there are questions about his ties to christopher steel, author of the dossier alleging compromising information that russians claimed they had and he hasn t done anything i know of. still director of a division of the justice department. i don t like to do trump s people s work for them but there is an argument that he somehow mishandled information in the dossier and involved that and since the firing of peter strzok over the weekend there s been a lot more chatter among trump supporters of working for fusion gps which put together or hired steele to do the dossier. is it appropriate for a president to be getting involved like this? why would you put the name on the list if you didn t make an argument publicly? that s deeply unfair and cynical and an act of intimidation. i just don t think we can view this in a vacuum.
even if it didn t affect the investigation. and the inspector general report said it didn t. i still think it has to be clear you can t do that. i want to bring in one of my faves, former federal prosecutor glen kearsener. doesn t this set a precedent? that s important. i think we ll spend time trying to unravel what s behind this firing. when i was a federal prosecutor, i supervised 30 other federal prosecutors and i found myself in this exact same position. opr conducted an investigation of something one of our prosecutors did. they made a recommendation about a sanction or a punishment. that would go to my u.s. attorney and together we would try to decide what it is a prop party punishment was. i have to tell you, almost every time that i can remember, we accepted oprs recommendation and that s the sanction we imposed. now, whether what a gent strzok did, which in my opinion was horrendous and undermines the
lisa: welcome back. lisa page, the former fbi lawyer at the center of controversy over anti-trump bias in the agency wrapped up her closed-door interview with a joint house panel yesterday. pages in the hot seat over her anti-trump text messages with the embattled fbi official peter strzok. some g.o.p. lawmakers say that page was forthcoming and suggested the investigation may be growing. there are differences in her testimony and in many cases, she admits that the text messages as opposed to agent strzok, who thinks that we ve all misinterpreted his own words on any text message that might be. we all learned a great deal of new information again today, so it s going to require us to do a whole lot of follow-up.
donald trump is bigoted, and he is a bleeping idiot and his presidency is bleeping terrifying. this is just a small sample of what our hundreds of anti-trump texts. congressman trey gowdy will be joining us, and he called this discrimination. agent strzok despite the inspector general s report and despite common sense doesn t think he was biased. he thinks calling someone destabilizing for the country is not biased. he thinks promising to protect the country from someone he hasn t even begun to investigate his and biased. he has a different set of rules for others that he s investigating. agent strzok thinks that saying someone he is allegedly investigating should be elected
does hedo mean about stopping trump? he doesn t remember writing that, is that acceptable? there was some conflict in the testimony about that specific text. he said i don t remember writing it and then i said i remember writing it late at night and then i was driven by anger. the bottom line with the text messages and i think this is the important take away, when you talk to d people like i have in law enforcement and intelligence circles, they will tell you if you re working in counterintelligence, one of the things you do not do is send a lot of text messages, especially text messages about compromising information because that is the kind of information a foreign intelligence service looks for in order to compromise you. agent strzok was the number two person at the fbi in this area, he knows that our intelligence services are looking for exactly this kind of information like an extramarital affair to use against someone to bring them onto ouron team.