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Morning, tweeting more text messages between former fbi employees peter strzok and lisa page are a disaster and an embarrassment for the fbi and doj. they should have never happened, but we are learning more and more by the hour. others were leaking like mad in order to get the president! see, the president has been pretty vocal about this. should he declassify the documents? steve: differently. yes, of course. more than that. the point is, almost every day there seems to be yet another drip another text here come a text there. mounting evidence that adds to the suspicion that people inside the obama administration before the election and afterwards were plotting either to stop president trump, donald trump becoming president, once he was president, to undermine him. maybe that s not true. what is really offensive to a lot of people is that, on the one side, you ve got all the weight and authority of the mueller investigation preyed on the inside, you got some random committee in ....
Committee inquiries continues unabated should you be confirmed. that was certainly the tone that you ve sat with me in the office, and i appreciate that. as i told you in our conversation i have had serious concerns over the last few years that that has not always been the lay of the land between the director and this committee, and i understand that the cia has a mandate to be fully supportive of the men and women who work there, that is critical, however i also hope that if you are lucky enough to fill that very important position, that we will have a new approach of being open in hearings and with regard to congressional oversight. i want to start on an issue that was central in some of the prehearing questions and in our conversation. you indicated that you would ....
Issued a subpoena for hillary clinton s e-mails related to benghazi. what s significant is we have officials confirming this house ha the state department s in the process of turning more clinton e-mail related to benghazi over to this special committee investigating the terror attacks. the committee doesn t know what s in the new e-mails. what s significant or not about the e-mails because they are in the process of being turned over to the committee. obviously, when you have a subpoena and you re supposed to turn over official documents if they re not turned over that could lead to all kinds of legal and political trouble. i want to add more breaking news in the last moment, we now have just gotten a statement from the committee and they say in the past week the state department has confirmed on the record it requested secretary clinton s e-mail and it was the committee inquiries that led them to realize it did not have the former secretary e-mails. ....
just to finish off this questioning, i m just going to wrap up, but we re left now but you having looked into this affair and having cooperated with the police, cannot tell us who lodged the file with the law firm, who was aware of its contents and who, who, who kept you from being in full possession of the facts, evidence that is clearly now being submitted to the police, but clearly contradicts all the assurances that you were given not in one but in two select committee inquiries. that s frankly, i hope you d agree, unsatisfactory. i can say that the company at the time engaged an outside law firm to review a number of these e-mails. they were provided to the law firm as i understand it. they were reviewed and an ....
the same goes, i simply can t speak for them. and rebekah brooks? i simply cannot speak for their knowledge. i know that mrs. brooks when she was chief executive of this was one of the people who brought it to my attention, as a new thing. just to finish off this questioning, i m just going to wrap up, but we re left now but you having looked into this affair and having cooperated with the police, cannot tell us who lodged the file with the law firm, who was aware of its contents and who, who, who kept you from being in full possession of the facts, evidence that is clearly now being submitted to the police, but clearly contradicts all the assurances that you were given not in one but in two select committee inquiries. that s frankly, i hope you d ....