This has always been the fundamental hole in the GOP conspiracy theory, and they've never been able to account for it
.@Raul_Labrador, shorter: 'What about Obama's collusion with Russia?'
.@RepJeffries: The FBI publicly disclosed info about Clinton email investigation 11 days prior to the election, right?
STRZOK: Yes.
J: But you were silent about Trump investigation for entire campaign, right?
S: Yes.
J: So you could've stopped Trump before election?
S: Yes.
STRZOK: Yes.
J: But you were silent about Trump investigation for entire campaign, right?
S: Yes.
J: So you could've stopped Trump before election?
S: Yes.
JEFFRIES brings 🔥: "This investigation is a joke. It's a fraud. This hearing is a kangaroo court. It is a 3-ring circus. It is not even meritorious of an investigation by Ace Ventura Pet Detective... Let's stop wasting taxpayer dollars."
.@TGowdySC has retreated all the way to arguing that collusion with Russia isn't necessarily a crime
Strzok calls out Gowdy's bad faith. @RepBonnie tells Gowdy to stop his witness-badgering, and then tells him, "This isn't Benghazi!" 🔥🔥🔥
.@RepBonnie on Gowdy: "I have never seen my colleague so out of control, so angry, and so desperate to protect a president that we all know is not fit to be president."
WOW- @RepBonnie: "If anybody should be pissed at the FBI, b/c you all helped this unfit man become POTUS by not revealing to the people that he was under investigation, it should be me. They should be applauding you, kissing you...but for you we would have had a legitimate POTUS"
.@RepDougCollins is very interested in when Strzok last took a polygraph test. Strzok tries to explain nuance he says Collins is missing, but is quickly shut down by Gowdy.
.@davidcicilline: "We have had 0 hearings on Russian interference in the American presidential election and about our efforts to secure our democracy. We have had 100s of hours devoted to Clinton's emails. This committee has failed... Shame on you [Republicans]."
Strzok pokes a hole in another Republican conspiracy theory by confirming that the Steele dossier was not the reason the FBI opened an investigation into the Trump campaign in 2016.
.@RepGoodlatte cuts off Strzok right as he is explaining why the FBI opened an investigation into the Trump campaign and prevents him from continuing -- which is the exact thing Republicans are purportedly so interested in!!!!!
Strzok said Giuliani's comments in October 2016 about a "surprise" that would damage Hillary just before the election caused him "great concern" because it suggested that FBI agents had leaked information to Giuliani
LOL -- the room erupts in audible groans as a House Republican cedes his time to @Jim_Jordan, so he can ask even more conspiracy-mongering questions
Jordan is out here inscrutable asking questions about the Steele dossier, despite the fact Strzok just confirmed the dossier played no role in the FBI opening an investigation into the Trump campaign in the first place
.@RepRichmond: "In my wildest dreams in my entire life, I never thought that I, a young black man, would be defending the FBI."
.@RepTedLieu: Actions speak louder than words. Your words show you didn't like Donald Trump. You wanted Trump to lose. The one thing you could have caused him to lose is disclose the Russian investigation of July of 2016. Did you do that, sir?
STRZOK: No.
STRZOK: No.
Lieu notes that FBI Director Wray exclusively donated to Republicans during 2016 cycle, but Democrats aren't saying that means he can't do his job. (Because agents are allowed to have private views! Like anybody else!)
.@RepMarkWalker (R) resorts to arguing that the amount of texts Strzok sent was suspicious in and of itself
MY GOD JIM JORDAN IS ASKING MORE QUESTIONS!!!!
Strzok eyes look like they are about to roll back into his head as Jordan starts in on what is at least his 4th round of questioning.
Strzok eyes look like they are about to roll back into his head as Jordan starts in on what is at least his 4th round of questioning.
WOW -- Strzok GOES IN on @RepMarkWalker: "Sir, I'm here under oath. I'm not lying. I never lied under oath and I never will. So the comment that you somehow say that 'you have an integrity issue' is insulting. I take offense. It's incorrect."
.@RepRaskin points out that Strzok also bashed Democrats and Bernie Sanders in his texts: "You can still insult government officials without being thrown into jail or held in contempt of Congress, by our side of the aisle. There's no kings here and we have freedom of speech."
OMG I am totally here for Raskin reading through each and every one of the insults Trump administration officials have hit Trump with. It's poetry.
"My colleagues have disgraced themselves today," Raskin concludes.
"My colleagues have disgraced themselves today," Raskin concludes.
.@RepMattGaetz thinks the fact that Mueller didn't explicitly ask Strzok about his political beliefs when he added him to his team is evidence of some sort of deep state conspiracy
.@mattgaetz barely asks Strzok any questions, but instead insinuates the Mueller team is tainted by bias.
Maybe a clip of his show trial monologue will find its way on to @seanhannity's show.
Maybe a clip of his show trial monologue will find its way on to @seanhannity's show.
.@CongressmanHice uses his 5 minutes to misrepresent the IG report and smear Strzok's character.
Hice seems to think the FBI should've dropped everything for Anthony Weiner's laptop in Oct 2016, and forgotten about foreign interference in the presidential election.
Hice seems to think the FBI should've dropped everything for Anthony Weiner's laptop in Oct 2016, and forgotten about foreign interference in the presidential election.
.@RepGosar can't wrap his mind around the reality that FBI agents are allowed to express personal political views.
Strzok retorts by characterizes his inability to do so as "stunning."
Strzok retorts by characterizes his inability to do so as "stunning."
Gosar -- an elected congressman -- struggles to remember what the electoral college is.
Cringe-worthy stuff.
Cringe-worthy stuff.
.@RepRussell (R) wonders why Strzok didn't report his extramarital affair up "the chain of command." 🙄
.@RepAndyBiggsAZ gets very upset when Strzok seeks to correct the record about false claims.
@RepGoodlatte doesn't give Strzok the opportunity to try and restore his reputation by correcting the record.
@RepGoodlatte doesn't give Strzok the opportunity to try and restore his reputation by correcting the record.
.@RepGrothman (R-WI) embarrasses himself with a string of incoherent questions about the political views of FBI agents. Grothman seems surprised to learn that cops tend to be conservative!
.@RepRutherfordFL misrepresents the IG report to suggest that Strzok's texts implied he no longer trusted American elections and was planning some sort of coup. (They didn't.)
.@USRepGaryPalmer (R) uses his time to tell Strzok he's praying for him and lectures him on his "hubris."
10 hours in and I believe @RepKHandel is the first woman Republican to speak so far. 
I'm tapping out. My video thread was broken about halfway in, so if you missed this morning's tweets, start with the initial one below, and you can loop you way through the whole thing. Thanks for following!
