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

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you're an investigator. >> the same with respect to discovery of the anthony wiener laptop. senator feinstein was absolutely correct. he made the judgment to go public on that before they knew what was in there. he has no obligation to report on the status of a criminal investigation in a public way to congress. because that often gist a false picture of where the investigation is going to end. in this case, not only gave a false picture, oh, there might be more bad stuff about hillary that we didn't know about, probably changed the outcome of the election. this from somebody that could never vote for hillary clinton. in my evaluation of jim comey's involvement, she made a strong case against her. >> comey has taken a lot of heat about this whole thing. it's true that if hillary clinton hadn't made the decision to store classified information on a private e-mail server, then comey would have never been dragged into this. >> it's beyond dunderhead. it's espionage. to take the government's most security venue and put them in an unsecured venue. when jim comey said we didn't kn

so those letters, especially anthony wiener, they took the focus away from russia and squarely where they want it which is on hillary clinton which is a good punching bag and enemy still for president trump. >> the quote for the president that may live a long while today as we mentioned was about middle east peace. it's something that i think is frankly not as difficult as people have thought over the years. there is a difference when you get in the job compared to campaigning for it. there has been a difference and we have some of the president's past statements catalogued here. >> we're going to build a wall. it's going to be built. it's not even, believe it or not, it's not even a difficult thing. >> so the wall is a thousand miles, believe me. so easy. you build buildings, this is like easy. >> you can't get mexico to pay for the wall. i said it's going to be so easy. >> it's so obvious what's happening when our companies are flocking out. we're going to fix our trade. going to bring jobs back to our country. i know we're all going to make a deal on health care that's such an eas

. >> neil: wasn't a lot having to do with exaggerating the e-mails that made their way to anthony wiener'sl there and that started raising credibility issues and he could be sloppy? i'm just passing that along. that if he's that sloppy or if that regard, that maybe they felt maybe you're is not up to snuff here. other fellow agents were telling congressman to correct the record on that. that's a rarity. >> yeah, i don't buy that, neil. to suggest the reason is how he handled the hillary clinton investigation, which donald trump applauded and said he showed guts, it's just -- doesn't add up. >> neil: do you think that what donald trump did was nixonian? >> neil, i think what we need to do is conduct our investigation in the house, not to be influenced by politics, to let the fbi -- >> neil: they got one in the senate, you got some of your leaders getting a special prosecutor going, others a commission. a lot of stuff going on. >> yeah. i think the house and senate should have done a joint investigation as happened after september 11th to avoid redundancy. but an independent commission is th

based on fox's reporting, the fbi had to search through thousands of e-mails that were found on anthony wiener's computers to determine what clinton e-mails were new. so investigators had not seen them before and how many contained classified information. this may be where some of the confusion lies. i would add when there's reporting that the e-mails were not marked classified as we showed here at fox news, a handful were marked classified in the fbi case. that little symbol actually doesn't have any impact on whether the information is classified. that was a false statement by the clinton campaign. >> shepard: thanks, catherine herridge. >> you're welcome. >> shepard: more ahead on michael flynn and how the trump team handled the situation. we'll look at the facts. that's next. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, isn't it time to let the real you shine through? introducing otezla, apremilast. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. some people who took otezla saw 75% clearer skin after 4 months. and otezla's prescribing informat

computer clinton aide huma abedin shared with her husband, disgraced former congressman anthony wiener lordy, that would be really bad. concealing would be catastrophic. as between really bad and catastrophic, i said to my team, we've got to walk into the world of really bad. >> reporter: they ultimately determined abedin had forwarded e-mails containing classified information to her husband. but the bureau could not prove criminal intent and did not recommend charges against abedin, wiener 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 dise 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 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

i don't think he told anthony wiener to communicate via text with underage girls. i don't see how any of this is jim comey's fault. he has a tough job. someone was going to criticize him no matter what he did. he did what he thought was right. i reject the notion that jim comey is the reason that we have president trump. secretary clinton at some point ought to do some self-reflection and go back and reflect on her own decisions which led director comey to have to make the call he did. >> bill: take you back to last july. phoenix, arizona on the tarmac. james comey brought it up. >> the capper was. lynch's meeting with president clinton on the campaign was the capper for me. >> bill: how does that change in where we are today on your investigation? >> it doesn't impact our investigation. we have a new attorney general. loretta lynch is gone. the decision to meet with the spouse of the target of an ongoing criminal investigation. you know not to do that in your first year of law school. she will have to explain her thought process there. director comey said it was t

