JUDICIARY COMMITTEE AND ANY
OTHER CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY.
LOU: OUR FIRST GUEST TONIGHT TO
DISCUSS THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
AND THE FBI'S CREDIBILITY CRISIS
AND THE TROUBLING CLAIMS
POLITICAL BIAS DIDN'T SWAY THE
FBI'S CONCLUSION ON THE CLINTON
EMAIL PROBE.
JOINING US TONIGHT, CHRIS
FARRELL.
DIRECTOR OF INVESTIGATIONS AND
JUDICIAL RESEARCH.
LET'S START WITH THAT BIZARRE
OPENING TO THE REPORT.
IT SOUNDED LIKE A JAMES COMEY
RATIONALE FOR NOT INVESTIGATING
AS THE INSPECTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT BEGINS BY SAYING THERE IS
ALL SORTS OF BIAS.
BUT WE DON'T THINK THE BIAS IN
ANY WAY INFLUENCED THE OUTCOME
AND THE DIRECTION OF THOSE
INVESTIGATIONS.
>> IT'S THE WORST EXAMPLE OF
INTELLECTUAL DISHONESTY.
THEY ARE JUST TELLING LIES.
THEY GENERATED A REPORT THAT
DOCUMENTED NUMEROUS INSTANCES OF
RECKLESS LANGUAGE.
THESE PEOPLE WERE PLOTTING AND
PREPARED TO ACT.
STRZOK SAID WE'LL STOP HIM.
WHO IS WE?
I WANT THE ANSWER TO THAT.
THEY GO THROUGH PAGES AND PAGES
OF RATIONALIZATION.
SAYING IT'S NOT A BIG DEAL
THOUGH IT LOOKS BAD.
SHORT OF JUST OVERTLY LYING TO
THE AMERICAN PUBLIC.
IT'S INSULTING.
IT DOESN'T PASS THE SNIFF TEST
IN WAS SOME PUSHBACK BY SENATOR
GRAHAM TODAY WHICH WAS
REFRESHING TO HEAR HIM STEP UP
AND ASK TOUGH QUESTIONS.
BUT THIS IS, YOU KNOW, SENIOR
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS CONVENING
AND LYING TO EACH OTHER.
IT'S REPULSIVE.
>>IT IS REPULSIVE.
WE SAW SAW THESE DRIPS AND DROPS
OF NOR FLOW OUT.
HOROWITZ CONFIRMING THEY
RECEIVED A REFERRAL FROM THE FBI
ON THE COMEY MEMOS AND WILL
ISSUE A REPORT.
ANOTHER DAMN REPORT.
WE ARE TIRED OF REPORTS.
WHAT WE NEED IS THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE ARE SAYING PRETTY CLEARLY
RIGHT NOW.
WE NEED TO HAVE AN FBI THAT CAN
ACTUALLY INVESTIGATE AND
ACTUALLY COUPLE WITH A
CONCLUSION EITHER PROSECUTOR
NOT.
AND MOVE AHEAD.
AND DO SO SMARTLY.
THIS IS AN FBI THAT DOES NOT
FUNCTION.
IT DOESN'T PRODUCE INTELLIGENT
REPORTS.
IT DOESN'T DO SO ON ANYTHING
APPROACHING A TIMELY AND
EFFICIENT MANNER.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE OLD FBI
THAT USED TO BE FILLED WITH
G-MEN AND WOMEN GETTING STUFF
DONE.
>> NUMBER ONE, WE NEED GRAND
JURIYS AND INDICTMENTS.
I'M TIRED OF THE TALK AND REPORT
WRITING.
IT GOES NOWHERE.
IT'S AN ATTEMPT TO PLACATE THE
PUBLIC AND PUT IT BACK TO SLEEP.
POINT TWO, LOOK, THEY ARE PROM
PRO MICED, THEY ARE DONE,
FINISHED.
THERE NEEDS TO BE A UNITED
STATES MARSHAL'S SPECIAL CLATTER
OR GRANT FOR THEM TO TAKE OVER
THESE CASES AND RESOLVE IT.
THE FBI IS NO LONGER CAPABLE OF
INVESTIGATING ITSELF NOR IS THE
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, NOR IS
MUELLER.
THEY ARE FINISHED.
YOU BRING IN AN OUTSIDE AGENCY
WHETHER IT'S THE MARSHALS OR
SOME BRANCH OR ARM OF HOMELAND
SECURITY.
YOU GIVE THEM THE CHARTER TO
COME IN WITH NEW PEOPLE, A FRESH
LOOK, AND YOU CLEAN THIS UP AND
GET IT DONE.
LOU: THEY CAN'T EVEN GET A
STRAIGHT ANSWER OUT OF THE FBI.
>> I COULDN'T AGREE MORE.
LOU: THEY HAVE A GROUP OF
CORRUPT FOOLS AT THE TOP OF THE
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT.
THEY SEEM TO BE ENTRENCHED AND A
THEY SEEM TO BE ENTRENCHED AND D
LITTLE THAT CAN BE DONE BY THE.
I HAVE NEVER SEEN A BIGGER MESS
THAN TO WATCH SENATOR GRASSLEY
LISTENING TO PERTINENT QUESTIONS
GETTING THEM SWEPT AWAY BY THE
DIRECTOR OF THE FBI WHO IS SO
SMUG AND SELF-SATISFIED.
I DON'T THINK THERE IS ANY POINT
IN BRINGING HIM OUT IN FRONT OF
A COMMITTEE BECAUSE HE SEEMS
UTTERLY BEGUILED BY HIS OWN
IMMENSE POWERS DIRECTOR.
>> THAT'S WHY I FOUND FOR THEM
TO BE DONE WITH IT.
YOU BRING IN A COMPETENT GROUP
WITH INTEGRITY AND EXPERIENCE IN
LAW ENFORCEMENT.
AND YOU TAKE THIS MATTER AWAY
FROM THEM.
THEY ARE COMPROMISE.
ALL THAT'S BEEN DONE SO FAR HAS
BEEN TAKEN.
THAT'S A GENTLE WORD I CAN USE,
TAINTED.
IT NEEDS A FRESH SET OF EYES BY