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Director wrai is going to hold a press conference later today. i would encourage you to tune in for that. >> reporter: the tebs message exchange highlighted in the report between lisa page and peter strok, ultimately the fbi agent said "we'll stop it" and he was referring to candidate trump becoming president. did the president have any reaction to this information when you spoke with him after he's briefed today? >> certainly again cause as great deal of concern and i think ittin points out the political bias that the president's been talking about that has been repeatedly mentioned from this...

Is plenty in this report that all sides are going to exaggerate. it is easy to pluck something out and devoid it of the conexthe. that said, the actions are really bad. egregious things, fbi agents investigating thing like possible collusion between the president and russia who by the way are the same agents also investigating on the clinton side should not be texts things like this to one another. the broader point that i think needs to come through is that the overall integrity of what the bureau was doing and the integrity of the regs and the ig finds was not influenced by bias. you have th...

That a potential foreign country's meddling in our election was a big deal and they had already decided not the prosecute hillary clinton. so he said the reason struck didn't turn it up more aggressively was justifiable. >> thanks pete. nobody can break this down like you can. pete williams our justice correspondent. joining me now, stephanie douglas of the fbi national security branch who worked with robert mueller and clint watts, author of messing with the enemy, surviving in the social media world of hackers, terrorists, russians, and fake news. i want to start with you on this, clint. t...

What is new today is the response from peter strok saying no, no we'll stop it. here's what's being said about that. number one, what the ig says here is that at the time this came out it was in august, remember a month later the anthony wiener e-mails were discovered, and more clinton e-mails were found on anthony wiener's laptop. >> right. >> so one of the questions of the report is why did it take the fbi a month to get off the dime and aggressively go after those e-mails, issue a subpoena and start getting into them? what the ig says is -- chuck i have to stop here. let me finish this one ...

The average private citizen didn't have a conversation with the president of the united states asking him to drop a criminal investigation. and tweet at him after he's fired he better hope there aren't tapes. i was in a position given what i knew to do something that would be useful and important. i did it. reasonable people can disagree about it. i still think it was the right thing to do. >> i asked you about andrew mccabe and now peter strok and lisa page that worked at the fbi and a lot in the news about text messages back and forth and disparaged a lot of people including president trump....