Former FBI Counterintelligence Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok defended the FBI Monday morning during an appearance on MSNBC after the agency raided former President Trump's Mar-A-Lago home last week to recover classified documents.

"Absolutely the American public should trust what the FBI is doing," Strzok said Strzok said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

Strzok was the FBI's head investigator into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 elections and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server. He was removed from a brief stint on Robert Mueller's Special Counsel Investigation after sending anti-Trump text messages and beginning an affair with colleague Lisa Page, and was ultimately fired from the agency for the texts in August 2018.