quickly. as for stuk, it says given that exchange they can t rule out there may have been bias in his mind. but overall the conclusion is that the fbi showed no political bias. but the e-mail exchanges of those two it says casts a cloud over the fbi s handling of this investigation and its reputation overall. let me get this clear. the idea is that the investigation concludes or suggests that peter struck, this fbi agent was biased. it does not conclude that the investigation was biased? it doesn t say that. no. no. not quite. it says there is a question whether he was biassed. got it. you about it doesn t reach the question that he was. by the way his lawyer issued a statement saying look, struck had a decision to make. either turn the heat back up on the clinton e-mail investigation or pursue the russia investigation which he was involved in and his lawyer says that was a justifiable decision,
in some cases the same resources that were on the clinton probe to focus on the russia investigation, which was still a secret at that time. now, the white house today says the report confirms the president s suspicions about blil bias at the fbi. but actually, the report doesn t say that. in no uncertain terms it says the following, quote, we found no evidence that the conclusions by the department prosecutors were affected bye-bye yas or other improper considerations. rather, we determined that they were based on the prosecutor s assessment of the facts, the law, and past department practice. a lot of republicans aren t convinced. they are seizing on a newly revealed tex message quite a few of them. involving top fbi agent peter strok and his lover lisa page and will he look at it as something of a smoking fun. in a text message on august 8,
2016 page stated, trump s not ever going to become president right? right? and strok responded, no, no, he s not. wouldally stop it. according to the ig strok said he didn t actually take any steps to try to affect the election. but, both page and strok noted if they were being serious with those remarks they weren t have kept the russia investigation a secret, they would have leaked that out. still the ig slammed them for quote extremely poor judgment and a gross lack of professionalism. the political implications this report could be enormous. let s dive in. pete william joins us our justice department correspondent. and ben with it t identificatio.
married to huma abedin a close clinton aide. that became a big deal in late october when the fbi announced they found them and later said they were of no consequence. here s what the fbi says was a text he cans change between two top fbi officials. on august 6th lisa page texted in essence, trump cess not ever to going to become president, right, right. peter struck, a senior official in the e-mail investigation said no, no, he s not. we ll stop it. now, struck was one of the officials who the inspector general report says could have moved the fbi to more aggressively go after those anthony wiener e-mails. they were found in late september but the fbi sort of waited around a month before they got energetic about actually looking at them and getting the court permission to actually search the laptop for him. the ag says it can t explain why the fbi waited around that there were many official who shared the blame for not moving more
is peter strok next? and gina haspel has offered to withdraw her nomination after being lambasted for being too tough on terrorists. we ll tell you why she is a true hero. and we show you melania trump s be best campaign from earlier today. and breaking news about the liberal attorney general who may be in big trouble tonight. but first an important breaking news opening monologue. sean: tonight we start with what is shaping up to be a horrible bad five days for robert mueller and the office of special counsel. this out-of-control witch hunt suffered two massive major blows. on friday in what was the single biggest beat-down i have ever seen in my life, a federal judge utterly rebuked the special counsel and his investigation, slamming its political motivations and