areas we're focusing on. liz: energy as well? >> without a doubt. [closing bell rings] two or three times i've been on with you, beat the drum on energy. liz: you've been right. jason katz, very good to see you. here we go, the dow, s&p, completely erasing yesterday's losses. a record for the nasdaq. melissa: back to winning stocks. investors shrugging off trade concerns. the dow ending the day up 223 points there at last trade, near session highs. it is green for the s&p but all about the nasdaq closing at a new record high. this is the 88th one for the nasdaq under president trump. i'm melissa francis. david: take a look at apple, the price of apple or the price of google or the price of amazon. it is extraordinary these levels. i'm david asman. so glad you join us on "after the bell." more on big market movers. it's a busy day. here is what else we cover for you very busy hour. jam-packed day for president trump. he is overseas. it ain't over yet.

began in brussels with remarkable impromptu press conference this morning. did you see it? he announced there his high-pressure campaign for nato allies to boost defense spending paid off. the president in the uk for more high-profile meetings. he is dining with the british prime minister at the home of winston how churchhill this hou. meanwhile at home, fireworks on capitol hill as embattled fbi official peter strzok testifies for the first time in public, before a combative, sometimes out of control house panel, grilledded over the anti-trump texts, including one that he wouldn't let a trump presidency happen. we'll show you heated moments and his defense. congressman jody hice is part of today's hearing. rebecca heinrichs, howard kurtz and former george w. bush senior staffer brad blakeman. melissa: back to the markets,

the dow is soaring as big names in the techs soaring to a record close for the nasdaq. nicole petallides on floor of new york stock exchange. what a trade today, nicole. >> unbelievable. when we had the dip in the middle of the week on trade concerns one of the traders told me early this morning. i'm on the wrong side of the trade. i didn't bet this way and i'm surprised to see this selloff, i'm buying more. i'm buying more because i think it will bounce back. in fact now we see up arrows across the board. dow, nasdaq, s&p, up five of six days. you see here the dow gained 225 points. positive for 2018. you mentioned some of those tech stocks, dave asman, take a look at some of these, here you go. amazon, new closing records. amazon new record. facebook new record. microsoft, google. alphabet. all of these are new records today and i have to tell you everybody are using these phrases when you walk around here, how are people feeling? they're looking at the

fundamentals and earnings, using phrases such as robust earnings season. they are just eating this up, they are so excited. one area that will be a little weaker, techs are very soft, watch for banks. they still expect for flattening yield curve to affect the banks. they think it will be in line as far as earnings per share. one area of surprise, loan growth. next week a slew of banks coming in. also we had papa john's, after the head of papa john's resigned after racial slur in conference call. he was using it as an example to explain pr snafus. it didn't go very well. stepped down from the top position. he bounced back. hey, i wanted to remind you, big deal we had, nearly 19 billion, broad cam, ca technologies. broadcom down. ca moves up. 20% premium. macy's and bloomingdale's, they

had a cyber breach. delta beat on their numbers. hedging for fuel rising going forward. that is up 1.7%. back to you. melissa: nicole, thank you. david: let's bring in today's market panel. liz peek, columnist for foxnews.com and kevin kelly. liz, you might not know about it about news was focused on another hearing we'll talk about later. steve mnuchin talked about how trade affects economy, not affecting market at all today. let's get your reaction. >> president is very focused on free and fair trade. as you mentioned at the g7 the president specifically said let's sign a free-trade agreement with no tariffs, no barriers, no subsidies. so the president is very much focused fighting every day on having free and fair trade. we have not yet seen any negative impact. david: well today certainly

didn't see negative, negativetivety in the markets themselves as they considered the free trade deals going on now. what's your assessment? where are we in regard to trade and how it is affecting the economy? >> look, i don't think we've seen much impact on the economy yet. i think it has taken a little gloss off optimism so incredibly robust, starting with the election of donald trump. we've seen investors be a little more wary. net taking money out of the market right now. people are a little concerned. look, we have a booming economy, red hot jobs market. every data point is exciting on that front. i think that means, two things, really. one is, americans are very optimistic about their prospects. number two, looks good for mud term elections. very hard to see how democrats really have much to run on as long as almost every group in america is looking better incomes so, that is all part of one. david: kevin, since it is

