Previously anymo lly named lyin. Todays campaign in texas, wednesday will be wisconsin, friday hell be in north carolina, saturday hell be in illinois northwest of where the president will rally tonight, his predecessor former president barack obama is kicking off his own campaign in nevada as democrats try to pick up a senate seat in the state. Early voting kicks off in eight states today. So far by nbc newss count, the votes are coming in. As of october 22nd, over 5 million votes have been cast early or absentee. Lets start out with the late fres the white house. Joining me is hans nichols. Reporter im going to talk over the helicopter taking off right now. Its no longer lyin ted cruz. President trump has a new nickname for the senator from texas. It is now texas ted or beautiful ted. You can take your choice. Sounds like he spoke almost 10 or 15 minutes on a range of topics including the kashoggi case and saudi arabia. He repeated again that he didnt want to lose billions of dollars
Lawyers recommended that that change be made and now looking back he says that apparently that is what he did on his computer. What have we learned about the issue of gross negligence and that change . Well, first of all the fact that he is trying to claim dana his his political bias against donald trump had nothing to do with his ultimate conclusionses that just does not pass the smell test and i think that you saw the smugness of him throughout the hearing and he never once apologized by the way for what he had done in the Text Messages. He acknowledged that the Text Messages were there. This was his opportunity to go and explain that that was not what he said or to apologize and he did neither, which is very telling. Dana it is the first time that we are hearing from Peter Strzok Strzok publicly, he has been behind closed doors as members of the house have been investigating this and listen to what one of your colleagues, trea gowdy had to say and he is speaking of bias in this soun
The documents. The documents we received from a different source and the initial batch in mid september. Im not understanding. You said you got go back. Did you get documents from bruce orr in. Yes. At some point we received material. What were those document snz. We received documents, not me excuse me, sir. I can maybe make it simpler. Was it the dossier . What i am authorized to tell you in response to a question did you receive documents from bruce orr the fbi directed me that i may say not me, the fbi received documents and material from mr. Orr. Did you . I appreciate that. You did not . No. The fbi did get documents from bruce orr. Yes, sir. Did they get the dossier . My direction from the fbi is i may tell you the fbi received material. This is amazing. This is amazing. Nelly orr let us bring the director of the fbi to answer those questions. The gentleman cannot answer. Asked and answered. He cannot answer. The regular order. I understand, mr. Chairman. The fbi has instructed
Issue and chairman ununez met with director wray and me. I received the same briefing he received. Im not able to produce any information beyond what the fbi 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 31st . 2016 . No, keep in mind i wasnt there, i only know the information we obtained from the fbi reports. Are you as you sit here today aware of any efforts to contact roger stone that occurred prior to july 31st, 2016 . I dont have any personal knowledge, but were seeking to respond to chairman nunes request. Same question as it regards to michael caputo. I wasnt there. And so i can only answer questions that we directed to the fbi and have there now. Have you asked the questions of anyone . We have absolutely conveyed all the questions that chairman nunes raised and im optimistic were able to respond to him fairly soon. You could understand why it would be of tremendous im
We are going to come back to it. As long as you do respond to the question. Yes, sir. My immediate concern was absolutely having to do with russia and everything related to that. My concern was what russia was doing on social media. My concern was what russian Intelligence Officers were doing in the United States and what the government of russia might or might not be doing with the Trump Campaign. That is wonderful and trust me when i tell you that would have been a longer text. I get that. It would have taken a lot longer for you to actually type that but you didnt. Regular orders. Are you going to just pontificate . Thank you. Mr. Strozk, during your 11hour closed door interview with our Committee Republicans asked you more than 200 questions on the special counsels and the fbi investigation of the trump russia collusion and interference with the 2016 election. At one point you described how the special counsels investigation had, and i quote, credible allegation that the government