE AT FOURTEEN THIRTY THIS AFTERNOON I EXPLAINED. THAT I THOUGHT THE QUICKEST WAY TO GET THIS DONE WAS TO HAVE A CONVERSATION BETWEEN HIM AND THE AGENTS ONLY I'VE HEARD IT FURTHER STATED THAT IF GENERAL FLYNN WISHED. TO INCLUDE ANYONE ELSE ON THE MEETING. LIKE TO WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL FOR INSTANCE. BUT I WOULD NEED TO INVOLVE THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. HE STATED THAT THIS WOULD NOT BE NECESSARY AND AGREED WITH THE AGENTS WITHOUT ANY ADDITIONAL PARTICIPANTS. AT TO MEET AT LEAST CARRIES A CERTAIN SUGGESTION NOW. BASED ON ON ON SALLY YATES IS. THREE OH TWO. R. A DIRECTOR COMEY ADMITTED THAT HE WOULD HAVE INFORMED. THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE. CHIEF OF STAFF. DENIS MCDONOUGH. IF THIS WERE OCCURRING. UNDER ANALOGOUS CIRCUMSTANCES WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA AND PRESIDENT OBAMA'S NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER SO WHY THIS DISPARITY FRIEDMAN. I WOULD HAVE ONE STANDARD WHERE YOU WOULD INFORM THE CHIEF OF STAFF. IN ONE INSTANCE BUT NOT IN ANOTHER ADMINISTRATION. WELL SIR I CAN'T SPEAK FOR WHY JIM COMEY- WHAT JIM COMEY THOUGHT ABOUT THAT AT THE TIME I'M I'M NOT AWARE OF OKAY. MR MCCABE WE'VE CALLED IN A FEW DIFFERENT PEOPLE TO TALK ABOUT THE CROSSFIRE HURRICANE INVESTIGATION AND FROM THIS COMMITTEE SO FAR WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO GET A SINGLE STRAIGHT ANSWER TO SOME CRITICAL QUESTIONS. INCLUDING WHO IN LEADERSHIP AT THE FBI OR THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. NEW ABOUT THE SERIOUS FLAWS CONTAINED IN THE CARTER PAGE FISA WARRANTS BEFORE THE ORIGINAL APPLICATION WAS SUBMITTED. ON OCTOBER TWENTY FIRST TWENTY SIXTEEN. R. ALSO WHO KNEW BY THE TIME THAT THE FIRST RENEWAL WAS SUBMITTED ON JANUARY TWELFTH TWENTY SEVENTEEN OR HAVE A SECOND RENEWAL ON APRIL. SEVENTH TWENTY SEVENTEEN AND MOST IMPORTANTLY FOR TODAY'S PURPOSES. WHO KNEW. WHEN YOU SIGNED THE THIRD RENEWAL. ON JUNE TWENTY EIGHTH TWO THOUSAND SEVENTEEN. NOBODY SEEMS TO BE TELLING US ANYTHING BACK IN AUGUST DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL SALLY YATES BILL THIS COMMITTEE THAT SHE HAD NO IDEA. WHERE CRITICAL FACTUAL ERRORS IN THE INITIAL CARTER PAGE APPLICATION YOU SHOULD HAVE NO IDEA THAT THOSE WERE THERE. A FEW WEEKS AGO DIRECTOR COLEY TOLD THE COMMITTEE THAT HE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE ERRORS. WHEN HE SAW THE INITIAL APPLICATIONS AND THE SUBSEQUENT RENEWALS. AND NOW YOU'VE TOLD THIS COMMITTEE- WHAT WHAT WHAT IS YOUR ANSWER TO THESE QUESTIONS BUT TELL ME WHAT YOU WERE AWARE OF AS OF THOSE DATES. WELL I'VE BEEN PRETTY CLEAR THAT- I WAS NOT AWARE OF THE ERRORS THAT ARE IDENTIFIED IN THE IG'S REPORT OR ANY OTHER ERRORS THAT WERE PRESENT IN THE PACKAGE THAT I SIGNED IN. JUNE OF TWENTY SEVENTEEN. MISTER CHAIRMAN TELLS EXPIRING I COULD I GET AN ADDITIONAL TWO MINUTES I THINK I CAN WRAP THIS UP IN THAT TIME THANK YOU. NOW YOU'RE STILL IN YOUR WRITTEN TESTIMONY THAT CLOSED FISA REMAINS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TOOLS IN OUR COUNTRY'S EFFORTS TO PROTECT NATIONAL SECURITY. THE F. B. I.'S THE CUSTODIAN OF THAT TOOL. I FULLY SUPPORT EVERY EFFORT TO ENSURE THE FBI'S USE OF FISA MAINTAINS THE HIGH STANDARDS OF THE COURT. AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT THEY DEMAND AND THE RESERVE DATE THANK YOU SIR. WELL THAT'S ALL WELL AND GOOD. I I'D LIKE THE STATEMENT AS FAR AS IT GOES BUT I WOULD NOTE MR MCCABE THAT. I'VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE. NOT JUST ONCE I'VE HEARD IT MORE TIMES THAN I CAN POSSIBLY COUNT OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS. WELL I'VE BEEN SITTING ON THIS COMMITTEE. IN FACT HE YOUR COMMENTS ARE NEARLY IDENTICAL TO THOSE THAT I'VE HEARD. FROM FBI OFFICIAL AFTER FBI OFFICIAL. OFF FROM BASICALLY EVERY FBI OFFICIAL WHO TESTIFIED IN FRONT OF THIS COMMITTEE ON THIS ISSUE. TRUST US. WE'RE THE GOOD GUYS AND WE NEED THE SECRET SURVEILLANCE AUTHORITIES IN ORDER TO KEEP YOU SAFE. AND FURTHERMORE YOU DON'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT THEM THESE AREN'T THE DROIDS YOU'RE LOOKING FOR. BECAUSE WE'RE THE GOOD GUYS AND WE REQUIRE A HIGH LEVEL OF APPROVAL WHAT TURNS OUT MR CAPE MCCABE NONE OF THE PEOPLE. INVOLVED IN HIGH LEVEL APPROVAL THE SAME PEOPLE WHO HAVE TOLD ME OVER AND OVER AGAIN OVER THE LAST DECADE. THAT THEY WERE REVIEWING THEM AND THAT THAT'S WHY IT WAS OKAY NONE OF THEM CAN ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS. SO THAT'S WHY WE'RE HERE AGAIN SO I'M ASKING YOU NOW HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO TELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. TO HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THE SECRETIVE FISA SURVEILLANCE PROCESS IF. MIND YOU THIS IS HARD TO BELIEVE NO ONE IN FBI LEADERSHIP NO ONE. IN LEADERSHIP OF DOJ OR FBI. WANTS TO ADMIT THAT THEY WERE AWARE OF SERIOUS FLAWS IN A VERY HIGH PROFILE INVESTIGATION AND WHAT INSURANCES COULD YOU POSSIBLY GIVE US THAT THE FISA APPLICATIONS TARGETING EVERYDAY AMERICANS. JUST U. S. CITIZENS NOT FOREIGN SUSPECTED TERRORISTS AND NOT EVEN HIGH PROFILE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS IN THE UNITED STATES. OUR SUBJECT ANY STRICTER SCRUTINY. HEY THEY SIMPLY CAN'T BE EFFECTIVE THE FISA PROCESS MUST BE REFORM. THAT WE CAN'T ASK AMERICANS TO CONTINUE TO GIVE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THIS ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF UNSUPERVISED SCRUTINY DISCRETION ONLY HAVE ABUSED BY THIS AND ONLY TO HAVE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ACCOUNTABLE FOR IT SAY THEY HAVE NO IDEA. HOW THESE THINGS HAPPEN I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT YOUR ABUSE OF THE FISA PROCESS HAS COST YOU THE TRUST OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT IN AND OF ITSELF IS TRAGIC AND I DON'T USE THOSE WORDS LATELY. WHAT'S EVEN MORE TRAGIC IS THEY'VE COST A GREAT AGENCY ONE THAT I WORK WITH AS A AS A FEDERAL PROSECUTOR AND FOR WHICH I'VE HAD GREAT RESPECT. AND WHERE THERE ARE STILL COUNTLESS HARDWORKING HONEST. MEN AND WOMEN. WHO EARN THE FBI'S GOOD NAME EVERY DAY. THEIR REPUTATION HAS BEEN SULLIED AND THE BUREAU'S ABILITY TO DO ITS JOB HAS BEEN SERIOUSLY IMPAIRED. BY THESE MISSTEPS THAT'S WHY THIS STRUCTURE MUST CHANGE AND I WON'T REST UNTIL IT DOES MR MCCABE WOULD YOU LIKE TO RESPOND. SURE SO- I CERTAINLY CAN'T RESPOND TO THINGS THAT OTHER PEOPLE HAVE SAID TO. SENATOR LEE OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS- I DO AGREE WITH YOU THAT THIS PROCESS THE I. G.'S OVERSIGHT THE REPORT THAT THEY DELIVERED AS UNCOVERED THAT THERE ARE PROBLEMS WITH THE WAY ATTENTION WITH THE WAY THAT THE FBI IS HANDLING ITS FIZER RESPONSIBILITIES. I THINK I PUBLIC REALLY CONFIDENT IN SAYING THAT THIS EXPERIENCE HAS EXPOSED TO MEET AT LEAST THAT WE HAVE BEEN OVERCONFIDENT IN THE- PROCESS THAT WE'VE BEEN USING FOR YEARS WE'VE BEEN OVER CONFIDENT IN THAT PRESS AND THE OVERSIGHT THAT WE'VE BEEN SUBJECTING EACH FINDS A PACKAGE TO I THINK THAT WE NEED TO GO BACK AND VERY. YOU KNOW THOROUGHLY LOOK AT HOW DO WE CHANGE THAT PROCESS TO ENSURE THAT THE ERRORS AND OMISSIONS IN THESE PACKAGES THAT WE NOW KNOW ABOUT DON'T HAPPEN AGAIN. I AGREE WITH YOU IN RESPECTS AND- IT WON'T CHANGE WE HAVE TO CHANGE IT IT'S THE LAW THAT'S THE PROBLEM IT GIVES AN UNFAIR AMOUNT OF DISCRETION TO HUMAN BEINGS WHO HAVE PROVEN TIME AND AGAIN THEY CAN'T BE TRUSTED WITH IT THANK YOU. SIR WHITE HOUSE. THANK YOU CHAIRMAN- FIRST OF ALL LET ME JUST. SAY THAT- GIVEN THE ERRORS AND OMISSIONS THAT EVERYBODY CONCEDES AND KNOWS WHERE IN THE FISA WARRANT NO OFFICIAL I WOULD SAY NOW THAT THEY'D FIND THAT WARRANT. KNOWING THAT IT HAD ERRORS AND OMISSIONS SO THAT'S AN OBVIOUS. QUESTION WHAT I WANT TO MAKE SURE OF IS THAT IT DOESN'T LEAD TO THE WRONG IMPLICATION THAT BECAUSE OFFICIALS WOULDN'T SIGN A WARRANT. THAT THEY KNEW TO HAVE ERRORS AND OMISSIONS SENATE THAT HAD THEY FOUND OUT THAT THERE IS AN EMISSIONS IN IT THEY WOULD HAVE ENDED THE INVESTIGATION. THAT IS NOT A LOGICAL LEAP THAT IS NOT A CORRECT. ASSERTION OR CORRECT IMPLICATION WOULD YOU DO IF YOU GO BACK CAN YOU CLEAR OUT THE ERRORS AND OMISSIONS. YOU TAKE WHATEVER PERSONAL ACTION IS NECESSARY AGAINST THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR THOSE ERRORS AND OMISSIONS. AND THEN YOU PROCEED WITH YOUR CASE FOR THE CORRECT WARRANT. SO LET'S JUST MAKE SURE THAT THAT IS CLEAR I THINK WE AGREE ON THAT BUT I WANT TO CLARIFY THAT. I ALSO GOT TO SAY I'VE GOT NO OBJECTION TO US PURSUING ENDLESSLY THE QUESTION OF THIS. CROSSFIRE HURRICANE INVESTIGATION BUT IT DOES COMMITTEE THAT WE DO THIS AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHER THINGS WE COULD BE LOOKING AT AND SHOULD BE LOOKING AT IF YOU HAVEN'T READ JUDGE GLEASON'S BRIEF. FOR A FEDERAL JUDGE IN THE FLYNN CASE IS ONE OF THE MOST ASTONISHING PIECE OF FIRST OF ALL IT'S JUST AN AMAZINGLY GOOD PIECE OF LEGAL WRITING SO IF YOU'RE A LAW STUDENT OUT THERE. FOR A YOUNG LAWYER GO READ IT JUST SAYS WATCH THE SKILL OF A TERRIFIC ADVOCATE AT WORK. BUT THE ALLEGATIONS AND CONCERNS THAT A RETIRED FEDERAL JUDGE ON BEHALF OF A SITTING FEDERAL JUDGE HAS MADE ABOUT DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. ARE UNPRECEDENTED. AND WHAT ATTENTION TO BE GIVEN THAT NONE. THERE IS VERY LIKELY MISCHIEF BEHIND THE ANTI TRUST LETTER THAT WAS SENT OUT TO AUTO COMPANIES WHO HAD THE NERVE. TO TRY TO INTERFERE WITH THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY SCHEME TO UNDO VEHICLE EMISSION STANDARDS. THERE'S NO SUPPORT FOR THAT IT'S SINCE BEEN WITHDRAWN THE HEARING CONTINUES TO BE POSTPONED I STILL HAVE GOT. ZERO ZERO EVIDENCE OR INFORMATION IN RELATION TO MY- REQUEST ABOUT THAT. WE HAVE WHAT APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN A TANK TO FBI INVESTIGATION IN THE KAVANAUGH HEARINGS AND I'VE ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT. TO WHICH I'VE HAD NO ANSWER WHAT SO EVER. WE'VE HAD MULTIPLE RESIGNATIONS IN PROTEST BY CAREER DOJ OFFICIALS UNDER ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR. AND WE CAN'T GET ANY ANSWERS TO WHAT'S GOING ON BEHIND THOSE RESIGNATIONS. IN PROTEST AND NOW TO FEDERAL COURTS. I'VE WRITTEN OFFICIAL OPINIONS DECISIONS EXCORIATING THE WORK OF THE OFFICE OF LEGAL COUNSEL. AND NOTHING ON THAT. SO. WE'RE HIGHLY SELECTIVE AND WE CHOOSE TO LOOK INTO AND WE'VE BEEN EXTREMELY SOLICITOUS OF THE STONEWALLING AND NON RESPONSIVENESS OF THIS DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. WELL GUYS WE'RE ABOUT TO GO INTO A BIDEN DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. AND IF THE STANDARD YOU WANT TO SET IS A DEPARTMENT JUSTICE DOESN'T HAVE TO ANSWER ANY LETTERS DOESN'T HAVE TO ANSWER ANY QUEUE FOR IT'S ONLY DOES THINGS FOR THE MAJORITY PARTY CONGRATULATIONS BECAUSE YOU'VE DONE A REALLY GOOD JOB OF SETTING THAT PRECEDENT IN THIS COMMITTEE. YOU HAVE ALLOWED. AN EFFECTIVE POLICY AT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND THE FBI OF NON RESPONSIVENESS AND I'LL TELL YOU HOW BAD IT IS. THE CHAIRMAN ACTUALLY BROUGHT THE DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL. INTO A MEETING WITH ME. THANK YOU FOR THAT COURTESY AT MY REQUEST BECAUSE WE WERE GETTING NO ANSWERS TO QF OURS NO ANSWERS TO LETTERS JUST A COMPLETE BLOW OFF. IF I RECALL CORRECTLY THAT MEETING WAS IN JUNE. YOU KNOW MANY ANSWERS I'VE GOTTEN SINCE JUNE. AFTER THAT MEETING WITH THE DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL ABOUT UNANSWERED QUESTIONS. NONE. ZERO SO YOU ALL HAVE SET ONE HECK OF A PRESIDENT. IF YOU THINK YOU'RE GONNA COME BACK WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BIDEN DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. YOU HAVE SET A PRECEDENT THE DEPARTMENT JUSTICE THE FBI DON'T HAVE TO ANSWER OUR QUESTIONS. AND IF YOU'RE IN THE MAJORITY THAT'S COOL YOU'RE JUST GONNA LET THAT RIDE. SO I HAVE TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO ASK THEM BACK QUESTIONS TO A FORMER. FBI OFFICIAL BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THAT SO LET ME ASK. MR MCCABE. ARE THERE THE FBI DOES PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING BY POLICY AND PROCEDURE IN MY RECOLLECTION AS A U. S. ATTORNEY WORKING WITH FBI AGENTS WERE THERE FBI POLICIES AND PROCEDURES RELATED TO HOW A TIP LINE. OPERATES. YES SIR YEAH THERE ARE POLICIES ABOUT THAT AND WHERE WOULD I GO TO FIND THOSE POLICIES AND PROCEDURES I WAS ABLE TO FIND ONE STATEMENT ON THE INTERNET ARE YOU AWARE OF OTHER PLACES THAT WE SHOULD GO. TO LOOK MORE SPECIFICALLY SINCE WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO GET STRAIGHT ANSWERS. I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN GIVE YOU. THE PERFECT PLACE TO WORK BUT THE TIP LINE THE WAY YEAH YEAH I HANDLES TIP LINES CHANGED A LOT IN THE LAST FIVE OR SO YEARS SO THEY WERE. ALL MANAGED CENTRALLY OUT OF OUR FACILITY IN WEST VIRGINIA- THAT KIND OF HANDLES ALL THE INCOMING CALLS AND THEN- SENDS. LEADS OR INFORMATION YOU KNOW DIRECTED TO THE FIELD OFFICES THAT WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR FOLLOWING UP ON THOSE THINGS SO IT'S WHO HAS THE AUTHORITY