Updated Day 1036

mkiser · Siteleaf · commit 47ddca65540f · 2019-11-22T13:54:01.000-08:00
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 3/ **Trump spent 53 minutes on the phone with "Fox & Friends" accusing an impeachment witness of lying**, repeating a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 presidential election, and calling the details in the whistleblower complaint "fake." Trump accused David Holmes, a political counselor to the American ambassador in Ukraine, of fabricating a phone call between Trump and Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, saying "I guarantee you that never took place." Sondland, however, corroborated Holmes's account in his own testimony. Trump also accused the Obama administration of spying on his campaign, claiming that "they were spying on my campaign and it went right to the top and everybody knows it and now we're going to find out" and "they tried to overthrow the presidency." ([New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/us/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry-interview.html) / [Axios](https://www.axios.com/trump-fox-and-friends-call-impeachment-ukraine-e1739c65-33d3-4c35-a723-7a31abb488ef.html) / [HuffPost](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-fox-and-friends_n_5dd7eaeae4b00149f71b3a6c?6at))
 
-4/ **A report from the Justice Department's inspector general didn't find anti-Trump bias at the FBI when it obtained a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to look into Carter Page**, a Trump campaign adviser. According to a draft copy of Michael Horowitz's report, there were errors and omissions in the documents related to wiretapping Page and that a low-level lawyer altered an email used to seek a renewal of the wiretap. Kevin Clinesmith attached additional material to the bottom of an email from an official at another federal agency, which contained several factual assertions. Horowitz concluded that the altered document did not impact the overall validity of the surveillance application, but referred his findings about Clinesmith to prosecutors for a potential criminal charge. Clinesmith left the Russia investigation in February 2018. Overall, the draft report concludes that the FBI had enough evidence for opening the investigation, that Joseph Mifsud, a Russia-linked professor who told a Trump campaign official that Russia had damaging information on Hillary Clinton in the form of hacked Democratic emails, was not an FBI informant, and that none of the evidence used to open the investigation came from the CIA or dossier of Trump-Russia ties compiled by Christopher Steele. ([New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/us/politics/russia-investigation-inspector-general-report.html) / [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/21/politics/fbi-fisa-russia-investigation/index.html) / [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/inspector-generals-report-on-fbis-russia-probe-to-be-delivered-dec-9/2019/11/21/6d6d789e-0c70-11ea-8397-a955cd542d00_story.html))
+4/ **A report from the Justice Department's inspector general didn't find anti-Trump bias at the FBI when it obtained a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to look into Carter Page**, a Trump campaign adviser. According to a draft copy of Michael Horowitz's report, there were errors and omissions in the documents related to wiretapping Page and that a low-level lawyer altered an email used to seek a renewal of the wiretap. Kevin Clinesmith attached additional material to the bottom of an email from an official at another federal agency, which contained several factual assertions. Horowitz concluded that the altered document did not impact the overall validity of the surveillance application, but referred his findings about Clinesmith to prosecutors for a potential criminal charge. Clinesmith left the Russia investigation in February 2018. Overall, the draft report concludes that the FBI had enough evidence for opening the investigation, that Joseph Mifsud, a Russia-linked professor who told a Trump campaign official that Russia had damaging information on Hillary Clinton in the form of hacked Democratic emails, was not an FBI informant, and that none of the evidence used to open the investigation came from the CIA or dossier of Trump-Russia ties compiled by Christopher Steele. ([New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/us/politics/russia-investigation-inspector-general-report.html) / [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-dept-watchdog-finds-political-bias-did-not-taint-top-officials-running-the-fbis-russia-probe-but-documents-other-errors/2019/11/22/4b2f51de-0d48-11ea-97ac-a7ccc8dd1ebc_story.html) / [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/21/politics/fbi-fisa-russia-investigation/index.html) / [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/inspector-generals-report-on-fbis-russia-probe-to-be-delivered-dec-9/2019/11/21/6d6d789e-0c70-11ea-8397-a955cd542d00_story.html))

