liz: watch this text message with peter strzok. again, he initially was on the mueller probe, and the clinton e-mail probe as well he worked on it here is peter strzok in may of 2017 writing to lisa page again on whether or not he should join the mueller probe. for me and this case i personal ly have a sense of unfinished business. i unleashed it with the clinton probe called the mid-year exam and now i need to fix it and finish it. who gets about being assistant director versus an investigation leading to impeachment, mark and that's what peter strzok was texting. so how could the ig say there's no bias that didn't affect the investigation? >> well he was referring to the russia probe which is only beginning to scratch the surface that's a separate report, but you're absolutely right. the bias was rampant and they are up to their necks in it and peter strzok is going to come out on the losing end of that i think. this is the same person who talked about the insurance policy, and making sure that they took action to keep president

today the lawyer for peter strzok implied his client was the victim of political targeting. he read his client's own texts? i do have advice for strzok and his attorney tonight. the same advice i offer comey before he released history dick louse self-serving book and went on the book tour. you do, peter strzok, have the right to remain silent. i'm suggesting you use it. earlier inspector general michael horowitz was back on the hill this time in front of the house judiciary and oversight committees, he was absolutely grilled over his findings and surrounding the destructive level of bias among the highest levels in the fbi. take a look from hos oversight commissioner trey gowdy back on his game. >> i want to go back to the no, no, he's not going to be president, we'll stop it. what do you think the "it" is in that phrase "we'll stop it." >> i think it's clear from the kong text we're going to stop him from becoming president. >> that's what i thought, too. i wonder who the "we" is. >> that's probably subject to multiple interpretations. >> let's go through a couple of them.

agent peter strzok.e a lot of these situations based on my experience covering this topic for about 17 years now, it's often the questions that are not answered that can be the most important and what i've heard from lawmakers privately is that there were a number of questions about the russia investigation and peter strzok's contacts with individuals during that period that he declined to comment on on the advice of an f.b.i. lawyer. so that is what i'll be looking out for today, bill. >> bill: if that's the case, catherine, if his lawyer forbids him to answer so many questions yesterday, what's the chance christopher wray the head of the f.b.i. does something similar today? is that likely? >> well, i guess what i would give it to you in this context, lawmakers said to me yesterday is that the refusal to answer these questions was not really based on a classified or national security issue. this is an open unclassified setting and we heard from republican mark meadows yesterday that he felt that in this

>> it's not limited to he peter strzok.on't know that the fbi could have chosen anyone worse to lead the trump russia investigation. had they picked hillary clinton to lead thatnvestigation, i don't know that the level of bias or prejudice against donald trump would have been any higher. the i.g. report tells us that it's peter strzok and lisa page, but it's also teams of agents and lawyers that are identified in this i.g. report, five of whom have been referred to the office of professional responsibility for their anticipate trump texts and -- anti-trump tex texts. on every page of this report you find some evidence of political bias against donald trump and that really calls into question the work that was done here with respect to the two highest profile investigations in recent times, both the hillary clinton e-mail investigation, and the trump russia investigation that became the special council matter. >> maria: if anybody has given us a window into how the rank and file or some of the leadership certainly felt about

peter strzok still works at the fbi. man who promised to stop a presidential candidate from getting elected is still collecting a salary at our most powerful law enforcement agency. if you are looking for evidence of political bias, there you have it. and if you don't believe it, imagine this headline, for example, say 10 years ago, barack obama simply cannot become president, we will stop him, wrote fbi agent peter strzok who still works at the bureau. can you imagine? no, you would be fired immediately, first amendment be damned. and by the way strzok and page were not alone. they are not even the standout cases in this report. the document quotes another fbi attorney, wondering, quote: what i could have done differently to stop donald trump's election as president. that same official later describes himself as part of the anti-trump resistance. for some reason the doj is hiding that lawyer's name from the public. weave do know he served on the mueller team until february of this year. of course he did. and there's a l