TO. WHO HAS A THIRTY TO SET ONE UP WHO MAKES THE CALL. AN AGENCY. TO BLIND ON THIS CASE WHERE TO HOW DOES THAT BUT WE'RE TO THAT DECISION TRAVEL THROUGH THE FBI. YOU DON'T GET A TIP LINE IN EVERY CASE YOU GOT TO BLINDS IN SOME CASES WHY HOW DOES THAT WORK. DICK BUCKLEY- THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS WOULD BE INVOLVED IN THAT IN THAT SUGGESTION AND THAT KIND OF HEY THIS IF IT'S A PARTICULAR CASE THAT- WE THINK REQUESTING THE PUBLIC'S ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT WILL HELP. FOR THE AGENT ASKED HIS AGENT IN CHARGE AND THE AGENT IN CHARGE WOULD CLEAR IT WITH THE- PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE. AND THEN THE PROCESS FOR TIP LINE KICKS IN. THAT'S A THAT'S THE BEST OF MY RECOLLECTION OKAY AND THEN WHAT'S THE TIP LINE IS UP AND RUNNING AND INFORMATION STARTS TO COME IN. WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE WHEN YOU'RE GOING THROUGH THOSE TIPS. OBVIOUSLY A LOT OF THEM ARE GONNA BE JUST NINETY PEOPLE CALLING IN SOME OF THEM ARE GOING TO HAVE VERY SIGNIFICANT EVIDENCE POTENTIALLY IN THEM AND YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO GO AND DIG INTO THAT WHO OVERSEES THAT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT IS LEGITIMATE AND THAT EVIDENCE IS ACTUALLY BEING DUG OUT OF A- TIP LINE- CALL. SO THOSE CALLS ONCE THE LINE IS SET UP THOSE CALLS WOULD GO INTO OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE INFORMATION SERVICES DIVISION IN WEST VIRGINIA. AND THE TELEPHONE. OPERATORS THE SPECIALS TO ANSWER THOSE CALLS HAVE A PROCESS FOR HOW THEY MEMORIALIZE THE INFORMATION THAT COMES OFF THAT TIP. AND WHO WOULD GET SENT TO AND- WHETHER IT SHOULD BE BROUGHT TO SOMEONE'S ATTENTION IMMEDIATELY IF IT'S SOMETHING THAT INVOLVES POSSIBLY A THREAT TO LIFE- SO THERE ARE. THERE ARE KIND OF DETAILED- POLICIES AROUND THAT I I'M NOT REALLY TO POSITION TO BE ABLE TO TELL YOU GREAT DETAIL ABOUT THEM OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD OKAY I'M OVER MY TIME SO LET ME ASK A LAST. VERY SHORT QUESTION AND THAT IS. IF AN FBI TIP LINE WAS SET UP. AND INFORMATION WERE COLLECTED THROUGH THAT FBI TIP LINE AND THEN. NOBODY LOOKED AT WHAT HAD BEEN BROUGHT IN. IT WAS JUST ALL DUMPED IN A FILE IN THERE WAS NO FURTHER INVESTIGATIVE WORK AT ALL. WOULD THAT BE CONSISTENT WITH FBI POLICY OR PROCEDURE. FROM THE WAY YOU'VE DESCRIBED THE SITUATION SIR I'D HAVE TO SAY NO I'M NOT AWARE OF A SPECIFIC SITUATION THAT IT'S THAT MODEL BUT PRESUMABLY THE INFORMATION COMES IN OFF THE TIP LINE GETS PUT INTO OUR GUARDIAN SYSTEM AND THAT'S HOW ALL OF OUR INCOMING CHIEF INFORMATION IS- MANAGED AND ASSIGNED AN ESTIMATED AT ITS MOST KIND OF. INITIAL LEVEL SO NO INFORMATION THAT COMES IN TO THE FBI SHOULD NEVER JUST BE PUT ASIDE ENOUGH. THANK YOU TERMINAL FOR THE EXTRA TIME THAT YOU ABSOLUTELY AND AS TO THE ANTI TRUST. ISSUE YOU'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT. OTHER COMMITTEE DESERVES TO HAVE A HEARING ON THAT. WE HAD THE- BEAR NOMINATION SOME MORE GIVE US AN EARLY. MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN IN A REASONABLE FASHION. GET ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS YOU'VE RAISED I THINK WE OWE THAT TO. NOT ONLY YOU BUT THE COMMITTEE ITSELF HEARINGS CAN BE PRETTY MEANINGLESS IF WE HAVEN'T BEEN GIVEN ANY DOCUMENT OUTLINING LOAN OFF BY THE AVOID S. AGO TIME AGAIN OFTEN WE WILL LOOK INTO THAT AS TO. JUSTICE KAVANAUGH ON THANK YOU GOTTA. FROM MY POINT OF VIEW PRETTY GOOD SCRUTINY- SO. SENATOR TELL US. NOW HOW WE GOT. PRESS LAMP OVERLOOKED I'M FIXING TO BE GERMAN. DURING THE COURSE OF CROSSFIRE HURRICANE THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION USED FISA PROCESS AS A WEAPON AGAINST CANDIDATE TRUMP AND THEN LATER PRESIDENT TRUMP DOING SO UNDERMINED HIS PRESIDENCY FROM THE START WE VOTED IN THE SENATE ON LEGISLATION THAT WOULD REPAIR MANY OF THE SHORTCOMINGS IN THE CURRENT FISA COURT SYSTEM STRIKING A BALANCE OF INCREASING ACCOUNTABILITY TRANSPARENCY AND ENSURING FAIRNESS WHILE PROTECTING OUR- NATIONAL SECURITY INTEREST. CONGRESS MUST ENSURE THAT THE FISA PROCESS ISN'T ABUSED FOR PARTISAN POLITICAL GAME LIKE IT WAS DURING THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION SO NOW MR MCCABE TO MY FIRST QUESTION. THE INSPECTOR GENERAL FOUND SEVENTEEN AIRS ANIMATIONS IN THE CARTER PAGE FISA APPLICATION THERE WERE ALSO OVER FIFTY ERRORS AND OMISSIONS IN THE WOODS FILE FOR THE PAGE FISA APPLICATION IN LIGHT OF THESE OVERWHELMING MISTAKES THE OBVIOUS LACK OF EVIDENCE AND THE FAILURE TO FULLY APPRISED OF FISA COURT OF RELEVANT ACTIONABLE TERRY FAX. THE INVESTIGATION SIMPLY DIDN'T HAVE THE FOUNDATION TO PROCEED. IF YOU WERE DILIGENT DOING THE JOB HOW DID YOU MASS ALL OF THESE CRITICAL MISTAKES AND FAILURES THAT HAVE TARNISHED THE FBI FOR PROBABLY YEARS TO COME. WELL I DON'T AGREE WITH YOUR CHARACTERIZATION OF THE INVESTIGATION BEING ILLEGITIMATE OR OR FLAWED THERE CLEARLY THE FLAWS THAT YOU HAVE REFERENCED THE ONES POINTED OUT BY THE I. G. SHOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN THE FISA APPLICATION. WHICH IS ONLY ONE PART OF AN OVERALL INVESTIGATION INTO MR PAGE AND THREE OTHER INDIVIDUALS AN INVESTIGATION THAT I WOULD POINT OUT THE I. G. INDICATED WAS FOR AN AUTHORIZED PURPOSE PROPERLY PREDICATED. ACCORDING TO THE INSPECTOR GENERAL THE STEELE DOSSIER WAS CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL TO THE CARTER PAGE FISA IS HOWEVER ACCORDING TO YOUR TESTIMONY BEFORE THE HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE THE DOSSIER WASN'T FULLY VETTED AND CORROBORATED BEFORE WAS USED IN THE FISA APPLICATION. WHY DIDN'T YOU ENSURE THAT THE F. B. I. PERFORMED ITS DUE DILIGENCE BEFORE THE DOSSIER WAS USED TO JUSTIFY INVASIVE SURVEILLANCE ON AN AMERICAN CITIZEN. THE FBI IS NOT REQUIRED BY THE COURT TO ONLY PRESENT INFORMATION THAT HAS BEEN ABSOLUTELY VERIFIED AND PROVEN TRUE WE OFTEN USE INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE NOT YET GOTTEN TO THE BOTTOM OF. WE ARE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SOURCE OF THAT INFORMATION SO THAT THE COURT IS ADEQUATELY AWARE OF THIS YOU KNOW WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT WHAT WE TOLD THEM IN AND HOW WE THINK ABOUT ITS VERIFICATION. IN THIS CASE WE WORK IN THE MIDDLE OF A VERY LONG- AN EXTENSIVE EFFORT TRYING TO PROVE. THE MANY ALLEGATIONS IN THE STEELE REPORTING. ON JANUARY FOURTH TWENTY SEVENTEEN THE F. B. I. PREPARED A MAMMAL TO FLOWS OF FLAME CASE AND NOTED IN ORDER ARGUED TERRY INFORMATION WAS IDENTIFIED. THAT SAME DAY MR STRUCK INTERCEDED TO KEEP IT OPEN. DID YOU ORDER STRUCK OR ANYONE ELSE TO KEEP IT OPEN IF NOT WHO DID. I DON'T RECALL ORDERING PETER TO KEEP- MISTER STRUCK TO KEEP- THAT INVESTIGATION OPEN- I THINK THAT. OBVIOUSLY THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED BUT I DON'T I DON'T KNOW WHO GAVE THAT ORDER. OKAY DID ANYONE EVER INSTRUCT YOU TO KEEP THE FLAME CASE OPEN HAVE SOLD. NO ONE EVER INSTRUCTED ME TO KEEP THE FLYNN CASE OPEN- WE HAD CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE FLYNN CASE TOWARDS THE END OF TWENTY SIXTEEN AND WHETHER OR NOT WE SHOULD KEEP IT OPEN THERE WAS. SOME THOUGHT THAT WE HAD NOT DEVELOPED MUCH INFORMATION ABOUT IT DURING THE COURSE OF THE INFORMATION THAT IT MIGHT BE APPROPRIATE TO CLOSE THE CASE HOWEVER THOSE THOUGHTS CHANGED AS SOON AS WE BECAME AWARE THAT WE HAD- EVIDENCE AS GENERAL FLYNN'S CONVERSATIONS WITH RUSSIAN SO OUR- INITIAL CONCERN THAT GENERAL FLYNN MIGHT BE THE POINT OF. CONTACT BETWEEN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND THE RUSSIANS WAS ELEVATED WHEN WE FOUND EVIDENCE THAT HE WAS IN FACT IN TOUCH WITH THE RUSSIANS DURING YOUR TIME AT THE FBI HOW MANY LOGIN ACT INVESTIGATIONS WERE YOU A PART OF. I DO NOT RECALL EVER HAVING BEEN A PART OF A LOGAN ACT INVESTIGATION. BASED ON THE EVIDENCE I'VE SEEN MUCH OF WHICH HAS BEEN MADE PUBLIC THE FBI. WAS AISLE TO GET FLAN AND THEY BROKE EVERY RULE IN THE BOX THE INTERVIEWING HIM AND TRIED AND- DAM- WHAT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION FBI DID TO FLYNN UNDER YOUR WATCH IS A TEXTBOOK EXAMPLE OF. THE POWER OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CAN BE ABUSIVE- AND- AND HURT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. NOW GOING TO LEAKS- THE SUBJECT TO LEAKS L. E. K. S. I'VE MADE THIS POINT BEFORE BUT IT'S FRUSTRATING WHEN THE FBI REFUSES TO ANSWER THIS COMMITTEE'S QUESTIONS IN FULL BUT LEADS RELEVANT INFORMATION TO THE MEDIA. I ASKED THEN DIRECTOR CALL ME IN MAY TWENTY SEVENTEEN WHETHER HE EVER SERVED AS AN ANONYMOUS. IN NEWS REPORTS ABOUT MATTERS THREE LEAST RELATING TO THE TRUMP. INVESTIGATION OR CLINTON INVESTIGATION HIS RESPONSE. QUOTE ON QUOTE NEVER. SO THE NEXT DO YOU DEPUTY DIRECTOR MCCABE WAS SET A TRUE AND ACCURATE ANSWER BASED ON YOUR EXPERIENCE WORKING FOR HIM. THE FIRST SENATOR TO BE CLEAR I STRONGLY DISAGREE WITH YOUR CHARACTERIZATION AND OF OUR INVESTIGATION OF GENERAL FLYNN- BUT WITH RESPECT TO YOUR QUESTION ABOUT MR COMEY'S TESTIMONY TO YOU ABOUT BEING THE SOURCE OF ANONYMOUS LEAKS ACT I DON'T HAVE ANY- I DON'T HAVE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THAT. THAT'S IN S. I DON'T KNOW. IN THAT SAME MAY TWENTY SEVENTH. SPORTY SEVENTEEN HEARING I S. SANDER ACTOR CALL ME WELL THE AUTHORIZED SOMEONE ELSE AT THE FBI TO BE AN ANONYMOUS SOURCE IN NEWS REPORTS ABOUT THE TRUMP INVESTIGATION OR CLINTON INVESTIGATION HIS ANSWER WAS NO SO MR MCCABE WAS THAT A TRUE AND ACCURATE ANSWER BASED ON YOUR EXPERIENCE OF WORKING FOR HIM. I AM NOT AWARE OF THIS- DIRECTOR COMEY AUTHORIZING WE'RE DIRECTING PEOPLE TO BE ANONYMOUS SOURCES FOR THE MEDIA. ARE THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT'S INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT ON YOUR DISPOSING OF INFORMATION TO THE MEDIA BLACKETT CANDOR A LYING UNDER OLD CONTAINED REFERENCES TO WHAT CLINTON FOUNDATION INVESTIGATION SPECIFICALLY THAT REPORTS SAID YOU HAD A CONVERSATION WITH A JUSTICE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL ABOUT THE CLINTON INVESTIGATION AND IN THAT CONVERSATION USE REPORTEDLY STATED QUOTE ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT I NEED TO SHUT DOWN A VALIDLY PREDICATED INVESTIGATION INTO POLL WHY DID YOU BELIEVE THE CLINTON FOUNDATION INVESTIGATION WAS VALIDLY. PREDICATE. WELL I'M NOT SURE I CAN ANSWER THAT QUESTION- BECAUSE IT'S- FIRST BEYOND THE SCOPE OF WHAT WE WERE TOLD TO. BE QUESTIONED ABOUT TODAY AND ALSO IT WOULD CALL FOR ME TO REVEAL INFORMATION THAT I'M NOT SURE THE FBI I HAVE BEEN AUTHORIZED BY THE FBI TO DISCUSS BUT I WOULD POINT OUT SENATOR. THAT THE DIRECTOR AND THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE FBI ARE THE ONLY TWO FBI OFFICIALS WHO HAVE THE AUTHORITY AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TO AUTHORIZE THE RELEASE. OF INFORMATION TO THE MEDIA AND SO. I THINK THAT'S YOUR QUESTIONS ARE OVERLOOKING THAT. IMPORTANT DISTINCTION SO. THAT'S THAT'S IT. THANK MARGARINES THANK YOU ARE A CIRCLE OVER WILL GO TO YOUR INSECT ARIZONA BASED ON WHAT YOU SAID THE YOU SAY THAT YOU PERCENT INFORMATIONS OF COURSE SOMETIMES IS NOT FULLY. PROVEN IS THAT RIGHT WHEN IT COMES TO WARNS. THAT'S CORRECT WE OFTEN PRESENT INFORMATION IN FLORENCE THAT WE HAVE NOT YET RECOGNIZED VERIFYING DO YOU HAVE AN OBLIGATION WHEN YOU FIND INFORMATION IT'S COUPLE TORY TO PROVIDED TO THE COURT. IN THE FIVE STEP PROCESS- AGENTS ARE OBLIGATED TO PRESENT INFORMATION THAT MIGHT CUT- MIGHT CUT AGAINST THE YOU KNOW THE- VASUDEVA SOURCE OR YOU KNOW YOU'RE OBLIGATED. TO ACCURATELY ASSESS WHETHER THEY BELIEVE DO YOU KNOW THE SOURCE INFORMATION FIRST SO THAT'S WHY IF YOU ALTER AN EMAIL FROM THE CIA SAYING THAT MR PAGE ACTUALLY WAS A SOURCE. THAT'S MISLEADING TO THE COURT AND THAT'S WHAT MR CLIENTS MISS BEING PROSECUTED IS THAT CORRECT. THAT IS MY UNDERSTANDING AND FINALLY WILL GO TO- WHEN YOU HAVE INFORMATION. IN THE POSSESSION OF THE FBI IN JANUARY AND MARCH WITH THE SUB SOURCE BASICALLY DISALLOWS THE LEGITIMACY OF THE DOSSIER WHAT OF ITS PART TALKING HERE SAYING. CAN YOU TELL US HOW THAT NEVER MADE IT TO YOU BUT JUNE. OF TWENTY SEVENTEEN HOW COULD THAT INFORMATION BEEN GATHERED IN JANUARY IN MARCH OF TWENTY SEVENTEEN AND NOT KNOWN TO THE SYSTEM. AS LATE AS JUNE TWENTY SEVENTEEN DO YOU KNOW. DID YOU TALK TO MISTER ALLEN ABOUT THIS AT ALL. I'M NOT SURE I DON'T- I'M NOT SURE WHO THAT WAS YOU JUST REFERRED TO BY SO. EXCUSE ME THE JUNE MARCH INTERVIEW THE SUBS OR SPY THE FBI WAS CONDUCTED BY MR ALBUM AND A FEW OTHER AGENTS. AND THAT'S WHEN THE SUB SOURCE TOLD US BASICALLY THAT WHATEVER WAS BARTOK HEARSAY. GUTTED THE RELIABILITY OF IT MY QUESTION IS YOU SAID IF YOU'D KNOWN THEM WHICH NO NOW YOU ONCE ON THE ONE APPLICATION DO YOU HAVE AN EXPLANATION AS TO WHY THAT INFORMATION NEVER MADE IT TO YOU AND OTHERS. I KNOW SIR BUT I THINK THAT WEEK TEAM THERE'S NO QUESTION THAT STATE THE CROSSFIRE TEAM SHOULD HAVE HAD. IT MUCH MORE THOROUGH CONVERSATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ATTORNEYS RESPONSIBLE FOR PREPARING THAT PACKAGE YOU SHOULD HAVE FULL VISIBILITY ON THOSE FACTS AND MADE AN INFORMED DECISION. AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN