that is relevant only if used to offset competing stories about what happened in the probe, and that is the problem for the gop after today. ten hours of today. no proof was offered that strzok did something acting on bias, okay? so is it over? no, because ultimately this isn t about strzok. it s about coming for mueller. how do we know? two examples. listen to florida congressman matt gaetz. certainly then when you were removed, was it clear to you mr. mueller was aware of these incendiary text messages? yes. so he knew of the text messages but never asked you whether you were biased or not? that s correct. exhibit a. exhibit b, this moment from jim jordan when he was getting after this connection of hillary clinton to the dossier. one more time. just say it. bruce orr gave the fbi documents
he exhibited bias against trump. that s true. it s really just one text, okay? this text came back to haunt him all day long. trump s never, ever going to become president, right, right? no, he won t. we ll stop it. he tried to explain it away by saying the american people would vote against him and he wouldn t win. it wasn t that compelling. and he admitted strzok the texting was wrong on several levels. one of them means that he arguably violated the fbi s code of conduct. strzok didn t have a great rebuttal for that either. now, because of that, they argue that strzok has no integrity. that is relevant only if used to offset competing stories about what happened in the probe, and that is the problem for the gop after today. ten hours of today. no proof was offered that strzok did something acting on bias, okay? so is it over? no, because ultimately this isn t about strzok. it s about coming for mueller. how do we know? two examples. listen to florida congressman