and what will bob do with peter strzok?e comes the rain. [ horn honking ] [ engine revving ] what's that, girl? [ engine revving ] flo needs help?! [ engine revving ] take me to her! ♪ coming, flo! why aren't we taking roads?! flo. [ horn honking ] -oh. you made it. do you have change for a dollar? -this was the emergency? [ engine revving ] yes, i was busy! -24-hour roadside assistance. from america's number-one motorcycle insurer. -you know, i think you're my best friend. you don't have to say i'm your best friend. that's okay. >> ♪ >> sean: dr. sebastian gorka, i didn't mean to talk so long in my opening monologue. but i really did. >> really? the singapore crew? >> sean: i know you traveled 24 hours in the air for our audience. i love you. >> the hypocrisy. can we have some honesty about the immigration issue. suddenly the left peter fonda included care about minorities and care about children? what about the 60 million children that died in the womb? what about the money they sp on planned parenthood? 19 million africa

and what will bob do with peter strzok? >> ♪ monologue..ebastian gorka, i but i really did. >> really? the singapore crew? >> sean: i know you traveled 24 hours in the air for our audience. i love you. >> the hypocrisy. can we have some honesty about the immigration issue. suddenly the left peter fonda included care about minorities and care about children? what about the 60 million children that died in the womb? what about the money they spend on planned parenthood? 19 million african-americans killed in the womb. that's how they care about minorities. let's forget about pregnant women. when did we hear the left talk about the 15-year-old beautiful girls murdered in long island by gang members born abroad. i didn't hear them protest about needing to protect american children from gang members. the hypocrisy tells you one thing, sean. they are desperate. they have no message for november. the economy -- the rally was incredible. the economy and north korea and raising the pay of our military. they are cess brat. -- desperate. >> sean: i do

>> peter strzok, you name it. the highest leof bias i've ever witnessed in any law enforcement officer. and james comey, has a mclean to do. he's having a hard time getting his stories to match. horowitz wvery critical of him and deservedly so. >>chris: finally, where our house republicans in your demand, your call for the department of justice to share more documents. especially on this question of the use by the fbi of a confidential informant to penetrate the trump campaign. and also, do you believe that some of your colleagues that deputyod rosenstein threatened the house and staffers for demanding those documents. >> i wasn't in the room for that january meeting. i've been in the room for other meetings where tensions ran high. we had a meeting friday night. yet members of the house working on a friday night. paul ryan led this meeting. devin nunes, bob goodlatte, myself and everyone you can think of from the fti and doj. we went item by item on both of those outstanding subpoenas. we either have compliance,

that was peter strzok. fbi peter strzok was picked to lead the fbi's investigation into what russia did in july of 2016. it was a counterintelligence investigation begun in late july, 2016, and he was leading it and about the exact same time he was picked to lead it this dispassionate and fair fbi agent was calling trump a disaster, destabilizing for the country. i'll leave out all of the "f" adjectives he used. i'll go with disaster and destabilized. same time, his fbi lawyer or girlfriend lisa page was telling him he was meant to protect the country. this neutral dispassionate fbi agent said i can protect the country on my levels. -- at many levels. at the same time, peter struck was picked to neutrally look into the russia investigation and he was talking about an insurance policy with andy mccabe and lisa page in the event donald trump became the president. all of this came at the same time that strzok said he could smell the trump support in southern virginia. all of this was at the same time that this

that was peter strzok. fbi agent peter strzok was picked to lead the fbi's investigation into what russia did in july of 2016. it was a counter intelligence investigation begun in late july 2016 and he was leading it. and about the exact same time he was picked to lead it, this dispassionate and fair fbi agent was calling trump a disaster, destabilizing for the country. i'll leave out all of the f adjectives he used to describe that. i'll just go with disaster and destabilizing. same time his fbi lawyer girlfriend lisa page was telling hem he was meant to protect the country. this neutral dispassionate fbi agent said, i can protect the country at many levels, same time peter strzok who was picked to objectively, fairly, neutrally look into the russia investigation was talking about an insurance policy with andy mccabe and lisa page in the event trump became the president. all of this was happening at the same time peter strzok said he could smell the trump support in southern virginia. all this was at the s