THE PACKAGE AND YOUR YOUR TESTIMONY IS THAT NO ONE TOLD YOU ABOUT. THESE INTERVIEWS THE SUBSTANCE OF THEM IS THAT CORRECT. THAT'S CORRECT THANK OSUR CULTURE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH MR CHAIRMAN WELCOME BACK MR MCCABE GOOD TO SEE YOU- ADD TO THIS HEARING WAS SET UP BEFORE THIS ELECTION I KNOW THAT- BUT SINCE WE GOT THE NOTICE ON THIS HEARING WE NOW KNOW THAT WE HAVE A NEW PRESIDENT OUR PRESIDENT ELECT BIDEN AND A NEW VICE PRESIDENT THAT WE WILL SEE I'M IN WASHINGTON AND THAT IS OUR VICE PRESIDENT ELECT KERIS. AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE CLEAR TO ANYONE WATCHING THIS RIGHT NOW OUT THERE IN THE VIRTUAL LAND- THAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE THE. TWENTY SIXTEEN ELECTION IS THAT CORRECT MR MCCABE. INDOOR AND AROUND THAT TIME PERIOD. THAT'S CORRECT OKAY AND IN THE TWENTY SIXTEEN ELECTION DONALD TRUMP ONE AND HILLARY LOST IS THAT CORRECT. THAT'S MY UNDERSTANDING OKAY THAT'S THAT'S A THAT'S THE CORRECT ANSWER RIGHT SO NOW WE LOOK FORWARD TO THIS ELECTION IN TWENTY TWENTY- AND- WE HAVE A SITUATION WHERE OUR VERY DEMOCRACY HAS SPOKEN WITH HAD. THE GREATEST NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT VOTED EVER IN A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. HERE ARE YOU AWARE ABOUT MR MCCABE. YES MA'AM I'M UP AT AND DO YOU THINK THERE WERE SOME IMPROVEMENTS MADE ON HOW WE HANDLE MORE INTERFERENCE IN THE ELECTION. I THINK IT IT SEEMS ARE OF COURSE I'M NOT PRIVY TO ALL THE INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT WHAT FOLKS KNOW WHEN AND WHAT STEPS THEY TOOK THAT DOES SEEM TO ME THAT- THE EFFORTS TO BRING GREATER SECURITY TO OUR ELECTIONS AT THE STATE LEVEL- WAS. THIS TIME AND EFFORT WELL SPENT. YES AND I PERSONALLY I THINK THERE'S A LOT MORE THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE AT CENTER GRAHAM AND I HAVE THE HONEST ADS ACT. WHICH I THINK WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL. FOR ADS AND THAT OUR POLITICAL ADS THAT ARE TAKEN OUT TO MAKE SURE I THINK YOU'RE AWARE THAT BILL- AND I THINK THERE'S A LOT MORE THAT CAN BE DONE I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO NOTE. THAT THIS SUBJECT THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PRE DATES THE TWENTY SIXTEEN ELECTION AND I WANT TO TALK ABOUT. WHAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW WITH THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AND OUR ELECTION AND I REALLY DO IT. I LIED OF WHAT VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN SAID ON SATURDAY NIGHT THE NATION. I HE ASKS THAT THE GRAMMY HERE- I'VE DEMONISATION BE BEHIND US I'M SURE THAT MIGHT HAVE RESONATED WITH YOU A BIT MR MCCABE- AND THAT. WE UNDERSTANDING THAT THAT. SOME PEOPLE I DIDN'T AGREE WITH HIM AND VOTED FOR DONALD TRUMP THAT. HE LITERALLY REACH OUT. AND TO. HELP PEOPLE BETTER DOWN TO ANY SAID LOOK. I BEEN DISAPPOINTED BEFORE I'VE LOST ELECTIONS BUT I'M ASKING YOU TO GIVE ME A CHANCE AND I'LL GIVE YOU A CHANCE AND SO THAT IS THE APPROACH THAT I TAKE HERE- AND I KNOW THAT IT'S HARD TO LOSE ELECTIONS BUT- I THINK THAT- WE NEED TO MOVE ON AS A COUNTRY. THAT PANDEMIC EVERYTHING THAT WE HAVE BEFORE US AND REALLY THE INTEGRITY OF OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM. AND I WAS ACTUALLY I'M VERY DISHEARTENED AT YESTERDAY WHEN ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR. TOLD THAT SENT OUT A MEMO TO THE U. S. ATTORNEYS. THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY ASKING THEM TO EXAMINE VOTING IRREGULARITIES EVEN BEFORE THE STATE'S HAD CERTIFIED THE RESULTS. AND I HAD ACTUALLY DONE A LETTER BACK ON OCTOBER TWENTY THIRD- WHEN HE STARTED QUESTIONING MAIL IN BALLOTS EARLY ON. AND ASKED HIM TO LOOK AT THIS BECAUSE- FEDERAL PROSECUTION OF ELECTION THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT'S POLICY SAYS QUOTE OVER CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION THAT MEASURES. I SHOULD NOT BE TAKING FOR AND TOLD A LACK IN QUESTION IS BEEN. IT'S CERTIFIED. AND I'LL BE. AND LET. TIME INCLUDED. SO WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY IS THEY DECIDED TOP END THAT POLICY AND START GETTING ON THIS TRAIN THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THIS ELECTION WHEN IN FACT THE REPUBLICAN SECRETARY OF STATE. IN GEORGIA HAS STOOD BY THEIR ELECTION AND SAID THERE ISN'T SYSTEMATIC FRAUD AT THE REPUBLICANS IN ARIZONA AND THE GOVERNOR THERE THIS IS THE STATE HOUR JOE BIDEN- BASICALLY AS ONE. HOUR WITH A FEW MORE VOTES TO BE COUNTED YOU LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED IN PENNSYLVANIA SO MY CONCERN IS THERE UP ENDING THIS. LONGSTANDING POLICY ARE RIGHT WHEN THE ELECTION RESULTING IN A CAREER PROSECUTOR MR. HILDER I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW HIM REMIND YESTERDAY- BECAUSE HE SAW THIS- CLEARLY THIS IS A REASON FOR HIS RESIGNATION- AS POLITICAL INTERFERENCE IN THE WORK OF THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. FELL ARE YOU SPENT DECADES IN PUBLIC SERVICE MR MCCABE. AND I WANT TO ASK YOU WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO YOU TO SEE A CAREER JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. EMPLOYEE I RESIGN LIKE THAT. WELL I THINK INCREDIBLY CONCERNING- AS A DEADLY CENTERED YOU KNOW FROM YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE THAT PEOPLE. IN THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ARE YOU TYPICALLY COMMITTED TO- LONG AND- YOU KNOW NOBLE SERVICE. NOT JUST IT'S NOT JUST A JOB IT'S A IT'S A CALLING IN WHAT YOU CHOOSE TO DO WITH YOUR LIFE SO. WHEN PEOPLE START RESIGNING IN PROTEST OVER DECISIONS THAT LEADERSHIP MAKES I THINK WE SHOULD ALL TAKE VERY VERY CLOSE LOOK AT THAT- YEAH RIGHT IS IN TERMS OF A ELECTION FRAUD GENERALLY. WELL ANYTIME YOU CHANGE THEY ARE WELL KNOWN AND ESTABLISHED POLICY REGARDING THE POLITICAL PROCESS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE POLITICAL PROCESS. I THINK IT RAISES SOME VERY LEGITIMATE CONCERNS ABOUT WHAT THE MOTIVATION FOR THAT CHANGE WAS AND I THINK IN THE LEAST CASE. IT'S CHINA VERY LIGHT ON THE DEPARTMENT AND- ITS IMPARTIALITY. AT WITH NEW PRESIDENT COMING IN- WHAT STEPS DO YOU THINK WE SHOULD BE TAKING TO RESTORE PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE DEPARTMENT AND IMPROVE MORALE IN THE DEPARTMENT. YOU KNOW I THINK FROM MY OWN EXPERIENCE I LOOK BACK ON MY OWN EXPERIENCE AND SOME OF THE DECISIONS WE MADE IN THE FBI AND OF COURSE MANY OF THE THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED SINCE. AND YOU KNOW I THINK A RETURN TO THE TIME HONORED PRINCIPLES. IN THE DEPARTMENT AND THE BUREAU OF. OF BEING VERY CAREFUL ABOUT HOW WHAT WE DO AND HOW WE DO IT AROUND- THE POLITICAL PROCESS IS I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT MOST PEOPLE IN THE DEPARTMENT AND THE BUREAU WOULD- WOULD REALLY EMBRACE. ALL RIGHT THANK YOU MR MACKAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MMHM SENATE GROUPS. THANK YOU MR CHAIRMAN MR MCCABE WELCOME I'D LIKE TO START BY DISCUSSING THE FLYNN INVESTIGATION AS YOU KNOW THE F. B. I. TEAM INVESTIGATING GENERAL FLYNN. APPEARED A MEMO DATED JANUARY FOURTH TWENTY SEVENTEEN TO CLOSE THE INVESTIGATION INTO FLANAESS LACKING ANY ANY BASIS TO CONTINUE THE FBI HAD INVESTIGATED IN FAILED TO FIND ANY DEROGATORY INFORMATION ABOUT GENERAL FLYNN FLYNN AND DETERMINED. HE WAS NO LONGER A VIABLE CANDIDATE FOR INVESTIGATION. BUT THEN ACCORDING TO PETER STRUCK THE SEVENTH FLOOR. THE TOP BRASS AT THE FBI INTERVENES TO KEEP THE INVESTIGATION OPEN. WERE YOU THE ONE WHO MADE THE DECISION TO KEEP THE INVESTIGATION OPEN. I DON'T REMEMBER MAKING THAT DECISION BUT I CERTAINLY SUPPORTED KEEPING THE CASE OPEN I DON'T REMEMBER BEING IN THE PERSON THAT MADE THAT PHONE CALL BUT- I THINK THAT IT WAS. THE RIGHT MOVE TO CONTINUE INVESTIGATING ONCE WE HAD UNCOVERED THE INVESTIGATE THE INFORMATION THAT WE SHOT. SO DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE CAREER INVESTIGATORS CONCLUDED THAT THERE WAS NO BASIS AND NO DEROGATORY INFORMATION A RECOMMENDED CLOSING IT. YOU MADE THE DECISION OR AND YOUR AT LEAST YOU AGREED WITH THE DECISION TO KEEP THE INVESTIGATION OPEN ON ON ON WHAT BASIS. WELL I DON'T KNOW THAT ACT I DON'T RECALL THAT THE INVESTIGATORS DETERMINED THERE WAS NO BASIS TO CONTINUE. MY RECOLLECTION FROM THE CONVERSATIONS WE WERE HAVING ABOUT THE FLANKING THE MEMO IS A MEMO TO CLOSE THE INVESTIGATION BECAUSE IT IT COULD NOT FIND ANY QUOTE DEROGATORY INFORMATION ABOUT FLYNN. AND HE WAS QUOTE NO LONGER A VIABLE CANDIDATE FOR INVESTIGATION THAT'S NOT AMBIGUOUS AS IT. NO THAT'S NOT THE SAME AS WHAT YOU SAID BEFORE ACT COURSE DON'T HAVE THAT MEMO IN FRONT OF ME BUT- OUR FEELING AT THAT TIME WAS THAT WE HAD SOUNDS VERY LITTLE- IF ANY INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE ABOUT GENERAL FLYNN UNTIL OF COURSE WE FOUND. POTENTIALLY VERY INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE ABOUT HIM. ARE YOU REFERRING TO THE LOGAN ACT THEORY. NO SIR I AM REFERRING TO THE FACT THAT WE UNCOVERED THAT GENERAL FLYNN WAS HAVING THE SORT OF DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF RUSSIA THAT WE WERE LOOKING FOR IN ALL OF THE FIRST FOUR OR CASES OF CROSSFIRE. DID YOU YOU DID YOU SUPPORT USING THE LOGAN ACT AS A BASIS TO GO AFTER GENERAL FLYNN. THE LOGAN ACT WAS NOT USED AS A BASIS TO GO AFTER GENERAL FLAN- WE OPEN TO CARE WHERE OF THE WHITE HOUSE MEETING WHERE WHAT WHERE THE NOTE SHOW THAT VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN AT THE TIME DIRECTLY SUGGESTED USING LOGIN ACT AGO AFTER GENERAL FLYNN. I I'M NOT AWARE OF THAT. YOU'RE NOT AWARE OF THAT WELL THE THAT THAT THOSE ARE NOTES FROM YOUR COLLEAGUES. I DON'T MEAN TO INTERRUPT BUT I DID WHAT I ACT SENATE EIGHT I CAN SAY WHAT. ARE THE REASONS THAT I AGREED WITH AN APPROVED OPENING THAT CASE AND THAT WAS BECAUSE WE THOUGHT THAT GENERAL FLYNN MIGHT BE HAVING INAPPROPRIATE CONTACTS WITH RUSSIA THAT'S WHY WE OPEN A CASE IN APPROPRIATE THE SURFACES SO THE ONLY BASES THIS IS DECORATED THREE STAR GENERAL. THE ONLY BASIS THAT WAS PUT FORWARD FOR WHAT I THINK WAS A BOGUS POLITICAL PERSECUTION AND PROSECUTION. WAS AN ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE LOGAN ACT WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN USED TO PROSECUTE ANYBODY IN THE HISTORY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TRUE. NO I DON'T BELIEVE THAT'S TRUE I THINK THAT YOU NAME ONE PERSON HAS EVER BEEN PROSECUTED IN THE LOGAN ACT. YEAH I WAS REFERRING TO WHY WE OPENED A CASE AGAINST GENERAL FLYNN I'M NOT AWARE OF PROSECUTIONS OF THE LOGAN ACT. I MAY I THINK FOR THOSE WHO ARE LISTENING. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A CONVERSATION BETWEEN GENERAL FLYNN AND THE RUSSIAN INVESTOR AFTER THE ELECTION. WHILE HE'S THE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER AND WAITING IS THAT CORRECT CENTER CREWS WE ARE USE THE INCOMING NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER AND MR CAN'T YESTERDAY ON MSNBC BEN RHODES THE FORMER DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA. SAID THAT FOREIGN LEADERS ARE ALREADY HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH JOE BIDEN QUOTE TALKING ABOUT THE AGENDA THEY'RE GOING TO PURSUE JANUARY TWENTIETH MR MACKAY BASED ON THAT TESTIMONY DO YOU BELIEVE JOE BIDEN IS VIOLATING THE LOGAN ACT. I'M NOT AWARE AS BEEN ROAD STATEMENTS OR OR OR TAKE IT ON FAITH HE SAID WHAT I READ IT READ ASSUMING HE'S THAT QUOTE IS ACCURATE IT'S A VERBATIM QUOTE IS THAT A VIOLATION OF THE LOGAN ACT UNDER ANY PLAUSIBLE THEORY. I AM NOT PREPARED TO TAKE YOUR STATEMENT ON STATE'S. AND I AM ALSO NOT PREPARED TO CONDUCT LEGAL ANALYSIS ALL RIGHT YOU'RE A LAWYER IF YOU EVER ANSWERED A HYPOTHETICAL IN COURT. IF IT IS CORRECT THAT I AM ACCURATELY QUOTING IT SOMETHING THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FREQUENTLY DID WRONG. IN THIS INVESTIGATION IF THAT IS WHAT BEN RHODES SAID IF JOE BIDEN IS TALKING WITH FOREIGN LEADERS RIGHT NOW DOES IT VIOLATE THE LOGAN ACT YESTERDAY. I AM NOT GOING TO OPINE ON A HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION ABOUT WHAT THE BIKE AT HIM HE IS TALKING WITH FOREIGN LEADERS AND IT DOESN'T VIOLATE THE LOGAN ACT BECAUSE THE LOGAN ACT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL WHICH IS WHY IT'S NEVER BEEN USED TO PROSECUTE ANYONE. YOU AUTHORIZE USING IT TO GO AFTER GENERAL FLYNN AS PART OF A POLITICAL PERSECUTION I CAN GIVE YOU THE ANSWER HELL NO JOE BIDEN IS NOT VIOLATING THE LOGAN ACT. THE REASON YOU WON'T SAY IT IS BECAUSE THAT WAS YOUR FLIMSY POLITICAL BASIS TO GO AFTER A DECORATED WAR HERO BECAUSE YOU DISAGREED WITH POLITICALLY WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP. SIR NONE OF THAT IS CORRECT. REP WHAT WHICH PART PICK PICK ANY ASPECT. WE DIDN'T INVESTIGATE GENERAL SLAMMED BECAUSE WE WERE CONCERNED THAT HE MIGHT. VIOLATE THE LOGAN ACT WE WERE CONCERNED IT IS YOUR TESTIMONY THE LOGAN ACT WAS NOT A PREDICATE FOR THE FBI AND DOJ INVESTIGATION OF GENERAL FLYNN REALLY. THERE WERE NO DISCUSSIONS OF THE LOGAN ACT THERE WERE NO DISCUSSIONS LOGAN ACT OF THE FBI OR DOJ THAT IF YOUR TESTIMONY UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE. AND