discussion on mueller. >> one of the most dramatic moments was when republican congressman went after peter strozk and highlighted the fact that strozk was having an affair with lisa paige, a colleague at the fbi. >> that situation resulted in gasps from colleagues. one saying are you taking your medicine. he lashed out at strozk on a particular exchange. the entire affair with lisa paige has been one of the things that is sort of lurking underneath the entire hearing. the whole reason they have the treasure-trove of text messages is because they are texting back and forth as was explained. so there is a little pushback to what he did there. >> one line of questioning was when peter strozk started doing interviews at the outset of the russia probe. tell us why that was significant. >> part of it goes to the entire spy gate conspiracy. the issue for house republicans is that they want to try to say the fbi was doing something nefarrious before the russia investigation began in july of 2016. so he was asking him what things were happening, were there interviews in the early days of the investigation

agent peter strozk's hearing. that was chair judiciary bob goodlot giving his closing. this has been going on for nine hours. and now it is time for "all in" with me, chris hayes. >> political belief does not equate to bias and we have to go to the evidence. >> the ridiculous spectacle on capitol hill. >> are you going to make up rules as we go along? >> and why the president should be thanking peter strozk. >> but for you, we would have had a legitimate president elected. >> stormy daniels arrested and charges dismissed. >> i brought it up and nobody brought it up but me. >> creating an imaginary crisis and claiming to solve it. "all in" starts right now. >> i am chris hayes. coming from the president of the united states and his allies, supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh has a clear opinion. sustained presidential criticism of an independent counsel -- a truly energetic political campaign to destroy the credibility of an independent counsel is an efficient to obtain a hung jury and there is a real danger it will work in all. that was written by trump's nominee in 1

we had fallout from peter strozk's explosive hearing from yesterday.ew information surrounding today's closed door hearing with lisa page, catherine herridge and sarah carter will join us with full report. put it this way. rod rosenstein seems like he has explaining to do. plus we are getting reports tonight that democrats are trying to withhold key information. again, from the house intelligence committee. stay tuned. it's time for breaking news from london opening monologue. so today the president wrapped up a trip to england and held a joint press conference with the british prime minister theresa may. the president discussed america's special relationship with the united kingdom and so much more. let's take a look. >> president trump: the relationship between the two nations is indispensable to the cause of liberty, justice and peace. the united kingdom and the united states are bound together by a common historic heritage, language and heroes. the traditions of freedom, sovereignty and the true rule of law were our shared gift to the world. they a

we had fallout from peter strozk's explosive hearing from yesterday.ew information surrounding today's closed door hearing with lisa page, catherine herridge and sarah carter will join us with full report. put it this way. rod rosenstein seems like he has explaining to do. plus we are getting reports tonight that democrats are trying to withhold key information. again, from the house intelligence committee. stay tuned. it's time for breaking news from london opening monologue. so today the president wrapped up a trip to england and held a joint press conference with the british prime minister theresa may. the president discussed america's special relationship with the united kingdom and so much more. let's take a look. >> president trump: the relationship between the two nations is indispensable to the cause of liberty, justice and peace. the united kingdom and the united states are bound together by a common historic heritage, language and heroes. the traditions of freedom, sovereignty and the true rule of law were our shared gift to the world. they a

peter strozk testimony from the other day is shocking.his is where the american people deserve answers. >> tucker: i agree. but i want specific questions answered. it's one thing to say they tampered, i believe that. but be specific? what does it mean? if people are not specific, there is deceit. great to see you. lisa page returned to capitol hill for the second day of the testimony about bias at the f.b.i. we talk to a congressman there for that next. thanks to new tena intimates overnight with proskin technology for two times faster absorption so you can have worry free nights, and wake up feeling fresh and free for a free sample visit tena.us until her laptop crashed this morning. her salon was booked for weeks, having it problems? ask a business advisor how to get on demand tech support for as little as $15 a month. right now, buy one hp ink and get a second at 30% off at office depot officemax ♪ it's so hard to believe ♪ but it's all coming back me. ♪ baby, baby, baby. all you can eat is back, baby. applebee's. gathered here are the

