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From special counsel bob muellers investigation and written up in an inspector generals report. from the very outset committee republicans threatened him with contempt for not providing more details about the investigation of the trump campaigns suspected ties to russia. watch this. >> it wasnt the discovery of your text, mr. strzok. was the existing of yoence of y that got you kicked off. >> im stating it was not that he kicked me off because of any bias. it was done because of the appearance. ...

Macron refuted trumps statement saying that the allies reaffirmed their commitment to reach the 2% target by 2024 and nothing more. and nato secretary-general ian stoltenberg said yesterday speak we have agreed 0 make good on the commitments we have made." >> back in the u.s., peter strzok who has been the target of the presidents tweets and republicans conspiracies about the russia probe testified yesterday where he gave over nine hours of testimony about those text messages that got him remove...

Capitol hill. strzoks personal character and professional conduct was repeatedly called into question. joining us now, the attorney for mr. strzok. thanks for being on the show this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> is it okay to assume there were some behind the scenes negotiations about the parameters of the hearing or was he just thrown out there? >> well, i dont know if you call them negotiations. i sent a letter to the committee chair and to the fbi monday asking them to confer so we cou...

Reminded everyone visually the work that has been done when he held up giant more than life size photos of the trump campaign people who have already pled guilty in the special counsel investigation. so thats what ricky pinedo looks like. the top democrat in the room, crank nadler spent time trying to get people to abide by their own rules. at one point he tried to get it ajournaled after the republicans threatened to hold him in contempt. thank you very much. it is a pleasure to have you here. ...

Questions that each sides views are out of order. democrats pushing back of what they believe and republicans over reach. one key aspect of this hearing, peter strzok in willingness to answer questions of the issues of the russia investigation. he said he was instructed by the fbi not to answer certain questions of an ongoing investigation and that prompted a serious response from republicans on this committee and the republican chairman threatening to hold peter in contempt for not answering qu...

And the prop zigz that that is going on deeply corrodes what the fbi is in american society, the effectiveness of their mission and is deeply destructive. >> reporter: wolf, democrats are saying it is all part of an effort by the republicans to knee cap the fbi and shape confidence in the fbi and under cut bob muellers investigation, something republicans have pushed back against. this is the way it has gone down throughout the day. at one point earlier in the day the republicans threatened to h...

Point? >> mr. chairman, my counsel has reiterated that counsel for the fbi has directed that i may not answer that question. >> mr. strzok, in a moment we will continue with the hearing, but based on your refusal to answer the question at the conclusion of the day we will be recessing the hearing, and you will be subject to recall to allow the committee to consider proceeding with a contempt citation. >> point of order, mr. chairman. will the committee also consider contempt for mr. ban none, wh...

Congressional correspondent. at times this hearing was more like a partisan brawl. it went on and on and on. >> reporter: and it devolved very quickly into an incredibly contentious atmosphere right at the beginning of this hearing and all through the course of the day initially when peter strozk said he could not answer a number of questions republicans threatened to hold him in contempt and wouldnt allow him to confer with the fbi attorney who was present. at one point discussion had gotten a ...

Motion to try to subpoena steve bannon. these efforts have played throughout the course of the day. when i asked the republican chairman of the committee how come you did not want to hold steve bannon in contempt but was willing to hold peter strozk in contempt he would not comment. >> monita rajpal, we will get back to you. lets get to more. our justice reporter is us. how did the democrats deal with this? >> the name of the game for the democrats was deflect, pivot and do everything they cou...

I am going to let you talk about that in a second and answer the question and in which case you trigger an ig report or you dont answer those questions and maybe we hold you in contempt. now can you just again since this has been a really long day, can you explain why it is important not to interfere with ongoing criminal matters? >> there are a variety and i am sure i wont come up with all the reasons. the first is we do a lot of investigations where we never charge anybody. it is simply not fa...