after he had misstated an issue regarding huma abedin. the issue regarding huma abedin.abedin. the issue is that there are complex but he had stated in testimony that huma abedin did something she did not do, send thousands of classified e—mails to her then husband. but over role, i think looks by critics president trump as an excuse and that he was released for different reasons. our correspondent is in washington with more on this. what more are the white house saying about all these? we actually have a letter that president trump set to the now former fbi directorjames comey. it is an interesting letter. in it he says, while i greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions that i, the president of the united states, are not under investigation, like nevertheless concur with the judgement of the department ofjustice that you are not able to lead the bureau. we need to restore public trust. that was directly from the president. the white house spokesperson said that the move came after president trump was recommended by the deputy attorney general rod r

tonight it is, quote, coincidental, this firing of james comey happened on the same day as the huma abedin news. as you know, when comey testified earlier this week on capitol hill, he said there were hundreds of thousands, i believe, he said of e-mails that were forwarded from huma abedin to anthony wiener. it turns out that that was an overexaggeration, and comey had been in the headlines on this day because of that. and there was a lot of questions as to how the fbi might go about it, how they might correct the record and is so forth. but the white house, their line tonight is this is merely coincidental. secondly, the white house press secretary sean spicer was asked about whether or not the president still has confidence in jim comey, and as it relates to -- it was brought up in the context of these abedin e-mails and the testimony, and spicer said, yes, as far as he knows the president does have confidence in him. however, he did hedge a little bit by saying, well, at least as it relates to the last time that

apparently, the tipping point was the flip-flop and the conflicting information whether or not huma abedin had sent hundreds, perhaps thousands of mailto her husband's laptop or just a handful. how could they get that wrong? >> yeah, it's amazing that they did if, in fact, that was true, and evidently it is. i think what we saw here is that the president's being consistent. if he finds someone in his cabinet or right underneath in his purview or circle has misled congress or him, then he seems to have indicated exactly how he will deal with them, and that is to terminate them. charles: tammy, i've got to tell you, this is an absolute bombshell. president trump has stood by james comey through a lot. [laughter] i thought, actually, to be quite frank with you, he would be one ofhe first fir. he never out of the news. he was always in the forefront of the news, there was always confusion be every time he opened his mouth, and i think it was a long time coming. but it was certainly, in this particular case without a doubt, warranted. >> one of the problems is when you're the story, something h

. >> huma abedin in the fact that director comey when investigate hillary clinton and didn't find intent with huma abedin, like sean said, our investigation into the unmasking is showing that this is highly politicized and not beyond flynn -- there were hundreds of people unmasked as well as congress, as well as other members. i think we need to look at the full scope of what was happening during the obama administration and during the election. we will get answers. >> sean: is this potentially the biggest scandal in the history of this republic, when all is said and done? >> i absolutely do believe that this is probably one of the biggest scandals in the republic. everything that we know it comes to true -- and light is shed, i really truly believe it will open everybody's eyes to something and hopefully it will stop.

the handful came down to huma abedin basically using her blackberry. think that those are almost gone. plugging her blackberry into anthony weiner's laptop. how do you do that? you work for hillary clinton who was already under fire for sharing classified documents and then you're going to hand it over. >> harris: only one word pops into my head, entitlement. >> meghan: while he was sending explicit images to underage girls online, think about national security secrets. >> harris: brought to you by the organizers of the women's march, more than 80,000 people have now signed the so-called pledge of liberation asking congress to reject some policies. they are moving forward with an anti-trump activism document organizing the women's march the day after trump's inauguration. the pledge has a list of demands and they include raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, ending police violence, allowing all former prisoners to vote, open border immigration policies, open access to abortion and birth control, and taking away tax money that funds militariz

forwarded from huma abedin to her husband, anthony weiner. when asked if it should be considered a crime, richard blumenthal said this. >> if there was classified information and it was improperly passed to a person unauthorized to receive it, yes, it's a crime without knowing what the intentions were. there is potentially a prosecutable crime. >> should it have been prosecuted? >> it still may be. it is not outside the statute of limitations. the department of justice is going to have to decide, and the question is, who will decide it? we need a special prosecutor to investigate this. >> eboni: i'm going to come to you. i had the privilege of filling in for the thanksgiving special for "the five." has she become the scapegoat of the democratic party? >> eric: when you have richard blumenthal recommending a special prosecutor. the only reason why we know she investigated the information is that anthony weiner was being investigated. they have his computer. oh, we have hillary clinton's classified information. hello. let's go. let's find out w

