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And the agent that mr. johnson referenced has been removed from the investigation related to the president because of his own political bias and some of the text messages that he had sent to another doj personnel. so you know, a lot of questions have been swirling around. we need to get to the bottom of this. we know the department of justices inspector general has opened an investigation into this matter. we shouldnt jump to conclusions, but we should figure out everything thats going on and le...

Dont think they can show you? >> you see text messages and memos. there are a lot of americans disturbed by what theyre seeing. weve shown the committees about a thousand pages of classified material related to this. what were saying is, if you have evidence of wrongdoing, we absolutely want to see it. we want to get to the bottom of it and hold people responsible if anything was done wrong. >> well, if theyre going off what you showed them, you know the conclusions they should arrive at. do you...

Intended to obstruct the investigation going on. that speaks to what youre saying, which is fact. >> you know, go ahead. jeffrey. >> i was just going to say, i dont disagree with phil. the distinction here is that obstruction of justice, collusion or related crimes, those are legal conclusions that you can draw from the evidence or not draw. what mueller has been doing and certainly will be doing in interviewing donald trump is getting facts from which to reach those legal conclusions, but it is...

To make the point, steven boyd, assistant attorney general who signed thisler that im looking at right now, it says, among other things, they think not only would it be reckless, but seen no wrongdoing in the fisa process. and again lets make the point, steven boyd is donald trumps nominee. he is saying to you all he does not see any evidence of what is being alleged. >> yeah, well, i mean i would say this again. i like steven. i work well with him. its really difficult to say a memo is reckless...

It. but now he is willing to grab on and seize to one confidential informant that he hasnt talked to himself. and these were moved on by special counsel. he removed strzok. they are stating them as conclusions. where does this lead us? >> a couple of observations. one it is very important that the internal institutions of the bureau are actually working in order to keep the bureau on the right path. and bob mueller fired these folks at the first sign they may not be the kind of individuals he wa...

Ourselves. >> sandra: is that going to be a game changer, congressman? >> having the transcripts out in the open? >> sandra: depends whats in it. >> the american public are smarter than what you give them credit for. present them the facts they will form their own conclusions. you can try t beat so hard a narrative over and over again that the trump campaign colluded with russia. when you present them with the facts they want to be able to decide for themselves whether it happened. >> harris: re...

Messages that we recovered from these devices to the department so that the departments leadership can take any leadership action it deems appropriate. melissa? >> melissa: interesting. now we are all dying to see whats in there. although what we have seen already has been so damning. you know, i dont know. i guess i want to see the rest. i do want to know what happened. im still among the group that is suspicious that these disappeared and then cropped up again. >> sandra: they explain that aga...

Undermined this presidency, unfortunately. >> tucker: i think i despise. the intel community specializes in releasing conclusions without telling you how they got there. congressman, thank you very much for coming on tonight. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: and you thought digital was forever, thats what they tell you. turns out its not true when it comes to the federal government in the middle of a scandal. the fbi now says it lost thousands, somehow, of text messages between peter strzok and ...

Employees. >> maria: both things are possible, arent they? >> harris: im laughing at that what you are talking about is incompetence. >> maria: you are saying its totally corrupted at the core. >> harris: im not saying that. two agents flies in the face that they might have had a motive to do something to keep the president out of the white house. those two things are not necessarily exclusive. >> maria: drawing so many conclusions from a complete set of text messages. >> harris: by the way i di...

America losing trust their government agencies arent being used for political purposes, the question being raised, can the fbi really be trusted? florida congressman matt gates who has seen the memo and wanted to be released so he can expose what he calls a deep-seated corruption. >> we will see it in the next two weeks. now democrats are making a claim the memo is conclusory so chairman nunez is right to look at what supporting information can be released along with the memo that validates it. ...