Rep. Trey Gowdy: "Whatever you got, finish it the hell up..." (C-SPAN)

the chair recognizes the gentleman from South Carolina mr. Gowdy for five minutes Thank You mr. chairman the Russia investigations been going on for almost two years now special counsels investigation has been going on for over a year now for most Americans is important to know what Russia did our country in 2016 and with whom that anyone they did it when a foreign state interferes with our democratic electoral process it should be chance of a lifetime for a law enforcement agent to investigate that except apparently the one that was actually picked to investigate it that was Peter struck FBI agent Peter Straub was picked to lead the FBI's investigation into what Russia did and July of 2016 it was a counterintelligence investigation begun in late July 2016 and he was leading it and about the exact same time he was picked to lead it this dispassionate and fair FBI agent was calling Trump a disaster destabilizing for the country I'll leave out all the F adjectives he used to describe that I'll just go with disaster and destabilizing same time his FBI lawyer girlfriend Lisa Paige was telling him he was meant to protect the country this neutral dispassionate FBI agent said I can protect the country at many levels same time Peter struck who was picked to objectively fairly neutrally look until the Russia investigation was talking about an insurance policy with ain t became and lisa page and the event donald trump became the president all of this was happening at the same time Peter struck said he could smell the Trump support in southern Virginia all this was at the same time that this FBI agent said a trump presidency would be effing terrifying and that it will never happen no no will stop it so while investigating Russia and their attempt to subvert our democracy may have been important to the rest of the country and all that important to about a half dozen FBI agents and lawyers who were assigned to the case for them it was an investigation to stop Donald Trump which then brings us to May of 2017 in the appointment of special counsel where we find Peter struck again the same supposed to be dispassionate neutral fair FBI agent you would think you'd be really excited about investigating what a foreign power tried to do to this country but you would be wrong again for Peter struck at precisely the same time that Bob Muller was appointed precisely the same time Peter struck was talking about his unfinished business and how he needed to fix and finish it so Donald Trump did not become president he was talking about impeachment within three days of special counsel Muller being appointed three days that's even quicker than MSNBC and the Democrats were talking about impeaching within three days the lead FBI agent is talking about impeaching the president so this is where we are we're two years into this investigation or a year and a half into the presidency we're over a year and the special counsel you have a counterintelligence investigation that's become public you have a criminal investigation that's become political you have more bias than I have ever seen manifest at a law enforcement officer in the 20 years I used to do it for a living and for other DOJ employees who had manifest animus towards the person they were supposed to be neutrally and detached ly investigating Democrats are using this investigation as a presumption of guilt which I find astonishing and in the long run for the health of this Republic I would encourage them to go back to the presumption of innocence that we used to hold sacred there's a presumption of guilt there's a desire by Democrat senators to fundraise off of your investigation more than 60 Democrats have already voted to proceed with impeachment before Bob Muller has found a single solitary damn thing more than 60 have voted to move forward with impeachment and he hasn't presented his first finding so almost say this seems Raye mr. Rosenstein I realized that neither one of you were there when this happened but you're both there now Russia attacked this country they should be the target but Russia isn't being hurt by this investigation right now we are this country is being hurt by we are being divided we've seen the bias we've seen the bias we need to see the evidence if you have evidence of wrongdoing by any member of the trunk camp and campaign presented to the damn grand jury if you have evidence that this president acted inappropriately presented to the American people there's an old saying that justice delayed is justice denied I think right now all of us are being denied whatever you got finish it the hell up because this country is being torn apart I would yield back mr. chairman either the witnesses care to respond to the I would respond misskaddy I certainly share your views about those text messages and nobody is more offended than I about what's reflected in those messages with regard to the investigation I've heard the suggestions that we should just close the investigation I think the best thing we can do is finish it appropriately and reach a conclusion and I certainly agree with you sir the people should not jump to conclusions without seeing the evidence I've been the victim of fake news attacks myself so I'm sympathetic I agree with you sir that there's been no allegation made by the Department of Justice or the Special Counsel other than what's reflected in those documents that are filed publicly the charged folks nobody should draw any conclusions beyond those charges the chair recognizes the

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Length: 6min 17sec (377 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 28 2018