backed up from abedin's blackberry.g of that investigation became a huge source of controversy. first, last july he anger the republicans by taking the unprecedented step of announcing the investigation was over. >> we are expressing to justice our view that no charges are appropriate in this case. >> reporter: candidate trump expressed outrage. but trump gave comey credit after the fbi reopened its investigation into clinton's e-mails. >> it took guts. for director comey to make the move that he made in light of the kind of opposition he had. >> reporter: comey closed the investigation again three days before voters went to the polls. but the damage was done. >> look, this is terrible. it majors me mildly nauseous to think that we might have had some impact on the election. but honestly, it wouldn't change the decision. >> reporter: when comey and trump first came face to face with each other after the inauguration -- >> he's become more famous than me. >> reporter: comey's job seemed safe. family or not, democrats bla

a shocking claim from the director of the fbi describing how the e-mails from huma abedin ended up oner's corrupted. >> she forwarded hundreds and thousands of e-mails, some of which contained classified information. >> reporter: the disclosure was made last week at the senate judiciary committee's oversight hearing, but officials say it wasn't true. abadin did not personally forward the majority of e-mails found on her husband's laptop. instead, the e-mails were automatically sent by a backup system on abadin's phone, according to what u.s. officials told cnn last fall, but comey seemed to confuse the issue when testifying last wednesday. >> huma abedin appears to have had a regular practice of forwarding e-mails to him, and i think to print out for her, so she could then deliver them to the secretary of state. >> reporter: analysts concluded abadin may have forwarded some but not the hundreds and thousands comey referenced, and e-mails on weiner's computer were not marked classified at the time they were sent, though the fbi later determined that classified information was contained

weiner is married to top hillary clinton aid huma abedin. it was the investigation into weiner that threw the presidential campaign into turmoil when james comey revealed clinton e-mails discovered on weiner's laptop. >> i'm here today to again apologize. >> reporter: in 2011, weiner resigned from congress in zbris over his first sexting scandal. >> today i'm announcing my resignation from congress. this is why i'm in the race. >> reporter: in 2013 he ran for mayor of new york until he was caught sexting again. their drama captured in a documentary. today abedin officially filed for divorce seeking full custody of their 5-year-old son. it's still unclear how weiner's status as a sex offender could impact a custody battle. and he may have to be off probation before he's able to visit his child's school. the government seeking between 21 and 27 months in prison. >> a defendant doesn't plea because they don't want a messy trial. they plea because they think it's better for them, that they'll get less time in jail. >> reporter: weiner will be se

he should, comey, ed at a minim done a full investigation of huma abedin.resident trump tweeted this, fbi director "the five" and gave her a free pass for many bad deeds, the phony trump russia story was an excuse used by democrats as justification for losing the election, perhaps he just ran a great campaign. clinton got a free pass and it so did huma abedin and that creepy anthony weiner guy. take a look at this on your screen, our friend jay sekulow who will join us in just a minute. look at the laws he pushed together, a list of loss that hillary clinton very well would have broken and has broken. if it was you or if it was me or jay or monica who's going to join us, if we did a tiny fraction of what they did, we would be wearing a striped suit, sitting at a nice little tiny cell somewhere. there's the issue of the alt radical left in their bizarre ongoing conspiracy without empathy evidence of president trump colluding with the russians in the lead up to the election. comey has been more than forthcoming and that investigation of course. one democratic

but the bureau could not prove criminal intent and did not recommend charges against abedin, wiener or democrat dianne feinstein. >> you took an enormous gamble. the gamble was that there was something there that would invalidate her candidacy. and there wasn't. >> reporter: democrats pressed comey on why he discussed the clinton investigation during the campaign but did not reveal that the fbi was also investigating the trump campaign and its contacts with russia. senator patrick leahy. >> was it appropriate for you to come on one investigation repeatedly and not say anything about the other? >> i think so. >> reporter: comey said attorney general loretta lynch forced his hand when she had an impromptu meeting with former president bill clinton during the investigation. >> her meeting with president clinton on that airplane was the capper for me. and i then said you know what, the department cannot by itself credibly end this. the best chance we have is if i do something i never imagined before. step away from them and tell the american people, look, here's what the fbi did. here's wh