I WARN YOU THERE IS A BOND IN EVIDENCE THAT THERE WERE. SENATOR IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO LET ME FINISH MY ANSWER I'M NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO ACCURATELY YES YOUR QUIGLEY'S GO AHEAD WHAT IS YOUR TESTIMONY IS YOUR TESTIMONY. YOU JUST SAID THERE WAS NO DISCUSSION OF THE LOGAN ACT IS THAT DOES THAT REMAIN YOUR TESTIMONY. NO SENATOR THAT'S WHERE YOU CUT OFF MY TESTIMONIES CONTINUE WITH. I WOULD LIKE TO PHILLIES CONTINUE. THANK YOU THANK YOU. WHEN WE INITIATED THE CASE AGAINST GENERAL FLYNN IT WAS NOT INITIATED FOUR OR AS A RESULT OF ANY DISCUSSION MR MCKAY YOU'RE PAYING NON RESPONSIVE TO THE QUESTION I DIDN'T ASK ABOUT THE INITIATION THE LOGAN ACT WAS A LATE. A LATE PRETEXT THAT WAS ADOPTED AFTER YOU INVESTIGATED HIM AND COULDN'T FIND ANYTHING IN THE CAREER INVESTIGATORS RECOMMENDED CLOSING AT ART SINCE MY TIME IS EXPIRING ON THE CHAIRMAN TOOK A LITTLE BIT OF MY TIME SO I'M GONNA- THEY TAKE A LITTLE BIT OF IT BACK. DID JAMES COMEY. AUTHORIZE YOU TO DISCLOSE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CLINTON FOUNDATION INVESTIGATION TO THE PRESS. I DIDN'T NEED JAMES COMEY'S AUTHOR I DIDN'T ASK IF YOU NEEDED IT I ASKED DID HE AUTHORIZE YOU TO DISCLOSE IF THAT'S A YES OR NO QUESTION. I AUTHORIZE THE DISCLOSURE YOU'RE STILL NOT ANSWERING MY QUESTION DID JAMES COMEY NOW ABOUT IT AND DID HE AUTHORISE IT YESTERDAY DID YOU KNOW ABOUT. TO MY RECOLLECTION SIR YES YOU KNEW ABOUT IT DID HE AUTHORIZE YOU DID IT DID YOU DID HE IN ANY WAY GIVE YOU THE GREEN LIGHT EXPLICITLY OR IMPLICITLY. I DIDN'T ASK GYMKHANA I'M NOT ASKING WHETHER YOU ASKED I'M ASKING OKAY ACCORDING THE WASHINGTON TIMES APRIL EIGHTEENTH TWENTY EIGHTEEN MR MCCABE INSISTED HE TOLD HIS BOSS THAT. THAT HE HAD AUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE ABOUT THE CLINTON INVESTIGATION BUT MR COMEY HAS DENIED THIS CLAIM. I AND MR MCCAIN TOLD INVESTIGATORS THAT MR COMEY KNEW ONLY AT AUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE AND AGREED IT WAS A GOOD IDEA IS THAT ACCURATE IS THAT YOUR TESTIMONY TO THIS COMMITTEE. THAT IS MY RECOLLECTION. SO YOU'RE AWARE THAT YOUR TESTIMONY IS ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY DEGREES OPPOSITE MR COMEY'S SWORN TESTIMONY TO THIS COMMITTEE IN WHICH HE INSISTED HE HAS NEVER AUTHORIZED. ANYBODY TO LEAK TO THE PRESS. I DON'T I'M NOT GOING TO SAY WHAT DIRECTOR COMEY SAID OR DIDN'T SAY TO YOU THAT WOULD HOWEVER YOUR CHARACTERIZATION OF A LEAK IS NOT ACCURATE. THE FBI HAS RECORDS THAT WILL ESTABLISH WHETHER YOU'RE TELLING THE TRUTH OR MR COMEY'S TELLING THE TRUTH DO YOU BELIEVE THE FBI SHOULD MAKE THOSE RECORDS PUBLIC SO IF YOU'RE TELLING THE TRUTH YOU CAN BE VINDICATED. AND IF MR COMEY'S TELLING THE TRUTH HE CAN BE VINDICATED. I'M NOT SURE WHAT RECORDS YOU'RE REFERRING TO- SENATOR ANY AND ALL EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE RECORDS WHATSOEVER INDICATING THAT MR COMEY NEW OF YOUR LEAKS AND AUTHORIZED. I WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO SEE THOSE RECORDS AS WELL AS WHAT I THANK YOU. SEN BLUMENTHAL BUT I JUST WANTED. AMERICAN PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT. AND WAS IT WRONG FOR GENERAL PLANNED TO TALK TO THE RUSSIAN BASTAR. SINCE HE WAS GOING TO BE THE NEW INCOMING NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER. IS THAT A QUESTION TO ME YES SIR YEAH ARE CONCERNS ABOUT GENERAL FLYNN'S CONTACT WITH AMBASSADOR KISLYAK WAS THAT THE GENERAL MIGHT BE MAINTAINING SOME SORT OF. DIDN'T OVER DO NOT. CONTACTED THAT HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN PERSON IN THE CAMPAIGN COORDINATED EFFORTS WITH THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT THE FACT THAT GENERAL FLYNN LIED ABOUT HIS CONTACTS WITH THE RUSSIANS MADE IT DOUBLY CONCERNING TO US WELL ACT THAT GENERAL FLYNN THEN LIED TO HIS BOSS THE VICE PRESIDENT ABOUT THOSE CONTACTS ALSO WAS GREATLY CONCERNING TO US. LET ME JUST SAY THIS GENERAL FLYNN TOLD THE FBI AGENT YOU HAVE THE TRANSCRIPT YOU KNOW WHAT I SAID THE FBI AGENTS CAME BACK AND SAID THEY DIDN'T THINK HE LIED BUT THE PROBLEM WE HAVE HERE IS THIS IS AFTER THE ELECTION IS OVER. THAT THE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER HAS EVERY RIGHT IN THE WORLD TO BE TALKING TO FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS FOREIGN INVESTORS IS GOING ON AS I SPEAK. I'M SURE THE BY DEMONSTRATION BELIEVING THEY HAVE ONE IS BEGINNING TO REACH OUT TO FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS TO TALK ABOUT- OF. THEIR AGENDA WOULD THAT BE CHINA OR ANYBODY ELSE THIS WHOLE IDEA. THAT YOU WOULD TRAVAIL THE INCOMING NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER AFTER THE ELECTION. AFTER THE PROFESSIONALS IN THE FIELD SAID THERE'S NO THERE THERE BOTHERS A LOT OF US CENTER BLUMENTHAL. THANK YOU MR CHAIRMAN- MISTER KAY LET ME GIVE YOU AN OPPORTUNITY- SINCE YOU'VE BEEN INTERRUPTED BY. MY COLLEAGUE IN THE MIDST OF ACTUALLY THREATS OF PERJURY. YOUR CLARIFY ANY OF THE ANSWERS OR EXPAND ON THEM IN ANY WAY THAT YOU WOULD LIKE IF THERE'S ANYTHING YOU HAVE. TO ADD- I'D WELCOME YOUR REMARKS- IF NOT I'LL TURN TO MY QUESTION. THANK YOU SENATOR I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO KEEP IN PERSPECTIVE. THAT THE FBI OPENS COUNTERINTELLIGENCE CASES SOMETIMES WHEN THEY SUSPECT THAT SOMEONE MAY HAVE HAD. INAPPROPRIATE OR IMPROPER OR ILLEGAL CONTACT WITH A FOREIGN POWER. DURING THE COURSE OF THAT INVESTIGATION IF YOU CONFIRM THAT THAT CONTACT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND THEN YOU LEARN THAT THAT PERSON. IS ALSO ACTIVELY CONCEALING THE CONTACT CONCEALING IT FROM WITHIN IN GENERAL FLYNN'S CASE THE FBI AND ALSO FROM. THE WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL'S OFFICE AND THE VICE PRESIDENT. YORK SEARS ABOUT A POSSIBLE. THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY ARE THERE JUSTIFIABLY ELEVATED THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED IN THIS CASE- AND SO. QUESTIONS ABOUT- THE LOGAN ACT PROSECUTION THAT NEVER TOOK PLACE- I THINK ARE MISPLACED. THAT'S A REALLY IMPORTANT POINT MISS MCCABE I GREAT REGRET THAT MY COLLEAGUE ISN'T HERE TO. HEAR IT BUT I'M SURE HE'LL THAT REVIEW THE RECORD THAT. WE SHOULD NOTE I THINK AT THE BEGINNING THAT. WE ARE NOW IN THE MIDST OF A FOURTH HEARING. TO INVESTIGATE BOTH THE TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN ELECTION. AND THE INVESTIGATIONS AND INVESTIGATORS WHO THEMSELVES HAVE ALREADY BEEN INVESTIGATED. SO WE'RE SPENDING ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD TO LOOK BACK AT. TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN. AS FAMILIES AND BUSINESSES IN CONNECTICUT AND I THINK IN THE STATES OF EVERYONE OF MY COLLEAGUES. ARE HANGING BY A THREAD DUE TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND ECONOMIC CRISES CAUSED BY COVID. THESE CRISES HAS BEEN IGNORED AND DISREGARDED BY THIS ADMINISTRATION WHICH IS THE REASON THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS DEFEATED. IT IS A DERELICTION OF THEIR DUTY. TO THEIR CONSTITUENTS AND TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. TO CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON. A TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN INVESTIGATION THAT ALREADY HAS BEEN INVESTIGATED AND I THINK YOUR POINT. ABOUT THE REASONS FOR THAT INTEREST IN THE CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN. POTENTIAL TRUMP- OFFICIALS AND THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR ARE VERY WELL TAKEN. I ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT I AM DEEPLY TROUBLED AS MY COLLEAGUES ARE BY. THE STATEMENTS MADE BY ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR. WHO AGAIN IS ACTING APPARENTLY AS A PUPPET OF THE PRESENT RATHER THAN LAWYER FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. HE IS THROWING GASOLINE ON THE FIRES OF FALSE CLAIMS OF FRAUD FUELING DOUBTS AND UNDERMINING. FAITH IN THE INTEGRITY OF OUR ELECTION PROCESS. THERE ARE NO FACTS OR EVIDENCE THAT JUSTIFY INVESTIGATION HE KNOWS IT. BUT HE IS GIVING A PATINA OF CREDIBILITY TO A BASELESS AND DESTRUCTIVE ACCUSATIONS. I WOULD SUGGEST RESPECTFULLY THAT ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR HAS TAKEN HIS OFFICE TO A NEW LAW AND THE RAMIFICATIONS ARE PROFOUND AND DANGEROUS FOR OUR COUNTRY. IT'S KIND OF SCAREMONGERING IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE TRUTH THE FACT IS. THE VOTES. HAVE BEEN COUNTED. AND SOME ARE BEING COUNTED. AND THEY HAVE SHOWN AND WILL CONTINUE TO CONFIRM THAT FORMER VICE PRESIDENT. BIDEN IS IN FACT OUR PRESIDENT ELECT BUT IN THE MEANTIME. THAT LITIGATION CHALLENGING THE INTEGRITY OF OUR ELECTION PROCESS. WE'LL CONTINUE FRIVOLOUS AND BASELESS BUT WHAT IS AND NOW APPARENTLY GIVEN MORE CREDIBILITY BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES REGRETFULLY AND UNFORTUNATELY. I WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT A THREAT TO OUR COUNTRY THAT IS REAL. JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO THE FBI DIRECTOR PUBLICLY TESTIFIED TO THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY THAT QUOTE RACIALLY MOTIVATED VIOLENT EXTREMISM. END QUOTE CONSTITUTES A MAJORITY OF DOMESTIC TERRORISM THREATS. IN FACT WHITE SUPREMACISTS IN PARTICULAR WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR FORTY NINE HOMICIDES IN TWENTY SIX ATTACKS FROM. TWO THOUSAND TO TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN. THAT'S MORE THAN ANY OTHER EXTREMIST MOVEMENT RECENT ATTACKS INCLUDE THE APRIL TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN NATIONAL ING AT A JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN KANSAS THE JUNE TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN MASS. SHOOTING AT THE EMANUEL ME AND CHARLES. AND OTHERS I HAVE MISS MCCABE- LET ME ASK YOU HOW LONG HAVE WE KNOWN THAT WHITE SUPREMACISTS AND OTHER FAR RIGHT. WING EXTREMISTS POSE SIGNIFICANT DOMESTIC TERRORISM NATIONAL SECURITY OR PUBLIC. SECURITY AND SAFETY THREATS TO THE UNITED STATES. WE'VE KNOWN ABOUT THE THREATS POSED TO THIS COUNTRY BY- DOMESTIC TERRORISTS AND SPECIFICALLY- WHITE SUPREMACISTS AND RIGHT WING GROUPS FOR. LAWFUL MANY MANY YEARS CERTAINLY LONG BEFORE I EVEN JOINED THE FBI ONE OF THE SEMINAL MOMENTS IN MY DESIRE TO JOIN THE ORGANIZATION- WAS WHEN I LIKE THE REST OF THE COUNTRY SAT IN HORROR- ON THE DAY THAT THE- AFTER PETER OF FEDERAL BUILDING WAS. DESTROYED IN OKLAHOMA CITY SO THIS IS NOT A NEW THREAT I THINK WHAT'S NEW FOR THE FBI RIGHT NOW IS THE FOCUS AND INTENSITY THEY ARE BRINGING ON THIS PROBLEM SET WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY CALLED FOR AND NECESSARY. AND WHEN THE PRESIDENT MAKES THE KIND OF COMMENTS THAT HE DID NOT SURE YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH THEM THAT. A PARTICULAR RIGHT WING GROUPS SHOULD STAND BACK AND STAND BY. DO THOSE KINDS OF COMMENTS HAVE AN EFFECT ON THOSE GROUPS AND ENCOURAGING THEM. THEY ABSOLUTELY DO FOR US FAVORABLE REFERENCES AND YOU SHOUT OUTS IN COMMENTS TO THESE FRINGE GROUPS HAVE THE EFFECT OF CONFIRMING THEIR BELIEFS THEY INTERPRET THESE COMMENTS AS AS SIGNALS AND SIGNS OF APPROVAL AND SUPPORT- AND REALLY CAN- RISK- PUTTING MORE MOMENTUM- AND KIND OF SERVER BEHIND WHAT THEY'RE PLANNING TO DO. THANK YOU MR K. MY TIME IS EXPIRED THANKS MR THANK YOU VERY MUCH- AND THE WORLD WHEN IS. SENATOR GRAHAM YES YES I'M SORRY SIR WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE JUST TO TAKE A HOUR ABSOLUTELY. YEAH ABSOLUTELY SIR FIVE MINUTES IS THAT OKAY. IT WOULD BE GREAT THANK YOU OKAY WE'LL TAKE FIVE MINUTE BREAK THANK YOU. UHHUH. UHHUH. GAVE. MR MCCABE. CAN YOU R ME NOW HELLO YES HI YOU WITH US. YES SIR THANK YOU ALPALA JASMINE HOW. ANYTIME YOU FEEL LIKE YOU NEED A BREAK YOU JUST LET ME KNOW I APOLOGIZE IT'S BEEN OVER TWO HOURS AND- APOLOGIZE FOR NOT REMEMBERING THAT SO- OF CENTER HER RUNNER. THANK YOU MR CHAIRMAN. I DON'T ASSOCIATE MYSELF WITH THE COMMENTS MADE BY MY COLLEAGUE SENATOR DURBIN AND OTHERS ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE OF WHY WE ARE HERE FOR THE FOURTH TIME TO GO OVER HER GROUNDS COVERED PARTICULARLY BY INSPECTOR GENERAL CHORDS FOUR HUNDRED THIRTY FOUR PAGE REPORT. UNDER THE WITNESS WAS ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT TEXT MESSAGES BETWEEN PETER STRZOK AND LISA PAGE. WHEN IT IS CLEAR THAT THEY DID NOT IMPACT THE ABILITY OF THE RUSSIA INVESTIGATION YET WHEN WE HAVE THE FACTS. ABOUT NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNS SUCH. PRESIDENT TRUMP CALLING THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE SHAKEN DOWN TO HELP ISRAEL THAT CHECK CAMPAIGN ONE OF THE PUBLIC IN COLLEAGUES DON'T THINK THAT'S A BIG DEAL. I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY. THE TRUMP ONE TO GET YOUR ON HIS POTENTIAL POLITICAL. ESPECIALLY AS THE AS THE JOE BIDEN INSTEAD. IF YOU DON'T PRESIDENT TRUMP DECISIVELY A FACT THAT MANY OF MY REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES HAVE YET TO BE ABLE TO IN KNOWLEDGE AND SO WE ARE HERE FOR THE FIRST. TIME FOR MANY MORE HOURS OF HEARINGS ON GROUNDS THAT WE SHOULDN'T CUT WE'VE ALREADY COVERED INSTEAD OF DEALING WITH THE REAL QUESTIONS