looking better for republicans at polls, republicans seemed to turn around this economy and this market, maybe that is why the markets are doing better. >> the markets are doing exceptionally better, earnings will be up this season, as well as last season. if we look at jpmorgan tomorrow, it is estimated that earnings will be up 30%. one of the reasons why the corporate tax rate went down. what can they do with that capital? redeploy that into the economy. middle market investment is picking up. small businesses are doing exceptionally well. we also have to take into consideration that our economy is 65% services. those services are doing very well. look at technology today. so the tariffs haven't had big impact. if you look at commercial real estate industry, they're looking doing exemptions to get around the steel tariffs, but also look at industrial metals. they have gone down in pricing. the dr. copper, look at price of copper, it is at a four-year low. i wouldn't be too worried about the impact of tariffs right now

and the economy is doing well. melissa: stay with us, guys. u.s. jobless claims falling to a two-month low. the unemployment rate could be headed lower. economic forecasters surveyed by the "wall street journal" predicting the rate will hit 3.6% by middle of 2019, which would be a 50-year low. liz, there are challenges with that. when unememployment goes too low, we have to see wage growth. then you start to have jobs where you don't have enough people anymore. >> no question about it. latest report out of the nfib, that group of small business owners and managers cited just that. 83% of them trying to hire people said that they were having trouble finding qualified workers. look, it is great for workers, great for wage growth which we haven't seen in 15 to 20 years. it is very difficult for employers but remember we had 600,000 people show up on the jobs role last month. melissa: right. >> i think there are still a lot more people in the sidelines

than we are giving credit for. so i don't think it's a real issue right now, but it is going to get to be one for sure. melissa: kevin how do you swear that? everyone is talking about the rise of the robot. everybody is a uber-drive right now. they will not have a drive because nobody will be driving cars anymore. they will be all automated. there is the flip side about all the jobs going away. do you think this low number is on the precipice of that? >> no, i don't. there are 6.6 million jobs openings according to the jolts report. this is signifying people will have to gain skills for new economies. think about the telephone, switchboard operators. they were unionized. guess what? all those people got new jobs in new industries and we've seen the american economy can transform, it leads the way, 25% of global gdp. in order for the world to do better, american economy needs to do better.

we're seeing policies from this administration enforce that. this administration talked about skilled labor. they're enacting policies for that. i don't see a problem with the jobs number right now. melissa: okay. liz, how do you get it all to match up? if you look at all the jobs open right now, there are not americans trained for it. and, for people whose jobs gone away who are older, they will not necessarily want to get retrained for whatever it is available now. how does the whole thing sort out? >> melissa, right now there is a job for everybody, even untrained. look at unemployment rate for high school dropouts. it has gone way down because they are being trained by companies. companies are stepping up to do what our school system is failing to do, which is to prepare young people for work. and as far as older workers are concerned, i think one of the big surprises, people are not retiring when they get to be 60 or 65. as kevin said, a lot of people in service jobs. they can go on working. why not? if you will live longer time

than expected or than earlier projected, what are you going to do? i honestly just don't, i think wages will go up. that will be something we'll be talking about a lot in six months. i think it will attract workers off the sidelines. melissa: all right. liz, kevin, thanks to both of you. great stuff. david: great for workers. people are trading up. quitting their jobs, trading up, more money, better position, as liz said companies are supplanting colleges for training. melissa: very true, a lot of people anecdotally in my own life, moving up to better spot, different company. david: gloves are off on capitol hill. former fbi official peter strzok getting skewered by lawmakers demanding answers whether his anti-trump bias affected his actions at the agency. highlights from the very contentious hearings and takeaways coming up. melissa: american part of the daring thailand cave mission, speaking out about a complicated

