james rosen, thank you so much. our one lucky guy james rosen is very busy man.d a new best-selling book, four weeks on no, times best-selling list. not just a shameless plug. it is really cool book. next. sandra: moms dig it. sandra: here is a stocking-stuffer idea for you for the holidays. our own one lucky guy is the editor of the best-seller, a torch kept lit, great lives of the 20th century. james, please tell us about this "new york times" best-seller. >> you're very kind to ask. it's a collection of eulogies that william f. buckley, jr., late conservative icon wrote or delivered. one section for president of the united states. j-fk, nixon, reagan. section for pop culture figures like johnny carson and john lennon. a torch kept lit is only place in the world where you find conservative economist milton friedman alongside jerry garcia of the greatful dead. sandra: fun. >> friendship is one of recuing themes in the book. dare say for those our viewers who give a torch kept lit as a gift whatever the occasion will deepen friendship with the. julie: what was go

inspired this book into is as big of continued her to it beautiful prose as was bill buckley and james rosen. the chief washington correspondent james has covered the white house and the state department and reported from in reported from capitol hill the pentagon, the supreme court, nearly all 57 states -- i mean 50. and 44 in countries countries across five continents. they have appeared in the new york times, wall street journal and the washington post harbors in national review. this is not his first book. it's the author of the strongman and also cheney one-on-one. friends of bill and not only the 12 step a kind should know that this man is a walking, talking legacy products. the knowledge about bill and his belief in the lasting importance and relevance and how we need to realize that immense power for good resides in the legacy is second to none. it has been a delight to work with him i congratulate james not only for the excellent book he assembled but also for his own smart prose providing the context in which all of them. on that note ladies and gentlemen. >> think you very thank y

[laughter] >> please join me in thanking james rosen. [applause] thank you all very much president of the national review institute we are so grateful to all of you for your support thank you all and have a great weekend. [applause] >> [inaudible conversations] >> all four of the major branches of the federal power are up for grabs. the house, the senate, the judiciary, the presidency are all up for grabs. come january, you could have a president donald trump, and i think that he carries the senate and if he carries the senate, he also carries the supreme court which is now poised between the republican appointees and democratic appointees and if he wins the presidency and the senate, he fills the vacancy filled by the demise and wins the judiciary and actually it's almost impossible from the political science perspective if he wins the presidency and the senate and doesn't carry the house of representatives with him. another is that hillary clinton becomes president and she is not certain to carry the senate, but likely to would have si

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correspondent james rosen. all right, james, what do you have for us tonight?so, bill, we all know that the fbi has reopened the investigation in to secretary clinton's private server. separate from that, a well-placed source inside the fbi confirmed to me tonight that there are indeed two parallel fbi probes here. the email case and the clinton foundation case with the latter probe ongoing for more than a year as bret baier and others have been reporting. i am told that the consensus view among fbi agents is that the foundation case is stronger than the email case now, but chiefly because of the way the email case was handled in particular the agents are just furious that james comey and the doj, for example, authorized immunity deals for both cheryl mills and heather samuel son, two lawyers for hillary clinton. the latter of human actually revealed all emails for her rather than using the immunity grant with one of them as leverage to have her flip. >> let me stop threw. the other thing is we know there whereas no grand jury so everything had a funnel through

who inspired this book and contributor to it in beautiful probes as was bill buckley and that's james rosen. the chief washington correspondent for fox news, james has covered the white house and the state department and reported from capitol hill, the pentagon, the supreme court, nearly all 57 states -- 50 states, 40 foreign countries across five continents. rosen's articles and essays have appeared in "the new york times", wall street journal, the washington post, harper's and national review. this is not his first book, james is the author of the strong man, john mitchell and the secrets of watergate and also cheney one-on-one. friends of bill and not only the 12-step kind should know that this man is a walking, talking buckley legacy project. his knowledge about bill and his belief in lasting relevance and how we need to realize that powerful good resides in the buckley legacy is second to none. it has been a delight to working with him and i congratulate james not only for the book he assembled but also for his own small prose providing the context in which all of bill set remembrances

james rosen looks back at castro's life and legacy. havana. >> we're outside havana, the thriving capital in cuba, and we're here to discuss castro. word broke he actually died at age 90. they erupted in celebration. thousands of exiles poured into the streets outside the world's most famous cuban restaurant, banging pots and pans, honking horns, and celebrating decades of oppression, killing thousands of dissidents, stealing their homes. they boarded small boats for the treacherous 900-mile road to florida. many didn't survive. many of the residents are cuban descent and thousands more keep arriving many year. we had been expecting this day to bring about liberty for cuba, and it hasn't, and all the people that really wanted life for this day are gone. >> it means a lot because at least i think this is the beginning of the end. >> the scene in havana described as hushed. publicly people mourned, privately some expressed hope that castro's death would lead to a more open and prosperous future. the celebration havana is expected to cont

