This is the FBI agent whose anti-Trump texts to his lover have plunged the Robert Mueller investigation into crisis - leaving home with the wife he cheated on.

Peter Strzok, the FBI's deputy head of counter intelligence, was photographed exclusively by DailyMailTV leaving his Fairfax, Virginia, home with his wife Melissa Hodgman.

It is the first time Strzok has been seen since the revelation that he and Lisa Page, a senior FBI lawyer, exchanged 10,000 texts in which they called Trump an 'idiot' whose election was 'f***ing terrifying'.

The disclosure has led to hearings in Congress, with the deputy FBI director quizzed this week for eight hours on apparent anti-Trump bias in his agency.

Strzok, 47, was dismissed in August from the Mueller probe, but the reason why only emerged months later.

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Center of a storm: Peter Strzok, 47, made his first public appearance on Wednesday as he was seen leaving his Fiarfax, VA, home with his cuckolded wife. His texts to his lover Lisa Page, 38, have created a mounting scandal over claims of FBI bias against Trump and in favor of Clinton

Still married: Melissa Hodgman, 49, left the home she shares with husband Peter Strzok still wearing her wedding ring despite the revelation he had an affair with Lisa Page, 38

Could be questioned: Two House committees are to make formal requests to interview Lisa Page, Strzok's FBI lawyer lover, after their exchange of anti-Trump texts was revealed

Also still married: Peter Burrow, 40, Lisa Page's husband, was seen earlier this month in exclusive DailyMailTV photographs which showed that the couple were still sharing their marital home

And last week the Department of Justice released scores of their texts, revealing that the lovers discussed an 'insurance policy' if Trump won the election.

Page,38, and Strzok have made no public comment on their affair and its aftermath. Both remain employed by the FBI and Department of Justice.

Both also appear to remain married to their respective spouses.

Strzok left home at the same time as Hodgman, 49, who is associate director of the Securities and Exchange Commission's enforcement division, while Page was seen earlier this month at the home where she lives with husband Joseph Burrow, 40, and their children.

Strzok was sharply dressed in a black suit with pinstripe tie and carrying a Nordstrom Christmas bag and a coffee cup while his wife wore a black dress and camel overcoat. He drove off in a silver minivan with his wife sitting in the back seat.

But the political storm the lovers have created is huge.

On Tuesday Strzo's boss Andrew McCabe, the deputy FBI Director, was questioned for hours by the House Intelligence Committee behind closed doors.

McCabe is also facing demands from two other House committees that he answer questions on the Clinton probe in the wake of the texts being revealed.

The chairmen of the House Judiciary Committee, Bob Goodlatte, and the Oversight Committee, Trey Gowdy, have requested transcribed interviews with him, CNBC reported.

They have also asked for a formal interview with Page, a registered Democrat who texted Strzok: 'God Trump is a loathsome human.'

Crisis-struck: Robert Mueller's special counsel probe in to Russia was rocked by the revelation that the FBI agent and the FBI lawyer seconded to work for him were exchanging anti-Trump texts

Crisis for the bureau: The FBI's deputy director Andrew McCabe (right) wads questioned for eight hours in secret on Tuesday by the House Intelligence Committee, while deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, who oversees Mueller's probe, was also questioned at length last week by the House Judiciary Committee in the wake of the anti-Trump texts

The explosive content of the texts riled President Donald Trump last week ahead of a visit to the FBI's academy in Quantico, Virginia.

As he boarded Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House last Friday, he was asked about the texts.

'Well, it's a shame what's happened with the FBI. But we're going to rebuild the FBI,' Trump said.

'It will be bigger and better than ever. But it is very sad when you look at those documents. And how they've done that is really, really disgraceful, and you have a lot of very angry people that are seeing it. It's a very sad thing to watch, I will tell you that.'

He also slammed the FBI's Hillary Clinton probe, calling it a 'rigged system', a phrase he used to apply to the presidential election system in advance of his win.

'When you look at the Hillary Clinton investigation, it was -- I've been saying for a long time -- that was a rigged system, folks. That was a rigged system,' Trump said.

'When you look at what they did with respect to the Hillary Clinton investigation, it was rigged. And there's never been anything like it in this country that we've ever found before. It's very, very sad. Very, very sad.'

