. >> excuse me, bob mcdonnell took a fraction of what kaine took and i think to me it's a big problem.

. >> excuse me, bob mcdonnell took a fraction of what kaine took and i think to me it's a big problem. now how do you take all these gifts? hundreds of thousands of dollars. the other thing about him. he's bought and owned by the banks. and the third thing, he's in favor of tpp and every other trade deal he's looked at and that means he wants people not to work. now, he is going to change his tune, and i understand he's now going to say i'm against tpp. hillary clinton was totally in favor of tpp, which is a job killer, right? so is he. when she watched me on your show and other shows, all of a sudden she changed because she knows she can't win that in a debate. >> all right. ted cruz amended, are you really going to fund a super pack to help defeat hillary in 2018.

bob mcdonnell's quick overturned. the supreme court overturned his corruption conviction saying the jury got faulty instructions on what constitutes brie brerry. what are people saying about this case? >> well, the current governor, virginia governor m should be the end of it. that it's time to move on. that bob mcdonnell has suffered enough in the public eye and has gone through enough and in mcauliffe's eye has paid a price already and time to move forward. >> i don't know how much he was suffered. he was charged by the prosecutors and lower court and appeals court all agreed that he and his wife violated the law. the chief justice john roberts, supreme court, unanimously said. the lower court has to consider whether or not there's specific acts he could be charged. bob mcdonnell, the supreme court wasn't worried about the tawdry aspects of this. he will be facing charges but his reputation is still bado because of what the chief justice said about it. tawdry acts. >> i got to know the governor pretty well while he

>> well, actually, tim kaine and bob mcdonnell it's more of a perceived corruption. the laws in virginia are relatively lax and so when kaine ended up getting gifts from donors such as dominion power which is of course is a big electricity company over in virginia as well as a big wealthy venture capitalist as well as a drug company that ended up buying facilities over in virginia, you know, he didn't get busted for it because the laws are very lax in virginia. he ended up getting ncaa tickets for the final four, but the thing is that he disclosed all the that information. it was about $160,000 worth of gifts and of money. however, on the other hand, bob mcdonnell, he didn't disclose the gifts and a loan he ended up getting from a supplement company. however, you know, kaine did plead on bob's behalf when he ended up getting convicted. however, that particular conviction was vacated by the high court and that is going to be dealt with later on. >> you mentioned 160,000 in gifts that was between 2001 and 2009. also in 2005, he received 18,000 in vacation, 2003 to '05,

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mark: how do you explain a unanimous ruling from the justices on the bob mcdonnell case?ifferent from the prosecutor making a decision, a federal prosecutor sees this as not only a good prosecution to bring, but earns a conviction. how can you reconcile that with the unanimous view of the court? pete: all you had to do was hear the oral argument. there was not a single justice that was a big cheerleader for the prosecution of bob mcdonnell. today, the chief justice, who wrote the unanimous opinion said that it is pretty tawdry, what the former governor did, but the essence of the case is "what is an official act?" the federal law says, you violate the law if you take something like what he got here, cash and gifts, in exchange for performing official acts. that was the question, "what is an official act?" the court had said today the kind of stuff that governor mcdonnell did setting up meetings, talking to staffers, a hosting lunches -- that is garden-variety staff that government officials do all the time. that is not an official act. an official act, they said, is when

. >> excuse me, bob mcdonnell took a fraction of what kaine took and i think to me it's a big problemnow how do you take all these gifts? hundreds of thousands of dollars. the other thing about him. he's bought and owned by the banks. and the third thing, he's in favor of tpp and every other trade deal he's looked at and that means he wants people not to work. now, he is going to change his tune, and i understand he's now going to say i'm against tpp. hillary clinton was totally in favor of tpp, which is a job killer, right? so is he. when she watched me on your show and other shows, all of a sudden she changed because she knows she can't win that in a debate. >> all right. ted cruz amended, are you really going to fund a super pack to help defeat hillary in 2018. >> not the number one thing on my mind. what's on my mind is beating hillary clinton. what's on my mind is winning for the republican party. with that being said, yeah, i'll probably do a super pac, you know, when they run against kasich. >> okay. >> for 10 to $20 million against ted cruz. >> all right. >> and maybe one othe

