While Special Counsel John Durham may have shown up to testify before Congress on Wednesday - where he excoriated the FBI, CIA and the Clinton campaign over Russiagate, It was Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-CA) who addressed the elephant in the room; Durham's complete lack of effort to pursue key players and facts behind the Russiagate operation.

Durham was testifying before the House Weaponization Committee to discuss the FBI's 'investigation' into then-presidential candidate Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, known as the "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation, when Gaetz laid into him, accusing him of going soft on certain figures such as the FBI's former chief of counterintelligence, Bill Priestap, who avoided questioning.

Priestap would eventually admit in April 2020 to withholding information which would have rendered the Steele Dossier unuseable by the agency.

"It's kinda laughable. It seems like more than disappointment. It seems like you weren't really trying to expose the true core of the corruption. That you were trying to go at it another way," said Gaetz.

To which Durham replied: "As we said in the report, and I said in my opening remarks, we pursued the facts as best we could."

Gaetz also asked Durham why he didn't investigate why the entire Mueller team was allowed to wipe their cellphones at the same time, before the Inspector General could review them.

"How about this fact, Mr. Durham: The entire Mueller team does a hard reset on their Apple phone, in synchronization, to wipe away evidence. Did you investigate that?" asked Gaetz.

To which Durham replied: "I regret that."