Article snippet: Peter Strzok on Thursday faced a fierce public grilling from House Republicans who view the controversial FBI counterintelligence agent as the key to exposing what they say was systemic bias by top government officials against Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. The joint hearing before the House Judiciary and House Oversight and Government Reform committees ran close to 10 hours, with Republicans unleashing on Strzok in what was, from the beginning, a rancorous, partisan cage match. During the hearing, GOP lawmakers repeatedly scrutinized the details of Strzok's extramarital affair with former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, with whom he exchanged text messages criticizing Trump and other political figures during the campaign. Republicans also repeatedly clashed with their Democratic colleagues, who accused them of political theater and claimed they are seeking to undermine special counsel MORE’s investigation examining possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. Here are five key takeaways from Thursday's chaotic hearing: One of the wildest hearings in recent memory In a sign of bitter tensions at the hearing, it took 90 minutes for lawmakers to get through even the first question for the FBI agent. There were not enough seats in the hearing room for all of the lawmakers who wanted to speak, so aides switched out name plates as members shuffled in and out. Throughout, lawmakers bickered among themselves — often shouting and yelling over one anot... Link to the full article to read more