Page 47 - August 2016 News Today

>> we will get to any minute. rod was assigned testified before congress this week. he took some heavy fire from republicans on this issue. take a look. >> how with a straight face, can you say that this group of democratic partisans are unbiased and will give the president a fair shake? we recognize we have employees with political opinions. it is our responsible to make sure the opinions do not influence their actions. >> and we hope that he will be able to -- [laughter] congresswoman, look, n...

Think. >> chuck grassley wants to weigh in on all this. >> shannon: lets talk about chuck grassley. he did have a lot to say. he is raising the question a lot of people are. >> no doubt. what grassley is saying is, look, all of those text messages we have been talking about in the last couple of days, he sent a letter to the deputy attorney general come around rosenstein, and demanded, get to the bottom of one text. august 2016, they invoked a meeting in the office of fbi director andrew mccabe ...

Political motivations of the probe but out of 10,000 texts it is a single one that dominated rob rosensteins hearing, since august 2016 former fbi agent peter strzok to his lover and lawyer lisa page i want to believe the path you throughout the consideration in andys off is that there is no way he gets elected but im afraid we cant take that risk. the problem with that republicans say that speaks to a possible government conspiracy. >> this guy thought he was super agent james bond at the fbi. ...

Jordan say the public trust is gone. he want a second counsel appointed. he said the most egregious texas message he found was this one. it was when strzok was talking about a meeting with the fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. this was august 2016. this is what the text said. i want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in andys office that there is no way trump gets elected. im afraid we cant take that risk. its just like an insurance policy in the unlikely events you die before ...

Break, "theres no way he get elected." i want to believe that, but then he goes, but im afraid that we cant take this risk. this goes into intent. he says, we cant take the risk. the people of this great country might elect donald trump president. we cant take this risk. this is peter strzok, head of countersblenlg counterintelligence at the fbi. who had a hand in that dossier that was all dressed up and taken to the fisa court. hes saying, we cant take the risk, we have to do something about it...

We understand this particular text is the focus of congressional investigators and other governmental officials because it speaks to the possibility of a conspiratorial coordination. the next one which you mentioned, august 2016. you can see agent strzok talking about going down to this walmart in virginia and he says "i could smell the trumped supporters." he is diminishing these people. the fbi lawyer responds that she is having lunch with a friend and we hate everyone. we hate everything, she...

Mccabes office. i want to believe that. but im afraid we cant take that risk. this goes to intent. the people of this great country might elect donald trump president, we cant take this risk. this is head of counterintelligence of the fbi. this is peter struck who i think had a hand in that dossier that was all dressed up and taken to the court. he said we cant take the risk. we have to do something about it. dont forget the timeline here either, mr. rosenstein. peter struck january 10th, hes th...

Fbi. august 2016, and my guess is thats the same month that the application was taken to the court to get the warrant to spy on americans. using this dossier, fake news all dressed up taken to the court. so i got really just a couple basic questions. because it seems to me if the answer to any of those two questions. if the answer is yes, if you guys paid christopher steele at the same time the democrat campaign was or if you took the dossier to the court and used it as the basis to get warrants...

Is to those political opinions influence the outcome of their investigation? the justice department and the fbi have a lot of procedures to prevent that from happening, fbi agents operate in pairs, what they discover has to be reviewed by five others, what the five have reviewed has to be reviewed by justice department employees. the only final decisions i have been made in this investigation are to seek two indictments and some guilty pleas which they have obtained. rod rosenstein in my view pa...

Take that risk. this goes to intent. he says we cant take the risk. the people of this great country might elect donald trump president. we cant take this risk. this is peter strzok, head of counter intelligence at the f.b.i. and who i think had a hand in that dossier that was all dressed up and taken to the fisa court. he is saying we cant take the risk. we have to do something about it. dont forget the timeline here either, mr. rosenstein. peter strzok, january 10th is the guy who changes the ...