ON WEDNESDAY. SO FOR THIS WE YOU WERE AT BY SEN BLOW ABOUT THE- RECOGNIZING YOUR WORK IT'S A PROCESS AND I JUST WANT TO REITERATE BECAUSE I THINK IT IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR OUR COUNTRY TO UNDERSTAND. OF THE DANGERS POSED BY THESE PERSONS SO IN SEPTEMBER TWENTY TWENTY. WE ARE DIRECTORY WARNS THAT WHITE SUPREMACY IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST DOMESTIC TERRORISM THREATS NEWS REPORTS AROUND THE SAME TIME ALSO INDICATED THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY HAVE REACHED A SIMILAR CONCLUSION THAT WHITE SUPREMACISTS ARE THAT DANIELLE'S. THE DEADLIEST DOMESTIC TERROR THREAT FACING THE COUNTRY. I'D LIKE TO ASK ASK YOU AGAIN GIVING YOUR EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE IN COUNTERTERRORISM ISSUES. DO YOU BELIEVE THAT THE THREAT POSED BY WHITE SUPREMACISTS IS A SERIOUS CONCERN. WELL SENATOR I KNOW THAT IT IS A SERIOUS CONCERN AND I CERTAINLY TAKE DIRECTOR RAISE ASSESSMENT THAT IT IS THE MOST SERIOUS CONCERN ON THE COUNTERTERRORISM SIDE THAT WE FACE RIGHT NOW IT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE IN LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT- AS OUR FOREIGN TERRORIST- TARGETS IF YOU'RE TO BE IN A STATE OF. LESS ORGANIZATION AND THEIR OPERATIONAL ACTIVITY IN RECRUITMENT AND THIS COUNTRY SEEMS TO HAVE TAILED OFF THE BAT I DON'T HAVE ANY ACCESS TO THE CLASSIFIED INFORMATION BUT CERTAINLY SEEMS THAT WAY THERE'S NO QUESTION THAT DOMESTIC TERRORIST SCENE HAS NOT HELD OFFICE ANYTHING IN HIS INCREASED OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS. ARE YOU. ARTICLE OF WORDS YOU BY THE PRESIDENT SIMPLY SEEMS TO VANDALS PLANES THE- DOMESTIC TERRORISM ACTIVITIES THAT'S CORRECT YOU THAT'S CORRECT ON THE PARKWAY. YES OKAY BEFORE THE ELECTION PRESIDENT TRUMP AND ATTORNEY GENERAL BILL BARR REPEATEDLY MADE FALSE CLAIMS OF MILLION VOTER FRAUD SEPTEMBER TWENTY TWENTY FBI DIRECTOR WRAY TESTIFIED BEFORE THE SENATE HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS COMMITTEE THAT INSULTS WE HAVE NOT SEEN HISTORICALLY ANY KIND OF COORDINATED NATIONAL VOTER FRAUD IN A MAJOR ELECTION WHETHER IT'S BY MAIL OR OTHERWISE NOW THAT MILLIONS OF AMERICANS HAVE VOTED WITHOUT EVIDENCE OF BOB PRESIDENT TRUMP ON THE REPUBLICANS THAT REFUSED TO RECOGNIZE THE RESULTS OF THE ELECTION INSTEAD WE HAVE GONE TO COURT MANY TIMES AT THIS POINT NEWS IN PRETTY MUCH EVERY I THINK. IT'S AWESOME ONE OF THESE VOTERS ARE CASES TO PREVENT. VALID THAT WOULD BE CAN FROM BEING. AND OTHER PRESIDENTIAL CONTINUES FALL THE CLAIMED THAT HE IS ONE LEFT WITH NO. GIVEN YOU SENSE OF EX AT THE OF THE AISLE ARE YOU AWARE OF ANY EVENT INTO THAT WIDESPREAD NEIL IN FRAUD IS A PROBLEM OUR- I. AM NOT AWARE ANY IN FOR THAT EFFECT DICK RAISE ASSESSED IS CAN. WITH MY OWN EXPERIENCE IN THE FBI THAT I'D NEVER SEEN- INFORMATION THAT WOULD SUBSTANTIATE AT. AN AFTER A WIDESPREAD EFFORT AT VOTER FRAUD. AND WELL MY BOOK AND COLLEAGUES ARE VERY BUSY ABOUT HOW THE PRESIDENT HAS A RIGHT TO GO TO COURT- THAT. YOU'RE THE THAT THAT- STILL PUTS THE BURDEN OF PROVING THAT THERE IS AFTER FIVE ON CAMPUS AUTHORITIES BEING USING AT EVERY TURN SO JUST BECAUSE ONE HAS A RIGHT TO GO OR GO TO COURT DOES NOT MAKE IT RIGHT. TO GO TO COURT AND ONE WOULD HOPE THAT THE PRESIDENT WOULD HAVE FIGURED THAT OUT BY NOW BUT JOE ERNIE NUTS. WHEN YOU WHEN YOU MENTIONED IN YOUR OPENING THAT IT WAS AN HONOR AND A PRIVILEGE TO. WORK FOR THE FBI ARE THERE ANY THERE ARE CONCERNS FOR MANY OF US ABOUT THE POLITICIZING. OF THE FBI AND DOJ LISTED IN OFFICE PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS REPEATEDLY CALLED ON THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ID ADDRESS MANY RALLIES WHERE THE CHANT LOCK HER UP OR KNOCK HIM UP OR WHATEVER IT IS JAMES THIS WEEK IT IS POLITICAL. AND LEANED ON ATTORNEY GENERAL BARGE ALLY MORE VERY QUICKLY TOWARDS. UNDER ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REVERSED A SENTENCING RECOMMENDATION FOR TRUMP ALLY ROGER STONE HUNTING ALL FOUR CAREER PROSECUTORS TO WITHDRAW FROM THE CASE AND PROTESTS. YOU HAVE SIR FOR TWENTY ONE YEARS AT THE END WE ARE IN YOUR MEMORY BEFORE PRESIDENTIAL HOW MANY TIMES HAS THE PRESIDENT CALLED FOR THE INVESTIGATION OR ARREST A CONNECTICUT PONENS EIGHT HIM IN HIS. REELECTION CAMPAIGN. I NEVER NOT IN MY EXPERIENCE THAT SEEN BEFORE. AND JUNE TWENTY TWO DICK CORY INDOORS FIVE. THAT YOU TESTIFIED THE HOUSE ABOUT TRUMP LITTLE POINT INTO. THANK AND I JUST. AGAINST THE PRO INJURY ARE PRESENT TRUMP'S WHAT DO YOU THINK IT IS ABOUT THE SEVERITY OF THE POLITICIZING OF THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT THAT SHOOT CAREER DIDN'T DOJ LAWYERS CAME FORWARD. TO TESTIFY ABOUT IT BEFORE CONGRESS AND ALL COURT. WE ACROSS THE MAKE H. MOVES OF WITHDRAWING FROM THE RAJASTHAN CASE. AS I SAID SENATOR CAREER PROSECUTORS DON'T WALK AWAY FROM CASES THAT THEY BELIEVE IN IN CASES THAT THEY'VE SPENT A LOT OF TIME AND EFFORT TRYING TO MOVE FORWARD SO WHEN YOU HAVE ANY MEMBER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE WHO FEELS COMPELLED TO RESIGN FROM A CASE OR FROM THE DEPARTMENT- FOR ETHICAL REASONS. THAT'S A VERY CONCERNING THING WHEN YOU HAVE FOUR ON ONE CASE RESIGNED I THINK IT'S THE SORT OF THING THAT WE CAN'T POSSIBLY IGNORE. IS QUITE EXTRAORDINARY AND M. I WOULD LIKE AT THIS POINT TO COMMAND ALL OF THE REAR DOJ PEOPLE INCLUDING OF COURSE ALL THE PEOPLE AT THE FBI FOR DOING THE JOB THAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING AND NOT MAKING POLITICAL DECISIONS NOW WE KNOW THAT HATE CRIMES AGAINST THE- COMMUNITY HAS GONE UP. AND ESPECIALLY WITH THE PRESIDENT CALLING IT A VIRUS THE CHINA BARS ON BARS AND MEMBERS OF THE SENATE MINISTRATION HAVE ALSO REPURCHASE. THIS CALL WILL SO THERE HAS BEEN DOCUMENTED INCREASE. IN ARMS AGAINST IN LIVES OUR COMMUNITY IS GIVEN YORK EXPERIENCE AT THE FBI DO YOU THINK THE FBI JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ARE DOING ENOUGH JUDGE JUST TAKE PROBLEMS IN OUR COUNTRY INCLUDING AGAINST ASIAN AMERICANS AND PACIFIC ISLANDERS. AND DO YOU KNOW OF ANY PROSECUTION BY THE DOJ ON A- NEW TAPE FINDS. I'M NOT AWARE OF RECENT. OF CRIME A I DON'T ACCESS TO ALL OF THE IN THAT THE F. OR DOJ HAS AND SO I CAN'T SPEAK TO WHETHER THEY ARE DOING THAT WORK OR NOT IT CERTAINLY SEEMS THAT THOSE SORT OF INCIDENTS. JUST FROM WHAT I HEAR IN THE OPEN SOURCE REPORTING SEEMS TO BE ON THE RISE AND I WOULD EXPECT. THAT THE BUREAU AND WE AND DOJ SHOULD BE LOOKING AT THOSE THINGS VERY CLOSELY. I SURE HOPE SO BECAUSE SO FAR I DON'T KNOW OF ANY INDICTMENTS COME DOWN ON DISTANCING CASES. I BELIEVE MY TIME IS UP THANK YOU MESSAGE GERMAN. THANK YOU MUCH. I THINK WE HAVE SOME- HOLLY ONLINE BROKERAGE OF REAL BRIEFING CORY HERE. UP AND MR MCCABE OF COURSE THE DEFENSIVE BRIEFING. A DEFENSIVE BRIEFING IS TYPICALLY WHEN WE- REACH OUT TO AN INDIVIDUAL WHO WE THINK MIGHT BE. ON THE SUBJECT OF SOME SORT OF YOU KNOW MALIGN ACTIVITIES FROM A FROM A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT OR FOREIGN POWER IN TRYING TO. YOU MAKE THEM AWARE OF THE THREATS THAT THEY MIGHT COME ACROSS- AN EXAMPLE WOULD BE- THANK SENATOR FEINSTEIN HAD A STAFF MEMBER THAT. WAS SUSPECTED OF BEING CONNECTED TO THE CHINESE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY AND SHE WAS BRIEFED ABOUT THAT IS THAT CORRECT WOULD THAT BE AN EXAMPLE. THAT SOUNDS LIKE THE SORT OF INFORMATION IN OUR SORT OF SITUATION IN WHICH WE- AND SHE TOOK CORRECTIVE ACTION BY DISMISSING THAT PERSON- WAS THERE EVER DEFENSIVE BRIEFING GIVEN TO HILLARY CLINTON ABOUT CONCERNS ABOUT HER CAMPAIGN. BEING REACHED OUT TO- INTERFERED REGARDING FOREIGN ACTORS. SIX I'M NOT SURE SENATOR I SAW SOME OF THE DOCUMENTS ON- ON THE COMMITTEE'S WEBSITE- SEEM TO INDICATE THAT BUT I DON'T HAVE AN INDEPENDENT RECOLLECTION OF THAT I CAN JUST ASSURE YOU THAT SHE WAS THERE WAS A AND A SUSPICION THAT A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT MAY HAVE BEEN TRYING TO AIDE HER CAMPAIGN SHE WAS BRIEFED ABOUT IT. KAREN TELLIGENT SENVEST CATIONS RESIGNED TO PROTECT ENTITIES FROM FOREIGN INFLUENCE IS THAT CORRECT. I'M SORRY COULD YOU REPEAT THE QUESTION COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATIONS ARE DESIGNED TO PROTECT AMERICAN INTERESTS AGAINST FOREIGN INFLUENCE IS THAT CORRECT. THAT'S RIGHT COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATIONS ARE DESIGNED TO MITIGATE THREATS TO NATIONAL SECURITY SO LIKE SENATOR FEINSTEIN COULD FIRE SOMEBODY. THAT WAS ON HER STEP TO MITIGATE. THAT A GOOD EXAMPLE. DOES THAT COULD CERTAINLY BE ONE WAY TO MITIGATE IT ANYTIME DURING THE MULTIPLE COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATIONS. THAT WERE CONDUCTED AGAINST TRUMP CAMPAIGN OFFICIALS. WAS THERE EVER DEFENSIVE BRIEFING GIVEN TO PRESIDENT TRUMP ABOUT THE CONCERNS YOU HAD ABOUT MR PAPADOPOULOS CARTER PAGE OR ANYONE ELSE INCLUDING GENERAL FLYNN. NOT THAT I'M AWARE OF. WHY. WELL SENATOR WE TYPICALLY DON'T PROVIDE DEFENSIVE BRIEFINGS WHEN WE FEEL THAT THEY COULD RUN THE RISK OF COMPROMISING THE INVESTIGATIONS THAT WE'RE UNDERTAKING SO BEFORE WE PROVIDE A BRIEFING WE TRY TO DETERMINE WHAT THEY'RE NOT THAT BRIEFING WILL ULTIMATELY GET COMMUNICATED BACK TO THE TARGET OR SOMEHOW OBSTRUCTED OUR ABILITY TO SHED SOME LIGHT ON WHETHER OR NOT THERE IS ACTUALLY A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY SO WHEN IT CAME TO PAPPA DOPPLER SHE NEVER TOLD THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN YOU MAY HAVE A PROBLEM WITH HIM. THAT'S CORRECT AND WHEN IT COMES TO CARTER PAGE NEVER SAID I WILL PRESIDENT TRUMP WE GOT CONCERNS ABOUT CARTER PAGE. I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT HAPPENED THAT'S CORRECT SIR HOLLY. THANK YOU MR CHAIRMAN. I WANT TO START BY SAYING THAT I HEARD A STAKE MY DEMOCRAT COLLEAGUES WONDERING ALOUD WHY IT IS THAT WE'RE HERE TODAY I HAVE TO SAY I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN OBVIOUS BY NOW THAT WE'RE HERE BECAUSE LOOKING AT MAYBE THE BIGGEST SCANDAL IN THE HISTORY OF THE AISLE. WE'RE LOOKING AT THE USE OF THE FBI TO INTERFERE IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. WE'RE LOOKING AT THE USE OF THE FBI TO LIE TO THE FISA COURT TO SO MISREPRESENT FACTS STATEMENTS AND OTHER MATERIAL TO THIS COURT THAT THE COURT HAD ISSUED A STATEMENT SAYING THAT THEY COULD NOT TRUST THE FBI NOT ONLY THIS CASE. BUT INTENTIONALLY EVERY OTHER CASE GOING FORWARD ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE UNPRECEDENTED FOR A COURT TO ISSUE A REBUKE OF THIS NATURE AND I HAVE TO SAY THE FACT THAT MY DEMOCRAT COLLEAGUES WANT TO SHRUG AND MOVE ON. IN THE FACE OF THIS KIND OF INTERFERENCE THIS KIND OF INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR THIS ABUSE OF POWER WHICH IS WHAT IS REALLY EXTRAORDINARY. IN ADDITION WE HAVE BEFORE US TODAY AS AN ENTIRE REPORT WRITTEN BY THE I. G. ABOUT HOW PEOPLE WHY YOU TO. END THE IT'S SO THAT'S WHY WE'RE HERE AND BY THE WAY NOW THAT WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF ANOTHER ELECTION. THE OUTCOME OF WHICH IS STILL DISPUTED IN ON NOW AND PEOPLE ARE WONDERING WHY THE SO MANY AMERICANS DON'T HAVE TRUST IN THE ELECTORAL PROCESS THIS IS WHY THEY DON'T HAVE TRUSTED. PROCESS THIS IS WHY IT'S BECAUSE WE SEE INSTANCE AFTER INSTANCE OF THE ABUSE INSTITUTIONS OF THIS COUNTRY TO TRY TO INTERFERE WITH THE VOICE OF THE WILL OF WE THE PEOPLE WERE LOOKING AT IT TODAY. THAT'S WHAT THIS IS ABOUT ANYBODY IN ANY ANY QUESTIONS THAT'S WHAT THIS IS ABOUT LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT LYING TO THE FISA COURT. WHICH THE FBI DID REPEATEDLY AND DOJ SIGNED OFF ON MR CABLE BECOME TO YOU NOW YOU KNOW I'VE HAD SOMETHING ABOUT A PERSONAL QUEST YEAR TO TRY TO FIND SOMEBODY. WHO WILL TAKE SOME RESPONSIBILITY. FOR THESE WARNS THAT THEY SIGNED OFF ON FOR THESE APPLICATIONS THAT THEY PERSONALLY SIGNED OFF ON YOU SIGNED OFF ON A RENEWAL APPLICATION FOR THE CARTER PAGE FISA WARRANT ON JUNE TWENTY EIGHTH. TWO THOUSAND SEVENTEEN IS THAT CORRECT. THAT'S NOBODY YOU WEAR IT THOUSAND. THE FBI HAD I. INTERVIEW CHRISTOPHER STEELE. SOME SOURCES BACK. THE IS CORRECT. AND THOSE INTERVIEW CAST SERIOUS DOUBT ON THEIR STUDENTS YOUR THOUGHTS THE EIGHT PUT IT MILDLY BACK. I KNOW NOW YES. DEFIES THE RENEWAL APPLICATION THAT YOU SIGNED HOWEVER DID NOT ACKNOWLEDGE ANY OF THOSE FACTS IS THAT CORRECT. DEFIES PACKAGE THAT I SIGNED CONTAINED IN THE SAME- GETTING THE ERRORS THAT ARE LAID OUT IN THE IG REPORT. AHA M. BY DECEMBER OF TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN SO THIS IS MONTHS BEFORE THE RENEWAL APPLICATION THE CROSSFIRE HURRICANE T. NEW PRIMARY SUB SOURCE OF THE STEEL DOSSIER WAS SUSPECTED OF BEING A RUSSIAN ASSET IS THAT CORRECT. I CAN'T HIDE I DON'T BELIEVE THAT'S CORRECT YEAH I DON'T I DON'T KNOW THAT TO BE THE CASE. YOUR SO YOUR TESTIMONY OUT OF TESTIMONY UNDER OATH IS A PROSPECT OR NOT NOW THE PRIMARY SO SOURCES POTENTIALLY RESONATED AS OF DECEMBER TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN. I CAN'T TELL YOU WHAT THE MEMBERS OF THE TEAM THOUGHT ABOUT. ABOUT THE PRIMARY SOME SOURCE IN DECEMBER OF THIS. AT TWENTY SIXTEEN IF YOU'RE REFERRING TO THE RECENT. IT NOTES FROM THE FINDS REPORT THAT WORDS ARE CLASSIFIED BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL NO I DON'T I DON'T KNOW THAT THEY KNEW THAT AND I CAN'T SAY WHAT THEY DO. THE FISA APPLICATION YOU SIGNED CONTAINS NONE OF THAT STUFF CORRECT IT CONTAINED NO NEW DISCLOSED TO THE COURT IT CONTAINS NONE OF THE INFORMATION THAT THE FBI ABSOLUTELY IT CONTAINED NOTHING TO GIVE THE COURT ANY PAUSE ABOUT ANYTHING. YOU'VE PREVIOUSLY CERTIFIED IS NOT CORRECT. WELL I THINK YOU NEED TO BE ARE WE SHOULD BE SPECIFIC ABOUT IT NOT. MY QUESTION DID DID THE APPLICATION THAT YOU PERSONALLY SIGN DID IT DISCLOSED THE INTERVIEWS BACK FROM JANUARY TWO THOUSAND SEVENTEEN THAT YOU JUST SAID THAT YOU WERE AWARE OF THAT THE FBI WAS AWARE OF. THE OAG REPORT DETAILS THIS DEBATE IS ONE EIGHTY SEVEN ONE EIGHTY EIGHT AT ONE EIGHTY NINE OF THIS REPORT YOU CAN GO LOOK IT UP HE'S GOT A LOT TO SAY ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN GO LOOK UP THAT IG REPORT THEY SAY THAT THE FBI KNEW OF THE PROBLEMS OF THE PRIVATE JUSTICE CHRISTOPHER STEELE'S PRIMARIES OF SOURCE AND DID NOT DISCLOSE IT. TO THE COURT ISN'T THAT CORRECT YES OR NO. D. D. D. IG REPORT IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING SIR. DETAILS SEVENTEEN ERRORS THAT WERE PRESENT IN. ANSWER MY QUESTION DID REPORT THAT YOU PERSONALLY SIGNED DIDN'T DISCLOSE THE FBI INTERVIEWS IN JANUARY OF TWO THOUSAND SEVENTEEN YOU SIGNED A NEW APPLICATION IN JUNE OF TWO THOUSAND SEVENTEEN DIDN'T DISCLOSE THE INTERVIEWS CASTING SERIOUS DOUBT ALL THE PRIMARY SOME SORT YES OR NOW WE BOTH KNOW THE ANSWER IS NO WE WANT YOU TO SAY WHAT NOW. IT DID NOT DISCLOSE SERIOUS CONCERNS WITH THE PRIMARY SOME SOURCE WANT ONE WHY DIDN'T WHY DIDN'T YOU NOTIFY THE COURT. OF THIS NEW INFORMATION IS BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO CONTINUE TO UNDERMINE THE ELECTION OF DONALD TRUMP. BUT LET ME ASK YOU THIS DIDN'T YOU SEND A TEXT MESSAGE ON JUNE TWENTY FOURTH TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN SAYING THAT I HOPE THE BREXIT VOTE. DOESN'T PREDICT A SIMILAR OUTCOME HERE IN NOVEMBER. OKAY I'D LIKE TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION SIR BUT I'M GONNA NEED A LITTLE BIT OF SPACE TO GET IN A COMPLETE ANSWER WHY SO YES IT WILL ANSWER THAT QUESTION WHY DID YOU SEND THAT. I AM. SURE IS YOU KNOW I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO REVIEW MY I TAXED I DO NOT HAVE MY TEXT IN FRONT OF ME HERE I REQUESTED ACCESS TO MY MATERIALS WAS DENIED THAT ACCESS. SO I'M NOT PREPARED TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS BASED ON MY TEXT MESSAGES. IT'S GOOD YOU DON'T RECALL THEM ARE YOU TONIGHT HERE'S WHAT IT SAYS QUOTE I HOPE IT. MEETING THE BREXIT VOTE DOESN'T PREDICT A SIMILAR OUTCOME HERE IN NOVEMBER END QUOTE JUNE TWENTY FOURTH TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN. DO NOT DENIED SENDING THAT MESSAGE. I DON'T KNOW SIR I HAVEN'T SEEN ANY OF THOSE. OVER FOUR YEARS AND I LIKE TO BE ABLE TO CONTINUE TO I'D LIKE TO GIVE YOU A COMPLETE ANSWER BUT I'M HAVING A HARD TIME WHEN YOU SPEAK OVER ME IT CUTS OFF MY ABILITY TO RESPOND WHAT WHAT WHAT YOU ANSWERED MY QUESTION DO YOU HAVE NO MEMORY OF THAT TEXT MESSAGE IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING OF JUNE TWENTY SIX TWENTY FOUR TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN- I DON'T REMEMBER TEXT MESSAGES I SENT IN TWENTY SIXTEEN THAT I HAVEN'T SEEN SINCE THEN SO. YES I DON'T HAVE A RECOLLECTION OF THE TEXT MESSAGES FROM FOUR YEARS AGO THAT'S CORRECT NOW. YEAH I KNOW THAT EVERYBODY COMES. WOULD BE MUCH LESS THE- IT WOULD BEEN REALLY CAN BE TO BE ABLE TO REVIEW THOSE MATERIALS MORE TODAY. MR MCKAY IS REALLY EXTRA. REALLY ORDINARY LET ME ASK ABOUT THIS MESSAGE PETER STRUCK SAID THIS LISA PAGE ON AUGUST FIFTEENTH TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN I WANT TO BELIEVE THE PATH YOU THREW OUT FOR CONSIDERATION IN ANDY'S OFFICE. THANK YOU BUT THERE'S NO WAY HE GETS ELECTED THAT STRONG BUT I'M AFRAID WE CAN'T TAKE THAT RISK I'D LIKE AN INSURANCE POLICY IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT YOU DIE BEFORE YOU'RE FORTY IT'S LIKE AN INSURANCE POLICY IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT YOU DIE BEFORE YOU'RE FORTY WHY WERE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE LIKELY OUTCOME OF THE ELECTION. WITH TWO LINE AGENTS. WE WERE WORKING ON A CASE THE CARTER PAGE INVESTIGATION AT THAT TIME ALL THE PRESIDENT'S. APPROPRIATE I THINK YOUR QUESTION IS THE PREMISE OF YOUR QUESTION IS NOT ACCURATE I DON'T RECOLLECT EVER TALKING TO PETER STRZOK OR LISA PAGE ONLY ONE OF WHOM IS AN AGENT IN THE FBI ABOUT THE ELECTION FOR ABOUT THAT CONVERSATION THAT IS REFERENCED IN THEIR TEXT MESSAGE. WHICH I WAS NOT A PART OF. OKAY SO YOU'RE SAYING THAT THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN YOU DO NOT HAVE THAT HAPPEN. I DON'T RECALL THAT EVER HAPPENING. JUST BEFORE WE LEAVE IT COULD BE THE FISA WARRANT APPLICATION THAT THAT YOU SIGNED THE RENEWAL APPLICATION- HOW IS IT THAT THE COURT WAS SET DELIBERATELY IN DISASTERS LEADS LEADS WHICH THEY HAD ISSUE A PUBLIC REBUKE OF THE FBI DO YOU TAKE RESPONSIBILITY. I DISAGREE WITH YOUR CHARACTERIZATION THAT THE COURT WAS DELIBERATELY MISLED. SO I YEAH THAT'S THAT'S CORRECT YOU THINK IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT. I THINK THAT THERE WERE NUMEROUS AND OBJECTIONABLE ERRORS AND OMISSIONS IN THAT PACKAGE BUT I ALSO. EMAIL FALSIFICATION OF THE EMAIL TO THE FISA COURT WAS AN ACCIDENT. SENATOR I AM NOT AWARE OF. OKAY MR KLEIN SMITH'S ACTIVITIES I WAS NOT AWARE OF UNTIL I READ THE IG REPORT- I KNOW THAT HE HAS TAKEN RESPONSIBILITY FOR THOSE REPRESENTATIONS AND I- THAT I UNDERSTAND THAT THE ERRORS AND OMISSIONS IN THAT PACKAGE OTHER THAN MR KLEIN'S MESS- ADMITTED ACTIVITIES OVER THE- RECORDS IN THE CIA- I DO NOT KNOW ANY OF THOSE. OTHER ERRORS HAVE BEEN PROVEN TO BE INTENTIONAL ACTS. CENTER OKAY SO WE'VE ESTABLISHED HOLLY. CENTER HALL AND YOUR TIME IS EXPIRED. THANK YOU MR CHAIRMAN OKAY SIR BLUBBER I THANK YOU MR CHAIRMAN MR MCCABE THANK YOU FOR. BEING WITH US TODAY LISTENING TO YOU JUST ANSWERING US SENATOR HOLLINGS QUESTION IT REMINDED ME THAT. YOU ARE SPENDING A LOT OF YOUR TIME ON CNN THESE DAYS AND OF COURSE AND THIS IS NOT A DEBATE ON CNN THIS IS A HEARING OF THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. AND I HAVE TO SAY. WHEN DID YOU GO TO CNN. I'M SORRY IS THAT A QUESTION OF WHEN I YEAH I WELL I'LL ANSWER IT FOR YOU WAS IT IN AUGUST WAS SET IN TWENTY NINETEEN. I THINK THAT MAY BE RIGHT I THINK YOU'RE PRETTY LUCKY. I DON'T REMEMBER THE EXACT DATE YEAH I DON'T SORRY I'M SORRY I DON'T REMEMBER THE EXACT DATE CENTER BUT THAT THAT. THAT SOUNDS RIGHT. YEAH I THINK YOU'RE PRETTY LUCKY TO HAVE LANDED A JOB. PRETTY MUCH ANYWHERE AFTER HAVING BEEN FIRED FROM THE FBI AND I THINK THAT- THE I. G. PUBLICLY FLOGGING YOU IN HIS REPORT AND THE AG FIRED YOU. A MONTH LATER AND THAT WAS A PRETTY SAD DEMISE I GUESS OF YOUR CAREER. IN PUBLIC SERVICE AND- YOU WERE SET TO RETIRE AT THE TENDER YOUNG AGE OF FORTY NINE ISN'T THAT CORRECT. NO MA'AM OKAY WHAT IS CORRECT. AT B. I. AGENTS BECOME ELIGIBLE TO RETIRE WHEN THEY REACH AGE FIFTY OKAY ALL RIGHT AND THAT YOU'VE GOT A LAWSUIT AGAINST THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT NOW CLAIMING THAT YOU HAD A RECORD OF UNBLEMISHED AND NONPARTISAN PUBLIC SERVICE ANDREW YOU'RE DEMANDING THAT THE COURT REINSTATE YOUR EMPLOYMENT IS DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE FBI AND PAY YOU YOUR FULL PENSION. IS THAT CORRECT. THAT SOUNDS CORRECT NEVERTHELESS THE LEGAL PAPERS SPEAKS LET ME LET ME ASK YOU THIS ARE LISTENING TO YOU TODAY AND HAVING READ. SOME OF THE THINGS ARE AROUND YOUR CAREER. HOW DID YOU GET CAUGHT UP IN SUCH A WEB OF DECEIT AND OBSTRUCTION AND COVER UP AND IS THIS CULTURE STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE AT THE FBI. WELL I DON'T I DON'T. I'M NOT SURE I UNDERSTAND THE POINT OF YOUR QUESTION BUT I ALSO MY QUESTION. HELP YOU WITH YEAH. LET ME HELP YOU WITH THAT HE DIDN'T WANT TO ANSWER SENATOR CRUZ'S QUESTIONS ABOUT CORRUPTION. AND I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY. BUT WHAT YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT AS OVER CONFIDENT AS YOU ALL WERE IN THE PLOT. THAT YOU WERE CARRYING OUT AT THE FBI. IN YOUR GOVERNMENT JOB PAID FOR BY TAXPAYER DOLLARS- YOU ALL HAD CREATED THIS WAY OUT THE IN CULTURE OF CORRUPTION AND COVER UP AND OBSTRUCTION AND YOU THOUGHT THAT YOU COULD DO IT YOU THOUGHT YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO GET BY WITH IT BUT YOU GOT CAUGHT. I YOU'VE SAID TODAY THAT YOU WISH YOU COULD RECONSIDER YOUR DECISION REQUESTING THE FISA WARRANT ON CARTER PAGE AND WHETHER OR NOT DIRECTOR CALL ME SHOULD HAVE HELD THE PRESS CONFERENCE ON HILLARY CLINTON. AND LISTENING TO YOUR YOUR ANSWERS I THINK IT'S- ACT I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF A AN ACTION. IS EVERY CRIMINAL I HAVE HEARD IN THE CASE- THEY GENERALLY WILL SAY THEY WISH THEY HADN'T- COMMITTED THE CRIME OR THAT SOMEONE WHO HAS DONE SOMETHING WRONG WISHES THEY HAD NOT. DONE THAT WRONG SO. YOU TOOK THESE ACTIONS YOU'VE BEEN CALLED OUT BY THE I. G. AT THE A. G. R. WHY SHOULDN'T YOU BE PROSECUTED FOR YOUR ACTIONS. SENATOR FIRST OF ALL THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO PLOT OR SCHEME OR CONSPIRACY AMONG MY SET BETWEEN MYSELF OR ANY OF THE FOLKS THAT I WORK WITH IN THE WORK THAT YOU REFERRED TO OKAY SECONDLY I'M NOT AWARE OF A SINGLE OTHER THAN MR KLEIN SMITH'S ADMISSIONS I AM NOT AWARE OF A SINGLE ACT OR EVEN AN ALLEGATION AGAINST ANYONE WHO'S INVOLVED IN THESE. I. G. HONG. THANKS WAS. THIS MIGHT I'D LIKE TO FINISH MY ANSWER SENATE WELL IT'S MY TIME ADVISED. SALAH HOW LONG HAVE YOU KNOWN CHRISTIE STEELE. I DO NOT KNOW CHRISTOPHER STEELE I THINK YOU'VE NONAME ABOUT TWO DECADES RIGHTS. HOW LONG HAS NOW RESTORED ON CHRISTOPHER STEELE. TO BE CLEAR SENATOR I DON'T KNOW CHRISTOPHER STEELE I'VE NEVER MET CHRISTOPHER STEELE SO THAT'S NOT CORRECT AND I DON'T I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW LONG BRUCE OR HIS NAME CHRISTOPHER STILL. OKAY I'M THE EXCULPATORY INFORMATION ON THE CROSSFIRE HURRICANE ON CARTER PAGE'S RECORDED CONVERSATIONS AND- THAT WAS NOT DISCLOSED WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES UNDER THE FBI RULES FOR WHEN AN FBI AGENT LIVES OR OTHERWISE MISLEADS THE FEDERAL COURT. SUITED TO COOK THE SEAL YOUR TO DISCLOSE THE CARTER AGE INFORMATION THAT IS NOT A AS FAR AS I'M AWARE WAS NOT DETERMINED TO BE A DELIBERATE MISREPRESENTATION TO THE COURT- J. SO TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION ABOUT MISREPRESENTATIONS THE COURT GENERALLY F. B. I. PEOPLE WOULD BE DISCIPLINED AND IN THE SAME WAY ANYONE IN THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM WOULD IF THEY WERE FOUND TO HAVE. DELIBERATELY AND INTENTIONALLY MISLED THE COURT SO YOU FELT LIKE NO ONE DID ANYTHING WRONG. I AM SIMPLY FOLLOWING THE FINDINGS OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL- WHICH DOCUMENTED MR KLEIN SMITH'S INTENTIONAL ACTS BUT FAILED TO FIND ANY EVIDENCE DOCUMENTARY OR TESTIMONIAL INDICATE THAT THE OTHER MISTAKES IN THE FINDS A PACKAGE WITH THE RESULT OF INTENTIONAL MISCONDUCT DO YOU THINK YOU WERE WRONGFULLY FIRED. YES YES I DO THINK I WAS WRONGLY FIRED I THINK YOU DID NOTHING WRONG. THAT'S CORRECT. EVEN THOUGH THE I. G. POINTED OUT THAT YOU DID AND EVEN THOUGH YOU ALL HAD A CULTURE OF CORRUPTION AND COVER UP. THAT YOU THOUGHT IT WAS OKAY TO SPY ON CARTER PAGE IT WAS OKAY TO MISLEAD MICHAEL FLAN THIS IS A SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS AND I AM PLEASED THAT YOU ARE NO LONGER A PART OF THE FBI. SENATOR I'D LIKE TO ANSWER THOSE ALLEGATIONS YEAH PLEASE GO AHEAD. YEAH SO NO I CATEGORICALLY- REFUSED TO AGREE WITH YOUR ASSERTIONS- NO ONE THAT I AM AWARE OF IN THE FBI CONDUCTED ANY ACTIVITY THAT SHOULD LEAVE THEM SUSCEPTIBLE TO CRIMINAL PROSECUTION CERTAINLY INCLUDING MYSELF AS SOMEONE WHO HAS NOW BEEN THE SUBJECT OF INVESTIGATIVE ACTIVITY FOUR YEARS. OF FOR NO BASELESS- THE SUBJECT THE BASE SYSTEM DESTINATION BY U. S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE FOR ALMOST TWO YEARS. WHICH CONCLUDED IN A DISMISS ALL OF YOUR CASE SO NO I DON'T BELIEVE THAT I COMMITTED ANY CRIME I KNOW I NEVER COMMITTED ANY CRIME WORKING FOR THE FBI AND YES I BELIEVE THAT THE CONCLUSIONS IN THE IG'S REPORT WORK DAYS LESS I BELIEVE IT WAS A FLAWED AND MISLEADING AND DEEPLY UNFAIR INVESTIGATION THAT LED TO BE. UNFAIR MY UNSER TERMINATION I THINK IF YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT. WHAT WAS DONE AND YANKS AND ROSENSTEIN AND COMEY ALL SAID THEY KNEW NOTHING ABOUT ANY OF THIS- HOUSE WORLD DID IT GET SO FAR OFF TRACK. THANK YOU MR CHAIRMAN I YIELD BACK THANK YOU WE'LL GO TO SENATE CONNECTS BUT THIS IS PART OF POINT. IF SOMEBODY KNEW. THAT THE DOSSIER WAS UNRELIABLE DO THEY HAVE A DUTY TO REPORT TO THE SYSTEM THE INFORMATION THEY FOUND. I THINK THAT'S I THINK THAT'S TRUE YES OKAY IS IT FAIR TO FIRE SOMEBODY WHO KNEW AND FAILED TO REPORT. WELL IT WOULD DEPEND I GUESS ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF WHERE AND HOW THAT HAPPENED BUT WE- THAT COULD BE THE RESULT YES MR MCCABE HERE'S THE PROBLEM. THE PROBLEM IS IT BY JUNE OF TWENTY SIXTEEN IT WAS PRETTY CLEAR THAT THE DOCUMENT THE DOSSIER WAS NO LONGER A RELIABLE. THAT MULTIPLE STOP SIGNS HAD BEEN RUN. THAT THE CIA IS SUGGESTING AND MAYBE HILLARY CLINTON SIGNED OFF A PLAN TO COOK THIS WHOLE THING UP. SHE WAS DEFENSIVELY BRAVE TRUMP NEVER WAS AND THE FACT THAT THIS INFORMATION WAS GATHERED IN JANUARY AND MARCH THE STUNNING TO NOW KNOW THAT THE SUB SOURCE DISAVOWED THE DOCUMENT. THAT WAS USED TO GET A WARRANT. AND NOBODY AT THE TOP HAD ANY IDEA THAT THAT OCCURRED- IS JUST. SHETTERLY DISAPPOINTING DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW PEOPLE COULD BE DISAPPOINTED IN THAT. I DO UNDERSTAND HOW PEOPLE COULD BE DISAPPOINTED IN THAT SO I'M DISAPPOINTED IN MYSELF YEAH. AND THE POINT IS AFTER A WHILE MR MACKAY BEGINS TO BE. HARD TO RECONCILE ALL THIS AND COME OUT AND SAY THAT THERE WAS AN- D. IS IT STILL YOUR TESTIMONY THAT THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN WERE EQUALLY TREATED WHEN IT CAME TO ALLEGATIONS. I THINK THAT THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN WERE TREATED VERY DIFFERENTLY AND THE COURT IN THE CONTEXT OF TWO VERY DIFFERENT INVESTIGATION I'M JUST SAYING THAT IT SEEMS TO ME THAT ALLEGATIONS WERE MADE BY BOTH AND- I'LL CLOSE OUT OF SOME THAT ALL UP. SENATE KENNEDY. THANK YOU MR CHAIRMAN. MR MCCABE. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MISBEHAVIOR OUTLINED BY US INSPECTOR GENERAL HOROWITZ. IN HIS REPORT ABOUT MISFIRE HURRICANE. WELL IT DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU'RE REFERRING TO SENTIMENTS YOU'RE REFERRING TO THE INTENTIONAL MISCONDUCT COMMITTED BY MR KLEIN SMITH AND QUITE OBVIOUSLY MR CHRISTMAS RESPONSIBLE CORRECT I THINK FROM A COMMAND PERSPECTIVES DIRECTOR CALL ME MYSELF AND OUR SUBORDINATE LEADERS ARE ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FAILURES IN THAT PACKAGE THAT WE'RE ALLOWED TO GO FORWARD BUT IF YOU'RE ASKING ME WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR INTENTIONAL MISCONDUCT BEYOND MR KLEIN'S MISS ACTIVITY. I'M NOT AWARE THAT THERE'S BEEN A FINDING THAT OTHERS ARE ENGAGED IN INTENTIONAL SCOTT. WHILE YOU WERE EITHER. DIRECTOR OR ACTING DIRECTOR OF THE FBI. THE FBI DECIDED TO INVESTIGATE TWO PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS. ONE SECRETARY CLINTON THE OTHER ONE THEN CANDIDATE TRUMP AND LATER PRESIDENT TRUMP I WANNA PUT ASIDE SECRETARY CLINTON FIRST ACT. ARM. WHEN THE FBI DECIDED TO INVESTIGATE CANDIDATE DONALD TRUMP. WHAT QUESTIONS DID YOU ASK. I MEAN AT SOME POINT SOMEBODY CAME TO ME AND SAID. HEY MISTER DEPUTY DIRECTOR WE'RE GONNA JUST JUST SO YOU'LL KNOW WE'RE GONNA AND INVESTIGATE. ARE THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT UNITED STATES. REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE TOLD THAT. SO YOU'RE REFERRING TO OUR INITIATION OF THE CROSSFIRE INVESTIGATION SO INVESTIGATION OF THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN I DO REMEMBER CONVERSATIONS AT THE END OF JULY TWENTY SIXTEEN CASPER DOESN'T EXCUSE ME FROM ERUPTED APOLOGIZE. ARM IT WOULD BE FAIR TO SAY THAT THE CHRISTOPHER STEELE DOSSIER WAS THE KEYSTONE OF THE INVESTIGATION. NO SIR THAT'S NOT ACCURATE ALL WHAT HOW IMPORTANT WAS. WHAT WORD WOULD YOU USE. IT HAD NO IMPORTANCE WE WERE NOT IN POSSESSION OF THAT INFORMATION WHEN WE INITIATED THE CASE OKAY SO YOU'RE TELLING ME WHEN YOU INITIATED THE CASE. CHRISTOPHER STEELE'S DOSSIER HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR TO SAY TO GO. THAT'S CORRECT THAT YOUR TESTIMONY TODAY UNDER OATH. IT IS OKAY AT SOME POINT THE CHRISTOPHER STEELE DOSSIER BECAME IMPORTED DID IT NOT. D. CHRISTOPHER STEELE REPORTING CAME TO US IN THE MIDDLE OF SEPTEMBER AND IT BECAME IMPORTANT TO US AT THAT TIME OKAY NOW WHAT WHEN YOU HEARD ABOUT THE CHRISTOPHER STEELE DOSSIER. DID YOU WHAT DID YOU ASK TO INTERVIEW MR STEELE. I MEAN YOU'RE ONLY INVESTIGATING. A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT UNITED STATES AFTER YOU'VE ALREADY INVESTIGATED ONE NOW YOU'RE ON THE SECOND. DID YOU DID YOU SAY HEY I'M THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR HERE I'M RESPONSIBLE. I WANT TO TALK TO CHRIS STATE DID YOU DO THAT. I DID NOT PERSONALLY SPEAK TO MISTER STEELE BUT OUR INVESTIGATIVE TEAM. TRAVEL OVERSEAS THE WHY NOT YOU'RE THE DEPUTY THAT'S WHAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND ABOUT THIS WHOLE FINDS OKAY. YOU'RE THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE FBI. AND YOU THIS YEAR YOUR PEOPLE HAVE DECIDED TO INVESTIGATE THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT I'D STATES AFTER ALREADY INVESTIGATING THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE. AND IT LEAST IMPARTED SOME POINT IT WAS BASED ON THE CHRISTIE OLD LEFT. NOW YOU CAN RUN FROM THAT ONE BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE FROM. SEARCH DID YOU EVER CALL YOUR GUYS A YOUNG OR GALS AND SAY YEAH. JUST A THOUGHT I THINK I'D LIKE TO TALK. TO CHRISTIE AISLE TO SEE HOW CREDIBLE THIS GUYS COULD YOU SAY YOU'VE NEVER KNOWN. DID YOU DO THAT. SENATOR IN MY ENTIRE EXPERIENCE OF TWENTY ONE YEARS AS AN FBI AGENT I AM NOT AWARE OF A SINGLE INSTANCE OF THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE FBI INTERVIEWING A SOURCE AND WHAT. IS FOR PRESIDENT UNITED STATES HAVE YOU INVESTIGATED. I CAN'T COMMENT ON THAT SIR BUT YOU'RE TELLING ME AT NO POINT. YOU EVER SAT DOWN AND SAID WAIT A MINUTE GASES THIS IS NOW ALL BASTER SUBSTANTIALLY BASED ON CHRISTIE. I WANT TO TALK TO THIS I WANT TO TALK TO THIS THIS COWBOY. YOU NEVER DID THAT. THAT IS NOT AN ACCURATE CHARACTERIZATION OF OUR INVESTIGATION THAT'S WHAT YOU SAID YOU NEVER TALKED ON I'M NOT TRYING TO PUT WORDS IN HIS MOUTH. NO SIR I'M JUST TRYING TO CLARIFY THAT THE STEEL INFORMATION DIDN'T COME TO US UNTIL TWO AND A HALF MONTHS AFTER WE OPENED THE CASE WHEN IT CAME. WHEN IT CAME TO YOU DID YOU DID YOU SAY WAIT A MINUTE GUYS THIS IS MARK. MARK REPUTATION ON THE LINE I WANT TO TALK TO CHRISTOPHER STEELE. NO SENATOR I SENT MY INVESTIGATORS TO CONDUCT THE INVESTIGATION DO YOU KNOW WHO. DICK DO YOU KNOW WHO IGOR DANCHENKO WHALES. I DO NOT YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHO THAT IS EVEN TODAY. I AM NOT GOING TO SPECULATE AS TO WHO HE IS WELL HE WAS THE SUBSOIL WORSE. THE TO STEEL DOSSIER WAS BASED ON. SO YOUR TOWN I'M MORE BASHAR STAMP YOU'RE THE YOU'RE THE YOU'RE THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF THE FBI. YOU'VE DECIDED TO INVESTIGATE THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN. YOU GET THIS DOSSIER WHICH WHAT DO YOU ADMIT IT OR NOT WAS THE BASIS FOR ALL THE FISA WARRANTS YOU NEVER SHUT DOWN SO I WANT TO TALK TO CHRIS DOSSIER ARE CHRISTIE. SEE IF YOU HAD TALKED TO CHRISTIE- YOU WOULD HAVE FOUND OUT THAT HIS SUB SOURCE WAS IGOR DANCHENKO. I'M PRIMER'S SUBTITLES. DICK DANCHENKO WAS NOT HE WON FROM RUSSIA HE WAS SOME GUY IN WASHINGTON DC WORKING FOR BREAKING. HE WENT TO UNIVERSITY LEVEL. YOU WANT TO GEORGE TOWN HE WAS BUDDIES WITH DR FIONA HILL. HE WAS DRINKING BUDDY. WHY DIDN'T ALL YOU YOU FOLKS ARE RUNNING THE SHOW. WAIT A MINUTE THIS IS ALSO IN AROUND CHRISTIE- WE BETTER TALK TO CHRISTIE ON WE BETTER TALK TO WHO'S GOT IT DANCHENKO. SENATOR IT'S- IMPORTANT THAT I GET THAT YOU GET THE SENSE THAT YOU COULD GIVE ME JUST A SECOND SURE- I AM NOT SURE THAT. THE I HAVE READ I HAVE NOW READ THE- THE REPORT OF THE SUB SOURCED INTERVIEW AND D. D. INTERVIEWING HIS NAME IS STILL REDACTED IN THAT REPORT I DO NOT FEEL COMFORTABLE. ECOLOGY OR CONFIRMING OR DENYING ANY IDENTITY THAT MIGHT BE ASSOCIATED WITH THAT PERSON HIS OWN LAWYERS SENATE. ONE HOUR WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE GET. THE F. B. I. DIDN'T EVEN TRY. THE PEOPLE MAKING THE DECISIONS. YOU WANTED TO INVESTIGATE TRUMP. I MEAN THIS IS A NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT UNITED STATES YOU'VE ALREADY INVESTIGATED THE OTHER ONE. AND POTENTIALLY SCREWED UP HER CAMPAIGN. AND SO YOU GET THE STEELE DOSSIER YOU DON'T SIT DOWN YOU PERSONALLY AND CALMING YOU DON'T TALK TO CHRISTIE. YOU DON'T EVEN ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT WHERE HE GOT HIS INFORMATION HAD YOU DONE THAT YOU WOULD HAVE FOUND THAT HE GOT IT FROM DANCHENKO. DANCHENKO GENTLY HERE. OKAY YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT. AT ALL WOULD COME APART BUT YOU NEVER LOOKED. AND IT SURE LOOKS LIKE YOU DIDN'T WANT TO. IS THAT A QUESTION YES SIR YEAH. SO D. I CAN'T POSSIBLY DISAGREE MORE STRONGLY WITH THE WAY YOU FRAMED THAT QUESTION- THE WALL IT IS TRUE THAT I NEVER SAT PERSONALLY WITH MR STEELE OR ANY OF HIS ALLEGED SOURCES- OUR TEAM SPENT A GREAT DEAL OF AFTER INTERVIEWING HIM INTERVIEWING OTHER PEOPLE THAT THEY THOUGHT WERE RELEVANT AND TRYING TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THE MATERIAL THAT HE PROVIDED. SO NO WE WERE NOT PREDISPOSED TO INVESTIGATING THE PRESIDENT WASN'T SOMETHING WE SOUGHT OUT TO DO BUT WE FELT THAT THE POTENTIAL NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT- PUT US IN A POSITION WHERE WE WERE OBLIGATED TO INVESTIGATE THAT'S WHAT WE. CAN YOU EXPECT MERICAN PEOPLE TO BELIEVE THAT. THAT IS THE TRUTH AND I CERTAINLY HOPE THEY. YOUR PLANS BEEN PROSECUTED FOR LYING TO THE FBI. YOU ONE OF THE F. BACK BEYOND YOU AREN'T BEING PROSECUTED. DON'T YOU THINK THAT SOUNDS. THE WRONG MESSAGE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. SENATOR GENERAL FLYNN SITUATION IN MIND HAD ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IN COMMON I NEVER EVER INTENTIONALLY MISLED THE FBI OR THE IG UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES AND I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY THE CONCLUSION THAT THE DC U. S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE CAME TO WHEN THEY DISMISSED THE TWO YEAR INVESTIGATION OF MAN BUT YOU WALK FIRED FOR PARKING IN THE HANDICAPPED. PARKING SPOT THE F. B. ACT WORRY. YOU FIRED FROM LINE WERE YOU NOT. I WAS FIRED AS THE RESULT OF A DEEPLY UNFAIR AND FLAWED IG INVESTIGATION AND I'M CHALLENGING THAT TERMINATION IN SEVERAL QUICK LAST QUESTION. AFTER DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA MR MACKAY I DON'T THINK MISSED CALL MAYBE IT DOES. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW BADLY YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES HAVE HURT THE FBI. I MEAN THE PREMIER LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY. AND JUST A HANDFUL OF YOU. AND NOW WHEN THE AVERAGE AMERICAN GETS UNLOCKED ONLY IS OUR DOOR F. B. I NEED TO TALK TO YOU. AT LEAST HALF OF AMID LIKE ALL MY GOSH. IT IS THE AGENT OF REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT. WE KNOW MY PARTY AFFILIATION. YET MANY ARE DAMAGED DAMAGE YOU'VE DONE. SURE MY COLLEAGUES AND I NEVER TOOK ANY ACTION TO UNDER TO. UNDERMINE OUR EXPECTED NEWS UNDERMINE OUR OATHS TO THIS CONSTITUTION AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THE WORK THAT WE DID FOR THE F. B. I. I DEEPLY. HOW POLITICIZED THE FBI HAS BECOME IN LIGHT OF THE RHETORIC AND THE RELENTLESS ATTACKS LEVIED UPON IT OVER THE LAST FOUR YEARS AND I HAVE GREAT FAITH THAT MY FORMER COLLEAGUES WILL CONTINUE TO DO THEIR WORK AND IGNORE THOSE SORT OF BASELESS ATTACK LET'S BASH WHAT YOU INITIALLY COME IN THE OTHERS DID. AT WORST IT WAS INTENTIONAL. AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S IN YOUR HEAD OR YOUR HEART BUT I'M K. WHAT WHAT LIKED AMERICAN PEOPLE AT THE VERY MINIMUM AND INCOMPETENCE TSUNAMI. AND THEREFORE I CAN HOW DID THESE GUYS MAKE IT THROUGH THE BIRTH CANAL. SO I GOT MISTER CHAIRMAN. THANK YOU OF JUST A TO PUT A FINE POINT ON THIS AND WE'LL LET YOU GO MISS CAPE THANK YOU FOR COMING AND- DID YOU HAVE REGULAR MEETINGS WITH THE PEOPLE IN. CHARGE OF CROSSFIRE HURRICANE. WE HAD REGULAR MEETINGS WE HAD IMPROMPTU NEWS A LOT OF MEETINGS HE TOOK IT SERIOUSLY IS THAT CORRECT. I THINK EVERYBODY SENATE SERVICING OKAY. SO WAS PETER STRUCK YOUR MAIN SOURCE OF INFORMATION. YOU'RE STRUCK WAS ONE AS MANY SOURCES OF INFORMATION I MET VERY REGULARLY WITH US MR STEINBACH MISTER PRIESTAP OUR GENERAL COUNSEL DEPUTY GENERAL COUNSEL THERE THERE ARE QUITE A FEW PEOPLE INVOLVED. DID THEY TELL YOU THAT THE SUB SOURCE WAS BEING INTERVIEWED IN JANUARY. I DID NOTE THAT THE SUB SERVICE HAD BEEN INTERVIEWED THAT'S CORRECT DID YOU EVER ASK THE QUESTION HOW DID THAT INTERVIEW GO DID HELP US. WITH THE WARRANT APPLICATION. DID IT UNDERMINED THE ONE APPLICATION DID YOU ASK ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE RESULTS OF THE INTERVIEW. I DID I REMEMBER DISCUSSING IT VERY BRIEFLY AND I WOULD NOT WAS NOT PERFORMED AT ANY CONCERNS WITH THANK YOU CAN YOU CAN CONCERNS WITH THE THINGS THAT- HE WITNESSED. WHO DID YOU TALK TO ABOUT THE INTERVIEW DO YOU RECALL. I DO NOT RECALL SIR. SO YOU REMEMBER BEING TOLD ABOUT THE G. WERE YOU TOLD ABOUT THE MARCH INTERVIEW. YES. SO HERE'S THE QUESTION I GUESS IF YOU ASK HIM HOW DID THE INTERVIEW GO. AND NOBODY TELLS YOU THAT IT. BASICALLY DESTROYED THE DOSSIER. IT DOES NOT CRIMINAL IS IT GROSSLY NEGLIGENT NOT TO GET THAT INFORMATION TO YOU. I THINK THAT THE CASE TEAM SHOULD HAVE HAD MUCH MORE DETAILED CONVERSATION WITHIN THEMSELVES AND ALSO WITH THE DEPARTMENT ATTORNEYS WHO ARE RIDING A BICYCLE IS THIS IS THE BLAME. I THINK HE THE INFORMATION THAT THEY INCLUDED IN THE FISA PACKAGE. ABOUT THAT INTERVIEW I'LL BE AT. WHILE MISLEADING I THINK IT REFLECTS HOW THEY THOUGHT ABOUT THE INTERVIEW AT THAT TIME. THEY DIDN'T THINK ABOUT IT CRITICALLY IF YOU IF YOU LOOK AT THIS INTERVIEW AND YOU'RE NOT WILD BUT HOW UNRELIABLE THE DOSSIER IS YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE IT AS BEING UNRELIABLE. NOW YOU'RE IN CHARGE THE NUMBER TO THE GAS. OF ONE THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL INVESTIGATIONS IN THE HISTORY OF THE FBI IT BEGINS TO FALL APART ONE STOP SIGN AFTER AND OTHERS PRESENTED TO THE FBI THE CIA TELLS THE F. B. I. DID THIS IS INTERNET RUMOR YOU NEED TO WATCH CHRISTOPHER STEELE THE STATE DEPARTMENT TELLS ABOUT HIM TRYING TO TAKE TRUMP DOWN BRUCE OR TALKS ABOUT YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS GUY. WHEN THE SERBS OR SIS ACTUALLY INTERVIEWED HE SHREDS THE DOCUMENT AS BEING RELIABLE AND- NOTHING. SEEMED TO WORK WHEN IT CAME TO MAKING SURE THAT THE TRUE FACTS GOT OUT TO THE COURT AND OTHERS NOTHING SEEMED TO WORK CAN YOU GIVE ME AN EXPLANATION AS TO WHY WHEN IT CAME TO THE EXCULPATORY PART OF THIS NOTHING SEEMED TO WORK THE WAY IT SHOULD. SENATOR I CAN ONLY RELY ON THE FINDINGS I'VE READ IN THE IG REPORT BUT YOU WANTED TO BE ON THE NUMBER TWO GUY YOU WERE IN CHARGE OF ALL THIS. