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She knows tonight. >> throughout the day on capitol hill we have been getting impromptu briefings from lawmakers and agent stzroks -- is a veteran bias infected the fbi investigation. >> i would expect any witness to suggest they looked at this impartially i dont know how you read the text, how any reasonable person reads the text and suggest there was no bias. >> reporter: he arrived on capitol hill much earlier today. he did not take foxs questions are questions for many other reporter. based ...

>> reporter: agent stzrok would not take foxs questions or questions for many of the reporter. based on what we heard from lawmakers they are focused on anti-trump her text messages, the exchange with lisa page, especially one from august 2016 where they talk about stopping trump. democrats say these were intimate personal messages and at the end of the day agent stzrok was not the sole decision-maker. >> 20 people on the team and display political bias. >> fbi director christopher ray and rod r...

Impacting the presidential campaign. they point to an august 2016 text between peter strzok and lisa page saying that they would stop trump from being elected. >> i wonder who the "we" is and we will stop it. >> a broader group beyond that? we have found three additional fbi agents. >> some transition to the russia special causal investigation. >> do they still work for mueller? >> my understanding is no. >> agent strzok pivoted from the clinton emails to collusion. >> do you believe the politic...

Tell everything, peter struc putting no restrictions on any testimony to lawmakers after the head of the house judiciary committee reportedly began the process to subpoena the agent. >> i think is he eager to tell the truth. and, you know, hopefully it will be an open session in congress. >> struck wlor was part of e fbis investigation into hillary clintons e-mail server was also involved in a now infamous text message exchange from august 2016 recently revealed in an inspector general report. a...

Know why fbi agent peter strzok still has a job at the bureau. >> reporter: thats right, jon. republicans want to know exactly what fbi agent peter strzok meant when he said, quote, well stop it, referring to trump winning the 2016 election. in newly-release toed texts between strzok and lisa page, they discussed the possibility of trump winning. heres a text from august 2016 thats just been released. page says trump -- meaning he, trump -- is not ever going to become president, right? right? an...

Clinton responding with this stinging tweet equipping, but my e-mails. >> director comey felt entitled to go in front of the country, unauthorized, and lecture secretary clinton about her use when it turns out he was doing the same thing. >> reporter: it is critical of peter strzok and lisa page, who exchanged a number of texts criticizing mr. trump, including this from august 2016. page texts, trump is never going to become president, right? right? peter strzok replies, no, no, hes not. well st...

This from august 2016. page texts, trump is never going to become president, right? right? peter strzok replies, no, no, hes not. well stop it. he found no evidence that bias impacted the russia investigation. the ig adding, the conduct by these employees casts a cloud over the entire fbi investigation and goes to the heart of the fbis reputation for neutral fact finding and political independence. fbi director wreus fer wray vowing to hold employees accountable but defending the bureau. >> noth...

Fbi and change the culture, bringing a fresh set of eyes, people who dont have this integrity problem. rob: they say hillary clinton got special treatment, democrats say james comey and the fbi cost hillary the election. what do you make of that? >> you have a lot to dislike about the way things were handled. you have an fbi that went rogue, director comey was insubordinate according to the report but if you read it, 600 pages, every single text and email is anti-trump, it shows a bias and animu...

Process. whenever they didnt recycle new text messages would come to light and this text message from august 2016 only came to light last month. that is how new it is and the inspector general based on what we learned today makes a pivot in his conclusion say we felt before january 2016 in that public statement about the clinton email we couldnt find evidence of political bias but after that we think in the latter stages there may have been political bias and agent kim jong un was prioritizing t...

Between page and strzok. that text from august 2016. page, trumps not ever going to become president, right? right? strzok, and strzok is not just some fbi agent. hes like the man in charge. brian: number two. >> no. no, he wont. well stop it. now, i dont understand how the ig says nothing here is political. if thats not political, i dont know what it is. brian: if you look at james comey and i watched almost all his interviews, he seems remarkably in the dark about so many things. that he actua...