this is a justice department, remember, that indicted bob mcdonnell for crimes of supposed corruption which were not, vacated unanimously, 8-0 by the supreme court this week. it is a justice department or injustice department that went after robert mendoza on similar shaky charges because he opposed president obama on a iran and cuba. this justice department is worse than nixon. the president himself went out before any of this with bill clinton and said she's innocent. said that on this network. and then further endorsed her. the first time in history a candidate has been endorsed under criminal investigation. if you don't think the fix is in here, yes, i depend on comey. we are you can taing about the lonely prosecutor and because this is movie z in greece, who is the one person who would stand up for truth, this hangs on the eve of the 4th of july, not since '73 like this with co comey's hands. >> i think the bill clinton loretta lynch thing has enhanced jim comey's role now. i think he is strengthen when he does decide whatever the fbi will decide. they can't criticize him. >> joh

the supreme court, threw out the corruption conviction of bob mcdonnell.nell's bribery convictions tossed. terry mcauliffe is the current governor of virginia. on a scale of 1 to 10, naming the wrong guy, that's 11. the editor has apologized for an embarrassing editor. >>> gay talese is disavowing his own book. "the voyeur's motel" relies heavily on the owner of a colorado hotel who says he secretly spied on guests for decades. that owner insists his tales are trues, but after property records showed an eight-year period where he didn't own the hotel, the 84-year-old talese is calling hymn certifiably unreliable and dishonorable. he said later that he's not totally disavowing the book. must have been some heated phone calls there with the publisher. that is it for this edition of "media buzz." i'm howard kurtz. we hope you like us on our facebook page, become part of the conversation. you can talk at me on twitter @howardkurtz or write to us, mediabuzz@foxnews.com. we're back here next sunday. you know where to find us with the latest buzz. >>> the clinton

they bring flimsy cases against people like virginia governor bob mcdonnell.hey don't care if it might not ultimately succeed and don't prosecute people like lois lerner for irs abuses or hillary. politics trumps law when it comes to the justice department. tom: the attorney general is supposed to be separate but the attorney general serves at the pleasure of the president. on the president's cabinet, how can you separate the politics from the department of justice? >> well, ultimately you can't, but there are certain standards you should abide by, and this attorney general, this justice department has been punished repeatedly by federal judges. in new orleans, in texas, and frankly been ordered to undergo ethics training because of the gross misconduct by lawyers up and down the chain of command at the d.o.j. by attorneys over the last few years. and you have them stopping questions from being asked by the fbi during the interviews. they were in league with hillary's lawyers to prevent certain lines of questioning. clearly, the d.o.j. process cannot be truste

. >> reporter: when rosenfield delivered a clemency petition to virginia governor bob mcdonnell, nirdier added volumes of evidence in support. and then, as they waited for an answer. >> out of nowhere jessica sent a "dear mr. rosenfield" letter. she admitted to the throat cutting, stab wounds to the back and -- absolutely adamant that robert had nothing to do with it whatsoever. >> reporter: so jessica's affidavit was sent off to the governor, too. and everybody waited. and waited. and then on the governor's very last day in office, more than nine years into robert's sentence -- a decision. denied. rosenfield, devastated, drove to the prison to tell robert. >> robert and i hugged and we cried and probably is about the most painful part of this process. >> reporter: robert's only door to freedom slammed shut. but half a world away, someone else was watching robert's case. could his opinion make a difference? >>> coming up -- >> isn't the confession the strongest evidence you can get? >> not always. >> the police detective in robert's corner when "dateline" continues. >> reporter: this is