The two lovers' texts had detailed their contempt for Trump and backing for Clinton, who Strzok had played a key role in clearing.

Strzok is reported to have been the official who changed a draft of then FBI Director James Comey's statement describing Clinton's conduct.

He is said to have removed the term 'grossly negligent' – language that mirrors the criminal code – to the softer words 'extremely careless', which does not rise to the level at which a criminal charge can be brought.

He also played a part in clearing her two closest associates, Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, of lying to the FBI despite their evidence in a formal interview being at odds with emails they had sent.

The email probe included interviews with several senior Clinton aides including lawyer Mills and chief of staff Abedin.

Mills and Abedin both denied knowing of Clinton's unorthodox email server setup, according to summaries of their interviews that the Bureau released last year.

'Mills did not learn Clinton was using a private server until after Clinton's [State Department] tenure. Mills stated she was not even sure she knew what a server was at the time,' one agent's interview notes read.

And Abedin told agents, they wrote, that she 'did not know that Clinton had a private server until about a year and a half ago when it became public knowledge.'

But in emails released by the State Department, Mills and Abedin both referred to Clinton's server specifically. Lying to the FBI is a federal felony, but charges were not brought against either woman.

Off together: Strzok and his wife Melissa Hodgman left in the same minivan. He had texted his lover Lisa Page 'God Hillary should win. 100,000,000-0.'

President Trump latched on to the revelation of the texts and went on to call the FBI's performance 'disgusting' and evidence that 'the system is rigged'

Strzok and Page were both seconded to the Mueller probe earlier this year from their FBI roles.

Strzok had already carried out one critical interview in his role as deputy head of counterintelligence, when he interviewed Mike Flynn, Trump's then national security advisor, in January.

Flynn pleaded guilty last month to lying to the FBI in that interview in a plea deal with Mueller in which he agreed to become a co-operating witness and even to wear a wire if necessary.

Strzok was removed from the Mueller team in August because of the texts, while Page had already left before they emerged.

God Hillary should win. 100,000,000-0 Strzok to Page

But their existence was never disclosed and the affair was revealed early in December by the Washington Post.

It remains unclear exactly how the texts came to light but the two used their official FBI cell phones to carry on the affair.

Last week, the evening before deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein was questioned by the House Judiciary Committee on his oversight of the probe, the Department of Justice released scores of the 10,000 texts the lovers exchanged.

They revealed months of the two exchanging political views, which became increasingly virulently anti Trump.

The texts included a lengthy exchange in early March in which Page - a registered Democrat - told her lover: 'God Trump is loathsome human.'

Page replied 'Omg he’s an idiot' and Page said: 'He’s awful', prompting Strzok to say: 'America will get what the voting public deserves.'

F TRUMP Strzok to Page

In the same exchange Strzok said: 'God Hillary should win. 100,000,000-0.'

At the time the Clinton email probe was in full swing and Strzok was a key figure in it, under the direct supervision of Comey.

Strzok also appears to have updated Page on the state of the Clinton investigation.

In June he texted her: 'Now we’re talking about Clinton, and how a lot of people are holding their breath, hoping.'

And in July, after Comey announced that Clinton would bot be prosecuted he texted her: 'F TRUMP.'

That prompted her to reply: 'And maybe you’re meant to stay where you are because you’re meant to protect the country from that menace.'

He texted her: 'Thanks. It’s absolutely true that we’re both very fortunate. And of course I’ll try and approach it that way. I just know it will be tough at times. I can protect our country at many levels, not sure if that helps'.

But the text which has caused the most concern in Trump circles is one Strzok sent about an 'insurance policy' discussed at a meeting which Page and Strzok attended with McCabe, then Comey's deputy.

It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40 Strzok to Page

'I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office - that there’s no way he gets elected - but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40…' he texted her in August 2016.

Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has demanded that the deputy attorney general hand over any other messages, emails or documents which would explain what Strzok meant.

He also asked for details of what Strzok meant when he said: 'we text on that phone when we talk about hillary because it can’t be traced, you were just venting bc you feel bad that you’re gone so much but it can’t be helped right now.'

The Wall Street Journal reported that the two were discussing how to keep their spouses from being suspicious about their huge volume of correspondence.

It also reported that the 'insurance policy' was intended to mean that the FBI had to move aggressively on allegations of Russian collusion by elements of the Trump campaign in the election.