and now antitrump fbi agent peter strzok says he's ready to testify too.ff jenkins live in washington, d.c. as lawmakers demand more documents on the probe, good morning, griff. griff: good morning, heather, we have not heard the left, horowitz heading to senate judiciary committee this afternoon as president trump applies pressure on the fbi agent that claims he would stop him from taking office. the president tweeting, the highest level of bias from any law enforcement. they all worked for slippery james comey and comey is best friend with robert mueller. peter strzok is willing to appear but not done deal. attorney goldman issuing this statement. peter strzok thinks his posi, character and actions have all been misrepresented and he wants an opportunity to remedy that but house judiciary chairman says if he's not willing to appear, he's prepared to subpoena peter strzok. nunes says he's losing patience with doj over losing documents. >> they'll be hell to pay by wednesday morning. if they don't have good reasons why they haven't provided information, th

and peter strzok says no, he won't, we will stop it.trzok says reportedly that he's ready to testify, that's fascinating, what would you expect to hear from him? >> members of copying have been trying to get at him for months and months. i think he knows at this point that there are have been a lot of determinations and e -- illumination as to what he was saying behind the scenes. it's not just one text, there aretrings of texts out there. this person in charge of counterintelligence and texting these types of things. jillian: how is hexpecting to defend himself in. >> it'll be interesting to see if he follows up on that. congress will want to bring him in for classified briefing but also to bring him out before the united states of america and have this public hearing, but he's not the only one, there are other names out there that were in the inspector general report and the other thing that will come out today a senator will ask him to unmask the names of the fbi agents and attorneys that are in the report but we don't know who they

not peter strzok. secondly, congressman, i know you are looking at this and saying that peter strzok is a bad guy and this means that the mueller investigation shouldn't go forward, but let's pull it back here. hillary clinton benefited from all of this. not -- i mean was hurt from all this. donald trump benefited from all of this. hillary clinton was the won who lost the election. if peter strzok wanted to stop donald trump, they didn't do anything to stop donald trump from winning the election? >> we got to unpack a lot of things in there. first, katy, peter strzok said down play the wiener thing -- laptop. wait on that. let's focus on russia. so his motive was russia, not looking at -- keeping the clinton information, don't worry about that, not a big deal. that was the attitude, that was the motive he had. why? because had he this animus to president trump. return when we learned yesterday in this report, "we'll stop trump." when was that text message? august 8. remember what happened july 31st. pe

of deputy peter strzok was free from bias if light of text messages. health health could the multimillion dollar probe be in jeopardy of being shut down. gop to hammer out immigration deal. what would it finally take to get democrats on board? new low for the left, a tweet instructing how to murder ice agents. how the group is now trying to pass it as joke? first -- "fox & "fox & friends " starts right now. ♪ ♪ heather: midway through the week. halfway there, i'm heather childers, thank you so much for joining us. second day in brand-new studio. well, the inspector general dropping a bombshell revelation before the house. let's begin there with lead story. he's investigating agent peter strzok antitrump text messages and whether they influenced the russia probe. this as we leash that strzok had to be escorted out of fbi headquarters. doug is live in washington, d.c. with the latest. good morning, doug. >> strzok was reportedly escorted out of fbi building yesterday although it sounds like he still has a job. that aspect of it isn't quite clear at this

the text message trump's not ever going to become president, right. >> that was lisa page to peter strzok and strzok replied, no, you're right, we will stop it. reaction to that? >> patently absurd on its face, liz. that is partly why peter strzok was reassigned and taken away from the probe. as to representative gowdy's comments, he's right for different reasons. the reason they didn't have subpoenas and search warrants is didn't deem secretary clinton's activities to be warranting them. they did deem president trump's activities to be warranting them. liz: that could be bias too in and of itself, al, we don't need to do a subpoena or grand jury because of our personal feelings about the matter. seems to be a lot of bias going around there. >> could be, liz, but the i.g. concluded despite the personal biases, the ultimate conclusions were not bias. liz: we're going to stick around. more on this. the fbi press conference coming up momentarily about the inspector general report. fbi will respond to it at the bottom of the hour. the newly released texts between strzok and page, what did str