there was not a single justice that was a big cheerleader for the prosecution of bob mcdonnell., the chief justice who wrote the unanimous opinion said that it is pretty tawdry but the former governor did, but the essence of the case is "what is an official act?" the federal law says, you violate the law if you take something like what he got here, cash and gifts, in exchange for a forming official acts. -- for performing official acts. that was the question "what is an official act?" the court had said today the kind of stuff that governor mcdonnell did setting up meetings, talking to staffers, a roasting lunches -- that is -- hosting lunches -- that is garden-variety staff that government officials do all the time. that is not an official act. an official act, they said, is when you have a decision pending, you vote on it, you influence that decision. so, as a technical matter, the case is sent back. the appeals court can look at it again to see if there's a point in a retrial. basically, they send the prosecution back severely handicapped. not only this case, but this will ma

having covered not only tim kaine but bob mcdonnell indicted on similar charges after the fact.im kaine was never actually accused of linking gifts he received towards any official government action. no one has ever accused him of that -- >> you mean he didn't help anyone -- >> exactly. in all of the gifts he received were completely legal under virginia law. a big chunk of them were actually his payment for making political trips for people like barack obama. so to a certain extent kaine went over what he was responsible to do during his time as virginia governor. for instance, the one that everyone attacks him for, the 18,000 caribbean vacation home which was a friend of his and the senator who serves with him in virginia, offered him the use of the caribbean home -- >> that's not the picture he painted being the son of a welder. you help family and get up before dawn and go help in the iron shop, et cetera. mark preston, i want your thoughts on that but also, this is a guy who called himself boring and then you've got elizabeth warren who many thought perhaps clinton would ta

did, bob mcdonnell a former republican governor who got indicted for taking improper gifts. does he have an ethical liability. >> they will hammer him over and over about this. virginia's got really lax laws about accepting gifts so he has disclosed accepting $160,000 worth of gifts. a lot are political travel he got reimbursed for including travel for president obama during the last campaign. somebody invited him down to the caribbean and he stayed in the house but these -- there's no law breaking, no allegations of any law breaking and, you know, he's got a pretty clean ethical record. >> we'll hear a lot about it nonetheless. >> while on the subject of donald trump he held an interesting news conference yesterday after giving his big convention speech. he lashed out not at hillary clinton but at ted cruz. let's take a listen. >> i like ted. he's fine, again, i don't want his endorsement. if he gives it i will not accept it just so you understand. if he gives it, i will not accept it. it won't matter. >> smart politics or -- >> i tell you, any time donald trump starts with

tucker martin, former communications director for virginia governor bob mcdonnell says the president is burying donald trump with language the republicans will respond to. and erick erickson says, i disappear with the president on so much policy and his agenda, but appreciate the hope and optimism in his speech. with that in mind, knowing that we have republicans for hillary coming up, and we'll hear more of that messaging tonight. we asked steve kornacki to take a look at how receptive that audience potentially is to hillary clinton. steve? >> yeah, it's really interesting. we're seeing a shake-up of an electorate that's been locked in place in a lot of ways since 1-80 2000, the bush/gore race. the divided nation, a lot of that locked in place since 2000 is being shaken up. and the reason is, donald trump seems to be creating a new fault line in american politics, which has to do with class. you might say it's sort of a blue collar versus professional. blue collar versus cosmopolitan fault line. so what you're talking about here, in terms of hillary clinton and democrats reaching ou

donald trump is overstating or misstating the case and trying to compare it to the indictment of bob mcdonnellhaving said that, governor, for a party that cares about transparency and reform and play -- pay to play. >> he reported all those gifts. they weren't transparent. there's no doubt about that. look, what we're talking about here are things that are going to affect people's futures and the country's future. i've never heard of anybody, even his harshest critic, say that tim kaine is dishonest. you said the magic words quid pro quo. if he had taken a gift and done something for somebody that verge on inappropriate. if he took a gift and used it, maine some people wouldn't have done it. pennsylvania i couldn't have done it. >> right. the state we're sitting in has different laws. >> absolutely. i couldn't have done it. if he did something quid pro quo that's a different story. that would open him up to attack. look, the people of virginia knew about that when they voted him into the senate. they voted him into the senate resound resoundedly. hillary knew there would be a little bit of a t