conferences and days before the election, announcing they had found thousands of new e-mails on anthony wiener's e-mail, these appearances by the fbi director are quickly becoming must see tv because when he comes up here, people lien in and hear things they weren' expecting to hear, like the fact that comey now says as jim said, he feels mildly nauseous when he that he and the fbi may have influenced this election. so this led to this point, he was asked today what he said to fbi investigators about the lead-up to this decision to go public in october with this fact they had found thousands of new e-mails of disgraced e-mail. this is what he said he instructed his people. >> i stair at speak and conceal. there's an election that 11 day, lordy that would be bad. concealing in my view would be catastrophic. not just to the fbi but well beyond. and honestly, as between really bad and catastrophic, i said to my team, we got to walk in the world of really bad, i've got to tell congress weary starting this, not in a frivolous way, in a hugely significant way. >> reporter: and that wound up comey says

on a computer clinton aide huma abedin shared with her husband, disgraced former congressman anthony wiener. he said he had no good options. >> i thought it would be really bad. there's an election in 11 days. lordy, that would be bad. as between really bad and catastrophic, i said to my team, we've got to walk into the world of really bad. >> agents ultimately determined that abadin had forwarded e-mails containing classified information to her husband, but comey said the bureau could not prove criminal intent and did not recommend charges against abadin, weiner, or clinton. dianne feinstein. >> candidates pressed comey on why he didn't discuss it during the campaign but revealed fbi was reviewing the trump campaign. and its contents 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 clin

was reopening the clinton investigation because of emails on anthony wiener's computer.his explosive announcement -- and it was -- came unprompted and without knowing whether a single email warranted a new investigation. it was, in fact, a big october surprise. but, in fact, as it turned out, not one email on the laptop changed the f.b.i.'s original conclusion that no prosecution was warranted. and only two days before the election, the f.b.i. sent another public letter to congress affirming its original conclusion. this was extraordinary, plain and simple. i join those who believe that the actions taken by the f.b.i. did, in fact, have an impact on the election. what's worse is that while all of this was going on in the public spotlight, while the f.b.i. was discussing its investigation into senator clinton's email server in detail, i cannot help but note that it was noticeably silent about the investigation into the trump campaign and russian interference into the election. in june 2016, the press reported that russian hackers had infiltrated the computer system of the

they laid out for me what they could see from the meta data on anthony wiener's laptop. what they could see is there were thousands of secretary clinton's e-mails on that device, including what they thought might be the missing e-mails from her first three months as secretary of state. we never found any e-mails from her first three months. she was using a verizon blackberry then. that's obviously very important. if there was evidence she was acting with bad intent that's where it would be. >> but they weren't there. >> can i finish my answer, senator? so they came in and said we can see thousands of e-mails from the clinton e-mail domain, including many, many from the verizon blackberry domain. we think we got to get a search warrants to go get these. the department of justice agreed we had to get a search warrant. i agreed. i authorized them to seek a search warrant. i have lived my career by the tradition if you can possibly avoid it, you avoid any action in the run up to an election that might have an impact. but i sat there that morning and i could not see a door la

. >> the director also explained how classified information ended up on anthony wiener's computer. here it is. >> classified information ochb former congressman wiener's computer. >> yes. >> who sent it to him? >> so she could then deliver them to secretary. state. >> senator, does it worry you that classified information was handled this way? >> i am worried. and hillary clinton has said the fact that there were mistakes made and acknowledged there were errors in the handling of her private server. but the important point here going forward, there needs foobe a special prosecutor. and there needs to be a thorough and prompt investigation which only a special prosecutor can do. and i am concerned about the handling of classified information. >> he also mentioned that he warned the obama administration and the dnc about, you know, possible hacking and medaling. do you think they took it seriously enough at the time? >> they probably should have taken it more seriously. in hindsight, they should have. hindsight is always 20/20. >> senator, blumenthal, thank you. eric, thank you so mu