his then spouse huma abedin had a regular practice of forwarding e-mails. for him to print out for her. >> sources say while abedin did occasional forward e-mails to the lab top for printing, it was not a regular practice and it was much smaller number than the director stated. also no e-mails were marked classified. but later a small number was found to have contained classified information. the fbi sent a letter to the senate judiciary committee this afternoon trying to clarify the directors testimony. during last weeks hearing comey did tell lawmakers the fbi could not find criminal intent and did not recommend charges. democrats express and comey chose to tell congress about the clinton e- mails just before the election. while not disclosing the fbi investigation into possible connections between the trump campaign and russia. >>> in other news she was home for spring break watching a music video film crew when out of nowhere someone started shooting. and a fatal shot hit iana. the gunman is still out there and some family members can't bring themselves

could then deliver them to the secretary of state. >> reporter: at one point, comey even said that abedin sent hundreds and thousands of emails to her husband, but pretty quickly, sources close to the investigation were telling cbs news and other news outlets that actually, abedin only sporadically sent emails to her husband, and that most of the emails ended up on his laptop because of the unintentional backing up of a blackberry. the f.b.i. even had to issue a correction to his testimony late this afternoon. it caused a lot of confusion among senators here on capitol hill, but notably, no one was calling for him to be fired over all of this. the congressional reaction to this surprise firing really runs the gamut. saying, "a fresh start will serve the f.b.i. and the nation well." but then you have democrats, like bob casey of pennsylvania, saying, "this is nixonian, that a special counsel should be appointed," and ron widen of oregon saying, "no one in trump's chain of command can be trusted to carry out an impartial investigation." >> pelley: jeff glor, our chief justice correspondent,

, and abedin's disgraced husband anthony weiner. the fbi admitted comey's testimony was inaccurate saying only a small number of e-mails were forwarded by abedin and none of the forwarded e-mails were marked classified. a small number of them however contained information that was later deemed classified. we still don't know what comey thinks of all this. he is now headed back from l.a. on the fbi's private jet. david wright, abc news, new york. >> david, thank yo while comey may have been blindsided by all of this, president trump did call congressional leaders to tell them about the decision. >> though the president repeatedly slammed the investigation into russian meddling and denied collusion between his campaign and moscow, white house press secretary sean spicer reiterating what kellyanne conway said insisting the decision to fire comey was prompted by the justice department. >> well the deputy attorney general, was confirmed by the senate two weeks ago. he oversees the fbi who is confirmed by 94-6. he has been a 30-year caree

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clinton, you have to blame huma abedin or yourself.ears. so if you look back, how many unmasking requests were done by the obama administration, in the year before, i guess it was 2015, there was about 600 requests to unmask americans on the other side of nsa wiretaps, and wiretaps of surveillance i should say. last year, there were over, there were thousands of requests. steve: 30,000. brian: so susan rice, national security advisor, who was probably doing requests or made the request herself has been asked to go in front of lindsey graham subcommittee. she refused yesterday, refused to go. among the people flabbergasted by that, democratic senator dianne feinstein. she thinks she ought to reconsider it, you know why? answered the same questions on cnn with reid. how can you turn down the senate and say yes to cnn and not talk about it now. >> the invitation wasn't from a republican. it is not bipartisan. she will not show. ainsley: interview with your friend than many people are against you? brian: ainsley, using logic she is using t

that was about his misstatements regarding huma abedin's e-mails. he overstated the number of e-mails classified, some of them, but a large number -- he said it was actually a much smaller number. that was a misstatement. the white house said that had nothing to do with this today. i think you nailed it on the head. this is the president of the united states, president trump, whose campaign aides are under a counterintelligence investigation by the fbi, who now fired the fbi director who was, in effect, overseeing that investigation. so he's now fired the former acting attorney general, sally yates, who was in the headlines over the last 24 hours for what she revealed about the sort of behind the scenes details in those days leading up to the firing of michael flynn. still unclear why 18 days passed before michael flynn was fired. now we know the firing of james comey has also occurred.

it basically came out that he claimed thousands of emails huma abedin had forwarded to, that's not correct. it was a dozen or six or whatever. he had eight very, very difficult job. i personally think he should have been much more robust in investigating the clinton emails and he should have at least convened a grand jury to let voters decide. i also think from my experience there was an investigation of the clinton foundation but there was a lot of resistance from the top. it was a good idea for him to resign but it's a very difficult

