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twitter @anhqoc. we'll see you back here 1:00 eastern after your celebrate mother's day. >> have a great day. >> see you! the race for the white house heads to the pacific northwest and that is where we begin this jam packed hour of the election headquarters. i'm uma pemmaraju. you're looking right now live at pictures from spokane washington where the presumptive republican presidential nominee, new yorker donald trump will be speaking to a packed house of supporters in a few minutes. there is extra security on duty just in time there may be protesters determined to try to disrupt this rally. this is mr. trump's first campaign stop in the state of washington happening across a back drop of challenges in the gop over unity and who trump
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plans to tap for his running mate. let's speak to john rogers standing by live in spokane. great to see you. what is the latest? >> reporter: uma, good afternoon to you. a near capacity crowd. not quite full but close enough and as far as protesters go outside, fewer than 100 at this point and they seem to be behaving themselves quite well. as donald trump comes to washington, a couple of big questions. first of all, can he unify the republican party before the convention and certainly before november and does he have an effective counterattack against hillary clinton on the former point. donald trump very critical today about jeb bush and lindsey graham for earlier in the campaign, allegedipledging they support the nominee and now saying they will not support donald trump. remember when the two failed presidential candidates lindsey graham and jeb bush signed the binding plechblg, they broke the deal. no honor. trump mildly critical of paul
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ryan he is going to meet with on capitol hill to see if he can get his support. trump also amused by some of peemt who are critical of him earlier in the campaign season, now calling them up to say hey, can we come on board. here is trump from eugene, oregon last night. >> i have had more people calling me, who have said the worst things about me over the last six months on television and two days ago i get a call from this person, guy, and he said, mr. trump, i would love to join the train. i said let me ask you a question. how do you do that? how do you join the train. you said such bad stuff. how do you pivot out of that. he is a politician, he said mr. trump there, will be absolutely no problem. i just want to join. trump is still technically campaigning for the primaries, folks in was go to the polls on the 24th. he is pivoting toward the general election trying out themes in the campaign trail against hillary clinton, trying
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to find an effective way to hit back on the expected criticism she will launch against him on women. here is trump again from last night. >> just think of it. bill clinton was the worst in history and i have to listen to her talking about it? and just remember this. she was an unbelievably nasty mean enabler and what she did to a lot of those women is disgraceful. put that in her bonnet and let's see what happens, okay? >> reporter: trump has big endorsements from his establishment republicans but is trouting out untraditional endorsements. mike leech came out and said he is with donald trump. so, we'll see how things go in washington but he was not expected to do well here in the primaries with the other competitors. >> very interesting. looking at the big picture, how important is washington state for mr. trump? >> reporter: well, you know, they were telling the crowd from
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the stage here just a short time ago that it is important to get donald trump over the 1237 mark before the convention will is no question as to whether or not he will be the nominee. the 44 delegates up for grabs here, it is proportional with the minimum hold of 20% and in the nine congressional districts there, are another three per district that are available with the threshold of 50%. if you go above 50%, you get all of them. trump definitely trying to come out of here with as many delegates as he possibly can. we'll see, he wasn't expected to do that well here. this was a state favoring john kasich than anyone else. >> interesting. thank you very much for the update. appreciate it. well, donald trump is gearing up for a host of challenges within his party, but he is promising to make a big effort to unify the gop over his presumptive nomination. mr. trump may have his work cut out for him. there is a growing number of high profile current and former
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republican leaders who have already announced that they are withholding their support or may just sit out this election. all of the political drama is creating widespread concern for republicans who want to beal hillary clinton in the fall. i had a chance to catch up with newt gingrich who say many are divided because they didn't think mr. trump would win out as a presumptive nominee so soon. >> what happened was that senator cruz who very wisely dropped out tuesday night created a vacuum. there were a lot of people who thought they would negotiate with trump over the next two months as he tried to pull together enough delegates and suddenly on wednesday, they were faced with the reality that he is the nominee and a number of them panicked and decided they had to make a lot of noise to get his attention to negotiate, but he has, you know, he has the obligation as does the party nominee to find a path to get to bringing the party back together. he's got 60 days to do it in.