fbi agent peter strozk who was criticized over personal messages came under intense fire from republicans's announcement, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein had a poignant message for congress. >> we follow the law and we reserve judgment. we complete our investigations and evaluate all of the relevant evidence before we reach any conclusion. >> how did you read rod rosenstein there? >> i think every time he has a chance to speak, he should double down on the fact we are trying to get justice here. i think the republicans made themselves look absolutely ridiculous at that hearing, the fact that they were having the yelling match and attacking this guy. and frankly, the fact that even though, no one was coming up with any real solutions on what to do to protect and safe guard america from threats that are being investigated, to me, i can't believe that is happening right now, i am shocked. >> and it speaks to something that you said a minute ago about what you saw in that committee, i think you saw a demonstration of a lot of the energy on the republican base being channeled. that does

. >> so when people begin to say, was there biesas, on the part o peter strozk, they are going for a whole accumulation that you made. so when the inspector general comes in and i asked him the question, and i said, look, you have said, regarding mr. strzok and ms. page, you didn't find document or evidence that they had improper considerations including political bias directing affecting. that is directly affecting. i said did they indirectly affect it. he said, yeah. why? because he said you were the lead investigator, the lead investigator of the hillary clinton. you were the liaison if you were. the flow of information from the investigative team. i sketched kind of a diagram of how this works as you were describing it earlier today. you were the gate keeper of information. lisa page was providing counsel to andrew mccabe. on the russian investigation, you were the head guy. now we have accumulation of bias information that indicates some kind of mental state of bias and we got it that you are the head guy on this. that is what the inspector general said under oath in testimony n

the same people that front and center with peter strozk. the testimony came one day after peter strozk's marathon, contentious ten-hour hearing. earlier in week page failed to appear in defiance of a subpoena that triggered republican threats to holder in in contempt. so they worked out a deal and she showed up today. multiple republicans told us about page and her testimony. saying she was this -- more forthcoming than strozk. a lawyer was in the room and they tell us page brought new information to the committee. topics included her text and new information about the russian probe. she also made it clear kind of a democrat. didn't really like republicans. it's not a crime. the lawmaker says that page talked about the conversations with strozk not in the text. she is viewed by many, almost everyone in room as credible. she gave new information that the committee did not have. and they will probably reconvene in the afternoon on monday. that is probably is it. meanwhile with the music coming up. there is only one thing i can do. tease out.

and, you know, it is -- peter strozk is probably not the ideal exemplar of the fbi at this point. he did a remarkable job standing up for the values and ideas and behavior of the bureau yesterday. all in defense of this investigation. today, we actually see what this investigation is really about which, you know, we knew except that there's been an ongoing effort to distract us from that and prevent us from talking about that. ironically by calling this a witch hunt. in addition -- and what that is about is russian intervention in american politics by criminal means. in addition, the fact that it takes place two days or a few days before the president is to meet with vladimir putin, i think the fact that that didn't dissuade the justice department and the special counsel from moving forward on the time schedule that they thought appropriate is a real show of strength on their part. i thought it was interesting that rod rosenstein said today that he had briefed the president on it which -- and that he did that so that when the president goes and talks to vladimir putin he knows the

all of these efforts with lisa page and peter strozk are trying to show bias, and what mueller comes out with is wrong, and people that listen to the four legged animal station, will listen to it and won't believe it. the president knows there's bad news coming down the line with the russia investigation with his involvement, his family's involvement and his campaign's involvement that he's sowing seeds not to be listened to. >>> the president does something he isn't known for doing today, apologizing after he trashed theresa may's handling of brexit. so why is the president changing his tune? >>> the president meeting queen elizabeth with all the pomp and circumstance. find out what happened inside. that's next. yes. it's a targeted medicine proven to help prevent severe asthma attacks, and lower oral steroid use. about 50% of people with severe asthma have too many cells called eosinophils in their lungs. fasenra™ is designed to work with the body to target and remove eosinophils. fasenra™ is an add-on injection for people 12 and up with severe eosinophilic asthma. don't use fasenr

