Political Quotes

“I send a question to the desk on behalf of myself, Senators Cruz and Cornyn, for both parties. The CHIEF JUSTICE. Thank you. The question from Senators Graham, Cornyn, and Cruz is for both parties: When DOJ Inspector General Horowitz testified before the Judiciary Committee, he said their DOJ had a ``low threshold'' to investigate the Trump campaign. At the hearing, Sen. Feinstein said, ``your report concluded that the FBI had an adequate predicate, reason, to open the investigation on the Trump campaign ties to Russia. Could you define the predicate?'' Horowitz replied, ``yeah, so the predicate here was the information that the FBI got at the end of July from the friendly foreign government.'' Why is the legal standard for investigating Trump so much lower than the standard for investigating Biden? And why was it ok to get the information from a ``friendly foreign government?'' The House managers are first. Mr. Manager SCHIFF. The inspector general's report found that the investigation was properly predicated. That was the bottom-line conclusion that this was not a politically motivated investigation. The inspector general also found, though, there were serious flaws with the FISA Court process. There were serious flaws on how the FISA applications were written in the information that was used and prescribed a whole series of remedies, which the FBI Director has now said should be implemented. But they found it was properly predicated.…”