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i'm pretty confident he will do it. and i think that is part of the -- it is a healthy part of the process. the speaker of the house has strong views, but the nominee has very strong views. i think they'll get together next week and republican national committee chairman reince priebus is working overtime to bring people together despite the natural tensions. this was a real shock to suddenly have him as nominee at least 30 and at least 60 days before anybody was ready for it. >> why couldn't the speaker just wait and say i haven't met with him yet. i'm hoping to meet with him. we'll have some announcements at a later date rather than right away saying he could not support him at this point. >> look, i assume that speaker ryan was trying to send a signal. he is a sophisticated guy. i assume that he was trying to make enough noise to make sure trump paid attention to him. it is not what i would have done. i said i think it was a mistake.
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he has enormous laden power. he can say he is not going to schedule stuff and then the president has to work with the speaker to get his legislative program through, so i think he probably represents a fairly large block of people who are very anxiety ridden, who are not sure what trump is going to do, and who had planned over the next 30 to 60 days to revolve that and then literally found themselves suddenly faced with the reality that trump is the nominee. >> what would you like to see mr. trump do over the next 30 to 60 days going forward to try to relay fears about his candidacy? >> the key part of this is just getting in the room and listening to each other. he needs to listen to paul and understand what ryan's concerns are. ryan needs to listen to trump and understand what his concerns are. they're not going to agree on some things. that is the nature of our constitutional process and they'll have to figure out how to work out some agreements but
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as the guy who wrote the book a the art of the deal, i think trump is going to have more of a deal making attitude, not a dictating attitude and that requires he listen to the guys and learn the greatest concerns. >> and the party establishment has to remember that the voters have rejected so much of what the party elites have stood for up to this point and rejected many of their ideas and the platform for which they have been campaigning and using all along, so they have to also be open to listen to mr. trump as he puts his ideas forward. >> and not just listen to mr. trump but to the millions and millions of americans who have chosen somebody who is clearly an outsider and clearly a change agent. i was much more offended by presidents bush and governor romney because when those three were the nominees, they expected all of us to support them. they would have been deeply
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offended if we had said something like paul ryan said yesterday and i think it is a bit much for people who got to be president or the nominee because of the republican party to now turn around and decide that they're smarter than millions and millions of republican voters and that they're not going to be part of the team. i found that to be, frankly, very offensive. >> they didn't want to attend the convention or plan to support the presumptive nominee. >> i'm very happy for them not to attend the convention because that means the convention can be entirely in the fire and not have an evening of looking back at the past. >> how do you see things moving forward over the course of the next few weeks. are you optimistic that things will calm down? >> well, we're dealing with the most amazing political phenomenon of the life time. nobody has ever done with trump has done. he came as an outsider, he never held public office. he has increased the vote in the republican primary. democrats are down 35%. i think it is very impressive
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and i think that we have to recognize that you have a unique phenomenon with donald trump and we'll see what he does next. he now has to think about the much bigger playing field of a general election. he has to decide how he is going to beat hillary clinton and i think that then we'll see how the whole process shapes up leading to the convention in cleveland as part of the process, he will have to spend a number of hours meeting with key republicans, listening to them and trying to work out agreements that make them comfortable that he can be the president. >> what are you hearing from the never trump folks out there? are you hearing much about whether or not they plan to continue with their efforts to try to work against him? >> the hard line, never trumped people are crazed. they're never reachable. i don't put them in the same league as speaker ryan. the inspector of hillary clinton
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getting enough to get rid of the right to bear arms, i think the idea of a hillary presidency is a general threat to everything we believe in so i can't imagine how any of these folks can seriously believe that blocking donald trump, now that he is the nominee, that having hillary is better for america than donald trump. well, with trump as the presumptive nominee there, is lots of buzz as to whether he should go public with who he would like to as his running mate. he is not showing his cards saying he wants to wait for the gop convention. he is in spokane washington holding a rally at convention center there and some say announcing a vp choice could further unify the party if that person is someone who has strong ties to the gop. joining us now with thoughts on this mike huckabee. welcome governor, great to see you today. >> thank you, uma, great to be
