after business hours, before moving to an evening classified setting to answer even more queries.

A source briefed on the interview said Republicans grilled Strzok about why he lost his security clearance and about why he was dismissed from special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe team.

But Strzok was largely unable to discuss his short-lived role as a member of Mueller’s team — as well as the part he played in launching the FBI’s initial Russia investigation, opened in July 2016 — until entering the classified setting Wednesday evening.

A parade of Democrats exited the interview describing it as a “farce” or a time-waster meant to undermine Mueller by trying to taint a member of his initial investigative team. Democrats said Strzok credibly recalled minutiae about specific episodes with compelling detail.

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By the time Bannon graced Time’s cover in February 2017, references to his capacious reading list had already become mandatory in any profile of the man. But Time editor-at-large David Von Drehle was relatively succinct in his overview of the Bannon library, confining himself to a couple of paragraphs about how his subject had been “captivated by a book called The Fourth Turning, by generational theorists William Strauss and Neil Howe.” Von Drehle did not mention, as others have, that Bannon reads Thucydides. Nor did he assemble an entire syllabus out of books that Bannon has mentioned or been associated with; he left that to Politico and the Washington Post.

Thanks to the hard work of such publications, the most frequently reported Steve Bannon fact