Sources: Report Expected To Say No Bias At Top Of FBI In Russia Probe; Impeaching A President: The Next Steps; Embracing A Lie; Follow The Leader; Next Steps; The Backstory

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🗓️ 23 November 2019

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Sources: Report Expected To Say Russia Probe Launched Properly Despite Pres. Trump's Claims Of Bias By FBI Leaders; Sources: Report Expected To Say No Bias At Top Of FBI In Russia Probe; DOJ's Watchdog Expected To Say FBI Russia Probe Launched Properly, But Lower-Level Employees Made Mistakes; Pres. Trump & GOP Embrace Conspiracy Theory; Sources: House Dems To Spend Next Week Preparing Trump Impeachment Report; Pres. Trump On Impeachment: "I Don't Expect It"; Next Steps; House Judiciary Committee Poised To Draw Up Charges As President Trump Delivers Rambling Defense On Fox News; Impeachment And 2020; Pres. Trump: Democrats "Looked Like Fools" During Hearings; Democrats Believe They Have The Winning Message; Pres. Trump: "I Don't Think I've Ever Seen Support In The Republican Party Like We Do Right Now; How CNN Was Set To Interview Ukraine President; How CNN And Fareed Zakaria Got Caught Up In The Impeachment InquiryTo learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The president's own Justice Department on the president's own orders investigating
0:05.5	the president's own conspiracy theories about the 2016 Russia probe and largely debunks
0:11.9	them.
0:12.9	John Berman here in Foranderson, it is breaking news and it is big.
0:16.7	The Justice Department's Inspector General's report on the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane
0:21.1	investigation is done.
0:22.9	CNN was first to learn that a former FBI lawyer is under criminal investigation for
0:28.1	allegedly altering a document related to the 2016 surveillance of Trump campaigned
0:32.9	adviser Carter Page.
0:34.6	Tonight there's more, much more, in the New York Times.
0:38.3	This is the lead.
0:39.3	A highly anticipated report by the Justice Department's Inspector General is expected
0:43.3	to sharply criticize lower level FBI officials, as well as bureau leaders involved in the
0:48.5	early stages of the Trump-Russia investigation.
0:51.4	But to absolve the top ranks of abusing their powers at a bias against President Trump,
0:57.3	that's according to people briefed on a draft.
0:59.7	According to the Times, the report concludes the FBI met the legal standard for opening the
1:04.5	investigation and that none of the evidence to launch the investigation came from the controversial
1:09.8	steel dossier.
1:11.6	The report, which is expected to arrive early next month, came up in what was described
1:15.6	as in what appeared to be a tense oval office meeting late last week caught on camera between
1:21.5	Attorney General Barr, the president, and others.
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