but bias that peter strzok might have had. from the president, the first time he has responded. it says fbi agent peter strzok, who headed the clinton and russia investigations, texted to his lover lisa page, in the ig report, that we'll stop candidate trump from becoming president. doesn't get any lower than that. >> i agree with the president. that statement is 100% true. for someone in the fbi to be exchanges these messages, it is disgusting and it's disgraceful. i'm waiting for the next message. if that somehow connects this clinton ig investigation to bob mueller and russia, then i think we have a problem. >> jim, do you think there is no connection there? >> no. i think we need to be careful too. we've got the results of two ig reports. there's a third one coming. that may be another instance where we may be able to glean what type, if any, of the junior level, senior executives were influenced in any investigations. look, it's troubling. i agree with josh. 36,000 employees in the fbi are diligent, dutiful, patriots. but

he was talking about peter strzok's future as well yesterday. >> it's way past time for peter strzokareer and restore some credibility to the f.b.i. that most of us love and admire and certainly lady justice has to be someone who wears a blindfold and with peter strzok it was obvious with his text messages that was not the case. >> bill: when he talked about these reports from witnesses that were either edited or changed, with regard to the russia matter and the hillary clinton investigation, that's -- if true, that's another bombshell. >> it is. and those are called 302s. if there were adjusted the i.g. suggested that yesterday in some questioning, this is opening up another can of worms as far as how this f.b.i. investigation was happening. mark meadows referred to that. i think you are going to see peter strzok possibly testify and that could come in very few days. adam schiff suggesti he would like to see peter strzok up there testifying. others have said that. that could be very illuminating about the inside workings of how this investigation happened. remember the i.g., bill, d

the newly discovered texts, again is, between peter strzok and lisa page. and it was sent in august. august 8th of 2016. and it reads: page stated trump, not ever going to become president, right? right? and then strzok responded no, no he's not. we'll stop it. the inspector general found that that specific text spoke to a mind set of political bias. and it let the inspector general to conclude that in october, when the fbi seems to be dragging its feet over these newly discovered emails on the abedin and weiner laptop that struck strzok was the one who was dragging his feet and they concluded that political bias was an issue in this particular case, dana. >> dana: catherine, that particular text exchange, is there something in this report that says that it was not in aboriginal bac batch that was september to congress that inspector general finds it later which would make you wonder how did this particular text message get, you know, go missing and was there any underhanded activity there to delete it? >> right. i want to be careful because i want to be res

but that was peter strzok.has arrived and will be sitting down behind closed doors with members of congress shortly to answer some questions there. he has agreed to do so voluntarily. before i move on an the idea of immigration, senator, do you have anything to add there as we saw peter strzok arrive there? >> no. i have think the decision by the u.s. supreme court is correct and upheld the rule of law and the importance of national security. i regret that the dissent just talked about president trump. the majority opinion as it should talked about the presidency. >> sandra: meanwhile, house leaders are expected to vote on this compromised immigration bill this morning, or today, i should say. what are you hearing about the likelihood of that passing, senator? >> oh, all across the spectrum. i don't think democrats will vote for anything if they perceive it as a victory for president trump. i regret that but i think that's the political reality. frankly i won't support any immigration legislation until we first

that was peter strzok. fbi peter strzok was picked to lead the fbi's investigation into what russia did in july of 2016. it was a counterintelligence investigation that begun in late july, 2016, and he was leading it. and at about the exact same time he was picked to lead it, this dispassionate and fair fbi agent was calling trump a disaster, destabilizing for the country, i'll leave out all the "f" adjectives he used to describe that. i'll just go with disaster and destabilizing. same time his fbi lawyer, girlfriend lisa page was telling him he was meant to protect the country. this neutral, dispassionate fbi agent said i can protect the country at many levels. same time peter strzok who was picked to objectively, fairly, neutrally look into the russia investigation was talking about an insurance policy with andy mccabe and lisa page in the event donald trump became the president. all of this was happening at the same time peter strzok said he could smell the trump support in southern virginia. all of this

