'Show your text messages during Benghazi’: Morning Joe rips GOP ‘jackasses’ undermining Mueller
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough hammered House Republicans who "snarled" at deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein as part of the broader effort to undermine -- and then fire -- special counsel Robert Mueller.
The "Morning Joe" host said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and other GOP members of the House Judiciary Committee had embarrassed themselves during Wednesday's hearing by obsessing over anti-Trump texts sent by an FBI agent fired by Mueller last summer.
"By the way, I'd love to see these guys' text messages during their hearings," Scarborough said. "You guys want to play that game? Show your text messages during Benghazi, show your texts. Why don't you reveal your tech messages and what you were texting each other while you were conducting an impartial investigation of Benghazi for, like, eight years?"
Scarborough said the FBI agent, Peter Strzok, had worked on the Hillary Clinton email investigation Republicans want to reinvigorate, and was then fired by Mueller from the Russia probe after the politicized texts were reported and investigated.
"If you're trying to disrupt Bob Mueller's investigation that has already brought down three or four people extraordinarily close to the president of the United States, you're making a fool of yourself," Scarborough said. "You're trying to undermine the rule of law."
He offered some unsolicited advice to the Republican "jackasses," and warned that tying their political fortunes to Trump would eventually spell their doom.
"If you are auditioning for the No. 1 kiss-up to Donald Trump, too late -- Lindsey Graham won that award this past weekend, he's on his tourist advisory board now for Trump Enterprises, right?" Scarborough said. "All you are doing is actually hurting Republicans in swing districts and you are making Nancy Pelosi move one step closer to being next speaker of the house. Don't undermine the rule of law. This will stay with you the rest of your life."