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with you again. >> there is pressure on trump to move fast and get the party on his side. would it be smart to go ahead and defy protocol as he is known to do, go ahead and stop the guessing game before this summer's convention and pick a vp choice? >> well, he can certainly do that. it might be helpful, but he may decide to wait until the convention, give him more time to vet through the candidates, determine who is really compatible with him. have opportunity to spend time with those people, you know, i don't know that there is any pressure on him to announce this early and i think those who say, well, it will bring the party together. people who are mad at donald trump are still going to be mad at donald trump. i don't care who he picks and i don't think he owes those people a thing. he owes them only to win the nomination, which he has done, and now to win the presidency over hillary clinton which i believe he will do. to placate everybody what that is very petty and acting with
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petulance saying i'm not going to vote or i'll vote for hillary, i don't think he owes those people anything. >> we're showing pictures of the ral thaechl will take place in spokane, washington where mr. trump will be speaking in minutes. he has put former rival dr. ben carson in the position of heading up the search committee to offer up names for trump to consider. who do you think should be on the list? >> not for me to decide. if i had been the nominee, i would get to tell you that. i don't get to talk about it. it is not my decision. >> for people that would be likely contenders that you think would get rave reviews within the party. >> let's take a look at what trump himself has said. he has said he wants to pick someone who has government experience, who has been a governor, a senator, somebody who has some pedigree, a resumé in governing. i think that is smart but he didn't say whether it would be a
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man, a woman, a southerner, a westerner, a northeasterner. he left himself a lot of room and that is smart. the one thing he has shut down, i think ben carson floated, might even be a democrat and he shot that down and says that would be disastrous. >> speaking of outsiders, what impact do you think having an outsider on the ticket, what impact could that have on the gop if it is a name not familiar with the public. >> i don't know that it helps a whole lot. i think it could be a question he doesn't want to have to deal with over the next several months. he doesn't want to put somebody on the stage that can hurt him. the main job of the vp pick is to take the hypocratic oath seriously. do no harm. he needs someone that has been
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through the process well enough, vetted well enough there won't be a lot of big surprises about the candidate and that person is not likely to stumble and fumble, whether it is in an interview or on the debate stage. that is what he doesn't want is the distraction from his own candidacy. >> i asked speaker gingrich about this earlier and i want to get your opinion on this. do you expect that the divide that exists right now in the party establishment like with those with paul ryan and others will soon close over the next few weeks if mr. trump works hard enough to unify the party with meetings and listening more than anything else to their point of view? >> i think overwhelmingly the party is going to come together. i thought it was significant that dick cheney said he would support donald trump and bob dole. that says a lot of them as states man. every one of us on the stage, 17 of us and we all in the very first fox news debate were asked would we support the nominee
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regardless. we said yes. the only person who hesitated was donald trump who later was frog marched in front of the world to publicly sign his commitment to support the ticket. i think, really, the question is, are we going to be men of our word, women of our word, are we going to keep the promise that we made on national television objection this very network when we said we would support the no, ma'am snee i was prepared to do that regardless of who it was, even if it was not my favorite person. i've said very clearly. you bet i'll support donald trump. i think he can beat hillary and i said i would support the nominee. i'm keeping my word. >> that is a promise, as you point out, that was witnessed by millions of viewers across this country. >> yes. >> who know first hand that he -- that everyone did make, take that pledge. we'll see how that all comes together. great to have you on board. thanks for joining us. >> thanks, uma. and now we want to hear from you. should the presidential candidates on both sides of the aisle select their vice
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presidential choices before or during the convention. we'll try to get some of your answers later on in the show. and this fox alert is from mexico. we have learned that the infamous el chappo, one of not notorious drug lords in the world who escaped from a mexican prison will have a new home. we'll tell you where that will be and just how close to the u.s. border it is. plus, complete devastation in canada and the wild forces tens of thousands of people to flee their homes. the latest on what is happening on the ground and if we can expect to see any relief in sight for these folks. >> the situation remains unpredictable and dangerous. the top priority is human safety. immediately, in the danger zone and also, of course, among the evacuees.
