republicans and democrats among its ranks saying that, yes, there's evidence of bias here, but that the institution as a whole has many folks at senior levels, many appointed by trump, et cetera, who do their job without letting that bias get in the way. now, the trouble is, as david and gloria were saying, these texts are on the face very damning evidence. they give ammunition to the president and those who make this claim that, look, it's right here in clear text form from the beginning there were folks here who had it in for the president. >> laura, you're our legal analyst. i want to get our legal perspective because potentially there could be charges filed. >> there could be. you know, on the one hand, as you're all saying, peter strzok is asking the nation to compartmentalize or allow him to compartmentalize. on the other hand, the republicans who are his adversaries in this hearing are asking american people to conflate these issues. at the same time he's talking