LIVE UPDATES AS IG MICHAEL HOROWITZ TESTIFIES ON ALLEGED FISA ABUSE IN TRUMP-RUSSIA PROBE

https://www.newsweek.com/horowitz-live-updates-trump-russia-fisa-hearing-1476743480

The 480-page report, released Monday, had the following takeaways:

• The FBI's Russia probe was justified and not biased.
• There was no evidence of "political bias or improper motivation" when a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant was obtained to surveil Trump campaign aide Carter Page, or when investigating campaign chairman Paul Manafort, campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos and national security adviser Michael Flynn.
• However, the FBI's surveillance program, and how it obtains FISA warrants, is peppered with errors, the report stated, including "17 significant errors or omissions in the Carter Page FISA applications."
• The controversial "Steele dossier" was not used to open the FBI's probe into several former Trump campaign officials.
• Christopher Steele, the dossier's author and a former British intelligence officer, had a personal relationship with a Trump family member, reportedly Ivanka Trump.

Democrats and Republicans were both quick to declare the report a victory for their respective positions on the matter. Democrats asserted that the report debunked theories touted by Trump and Republicans that the FBI probe was an attempt to undermine his candidacy—or an attempted "coup," as Trump has characterized it.