advice point of order, mr. chairman. i believe there is a point of order that s been raised and you have ruled we have a right to answer it is not a valid point of order. he can t just repress it, mr. chairman point of order, mr. chairman. mr. strzok. mr. chairman, i appeal the ruling of the chair that you have just made on whether the you have not stated a valid point of order. and that is your ruling and a appeal it. that is not an appealable shl point of order, yes, it is, mr. chairman. he s appealing it. that requires a vote. to either sustain it or overrule it. the gentleman from new york has not cited a rule of the house that is being violated. therefore, it is not a point of order. that s your ruling. that is the ruling of the chair. mr. chairman? mr. chairman, is it not appropriate to also interject the attorney-client privilege, which cannot be overridden, and is a rule of the house to the
all capital letters. what does trump support smell like, mr. strzok? that s an expression of speech. what i was commenting on living in northern virginia what i mean by that living in northern virginia, having traveled 100, 150 miles within the same state i was struck by the extraordinary difference in the expression of political opinion and belief amongst the community there from where i live. you described that as smell in capital letters. that was a quick choice of words. earlier you texted miss page that another part of virginia, loudoun county, which is, i think in northern virginia, is quote, still ignorant hillbillies, unquote, is that what you mean. no, sir. you do trump support toers be ignorant
decisions on whether to recommend prosecution or exoneration so far ahead of all the facts coming to light? typically, sir, doj makes prosecution decisions in cases. do they normally make such decisions whether to recommend prosecution far ahead of the facts coming to light? sir, i don t think any in my experience, the final decision is never made until the conclusion of the case. i think it is fair to say that in the conduct of investigations, particularly very large investigations with a lot of folks working on it, my experience is there comes a time if you re worth your salt in the conduct of that investigation, an agent, the attorneys assigned to that, will have a very good idea well before the case is concluded that there may or may not be demonstrable crimes. let me ask you this, then. how many other cases on which you have worked do you recall opining on the disposition of the case months ahead of interviewing multiple witnesses? i remember quite a few cases where i
mr. gowdy, my understanding of why i was kicked off was that based on understanding of those texts and the perception that they might create is the thing that hang on a second, agent strzok. hang on a second. you re saying it was the perception the 13 democrats on the special counsel probe, including one who went to what he hoped was a victory party. that s a perception problem, too. they weren t kicked off. you were. why were you kicked off? mr. gowdy, i cannot speak to special counsel mueller how long did you talk to him? when he let you go? the witness will answer the question. the witness will be afforded an opportunity to answer the question. if there is a question he wants to answer after mr. gowdy s time. my recollection was a short meeting, somewhere between 15 to 30 minutes, probably around 15 minutes. and your testimony is, bob mueller did not kick you off, because of the content of your text. he kicked you off because of some appearance that he was worrie
occur. and were it to occur, it would be noted and stopped. and in addition to that culture, we have policies. we have procedures. we have laws. we have guidelines that are designed to provide outside checks and balances, to provide for outside review, to provide for any number of ways that the individual actions of any agent, any analyst, any support personnel, are not acting in any way other than official policies and procedures. so when i tell you, again, as i did, personally what i believe and what i did, i understand why people may or may not have doubts or believe that. but then i would turn to, and say look at the entirety of the rest of the organization. of the men and women who make it up. of all the things that are in place to ensure that our job in the fbi is to competently and independently pursue the facts, wherever they are, and i cannot stress to you enough, that is exactly what is done day in, day