clinton responding with this stinging tweet equipping, but my e-mails. director comey felt entitled to go in front of the country, unauthorized, and lecture secretary clinton about her use when it turns out he was doing the same thing. reporter: it is critical of peter strzok and lisa page, who exchanged a number of texts criticizing mr. trump, including this from august 2016. page texts, trump is never going to become president, right? right? peter strzok replies, no, no, he s not. we ll stop it. the inspector germ says while the text implies taking action to impact trump s electoral process, he found no evidence that bias impacted the russia investigation. the ig adding, the conduct by these employees casts a cloud over the entire fbi investigation and goes to the heart of the fbi s reputation for neutral fact finding and political independence. fbi director christopher wray vowing to hold employees accountable but defending the
this from august 2016. page texts, trump is never going to become president, right? right? peter strzok replies, no, no, he s not. we ll stop it. he found no evidence that bias impacted the russia investigation. the ig adding, the conduct by these employees casts a cloud over the entire fbi investigation and goes to the heart of the fbi s reputation for neutral fact finding and political independence. fbi director wreus fer wray vowing to hold employees accountable but defending the bureau. nothing in this report impugns the integrity as a whole or the fbi as an institution. reporter: and president trump has no public events on his schedule today, the third day in a row since he has returned from singapore that that s been the case. he has been up
here in any disciplinary action against them. look, i understand your point. there was bias. and it s unacceptable and abhorrent. but you re saying it didn t affect the investigation. but we did get this new text message exchange, basically, between peter struck and lisa page. this is in august of 2016. and it s in the ig report. page texts struck, trump s not ever going to become president, right? right? struck, no, no, he won t, we ll stop it. here s the thing. it s not hard to take a leap, if you read that as someone who looks at this, there s bias. that s not just bias, that s clearly someone who s acting on it, no, we ll stop it. reports conclude they didn t, but does this race questions in your mind maybe they did? it would raise questions in my mind very certainly, erin. but the report i think is pretty definitive and conclusive. and persuasive on the point.
the house judiciary and oversight committees. great to see you today. thank you for being here. you bet. harris: is this going to be a problem for the former president barack obama? too early to tell. i will say. this his guarantee there was no political bias doesn t look too accurate today. the text messages that catherine first referenced understand the timing. clinton investigation is closed on july 5th, 2016. peter strzok was the key agent who ran that investigation. he interviewed abedin, mills, he interviewed clinton. that investigation is closed july 5th when director comey does his big press conference. later that same month. july 2016, they open the trump-russia investigation. who is the agent who opens that investigation? peter strzok. four and a half weeks later, september 2nd is when we have this text message where lisa page texts back to peter strzok and says the president of the united states wants to know everything we re doing. what does that refer to? we don t kn
associates, on the phone and in conversations, he thinks this memo can help discredit the russia investigation. i know you ve seen it. but if the president thinks it does and is releasing it with that in mind, are you comfortable with that? i am not going to comment on the president s comments, but i will say and i ll go a step further with regard to the mueller investigation. the mueller investigation should absolutely proceed. and this action and other investigations that are going on do not impede that investigation. in the judiciary committee we have been very careful to give a wide berth to mr. mueller. we have expressed concerns to make sure that that investigation is impartial, that people participating in it have an impartiality and professionalism that we did not see for example in the struck, page texts. we asked for the removal of some