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and author of "a torch left to lift great lives of the 20th century", james rosen.mmend them to everybody watching tonight. gentlemen, welcome. sebastian, let me start with you. this is a most dangerous time. we have a weak outgoing president. and our enemies will want to test the new incoming one. what are the issues that most concern you now during period of time? >> well, monica, i'm most concerned with the change in tactics that we see isis following. al qaeda for more spectacle. september 11th was more successful in killing 3,000 people that they wanted wmds and experimented with chemical weapons in afghanistan, looking for something more spectacular. isis is more pragmatic and they understand that for a low investment, with minimal low training you can cause a lot of havoc and tell lots of people the nice attack is a classic example. one man with a truck, scores of people killed. and that is what you have on thanksgiving. >> the state department and government agency is issuing warnings. is there anything about this one that feels different to you? >> sadly, n

james rosen looks back at cass tra's life and legacy. but first, let's turn to rick leventhal reporting from little havana neighborhood in miami. rick? >> reporter: chris, we are in the heart of little havana outside of versailles restaurant, the unofficial of miami's thriving cuban exile community and gathering here for decades for all things castro and when word finally broke he had actually died at age 90, the street here erupted in celebration. thousands of exiles poured into the streets outside the world's most famous cuban restaurant banging on pots and pans, waving flags and celebrating the death of a dictator widely hated. stealing their homes, and silencing the opposition. millions felt forced to flee boarding small boats for the treacherous 90-mile ride to south florida and many did not survive and most did not return to cuba. and thousands more keep arriving every year. >> this day's bittersweet because we have been expecting this day to bring about liberty for cuba. and it hasn't. and all the people that really wanted to be a

let's ask james rosen. he's author of the "new york times" best-selling book, "a torch kept lit." great lives of the 20th century. i'm obsessed with the images. talk about this. the left fears the dictatorship where the right says maybements too much of a compromiser. can you be both? >> those two things cannot logically coexist. i think if we want to predict how donald trump is going to go verb, his own past statement are of limited use because he basically exert i'm free of that convention where a politician feels what he says on tuesday has to align with what he says on wednesday. i think his business career in new york is the best predictive model. kennedy: you point aught here he was. he has all these institutions he has to fight against but at the same time modernize things and make some money. how would you categorize his experience as a real estate developer and how might that transcend into the president? >> it's a blend of. >> i diesm. i'm going to put in a spectacular skyscraper there, but also prag ma tim. when he was a real estate developer he understood he was enteri

let's go to fox news chief washington correspondent james rosen in d.c. body who has been offered the attorney general job, right? >> reporter: that's correct. good morning to you, steve, ainsley, and ed. republican senator jeff sessions of alabama was the earliest supporter of donald trump in the senate and a man widely believed as this transition has been taking shape of having any job he may desire. he's been offered the job of attorney general of the united states. published reports say he has accepted that offer. he served 12 years as a u.s. attorney for the southern district of attorney and then as state attorney general. some trump loyalists had hoped that sessions would remain in the senate where his long experience was seen essential. making a visit to trump tower today will be mike huckabee, former arkansas governor and fox ne news. multiple sources have confirmed that the position of white house national security adviser has been offered to retired lieutenant general mike flynn, the former director of the defense intelligence agency. flynn has r

