of people said i should run for secretary of state, which is important, especially -- not -- for a jobe me to run that has traditionally been run by the -- by a woman. i said i want to do the job that i want to do for now, that i see is challenging, and that is what i did. people for eight years and this other opportunity came up, so it is important that while you are doing your job, you like what you are doing and you keep focusing on it and people that you spend their entire time looking for the next step, looking for the next climb they can make, to a different hell, they always find out the grass is not always greener and they don't enjoy or do well what they are doing. >> it down the road, the

opportunity arises, would you be interested? >> yes. i appreciate that you are wearing viking purple. that is nice. we have faith the vikings are going to emerge again as a force to be reckoned with. >> but they have never won a super bowl. calledad wrote a book will the vikings ever win a super bowl? sadly he wrote it in the early 80's and it is still relevant. >> yell, university of chicago, why those two?-- >> some editor at the newspaper we were on an elevator, and he said where you going and i said i'm going to the library, and he said no, were you going to college and i said i do not know yet and he says where did you

get in and i said yale, and he said it is too expensive and somehow, we were able to stay together -- i had never been to the east coast except one trip to look at the college and i had not even look at the other colleges i got into and i brought my pink polyester prom dress in case i needed it. i would often take the greyhound bus back and forth from college to minnesota to save money, so it was not exactly a glamour -- the limits of many good friends there and it really opened up a new world for me and a new exposure to the rest of the country that i always wanted to come back to minnesota. >> is your daughter interested in politics? >> my husband always joked when people asked the question. he says would you be interested in it if your mom's job had an

approval rating of 10%? i fork she really has 18 politics and understanding -- a keen eye for politics and understanding. she is doing the newspaper, writing for the newspaper with a focus on politics. i really want her to be whatever she wants to be in life and direct her any which way. her one comment to me recently was that she thought walt whitman's poems were too repetitive. she is clearly a girl who thinks on her own. >> you served two years with barack obama before he became president. what is your relationship with him like? >> i get along with him well. he is someone that has taken on major difficulties.

think about when he got into office, how challenging that was we were losing more jobs and they were people in the state of --mont, you think about his calmne through so many international crisesss -- calmness through so many international crises. it has been frustrating for him to not be able to get anything -- everything done. he certainly got a lot done and if he could get this immigration bill, which a lot relies on what the house is going to do, that he can look back at some major changes that he has made in the country and just some major social changes, whether it be the don't ask don't tell repeal or his position on gay marriage, whether it has been the emergence of so many strong women in his, including hillary clinton, and whether it has been

his devotion to doing something about keeping the economy going against a lot of attacks he gets every single day. i will continue to work with him on every issue that comes along. we like when he comes and visits our state. >> how often do you get back home? >> three out of four weekends. especially with the weather being so lovely in minnesota, you do not want to miss it. there was a day where we were colder than mars, but that day has passed. we have now moved on to warmer pastures. >> if you have a rare day off with nothing to do, what do you enjoy doing? >> i love going bicycling in the summer. i biked with my dad across the country, a level hundred miles in 10 days.

-- 1100 miles in 10 days. around, nong walks matter where i am. i like to check in with my daughter. it is nice to take that time were you can be outside. >> who has a bigger sense of humor, you or your -- >> the president declared after my gridiron speech he said that al franken was now officially the second funniest senator minnesota, but al is incredibly humorous. i think he has worked very hard at his job, you do not always see that humor, but he clearly has a very good sense of humor. >> you do not always take yourself too seriously. >> it is amazing to have to go one-on-one with al franken at a

roast. we have to do this if someone retires. he callede moment was me after one of them and said he liked my jokes and i said i like your jokes but you are really good and he said thank you. he said i worked really hard on you justrepared and had to put that together, and it was amazing. i said the difference was you were professional and i was a prosecutor, and so i use -- he is a lot of fun to work with, and i do think having some people with a little sense of humor in this town can go a long way. >> thank you. >> bob to sec, editor in chief of the hill.com. about what your as ofing on at the -- today, including the former house speaker and the governor of new jersey. >> chris christie, newt

gingrich, these are two supporters of donald trump and he values loyalty. can take a lot of twists and turns, but at the moment, there are reports that these two are at the top, but i would not be surprised if he goes in another direction. >> asia cobra houses during the vetting, he worked with john mccain and sarah palin. >> the vetting back then had to be very rushed because the decision mccain made was last moment. , but he is the same person -- was last moment, but he is the same person. some things came out after she was announced. >> what are the lessons? >> you have to know everything. you have to have long discussions with the candidates about any skeletons in the closet, you have to hire talented people to look into