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the switch before hand. now, make sure you catch a special fox news reporting beauty and the beast, when kate met chapo. jeraldo rivera spoke with the star who received text messages from el chapo while out on the run. now to canada where those devastating wildfires continue to force thousands of people to flee the homes. crews are saying that the ft. mcmurray fire could double in size by the end of the day. more than 80,000 people have already evacuated the city and at least 1,600 buildings have burned. it is making it much more difficult to put them out. we have the latest on the situation, brian? >> this wildfire is already about 17 times the size of manhattan, new york city, 390 square miles. an area so large, canadian officials are calling this a
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national emergency and they admit, significant rain fall is about the only thing, the only thing, that will stop this fire completely but until then, more than 1,400 firefighters are battling to contain the blaze in the round of providence of alberta, can department of corrections the fire has been unpredictable in the path and senior wildlife officials believe this fire could double in size because of a dangerous combination of high temperatures, strong winds, and low humidity. they say conditions may not change through the weekend. now, the majority of the damage happening in ft. mcmurray where 1,500 structures, mostly homes burned to the ground, look at this video. it was captured by a home surveillance camera james o'reilly and his wife watched this happen in their home and their belongings destroyed in front of their eyes. unbelievable. most of ft. mcmurray's 80,000 residents and their pets have been evacuated to shelters a
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reevacuation effort is currently under way for the remainder of 25,000 residents who fled to oil industry work camps in the north of the city only to be forced back south because of the unpredictable fire. >> no one who is not a trained first responder with a specific job to do should be in ft. mcmurray. a mandatory evacuation order still applies everywhere in the city and it will be for some time to come. >> luckily there have been no fatalities directly linked to this infern no and no towns or cities are in the path. a quarter of the oil production has been put offline until this fire is contained. uma. >> all right, brian, thank you very much. >> no problem. a trail of deadly shootings at multiple locations leading to one suspect. what investigators are accusing him of doing. plus, a top republican senator saying he is willing to advise donald trump on foreign policy.
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welcome back, everybody, here is a check of the headlines making news right now. a federal security officer suspected in the three deadly shootings in the washington d.c. area facing additional charges. the 62-year-old being charged today with two counts of first degree murder and two counts of attempted first degree murder. he had been charged for allegedly shooting and killing his estranged wife on thursday. that shooting took place in a high school parking lot and was the first in a string of attacks around the d.c. area.
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today's charges stem from two other shootings yesterday, one at a shopping mall. the other at a shopping a center five miles away. over seas, a historic moment taking place in london labor party. politician sadiq khan being sworn in as the mayor. he is the first muslim to lead that city. khan beat goldsmith by 300,000 votes. and back in this country and back to the presidential sweep stakes. hillary clinton's campaign looking to seize an opportunity. with republicans divided on whether to support donald trump, the democratic frontrunner is looking to gain the support of republican voters as well as party leaders. her nomination is no lock. bernie sanders still aiming to push clinton to a contested convention this summer. >> hillary clinton is criticizing and courting republicans. her campaign is reportedly
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assembling a republicans for hillary effort to convince republicans opposed to donald trump to vote for her. clinton is focusing on her speeches on her likely general election opponent speaking to a crowd in oakland, california, clinton barely mentioned bernie sanders. instead, she condemned trump and his proposals. >> donald trump has doubled down on his intention to deport 11 or 12 million americans. he is talking about what he calls a deportation force. can you imagine, can you imagine the police and military action inside our borders? >> after winning today's caucus in gaum, clinton secured 95% of the delegates she needs to clinch the democratic presidential nomination. sanders says he is continuing his campaign.
