Gowdy on Strzok’s Anti-Trump Texts: Makes It ‘Really Difficult’ to Defend Mueller Probe’s Integrity

MacCALLUM: "10,000 text messages being come through right now the Justice Department tonight, Peter Strzok you’ve heard a lot about, and FBI lawyer, Lisa page, a coworker who he was reportedly having a romantic relationship with. Some of their conversations were revealed to be so anti-Trump that he got him kicked off of this investigation into the Russian issue that is being run, of course, by Robert Mueller. Also new tonight, after eight hours, Donald Troup Jr. Done testifying behind closed doors about the June 26 Trump Tower meeting with the lawyer. Earlier, I spoke with congressman trey Gowdy who was a member of that committee and asked and he will get to view the Peter Strzok text messages and what he specifically wants to know about them." 
GOWDY: "We met with the department of justice yesterday, and they have to go through the texts. We are not entitled to them, nor do we have an interest in purely personal texts. We are very interested in both anti-Trump and or pro-Clinton texts. Because, as he made reference to, he was a very important agent in her investigation, also in the ongoing Russian related investigation, perhaps the decision for Comey to change the wording in a statement. He is super important and people have a right to know whether agents are biased one way or another. The department is going to go through the texts been going to make them available to us as soon as they can." 
MacCALLUM: "Gives still to sell confidence in that investigation and team?" 
GOWDY: "I do, but I got to confess to you, and I understand people who think I’m wrong. I got an email last night from a friend back home saying, Look, Gowdy, let go of the prosecutor stuff.' I still think that Mueller can produce a product that we all have confidence in, but things like this, make it really difficult -- the perception is, is every bit as important as the reality, and if the perception is, you're employing people who are biased, it makes us really difficult for  those of us that would like to defend the integrity of former prosecutors."