their background, because all of the media is going to be looking into their background once they are announce. their it -- announced. that cannot be any surprises and that is the result of any vetting, you have to be prepared for the press knows. >> this talk about the top two candidates. governor chris christie was vetted in 2012, he was not selected by mitt romney, what do you think prevented romney from accepting him back then? >> romney felt more comfortable with paul ryan on his ticket then christie. christie also give the keynote at the 2012 the looking convention, and that speech was widely panned. he said i or me 43 times in that speech. he did not talk about romney, he talked about himself. -- christie surprised everyone by supporting trunk, but chris

christie with services vice president if asked. >> two issues, bridge gate and the report -- his approval ratings reporting in the low to mid 30's in new jersey. >> maybe it is about being comfortable about governing, this is someone i can trust, but the bridge gate issue as -- is an issue, but the shoe never really dropped on that, and it hurt him politically. backing donald trump has hurt him with some new jersey voters, his approval ratings in new jersey, and immigrants are big favorites to win new jersey. >> let's talk about newt gingrich, on his personal life, donald trump has been married three times, do these issues matter? >> they do not matter as much as they did in the past. newt gingrich is someone that

ands legislative process clashed with then-president bill clinton and that is what donald trump says he needs. he says he needs someone who knows the process. gingrich is smart, but there are a fair amount of lawmakers who are not fans of newt gingrich and were not fans of him in 2012 and endorsed romney over gingrich after gingrich made his search in south carolina. can call gingrich not an insider in some ways because a lot of the insiders do not like him, but he has been around washington a long time, and he would give that legislative experience to the ticket. >> we sat down with him in the studio. it is clear he would accept the nomination, he is interested. chris christie has made it known he is interested. other names have been mentioned but may not want to be position -- want the position. >> the governor of new mexico

would potentially be a very good pick. them up trump needs to improve his numbers with both women and hispanics. >> he was very negative about her just a few weeks ago. >> mitch mcconnell chided him. another one is nikki haley, governor of south carolina. has not indicated -- she did not back him in the primary. i do not think she would take it. there are some genuine people that do not want this. joe biden said i did not -- joe biden said he did not want to be vice president, but there are organs or do not want to join the ticket,. -- there were republicans who did not want to join the ticket, period. he will turn 70 him christmas eve and he has -- and having to 70-year-olds on the ticket, or

after the election, -- >> gingrich is 73. >> that is true. the matchup between donald trump and hillary clinton will be the oldest presidential history -- oldest in president of history. someone who backed donald trump, a hardliner on immigration, critical of illegal immigration, thought his party on a number of issues, including immigration reform, so i do not think he is likely. we do not know if he is being vetted. i would not be surprised if he is being considered, but i would not call him the top chair. >> what is the process? >> looking into everything that you have done, pat -- past controversies, bank statements, injuries -- interviews with the campaign and the rnc to find out anything that could come out.

it is a rigorous process because they are looking into every bit of your business, especially your finances. if they are not interested, they say no, i do not want to go through that process. >> we will check in more with you later in the program, but here is senator jeff sessions as he endorsed donald trump of february of this year in alabama. when i talk about immigration , and when i talk about you legal immigration and all the problems with crime and everything else, i think of a great man and i want to introduce you to him. you know who i am talking about, nobody knows. we kept it a surprise. senator jeff sessions. >> wow, what a crowd this is.

i told donald trump this is not a campaign, this is a movement. look at what is happening. happyan people are not with their government. leavemes you just need to -- that the people can't down and they will forget it and let it all go. should we forget it? no we should not. there is an opportunity this year. opportunity -- tuesday.n opportunity, maybe the last opportunity we

have for the people's voice to be heard. you have asked for 30 years and politicians have promised for 30 years to fix illegal immigration. have they done it? donald trump will do it. [chanting we want trump] the american people have known for years these trade agreements have not been working for them. we now have a vote on the transpacific partnership, obama trade, and it will damage america. it will create a mission that

undermines our sovereignty and it should not pass. when donald trump gets elected president, he will see that it does not get passed. this movement, he doesn't take money from political groups and lobbyists. he is committed to leading this company in an effective way. you know, no one is perfect. we can't have everything, can we? but i can tell you one thing. at this time, in my opinion, my judgment, we need to make america great again. [applause]

>> all right. thank you all. i am pleased to endorse donald trump for the president of the united states. i believe that a movement is afoot. it must not fade away. find thee potential to american people's voices for a change. the bosses are you. people in washington are public servants. they serve you, and we have not had enough of that. donald trump, great to have you in one of the greatest cities in the whole world, the madison area. fabulous.