why is peter strzok still there in light of what we learned from the ig's report? think that's an important question for mr. wray and mr. rosenstein when they come in front of congress. i don't know jon all right that was congressman jim jordan. so he says that, you know, peter strzok's job in his view ought to be pretty tenuous at the fbi, what do you think? >> no question about it. i agree with jim wholeheartedly. peter strzok in the evidence in the inspect general's report was main offender and in charge of both of these investigations. he slow-walked the clinton investigation after the weinel laptop was discovered and all the rest and overemphasized really the ataxer i think, that was involved with president trump and the russia investigation. he had a clear bias, he said it in his own words, we would really like to question him as well. i think there's no question about it that he needs to be removed from the fbi because, again, it goes to the people's faith in our very system. jon: he says -- he promised in one of the texts, he vowed that he will stop trump f

we have breaking news about peter strzok.upt pro-hillary a and anti-trump official and helped exonerate hillary clinton of all of the felonies she committed. today he was grilled but only behind closed doors by 2 committees on capitol hill. according to sarah sanders one representative said it was strzok. he is full of it and kept hiding behind the classified information excuse. fortunately we do have one hope. development. the house judiciary tweeted peter strzok will be interviewed first in a closed door deposition with classified information to sort through before a public hearing is held. a public hearing will be held. this public hearing is crucial. you the american people deserve to know how biassed at the highest levels of the fbi tainted the hillary clinton so-called investigation. it's irrefutable. she committed crimes. the same people involved in literally putting the fix in for her were the beginnings of the witch hunt into the collusion and the mueller investigate. peter strzok and lisa page and 3 other fbi invest

this is eight days after peter strzok opened the russian investigation. this will stop it tex message happens on august 8th. and then the insurance policy and then potus wants to know everything we are doing. and look at it in context, this is scary stuff. and important to get peter strzok in for deposition and rod rosenstein and christopher wray under oath. that is why it is important. >> lou: here's why i think we have a problem. we can't rely on congress for investigation. it was demonstrated in benghazi and inspector general, it is moronic and deceitful what he does. you choose. this does not purport to a causal relationship. as you say in the report. misconduct of five f.b.i. agents and the inspection of personal politics, they're using devices and personal telephones in the clear, insecure phones to carry out classified top secret business. they were doing dpaktly what their so- called midyear investigation. they didn't have the guts of what it muches. the hillary clinton email investigation. they didn't drop that and used subterfuge midyear. it is

attorney lisa page and boyfriend peter strzok who was the lead investigator in the clinton case. trump is not going to become president, right. >> strzok replies. no, no, he's not, we'll stop it. and lisa page calls trump an enormous explectative. he's an idiot and menace and loathsome human being. all of this is from the lead investigator and lead f.b.i. attorney. the bias didn't stop from them. and another high racking agent. all trump supporters are poor to middle class anda lazy and think he will magically grant them jobs for doing nothing. and one agent who intrude hillary clinton called her the president in a message to a colleague and said trump can't win. and after comey announced he would reopen the clinton investigation. another unnamed f.b.i. attorney. i am clinging to a small pocket of happiness in a republican destruction. the same f.b.i. attorney red. i am numbb. and a fellow employee responded i can't stop crying and ig report. agents involved in the clinton foundation instructed to take no over investigative steps prior to the election. would you get that treatment