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the discovery was made on a computer clinton aide huma abedin shared with her husband, rasgraced former congressman anthony weiner. comey said he had no good options. >> so i stared at speak and ed aeal. speak would be really bad. there's an election in 11 days. lordy would be really bad. concealing in my view would be catastrophic. as between really bad and catastrophic, i said to my team, we have to walk in the world of really bad. >> reporter: agents ultimately determined that abedin forwarded cmails containing classified heformation to her husband, but comey said the bureau could not prove criminal intent and did not recommend charges against abedin, weiner or clinton. democrat dianne feinstein. >> you took an enormous gamble. the gamble was that there was something there that would invalidate her candidacy, and there wasn't. >> reporter: democrats pressed dimey on why he publicly discussed the clinton revstigation during the campaign but did not reveal that the f.b.i. was also ruvestigating the trump campaign and its contacts with russia. senator patrick leahy. >> was it appropriat

what the director of the fbi was trying to describe was essentially a forwarding system that huma abedin had whereby her e-mails were instantly, automatically forwarded to the laptop computer that anthony weiner was using. that's not exactly how he said it, however. so take a listen to what he said at the hearing last week. >> huma abedin appears to have had a regular practice of forwarding e-mails to him for him, i think to print out for her so she could then deliver them to secretary of state. she forwarded hundreds and thousands of e-mails, some of which contained classified information. >> reporter: and really what he was trying to say and should have said is, indeed, there were a couple of -- probably there were some e-mails that she did forward for printing purposes, but this was more of an automatic forwarding system, an automatic backup system that she was using. propublica was the first to report this story that the fbi's looking into how to correct the record. that is exactly what they were trying to do today, whether to send a letter to congress to clarify the testimony. there

we reached out to human abedin's attorney, wiener's attorney and abedin herself. filed for divorce today. in the filing, it's recordedly uncontested. she's not expecting a fight over custody of their one child or any assets. back to what happened here today in court. as you said, a very emotional day. part of the plea deal that was reached, anthony wiener accepted to publicly admit to what he had done. that's what he did. the disgraced former congressman read a prepared statement. he did it out loud in court. he confessed to his crime in detail and that brought him just a single charge of transferring obscene material to a minor. wiener started crying five words in according to our producener the courtroom into this statement in which he admitted to engaging in an obscene communication with the 15-year-old girl and sharing explicit i'm my knowledges and ask her to engage in sexually explicit conduct, which he said he knew was morally wrong and unlawful. he continued through tears reading a statement that ended like this "i accept full responsibility for my conduct

abedin, we didn't have any indication she had a sense that what she was doing was in violation of theaw. couldn't prove any sort of criminal intent. >> reporter: he says he did not reveal the fbi was looking into the trump campaign during its election becse it doesn't make its investigations public but he said the clinton e-mail case had already been disclosed by the justice department after the intelligence community raised red flags. he strongly hinted the u.s. is moving ahead with criminal charges against wikileaks founder julian assange, saying massive dumps of classified documents make it more like a hostile intelligence service than a news organization with first amendment protections. >> it crosses a line when it moves from being about trying to educate a public and, instead, becomes about intelligence porn, frankly. just pushing out information about sources and methods. >> reporter: arrests assange would be tough. he's holed up in ecuador's embassy in london. comey said virtually nothing about whether any trump campaign aides were helping influence the election but he says ru

laura ingraham is standing by. >> huma abedin in the fact that director comey when investigate hillary clinton and didn't find intent with huma abedin, like sean said, our investigation into the unmasking is showing that this is highly politicized and not beyond flynn -- there were hundreds of people unmasked as well as congress, as well as other members. i think we need to look at the full scope of what was happening during the obama administration and during the election. we will get answers. >> sean: is this potentially the biggest scandal in the history of this republic, when all is said and done? >> i absolutely do believe that this is probably one of the biggest scandals in the republic. everything that we know it comes to true -- and light is shed, i really truly believe it will open everybody's eyes to something and hopefully it will stop. >> sean: by the way, white house officials are just being cold announcing a new fbi director coming in days. we will get back to lou, stay right there. jay, sara. stay right there. okay, yes. we continue now with the editor in chief and natio

here's what he said last week. >> huma abedin appears to have had a practice of forwarding e-mails toe could then deliver them to the secretary of state. she forwarded hundreds and thousands of e-mails, some of which contained classified information. >> let's talk about this with our panel. politics reporter and editor chris, our justice correspondent evan perez and gloria borger. what are you hearing from your source sources about what the fbi director said? >> what the fbi director meant to say and what she should have said is huma abedin had a practice and system whereby her e-mails were forded as a back up and they ended up on the computer where they ended up on her then husband anthony weiner. when he described it, he said she had a practice where she would forward them. he actually went into this detail. she would forward them so they would be printed for her perhaps to present to the secretary of state hillary clinton at the time. that was definitely not correct. he came back later on in the hearing and tried to fix some of that. but now the fbi is facing the problem of fixing