>> we leave this to go live to a statement from james comey. give you an to update on hillary clinton's use of a personal e-mail system during her time as the secretary of state. after a tremendous amount of completing itss investigation and referring the matter to the department of justice. today is threedo things. i want to tell you what we did, i want to tell you what we found and i want to tell you what we are recommending. this is going to be an unusual statement in a couple of ways. first i'm going to include more detail about our process than i ordinarily would because i think the american people deserve those details in this case of intense public interest. -- i have notrted coordinated this statement with the department of justice or any other part of government. they do not know what i am about to say. i want to start by thinking the

fbi employees who did remarkable work in this case. once you have a better sense of how much we have done you will understand why i'm so grateful and so proud of their work. first, what we have done. this investigation began as a referral from the inspector general. in connection with secretary clinton's use of a personal e-mail server during her time as secretary of state. the role focused on whether classified information was transmitted on that personal system. our investigation looked at whether there is evidence that classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on the personal system in violation of a federal statute that makes it a felony to eitherle classification intentionally or in a negligent way. or the second statute, making it a misdemeanor to remove classified information from a

secure storage system. consistent with our capabilities,sm we have also search to determine whether there is cases of intrusion by hostile actors of any kind. i have so far used the singular term e-mail server in describing the referral that began our investigation. it turns out to be more concentrated than that. she used several different servers and administrative those servers during her four years at the state department. she also used numerous mobile devices to send and read e-mail on the personal domain. as new servers and equipment were employed, old servers were taken out of service and decommissioned in various ways. teasing all of that back together to gain a full understanding the way in which personal e-mail was used for government work has been a painstaking undertaking.

requiring thousands of hours of effort. servers of the decommissioned in 2013, the e-mail software was removed. that didn't remove the e-mail content but it was like removing the frame from a huge, unfinished jigsaw puzzle and dumping all the pieces on the floor. the effect was that millions of e-mail fragments ended up in the servers unused space. we searched through all of it to understand what was there and what parts of the puzzle we could put back together again. fbi investigators read all of the approximately 30,000 e-mails provided.on where in e-mail was assessed as possibly containing classified information, the fbi referred that e-mail to any government agency that might be an owner of the information.

so that agency could make a determination as to whether the e-mail contained classified information at the time it was sent or received, or that we should classify it now as it was in classified when it was received. that is post-classifying. from the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the state department in 524, 110 e-mails e-mail chains have been determined by the agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. eight of those chains contain information that was top secret 30the time they were sent, six of those chains contained secret information at the time. and eight contained confidential information at the time. that is the lowest level of classification. about 2000 additional e-mails .ere unclassified

those e-mails had not been classified at the time they were or received. the fbi discovered several thousand work-related e-mails among the group of 30,000 e-mails returned by secretary clinton to the state in 2014. we found those e-mails in a variety of ways. some had been deleted over the years and we found traces of them on the servers or devices that have been connected to a private e-mail domain. others we found by reviewing the archived government accounts of people who had been government employees at the same time, including high-ranking officials at other agencies. this helped us recover work-related e-mails that were not among the 30,000 that were produced to the state. others we recovered from the painstaking review of the millions of e-mail fragments dumped into the slack space of

the server that was decommissioned in 2013. with respect to the thousands of e-mails that we found that were not among those produced, agencies have concluded that three of them were classified at the time they were sent or received. one at the secret level and the other at the confidential level. there were no other e-mails found. i should add here that we found no evidence that any of the additional work-related e-mails work intentionally deleted. in an effort to conceal them. likessessment is that, many mill users, secretary clinton periodically deleted e-mails or e-mails were purged from her system when devices were changed. because she was not using a government account, or even a commercial account, there was no archiving of her e-mail. so it is not surprising that we discovered e-mails that were not 2014 when shein

produced the 30,000 e-mails to the state. it could also be that some of the additional work-related e-mails that we recovered were by herhose deleted lawyers. lawyers doing the sorting for secretary clinton in 2014 did not individually read the content of all of her e-mails as we did. shared, they relied on information and they used search terms to try to find work-related e-mails among the 60,000 remaining on her system in 2014. it is highly likely that their netted some work-related e-mails and we found them later in the slack space of a server. it is also likely that there were other work-related e-mails that they did not produce to the state and we did not find elsewhere and that are now gone.