peter strzok responds, no, no he won't, we will stop it.al said he did not find documentary evidence that political bias affected any decision-making, he concluded that because of his views peter strzok may have improperly prioritize russia investigation over the clinton probe during final weeks of the campaign. we are back with dan henninger, kim strassel and bill mcgurn. so dan u it's an extraordinary e-mail, what was going through peter strzok's mine, he's a law enforcement officer who is supposed to be disinterested? >> right. he was not disinterested and that's the problem. not only peter strzok and lisa page but they identified at least two other fbi agents, fbi agent 1 and 5 and fbi attorney number one and two who were exchanging similar highly-political emails or texts and what happened here is that these agents, these people at the fbi went into a simple panic, political panic at the idea that both donald trump could become president, they were doing this before the election and then, indeed, after the election. they completely los

moments ago the house judiciary committee announced it will subpoena peter strzok. the fbi agent removed from the russian probe after the discovery of those anti-trumpet texts that he exchanged with fbi lawyer lisa page who was also his lover. if strzok were to testify, something's attorney indicates he's willing to do, it couldn't impact that by his probe and congressman joins us now. thank you for your time tonight. what do you think of this news? he's officially been subpoenaed to testify. >> i knew he was going to appear one way or another. we invited him to appear voluntarily or be subpoenaed. he originally said he would, and now he's been subpoenaed. he's a central witness in volta hillary clinton email investigation and of the trump-russia collusion case that became the special counsel matter. it's important that we have him appear and explain these text messages as well as his actions taken in both of these matters. so i'm excited about the fact that he will eventually appear and either answer questions, or assert his fifth amendment rights. either way it wi

do i have the right peter strzok?ing. >> is it the same peter strzok put on the mueller special counsel team? >> yes. >> bill: same peter strzok. this is not the only time he managed to find the text feature on his phone, either. this is the same peter strzok who said trump is an idiot, hillary should win 100 million to 0. mr. inspector general, that one is interesting to me because he is supposed to be investigating her for violations of the -- for violations of the espionage act and can't think of a single american who wouldn't vote for her for president. can you see our skepticism? the senior f.b.i. agent not only had her running. he had her winning 100 million to 0. what if they had found evidence sufficient to indict her? what if they had indicted her? is this -- he wasn't part of the interview of secretary clinton, was he? >> he was present for the interview. >> huh. so four months before that interview where he was present, he has got her running and winning 100 million to 0. the same peter strzok who wrote the

reside in peter strzok peter strzok, lisa page. this is fruit of the poisonous tree. is something that rudy giuliani said that's very important here. beginning of a special counsel investigation, the investigation into trump was tainted. in all cases, should probably end right now. >> sean: let's go to gregg jarrett. i think that's a legal point. considering the circumstances, they exonerate hillary, they gave her the cadillac treatment, donald trump comes in, and it's bringing down doors and subpoenas and everything they didn't dos for hillary. >> james comey is at the forefront. his reputation as the day is absolutely in tatters. his integrity has been treaded. the ig found that he not only mishandled the hillary clinton case, he broke rules, violate the policy, exceeded authority, usurped the power of the attorney general, and he was engaging in rank insubordinatio insubordination. the ig says in the media, the liberal media has been seizing on this, well, we can't prove that his political bias influenced his decision through testimony or documents. of course you c

that was peter strzok. fbi agenter peter strzok was picked to lead the fbi's investigation into what russia did in july of 2016. it was a counterintelligence investigation begun in late july 2016 and he was leading it and about the exact same time he was picked to lead it, this dispassionate and fair fbi agent was calling trump a disaster, destabilizing for the country, i'll leave out all of the f adjectives he used to describe that. i'll go with disaster and destabilizing. same time his fbi lawyer girlfriend lisa page was telling him he was meant to protect the country, this neutral dispassionate fbi agent said i can protect the country at many levels. same time peter strzok who was picked to objectively, fairly, neutrally look into the russia investigation was talking about an insurance policy with andy mccabe and lisa page in the event donald trump became the president. all of this was happening at the same time peter strzok said he could smell the trump support in southern virginia. all of this was at t