they laid out for me what they could see from the meta data on anthony wiener's laptop. what they could see is there were thousands of secretary clinton's e-mails on that device, including what they thought might be the missing e-mails from her first three months as secretary of state. we never found any e-mails from her first three months. she was using a verizon blackberry then. that's obviously very important if there was evidence she was acting with bad intent that's where it would be. >> but they weren't there. >> can i finish my answer, senator? so they came in and said we can see thousands of e-mails from the clinton e-mail domain, including many, many from the verizon blackberry domain. we think we got to get a search warrants to go get these . i agreed. the department of justice agreed we had to get a search warrant . i authorized them to seek a search warrant. i have lived my career by the tradition if you can possibly avoid it, you avoid any action in the run up to an election that might have an impact. but i sat there that morning and i could not see a door l

forwarded hundreds and thousands of e-mails to her husband, the disgraced former congressman anthony wiener. he said some of the e-mails were classified. that wasn't true. in a letter to lawmakers, the fbi reports it was not hundreds and thousands of e-mail chains but two. and neither was marked classified. a senior white house official tells fox news it was coincidental that the president against ee eed -- axed comey on same day of the news report. and it was reported that the deputy attorney general and the attorney general recommended the firing to restore trust and confidence in the agency. the president added the following -- >> shepard: of course the fbi never told the president that he was under investigation. comey did say lawmakers shouldn't read into that. in addition, the letter -- in addition to the letter from was trump, the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, two weeks on the job, said he could not defends how comey handled the clinton e-mail investigation. in his review, rosenstein blasted director comey for holding a news conference announcing the agency's findings and

congressman anthony wiener pleaded guilty to having lewd online communications with a teen girl in north carolina. he was tearful in court as he pleaded guilty to a charge of transferring obscene materials to a minor and agreed not to appeal a sentence between 21 and 27 months in prison. he must register as a sex offender and faces 10 years in prison. he apologized to the 15-year- old girl at the center of the case saying he has a sickness but that is no excuse. >>> and the new police chief presided over her first academy graduation today in oakland. the chief presented special awards and congratulated members of the 176th academy class at the scottish rite center in oakland. families and friends of new officers were on hand, and most graduates received badges from chief kirkpatrick but 5 were pinned by numbers of their own family, and one brought along his son in a pint-sized union form. >> i know how important this is. we all graduated. mine was 95 years ago. it's a special day and it will always number our memory and they are bonded and now are coming into the family. >> this is a sma

e-mails, thousands were found on the computer of the former disgraced democratic congressman anthony wiener. later the fbi telling congress they had no reason to reopen the case to pursue charges in that case, went on to tell congress, listen, you might think we're idiots but we know away we're doing. for their part, republicans pressed about what's been going on with the trump campaign russia investigation, pointed questions about where leaked information is coming from and what the fbi is doing to stop those leaks. by and large. most democrats and republicans said they supported the fbi's intentions of getting the information out and telling the american people what did or a did not happen. but the sides were drawn as both senators took up position on different sides of the aisle >> i join those who believe that the did, in fact, have an impact on the election. what's worse is that while all of this was going on in the public spotlight, while the fbi was discussing its investigation into senator clinton's e-mail server in detail, i cannot help but note that, it was noticeably silent about

they doubled down -- ted cruz even went the route of anthony wiener and uma abedin briefly. but there was a tense exchange between cruz and sally yates over how she treated and her decision involving the travel ban. we'll show it. we'll talk about it on the other side. >> in over 200 years of the department of justice history are you aware of any instance in custom the department of justice has formally approved the legality of a policy and three days later the attorney general has directed the department not to follow that policy and defy that policy? >> i'm not. i'm also not aware of a situation where the office of legal counsel was advised not to tell the attorney general about it until after it was over. >> interesting exchange there. brian, talk about the difficulty in both of these parties. if you are the democrats in the house and senate, it's not -- it's not your party. it's not your ball game you are in the minor it. if you are the republicans, they really have to support their president, fall in line. but there are mavericks in the republican party who have a tradi

