Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page was questioned for a second day by lawmakers from the House Judiciary and House Oversight and Government Reform committees, The Hill reports.
Page was answering questions about anti-Trump texts she exchanged with another former FBI agent during the 2016 presidential election. GOP lawmakers have suggested her messages proved the FBI was biased against Donald Trump, then the Republican presidential candidate.
A report from the FBI's inspector general examining employee conduct during the election found a text message where Peter Strzok told Page "We'll stop it" after being asked, "[Trump's] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!"
Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., said Page, "demonstrated a transparency that we didn't see from Peter Strzok."
Strzok had a fiery public hearing Thursday before the House Judiciary Committee where committee leaders Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., and Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., sparred with Strzok about his messages.
Strzok, though, said, "at no time, in any of these texts, did those personal beliefs ever enter into the realm of any action I took."
Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, said Page's testimony proves otherwise.
"In many cases, she admits that the text messages mean exactly what they say, as opposed to agent Strzok, who thinks we have all misinterpreted his own words on any text message that might be negative," Ratcliffe said.
Trump criticized Strzok on Monday while speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin at his side during a press conference following their summit in Finland.
"And if anybody watched Peter Strzok testify over the last couple of days, and I was in Brussels watching it, it was a disgrace to the FBI," he said. "It was a disgrace to our country. And you would say, 'That was a total witch hunt.'"
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