![]() What are we hearing today? And is this hearing useful? MELBER: And congressman Jerrold Nadler taking a break from the hearing to join us live tonight. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The gentleman`s point of order is not well taken. NADLER: We have a problem with this policy, we should take it up with the FBI, not badger Mr. The gentleman does not have standing to object. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you objecting to the question, if so, please state your objection. Congressman Nadler going on the attack and telling the Republican chairman he was badgering this FBI agent. MELBER: And things got quite fiery this morning. ![]() It was in no way unequivocally any suggestion that me, the FBI, would take any action whatsoever to improperly impact the electoral process for any candidate. STRZOK: It was in response to a series of events that included then candidate Trump insulting the immigrant family of a fallen war hero, and my presumption based on that horrible, disgusting behavior that the American population would not elect somebody demonstrating that behavior to be President of the United States. Now they called Trump an idiot, a disaster, and said and this has become a matter of some debate, but they would quote "stop Trump from becoming President." They were engaged as well in a relationship. ![]() MELBER: Now, those messages in question is Strzok privately texting with an FBI lawyer, and they both critical of Trump. GOWDY: I don`t give a damn what you appreciate, Agent Strzok. But I don`t appreciate what was originally said being changed. If you want to represent which he said accurately, I am happy to answer that question. ![]() STRZOK: It was not my understanding he kicked me off because of bias, that it was done based on appearance. Your testimony is Bob Mueller didn`t kick you off because of the content of a text, he kicked you off about appearance he was worried about it. TREY GOWDY (R), SOUTH CAROLINA: You wrote it. But Republicans has fired up because they argue that Strzok`s poor judgment, it does indeed casts the entire probe in doubt. PETER STRZOK, FBI AGENT: This investigation is not politically motivated. And he is defending not only himself, we are going to show you here today, his defense of the Mueller probe he was once part of. Meanwhile, Peter Strzok has been breaking his silence. There`s basically photos as you can tell of people who pled guilty in this case that led Democrats to say this is no witch-hunt. The hearing intense from the start, Democratic staffers hoisted pictures you can see there, to bring the thing to its opening. And he stepped out to speak with me.Īnd let me catch you up here on what is going on. ![]() And tonight, as Chuck was just saying, I am joined by the top Democrat at the hearing from the Judiciary Committee, Jerrold Nadler is the ranking member. We will continue the coverage of what has been a dramatic hearing day on Capitol Hill with hours left, we re told. Show: THE BEAT WITH ARI MELBER Date: JGuest: Jerrold Nadler Robert William Goodlatte Ted Lieu Mark Walker James Jordan Jamie Raskin Matt Gaetz Peter StrzokĬHUCK TODD, MSNBC HOST: The baton is yours, sir.ĪRI MELBER, MSNBC HOST: Appreciate it, Chuck. ![]()
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