peter stzok was a prop. they brought him in to talk about his text messages, to continue with this narrative this is an untrustworthy investigation led by untrust pore the people. they weren't interested in hearing anything. he was used today and frankly they behaved more like members of the trump defense team and members of the judiciary committee who have very serious oversight responsibilities. i'm proud on my home state to be on the judiciary committee, an honor of my life and today was very sad day when you see members of the committee abandoning their responsibilities to do real oversight and take up important issues facing our country and instead devote hundreds of hours to hillary clinton's e-mails and attacking the character of the fbi and department of justice in order to protect the president. >> you've now initiated the process for releasing the closed door transcript of stzok's testimony, which as you said was already given behind closed doors. obviously, the doj would have to make redactions. d

all eyes and no shortage of heat have been focused on that hearing room and one individual, fbi peter stzok pulled from the investigation last august over e-mails he had with lisa page. he was grilled all day. and unfolding as high drama and democrats reviewing it as a come comedy at best, a farce, they say, because he has testified behind doors. joining us after what has been quite a long day. >> reporter: yeah. very contentious remarkable hearing. something we have not seen on capitol hill, outburst