the time has expired. then we know that where there s smoke, there s fire. and we ought to allow the process to play out. with that, i vesurrender the remainder of my time. the time of the gentleman has expired. the gentleman from florida mr. ross is recognized for five minutes. thank you, gentlemen. mr. strzok, i thank you for being here. you re the reason we re here and actions by you are the reason we are here. i know that my colleague from pennsylvania, representative marino had shown you this handbook on ethics for on and off duty conduct issued by the department of justice. principle 9 says employees shall protect and conserve federal
into trade wars. he s insulting and taunting our democratic allies around the world. he s flattering autocrats and clep cleptocrats around the world. but our colleagues don t want to do any hearings on any of the chaos that s been set loose in the land. no. mr. strzok, the gop wants to talk about your personal texts, two or three out of more than 50,000 that we ve seen. the purpose of course is to derail and discredit the investigation by the special counsel that has obtained 19 indictments and five criminal convictions of people like flynn and gates and pop pates and pdo on. they say you were at the heart of a deep state conspiracy to oppose donald trump. to make this claim, they ve got
did you tell him to say that? no. was it part of a deep state conspiracy to criticize the president? no. mr. strzok, this hearing has been a circus and a kangaroo court run in banana republican fashion. i believe that some of my colleagues have disgraced themselves today main their attk on the fbi and the justice system of america. how can we recover from the hole that has been dug here today? sir, america is strong. however bad i think i ve seen it in my life, i am confident that the institutions of the american people will endure and be great. i have full faith in the united states and all the men and women and even in times of trial and tribulation, i have every confidence that we will emerge as great as we ve ever been.
gro group the fbi domestic investigations and operation guide in section 3.1, because we heard so much about the appearance of policies and what these things do, that s why it s important to quote them, and i quote in section 3.1. we who enforce the law must not merely obey it. we have an obligation to set a moral example that those whom we protect can follow. because the fbi s success in accomplishing its mission is directly related to the supported cooperation of those we protect, these core values are the fiber that holds together the vitality of our institution. mr. strzok, given the extramarital relationship and types of derogatory communication officially exchanged with fbi counsel lisa page as laid out in the ig report, did these actions exhibit a moral example those
he was thinking trump may be able to win back the election or it s just ridiculous. juan: strzok makes the case that if he really was trying to stop donald trump, he would have leaked the fact of the investigation into russian collusion with the trump campaign. jesse: here s where i disagree. i don t think they would ever leak that they were investigating trump without any evidence. at that point, there was no evidence of collusion. we still not seen any evidence of collusion, and trump was running on a the system is rigged against me. and i don t think obama would ever allow or whatever like anybody leaking there investigating donald trump. that was his answer for why we didn t do anything about russia and why we didn t do anything during 2016 in the fall, president obama is on record as saying he didn t want to say anything because he didn t want to look like we were rigging the