LONG-AWAITED IG REPORT HAS DEVASTATING DETAILS BUT SOFT-PEDALED CONCLUSION; BARR AND DURHAM SAY IG’S CONCLUSION IS WRONG — OBAMA SPYGATE WASN’T PROPERLY LAUNCHED

TODAY’S TOP TEN

BOTH BARR AND JOHN DURHAM DISAGREE WITH DOJ IG conclusion that Obama Spygate was started properly. The Federalist.

• Is this what Barr and Durham are looking at? Conservative Treehouse.

PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS FINDINGS FROM DOJ IG’S report far worse than imagined. Fox News.

• The full report. DOJ IG.
• FBI’s Russia FISA warrant: 51 violations, 9 false statements. John Solomon.
• 6 takeaways from today’s report. Daily Signal.
• Key figures avoided interviews. Ace of Spades HQ.
• Steel Dossier judged to be junk, but still basis of warrants, intelligence assessment. Breitbart.

TRUMP LEADS BIDEN AND ALL DEMOCRATS IN MICHIGAN, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, new poll shows. Conservative Opinion.

NEW HARVARD-HARRIS POLL SAYS HILLARY CLINTON the top choice of Democratic voters. Washington Times.

WILL TRUMP’S GAINS WITH BLACK VOTERS SWING the 2020 election? The Federalist.

SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS KENTUCKY LAW requiring abortionists to describe ultrasound to women. National Review.

ELIZABETH WARREN ADMITS SHE POCKETED $2 MILLION from legal practice, which included anti-consumer work. Legal Insurrection.

NETWORKS GOING WALL-TO-WALL WITH TRUMP impeachment hearings after barely bothering during Clinton years. NewsBusters.

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN NOW EMPLOYING “academic diversity officers.” Legal Insurrection.

MORE AMERICANS DELAYING MEDICAL TREATMENT DUE to rising costs. Gallup.

FOX NEWS ANNOUNCES THAT BILL HEMMER WILL REPLACE Shepard Smith as news anchor. Daily Wire.

COMMENTARY WORTH READING

Jonathan Turley knocked the wheels off impeachment. Joe diGenova.

Thou shalt not covet. Cal Thomas.

Horizon getting brighter for President Trump. Joshua Green.

VIDEOS WORTH WATCHING 

Matt Gaetz spars with Dem counsel over impeachment. Fox News.

Nancy Pelosi prays for Donald Trump. Saturday Night Live.

NBC’s Pete Williams: FBI “screwed up at every level.” Breitbart.

OFFBEAT BEAT

Radar uncovers Viking ship buried on Norway farm. Fox News.

TWEETS OF NOTE

(@chuckwoolery) This is the simple truth. The American people interfered with the 2016 election. We voted for Trump. Tweet.

(@SenTedCruz) The so-called “scholarly” report Chairman Nadler released – which said you don’t have to prove a crime or prove that a law was violated to impeach a president – shows House Democrats don’t have facts and evidence on their side and they know it. Tweet.

MOST CLICKED ITEM YESTERDAY

TED CRUZ DESTROYS LIBERAL NBC HOST CHUCK TODD in battle over impeachment, media bias, Ukraine. NewsBusters.

DRUDGE LEAD AT TIME OF EMAIL 

BATTLES ENGULF SWAMP! THEY CAN’T AGREE ON ANYTHING Drudge.