peter strzok >> sean: here with reaction, peter strzok testifying, and his testimony earlier today, ohiosman jim jordan was there, sara carter is a report, author of -- you see that book --dash out in early july, "the russian hoax." please order your copies. a great book. i've actually had the honor of reading it. gregg jarrett. jim, you are in the room. i would love to know what you can't hellos. >> not much because we got to wait for the transcript to be released. i will say this, many times, he took the answer on advice of fbi counsel, i can't answer that. i heard that way too many times until i plan on bringing that up tomorrow with mr. rosenstein -- >> sean: 100? >> i don't know if it was that many but certainly a number of the keyey questions, that is the response he gave. its ongoingnv investigation, on advice savannah don mike fbi counsel, i can't answer that. of mr. rosenstein wants to be transparent, you should have had one of his employees answer all return questions when we had the deposition.oy >> sean: i love you or fight. we need to see these hearings. >>>> here's the othe

in those texts peter strzok, the attorney general report found that peter strzok prioritized russian investigation over the clinton email investigation. he diverted resources from that, possibly putting more intensity into that russian investigation. that speaks to the bias that the attorney general or, that the inspector general found in this report within the fbi. is highly critical. lawmakers are reacting to this. we're getting more nuggets as we speak, ashley. ashley: continue the scanning of those 500 pages, edward, thank you very much. joining me to talk more about this, american majority ceo ned ryan and democrat strategist kevin walling. thank you both for being here. ned, let me go to you first. your initial thoughts what we heard of this 500 pages of? >> first of all, haven't been able to read it. it justifies trump's firing of comey. what we're seeing is wildly incompetent and i will say biased. i think there was some bias and preferential treatment. you and i were, we were talking before the hit, if you and i had done one thing that hillary clinton and huma abedin had don

that's the reason bob mueller removed peter strzok from that investigation. it's poor judgment and shouldn't happen so i get the concern about it. >> jessica, this report says comey should not have given the july, 2016 press conference in which he announced they would not prosecute hillary clinton. >> that's right. in fact, the ig calling that decision to call that press conference extraordinary and insubordinate. comey said he cut attorney general loretta lynch out of the process in part because of her tarmac meeting with former president bill clinton but the ig concluding that none of his reasons justified withholding his decisions from the attorney general and other top justice department officials so this is directly from the ig report that says while we did not find these decisions were the result of political bias we concluded that by departing so clearly and dramatically from fbi department norms the decisions negatively impacted the perception of the fbi and the department as fair administrators of justice. the ig even continued on to criticize more s

peter strzok said the vote should be 100 million to zero.t think of a single solitary american that should vote for donald trump to be president. he said he will stop it as a candidate. he talked about impeachment once he won. strzok, you come before congress, you come before the american public and prove to us that your manifest animus towards donald trump did not affect your decisions. >> sean: oh, we'll stop him. and if he wins we have an insurance policy and also, let's see, i'll impeach him. that was house oversight committee chairman trey gowdy reacting to the release of the doj ig report here now with details wow this really brings in some light to judge jeanine pirro's new book liars, leakers and liberals. the case against anti-trump conspiracy. look at this title russian hoax the elaborate scheme to clear donalto. gregg jarrett and fox news contributor sara carter. you have been with us from the beginning. i am blown away at how much hatred, animus, bias, and frankly abuse of power we're seeing here. >> it's incredible. >> hate for

peter strzok wrote we will stop. we will stop candidate trump. there we have it. she writes trump is not ever going to become president, right? right? peter says no, he won't. the president says it doesn't get any lower than that. do you agree with the president that an fbi agent working in these capacities saying these things is at the least problematic? >> oh, absolutely. and those exchanges are disgusting to read. americans are allowed to have political opinions, but we expect the fbi to hold itself to a higher standard. now, of course there's no evidence this influenced the investigation and bob mueller removed mr. strzok from his team immediately but i don't like that one bit, poppy. >> and you know that in the i.g.'s report, the i.g. does assert at the end of the day after a year of investigating this that they cannot say conclusively that the steps that were taken by peter strzok were free from bias. saying we did not have confidence that strzok's decision to prioritize the russia investigation over following up on what was called the midyear investigation,

