PAUL: The Justice Department Inspector General's report in the beginnings of the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in 2016, that's coming out soon.</s>BLACKWELL: Sources tell CNN it will say the probe was properly launched but lower-level FBI officials made a series of mistakes. CNN's Evan Perez has more.</s>EVAN PEREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The Justice Department IS investigating a former FBI lawyer who allegedly altered an internal document used to prepare the 2016 surveillance warrant application on a former Trump campaign advisor. The altered document is among a number of mistakes that are expected to be cited in an upcoming report by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz. Despite those mistakes, Horowitz' report is expected to find that the court-ordered surveillance of Carter Page was valid, and the report is also expected to conclude that the FBI properly opened an investigation into connections between Trump campaign figures and Russians in 2016. But if those mistakes including the altered document that will likely add fuel to criticisms of the FBI by President Trump and his allies. The low-level lawyer who allegedly altered the document is now the subject of a criminal investigation by John Durham, who was appointed by Attorney General Bill Barr to take another look at the intelligence used in the 2016 Trump-Russia investigation. The president has said he and his campaign were illegally targeted by the Russia investigation, but the Horowitz inspector general report is not expected to support that claim by the president. Evan Perez, CNN, Washington.</s>BLACKWELL: Still to come, Mayor Pete Buttigieg may be surging in the national polls, but at home in South Bend, Indiana, he is not getting the support maybe he had expected.
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