it were in the for the letter on october 28th outlining what he thought was new material on anthony wiener'saptop? >> it is interesting that both candidate trump and candidate clinton and the fbi director chose to comment on one, but not the other. i am interested in hearing from the fbi director what lessons he learned from the consequences of the decision. i'm less interested in relitigating the 2016 than i am figuring out how to secure the next elections from foreign interference and what lessons the fbi director and fbi as an organization has learned about the deviations from the historic practice of not making comments on investigations. particularly those that are explosive and so close to an election. >> will you ask him this morning directly if he thinks that his letter was to blame for the hillary clinton loss? >> i'm confident that question will be asked, alisyn. one of the more junior members of the committee. by the time it gets to me, i suspect that question will have been asked four or five times. i will ask why he chose to comment on one and not the other. in particular, how h

comey's decision about making public statements about his statements about investigation of anthony wiener's laptop. i have not. i reserve judgment on that. i saw clearly the difficult decision he was facing. but now that i've heard his explanation, i can finally tell him exactly what i would have done. the reason the director did what he did is he was worried about the reputation of the fbi. now let's just rewind a piece of that video here to listen to that part of his answer fly by. >> concealing in my view would be catastrophic. not just to the fbi, but well beyond. >> concealment would be catastrophic to the fbi. that point was made very clearly by an ally of james comey, who was in the room with him at the fbi when he was making this decision. the now retired senior official at the fbi, that's what his job was at the time. because he is retired now, he was free to speak to "the new york times" in their massive in-depth account of how james comey made this decision. steinbeck functions in the article as his representative. director comey did not speak quite properly, but michael steinbec

emotional moment for anthony wiener there. far as how much time he could potentially serve, that charge could potentially get him between zero and ten years in prison. the prosecutors in the case asked for between 21 and 27 months as part of this agreement. ultimately, it'll be up to the judge. she is waiting for pre-sentencing reports from from anthony weiner's attorney as well as prosecutors, and then down the line. she'll make a decision how much time he could certain, if any at all. >> whatever the time serve, he'll have to register as a sex offender? >> yeah. he will have to register as a sex offender. that, of course, won't go away. he was asked by the judge whether he understands that's a part of this agreement, and he said, yes, your honor, i do. anthony weiner will be registered as a sex offender. one of the reasons this is getting so much attention, in addition to all the salacious details, is it was part of this federal investigation, the feds seizing anthony weiner's computer, they found e-mails from huma abedin, a

bill clinton and loretta lynch had their meeting on the tarmac just before the election and anthony wiener'sy he has this conversation with the president but doesn't decide to resign. it seems inconsistent from his pree previous mo. >> what's your reaction? >> i think requireser preposterous. i think it doesn't make any sense and so i don't buy it. >> my first reaction is i can't believe it's only tuesday. you know? it's a lot of news in the last 48 hours. i think the idea it's preposterous that a person with a 20-year record of law enforcement having worked at the fbi and as a prosecutor would keep detailed notes about investigations that he was involved in is actually very believable and we've seen courts that do take very seriously the contemp raenious notes. so it does present a chal mpg for this white house to respond and continues to pose a problem for allies on capitol hill have expressed the fact that they're troubled by a development like this and they want more inform ayes about it. so we can be assured there will be more news coming on this in the coming days and weeks. >> stand b

misrepresenting what was found on anthony wiener‘s laptop, and what huma abedin had forwarded to anthony wiener of the clinton e—mail scandal is the sort of proximate cause, it was certainly what the deputy attorney general cited in his letters giving reasons for the firing of james cited in his letters giving reasons for the firing ofjames comey. cited in his letters giving reasons for the firing of james comey. but this was a shock to everybody outside the inner circle of the trump white house. when the vice president says he's confident donald can appointa president says he's confident donald can appoint a new director, who eve ryo ne can appoint a new director, who everyone can have confidence in, what do you make of that? clearly this is an incredibly politicised time. if there isn't to be the appointment of a special prosecutor which the senate minority leader has called for to investigate the alleged links between the trump campaign and russia, then thatjob is going to fall to whoever this new fbi director will be. i think broadly there are two directions trump could take his choice of n

