could. are you addressing me or the chairman? this is all going to come together in an answer. is there a question you want to i wanted to answer your question from earlier based on something i ve been told by the fbi. wait. i think i m aware of what the fbi told you and you have another chance to talk about that but right now the gentlemen from ohio controls the time. you wrote this? that was the question. so do you see the from line? do you see the from line? congressman, i do. peter strzok and then it says to lisa page and a whole bunch of other people at the fbi, did you write this? i did. let me ask you couple questions about it. it has differences from what was given to us by corn and simpson. who s corn? i would love to answer that question and every part of me you know why i would love to answer that question who s simpson? i cannot answer that question. you wrote about it.
aligned with the body of our intelligence reporting. were you aware of the confluence of what the russians were saying and what our own intelligence sources are saying? i believe i understand your question to be between the intelligence community sources and methods and open source reporting including those from russia, yes, i was aware of all those things coming together at the same time. do you have any reason to believe that the senate intelligence committee or the nsa or the cia or the fbi or the office of the division of intelligence are on some kind of a of an effort to discredit donald trump? the time is expired but you may answer the question. not at all. the gentlemen from ohio is recognized. thank you, mr. chairman.
account to find out what else you might ve said about insurance policies or about the president of the united states or investigation? that is a rhetorical question you need not answer and i yield back. mr. chairman, my i answer. you may respond briefly. i appreciate that. congressman, what i think is critical and i m glad you brought up a lot of these because i would like to make the point i didn t bring them up, i just asked you to read your own words. if i may, what is important is that these texts represent personal beliefs just like those that you found on my personal phone, what these texts do not represent is any act, any suggestion of an act, any consideration that we need to do this or not do this and furthermore, i would encourage you as i believe i forget who i said this to earlier this morning, you need to read these texts in the context of what was going on at the time. so when i make the comment about trump having no idea how destabilizing his presidency would
something lisa page sent you. i m torn. i think no, i m more replaceable than you are in this. i m the best for it, but there are others who can do it. okay, you re different and more unique. this is yours. plus leaving an sc having been an sc resulting in an, guess what that next word is. i m sure you ve got it. no, you wrote it. are you asking me? what do you think it is? impeachment, sir. impeachment. five days, five days after mueller has been appointed special counsel and you re already talking about impeachment, twice. i thank the gentleman from iowa. mr. chairman, may i respond, please? the gentleman at the conclusion of mr. king s time, you may. mr. strzok, i m over here now
sure he will. he s never answered the question. he s never been allowed to. will the gentleman stop badgering we re about to move on. the gentleman from ohio s time is expired and mr. strzok can answer a question where he refused to answer earlier on advice of counsel and i m going to yield to mr. gowdy for the purpose of doing that right now. mr. chairman, before mr. gowdy starts, may i respond to mr. jordan? very briefly. i would love to do that. there is an appropriate time for oversight and as you well know that is at the end of an investigation once its concluded. i am certain congress will absolutely have the opportunity to look at any investigation once its closed, ask all these questions and i would love to answer each and every one of your questions once the fbi allows me and the investigation s done. we already know that answer from you and we ve already been advise that had you can answer the questions here because this is the united states congress where y