>> and why the president should be thanking peter strozk. >> but for you, we would have had a legitimate president elected. >> stormy daniels arrested and charges dismissed. >> i brought it up and nobody brought it up but me. >> creating an imaginary crisis and claiming to solve it. "all in" starts right now. >> i am chris hayes.

. >> you are talking about peter strozk one of two who were secret lovers, one text message said we will stop it. strozk was dismissed from the mueller investigation as all of that came out. the fbi agent has testified before congress today but this morning was the first time we saw him in open door testimony. this was a very partisan hearing. republicans accusing him of unprofessionalism, democrats largely defending him. here is what strozk had to say about his own behavior. >> personally what i believe in what i did i understand why people may or may not have doubts or believe that but then i would say look at the entirety of the rest of the organization of the men and women who make it up, of all the things in place to ensure that our jobs in the fbi is to independently pursue the facts wherever they are and i cannot stress to you enough that is exactly what is done day in and day out and that is exactly what has guided my behavior for over 26 years. >> president trump demanded an investigation into strozk and fbi agent lisa paige which was carried out by the justice department which

that hearing where peter strozk was made to look like the kingpin in a grand conspiracy to investigate this president. >> i don't want to use the word mccarthyism loosely. but history is going to treat that hearing very unkindly. it is going to be in the same category of embarrassing moments in congressional history. at the top will always be mr. mccarthy and what happened there. this will be in the top five of embarrassing moments. this is a public servant, not a political actor. the way he was treated, the conspiratorial nature, and as bad as it looked yesterday, given these serious indictments -- and do you know how much work goes into identifying 12 by name russian operatives that did this? it looks even worse after seeing these indictments. does anybody on that republican side of the house judiciary committee and the house oversight committee care one iota about what the russians did? it doesn't look that way, the way they asked the questions yesterday. >> chuck todd, moderator of "meet the press." i don't know if you can stick around. if you come back later, we'd love to have you

but we're supposed to believe that agent peter strozk, a former army officer who has served the fbi with distinction, yes, made some mistakes, is the gravest threat to our democracy. how dare you lecture us about villains when your party continues to turn a blind eye to that parade of degenerates that i just listed. this investigation is a joke. it's a fraud. this hearing is a kangaroo court. it is a three-ring circus. it is not even mertorious of an investigation by ace ventura pet detective let alone 75 members of the united states congress. let's stop wasting taxpayer dollars and get back to the business of the american people. >> the gentleman from georgia is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> gentle lady from north carolina is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i would like to yield my time to you. >> thank you. agent strozk, on march 14, 2017 we were a couple of months into the presidency, see if you can recall this text that you received. two pages away from finishing atpm. do you know the president resigns in the end? what is atpm. >> i believe all the presidents men

wasow know the peter strozk one of them. who else was in the room? mr. rosenstein: i have no personal knowledge. anyressman: do you have way of finding out? mr. rosenstein: i was not there and don't have personal involvement. i wouldn't know any more than what is in a report t. i recognize mr. king that your time is limited but it want to assure you that we do think it is important for the american people to know there's any wrongdoing that occurred. it is difficult for us to respond publicly and articulate publicly but we are working very strongly with the chairman of the committee and i respect what he is trying to do in a think he understands that i'm trying to do the right thing. the director and i have worked with him and provided classified briefings and are working to get him all the information we can. i believe he knows as much as i know about these questions that he is trying to answer. and if there is anything else he thatves that we don't know should be known by him, we are going to look for it. so director wray and i are not trying to concea