meeting with vladimir putin could be the easiest of them all on this tornado that s a scary thought all by itself. josh rogin, thank you, sir. and a very contentious day as embattled fbi agent peter strzok testifies before congress. i don t appreciate what was originally said being changed. i don t give a damn what you appreciate, agent strzok. just one of the more tame parts of a contentious ten-hour day. the latest, next. the new sleep number 360 smart bed. it intelligently senses your movement and automatically adjusts on each side to keep you both comfortable. and snoring? how smart is that? smarter sleep. to help you lose your dad bod, train for that marathon, and wake up with the patience of a saint. the new sleep number 360 smart bed, from $999. smarter sleep will change your life.
overseas trip. we ll have more on that coming up. but we re also keeping a close eye on what s happening back home on capitol hill. that is because we re expecting to see fireworks. a hearing by the house judiciary and oversilgt committee. it started a couple of minutes ago and look on the left side of the screen. that is peter strzok. fbi agent, guy who has been in the spotlight for months now. the first time we re hearing from him publicly about anti-trump and hillary clinton e-mail investigation, russia mueller investigation, strok was involved in both of those. he s about to give strzok will say there s no evidence of bias in my professional actions and say under oath not once in my 26 years of defending my nation, did my personal opinions impact any official action i took. but republicans and even the president himself argued text
lawyer and traded thousands of texts while having an extramarital affair and the messages used by kritings to argue gnat investigation is biassed against trump. in december 2015, strok texted paige and referred to outside the united states and lures are first to enticing a defendant to leave a foreign country to be arrested and prosecuted in the u.s., a common practice by the fbi. paige said, no, implicated a much bigger policy issue. i ll explain later. might even be able to use it as a pretext for a call. but none of the text messages from that same time period of december 2015 discussed any kind of an investigation into trump or russia. though one time paige did share a news article about trump and called him an utter idiot. congressional sources from both parties who reviewed the texts said they have no reason to
james baker, fbi agent strok, michael core tan and peered cad sick. josh campbell, were you fired or removed from office? i wasn t. what a great day for my family. i left the fbi, a career that i loved, working as a special agent so i could step out and speak out against this nonsense. the challenge of conspiracy theories, you never win for calling them what they are. no one in the history of mankind ever persuaded a wing nut by calling them a wing nut. one, they aren t playing with a full deck or, two, they are recovering for cover for a white house in survival mode. or, three, they genuinely
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