>> and huma abedine.night people were spinning -- and this is not true, but for an deher sake it d be out there. jim comey grossly overstated how many e-mails she hads hassed along to her husband. but the idea that the trump administration cared about that and that is motivating this now when president trump's twitter is filled with his desire to oppose the russian investigation strains credit you'llity. but let's talk with somebody who will be charged with doing something about joining us now, senator angus king. thank you for being with us. what do you make of this move? >> well, there are a whole lot of pieces of it that are very strange. number one, what is jeff sessions doing involved in this. i'm sure you have on tape somewhere when he recused himself, he said he will have nothing do with the russia investigation in any way shape or form, directly or indirectly, and yet he is strinvolved in fig the guy who is leegd the investigation for the fooik. numb fbi. number two, the timing as you pointed out

james comey/ fbi director: "huma abedin appears to have had a regular practice of forwarding e-mails to him, for him i think to print out for her, so she could then deliver them to the secretary of state." ----butt to----"she forwarded hundreds and thousands of e-mails, some of which contained classified information."but, the majority of the thousands of e-mails reviewed by the fbi actually got to weiner's computer via a backup system for abedin's phone. not because she was forwarding them to him.white house press secretary sean spicer says president donald trump fired comey on the "recommendation of the attorney general and the deputy attorney general.comey, was appointed as head of the fbi by president barack obama in 2013.in washington, i'm scott mclean. (pam) california lawmakers are reacting to today's news.... senator dianne feinstein tweeted - in part... 'the next fbi director must be strong and independent .... and will receive a fair hearing in the judiciary committee." and senator kamala harris tweeted quote - "i've said it before and will again - we must have a special pro

here's huma abedin, she's doing this and saying i didn't know i was doing anything wrong the, that isaloney. baloney is better than fish. she also had the same time to get top pay for government and she got a special dispensation from hillary clinton to work for the clinton initiative, she's taken an extra $300,000 while everybody else who works for the government does not have that. now she's trying to shop a $2 million book deal for what? what is she going to tell us? that's infuriating. the >> bob: she's not going to buy jasper, that's for sure. if anybody thinks for a minute call comey whose side was he on? he said were not going to indict her but she's a bum, can't handle -- he wasn't going to be the director of the fbi if she got elected. i have no doubt in my mind she was working for trump, i have no doubt in my mind that letter did affect this campaign. >> dana: she's the one who put them in the position to investigate of the first place it's not his fault he was presented. >> bob: shouldn't of done anything. shouldn't have called that press conference. >> greg: he had to call

. >> reporter: he said the last minute discovery was 40,000 e-mails sent by clinton aide huma abedin sent via laptop belonging to her husband anthony weiner so they could be printed. 12 turned out to be classified. >> why did you conclude neither of them committed a crime? >> because with respect to miss abedin in particular, we didn't have any indication that she had a sense that what she was doing was in violation of the law. couldn't prove any sort of criminal intent. >> reporter: he said he didn't reveal that the fbi was looking into the trump campaign during the election because it doesn't make investigations public but that the clinton case had already been disclosed by the justice department after the intelligence community raised red flags. he strongly hinted that the u.s. is moving ahead with criminal charges against wikileaks founder julian assange saying its massive dumps of classified documents make it more like a hostile intelligence service than a news organization with first amendment protections. >> it crosses a line when it moves from being about trying to educate a

i can say with absolute certainty if this were captain clinton, or lieutenant huma abedin, they would be best case, best case, negotiating a dishonorable discharge and most likely facing prison so that's the thing that's hovering over all of this. the director keeps misstating the legal standard, it wasn't intent, it was gross negligence. this is some of the most highly classified information in the united states government that was found in these civilian systems and then you have this mind-blowing revelation today that huma abedin was sending anthony weiner classified information for him to print out. i minean, i can only imagine wh would happen if a soldier approached his commander with that explanation for mishandling classified information. the root problem here was hillary clinton's decision to use a home brewed server then to lie and to lie and to lie about it and now we know beyond a shadow of a doubt why she's lying. she's lying -- why she lied, because her conduct was so unconscionable and i think that's the real issue here. she shouldn't be bitter that she's not president.

