what is new today is the response from peter strok saying no, no we ll stop it. here s what s being said about that. number one, what the ig says here is that at the time this came out it was in august, remember a month later the anthony wiener e-mails were discovered, and more clinton e-mails were found on anthony wiener s laptop. right. so one of the questions of the report is why did it take the fbi a month to get off the dime and aggressively go after those e-mails, issue a subpoena and start getting into them? what the ig says is chuck i have to stop here. let me finish this one thought. the ig says several people were involved in that decision, strzok was one of them. they said we can t conclude he was free from bias. his lawyer says he was trying to decide who was more important, the russia meddling investigation or the clinton e-mail thing. that s why he did what he did.
the average private citizen didn t have a conversation with the president of the united states asking him to drop a criminal investigation. and tweet at him after he s fired he better hope there aren t tapes. i was in a position given what i knew to do something that would be useful and important. i did it. reasonable people can disagree about it. i still think it was the right thing to do. i asked you about andrew mccabe and now peter strok and lisa page that worked at the fbi and a lot in the news about text messages back and forth and disparaged a lot of people including president trump. now, you say you had no idea an affair or a text messages. i take you at your word. put yourself in donald trump s shoes for one second. you re donald trump and you feel this is unfair, this investigation. you find out that peter strok is texting somebody disparages things about you and then you find out that he actually helped conduct the hillary clinton interview and he called you an idiot. woul
concerned about that. it s the reason bob mueller removed peter who s an excellent agent and removed him from that investigation. poor judgment and shouldn t happen. so i get the concern about it. your book is about leadership. throughout. does it say anything about your leadership that strok who was a very high level fbi agent was doing this? did you set in any way any tone where that kind of glib insult of a of a major political candidate at the time would be not that big of a deal? no. but it does say something about my leadership. i mean, i m responsible for the senior members of my team and i have asked myself the same question. i tried the model a certain way of acting that did not include that behavior. but i asked myself should i have given them all a speech? but these are grown-ups, senior people in the counterintelligence division. i don t want to be too tough on myself. i m responsible. i m responsible for their actions and their poor judgment. speaking of leadership
investigation. you find out that peter strok is texting someone about you and then you find out he helped conduct the hillary clinton interview and he called you an idiot. wouldn t you think that this is unfair and politicized? sure. i get that. it s the reason bob mueller removed peter who s an excellent agent and removed him from that investigation. poor judgment and shouldn t happen. your book is about leadership. throughout. does it say anything about your leadership that strok who was a high level fbi agent doing this? did you set any way any tone where that kind of glib insult of a of a major political candidate at the time would be not that big of a deal? no. but it does say something about my leadership. i mean i m responsible for the senior members of my team and i
he needs to do his job. so steve, that being said, why does the president keep attacking mueller if he is truly innocent? right, well, he is innocent and i disagree with that premise though from congressman gowdy as much as i admire him. in america and in any advanced law abiding country, we can t say okay, here s the investigation let s find the crime. there is no crime. there s no collusion. so we cannot empower a panel of investigators and lawyers to try to find and perhaps in my opinion, manufacture a crime. that s the way things are done in third world countries, not the way we do things in the united states. so what makes i think robert mueller s team would be manufacturing a crime? well, i m glad you asked. what would make we think that? peter strok and lisa page they are not part of mueller s team. but they were. as soon as he found out he