agent strzok responds, he s an idiot like trump. figure they ll cancel each other out. three months later, strzok writes, at some point, the republican party needs to pull their head out of their expletive. shows no sign of occurring any time soon. the day after a republican primary debate, page writes this text god, trump is a loathsome human. he may win, agent struck responds. america will get what the voting public deserves. that s what i m afraid of, says page. strzok writes, god, hillary should win 100 million to 0. page s response, i know. also, did you hear him make a comment about the size of his blank earlier? this man cannot be president. strzok was removed in july from special counsel robert mueller s team, because of these texts. on capitol hill today, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein answering questions about whether there s bias in the fbi and the justice department. i think it s important to
hours-long contentious hearing where republicans alleged political bias. they are pointing to the anti-trump text messages between peter strzok and lisa page. the justice department released hundreds of those messages this week. two from march 2016 at the height of the primary. lisa page, the attorney for the fbi, she said that she said, god, trump is a loathsome human. that s when struck responded, yet he may win. another text from 2016 has struck saying omg, he s an idiot. lisa page responding, he s awful. they were repeatedly brought up with republicans saying a second special counsel should be assigned to investigate. he played a leading role in the hillary clinton e-mail server investigation. but rod rosenstein stood firm saying it is sufficient for now. and then stressed robert mueller
looks all that nefarious, sandra, it s bizarre. our country really has to have belief and confidence in our justice department. i do believe that overwhelmingly the rank and file men and women of the f.b.i. are people of integrity but at the top, the old saying is a fish rots from the head down. there is something rotten at the head of this fish. sandra: what s amazing is that he is still employed there. he is in the human resources department. i look at some of the other words that he exchanges. he called the president an idiot, loathsome human. he hasn t been removed from working there. not just his contempt for the president but the people who pay his salary. you played that clip a moment ago that trey gowdy alluded to. how he could smell the trump voters when they were at a wal-mart. what kind of contempt do you have for voters, for taxpayers
lisa page. the two exchanged hundreds of texts throughout the presidential campaign in 2016 when they were allegedly having an affair. page texting in march, 2016. god, trump is a loathsome human. strzok responded, yet he may win. another exchange said, oh, my god, he s an idiot. he s awful. strzok had been assigned to mueller s investigation but was removed by mueller this summer when he learned about the text. rosenstein stressed the inspector general is investigating those messages along with the handling of the clinton e-mail server investigation. pushing back on republican calls to immediately appoint a second special counsel. if we believe there was a basis for an investigation or a special counsel, i can assure you that we would act. reporter: under questioning by democrats, rosenstein pointed out that mueller was appointed fbi director by both republican and democratic presidents and confirmed unanimously by the senate, saying that political affiliations or opinions are dif
last night, we received 90 pages of text messages between lawyer lisa page and peter strzok, an fbi agent. the two were romantically involved. the texts sent between the summer of 2015 through last december included barbs against then candidate donald trump. in one, strzok wrote, god, trump is a loathsome human. and another he wrote, god, hillary should win one million to zero. mueller removed the agent after he discovered those texts. joining me is julia ainsley and matt miller, former chief spokesman for the doj, also an msnbc justice and security analyst. guys, thank you so much. julia, the president obviously seized on this. obviously seized on this to say that there s bias against him. he tweeted, anti-trump fbi agent led clinton e-mail probe. now it all starts to make sense. doesn t he have a point when he goes out and says this, when