james rosen reports from the white house tonight on an outgoing president who finds himself far from home in a tough political spot. >> reporter: as president obama on his final foreign tour beheld the acrop list, he faced the prospect that last week's exercise of democracy back home may leave his legacy in ruins. >> history does not move in a straight line. >> reporter: in an address to the greek people, the president renewed his commitment to a smooth transition, but smoke in his toughest terms about the president-elect and the meaning of his victory. >> you may have noticed the next american president and i could not be more different. faced with this new reality, where cultures clash, it's inevitable that some will seek a comfort in nationalism or tribe or ethnicity or sect. >> reporter: these are the final days for obama. with the democratic party he led in disarray, his imperialed and the supreme court expected to shift to the right, he must navigate between conflicting duties to his nation and himself. he stresses continuity to reassure allied. he seeks to avoid blame for the

james rosen,. >> thank you, david. david: con grates on the books.issa: melissa i can't wait for him to take the show to broadway. will be a it had. top priority for the trump administration, president-elect trump calling for action on immigration. there is one campaign promise he forgot to mention. >>> new terror threats. isis calling on fighters to focus on high-profile holiday events. how officials are already responding. that's next. david: breaking news on urban outfitters. it is not good. they released their third quarter results. they missed wall street expectations on both the top and bottom lines. that resulted in this. the report sending shares of company's stock plummeting more than 8:00 percent in after-hours trading. sister retailers free people and an throw poll gee, is that how you pronounce it. melissa: an anthropology. david: that is the not good news for urban. melissa: isis is calling on followers to focus on attacking high-profile holiday events, that's great, to cause mass scale injury and destruction. fox news's catherine herrid

james rosen reports from the white house tonight on an outgoing president who finds himself far from home in a tough political spot. >> reporter: as president obama on his final foreign tour beheld the acrop list, he faced the prospect that last week's exercise of democracy back home may leave his legacy in ruins. >> history does not move in a straight line. >> reporter: in an address to the greek people, the president renewed his commitment to a smooth transition, but smoke in his toughest terms about the president-elect and the meaning of his victory. >> you may have noticed the next american president and i could not be more different. faced with this new reality, where cultures clash, it's inevitable that some will seek a comfort in nationalism or tribe or ethnicity or sect. >> reporter: these are the final days for obama. with the democratic party he led in disarray, his imperialed and the supreme court expected to shift to the right, he must navigate between conflicting duties to his nation and himself. he stresses continuity to reassure allied. he seeks to avoid blame for the

first, james rosen at the white house with a look at how history will look at president obama. >> mostodern presidents compile a record that is mixed. so it is for obama and his prosecution of a war on terror that he inherited. after three teams of isis terrorists killed 130 people in and around paris one year ago, president obama underscored the constraints on him and other western leaders. >> when you are talking about the ability of a handful of people with not wildly sophisticated military equipment, weapons, who are willing to die, they can kill a lot of people. >> reporter: three weeks later, isis-inspired terrorists shot and killed 14 people in southern california. the rise of isis in sear why yr iraq and its ability to recruit online, including on u.s. soil, all after mr. obama dismissed isis as the junior varsity, left americans uncertain whether their commander in chief had a firm handle on the problem. >> i don't want to put the cart before the horse. we don't have a strategy yet. >> i don't think history will judge the administration have been very effective. we have seen t

>> james rosen on the north lawn tonight.nk you, james. >> you bet. >> let's dig deeper intothat rus responsible for some sort of interference in the election process. catherine herridge tells us what she is hearing tonight. >> since the cold war, russian intelligence has understood the power of information warfare. technological advances in the last five years, including the explosion of social media outlets have created new opportunities for moscow to aggressively push propaganda and criticism aimed at russian policies after the european union voted wednesday to counter moscow's disinformation campaigns, president vladimir putin accused the europeans of censors dissenting views. >> this means that we are witnessing a certain, in fact, an absolutely obvious did he go grey gation of a political point of view democracy in western societies. >> despite putin's public protest, experts who analyze social media say the russians are stepping up their game. >> they are trying to give the appearance that there's a public opinion, pub

james rosen has the latest. good evening. >> reporter: for senate republicans the name of the game tomorrow is triage. staunching the loss of blood to prevent the upper chamber from reverting to democratic control or devolving into a 50/50 tie. >> who is that independent voice for them and fight for them and not be a rubber stamp for hillary clinton. >> as she's been trying to back away her support from donald trump, she's been trying to back away a record in washington. >> reporter: the battle for the junior u.s. senate seat in new hampshire, site of the first in the nation primary, could make the granite state a critical factor in our politics in between presidential elections. trailing as recently as the final week of october, kelly ayotte now leads democratic governor maggie hassan by a little over a point. >> this seems to be shifting a little bit in ayotte's direction. if i had to pick one race, this is the one i would look to to see who controls the senate, here in new hampshire, a lot of independent vote

