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>> shepard: the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein defended robert muellers russia investigation today saying there is no reason to fire mueller. >> have you seen good cause to fire muler? >> i havent. we have special counsel subject to all the departments, rules and subject to oversight by the department including inspector general. im not aware of any violation of those rules by the special counsel employees. >> shepard: this comes after were told that fox news obtained texts from the fbi ...

First place. i dont think he can. >> andy, lets go to peter strozk, other people in the fbi and their ability to be truly objective and looking at this investigation. to my eye, we have a lot of individuals that are not just -- theyre not just democrats, they are trump adversaries in their previous associations and in their texts or tweets or commentary during debates and so forth. you sort of have -- the jury is out for you on peter strozk. why? >> as i understand it and as comey testified to a...

Interviewed him believed him and that was strozk. so the fact that flynn pleaded guilty to lying in that interview was not strozks idea. evidently strozk was not pushing that. that was the very aggressive mueller investigators toward the end. so i just want to see the facts on him come in, laura. i think your general point about muellers poor judgment enladdering this ridiculously inflated 17-lawyer team with democratic donors and activists is not only a big problem for the investigation, i thin...

Can prove the espionage in the first place. i dont think he can. >> andy, lets go to peter strozk, other people in the fbi and their ability to be truly objective and looking at this investigation. to my eye, we have a lot of individuals that are not just -- theyre not just democrats, they are trump adversaries in their previous associations and in their texts or tweets or commentary during debates and so forth. you sort of have -- the jury is out for you on peter strozk. why? >> as i understand...

That was strozk. so the fact that flynn pleaded guilty to lying in that interview was not strozks idea. evidently strozk was not pushing that. that was the very aggressive mueller investigators toward the end. so i just want to see the facts on him come in, laura. i think your general point about muellers poor judgment enladdering this ridiculously inflated 17-lawyer team with democratic donors and activists is not only a big problem for the investigation, i think were ultimately going to find t...

For mueller and youre investigating the president. thats a nice revolving door. >> yeah, weve had hillary clintons own fan club investigating her. you have these people that bring their anti-trump bias to the mueller investigation. today i asked christopher wray, did mueller have a standard where people had to agree to hate the president in order to work for him? christopher wray wouldnt answer that question as to whether or not there was a litmus test where people had to bring anti-trump bias. ...

Campaign? >> congressman, im not prepared to discuss anything about a fisa process. >> what was presented to the fisa court? >> i do not believe i can legally share a fisa court submission with this committee. >> laura: im not sure that is correct. >> its false. >> laura: what the fisa court down is still -- you can still have a check on that. congress can still check on what the fisa court does. you have an obligation to do that. who submits an application, thats not any type of confidential or...

Investigating the president. thats a nice revolving door. >> yeah, weve had hillary clintons own fan club investigating her. you have these people that bring their anti-trump bias to the mueller investigation. today i asked christopher wray, did mueller have a standard where people had to agree to hate the president in order to work for him? christopher wray wouldnt answer that question as to whether or not there was a litmus test where people had to bring anti-trump bias. time and again, we see...

The other. thats a conflict -- >> they had political affiliations -- >> laura: everybody votes. its ridiculous. >> why would you assume that bob mueller -- >> laura: why? because we have bruce orr at the justice department who has been relieved of his duties because it turns out he was meeting -- were moving on to why the integrity of the justice department is being questioned right now. its important. thats why christopher wray was on capitol hill. bruce orr, very quickly. >> its ludicrous that...

>> laura: that was fbi director chris wray responding to the presidents assertion that his agency is in tatters following the bomb shell revelations about anti-trump bias but the bureaus former top investigator peter strozk. and after that, theres a potential conflict with a obama holdover. theyre coming out of the wood work. this one in the justice department. bruce orr was stripped of his title after the house intel committee learned that he met in the 2016 campaign with christopher steele, th...