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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 bruce orr ...

>> 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...

Joel, lets start with you. a lot of people working for this investigation that are political adversaries of the president. if the shoe were on the other foot and this was an investigation of hillary clinton and the investigation was stacked with anti-hillary prosecutors, you guys would be going crazy. we have peter strozk in this case who has been sending anti-trump texts during the debate. he was at every big interview. what are your thoughts on the status of the fbi now after seeing this play ...

The first place. its ludicrous. strozk is at the center of this. if it is, hes the fruit of the poisonous tree. >> the system is working. you want accountability, we have it. youre finding these things out. >> laura: why should it be a treasure hunt to find out about strozk? if i were mueller, i would say we found out something disturbing about a member of our teams. they shipped him to h.r., which is an odd place. i wouldnt have put him there. i would have been transparent about it. instead of ...

The first place. its ludicrous. strozk is at the center of this. if it is, hes the fruit of the poisonous tree. >> the system is working. you want accountability, we have it. youre finding these things out. >> laura: why should it be a treasure hunt to find out about strozk? if i were mueller, i would say we found out something disturbing about a member of our teams. they shipped him to h.r., which is an odd place. i wouldnt have put him there. i would have been transparent about it. instead of ...

Joel, lets start with you. a lot of people working for this investigation that are political adversaries of the president. if the shoe were on the other foot and this was an investigation of hillary clinton and the investigation was stacked with anti-hillary prosecutors, you guys would be going crazy. we have peter strozk in this case who has been sending anti-trump texts during the debate. he was at every big interview. what are your thoughts on the status of the fbi now after seeing this play ...

Associated with the trump 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 a...

Wray pushed back in a gentle way. he reminded lawmakers that theres thousands of honest agents and analysts that work with integrity to protect america every day. as you listen to the hearing unfold, you can see the line of questioning really divided along political lines. >> it is absolutely unacceptable for fbi employees to permit their own political views to contamination an investigation. even the appearance of impropriety will devastate the fbis investigation. these attacks will grow louder...

Hes going to be on the hill tomorrow for an oversight hearing. republicans this morning made it very clear that they want specific questions about this anti-trump dossier and the extent to which the fbi relied on this dossier to seek any kind of surveillance warrants on members of the trump team. as well as how much was paid to this group fusion gps. remember, they were the group that got money from the dnc and h hillary clinton. >> was this dossier, in fact, used? was it part of what was taken ...

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