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>> he wasn't fired from the fbi. he was removed from the robert mueller investigation last year when the text messages became public. and this really was peter strzok's downfall after his 22-year career in the fbi as a counterintelligence agent. but it was disclosed that he had been texting with lisa page from the fbi's general counsel's office with some anti-trump comments. and that was further clarified when the justice department's inspector general in a report earlier this year disclosed some additional text messages. that made strzok the focal point for house republicans critical of the m...

Speculative. obviously what i wonder is if the big fish to catch here might be michael cohen. right? we are operating under the assumption, because we're spending all of our time thinking about the president of the united states for understandable reasons that trump is at tt at the head of t pyramid. michael cohen has a shady behavior including trying to sell access to the white house. >> but that's okay. it doesn't have to be something that takes down the president. one of the president's closest advisers could be breaking the law and they need to be punished for it. >> and also exposing the ...

From this russian lawyer and this russian informant. how do you see it? >> you know, i think it's a little bit much to try to speculate the people's motive for showing up to the meeting. i mean, clearly, you can get some of that through the testimony, and i think the biggest piece missing here, poppy and john is what happened next? you have two individuals in the meeting and one who admitted to be an informant for the russian government and another used to be a soviet-era counterintelligence agent and those folks don't drift away from the russian intelligence services so you had two individual...

Closely. >> getting bigger by the day. the capitol hill hotseat welcomes another high-profile government official today with ipa -- fbi director christopher rate being questioned about those texts. justice to permit officials are reading through 10,000 texts between peter struck and lisa payne. counterintelligence agent struck worked on the robert mueller russia probe but was reassigned after the discovery of anti-trump text messages exchanged with paige, with whom he was having an affair. disclosure of this message is bolstered republican concerns about the objectivity of mueller's probe that...

They're taking it to the level that is a criminal activity. the democrats and free-speech groups had cried foul. they have a crackdown on democracy. the california congresswoman. told the view she hopes it will continue. they are undermining him because they want to see him stop. they want to do something. not every president would be pretty -- treated this way. it is a staggering number of leaks that has led the doj to publicly warn would be leakers that they would not hesitate to criminally charge anyone who gets a classmate information. the fbi has created a new counterintelligence agent sp...