chief washington correspondent james rosen is live from the white house with more.urkey. [laughter] >> reporter: and to you, arthel and leland. greetings from the white house where president obama yesterday participated in his final turkey pardon event, and where he also made it abundantly clear he was determined to leave no pun unturned. in a nine minute ceremony in the rose garden yesterday, mr. obama conferred clemency on tater and tot, two 40-pound turkeys raised in iowa and named by school children in the hawkeye state. presidential daughters, sasha and malia, whose eye-rolling at their dad's jokes came to be an integral ingredient in this event skipped yesterday, but his departure will not mean a reprieve from this holiday tradition. >> what i haven't told them yet is that we are going to do this every year from now on. [laughter] no cameras, just us, every year. [laughter] no way i'm cutting this habit cold turkey. >> reporter: the president's jokes were objectively awful in this year, complete with references to riding the gravy train to freedom and the sent

president-elect donald trump selecting the lieutenant general for a role of national security advisor, and james rosen has more. >> reporter: visitses to trump tower by general flynn attracted special interest. and word as national white house adviser circulated. >> he is tough. and we need a foreign policy that puts america first. >> reporter: flynn was the top special enteleigence officer and he served under mccrystal and guided delta force and seal team six. he directed u.s. central command. and is credited with revolutionizeing the speed with which intelligence data is exploded. he testified to congress alongside directorses of the fbi and cia and never once did flynn receive a audience with the commander in chief. in the recent book he said he was fired because of his assessment with isis conflicted with the view of the president and aides wanted to expect. he spoke at the gop convention. >> i am infuriated when our president bans criticism of our enemies. i am certain, i am deadly certain that we cannot win this war unless we are free to call our enemies by name. radical islamist and failed tyra

here is james rosen. >> i know the best people. i know the best managers. >> reporter: gfiven his reputation as a savvy judge of personnel, his first hires as president-elect reflect managerial instinct in choosing reince priebus as white house chief of staff. mr. trump tapped the ultimate beltway insider whose mastery of electi election. >> dale: -- >> he brings people together. he gets them to buy in on the shared vision and brings out the best in people to get successful things done. >> reporter: mr. trump created a aided a co-equal position for steve bannon. a former naval officer, he brought discipline to the campaign but under his leadership the conservative website breitbart appealed to the alt right. advanced notions like birth control makes women unattractive and crazy. >> it does give me a real pause about sometimes they're going well beyond accepted norms. >> reporter: harry reid said through an aide, president-elect trump's choice of steve bannon as his top aide signals white view president-elect trump si s supremacists

good friend james rosen.e let you out of the swamp and come up here. >> drained the swamp. >> leading up to the election there was all this talk about how the were -- you know, helplessly split and donald trump was going to have a landslide loss and then republicans we have to pick up the pieces. now you see the democrats have this heart breaking loss for them. and they have got to pick up the pieces and nancy pelosi has a challenge out of nowhere auto lot of people are not talking about. divided in the democratic party: challenge in the democratic party in the house is not as indangerred as it should be. all top leaders in the democratic house are 76 or 77 years old. she has been a leader for 14 years. the democrats have suffered large losses under that leadership. the challenger, representative tim ryan democrat of ohio ripsz the rust belt region that the democrats need to start reconnecting with. but she comes from california and excellent at fundraising. in ryan is going to have to get 100 out of 198 vote

. >> with that let's go to james rosen who joins us live from dc with more. >> good torning to you and our viewers. donald trump has offered the position of national white house security advisor to retired mike flynn former director of the federal in -- central intelligence agency. he wrote he was fired from dia where he never once received an audience with president obama because the general as's assessments of isis didn't alarm with the view the what house wished to present. he followed as chief s chief of steve bannon. he will meet with mitt romney at trump national golf club this weekend. they exchanged some harp words during the primaries. he is evaluating him for the job of secretary of state. >> 99 percent of the cases it's an opportunity to have an open and frank discussion about ideas and opinions and discussions they have about how to implement a trump agenda. i would say any one is suggesting any decision has been made about any particular cabinet until he himself says it it is way mature. >> he was recently stewarding the trump transition team and was thought a candidate is

