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Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Jody Hice (R-GA), Vice Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations, yesterday spoke with Melissa Francis on Fox Business’s After The Bell to discuss the testimony of FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok before his participation in a joint hearing between the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the House Judiciary Committee on the “Oversight of FBI and DOJ Actions Surrounding the 2016 Election.”

Highlights:

“There are multiple questions that are emerging with this. Even the fact that there appears to be more than one copy of the dossier which started this whole thing. It in itself has multiple question marks, and red flags that go up.”

“Quite frankly, Peter Strzok is being masterful at avoiding answering questions. In fact, in my opinion, his attitude and his unwillingness to be straightforward in his answers is exactly the attitude we’ve gotten from the FBI in requesting them to turn over documents for months and months and months: To do everything within their power, and today, with Peter Strzok, everything within his power to avoid being direct in his answers.”

“[This is the] problem when you have a witness who is not forthcoming in his answers. Everyone goes away with basically no real new information, but I can assure you of this, Melissa, we’re going, we will take every step possible to get to the bottom of this, and we have given him an opportunity today to be honest, and he is taking every step he can to avoid being straightforward with us.”

“We will continue fighting, and we’ll continue taking every step within our power to get answers and clean up corruption that exists in FBI.”

Watch the full interview here. Congressman Hice interrogated FBI agent Peter Strzok on his political bias and actions at the FBI during the joint hearing. You can watch his questioning here.

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