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Picked to follow up and leave the russian investigation has manifest animus and can think of a single person to vote donald trump. so those two are inextricably intertwined. most of my fellow citizens would say, i want to know what russia was doing to us in 2016 but i also want the person that is finding out and investigating it to be free of bias and free of taint. >> bret: and they would say, mueller, fire that guy. >> and he did fire him. thats whats so pervasive about bias, it doesnt matter ...

And the ig says, thats a place where the political virus could have infected this entire thing. >> and it was also done right around the time that we know that the other investigation, cross fire hurricane, was being opened into the trump campaign. and strzok was involved in both of them. at 558 pages, its like the war and peace of judgment. everyone, from hillary clinton who started this with the emails on a classified server to emails between strzok and page, including james comey, including a...

Says this was taken out of context. did they know something about the russia information, and thats what they are referring to? do you think that this changes at all in context, for in a vacuum, it is it just? >> it changes a lot going forward. russia did something to our country in 2016. it was serious, it deserved to be investigated and it deserved to be investigated by a fair fbi agent who was not talking about impeaching the person that he was investigating. his lawyer is just wrong, that by...

Claiming that it shows clearly that jim comey intervened in this thing improperly and that hurt hillarys chances for the election. i think it is just standard operating procedure, you dont comment on an ongoing investigation if you are the flatfoot doing the investigatio investigation. comey thought it was his responsibility is to somehow usurp thought, and thats not my word but this igs word, use her. he did it without discussing with his superiors and thats pretty heavy stuff. >> bret: the rev...

Same texts that i am reading. peter strzok said the vote should be 100 million to zero. he cant think of a single solitary american that would want donald trump to be president. he said he will stop it. actually, director comey unwittingly just prove the point of the question you asked him on follow-up. would you have kept him on investigation how do you know what you know now? and he said no. because bias is not insidious, its that pervasive and it colors your ability to do what we need the fbi...

Flynns answers as purposefully false at the time. so strzoks texts about trump may show one thing but his actions clearly a bit more nuanced, anderson. >> laura jarrett, thanks very much. joining me to talk more about this, former federal prosecutor, jeffrey toobin and criminal defense attorney alan dershowitz author of "trumped up." je jeff, does it matter to you one way or the other? >> not a bit. we do not investigate the political views of fbi agents, period. that is a bedrock principle of h...

Officials some with republican leanings, anderson. >> what about his role in the flynn investigation? >> so earlier this year my colleagu colleague evan perez said that they were not in favor of pressing charges against him but were also now learning that peter strzok in particular who was part of that counterintelligence team investigating any links between the trump campaign and russian officials was actually among those voices who didnt view flynns answers as purposefully false at the time. s...

Strzok dragged his feet and no action was taken until two weeks before the election when comey reopened the email case. quote under these circumstances, we did not have confidence that strzoks decision to prioritize the investigation over the laptop was free from bias. but strzoks attorneys dispute that saying the delays were caused by miscommunication. on the june 2016 arizona tarmac meeting between attorney general loretta lynch and bill clinton, the report concluded lynch showed bad judgment ...