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may. blake burman has the details from london. blake? reporter: hi, there, good evening, 9:00 here in london tonight. president trump having dinner alongside the first lady with british prime minister theresa may and her husband at blenheim palace, half an hour away outside of the town of oxford. all the president's events scheduled here in the later london area are outside of the city center, and with meetings tomorrow with theresa may and the queen of england as well, they are gearing up as well for some pretty big protests they are expecting in london. we've seen a little bit of that throughout the day for -- sporadically in different parts of city. nothing on the massive scale that police and some counterterrorism officials are gearing up for tomorrow. we'll see what tomorrow brings on that front. the president began this day in brussels. he was at nato headquarters there for day two of meetings.

the president was part of a very interesting day there. nato head, jens stoltenberg. he demanded nations increase defense spending. after that the president held impromptu press conference in his own right where the president claimed that nations increased their spending after after the press conference he took somewhat of a victory lap. >> we had a great meeting today. we had a great meeting getting along. i know most of the people in the room because of last year, the year-and-a-half we've been in office, year-and-a-half plus but we have a great relationship. everybody in that room, by the time we left, got along and agreed to pay more and agreed to pay it more quickly. reporter: a bit unclear though what the president meant there, saying everybody agreed to pay more and do so more quickly, as emannuel macron, the french

president, pointed out communique, the joint letter said they will try to stick to that 2% initial goal. the italian prime minister today as well-said that his nation will not spend more or will not spend it more quickly. they are sticking to their timetable as well. speaking of timetable, the president right now here having dinner in the uk to start off this uk visit. back to you. melissa:s looks like fun, blake, thank you. david: joining me hudson institute senior fellow rebecca heinrichs. let's go to the videotape, the head of nato himself, the horse's mouth talking about how nato members will pay more. let's play the tape yesterday. >> after years of decline when allyies were subtracting billions, now they're adding billions. before the trend was down, the trend is up. there is new sense of urgency due to president trump's strong leadership on defense spending.

today allies agreed to redouble their efforts and this will make nato stronger. david: so a lot of people right now are quoting macron and saying that the president misspoke. based on what the head of nato just said, that's not a misspeak at all. >> no, that is not a misspeak at all. i think that president trump certainly got commitments from individual countries to move faster. verbal commitments to get to that 2%. you know it is hard to explain why certain countries are peeling off saying they can't meet that or they won't meet that but i think the bigger question here is, why won't these other countries, even without the pressure of the american president, rise to the occasion and spend -- we're just asking for 2% of gdp. this, doesn't matter how big your economy is. surely you can afford 2% for your own security. there are all kinds of threats from terrorism, the migrant

issue has been a challenge because it brought some terrorism challenges across europe. you also have the threat from russia for a lot of these countries. david: but again, you have the head of nato saying in fact we'll be paying, we're already paying more but we'll be paying more in the future. let's look to the future now, the future meeting between trump and putin. a lot of people again questioning whether the president's giving putin too much of a break but he didn't give the russians any break at all, when he hammered down on this gas deal between russia and germany that will make germany much more dependent on russia than it ever was for energy. >> that is exactly right. if you look what president trump has done in terms of american foreign policy since he has taken office, he has been incredibly tough, not tough on russia. he is pursuing u.s. interests. he is trying to get our european allies to get out from underneath the thumb of the russians in terms of their energy monopoly, trying to break up energy markets. that is mart of what he

announced. he was in poland supporting three cs initiative, to get energy markets diverse spy in central europe, eastern europe. so that was a powerful point when president trump said how is it we'll encourage everybody, we'll try to spend more to deter russia when countries are like germany are enabling russia to continue in forms of energy. david: think what he has actually done with regard to russia as opposed to what he says. he says he wants to be their friends. he wants a good relationship. look at syria. look where we've actually attacked russian troops on the ground? we attacked russian surrogates on the ground as well. actions speak louder than the words. i have to wonder what goal the president does have in the long run with this meeting with putin? >> well it is not even yes, we've killed, not only have we obviously killed russian allies in syria, we killed actual russians in syria. we have also strengthened our nuclear deterrent force,