we start with james rosen on how the democrats got here and what happens now. >> reporter: good evening. both parties have gone through rough times before and struggled to come to grips. the problem appears to have been aggravated by the dominance over it for so long of bill and hillary clinton. >> we will have some wonderful news for the american people tonight. perhaps some surprises to some of you. >> reporter: that was election day. now as nancy pielosi surveys th landscape, she sees republicans controlling the white house, senate and the house. republicans picked up three governor seats and control of two more state legislatures for a total of 32 of 50. >> this is the worst shape our party has been in since reconstruction, 1920s, or before in the 1870s. we lost across the board. we lost very progressive people. we lost moderates. >> reporter: soul searching is an exercise for the party that loses the presidential election, a reckoning in the political wind wilderness. for years ago, it was the republicans. >> our message was weak. our ground game was insufficient. we weren't inclus

james rosen on "outnumbered overtime" on the web and facebook.com/out numbered fnc. we're back on tv at noon eastern. see you then. "happening now" starts right now. % toward the holiday season. >>> and a package explodes inside of a man's home. the question is now, was he a target? and iconic image and recognizable around the world and original prints can be yours for a price. it's all "happening now". but we begin our second hour with a stroem of people headed in and out of trump tower today as the president-elect works to build his cabinet. welcome to the second hour of "happening now". i am jon scott. >> visitors have been coming in and going. >> among them dr. ben carson earlier today and congresswoman cynthia lumus. paul manafort was seen also in the building. mr. trump sits down with a top new york times executive after initially cancelling the meeting. we'll try to put all of the baseball cards together for who's who. >> reporter: it is not an official announcement. we have information about dr. ben carson. he was here and left trump tower after meeting with

chief washington correspondent, james rosen, also editor of "a torch kept lit" a collection of o bitears. how upbeat is that? and now review reporter, cat temph. what a fake smile. and volcano is his hot tub, tna wrestler, tyrus. [ cheers and applause ] >> i want to go to the historian here, cat -- no, james. you've wristen a lot of historical books, but i hear they're fantastic. is this a new trend, a republican wins and everybody who didn't vote for -- everyone who didn't vote period starts freaking the hell out? >> pretty much, no, it's not a new trend. every republican trend since nixon onward, the left demonizes the dawn of a new fascism and the gloves are really coming off. we heard it with nixon and george h.w. bush received this treatment. what you have here really i think is a little less than one half of stumbling through the stages of grief, so what you see is denial, a lot of it paid denial and i think eventually they'll get over it as they see him get sworn in and start to be president of the united states. >> what do you think? do you think this is justified or is this

it's time for our sunday group, michael needham for heritage action for julie pace, journalist james rosen, editor of a collection of buck's eulogies. i can tell you it's a good read. >>> michael, as i discussed with reince priebus, donald trump took a real hard line in the campaign about reversing president obama's executive orders, find and restore with cuba. you heard me talking to reince priebus today. how important an issue is this for conservatives? >> i was satisfied with the answer. i think it's an important issue. donald trump has come in and shown there's going to be a different tone from this naive foreign policy we've had the past eight years and has made the world a much more dangerous place than it was. if you heard the tone that he took, placing america on cuban side of the opposition rather than the oppressors and comparing that with degradation from the left of president obama's statement from the absurd statement from the prime minister of canada to jill stein's tweet, which was just offensive and something you would never imagine anybody in america with a moral compass s

. >>> james rosen has been working his sources as well on this story. he joins me now. james, good evening. >> reporter: good evening. much of what we have heard but a lot of it is confirming. for example, there are really two parallel cases the fbi has been investigating. one is the clinton e-mail case. the other is the clinton foundation case. agents are hard at work on both right now. the foundation case as opposed to the e-mail case is seen by the field agents at the fbi -- my source is well placed inside the fbi. it's seen as the stronger of the two in part because of the way the e-mail case has been conducted. the field agents, for example, cannot believe that director comey authorized the provision of immunity to two of hillary clinton's lawyers, heather samuelson who reviewed the e-mails and cheryl mills who was the chief of staff when normal procedure would be to immunize one of them and pressure that individual to deliver the other. on the e-mail case, this source i asked is there anyone at the fbi who believes secretary clip t clinton's server was hacked? no.

