Peter Strzok defends his texts before House committees

No Images? Click here         FBI Agent: ‘Disgusting’ Comments On Gold Star Family Inspired Anti-Trump Texts FBI special agent Peter Strzok said Thursday that an August 2016 text stating “we’ll stop” Donald Trump was in response to “horrible, disgusting” comments that then-candidate Trump made about the family of a fallen Muslim war hero. Strzok, who testified Thursday at a joint hearing of the House Judiciary and House Oversight committees, indicated his text to former FBI lawyer Lisa Page came after Trump had “insulted 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.” The FBI agent’s anti-Trump text messages sent to Page, with whom he was having an affair, have come under scrutiny by congressional Republicans and the Justice Department’s internal watchdog. READ MORE     WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING? The Department of Justice reopened the Emmett Till murder investigation 62 years after the slaying. The 14-year-old Till was brutally beaten and shot for allegedly making sexual advances against a white woman who has since recanted her story. READ MORE Trump walked back NATO threats and took "total credit" for the alliance's defense spending boost. The president may have been overstating his victory. READ MORE The Trump administration said it can keep Guantanamo Bay prisoners locked up for 100 years. That leaves some of the current detainees stuck in a legal “no man’s land,” a federal judge said. READ MORE         ICYMI Scott Pruitt’s replacement said to EPA staff, "My instinct will be to defend your work." “Just like me, you came to EPA to protect the environment,” said Andrew Wheeler, a former coal and mining lobbyist.   Millions of dollars in Supreme Court ads are coming and we won’t know who paid for them. Neither of the two groups likely to spend the most will reveal their donors before the Senate votes on Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation.   Paul Ryan said that "abolish ICE" is the "craziest position I’ve ever seen." “They have really jumped the sharks on the left,” the Speaker of the House said Thursday during his weekly press conference.       Want more?  Inside Democrats’ Plan To Fight Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee   Trump Posts A ‘Very Nice Note’ From Kim Jong Un And Twitter Users Pile On   Ivanka Got Her Paid Parental Leave Hearing In Congress   HuffPost is now a part of Oath and a part of Verizon. On May 25, 2018 we introduced a new Oath Privacy Policy which will explain how your data is used and shared. Learn More. How will Trump’s administration impact you? Sign up for our email and find out. Did a friend send you this? Subscribe here. Like what you see? Share it. Want more? Here are two other newsletters you'll love: The Morning Email and Must Reads. ©2017 HuffPost | 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you signed up for updates from HuffPost Feedback | Privacy Policy | Unsubscribe   - - Preferences  |  Unsubscribe