more questions for you regarding that as we indicated earlier. now, the committee will stand in recess for votes. we will reconvene at 2:00 p.m. i m chris jansing in for craig melvin. we have this breaking news as we ve been watching firsthand live a major showdown on capitol hill. a political spectacle. a partisan shouting match. three hours long plus. embattled fbi agent peter strzok engaged in one contentious exchange after another with republicans. there it was, the house judiciary and oversight committees. you also saw republicans battling democrats. strzok, whose anti-trump text messages made him a lightning rod for republicans, criticizing the mueller investigation, repeatedly rejected accusations of political bias in the russia and clinton probe. let me be clear,
and other members was appalling. what you saw at the clip uft just showing, peter strzok is still an fbi agent. he is there today under orders of the fbi not to answer questions about the mueller probe because it could compromise that probe. some of the questions he would answer would presumably expose grand jury information. some could expose classified information. you have the chairman of the committee threatening him with criminal contempt, threatening to refer him to the justice for potential criminal charges if he disaways that order. it was the worst behavior. it was like watching something out of the 50s, where you see someone brought up, ordered to answer questions he can t possibly answer. it was really an appalling piece of behavior, leadership of that committee. what they would say is they want to get to the bottom of whether or not he had a political bias that affected the way he could what his role in conducting these very important investigations. john brennan, is t
president trump tweeted this. i am on air force one flying to nato and hear reports that the fbi lovers peter strzok and lisa page are getting cold feet on testifying about the rigged witch hunt headed by 13 angry democrats and people that worked for obama for eight years. total disgrace. chief intelligent correspondent catherine herridge live with the news. lisa page, it s highly fluid. despite reporting she is fighting the house subpoena fox news is told in the last hour the expectation for now is that page will appear and comply with the subpoena issued by the house judiciary committee. empathizing that it s highly fluid and could change today. closed door deposition comes one day before peter strzok, page s former lover and fbi colleague, scheduled to publicly testify before a joint session of oversight committees. strzok was on the hill two weeks ago, you see the video here, underwent a similar closed door deposition.
here is extent to which we re seeing this fight between a republican-led congress and republican-administration. many members are flirting with the prospect of holding the deputy attorney general in contempt or possibly even impeaching somebody of that stature. this isn t impeaching eric holder with the relationship between the house and democratic administration. this is the president s d.o.j. he can say these documents have to be provided and the extent to which you have not provided them is a violation of our understanding with our colleagues in the house. why that has not happened is open to a lot of interpretation. sandra: there is chairman goodlatte. thomas, bring you if here in regards to yesterday and what we saw come out of that. rod rosenstein and christopher wray exchanging some words ahead of this. the house judiciary and oversight committee questioned peter strzok, the f.b.i. agent for more than 11 hours behind
that vindicated trump and showed the ninth circuit was making some of those decisions more on political bias than being strictly heather: we will talk more later on about what is true and false in terms of the immigration debate so hold on for that. in the meantime thank you, appreciate it as we move toward the midterms. disgraced fbi agent peter stzrok will be grilled on capitol hill today. he appeared voluntarily for this closed door interview that will happen with the house judiciary and oversight committee, he was taken off the mueller investigation into russian meddling after he sent anti-trump text messages to former fbi worker and lover lisa page, those messages detailed in the ig report and tomorrow fbi director christopher ray and rod rosenstein will testify on the