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>> there are nine states left. we think we have a good shot to win in west virginia on tuesday, kentucky and oregon the next week, and we think we can win in california so we're going to fight for every remaining vote in the next nine states. >> california votes with new jersey and others on june 7th. if clinton performs well then, she can clinch the nomination. the democrats next vote tuesday in west virginia, sanders leads in polling there. neither candidate is hosting a public campaign event today. sanders next campaign in new jersey at the rutgers athletic center. >> he will be back on the east coast. thanks, rich! well, top republican senator offering to help donald trump develop a foreign policy plan. bob corker is saying that trump's platform shows flexibility and signs of realism and that his campaign is starting to develop concrete policies. here is trump at a rally in
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oregon. >> i couldn't stand watching the iran deal. i couldn't stand us getting pushed around by isis. i couldn't stand when i look at our military. i couldn't stand looking at the worst trade deals. the dumbest people in the world are making the worst trade deals and you're a big beneficiary of the stupidity. >> all right, joining us now is sebastian gorka, marine corps university and the author of defeating jihad. it is great to have you on the program today. thanks for joining us great to be back, uma, thank you. >> i want to get to the news that senator corker is offering to help trump in the art of foreign poll saech. what do you think of this proposal and do you think mr. trump would be a willing student? >> well, full disclear, i'm not on mr. trump's campaign but he did reach out to me last year
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before anybody took him seriously and we met a few times to discuss national security, so there is definitely interest there, but he has a long way to go. he has a lot to learn. he gave his first foreign policy speech ten days ago here in washington. it was very different from every other speech he gave. he actually read it off of a tell prompter which is -- teleprompter which is unusual for him. it showed signs of solidification of national security but it was all over the place. it had contradictory things in it about our allies and commitments to our friends and disturbing things about our possible friendships and shared interests with russia and china. i'm glad he is looking to develop his policies. it is nice of senator corker to assist him but he has a long way to go, uma. >> in your reading with mr. trump, did you find him to be
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open to listening to different points of view? >> he was curious. he has his own opinion on issues. i think it sounds to me as if he would like to read historic military things, especially about the civil war, so he has an interest, but i also think he has certain ideas that are preconceived especially with regard to the middle east and to our allies and i think now that he has announced his team about two weeks ago with great names, walid farris, he is a middle east expert, now he has people around him that can help solidify his policies. >> you had concerns about some of the statements made in the foreign policy speech he gave about friendship and shared interest with russia and china. can you elaborate on that? >> yes. if you have a broad, historic sense, you will understand that even if putin says he is killing
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terrorists or even if china says they're fighting the nationalists. it didn't mean they're on our side. putin is a former kbg colonel, he is a thug, a vicious man, he runs a country where they get murdered if they disagree. china is the last great communist deictator ship. it is a one party state and to say that we have shared interests, no, mr. trump, we don't and we should really stick to the friends we already have. that is something that has been very, very negatively affected by the obama administration and that is something that mr. trump could fix if he ever became president. >> for our viewers, we're letting folks know we're awaiting remarks from donald trump at this rally that he is attending right now in spokane, washington and as i see, he is about to speak there. dr. gorka, really quickly in
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summing up, do you think his foreign policy approach would be markedly different than what we had the past seven and a half years? >> as i said before, if the white house chair were empty it would be a giant improvement. we have had a catastrophic foreign policy, airborna. africa the middle east, it is a disaster. anybody except hillary would be an improvement. >> do you expect to see or actually, immediate resolutions to our policy in syria? >> i think so. what do we know about donald trump? he likes to win. so he would go up against our enemies, especially isis to win. so i would expect he would have to work with congress, but i expect significant changes if he becomes commander-in-chief. >> sebastian gorka, always a pleasure. >> thanks, uma. let's listen in to donald trump as he addresses his supporters in spokane,
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washington. >> and we're going to win, folks, we're going to win. i can tell you. look at this crowd. a poll just came out, a poll just came out, a great poll, that we're leading hillary clinton. it is already happening. already happening. so, you know, this wasn't supposed to happen today. after we won, i figured, well, maybe i'll stay home and take it a little bit easy. who would have thought this. trump wins before clinton. you know why? she can't put the deal away. we can. we know how to close the deal. she can't put it away. she cannot put the deal away. you know, she makes that one speech away. she gets up. reads the teleprompter. she goes north and south, east and west, we all love what is
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happening to our country, but we don't love what is happening to our country. we don't love it. so, but it wasn't supposed to happen because after we won, which was a little unexpected to do it that quickly, but we had such great, incredible victories, the last victories, new york landslide, won everything. landslide. and that is with three candidates, almost 62%. but three candidates, these guy, see the press, world's most dishonest people, they're the worst. i wish they would take the cameras. look at the size of this place. show them the corner of the room, but this is a lot of people. i don't know how many people. this is a lot of people. they'll only show if we have a protester so i hope we have a couple of protesters today. you know, hillary, crooked hillary yesterday, had a protester and what she did is she cut her speech short.
