JB Maman have a great week and I am Chris Cuomo. Welcome to prime time. We have two big truth bombs to unpack with you tonight. You know how

Potos and pals were screaming just yesterday that the Inspector General the Department of Justice found proof that the Russia probe was a hoax. Why are they so quiet now? Wait until you hear what that Inspector General concluded about the idea of a deep state hoax.

Here's a hint. The rights silence. Defining and there could be another reason that Republican Devon Nunes the ranking member of the Intel Committee is quiet tonight. We have another big exclusive. Guess who he reportedly met with and who he was purportedly looking for dirt on. And then we have a third exclusive to talk about all the news. We have former representative Katie Hill with us tonight. She regret her resignation. What comes

next now that's how we start Friday night around here. Let's get after it. All right, so here's how we set the table when it comes to Russian interference and any allegations stemming from it. Trump and co always have the same defense and here it is.

For the last three years, Democrat lawmakers, their deep state cronies. The fake news media, they've been colluding in their effort to overturn the presidential election. And the deep state a desperate to stop us. Now we're being hindered by the Russian hoax. It's a hoax.

And when the Justice Department reported yesterday that there had been an error in a phiza warrant, the president and his pals and state TV, they were all saying, told you so and praising the truthful report. In fact, over there, someone's probably spouting off about it right now. But I guarantee you they're not telling you what else is in that report. And none of it is good for their dark intentions to disparage our department of justice.

The report by the inspector general is not due out until next month, but CNN has sources familiar with it, telling them very important things. Yes, we don't cherry pick here. There was improper handling of a page in a phiza warrant by lower level employees at the FBI, one of them a former lawyer now under criminal investigation after allegedly altering the document related to the 2016 surveillance of Carter Page.

But here's what you have not unlikely will not hear anywhere on the right as soon or as loudly as you did about that. Deep state conspiracy, the inspector general says, no, the report takes an exhaustive look at whether there was any political bias by the FBI and DOJ that went into the launching of the investigation. The answer, no, did the top brass abuse their powers?

Did they use surveillance by the US government to improperly monitor Carter Page, a former low level Trump campaign staffer? The answer, no, did they follow all the correct procedures? Did they follow the highest ethical standards necessary for such an important investigation?

Also, the answer will be shocking to Trump defenders. Let's bring Cuomo's court into session with Elliott Williams and Jim Schultz. Thank you both. If I don't get to see you, have a great Thanksgiving. Thank you for helping my audience. I'm thankful for both of you.

Jimmy, yesterday when we found out that one of the documents, now we haven't seen the report, but the sourcing is good. Some lawyer at the FBI did something wrong with a document in one of the FI's applications on Carter Page such that they're going to do a criminal investigation on him. Okay? Him or her? I don't know who it is. Okay. The rest of the report we're told shows no deep state, no hoax, no political bias, no mismanagement, no malfeasance, no misfeasance, no

misfeasance by anybody, no hoax. What do you say now? So I think the New York Times and everyone else needs to take a breath here for one reason alone. So you have to understand, wait a minute, the only way to make it work times a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, I'm going to let you go.

You weren't saying take a breath yesterday. You guys were breathless about this one document in the FI's app. I'm never breathless. I'm never breathless. I'll say you guys. I'm never breathless about anything. Blue is your time. Go ahead. So, so here's what you have. When these when these investigations are conducted and they're coming to a close and there's a report ready to be prepared, ready to be issued. What happens is is that is that the report goes to individuals and only portions of the report that go go to

individuals who may be implicated in that report so that they can respond to it. My sense is that's how likely how the New York Times got read in on portions of this report because that's how these investigations typically work. So they're probably getting in complete picture here. Now I'm not saying that they're wrong about some of the conclusions because they they may be right and maybe CNN's the same way, right? I don't know what you're sourcing is, but I guarantee you you're not getting a full picture of that report at this time because the only way you get is to be able to do that.

The only way you get that is to get it through the inspector general's office. And I guarantee you harrower's is running a professional operation.

Jimmy, I'm oh, nobody's disagreeing with that, but Ellie at Williams helped me out here. When it was about that somebody did something wrong on the card of page FISA app, they were running around like they might as well had a bonfire in the middle of them over there on Fox.

Oh, we got the details out unveiling the hoax. Now the sourcing is that the report is overwhelming in its confirmation that everything was done right. Crickets. What's your take?

Well, yeah, I will agree with my friend Jim Shelson. We should wait to read the report. So we're we're an agreement on that point alone. But you know what Chris, two things can equally be true.

Number one, that individuals behaved in an improper way individuals behaved in an improper way in the conduct of an investigation. Number one. And number two, that broadly speaking, the legal underpinnings of the investigation are still sound. Those two things can equally be true.

So look, if people behaved improperly and you know the New York Times has reported that at least one low level FBI official did, then that person I'll be the first person to say that person ought to be dealt with.

Number one, as we reported it, and I started the report with it. I as well you did and that person should be suspended, terminated, fired, whatever it is. And I'm here for it. Okay. Now, so you know, we're an agreement about that. Now the underlying investigation of every indication is that it was sound and that a lot of these conspiracy theories about the deep state taking over and sort of a lot of the the bases that conservatives have pointed to saying that.

So for instance, Joseph Miffsood, this individual who was one of the sources was an FBI informant that's been debunked by the report. The idea that the steel dossier served as a basis for opening the investigation, that likely is being debunked by the report. So again, two things can be true. People behave badly and they should be dealt with. But the report is sound and as has been affirmed by the fact that.

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