has been doing for the quarter century that i ve served on it. i yield back, mr. chairman. the chair recognizes mr. gates for five minutes. i m in violent agreement with the statements you made that nothing in the report impugns the patriotic work of the f.b.i. employees who are serving in my district and around the world and the mess in washington has nothing to do with them and i want to make that clear and appreciate your statements on that subject. deputy director, the democratic memo the president declassified d chairman nunes met f justice with director wray and me. i received the same briefing he received. i don t know any additional information beyond what he knows about that and not able to produce any information beyond what the f.b.i. has told me. so are you aware as you sit here today of any payments that were made to any person to collect intelligence on the trump campaign prior to july
based on a classified or national security issue. this is an open unclassified setting and we heard from republican mark meadows yesterday that he felt that in this very open setting the deputy attorney general and f.b.i. director were well within their right to lay out some of the timeline issues in the russia investigation. specifically how early they began gathering intelligence about members of the trump campaign and how long did it proceed this official start date to the russia collusion probe of july 31, 2016. your point is very well taken. let s see whether those answers will be forthcoming or not. bill: it goes to the heart of it all. back with our panel in new york. tom, if you listen to chairman goodlatte talk about the interview with peter strzok and john ratcliffe who you will hear from in a matter of moments here, they expect strzok to come and testify within two weeks. if he refuses to answer
we know. that you don t like trump. they want to find out what happened in the fbi investigation and the cutting edge of the house investigation: how does this get started? what was going on before the official beginning of the investigation on july 31, 2016? does the official story hold up here. i think they will try to find out more about that from him. he knows everything. laura: why behind closed do they are talking about having a public hearing a little later. my guess is he volunteered. they didn t have to fight him. let him talk behind closed doors right now. laura: those text messages should be released. we ll be right back.
infamous anti-trump text messages facing house lawmakers on capitol hill now. f.b.i. agent peter strzok appearing behind closed doors for a highly-anticipated interview with the house judiciary committee. we re back with the america s newsroom a-team. maria bartiromo, brad blakeman and richard fowler are here. what a moment that was, maria, to see him arrive on capitol hill and walk into the room for the interview. we hadn t seen him in person if quite some time. a lot of people hear what he has to say. he was explaining to do after his texts suggesting he was willing to put his bias on the line and let it dictate where the investigation goes. i think now there is a lot of questions saying oh, let me go back to the i.g. michael horowitz s testimony and really look through exactly what he said because he did not say that there was not bias that affected decisions when it relates to the trump/russia collusion investigation. which was started on july 31,
was requested. the information requested, the big question is, did the f.b.i. use informants against trump campaign staff or associates, and if it did, how many and how much was spent on those activities? sandra: clearly there is growing anger among republicans of the lack of documents being turned over. pete king, continued bad faith from the f.b.i. and d.o.j. response has been inadequate. what happens if they don t comply? what happens if 5:00 p.m. comes around and the d.o.j. doesn t hand over anything? first of all the big reason they re pushing for this is that they suspect that the official story just doesn t hold up. that the investigation was begun on july 31, 2016, after the george papadopoulos affair. they suspect that s really not the case and they want to see. now, what happens on this, we ve seen a lot of threats from the chairman and from the speaker of the house and from