knows the difference that people aren't calling that into question because they feel bad for huma abedin they're doing it because james comey appears to be incompetent but do you agree with me that a special prosecutor should be appointed? >> i'm totally in favor of a special prosecutor if only to clear everything up. perhaps there isn't enough of a there there to talk about treason and russia violating -- bilinear sovereignty but there's no question russia like most powerful companies were trying to tip the scales with whether or not it rises to the level of attachment -- impeachment i'd like to have that laid out. kennedy: hillary clinton hates james comey and you know yesterday her staff was fist pumping. you know they were delighted by this. >> i have not found anybody who doesn't. she would have fired him as well which makes the rh a little bit naddi. we don't have evidence of a cover-up or evidence of collusion and we are the senate bipartisan committee in the house bipartisan committee and the fbi continuing to investigate that i don't know of more in best editions are going to hu

that even though that is wrong t didn't seem like through their probe of that activity, that huma abedin or anthony weiner really realized what they were doing was actually wrong and potentially criminal. so they decided since they didn't have, the fbi decided since they didn't seem to have a cog any glans that that was not-- cog any glans that they wouldn't prosecute them for it. that brought blowback from the republicans. does that matter if they were dealing with classified information without the clearance why was weiner getting his hands on this at all. we are not buying that his prox imity to a printer was a valid excuse. so more details about why that happened. and kind of adding the color to the story, though we knew that there was certainly a connection between anthony weiner and clinton and it seemed logical that it was through his wife, the reasons that comey gave which was to facilitate the emails turning up on paper that could then be shown to clinton, did make a lot of people kind of throw up their hands as he though, this is what this is and is this a valid excuse for deal

the excuse of comey misstating that, you know, the number of emails that were forwarded from huma abedinhony weiner, but i don't think anybody is talking about that. it doesn't make any sense as a reason to fire the fbi director especially when the consequences for it, the blow back for it is going to be so much more epically larger than any of that. >> that's what's so crazy. our dana bash reporting they didn't tape blow back which is another political miscalculation. >> they assumed democrats would support this because they have been critical of comey. even republicans, six republican senators very critical of the timing here. susan colins is one who supported it. she said inevitable conclusion how comey handled the emails but also said patently absurd this will obstruct the russian investigation. is it patently absurd to suggest now the russian investigation is compromised? >> that statement is absurd. clearly this investigation has been compromised. the pressure coming from this white house, the interference by this white house and the department of justice raises serious doubts abou

>> with respect to miss abedin we zript any indication she had a sense that what she was doing was in violation of the law. couldn't prove criminal intent. >> reporter: he did not reveal the fbi was looking into the trump campaign because it doesn't make its investigation public. after the intel dense community raised red flags. he strongly hinted that the u.s. is moving ahead with criminal charges against wikileaks founder julian assange saying its dumps of classified documents make it more like a hostile intelligence service than a news organization with first amendment protections. >> it crosses a line when it moves from being about trying to educate a public instead becomes about intelligence porn, frankly, just information about sources and message. >> he is holed up in london. >> thanks to pete williams for that report. >>> school officials in oklahoma city release dash cam of a horrific crash last wednesday when a pickup truck crossed into traffic, collided with a car and flipped over. three people were hospitalized. the truck stopped short of slamming into the bus which was ca

his estranged wife, huma abedin, is clinton's top political aide.he judge will sentence wiener september 8th. >>> one more note after his emotion appearance there in court, weaner's estranged wife abedin filed for divorce. the couple has one child together. >>> emergency security upgrades for members of congress. scott macfarlane has learned u.s. house officials plan to spend millions protecting their members when they're back home. scott joins us to explain. >> that's right. at least $2 million in district office enhancements are being planned, to better secure members of congress when they're in their home state offices and away from the protective shield of the u.s. capital. the sergeant-at-arms who helps oversee the safety of congress, says there's been a spike in request for security upgrades from members. he didn't specify the nature of the threats, but i'm told distressed or panic buttons and requests are being made. >> another item i would like to implement if possible, standardized access control system to each reception area, so that doors