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`21`	`21`	3/ Trump spent 53 minutes on the phone with "Fox & Friends" accusing an impeachment witness of lying, repeating a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 presidential election, and calling the details in the whistleblower complaint "fake." Trump accused David Holmes, a political counselor to the American ambassador in Ukraine, of fabricating a phone call between Trump and Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, saying "I guarantee you that never took place." Sondland, however, corroborated Holmes's account in his own testimony. Trump also accused the Obama administration of spying on his campaign, claiming that "they were spying on my campaign and it went right to the top and everybody knows it and now we're going to find out" and "they tried to overthrow the presidency." ([New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/us/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry-interview.html) / [Axios](https://www.axios.com/trump-fox-and-friends-call-impeachment-ukraine-e1739c65-33d3-4c35-a723-7a31abb488ef.html) / [HuffPost](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-fox-and-friends_n_5dd7eaeae4b00149f71b3a6c?6at))
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`23`		-4/ A report from the Justice Department's inspector general didn't find anti-Trump bias at the FBI when it obtained a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to look into Carter Page, a Trump campaign adviser. According to a draft copy of Michael Horowitz's report, there were errors and omissions in the documents related to wiretapping Page and that a low-level lawyer altered an email used to seek a renewal of the wiretap. Kevin Clinesmith attached additional material to the bottom of an email from an official at another federal agency, which contained several factual assertions. Horowitz concluded that the altered document did not impact the overall validity of the surveillance application, but referred his findings about Clinesmith to prosecutors for a potential criminal charge. Clinesmith left the Russia investigation in February 2018. Overall, the draft report concludes that the FBI had enough evidence for opening the investigation, that Joseph Mifsud, a Russia-linked professor who told a Trump campaign official that Russia had damaging information on Hillary Clinton in the form of hacked Democratic emails, was not an FBI informant, and that none of the evidence used to open the investigation came from the CIA or dossier of Trump-Russia ties compiled by Christopher Steele. ([New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/us/politics/russia-investigation-inspector-general-report.html) / [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/21/politics/fbi-fisa-russia-investigation/index.html) / [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/inspector-generals-report-on-fbis-russia-probe-to-be-delivered-dec-9/2019/11/21/6d6d789e-0c70-11ea-8397-a955cd542d00_story.html))
	`23`	+4/ A report from the Justice Department's inspector general didn't find anti-Trump bias at the FBI when it obtained a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to look into Carter Page, a Trump campaign adviser. According to a draft copy of Michael Horowitz's report, there were errors and omissions in the documents related to wiretapping Page and that a low-level lawyer altered an email used to seek a renewal of the wiretap. Kevin Clinesmith attached additional material to the bottom of an email from an official at another federal agency, which contained several factual assertions. Horowitz concluded that the altered document did not impact the overall validity of the surveillance application, but referred his findings about Clinesmith to prosecutors for a potential criminal charge. Clinesmith left the Russia investigation in February 2018. Overall, the draft report concludes that the FBI had enough evidence for opening the investigation, that Joseph Mifsud, a Russia-linked professor who told a Trump campaign official that Russia had damaging information on Hillary Clinton in the form of hacked Democratic emails, was not an FBI informant, and that none of the evidence used to open the investigation came from the CIA or dossier of Trump-Russia ties compiled by Christopher Steele. ([New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/us/politics/russia-investigation-inspector-general-report.html) / [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-dept-watchdog-finds-political-bias-did-not-taint-top-officials-running-the-fbis-russia-probe-but-documents-other-errors/2019/11/22/4b2f51de-0d48-11ea-97ac-a7ccc8dd1ebc_story.html) / [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/21/politics/fbi-fisa-russia-investigation/index.html) / [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/inspector-generals-report-on-fbis-russia-probe-to-be-delivered-dec-9/2019/11/21/6d6d789e-0c70-11ea-8397-a955cd542d00_story.html))