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she cut it short. it was from 11 to 13 minutes depending on who is doing the counting. here is the thing. you stood in line. we had people standing in line today for eight hours. always. always. so they don't have that problem. they just walk up, whatever the time is and have fun and they have 250 people and we have close to 10,000 people today. >> all right. just a few remarks from donald trump right there, give you a flavor of the atmosphere that is taking place right now inside of that convention center in spokane, washington, at this hour where trump is addressing thousands of his supporters there. we'll keep our eye on it and bring you more news coming out of the speech as it happens. moving right along now, training run suddenly turns into a rescue mission. a helicopter crew saving a marine jet pilot from the icy
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welcome back, everybody, a helicopter crew rescuing the pilot of a jet that crashed off of the coast of north carolina. the pilot was on a training run when it burst into flames hitting the water. the pilot thankfully ejecting before impact. he is now in stable condition. hillary clinton could reportedly be questioned by the fbi about her private e-mail server within the coming weeks. the bureau investigating whether sensitive information that flowed through the e-mail server was handled. they're questioning huma abedin. doug burns is a former
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prosecutor and defense attorney and head county prosecutor, gentleman, welcome, i know there is a lot at stake here politically in a big way for mrs. clinton. let me ask you, doug, do you think right now, if you're a vetting guy that you expect her to be questioned by the fbi? >> yes, i expect her to be questioned by the fbi for sure but then the cosecondary questi, dui thi do i think she will be charged with a crime? no, i don't. it is a political fire storm. there are arguments that she may have violated the statute but it is a political football beyond. >> what about the optics? even if she is not charged but is questioned, if you are defending mrs. clinton there, what do you advise her on how she conducts herself and how to manage the story? >> as a former prosecutor and now defense attorney, we know the most important part of the criminal justice system and that
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is do not offer your client up to give up any criminal testimony when there is a criminal investigation going on. when you represent high level clients like i, do they're stuck between a rock and a hard place. the exercising of the constitutional rights is to protect the guilty and the innocent puts a smear on her. she was going to cooperate, she has cooperated but i agree with doug. i have said since the beginning, this will never be charged as a crime. facts are not there. nobody is looking at the case law. it has difficult things for the prosecutors to show in light of the fact that you look at the statistic that 80% of the cases referred to the department of justice for crimes like this never get prosecuted. that is what we call prosecutorial discretion. because you can charge doesn't mean you should and i think with all of that said, there are not even any more sufficient facts that justify a criminal charge against secretary clinton. >> i know you think there is
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enough to justify. >> a lot itself comes from the rhetoric that was being thrown around. other secretaries of state have done this. wait a minute, none had a private, separate server, it went through a government server, that sber one, and then the other thing that is -- that is number one and then the other thing that is troubling is there is no independent to violate the law. ignorance of the law is not a defense, i didn't know it was illegal and much more importantly, as secretary of state she took an oath immediately upon office that i will know what is classified and what isn't. so knowledge is built in by virtue of that process of taking that oath. >> i disagree completely. a lot of those laws include independe intent, knowledge, purpose and require that -- >> what about the fact. >> not on this one. >> not in this one.
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>> what about the fact that she decided herself which e-mails to delete. >> let's say you and i are sitting in the conference room, you're my boss, you're the county prosecutor, we're investigating an individual over the e-mails but the defendant through all of them and said it was fine. that is embarrassing. >> the issue is that we know, and i've said that since the beginning, those e-mails, 90% of them i think the statistic is, or 80, had made their way to government servers. what people don't understand about this case is that prosecutors don't take weak cases, difficult cases, the u.s. attorney's office is notorious for making sure they put a bow on the case. there is no way a person can get out of it before they bring charges against a high level official like this and they use the rule of reason. they're not going to prosecute someone for a mistake or something they did that was -- >> there are those who say she will not get charged because of the political optics. this is an electioneer that there is a lot riding on this. to charge someone who is the democratic nominee at this point, without heavy duty
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evidence to support it, will not stand. >> a prosecutor at this level, to robert's point. this has to be personally signed off by the attorney general of the united states. loretta lynch who i worked with as a prosecutor in brooklyn, i don't think that is going to happen in a million years. this tremendous political conflict of interest, obviously. not to be sin call. but she works for president obama and it is right in the middle of an election cycle. >> i disagree with that. i feel bad for her and i'll tell you why. for those who believe no explanation is necessary. for those who don't. no explanation will suffice. they all believe the fbi director will do the right thing, if he decides not to prosecute like they don't in most of these cases it will be seen as a political, you know, move and it is unfortunate for her because she is being dragged through the mud on something i don't think believe she has any -- >> the stakes remain high. great to have you here. thank you for the insights, i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> we're keeping a close eye on the rally in spokane washington
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