because they deleted all e-mails they did not produce to the state. we have conducted interviews and done technical investigations to determine how the sorting was done by her attorneys. we don't have complete visibility because we cannot fully reconstruct the electronic record, we do believe that our investigation has enough information to give us reasonable confidence that there was no intentional misconduct. course, in addition to our work, we interviewed many people from those involved in setting up the personal e-mail and the various iterations of the personal e-mail server. to those involved with the mill production with the state and secretary clinton herself. last, we have done extensive work to try to understand what indications there might be that

can be copper mice by hostile actors in connection to the personal e-mail server. so that is what we done. now, to tell you what we found. although we did not find clear evidence that secretary clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of the investigation, there is evidence they were extremely careless in the handling of sensitive information. example, seven e-mail chains concerned matters that were at theied at top secret time they were sent and received. secretaryns involved clinton both sending e-mails about those matters and receiving e-mails about them. is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in secretary clinton's position or in the position of those with whom she was corresponding about the matters should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation.

addition to the sensitive information, we found information that was classified as secret. that is excluding any later a classifying. none of these e-mails should have been on any kind of unclassified system. but their presence is especially concerning because all of the e-mails were house on personal servers. not supported by full-time like those in the agencies and departments of the united states government or even with a commercial e-mail service like gmail. to say something about the marking of classified information. of thevery small number e-mails here containing classified information indicating the presence of classified information. but even if information is not marked classified, the disturbance should know that the is classified and

they are obligated to protect it. thatso developed evidence the security culture of the state department in general and with respect to the use of unclassified systems in particular was generally lacking in the kind of care over classified information that is elsewhere in the u.s. government. with respect to potential computer intrusion by hostile actors, we did not find direct evidence that her e-mail domain since 2009figuration was hacked successfully. given the nature of this and the actors potentially involved, we assess we would be unlikely to see such evidence. we do assess that hostile acts gained access to the private commercial e-mail accounts of people with whom secretary clinton was in regular contact from her personal account. secretarysess that

clinton's use of a personal domain was known by other people. her personal e-mail extensively while outside of the united states including sending and receiving work-related e-mails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries. of factors,nation we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to secretary clinton's personal e-mail account. so that is what we have found. with respect to our recommendations to the department of justice, it in our system, the prosecutor makes the decisions about whether charges are appropriate based on evidence that the fbi helped collect. we don't normally make public our recommendations, we frequently do make recommendations and engage in productive conversations with the prosecutor about what decisions may be appropriate. in this case, given the importance of the matter, unusual transparency is in order.

although there is evidence of a potential violation of the the handlingrding of information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. prosecutors wait a number of factors before deciding whether to bring charges. obvious considerations like the strength of the evidence, responsible decisions and the context of a person's actions and how similar situations have been handled in the past. looking back at our investigations, the mishandling a removal of classified information, we cannot find a case that would support any criminal charges. prosecutorss involve some combination of clearly intentional or willful munication or vast quantities of information exposed in such a of disloyaltyions

to the united states or an obstruction of justice but we do not see those things here. to be clear. this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who gauged this activity would gauge no consequence. those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions but that is not what we are deciding now. as a result, although the department of justice makes final decisions on matters like this, we are telling the justice that no further charges are necessary in this case. i know there will be intense public debate in the wake of this investigation. what i can assure the american people is that this investigation was done honestly, confidently and independently. no outside influences of any kind. i know there were many opinions from people who were not part of the investigation but none of

that mattered to us. opinions are relevant. uninformed because we did our investigation the right way. only facts matter. and the fbi found those here in an entirely apolitical way. i couldn't be prouder to be a part of this organization. thank you very much. director komi, does making this announcement clear her way for president? >> we have just heard from james comey with remarks about the investigation into the former secretary of state and current democratic presidential nomination, hillary clinton, her of a private e-mail. saying there should be no prosecution. that is the recommendation. we will open our phone lines to take your calls. to get your reaction.

the numbersall under screen. we are also taking your reactions on twitter and on our facebook page. director james secretary clinton used numerous servers and devices to transmit and receive e-mails, not just one. that is something that is new. i'm not sure that we knew that. she was also careless in handling secretive information. and she apparently shared information in a way that made it possibly available to hostile actors. all the findings will be referred to the justice department for consideration for potential prosecution although director james comey suggested no charges be brought. we will get quickly to our phone lines.

up first from ohio on the democrat line. caller: yes. host: what are your thoughts? caller: i am really disappointed. my grandma was 88 years old. and we have all been democrats. think,t they did, i really makes it look like we are hiding something. christian and a democrat, i really feel that the withs in on everything obama and hillary clinton. our whole family will never vote democratic again. thank you. host: what is your evidence for the fbi being in on what is going on with the clintons? now,r: because i feel that they want her to be president.