unlike his successor, former governor bob mcdonnell, all the gifts were properly disclosed publicly onanwhile, on the republican side, the "new york times" reports that new jersey governor chris christie quote, is among those being vetted as mr. trump's possible running mate. according to people briefed on the process. mr. trump has said in interviews mr. christie would have a prominent place in a trump white house. let's bring in the "hardball" roundtable. jamal simmons, laura bassett and the senior writer for "u.s. news and world report." this guy has taken a lot of gifts, it seems to have a certain scent to it because we had this big supreme court case about his predecessor down there. >> apparently he took gifts, according to politico, went to a donor's house in the caribbean, went to a basketball game but in virginia these things are allowed. >> explain the clothes thing. how does somebody give you clothes? hey, anybody, want some clothes? i got clothes for you. seems like an odd gift. a steak dinner, that's one thing. come on, i'll buy you some clothes. it seems strange. >> he re

the va's going to stifle the reforms and bob mcdonnell, while a nice guy has been an utter failure is be a secretary. he was captured by the proxy the minute he came inches you have government unions, i talk about civil service reform, well, you're damn right. in you're damn right. in fact it should be across government but let's start at the virginia. let's make sure that those who work in our government are held accountable. if they're not not doing a good job they can be fired. that is a basic principle, accountability is how you change cultures. government unions have a grip on that. then it is then it is special-interest. you want to talk about establishment, we hear that word a lot in the political spectrum, special special interest exists everywhere including in the vet space. it is traditional veteran services in washington who are unwilling to change, who who want to get invited to white house cocktail parties and play nice with everybody at all times. they stifle things like basic choice, and accountability and then they impugn and attack their opponents had a return because

i didn't see any complaint when bob mcdonnell was exonerated for having done certain things i think most persons would find highly objectionable. our court exonerated him just a week or two ago. so i think this is a moment for committee members to reflect, to take a deep breath, to calm down and realize exactly what you said, no reasonable prosecutor would have brought this case. and thank you for stating that so clearly and publicly. i yield back the balance. i yield to the ranking member. >> mr. director, let me ask you this, first, i associate myself with everything the gentleman just said. you were talking about some markings a little bit earlier, is that right? can you describe what those markings are like? i thought you said there were documents with certain markings on there that indicates class fewed. go ahead. >> there were three e-mails that down in the body of the e-mail there were paragraphs at the beginning of the paragraph had a parenthes parenthesis, a capital "c," then a par renn sis. that is a portion mark -- >> that paragraph. >> that paragraph is classified at the con

the difference with bob mcdonnell who came -- who was convicted and then the supreme court overturnedas no quid pro quo h. e declared it. that was the main thing. he declared everything. put it down. in fact computed higher numbers to staying in friends houses. he put everything down. he was meticulous about it. they don't think it was a big --. he has the civil rights background. i was in the room and when you saw on tv yesterday in miami, in that largely hispanic campus, that wonderful campus in miami, it was extraordinary. the enthusiasm for him and the affection and having watched her all of these years, absolutely right, chris. she's found her guy. >> -- a progressive story about his history. the party has moved to the left while he's sort of always been a solid liberal. >> i feel like both clinton and kaine are trying to catch up to the peters movement. >> true. >> he is heroic in virginia on gun law. >> they are moving it. michael, the trump campaign says we love the kaine pick and here's why. because it reinforces that their -- the politicalic professionals, that here is tim k

