About 2/3rds of the way through Day One. A few observations.
First, Gowdy was trying drill down on the 'insurance policy' text in August 2016. This would have been a few weeks after the opening of Crossfire Hurricane. A lot of redactions but my takeaway of the non-redacted exchanges is the involvement of foreign intelligence. Page is prohibited by the FBI counsel, who was instructed by Team Mueller to bar this testimony to say whether an interview with a witness happened inside or outside of the United States. That could be Special Agent Gaeta in Rome, of the Mifsud/Papadopoulus part of the scheme or it could be someone in British intelligence, Halper?
Second, she did discuss that there were several conversations about how far they should go, including the potential for 'burning' sources that would be useful in future counter-intel investigations. And the counter assessment to that was the probability of Trump being elected, meaning was it going to be worth it to throw everything and the kitchen sink at Crossfire Hurricane if the risk of Trump being elected was low and the threat that he was compromised by the Russians was meaningless.
I found that portion plausible but not persuasive as she has had months if not a year to craft that explanation. Further, the fact that foreign intelligence assets were immediately deployed as implied from my first paragraph, indicates those discussions were quite brief, if they happened at all. And this is in the August time frame in 2016. When Ohr testified he met with McCabe, Page and Strzok about Steele's information. (Which she later denies in reports I have seen of her Day Two testimony, that she didn't know anything about Steele or the dossier until September. So someone's lying.)
She was not under oath at this hearing but was warned about false testimony to Congress penalties.
The last thing I found odd was that Page was supposed to keep McCabe abreast of what was happening in investigations yet she never personally read any of the 302s, relying instead on briefings from the line agents and prosecutors, according to her testimony. But that's not her text messages say as she and Pete the Cheat discussed McCabe's editing and approval of the Flynn 302 in February 2017. She's not very smart, nor was she prepped very well for these hearings.