that was peter strzok. fbi peter strzok was picked to lead the fbi's investigation into what russia did in july of 2016. it was a counterintelligence investigation begun in late july, 2016, and he was leading it and about the exact same time he was picked to lead it this dispassionate and fair fbi agent was calling trump a disaster, destabilizing for the country. i'll leave out all of the "f" adjectives he used. i'll go with disaster and destabilized. same time, his fbi lawyer or girlfriend lisa page was telling him he was meant to protect the country. this neutral dispassionate fbi agent said i can protect the country on my levels. -- at many levels. at the same time, peter struck was picked to neutrally look into the russia investigation and he was talking about an insurance policy with andy mccabe and lisa page in the event donald trump became the president. all of this came at the same time that strzok said he could smell the trump support in southern virginia. all of this was at the same time that this

let's start with this extraordinary exchange, josh, between they were lovers and fbi colleagues, peter strzok and lisa page in august, 2016, this is after the hillary clinton investigation ended. page writes "trump's not ever going to become president, right?" and strzok replies "no, he's not. we'll stop it." the inspector general writes it's not only indicative of a biased state of mind but applies a willingness to take official action to impact the presidential candidates electoral prospects. this is antithetical to the core values of the fbi and the justice department of justice. >> this is a damning report. no question. it was done thoroughly by an independent body whose job is to police those who have these powers. that said -- and i'm the first to admit that lisa page and peter strzok i think have caused more damage to the fbi's

august 8, 2016, high-ranking fbi attorney lisa page and her colleague, boyfriend peter strzok who was the lead investigator in the clinton case. lisa page writes "trump is not ever going to become president, right?" strzok replies no, no, he's not. we will stop it. then page calls trump and exite exited. idiot, menace, loathsome human being. this is from the lead investigator and the lead fbi attorney. the bias didn't stop with them. the message from yet another high-ranking agent on the case. trump supporters are poor to middle-class, uneducated, lazy pos think he will magically grant them jobs for doing nothing. one agent interviewed hillary clinton called her the president. in a message to a colleague, said "trump can't win." october 28, 2016, shortly after comey announced he would be reopening the clinton investigation, another unnamed fbi attorney sent an instant message to a fellow fbi employee and that read "i am clinging to small pockets of happiness in the dark times of the republic's destruction." following trump's election victory, that same fbi attorney sent an instant mes

peter strzok is still working at the fbi. of the text messages released today page says trump's not ever going to become president, right? right? strzok, no, he won't. we'll stop him. >> it's completely inappropriate, dumb, should not have occurred. i'm presuming that the fbi director is going to address that in a few minutes and maybe he'll start the beginning of an ethics investigation into mr. strzok who still is employed at the fbi. what these texts do for better or worse is cast a cloud over the entire fbi and that's tough. this hasn't been a great day for them although they were exonerated on the fact that there was no political conspiracy there, the head of the fbi at the time comey was roundly criticized for being insubordinate for essentially being arrogant in the way he behaved and while the conclusions about not prosecute ing hillary clinton were not challenged it seems to me the fbi does have a lot of questions that they need to answer and that's why we're seeing the current head of the fbi out there tonight. >> p

>> then on page 148 of your report you mentioned the critical roles of page and peter strzok most ofthe decisions made by the fbi. lisa page duty she was deputy director supervising legally and i get the impression even some strategic information with advice on counsel and as you said peter strzok led the investigation and acting in some, ways a chart of order the liaison between the other analyst and the decision-makers that he is always there in the decision-making body giving input. that is what i want to talk about today. t we have been talking about bias a lot everybody walks in with bias and to set it aside but with this particular thing, the output and the way you phrased and you have been very careful as you answered today the bias of these people diday not directly affect the outcome. to suggest that inputs affect outcomes so when you have this very notion of these people for all we know they are filtering information we don't know what is going on in the decision-making process you cannot re-create that but there are certain outputs and thosere .2 hillary clinton will not b

also fbi director james comey, fbi officials peter strzok and lisa page used personal e-mail account r hillary clinton for doing the same thing. >>> and you will not believe what peter