including particular weapons systems the russians don't like. we're funding them and deploy them to deter russia. we're investing in military technology specifically to gain strategic advantage over the russians. so president trump has been very tough in terms of pursuing u.s. interests in spite of russian objections, much more so than the obama administration did. i think what he is looking in in terms of the meeting with president putin, to have respect between the two leaders. find where there is common ground where they work together. let president putin know this is president not being pushed around in pursuit of foreign policy. david: hard to respect something like putin, got to say. rebecca, good to see you. thank you very much. melissa: breaking news now. the justice department will appeal the at&t-time warner merger approval according to court filings on antitrust grounds. charlie gasparino will bring us more on the breaking story he told you about coming up.

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melissa: we have breaking news for you. the justice department making it official, filing an appeal for the at&t time warner merger approval on antitrust grounds. charlie gasparino is live in sun valley where media moguls are meeting right now. charlie, you said this was coming. i don't know if charlie's microphone is on. i think it is not on. he did say it was coming. if you could hear him i'm sure he is taking a victory lap but we will get details of that story just as we work that out. david: let's give you recap what happened on incredible market day. not tired of winning rally on wall street. dow ending up more than 200 points. the nasdaq posting the 22nd record close of the year. if you have any tech stocks at all, check them out. chances are they did very well

today. congrats. melissa: we'll organize things with charlie gasparino, bring him back as soon as we can. meantime confrontation on capitol hill, fbi agent peter strzok defending himself publicly for the first time. the big showdown and moments you have to see for yourself. >> i don't give a damn what you appreciate, agent strzok. i don't appreciate having fbi agent with unprecedented level of animus working on two major investigations during 2016. ♪ i've always been about what's next.

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melissa: all right. let's give this another shot. i think we re-established the connection with our own charlie gasparino in sun valley. charlie, give us the story. >> you know i think that was the police force around here that's protesting my return from a couple years ago. melissa: yeah. >> trying to keep me quiet. but they can't keep me quiet. as we reported yesterday the doj, the head of the antitrust division of the doj was privately, basically privately said he has decided to appeal the case. he needed the at&t time warner case. he needed the go ahead from the solicitor general of the department of justice of the he apparently got that. news is breaking right now, making our reporting from yesterday official, that doj is appealing the at&t-time warner

decision by judge leon, that allowed the two companies to merge. what this does to the companies, what this does to the stock going forward i can't tell you. you know, here's the thing, they will appeal it to the district court, the federal district court in d.c. they think that court has many more obama appointees on it, more consumer related that may not like this deal. remember, a lot of consumer groups opposed the at&t-time warner deal, thinking it would lead to higher prices as time warner, excuse me, as at&t became stronger, could squeeze competitors, competitor distribution outfits, cable companies if they want time warner's content so that is what we have here. they think they can roll the dice with obama-appointed justices in the d.c. circuit court. that is why they appealed. in terms of what this does to the company, we got to see what randall stephenson, apparently here at sun valley says about

this, he is the ceo of at&t and jeff bezos, how do you unscramble an egg being put together is pretty amazing. that is where we are. i will tell you this, guys, i've been saying this a the looks if you notice brian roberts, we were among the first to report, focusing less on fox assets that would need regulatory approval than sky which needs european approval, not doj approval. i think why he is focusing back on that, at least sky more, not because of fox assets, a doj that hates these big deals as you see in this case. this is a warning shot by doj. we don't like big media conglomerates. we're going to oppose them. we think they are too powerful. they do not reflect diversity of viewpoints. we'll use the long arm of the justice department to stop them from happening. that is one story. the other story what happens with at&t and time warner. how do shareholders and investors deal with this.

