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go. could be fireworks. welcome to our broadcast today. i'm bill hemmer. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." what i like about when republicans run the committees, they're on time. allegations the f.b.i. bias will be front and center. the judiciary committee chairman will question durham on his report. he concluded the bureau had no business investigating the trump campaign. republicans are touting that be in their push to reform the justice department. committee chairman jim jordan. >> i think today for mr. durham you will hear why it's necessary. he will give...

troubles, as you know, he's already been indicted by the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg in the hush money case, and there are still pending investigations in georgia, and in washington d.c., related to his effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential elections. so it's possible that trump could be the defendant in multiple criminal trials, as republicans head to the polls to vote in the primaries. and in a new interview with political yesterday, trump vowed to stay in the race even if he's convicted of a crime, telling the reporter, quote, i will never leave. now,...

This was text messages. august 18, 2016, page texted trump is not going to become president, right, right? strzok spooned responded by saying no, he is not. we'll stop it. the american people deserve the truth and proud to serve on this committee to uncover these lies that were perpetuated for far too long. with my remaining 30 seconds i will yield to you, mr. chairman. >> chairman yield back. we'll wait for my time and recognize the lady from california. >> thank you, mr. chairman and thank you, mr. durham for being here this morning. the ranking member explored an item that i wanted to explo...

>> and i didn't ask you to read your own words. march 4, 2016. >> you want me to read this? >> yes, please. >> omg, he's an idiot. >> august 18, 2016. and i'll preface this by saying for context, miss page said not ever going to become president, right? right? >> no, no, he's not. we'll stop it. if you want to represent what you said accurately, i'm happy to answer that question, but i don't appreciate what was originally said being changed. >> i don't give a damn what you appreciate, agent strzock. >> and i've talked to fbi agents around the country. you've embarrassed them. you've embarrasse...

Comes to the question whether any americans knowingly colluded. the indictment doesn't make any allegations about that at all. what this indictment is a ton more information and serious criminal charges concerning what the russians did. and you can tell from the guilty plea of the one american guy they charged today and you can tell from a lot of the specificity in the indictment that parts of how they were able to trace all of this was clearly money. i mean, the russian operation paid out a lot of money to do what they did. they paid for online ads that were pro-trump and anti--clinton. and p...