, but comey said the bureau could not prove criminal intent and did not recommend charges against abedin, weiner or clinton. democrat dianne feinstein. >> you took an enormous gamble. the gamble was that there was something there that would invalidate her candidacy, and there wasn't. >> reporter: democrats pressed comey on why he publicly discussed the clinton investigation during the campaign but did not reveal that the f.b.i. was also investigating the and its contacts with russia. senator patrick leahy. >> was it appropriate for you to comment on one investigation repeatedly and not say anything about the other? >> i think so. >> reporter: comey said attorney general loretta lynch forced his hand when she had an impromptu meeting with former president bill clinton during the investigation. >> her meeting with president clinton on that airplane was the kapper for me. i then said, you know what, the department cannot by itself credibly end this. the best chance we have is if i do something i never imagined before, step away from them and tell the american people, look, here's what the f

. >> reporter: he said the last-minute discovery was 40,000 e-mails sent by clinton huma abedin to ap to her husband anthony weiner, 12 turned out to be classified. >> why did you conclude neither committed a crime? >> with respect to miss abedin we didn't have any indication she had a sense that what she was doing was in violation of the law. couldn't prove criminal intent. >> reporter: he did not reveal the fbi was looking into the trump campaign during the election because it doesn't make its investigations public. he said the clinton e-mail case had already been disclosed by the justice department after the intelligence community raised red flags. he strongly hinted that the u.s. is moving ahead with criminal charges against wikileaks founder julian assange saying its dumps of classified documents make it more like a hostile intelligence service than a news organization with first amendment protections. >> it crosses a line when it moves from being about trying to educate a public instead becomes about intelligence porn, frankly, just pushing out information about sources and met

over new e-mails discovered on the laptop of anthony weiner married to hillary's close aide huma abedin. >> forwarding e-mails to him for i think to print out for her to deliver them to secretary of state. >> reporter: last week, comey testified that abedin forwarded, quote hundreds and thousands of e-mails some which contained classified information. the fbi acknowledging that his testimony was misleading. in a letter to congress, she only forwarded a small number of e-mails to weiner. >> gave inaccurate testimony -- >> at this point, i haven't asked and i'm not fully aware of situation -- i'm aware of the inquiry that occurred. yet to follow on up on that. >> does the president still have full confidence in fbi director comey. >> i have no reason to believe. i haven't asked the president the last time we spoke about it. >> you're not sure to say again -- >> in light of what you're telling me i don't want to behalf of the president without speaking to him first. >> reporter: comey is out. in a statement the president said, quote, today will mark a new beginning for our crown jewel of l

his wife, huma abedin, was a top aide to hillary clinton. she has now filed for divorce.nthony weiner hung his head as he exited federal court, trying to ignore the throngs of press gathered to cover the fall of a once rising star of the democratic party, now soon to be sex offender. in court, the ex—congressman broke into tears as he admitted sexting and sending lewd images to a teenager who he knew was a minor. he apologised, saying he had a sickness, but not an excuse. mr weiner became infamous and a regular tabloid spread after similar scandals in the past. in 2011, after posting a graphic image publicly to his twitter account in error, he resigned from congress after serving for 12 years as new york was a representative. i make some big mistakes and i know i let a lot of people down. but i have also learnt some big lessons. two years later he would try to make a political comeback, with a run for mayor of new york. but again, his penchant for exchanging lewd messages with women online would ruin him and make him a pariah of the democratic party. but no—one anticipate

>> his then spouse, huma abedin, who has a regular practice of forwarding e-mails for him to printoutor her so she could deliver them to secretary of state. >> joining us now is the senator asking the questions. senator john kennedy of louisiana. good morning, senator. >> good morning, alisyn. >> you got new information out of director comey there that we hadn't previously known about how huma abedin would send e-mails from secretary of state clinton to her husband to print them out. that prompted senator graham to ask comey should somebody be prosecuted for sending classified information to anthony weiner. then comey said there is no anthony weiner statute. what did you think of that exchange? >> i appreciated comey's candor. he was for the cothcoming. it is not secret he is not invited to party on capitol hill. the impression i get of comey is he will do his job and he doesn't care who gets mad at him. i questioned him at lengths about secretary clinton's e-mail scandal or circumstances whatever you want to call it. he gave me straight-up answers. he answered yes and no questions wi