do you agree with me that anthony wiener in 2016 should not have access to classified information. >> would you agree with me if that's not illegal we've got really bad laws. >> well, if he hadn't. >> he got it somehow. >> it would be illegal if he didn't have appropriate clearance. >> do you agree with me that he didn't have appropriate clearance? >> if he did have appropriate clearance that would be worse. >> i don't believe that he had any type of -- >> agree. for him to get it should be a crime. someone should be prosecuted for letting anthony weiner have access to classified information. does that make general sense? >> it could be a crime. >> do you agree with me it should be that anybody that would let anthony weiner have classified information should be prosecuted. >> if our laws don't cover it -- >> there's no anthony weiner statute. >> maybe we need one. >> that's already a statute. >> i just wonder how he could get classified information and not have it be a crime about somebody. >> unmasking, are you familiar with that? >> i'm familiar with the term? >> has the bureau unma

anthony wiener pleads guilty to sexting with an underage girl. he's about to be single, too.

11 days before the election, and he said it was because of what agents found on the laptop of anthony wienerop clinton aide huma abedin. take a listen to the way he described it. >> huma abedin appears to have had a regular practice of forwarding e-mails tm, him, i think, to print out for her so she could then deliver them to the secretary of state. >> reporter: at one point, comey even said that abedin sent hundreds and thousands of e-mails 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 e-mails to her husband, and most of them ended up on his laptop because of the unintentional backing up of a blackberry. they had to issue a correction to his testimony late this afternoon. it caused a lot of confusion among senators on capitol hill, but no one was calling for him to be fired on all of this. the reaction to the firing runs the gamut, lindsey graham of south carolina saying quote, a fresh start will serve the fbi and the nation well, then you have democrats like bob casey of pennsy

election, he testified under oath that huma abiden had forwarded thousands of emails to her husband, anthony wienercluding some that included classified information. yes, classified information which is why democratic senator richard blumenthal is saying maybe that needs to be invest >> if there was classified information improperly passed to a person unauthorized to receive it, it's a crime without knowing what the intentions were. whether it should have been prosecuted and it still may be potentially. it's not outside the statute of limitations as far as i know is one that the department of justice is going to have to decide. >> most people here in washington expect that will never be investigated and why people get frustrated with this town as you know, bill. >> bill: it's your town, thanks. ed. >> ta* taoded on them. this is a scar they will carry. so it isn't -- it's their vote. it's not the senate vote. for them to in a very cavalier way really a stupid bill. it's a bill of deconstruction of government, not a bill of saying we have a better way to do this. they are saying we don't want to do

another big mistake suggesting huma abiden had forwarded thousands of emails to her husband, anthony wienernd some of those had information. the f.b.i. had to walk it back and same james comey's testimony was not fully accurate. >> shannon: what do you make of the president's relationship with comey. we've seen them at times very friendly. >> bill: the charges of hypocrisy for democrats will get thrown back at the white house. the relationship when you look at this video there three days after the inaugural you the donald trump as the new president calling james comey over during a ceremony at the white house and saying you are doing a good job. that comes on top of what happened right before the election when james comey inserted himself to the -- >> it took a lot of guts. i disagreed with him and not his fan. i tell you what, what he did, he brought back his reputation. he brought it back. he has to hang tough. there is a lot of people want him to do the wrong thing. what he did was the right thing. >> he was talking about inserting himself in the election. the white house are arguing in

multiple reports suggesting anthony wiener will plead guilty today part of a plea deal that includes a charge of transferring obscene material to a minor. this would bring an end to an investigation that started in january of last year when reports that wiener now in his 50s sent sexually explicit messages to an underage girl. he is married to huma abiden and this latest investigation that led to the discovery of clinton emails on his computer and the announcement just before the election last november from then director of the f.b.i. james comey. >> the purpose of this trip is really one of conveying a message that america is back. our role as a facilitator to address the daunting challenges that exist in that part of the world. most particularly the challenge of global terrorism is one that is shared by all of us. >> shannon: secretary of state rex tillerson previewing president' trump trips. the president will first meet to saudi arabia and talk about the fight against terrorism. let's bring in dr. zuhdi jasser, welcome this morning, good to see you. this is a jam-packed schedule.

