Former Special Counsel John Durham will testify in Congress this week, weeks after releasing a final report that found the FBI never should have launched the Trump-Russia probe.
Republican strategist Greta Joynes and Democrat strategist Kristen Hawn joined "Fox News Live" to discuss the fallout from the Durham report and the 2024 presidential election.
The two sessions will give Republicans and Democrats a chance to question Durham, whose report lent weight to Republican complaints that federal government officials abused the public trust by rushing to investigate then-President Donald Trump. Durham's report found that the"failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law" by launching the probe.
But Durham found that senior FBI personnel"displayed a serious lack of analytical rigor" toward the information that they received from politically affiliated people, which he said"triggered" then-Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. Durham found that there was"significant reliance on investigative leads provided or funded by Trump's political opponents.
Durham found that then-CIA Director John Brennan"realized the significance" of the intelligence that Clinton was stirring up a plan to tie Trump to Russia – so much so that he"expeditiously" briefed then-President Barack Obama, then-Vice President Joe Biden and other top national security officials. FBI IGNORED 'CLEAR WARNING SIGN' OF CLINTON-LED EFFORT TO 'MANIPULATE' BUREAU FOR 'POLITICAL PURPOSES'
The anti-Trump Steele dossier, which has been largely discredited, was also linked to the Clinton campaign. The dossier contained allegations of purported coordination between Trump and the Russian government. It was authored by Christopher Steele, an ex-British intelligence officer.
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