Peter Strzok transcript to be released in a 'timely fashion,' Judiciary Republican predicts

The transcript from the FBI agent Peter Strzok's 11 hours of closed-door testimony last week will be released in a "timely fashion," predicted Rep. Andy Biggs, a member of the House Judiciary Committee.

"I don't have a problem with that," Biggs, R-Ariz., said Sunday on Fox News, when asked if there was anything wrong with complying with Strzok's attorney demanding that the transcript being released. "But I think you are talking — and his attorney knows this — if you [have] ever done a deposition or worked with courts, getting a transcript done and getting it done right takes time because I mean, he was there for 11 hours. So it's a lengthy transcript. He gets to go through it and say, 'Wait a second that wasn't quite right,' typically, before it gets released publicly."

He added later: "The Strzok transcript will be out there in a timely fashion, I think."

Strzok, the FBI counterintelligence agent who said "we'll stop" then-candidate Donald Trump from becoming president, appeared before the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees on Wednesday, after which Democrats immediately demanded the transcript.

The lawyer for Strzok, Aitan Goelman, accused House Republicans of leaking portions of his client's private interview, setting him up for a "trap" to return to testify publicly next week. In a scathing letter to the House Judiciary Committee obtained by the Washington Examiner, Goelman condemned certain Republican lawmakers for behavior that "has transcended the bounds of decency, civility and fair dealing, even for this deeply divided political era," and demanded that the transcript be released in full before Strzok's public testimony next week in response to a subpoena from the Judiciary and Oversight committees.

The date for the open-setting interview was moved from July 10 to July 12 after Goelman suggested his client may not comply with the subpoena.

The second hearing was called so lawmakers could hear more about Strzok's experience working on the federal probe into Hillary Clinton's private email server and relationship Trump's campaign had with Russia during the 2016 campaign.

A June report by the Department of Justice inspector general concluded that Strzok's text messages to his work colleague and mistress, Lisa Page, about preventing Trump winning the election did not affect the agency's ability to investigate Trump properly.