this line because just a short time ago he tweeted the following. based on the fact strzok was in charge of the witch hunt, will it be dropped? it is a total hoax, no collusion, no obstruction. i just fight back. it strikes me that if strzok is a sacrificial lamb, he hasn t satisfied the president. yeah, look, this is the thing. if it s just about the politics, we ve kind of learned in every other stage of this that when the fbi tries to clean out drk a and this is not the first time somebody has come up. we were talking about mccabe months ago. it doesn t actually stop things from happening. strzok is a target for the tweets he sent. rosenstein is a target because of the position he has. they re both fairly defiant when they appeared before the joint congressional committee hearings. and this is going to be something that continues. the difference, though, i guess, between strzok and rosenstein is you have leadership that does not want to touch the rosenstein thing. they don t wan
employees. apparently according to the doj and bureau policy, they don t rise to the level of their names being shared with congress. i am sure they are under investigation. just like a referral from horowitz on strzok. there was a refer on these. some of what they said about their fellow citizens in ohio. you mentioned the smelling people in virginia am they also had something derogatory to say about folks in ohio. i will be afforded all of the process they are due. it s more than strzok was willing to afford the president of the united states. they have a chance to defend themselves and there will be a recommendation made. then the deputy director will decide whether or not to follow it. you asked if it s enough? there were ten folks involved in the hillary clinton and donald trump investigations no longer with the bureau. lots were high up. instead of focussing on the
martha: here s congressman trey gowdy on the story. were you surprised he was fired at this point? and why now? i think the process just reached the point where it was a deputy director. peter strzok received a much fairer process than what he was giving to donald trump. this was a referral by the inspector general who was an obama appointee. strzok has a chance to speak and a punishment is made. this person served with great distinction. running the los angeles field
office. that s who made the decision to fire peter strzok. martha: his attorney doesn t agree with you. i don t think you can reach any conclusion other than it was political. it s difficult to believe with the steady drum beat from the president and all of the republicans that didn t play a role in the bureau s decision. martha: he said you demonized peter strzok and played a role in his firing no, peter strzok didn t need any help demonizing himself. he had that fully covered. this is what they said about mccabe. some of my democrat colleagues were going to h andy mccabe to finish out his time at the bureau. i don t know if you remember that. i can t forget it. of course his lawyer says it was a railroad job.
that i m not going to get into my private conversations with the president. all americans know vladimir putin lies. he s a former kgb agents. that s what they do. i agree on you what could be positive outcomes in syria, in ukraine on trade with a russia. there are very serious issues there. would you also agree that another positive outcome from the discussions would be to say, to stop them from meddling in u.s. elections? of course. i think it s it would be great to get them to stop meddling in all elections. they re trying to attack democracy as an institution. and they re trying to demonstrate to fragile regimes that they re autocrat style is better than our democrat style. we need to have offensive and defensive systems in place to be able to deal with this as a global strategy. great point. get on the russians. you may want to get on the president to get on them as well. i do want to ask you about something you were uniquely positioned to tell us about which is this 11