sir, again, same answer as before. i can t get into details. reporter: right, and the answer is also the same. it s zero. no interviews have been done. i don t know if that s true or not. no interviews had been done by august the 8th, when you re talking about stopping him and how terrifying it would be for him to win, and how you can protect the country. and no interviews had been done before you re talking about impeachment of the president. no wonder bob mueller kicked you off of the investigation, agent strzok. my question is, if you were kicked off when he read the text, shouldn t you have been kicked off when you wrote them? not at all. well, it wasn t the discovery of your texts, mr. strzok. it was the existence of your bias that got you kicked off. no, mr. gowdy, it wasn t. i do not have bias. my personal opinions in no way well, then, why did you get kicked off?
approaching the fbi to give them information is going to look to how well or how poorly the fbi protects their information and protects their identity as they weigh whether or not to take that extraordinary risk to work with the fbi and work with the united states of america. mr. strzok, the report criticizes your political text messages and raised concern that your political views may have impacted your decision in the summer and st. pafall of 2016 t prioritize the russia investigation over the reopening of the clinton e-mail investigation. i understand from your transcribed interview with the committee that you dispute that finding. i do. you told us during your interview that you immediately assigned agents to follow up on the weiner laptop. and we know that you were a key player in the fbi s actions,
you were concerned that those same american people that you were speaking on behalf of might actually elect donald trump president. so you said, omg, this is f ing terrifying. i think we know what f ing means. i m pretty sure we have omg down, too. what was terrifying about those same american people you trusted to stop him in august not stopping him in november? what was so terrifying about that, agent strzok? mr. gowdy, i do not have a copy of the transcript. we have not been provided that transcript. it s your text. it s not the transcript. it s your text. mr. gowdy, what i would say in that is, one, i was not referring to the american electorate at all. the american electorate i respect in their decisions and their right to vote is absolutely a cornerstone of our democracy. so at no time did i insult or call into question the judgment or the power of the american electorate. what i was expressing in that text is my personal belief and my personal sense of how i saw
mr. herd votes aye. the gentle woman from north carolina. yes. mrs. fox votes yes. the clerk will report. mr. chairman, 38 members voted aye. 31 members voted no. and the motion to table the appeal of the ruling of the chair is upheld. the chair recognizes the gentleman from maryland, mr. cummings, for his questions. mr. strzok, first of all, let me say this.
out, and that is exactly what has guided my behavior for over 26 years. all right. thank you very much. let me ask you this. in previous testimony to congress, president trump s fbi director, christopher wray, explained the critical importance of protecting confidential human sources. and this is what he said, agent strzok. and i quote, the day we can t protect human sources is a day the american people start becoming less safe, end of quote. do you agree with that? i do. the problem is, we now have the transcript of your 11-hour closed-door interview with our committees. and it shows that republican members asked you repeatedly about confidential human sources involved in the russia investigation.