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Agent peter strzok of bias as he fought back all through the day-long session. back with me, patrick healey, susan hennessy, and philip mudd. as promised, i want to play more from today's hearing. at one point darrell issa made strzok read his texts. >> you want me to read this. >> yes, please. >> omg, he's an idiot. hi, how is trump other than a dush? trump is a disaster. i have no idea how destablizing his presidency would be. >> so considering what phil said just before the break, was that about how lighting how inappropriate the texts were, humiliating him, or both? >> yes, i think it was ...

Patrick healey, national security analyst susan hennessey and counterterrorism analyst philip mudd who worked for the fbi and the cia. were you guys watching your tv boxes today? madness, i tell you. >> i'm a former theater reporter, don, and this is like nothing i ever saw. incredible standoff and clearly both sides had quite a bit they wanted to prove, political points that we've always seen in congressional hearings but the level of vitriol and role reversals of republicans really going after the fbi, basically trying to undermine it seemed like an investigation, it was really just striking...

>> how long is the time that -- the max time that somebody spend here, not reunited with their family? >> right now we're averaging 42 to 45 days. >> reporter: expressing concern for unaccompanied kids. >> are these children, most of them come here alone, without parents? >> the majority of our children, yes, ma'am. they are unaccompanied. >> reporter: now this trip, the first lady's office tells us, was something the first lady wanted to do. she's informed the president she wanted to travel down there, told her staff two days ago she wanted to visit and see it in person. as for the jacket, sh...

Separated from their children, they should not be bringing them into the country illegally. those were basically his words. it was very clear that the administration was making and forcing this policy as a part of its zero tolerance view on undocumented immigrants. to the extent president trump is sending out a tweet blaming democrats, it is false. we need to call it that and, you know, whether it's effective just depends on, you know, whether the american people are willing to sort of look -- look hard at the details and try to understand the policy. >> patrick healey, thank you so much. susa...

They should be investigating. then he said he needed to focus on north korea, trade and other issues while mueller's team should be investigating the fbi and justice department. joining me now we have cnn political analyst and "the new york times" politics editor patrick healey, susan page is with us as well. let's start with this tweet this morning, susan. it's significant the language that he's using where he's saying that the special counsel -- that this will be meddling in the midterm elections. obviously a take off of russian meddling in the presidential election. does this signify anythi...