have lots of questions we d like to listen to his answers to. bill: have you ever met him? i have not. bill: based on his reputation what have you heard about him? he has a long-term reputation of being a very effective counter intelligence agent. and that reflected in how both these cases were handled caused us to have a lot of questions about the nature of his conduct in each of those investigations. reflected in bias that he expressed in his private email texts. bill: how much did the i.g. report that reflected bias, how much did that affect what you are doing on the house side in your committee? a tremendous help to us. while we have been working in the same direction, the inspector general had access to a lot of documents and a lot of witnesses a lot earlier than we did. so the inspector general s report and his testimony before the judiciary and oversight
implanted spy in his campaign, he doesn t have to take the word of the fbi or the democratic party operatives that nothing was garnered from the implanted spy. all that was garnered from this implanted spy is a, b, c. he has a right to look into the question of e, f, g, h, i was garned. nothing was done by him of a similar nature with respect to hillary s campaign. right, we understand though this person wasn t implanted in the campaign, fbi found out there s a bunch of guys with ties to russia and russian operatives, that s concerning to us, let s ask an informant to check it out. that would be completely consistent with a counter intelligence investigation. it would be. people know who the counter intelligence agent is. yes, we do. there s no reason why the inspector general can t put the gentleman under oath to find out how he got there his name was leaked by somebody, right?
in a follow-up text he drops the f bomb on candidate trump. the other thing that i would mention is that agent strzok is not a run of the mill agent. if not the senior counter intelligence agent within the f.b.i., he is one of the top guys. his job is to track spies and deal with espionage. it s sloppy and shows very poor judgment to send texts like this. sandra: today will the deputy attorney general be pressed by both sides of the aisle during this hearing? that s exactly what we expect. i m inside the house office building. the raburn building where they ll have the testimony from the deputy a.g. an hour from now. we expect him to face pretty aggressive questioning from republicans and democrats. from republicans why does it seem that the justice department and the f.b.i. seems to be throwing up roadblock after roadblock when it comes
time of the gentleman has expired, however. you care to respond to that e director wray? i think i ve covered it. the chair recognizes the gentleman from georgia mr. johnson for five minutes. thank you, director wray, you have led a distinguished career as an assistant u.s. attorney for the northern district of georgia, atlanta. we re home boys on that part. justice department associate deputy attorney general. even serving as assistant attorney general heading up the criminal division of the entire justice department and then as a litigation partner at the international and premier law firm of king and spalding. it was getting a little hot in the house intelligence committee as you heard congressman jim jordan of ohio suggesting that peter strzok, the head of counter intelligence, the top counter intelligence agent in the f.b.i., might have gone to the
this week that the trump administration and family intended to collude with russia. today we learned a former counter intelligence agent was also present at the trump meeting. that is not all. as pressure mounts to strip jared kushner of his security clearance, they have called on the white house for reinsurance. kristen welker is still in paris, ken delaney in washington, charlie savage author of power wars, and steve lavine. i m sorry if i messed up the title of your book. we re just learning about two