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Apart. >> sandra: you were there and you heard it, too. what did you think of that? >> well, i think its a good thing that weve actually got someone before the congress that were holding accountable. trey gowdy understands that bob mueller answers to rod rosenstein. if rosenstein wanted to accelerate the pace and show the american people where this investigation stands we could. all we know as the american people is the very same people that worked on hillary clintons investigation then worked o...

On capitol hill. peter strzok once worked on the russia investigation and on the clinton email probe. our manu raju is live on capitol inspector general said, he could not conclude, right, could not conclude that strzoks decisions were free from bias. that doesnt mean the investigation was bias, but he was concerned that it -- there was a cloud cast over the entire investigation because of these texts. how significant is todays hearing? >> this is a first time that peter strzok is coming before ...

Are the findings going to have any weight? how are people going to dismiss it. >> this is a fair investigation, why we have mueller on top of it. doing the right thing is what americans do when it comes to justice every single day and making sure we have an investigation that is not clouded by outsidbyinfluences, ig report suggested that peter strzok not only in a senior position of the fbi. as i recall part of the mueller probe early on. found out about what clearly seems like bias pushed him o...

>> we found that the inappropriate political messages we uncovered cast a cloud over the midyear investigation, sewed doubt about the credibility of the fbis handling of it and impacted the reputation of the fbi. we did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that improper considerations including political bias directly affected those specific decisions. >> reporter: now also you recall, poppy, the president after this report came out said he was, quote, totally exonerated from this report...

>> i share the concerns, and we wrote, in fact, here that it did cast a cloud over the entire clinton e-mail investigation. >> and the russian investigation? >> we havent reached a conclusion on that, but we laid out a concern that when the choice was made in october whether to work on the -- in terms of mr. struck in particular, the russia investigation versus the weiner laptop matter, the choice was to make that a higher priority, the russian matter over the clinton matter, and we were not con...

Which i think was particularly surprising to folks, as well as really focusing in on these new text messages from strzok to page, their conversations. new e-mails or text messages we hadnt seen before and trying to suggest this means there was this fundamental, systemic bias in the department of justice against him. but look at all the things this report doesnt say. the president had claimed for, i goet guess, years at this point that comey had mishandled the e-mail investigation, that there was...

So theres a lot of reference to comey here. everything from the way he handled the investigation and to his use of a gmail account, which i think was particularly surprising to folks, as well as really focusing in on these new text messages from strzok to page, their conversations. new e-mails or text messages we hadnt seen before and trying to suggest this means there was this fundamental, systemic bias in the department of justice against him. but look at all the things this report doesnt say....

But look at all the things this report doesnt say. the president had claimed for, i guess, years at this point that comey had mishandled the e-mail investigation, that there was some type of misconduct there and if only the i.g. looked at this, they would discover there was new material in there that was worthy of charging clinton. thats not in this document. the document says very specifically that although there were these agent whos may have done thing that cast a cloud in the words of the i....

Changed our view that there is no evidence to support any allegation that the fbi or any intelligence agency placed a spy in the trump campaign or otherwise failed to follow appropriate procedures and protocols. >> no spy in the campaign. can we put this to bed now? >> one would think. that is not the presidents interest. he will come one a catch phrase like conspiracy theory to make it alive as long as possible. if there had been something they could hang their hat, on he would have been rushed...

The auspices of nbc news and lester holt. with that as the baseline, what do you expect to hear? >> well, she already said the meeting cast a cloud on the investigation, but she never recused herself from the investigation. remember, the meeting took place just shortly before hillary clinton went through that ridiculous interview with the fbi where he said she couldnt remember things because she hit her head and other silly statements like that. and james comey thought it was something that impa...