that i can not tell you on the fly. melissa: if they're successful, if they're successful. great reporting, charlie. david: good stuff. of the to another story we're following, peter strzok in the hot seat. embattled fbi agent testifying for first time publicly on ties to the hillary and russia investigation. edward lawrence is on capitol hill with the latest. reporter: hi, david. contentious afternoon with defensive fbi director peter strzok. the republicans frustrated with his answers and his defense, that he said he can separate his personal opinions from his work. republicans trying to tie possible bias the fact that he led the clinton email investigation last year, started the russia probe. >> i've talked to fbi agents around the country. you've embarrassed them. you have embarrassed yourself and i can't help but wonder when i see you looking there with a little smirk, how many times did

you look so innocent into your wife's eye and lie to her about. >> mr. chairman that is outrageous. >> i have always told the truth. the fact that you would accuse me otherwise, the fact that you would question whether or not that was the sort of look i would engage with in a family member who i have acknowledged hurting goes more to a discussion about your character and what you stand for. reporter: strzok fought back to some answers. as you heard there, it got personal. you know what? it also got heated. >> you were in charge of an investigation, investigating, gathering evidence against donald trump, a subject that you hated, that you wanted to f-him, to stop him, impeach him. do you see why that might call into question everything you've touched on all of those investigations? >> i understand why people might think that, particularly based on the misrepresentations of

extreme folks in media, conspiracy theorists, folks in this body and elsewhere. that's why i'm glad to be here publicly. why i'm glad to here people calling for release of my private interview, so that people can judge for themselves, who i am, what i said, and the facts. >> little bit of breaking news from this committee, lisa strzok who defied a subpoena yesterday, will testify tomorrow, that will be in closed court hearings. david: lisa page. reporter: lisa page. david: edward, thank you very much. melissa. melissa: here is georgia congressman jody hice, oversight committee member, part of today's hearing. thanks for joining us. there were fireworks, statement of fact revealing if you listen closely. i want to play the one clip for you, it's a question a lot of folks have been having. here is the testimony from peter strzok. >> there were people within the campaign who were colluding or working with the government of

russia there is very little of be more importance to the fbi or expectation of the american people we get to the bottom of it, the american people i think expect that. frankly any presidential candidate who might have that going on in their campaign would want to know about that, have the fbi get to the bottom of it. melissa: yeah. what was that last part? that any candidate would want to know about it? and the follow-up question that was obvious, although it was democrat asking that question, that they didn't follow up, was, if you think any candidate would want to know about it, did you inform then candidate trump that you were investigating russia trying to tamper with his campaign, and if no, why not? what do you think of that? >> yeah. i mean there are multiple yes, sir emerging with this. the fact that there appears to be more than one copy of the dossier which started this whole thing. in itself, has multiple question marks, and red flags that go up. and so you're bringing up great

point. this is raising many, many questions we need to get to the bottom of this. quite frankly peter strzok is being masterful at avoiding answering questions. in fact in my opinion, his attitude and his unwillingness to be straightforward in his answers is exactly the attitude we've gotten from the fbi in requesting them to turn over documents for months and months and months. to do everything within their power and today, with peter strzok, everything within his power to avoid being direct in his answers. melissa: well i mean one of the points of wanting a public hearing on tv, the american people could watch and judge for themselves was to listen to the way he delivered his answers and see if he was credible. you know, there was one question, you know, we will stop it, and it was trey gowdy saying, what did that mean, we will stop it? were you going to stop him from being president of the united states? and peter strzok said he meant we, as in the american people.