. >> excuse me, bob mcdonnell took a fraction of what kaine took and i think to me it's a big problemhow do you take all these gifts? hundreds of thousands of dollars. the other thing about him, he's bought and owned by the banks. and the third thing, he's in favor of tpp and every other trade deal he has ever looked at. and that means he wants people not to work. now, he is going to change his tune, and i understand he's now going to say i'm against tpp. hillary clinton was totally in favor of tpp, which is a job killer, right? so is he. when she watched me on your show and other shows, all of a sudden she changed because she knows she can't win that in a debate. >> all right. ted cruz amended, are you really going to fund a super pack to help defeat hillary in 2018. >> not the number one thing on my mind. what's on my mind is beating hillary clinton. what's on my mind is winning for the republican party. with that being said, yeah, i'll probably do a super pac, you know, when they run against kasich. >> okay. >> for $10 to $20 million, against ted cruz. >> all right. >> and maybe on

i didn't see any of my republican colleagues complain when former governor bob mcdonnell was -- i think most americans would find highly objectionable. our court on a bipartisan, unanimous basis, exonerated him a week or two ago. so i think this is a moment for committee members to reflect, take a deep breath, to calm down, and realize exactly what you said. that no reasonable prosecutor would have brought this case. and thank you for stating that so clearly and publicly. i yield back the balance. i yield to the ranking member. >> mr. director, let me ask you this. first, i associate myself with everything the gentleman just said. you were talking about some markings a little bit earlier, is that right? can you describe what those markings are like? markings on documents. you said there were three documents with certain markings on them. >> yeah. >> that indicated classified. go ahead. >> there were three e-mails that down in the body in the e-mail, in the three different e-mails, there were paragraphs that at the beginning of the paragraph had a parentheses, a capital "c" and then a pa

bob mcdonnell was convicted of corruption charges though the supreme court overturned those charges in june. the biggest difference between mcconnell and tim kaine was the former did not disclose the gifts. this was probably a smart move by donald trump. tim kaine does not have a national profile. defining heavy early is the best way to go for the gop. is a goodaine" nickname for the gop to use. this nickname though is not based in fact but that will not stop the donald trump campaign from using it for the next three months. >> back at the national constitution center in downtown center city philadelphia, former governor ed randel -- was that a fair video? tim kaine gets the issue. he has disclosed, voluntarily, it was not illegal in pennsylvania. oneisclosed there never was talk that any gift was connected to any official action. i think it is the usual effort by the trump campaign to distort acts and to cast people in negative light. what i did not like about donald than it wasch other angry and dark and painted a horrible picture of the country, what i do not like about it is that h

current virginia senator and former virginia governor to his successor in richmond, governor book bob mcdonnell, who was convicted which was eventually overturned. but donald trump says is this the same kaine that didn't get indicted while bob m did. adding to that, jason miller now says, quote, it is only fitting that hillary clinton would select an ethically challenged insider like tim kaine who has personally benefitted there rigging the system -- from the rigged system while serving in government kaine has taken tens of thousands of dollars in freebies more than $160,000 in fact on free vacations, tree clothes and free tickets. and twitter is probably the only place that we're going to hear from or see donald trump today. he doesn't have anything scheduled during the clinton/kaine ticket rollout down in florida, but he does plan to hold rallies in swing states while the democrats hold their convention to nominate hillary in philadelphia. >> i could see him emerging from those revolving doors behind you and inviting you in for lunch. we might be seeing him yet. >> if he does, i will ask him

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i didn't see any of my republican colleagues complain when bob mcdonnell was exonerated for having done certain things i think most americans would find objectable, but our court exonerated him just a week or two ago. so i think this is a moment for committee members reflect, to take a deep breath, to calm down, and realize exactly what you said, that no reasonable prosecutor would have brought this case. and thank you for stating that so clearly and publicly. i yield back the balance. i yield to the ranking member. >> mr. director, let me ask you this. first of all, i associate myself with everything the gentleman just said. you were talking about some markings a little earlier. is that right? can you describe what those markings are like? markings on documents. you said there were three documents with certain markings on them. >> yeah. >> indicated classified. >> there were three e-mails that down in the body of the e-mail, in the three different e-mails, there were paragraphs at the beginning of the paragraph had a parenthesis, a capital "c" and then a parenthesis. that's a portion m