. >> one time congressman anthony wiener walking out of courthouse an admitted sex offender. pleaded guilty to transmitting obscene material to a 15-year-old, calling it a sickness, and anticipating full responsibility. the plea comes as part of a deal with federal reports who said a sentence in the range of 7 days to 21 months would be appropriate. on the day he admitted criminal guilt, wiener's wife officially filed for divorce. wiener is married to top hillary clinton aide aberdeen. federal investigators finding clinton e-mails on his seized laptop, leaving fbi director james comey to reopen an investigation. >> this is bigger than watergate. >> for the past six years wiener has been tab bloid fodder. >> today i'm announcing my resignation from congress. >> in 2013 he tried to run for mayor, even letting a film crew document his marriage as another sex tg scandal explodes. >> it's like a nightmare. >> and then last year this headline. >> a trial like this would have obviously been a big media event, potentially a circus. >> a former congressman in a cloud of scandal now fa

they laid out for me what they could see from the metadata on this fella anthony wiener's laptop. what they could see was there was thousands of secretary clinton's e-mails on that device, including what they thought might be the missing ele mays from her first three months as secretary of state. if there was evidence she was acting with bad intent -- >> but they weren't there -- >> look, can i just finish my answer? they said we can see thousands of e-mails from the clinton e-mail domain, including many, many, many, from the verizon clinton domain, blackberry domain. the department of justice agreed. we had to go get a search warrant. i agreed. i authorized them to seek a search warrant. i've lived my entire career by the tradition that if you can possibly avoid it, you avoid any reaction in the run-up to the election that might have an impact. but i sat there that morning and i could not see a door labeled no action here. i could see two doors. and they were both actions. one was labeled speak. the other was labeled conceal. here's how i thought about it. i want you to know my t

we then announced that the fbi was reopening the clinton investigation because of emails on anthony wiener's computer. announcement, and it was, came unprompted and without knowing whether a single e-mail warranted a new investigation. it was, in fact, a big october surprise. but, in fact, as it turned out, not one e-mail on the laptop changed the fbi's original conclusion that no prosecution was warranted. and only two days before the election, the fbi sent another public letter to congress affirming its original conclusion. this was extraordinary, plain and simple. i join those who believe that the actions taken by the fbi did, in fact, have an impact on the election. what's worse, is that while all of this was going on in the public spotlight, while the fbi was discussing its investigation into senator clinton's e-mail server in detail, i cannot help but note that it was noticeably silent about the investigation into the trump campaign and russian interference into the election. in june 2016, the press reported that russian hackers had infiltrated the computer system of the democratic nat

the tearful words of anthony weiner in federal court friday morning. wienerled guilty to a charge of transmitting sexual material to a minor, a 15-year-old girl. these destructive impulses brought great devastation to family and friends and destroyed my life's dream of public service, wiener said, and yet i remind in denial. as part of the plea deal, prosecutors are asking him to serve 21 to 27 months in prison. he must now register as a sex offender, continue to undergo therapy and give up his smartphone. it was this federal investigation which led the fbi last fall to discover some of hillary clinton's e-mails on wiener's computer. his estranged wife, huma abedin, is clinton's top political aide. the 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

. >>> disgraced former congressman anthony weiner is now facing possible prison time. wiener pled guilty today to criminal charges relating to inappropriate messages that he sent to an under-age girl. leon harris has the latest on this case. >> sexting is what brought down his political career and it's sexting that could have him facing years in federal prison. in court today he pled guilty to his communications with a 15-year-old girl. as part of a plea deal, prosecutors want him to serve between 21 and 27 months in prison. he also has to register as a sex offender and will have to be allowed to continue to undergo therapy. and he'll have to also give up his smartphone. the fbi started looking into this case last fall when the teen told "the daily mail" that she and wiener had been months. in court today, he apologized to the girl, saying i have a sickness, but i do not have an excuse, adding this statement. a judge will sentence him in september. late this afternoon, huma abedin, a long-time hillary clinton aide, filed for divorce. the two have been separated for months. we