we will stop it, he meant by voting. >> that is totally not believable. no, totally not believable. he was having a private one-on-one discussion with that through his texts. he was not referring to the american people, i'm totally convinced of it. further, a week later, he had to the same individual, lisa page, a text where he was talking about the insurance policy, which obviously ties into the same thing. he was bound and determined -- look, this whole thing is about fbi corruption and not only corruption and bias that existed, but killingness of certain individuals within the fbi, peter strzok being one of them, use his status and his position to try to impact the election itself. not being honest in these answers. melissa: what do you think, what is the outcome, what is the result, what is the benefit of what happened today? because a lot of people will look at it and see evidence of what they already believed before it started? >> i mean that is the problem

when you have a witness who is not forthcoming in his answers. everyone goes away with basically no real new information. but i can assure you of this, melissa, we're going, we will take every step possible to get to the bottom of this and, we have given him an opportunity today to be honest, and he is taking every step he can to avoid being straightforward with us. so we will continue fighting, we'll continue taking every step within our power, get answers clean up corruption that exists in fbi. melissa: congressman, thank you for your time today. >> thank you so much. david: another report card from the press, our next guest says president trump's tough talk on nato is causing a major media freakout. fox news -- howard kurtz, fox news media analyst. the thailand cave mission, they are speaking out just how

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>> not really hard to see how the president decided to frame the apprentice nato. >> he is aabrasive on basis of inaccurate facts. he attacks our european allies. then 24 hours later he is mr. sunshine. >> in the house not behind him on this. what is he just doing there, making a fool of himself, making the world laugh how little he knows about foreign affairs and international information. he knows nothing. david: my goodness. melissa: a little somebody knows. mainstream media bashing president trump at tough talk in nato. howard kurtz, fox news media analyst, host of "mediabuzz," author of media madness. he joins me now. i have watched this debate go back and forth, you can do both

sides. first they say, like joy behar did, amazing how little he knows. then you say, well actually, the numbers he quoted were correct. we do pay more. he is just asking them for more. the other side says, well, you know, presidents have been asking for years for the other side to pay more. they just don't do it in public. and, well, then maybe it is time to switch up how we're asking? it is still, then the story goes back to where we started in first place where he is is an idiot. what do you make of it? >> i don't use the word freakout lightly. melissa: yeah. >> of course, with president taking a confrontational approach to nato allies, particularly germany, saying it is controlled by russia because of this pipeline deal, of course that will receive a lot of aggressive and skeptical coverage. what strikes me at meeting, you saw at the g7 as well, not just that most of the mainstream media object to the substance, they think he is undermining the nato alliance but they think, they don't like his style.

they think he is breaking china. they don't like undiplomatic approach. they need to get used to the fact that this president, particularly cameras on the televised spectacles, has aggressive approach, may differ from those or previous presidents. >> he has an aggressive approach because the other approach in a lot of people's opinion hasn't yielded the results we want. if you look at very example, the idea other sides have not been paying their fair share, when you hear democrats say, other presidents have been pressing for that forever, you immediately follow on, with, well the way, diplomatic way behind the scenes, not calling them out publicly, hasn't worked. so why won't you switch up your technique? why do you think a lot of media won't accept this is a change in technique as opposed to evidence of a lunatic? >> well, in farther because they just do not like donald trump. they don't like his style. he did not invent this issue.

he is certainly more front and center. he calls people out on television. that is his style. we get to see are there any results? did it lead to anything? watching coverage this morning two different msnbc anchors, one broke in while the president speaking at unscheduled news conference he is lying that the president said as a result of his complaints nato countries have now agreed to boost their defense contributions. you can argue because macron of france said, that wasn't quite true, wasn't political overstatement, was it political exaggeration. you can do a fact check. to do it in that way kind of reflects the tone many in the media are taking toward this president. melissa: especially because the head of the group, we played a sound bite on this show earlier, said exactly what the the president said, they're paying more, paying it faster. the head of nato came out said the same thing the president said. i understand macron contradicted him. maybe that was about his individual group. even on that there was

substance. you talk about the pipeline. that is a great issue, if you change who the players were, and it was related to america or related to republicans and you had somebody just out of office, that was on the board and getting money from this pipeline, that was getting gas from russia to germany at a time when we're trying to sanction russia, put pressure on them, this does the opposite, creates revenue, don't you think that would be treated like a scandal lear? >> yeah, i think certainly when you look at what the president said about, if we have this alliance, u.s. is bearing a lot of costses to protect you from aggressive action from russia, doing all the business with russia in sensitive area of energy that is fair point to debate. there is starting to be a pattern. mainstream press doesn't like trump foreign policy we saw this with the summit and coverage with kim jong-un. ultimately there will be results or there won't. there seems to be this rush to