the united states gave your department a rather stellar review in your prosecution of governor bob mcdonnell. having looked at that and the basis you have essentially your department launched everything you had against a republican governor who everyone agreed had violated no state law. they took a federal law and you cited looking at statute relevant case law and history there was no relevant case law to suggest that setting up a meeting instituted a crime. no history statutory history that suggested it was a crime. yet your department put everything it had in prosecuting that governor. having looked at what the supreme court has now said, do you believe that prosecution was a mistake? >> certainly i believe that the prosecutors who worked on that matter investigated it and presented it to a grand jury and received an indictment. we, of course, as presented -- >> they made a choice -- [ talking over each other ] can you tell us looking that the and an the way you interpreted that statute, was it a mistake. >> with respect to the investigation of the former governor of virginia. i don't have

i didn't see any of my republican colleagues complain when bob mcdonnell was exonerated for having done certain things i think most americans would find objectable, but our court exonerated him just a week or two ago. so i think this is a moment for committee members reflect, to take a deep breath, to calm down, and realize exactly what you said, that no reasonable prosecutor would have brought this case. and thank you for stating that so clearly and publicly. i yield back the balance. i yield to the ranking member. >> mr. director, let me ask you this. first of all, i associate myself with everything the gentleman just said. you were talking about some markings a little earlier. is that right? can you describe what those markings are like? markings on documents. you said there were three documents with certain markings on them. >> yeah. >> indicated classified. >> there were three e-mails that down in the body of the e-mail, in the three different e-mails, there were paragraphs at the beginning of the paragraph had a parenthesis, a capital "c" and then a parenthesis. that's a portion m

i didn't see any of my republican colleagues complain when bob mcdonnell was exonerated for having done certain things i think most americans would find objectable, but our court exonerated him just a week or two ago. so i think this is a moment for committee members reflect, to take a deep breath, to calm down, and realize exactly what you said, that no reasonable prosecutor would have brought this case. and thank you for stating that so clearly and publicly. i yield back the balance. i yield to the ranking member. >> mr. director, let me ask you this. first of all, i associate myself with everything the gentleman just said. you were talking about some markings a little earlier. is that right? can you describe what those markings are like? markings on documents. you said there were three documents with certain markings on them. >> yeah. >> indicated classified. >> there were three e-mails that down in the body of the e-mail, in the three different e-mails, there were paragraphs at the beginning of the paragraph had a parenthesis, a capital "c" and then a parenthesis. that's a portion m

the united states gave your department a rather stellar review in your prosecution of governor bob mcdonnell. having looked at that and the basis you have essentially your department launched everything you had against a republican governor who everyone agreed had violated no state law. they took a federal law and you cited looking at statute relevant case law and history there was no relevant case law to suggest that setting up a meeting constituted a crime. no history statutory history that suggested it was a crime. yet your department put everything it had in prosecuting that governor. having looked at what the supreme court has now said, do you believe that prosecution was a mistake? >> certainly i believe that the prosecutors who worked on that matter investigated it and presented it to a grand jury and received an indictment. we, of course, as presented -- >> they made a choice -- [ talking over each other ] can you tell us looking that the and an the way you interpreted that statute, was it a mistake. >> with respect to the investigation of the former governor of virginia. i don't hav

i did not see any of my republican colleagues complain and bob mcdonnell was exonerated by an 8-0 vote for having uncertain things that i think most americans would find highly objectionable. exonerated him just a week or two ago. i think this is a moment for committee members to reflect, take a deep breath, come down and realize that no reasonable prosecutor would have brought this case. thank you for stating that so clearly. i yield back. this, ie ask you associate myself with everything the judgment just said, you are talking about some marking it will bit earlier. is that right? can you describe what those markets like? three documents with certain markings? director comey: in the body of the e-mail, three different e-mails, paragraph and at the beginning of the paragraph it c). a ( that indicates that the paragraph is classified at the confidential level. lowest level of classification. you come these three markets. with thesels markings in the body. none of the e-mails had headers which is at the top of the document that says classified. three had the portion markings (c). >> to