exactly how disgraced former congressman anthony weiner wound up with thousands of emails on his computer. >> was there classified information on former congressman wiener's >> yes. >> who sent it to him? >> his then spouse, huma abedin seems to have a regular practice of forwarding emails for her that he could print out for her that she could then deliver to the former secretary of state. >> what was his role? >> my understanding is his role was to print them out, not to read them. >> if he did read them, would he have been committing a crime? >> potentially. >> would his spouse have been committing a crime? >> potentially. >> why did you conclude neither of them committed a crime? >> because with respect to ms. abedin inparticular, we didn't have any sense that what she was doing was in violation of the law. >> i understand you have some new information about next week's testimony? >> reporter: that's right, there's going to be another hearing on russia's interference in the election, with former acting attorney general james clap ever. and we have learned that susan rice, president obama's former national security advisor declined the request. so she w

anthony weiner has pled guilty today to sending sexually explicit texts to a minor. tearfullyapologizing in court to his family and the teenage victim displaying quote his own destructive impulses. wienerto appeal any sentences between 21 and 27 months in prison. he must also register as a sex offender. and there is this: the new york post is reporting his wife and top aid hillary clinton huma huma aberdeen has now filed for divorce. david: what a mess. meanwhile, president trump is now getting closer to announcing his pick for fbi director. what that means for the bureau going forward. >> plus deputy attorney general rod rosenstein holding closer with membering of congress today while lawmars are split over that discussion [vo] when it comes to investing, looking from a fresh perspective can make all the difference. it can provide what we call an unlock: a realization that often reveals a better path forward. at wells fargo, it's our expertise in finding this kind of insight that has lead us to become one of the largest investment and wealth management firms in the country. discover how we can help find your unlock. i needed something more to help control my type 2 diabetes. my a1c wa

anthony weiner plead guilty today to one count of sending obscene messages to a minor. as part ever a plea deal for sexting an underaged girl, earlier in court, wieneras intirg his plea telling the judge, "i've got a sickness but no excuse." wiener faces multiple years in prison and will have to register as a sex offender. lisa boothe is joining us now. rick grenell is joining us now as well. i didn't think it could get any better than dan rather saying that donald trump is now the hunted by the media. i think maxine waters got pretty close with the "lock her up" came from putin. >> absolutely, sean. i hate to be mean here, sean, but there's a little bit of a humor in maxine waters talking about connecting dots because this is a woman who on an interview just recently couldn't explain what the democratic party stood for outside of the resistance to president president trump. this is a woman who had also previously said that comey had zero credibility but in an interview struggled to explain why someone would with no credibility shouldn't be fire fired -- someone with no credibility shouldn't be fired. there's humor for her to talk about connecting t

wiener of san francisco and is making its way thru the legislature. if passed, it could go into affect by january 1st. (vicki) former congressman anthony could be heading to prison for up to two years. today weiner pleaded guilty to exchanging sexually explicit texts with a 15-year-old girl. he cried on the stand as he apologized for his behavior...saying he knew his life's dream of working in public service has been destroyed. another blow to weiner came just hours after pleading guilty to the federal sex charge. his wife has filed paper work for divorce. the new york city judge says weiner must also register as a sex offender. (grant) next are retail jobs in jeopardy? how soon experts say they could be replaced with robots. (vicki) plus researchers look into the impact of social media on mental health. we'll explain which users are most at risk. [ birds chirping ] [ inhales, exhales ] [ announcer ] cigarettes are not just dangerous when they're smoked. [ rat squeaking ] they're dangerous long after. cigarette butts are toxic. they release chemicals that poison our water... and harm wildlife. and millions... are polluting our environm

40,000 clinton e-mails forwarded by huma abedin to anthony weiner's laptop so they could be printed for the secretary of state. neither abedin nor wiener has been charged. asked why it was appropriate to comment on the clinton case, but not the fbi's russia investigation, including possible ties to the trump campaign, comey's answer? >> i think i treated both investigations consistently under the same principle. >> reporter: director comey also declined to answer whether the white house is cooperating with its russia investigation. and on the topic of wikileaks, he blasted it as what he described as intelligence porn, strongly suggesting that the u.s. government is preparing to file criminal charges against the >> and susan rice is declining to testify in front of congress, what is that about? >> reporter:. yes. this morning that's what president trump is tweeting about. we'll put those on the screen. susan rice, the former national security adviser to president obama, is refusing to testify before a senate subcommittee next week on allegations of unmasking trump transition officials. not good! unmasking, to be clear, is the requesting