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE NUMBER TWO GUY IN THE F. B. I. WAS NOT INFORMED ABOUT THESE MAJOR BREAKDOWNS. REGARDING THE RELIABILITY THE DOSSIER. HOUSE HI DAD I DO YOU WE'RE NOT IN REFORM ABOUT THE EMAIL FROM THE CIA SAYING YEAH I ACTUALLY- CARTER PAGE HE WAS A SOURCE FOR US. JUDGE CENTER I CAN'T ANSWER FOR YOU WHY I DID NOT KNOW SOMETHING AT THE TIME OKAY WELL THAT'S THE THAT'S- YEAH THAT'S THE PURPOSE OF THE PURPOSE OF THE HEARING IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE FIND ANSWERS TO HOW THE SYSTEM FAIL SO IT DOESN'T FAIL AGAIN. AND I APPRECIATE YOU COMING I'M SORRY TO GIVE YOU A BREAK AND- WE WILL CONTINUE IN SPITE OF MY DEMOCRATIC COLLEAGUES PROTESTATIONS WERE GONNA FIND SOMEBODY ACCOUNTABLE FOR SOMETHING WHEN IT COMES OUR CROSSFIRE HURRICANE AND- THANK YOU VERY MUCH MR MACKAY PURPOSE PAYING HEARING I APPRECIATE VERY VERY MUCH AND- WISH YOU THE BEST. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT NOW AS TO WHY I'M DOING WHAT I'M DOING. IS JUST ASTONISHING TO ME THAT SO MUCH WAS IGNORED SO OFTEN AND YOU COME TO THE CONCLUSION THERE'S NO THERE THERE. SO WHAT DO WE KNOW WE KNOW THAT NO DEFENSIVE BRIEFING WAS GIVEN TO PRESIDENT TRUMP ABOUT CONCERNS. REGARDING HIS CAMPAIGN BUT WHEN THERE WERE CONCERNS REGARDING THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN AND FOREIGN EMPLOYMENT SHE WAS BRIEFED WE KNOW THAT SENATOR FEINSTEIN WAS BRIEF WHEN THE F. B. I THOUGHT MAYBE A MEMBER HER STAFF IS CONNECTED THE CHINESE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY. ALL OF THESE INVESTIGATIONS OF THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN WERE COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATION. INVESTIGATIONS NOT ONE MENTION TO PRESIDENT TRUMP YOU MAY HAVE A PROBLEM ATTEMPT OUTLETS WELL IF YOU LOOK AT THE TRANSCRIPTS OF THE OF THE- THE BAR TALK WITH MR PAPADOPOULOS HE SAYS IN THE TRANSCRIPTION DIDN'T ALWAYS BEING RECORDED. THAT NO HE'S NOT WORKING WITH THE RUSSIANS HE HASN'T RECEIVED ANY INFORMATION FROM RUSSIA THAT WOULD BE TREASON THAT WOULD BE A CRIME THE WHOLE PREMISE OF CROSSFIRE HURRICANE. WAS A REPORT BY A- AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED KINGDOM THAT WAS GIVEN TO SOMEBODY IN OUR OFFICE IN LONDON THAT MAKES HIS WAY BACK TO WASHINGTON. THEY'VE GOT ALL THIS INFORMATION WE'RE PAPPA DOUBTLESS DENIES WORKING THE RUSSIANS AND THEY JUST PLOW AHEAD. COMPARE THAT TO THE SEPTEMBER. CI A MEMO TO THE FBI SUGGESTING THAT HILLARY CLINTON HAS SIGNED OFF ON A PLAN TO LINK TRUMP TO RUSSIA. THE DRAW ATTENTION AWAY FROM HER EMAIL SERVER. PROBLEM THIS IS OUR CI A TELLING THE FBI THEY HAVE CREDIBLE. INFORMATION AND INVESTIGATIVE LEAD THAT HILLARY CLINTON THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE IS TRYING TO LINK TRUMP TO RUSSIA FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES. AND THE FBI COMPLETELY IGNORED IT APPARENTLY DO IT IN THE GARBAGE CAN. AND CONSIDERED A AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR MEETING AT A BAR MORE RELIABLE DIDN'T GIVE IT ONE MINUTE. ATTENTION IN THE REASON THAT'S IMPORTANT IT BEGINS TO EXPLAIN HOW THIS ALL HAPPENED CHRISTOPHER STILL WAS ON THE PAYROLL OF FUSION GPS WHO WAS ON THE PAYROLL OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. CHRISTOPHER STEELE WAS WORKING FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HE PROVIDED A DOSSIER THAT USED A RUSSIAN SOURCE WHO IS SUSPECTED OF BEING A RUSSIAN AGENT YEARS BEFORE. AND IT TURNED OUT TO BE A BUNCH OF GARBAGE. SO THE REASON THE FBI SHOULD A LOOK AT WHAT THE CIA HAD TOLD THEM IS IT BEGINS TO MAKE CROSSFIRE HURRICANE. MAKE MORE SENSE THAT THIS WHOLE THING WAS COOKED UP IN JULY. THAT THE WHOLE IDEA OF TRUMP RUSSIA CONNECTIONS WERE NOT REAL THEY WERE MANUFACTURED IN PART BY CHRISTOPHER STEELE. AND THE F. B. I. BOUGHT IT HOOK LINE AND SINKER. SO I THINK A LOT OF US ON OUR SIDE- JUST ASTONISHED THAT WHEN THE CIA SENDS OVER INFORMATION THE FBI THAT THEY HAVE INTELLIGENCE THAT HILLARY CLINTON SIGNED OFF ON A PLAN. TO CONNECT TRUMP RUSSIA DOES DIVERT ATTENTION FROM HER THAT NOBODY AT THE FBI DID THE THING ABOUT IT. WELL WHO DID THEY SEND IT TO PETER STRUCK. ARE YOU GOING TO HAVE ME BELIEVE THAT PETER STRZOK WAS FAIR MINDED WHEN IT CAME TO TRUMP CLINTON. DOESN'T MAKE A LOT OF SENSE THAT THE PERSON WHO WAITED TRUMP. THOUGHT IT SHOULD LOSE A HUNDRED MILLION DID NOTHING THIRTY WAS AN IDIOT TOTALLY INVESTED IN. MAKING SURE HE NEVER BECOMES PRESIDENT. IS IT VERY FAR FETCHED TO SAY THAT WHEN HE GOT THE INFORMATION ABOUT CLINTON HE JUST PURPOSELY DID NOTHING WITH IT. HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN A SYSTEM. THIS OUT OF CONTROL THE MOST HIGH PROFILE CASE MAYBE IN THE HISTORY OF THE FBI AT LEAST NEAR THE TOP THAT WON THE SUB SOURCES INTERVIEWED ON TWO SEPARATE OCCASIONS AND THE INFORMATION IS TO THE DOSSIER EXCULPATORY NATURE IT NEVER MAKES HIS WAY UP TO ANYBODY WHO ACTUALLY. SIGNED THE WARRANT. WHAT KIND OF OVERSIGHT EXISTED FOR THIS TO HAPPEN. HOW SERIOUS WERE THERE ABOUT CHECKS AND BALANCES WHY DIDN'T THEY GO TO TRUMP INTO FOR TRUMP WHAT THEY DID FOR CLINTON WE THANK YOU MAY HAVE A PROBLEM YOU NEED TO CORRECT. IT'S PRETTY OBVIOUS TELL US THE CROSSFIRE HURRICANE STARTED BASICALLY. IN A BAR. IT TOOK ON A LIFE WELL BEYOND WHAT THE EVIDENCE WOULD REQUIRE THAT EVERY TIME IT WAS SUPPOSED TO COME TO AN END IT KEPT GOING EVERY TIME THEY RECEIVE FROM SOME INFORMATION THAT MADE THE WHOLE PREMISE OF THE CASE- UNRELIABLE THEY IGNORED IT WHEN IT COMES TO GENERAL FLYNN IN JANUARY THE FOURTH. THE PROFESSIONALS WANTED TO CLOSE OUT THE CASE AGAINST GENERAL FLYNN BECAUSE THERE IS NO THERE THERE IT WAS THE SEVENTH FLOOR THAT KEPT IT GOING THEY TRICK GENERAL FLYNN INTO TALKING WITHOUT A LAWYER WITHOUT GOING TO THE WHITE HOUSE. SALLY EIGHT SAID THEY SHOULD'VE DEFENSE LAWYER IF THE PRESIDENT OF THEY HAD A CONCERN WITH GENERAL PLANNED THEY CHOSE NOT TO THEY SET HIM UP AND ACTED VERY DISHONORABLY TOWARD GENERAL FLYNN AND THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH GENERAL FLYNN TALKING TO THE AMBASSADOR THE RUSSIA. ONE IS THE INCOMING NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER. AND THE CONVERSATIONS ARE RECORDED AND THERE'S NOT ONE WORD IN THERE TO SUGGEST THAT GENERAL FLYNN HAD BEEN H. IN THE RUSSIANS AT ANY TIME. THEY'VE BASICALLY TRIED TO RUIN THE MAN'S REPUTATION. THE PROFESSIONALS JANUARY THE FOURTH TOOK A HARD LOOK AT GENERAL FLYNN ABOUT NOTHING THERE IT'S JUST THESE PEOPLE AT THE TOP WHO HAD AN INSANE DESIRE TO KEEP LOOKING AT TRUMP PEOPLE WHEN THE EVIDENCE WHICH SUGGESTS THEY NEEDED TO STOP WHY DID THEY NEVER STOP. WHEN IT CAME TO TRUMP. WHEN THEY SHOULD HAVE STOPPED WHAT DID THEY NEVER SLOW DOWN. BECAUSE THEY HAD A BIAS. THEY REALLY WERE IN THE TANK WHEN IT CAME TO. THE TRUMP BEING A RUSSIAN AGENT NO MATTER WHAT THE EVIDENCE SAID THEY WERE GOING AFTER THIS GUY. BECAUSE IN THEIR MIND HE WASN'T WORTHY. WHY DID THEY NOT LOOK AT THE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST. CANDIDATE CLINTON PROVIDED BY THE CIA IT WOULD UNDERCUT THE NARRATIVE THIS WAS AN INVESTIGATION THAT WAS UNBIASED THIS WAS AN INVESTIGATION THAT WAS OUT OF CONTROL THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE OF IT WOULD DEEPLY BIASED THEIR ACTIONS PROVE MORE THAN ANY MORE THAN ANY DIRECT EVIDENCE. OF THEIR BIAS EVERY TIME THEY HAD A MOMENT TO REFLECT. THEY MIGHT THEY MOVE FORWARD EVERY TIME EXCULPATORY INFORMATION WAS PROVIDED THEY IGNORED IT. ARE ALTERED IT CRIMINALLY. IS NO ACCIDENT TO THE AMERICANS NO ACCIDENT IN MY VIEW THAT ALL THIS HAPPENED THIS IS NOT A SERIES OF RANDOM MISTAKES. THIS WAS A CONCERTED EFFORT TO KEEP AN INVESTIGATION GOING THAT SHOULD HAVE STOPPED THAT SHOULD A SLOW DOWN AND WHAT'S THE DAMAGE DONE. THEY MANIPULATED THE FISA COURT TO KEEP THE WAR PROCESS GOING THAT SHOULD STOP MONTHS AGO. THEY CREATED A CLOUD OF THE FBI ABOUT POLITICAL BIAS IT LINGERS TO THIS DAY. LAWYERS ARE BEING PROSECUTED FOR MANIPULATING EVIDENCE TO KEEP WARM APPLICATION ALIVE. THEY WERE TOLD ABOUT. INFORMATION FROM THE CIA THAT MAYBE THIS WAS ALL PART OF A POLITICAL SCHEME OF THE OPPONENT. THEY IGNORED IT THEY KNEW THAT THE CHRISTOPHER STEELE DOSSIER WAS SUSPECT. THEY KNEW THAT THE SOURCE WAS A PRIOR RUSSIAN SUSPECTED RUSSIAN AGENTS. AND THEY KEPT GOING AND GOING AND GOING AND THEY NEVER ONE MOMENT GAVE PRESIDENT TRUMP A BRIEFING. THAT EVERY OTHER CANDIDATE. SHOULD EXPECT. IF YOU THINK SOMEBODY MY OFFICE IS DOING SOMETHING WRONG I WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO TELL ME SO I CAN FIX IT. THEY WEREN'T TRYING TO PROTECT TRUMP. THEY WERE TRYING TO PROTECT HIS FROM FOREIGN INFLUENCE. THEY WERE TRYING TO UNDERCUT THE PRESIDENT THEY WERE TRYING TO KEEP AN INVESTIGATION GOING AGAINST THE PRESIDENT A CANDIDATE THEY DESPISED THE HEAD ONE STANDARD FOR TRUMP. VASTLY DIFFERENT THAN THAT OF. CANDIDATE CLINTON AND MY DEMOCRATIC COLLEAGUES SAY LET'S MOVE ON. TO THIS DAY. YEARS LATER I HAVE YET TO FIND ONE PERSON WHO WILL TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR MANIPULATING THE FISA COURT. I DIDN'T KNOW IF I KNEW THEN WHAT I KNOW NOW WOULD HAVE SIGNED IT. SO WHO ARE WE DOUBLING IS IT SOMEBODY AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PYRAMID WHO AT ALL THIS EXCULPATORY INFORMATION FOR SOME REASON DIDN'T SHARE AT. IS THAT WHAT THE SYSTEMS COME DOWN TO. BLAMING SOMEBODY AT THE BOTTOM THEY TAKE RESPONSIBILITY IN NAME ONLY. THEY DON'T SEEM TO APPRECIATE THE GRAVITY OF DAMAGE DONE TO THE FBI DID INVESTIGATIVE PROCESS WHEN THEY SAY NO OF COURSE I WOULD HAVE SIGNED THAT WARRANT THESE ARE THE PEOPLE COMEY AND MCCABE NOT ROSENSTEIN YATES ARE ACTUALLY IN CHARGE OF GATHERING THE INFORMATION. THEY'RE IN CHARGE OF THE INVESTIGATIVE PART OF OBTAINING A FISA WARRANT THEY GATHER THE FACTS IN THE LOWERS IT DOJ DECIDE WHETHER NOT TO PURSUE A WARRANT THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE OF THIS INVESTIGATION. WE'RE BY THE CIA THIS MAY HAVE BEEN A PLOT COOKED UP BY THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE TO BLAME TRUMP FOR BEING INVOLVED IN RUSSIA WHEN HE WASN'T. THEY COMPLETELY IGNORED AND WHEN THEY WERE. HIT HARD BY THE FACTS THAT THE DOSSIER WAS A BUNCH OF GARBAGE. IT JUST MAGICALLY NEVER MADE IT UP TO THEIR DESK. EVERYTHING BAD ABOUT TRUMP MADE IT TO THEIR DESK. EVERYTHING GETS GARBLED TORY ABOUT THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN NEVER MADE IT TO THEIR DESK. HOW DUMB DO THEY THINK WE ARE. THIS COMMITTEE IS NOT THROUGH. WE'RE GONNA KEEP DIGGING UNTIL WE FIND OUT HOW. THE MOST HIGH PROFILE INVESTIGATION OF A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT I'D STATES EVENTUALLY SITTING PRESIDENT WAS HANDLED SO POORLY. IN TRYING TO LET THE FISA COURT KNOW THAT WE TAKE OUR JOB SERIOUSLY SO WE WILL CONTINUE THIS PROCESS PEOPLE NEED TO BE FIRED AND I THINK THE CRIMINALITY HERE NEEDS TO BE LOOKED AT I FIND IT VERY DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE. THAT THIS IS SCULPT TORY INFORMATION WAS NOT WITHHELD FROM THE COURT ON PURPOSE. WE KNOW KLEIN SMITH CHANGED EXCULPATORY INFORMATION. WE CAUGHT HIM. THERE'S SOMEBODY ELSE OUT THERE THAT PROBABLY KNOWS THE SYSTEM. REJECTED THAT SCOPE TORY INFORMATION THEY JUST DIDN'T IGNORE IT. TO BE CONTINUED THANK HEARING IS ADJOURNED.

Channel: Fox News

Views: 1,076,099

Rating: 4.4113884 out of 5

Keywords: Fox News Channel, FNC, Fox News, News, live, live stream, live video, live updates, live news, fox news live, fox news live stream, fox live, fox live stream, congress, senate, senate judiciary, crossfire hurricane, crossfire hurricane investigation, andrew mccabe, mccabe, mccabe congress, mccabe testimony, andrew mccabe congress, andrew mccabe hearing, mccabe hearing

Id: 5oDhFNb-tmc

Length: 196min 45sec (11805 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 10 2020