like this indictment right here. no allegation in the indictment that any american was a knowing participant, nor was there any allegation the scheme affected the outcome of the election. bingo. there isn t going to be. chris: the president s top foreign policy advisor in the campaign in the first couple of weeks of his white house, general michael flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi, so has another campaign advisor, george papadopoulos, aren t you at least curious to find out what they have to say? well, in the flynn episode, we have learned since that the people that conducted the interview with flynn, peter stroke, did not believe he lied. a number of other people in the fbi did not believe flynn lied, and yet flynn s under indictment, cops a plea for lying. was flynn told chris: wait a minute. why do you think he pleaded guilty? i mean it wasn t an indictment. he pleaded guilty.
like this indictment right here. no allegation in the indictment that any american was a knowing participant, nor was there any allegation the scheme affected the outcome of the election. bingo. there isn t going to be. chris: the president s top foreign policy advisor in the campaign in the first couple of weeks of his white house, general michael flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi, so has another campaign advisor, george papadopoulos, aren t you at least curious to find out what they have to say? well, in the flynn episode, we have learned since that the people that conducted the interview with flynn, peter stroke, did not believe he lied. a number of other people in the fbi did not believe flynn lied, and yet flynn s under indictment, cops a plea for lying. was flynn told chris: wait a minute. why do you think he pleaded guilty? i mean it wasn t an indictment. he pleaded guilty.
in particular, texts that were of notice to congress, peter stroke and lisa paige, republicans in congress who say the agents in a personal relationship were texting in a way that proves to what republicans say were biased, that there had been a controversy their texts were missing over a five-month span, other texts also missing over a five-month span. the office of inspector general at the justice department has succeeded in using forensics tools to recover the text messages from fbi devices, the justice department says, including texts between mr. stroke and ms. paige sent and received between december 14th of 2016 and may of 2017. so they have all of the texts and as we discussed earlier, these are caught up in a debate with republicans trying to undermine the credibility of the fbi and other investigations, including the special counsel investigation. now we ll see what they are. i think as opposed to speculating and having intense suggestions of impropriety based on a lack of s
spokeswoman right here, a trump appointee who works for jeff sessions. she is a conservative saying, everybody, just take a breath. i think a lot of americans who saw the initial release of text messages were disturbed by what they saw and understandably so. the inspector general s investigating it and i look forward to their report, at which point we can discuss that further. we wait for an inspector general report, who s investigating this. let the inspector general do their job. that s good advice. i should also just note for the record that in the case of peter stroke, when bob mueller found out about these texts, which show, whether they show bias or not, we don t know. they do show bad judgment, but he immediately removed him from the investigation. one fast last point. it is not just us talking about how this is a distraction for the gop. this morning the top house gop super pac issued a memo saying to incumbents, please, talk about the tax cut bill. we could not hold the
multiple members of the trump campaign had contact with russia and lied? i m troubled by the fact that you have a senior fbi agent peter stroke who wrote the introduction to the russia investigation, exchanged 10,000 text messages showing his extreme political bias against donald trump. and against bernie sanders and eric holder. and in favor of hillary clinton. and he may have discussed in andrew mccabe s office some, quote, unquote, insurance policy that they could enact. that is not correct. that was an expression of concern that donald trump s campaign might have been tainted by involvement with russia and that they were concerned about it. that talking point doesn t help your side of the argument. joe, you ve been through this before, this kind of use of the clintons is sort of typical, right? this is what they re sort of useful for. yeah. it sells to the boobs out there on the right. in other words, you can t go broke attacking the clintons in