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WATCH LIVE: Embattled FBI Agent Strzok Tells Hill GOP Its Attacks Help Putin Sow Chaos

Peter Strzok told House Republicans on Thursday that political bias has never influenced his official actions and condemned the attacks on the DOJ and the FBI.

Updated at 10:04 a.m. ET

Republican attacks on federal law enforcement have helped the Russian campaign to sow chaos within the United States, an embattled top FBI counterintelligence agent told Congress on Thursday.

"Russian interference in our elections constitutes a grave attack on our democracy," Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok told lawmakers in his prepared opening statement.

"Most disturbingly, it has been wildly successful —

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