say he doesn't know what he is talking about, he is a liar, he is undiplomatic. it is getting very visceral. it reflect as lot of coverage the way donald trump way donald trump is treated by much of the press. melissa: howard, thank you for your time. david: an american hero overseas. part of the daring cave mission that saved a soccer team and their coach in thailand now detailing how hard the operation was. >> you have to lay line or rope, that is your lifeline. without that you have no idea of a disorientation. you're under water, and water is completely muddy. you have to insure when you go in you have a way out, air force rescue specialist, eric anderson said conditions were so bad their survival was in serious jeopardy. looking at incredible video of moments some of the boys were brought to safety. doctors say all of the boys are showing improvement, are

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hearings to examine bias on fbi top counterintel agent peter strzok influenced investigations of hillary clinton and donald trump. here now to react is brad blakeman, former george w. bush senior staffer. brad, i have never seen anything like it. what happened? >> i think democrats were showing themselves to be protection racket for somebody who admitted bias and prejudice by list texts and emails to hits lover. david: seemed that exactly when that chaos ensued was just as gowdy and other republicans were hitting pay dirt in terms of exposing his bias. >> there is no doubt about it. i think next allegation will be by democrats in desperation, somehow republicans who planted these messages on texts and emails. this shows without question, american people are not stupid. use your common sense. this guy was the judge, jury executioner. we don't know exactly what he did. by the way we're not able to get his personal text messages.

david: we do, brent, i think you're on mark, but we do know he was instrumental in two key investigations of political candidates, both from the democrat and republican party, going into the election. he was a key member of the investigative team. in fact he was involved in starting up the russia investigation, even though he had extraordinary an antipathy against one donald trump and thought hillary clinton should win 100 million to zero. >> hated the president, by his own admission. he loathed him. very person he was charged in investigating, any other person, juror, sitting on a trial you would be excused immediately. he should have been fired immediately, if not prosecuted. david: here is why a lot of average folks out there, not necessarily folks inside of the beltway are upset by this, kin perly strassel from "wall street journal" pointed out in a tweet, on question of strzok's bias, we should believe

he didn't act on it, the question every american should ask, how would you feel if he expressed such disgust towards you and was investigating you? >> no doubt about it. he was bad to the core, felt so comfortable doing hundreds of these messages going on that tells me it permanent me eights in the fbi leadership. david: democrats don't seem to get it, brad. democrat cohen said about strzok, the following, play the tape. >> i could give you a purple heart, i would. you deserve one. this has been attack on you in a way to attack mr. mueller and the investigation, that is to get it at russia collusion involved in our election. david: brad he wants to give this guy a purple heart? do you think americans will buy that? >> i think it is disgusting. if anything this guy deserves a criminal trial. he doesn't deserve to be rewarded for clear bias and prejudice for on going investigation by government official.

david: is it going to affect elections in november, quickly? >> i think absolutely. if there isn't a conclusion to this thing, this will be an election issue no doubt. david: brad blakeman, great stuff. thank you so much. appreciate it. melissa. melissa: from the ring to the big screen. now the white house, how the speculation of a political run.

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david: i would trade the rock for 90% of congress are now. melissa: but you don't know who they are. there you go. liz: protester still gathering, about 1000 demonstrators outside of blenheim palace and ann klein where you can find theresa may and president trump at a gala reception. it's underway all day. get the latest on what's going on in england plus a new deal could be in the works and great britain. we talk about that with lauren black and the route is most explosive hearing you will ever see happen today. publicans hammering fbi official peter strzok over his bias text messages of hillary clinton. we will show you strzok's testimony and bringing in fbi