james rosen, smart dude. 10:00 p.m. saturday. >> okay. you ran out of time.ay, sunday. >> stop. in another cute episode of animal videos -- in the spirit of it's been a long week -- we had a show on sunday and now on friday. i wanted to get inspiration for how to relax this weekend. take a look at this. a little rub there. a little touch there. this relaxed koala, he really gets it. a resident of a wildlife park in australia. it's so cute. you must have such envy. >> i do. they are miserable creatures. they are not friendly. they are horrible animals. the cuter they are, the meaner they are. trust me. >> he is a good boy. >> or girl. >> as the saying goes, you can't bury your head in the sand forever. one georgia man is trying. he does not know who won the presidential election. he works at home and he has pledges from friends and family not to tell him. he is fed up with the political system like so many people, went to bed on election night without learning the results. when he woke up the next day, he felt so peaceful he decided to wait to find out. a coup

chief washington correspondent james rosen shows us what's happening. >> reporter: for the fifth straightkend massive crowds estimated up to 1.5 million strong flooded seoul to demand the reds ig nation of park. >> translator: i came here so our children who will live longer than i will will know about such i am proper politics and power and to show the children a peaceful rally. >> park's the country first female head of state elected in 2012. she is accused by prosecutors in a scandal centered on the influence of this woman, a family friend to whom president park allegedly gave classified information and favored with government decisions on matter as sensitive as a controversial merger involving tech giant samsung. i am sorry. i committed a sin that deserves death. >> reporter: in a region menace by north korea ruler kim jong-un host to 28,000 american troops. >> translator: reckless provocation will be the road to destruction r park has accepted responsibility for the scandal but refuses to resign. the state department recognized south koreans right to protest and pledged support to th

like james rosen under the justice department or cheryl atkinson who continues to be investigated by the obama administration, why weren't the journalists concerned about their cohorts there? >> such a smart point. god bless you for saying that. she really in this speech which i would recommend to all of our viewers to read, it was remarkable. very poorly written, too. at one point she kind of pulled the mask off and said this, quote, the winning candidate, trump, did a savvy end run around us and used it to go straight to the people. whoa. the biggest sin you can commit in the eyes of christiane amanpour. >> she says we need to commit ourselves to journalism which is a good idea. >> of course. >> i think it's great by the way that journalists now feel that they should be adversarial, hold politicians to account, should be tough on them. i wish it would have happened in the obama administration. we missed out on good journalism because people weren't holding them to the fire and doubting everything that barack obama said. i think that's really important. i think tough journalism, we

chief washington correspondent james rosen reports from the white house. >> sandra, good evening.sident obama has said that the u.s. counterterrorism apparatus is stronger than it has ever been. but as we approach the first transfer of power in washington in close to aek the cade, analysts say that terrorists are looking to test the outgoing and incoming administration. >> our intelligence agencies and communities are on a razor's edge. they're always trying to get in fron front of the cycle of the terrorists, where do they convene, where do they develop their energies and resources from and what are they seeking. this is a tenuous time. >> the romney transition team of 2012 had a so-called black swan unit.slsh author of "shall we wake the president" has cataloged eight man made that could come with mr. trump. >> this is a cyberattack, bioterror assault, outbreak of a new disease that was unexpected, an economic collapse. there's all kinds of things that could happen in a first year or indeed anytime throughout the administration. but the first year is the most dangerous because t

. >>> james rosen has been working his sources as well on this story. he joins me now. james, good evening. >> reporter: good evening. much of what we have heard but a lot of it is confirming. for example, there are really two parallel cases the fbi has been investigating. one is the clinton e-mail case. the other is the clinton foundation case. agents are hard at work on both right now. the foundation case as opposed to the e-mail case is seen by the field agents at the fbi -- my source is well placed inside the fbi. it's seen as the stronger of the two in part because of the way the e-mail case has been conducted. the field agents, for example, cannot believe that director comey authorized the provision of immunity to two of hillary clinton's lawyers, heather samuelson who reviewed the e-mails and cheryl mills who was the chief of staff when normal procedure would be to immunize one of them and pressure that individual to deliver the other. on the e-mail case, this source i asked is there anyone at the fbi who believes secretary clip t clinton's server was hacked? no.