Jeff Sessions says IG report could prompt him to fire more FBI officials

Attorney General Jeff Sessions says that he is open to more firings at the FBI in light of new information presented in an upcoming report from the Justice Department's inspector general, set to be released Thursday.

Sessions told the Hill that he thinks Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report on the FBI's handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation "will be a lengthy report and a careful report.”

“I think it will help us better fix any problems that we have and reassure the American people that some of the concerns that have been raised are not true," he continued. "If anyone else shows up in this report to have done something that requires termination we will do so."

The IG report is set to be released Thursday, on President Trump's birthday. It is expected to show "devastating wrongdoings" by former FBI Director James Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

Sessions' full interview with the Hill will go live Thursday morning.

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Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan introduce resolution that would force DOJ to hand over documents in 7 days

Two GOP lawmakers introduced a resolution on Wednesday seeking to compel the Justice Department to produce subpoenaed documents for the two congressional investigations into the FBI and potential political bias at the bureau.

The resolution, introduced by the House Freedom Caucus Reps. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, gives the DOJ seven days to turn over the requested materials, including some related to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller to head the federal Russia probe.

“For nearly 8 months, we have been asking Mr. Rosenstein to turn over the documents and answer legitimate questions from Congress about his troubling conduct during the 2016 Presidential election and leading up to the appointment of the special counsel," Meadows wrote in a statement.

"We are calling on our leadership to put our resolution to a vote immediately and force the Department to turn over the remaining documents within a week," he continued. "Let’s allow members of Congress to go on record and hold the Department accountable for their unprecedented obstruction.”

DOJ has been at loggerheads with House Republicans for months over the agency's failure to comply with separate subpoenas issued by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va.

Tensions flared again on Monday when Nunes set a Tuesday deadline for DOJ to disclose information pertinent to an alleged FBI informant who spoke with three members of Trump's 2016 campaign while looking for suspicious ties to Russian operatives.

Fox News reported Tuesday that Rosenstein had warned House Intelligence panel members and staffers in a January meeting that they would be subpoenaed for emails, phone records and other materials regarding their inquiries into the DOJ's ongoing Russia investigation.

DOJ and FBI officials pushed back on the characterization of the encounter in emails obtained by Fox News.

The January interaction coincided with Nunes accusing the Justice Department and the FBI of abusing surveillance powers as they looked into the Trump campaign.

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