conditioning the united states defense of its major allies. all right. that's very familiar, right? the same dynamic we saw today where the president authenticed if fellow members of nato didn't commit to defense spending, he would, quote, do his own thing. so not only was peter strzok responding to a real thing in the world where the idea of having a destabilizing, it is this moment in our lives we're living through manifestation of that while he is president. that's why darrell issa didn't want to talk about it. okay. let's move on. under hostile questioning from oversight commissioner trey gowdy, peter strzok did get to explain the context of an august 8th text message. one of the ones that republicans really, really love quoting.