on wednesday a video was released in which brian fallon that checks tweets -- brian fallon fact checks tweets about benghazi. about --ing flagged flagged with potentially containing classified information, it is simple and marked unclassified. you can go to the state department website to this day, look it up, and printed out because it remains unclassified. because the state department treats this e-mail is unclassified, it sent the committee a copy of the unredacted e-mail. by the same logic that the inspector general was holding hillary clinton to come of this means potentially members of congress who received this areil from the state permit trafficking in classified information, and anybody who goes to the state department website and prints out the e-mail is also trafficking classified information. afternoon thes clinton campaign was back at it again with their aggressive strategy. this into account, how effective has their strategy been so far? al: i'm not sure what they said in the conference call. a a scale of one to 10, about minus two. i think brian fallon is a smart fellow.

. >> reporter: this morning, clinton campaign spokesman brian fallon insisted the information was not classified, even mrs. clinton acknowledges there is a disagreement with the intelligence community's inspector general. >> that the state department has said over and over again, we disagree. so that's what they're sorting out. and that's what happens a lot of the times. >> reporter: and there's new controversy. anne duval who left the irs after the controversial destruction of backup tapes now works at mrs. clinton's old department where she is directly involved in the benghazi investigation. >> i know where she is now. she's at the department of state in charge of their e-mail productions. wow. >> reporter: the clinton campaign held a late afternoon conference call describing the fox report as accurate, adding the original e-mails were not drafted by clinton political appointees. >> the two underlying e-mails that kathryn's included in her report, you'll see that these e-mails were originated by a career foreign service officers and were only ultimately forwarded to secretary clinto

earlier today clinton campaign spokesman brian fallon insisted to fox news the information was not classified in the e-mails and that the state department shares their justice department and proof one of the e-mails was released in full on its foya website. mrs. clinton acknowledging there is a broad disagreement within their opinion and that of the intelligence community's most senior watchdog. >> everybody is acting like this is the first time it's ever happened. it's happened all the time. and i can only tell thought state department has said over and over again, we disagree. so that's what they're sorting out. and that's what happens a lot of the times. >> reporter: also within the last hour, fox news asked at a state department briefing about a specific piece of information in one of the e-mails and talks about ambassador chris stevens likely bid to flee libya because the conditions were deteriorating and it talked about the travel plans, the route he would take. we asked the state department spokesperson john kirby whether putting that information on unsecured network might have endange

>> well, clinton campaign spokesman brian fallon insisted to fox news this morning the information was not classified at the time the emails were sent. he added the state department shares this judgment and it's proof that the aub adeen email was released in full by the state department on its website. it is acknowledged there is a significant disagreement with the intelligence community's most senior watch dog. >> every is acting like this is the first time it's ever happened and it happens all the time. i can only tell you that the state department has said over and over again, we disagree. that's what they're sorting out, and that's what happens a lot of the times. >> this morning the intelligence community's inspector general stood by its assessment that both theabadin and sullivan emails contained classified information when they were sent to clinton's personal, unsecured account, exposing that information, gretchen. >> the story continues. catherine herridge. thank you. >>> let's talk about the presidential election again. donald trump managing to keep his distant first-place lea

. >> reporter: this morning, clinton campaign spokesman brian fallon insisted the information was not classified, even mrs. clinton acknowledges there is a disagreement with the intelligence community's inspector general. >> that the state department has said over and over again, we disagree. so that's what they're sorting out. and that's what happens a lot of the times. >> reporter: and there's new controversy. anne duval who left the irs after the controversial destruction of backup tapes now works at mrs. clinton's old department where she is directly involved in the benghazi investigation. >> i know where she is now. she's at the department of state in charge of their e-mail productions. wow. >> reporter: the clinton campaign held a late afternoon conference call describing the fox report as accurate, adding the original e-mails were not drafted by clinton political appointees. >> the two underlying e-mails that kathryn's included in her report, you'll see that these e-mails were originated by a career foreign service officers and were only ultimately forwarded to secretary clinto

something press secretary brian fallon released. >> none of that was classified at the time it was sent. that's consistent with what we've been saying from the beginning. >> it's not just clinton's private server that may have contained private information. she dan ackerman is an idiot tore at cnet. >> any time you're bringing your own ee whim and using it for work purposes, it's not something that's actually secure, issued by the company because they take the laptops, for example, and reconfigure them. >> and despite the fact that campaigns weren't marked classified means they weren't. that doesn't matter. they cannot be formally stamped classified. charlie? >> jan, thanks. >>> former president jimmy carter will reveal more about his cancer diagnosis. he said a recent liver operation found the cancer. he said the cancer has spread and he's under go treatment to treat it. our digital network cbsn will bring you live coverage. it begins around 10:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m. central. >>> the south set its guns opened fire after a single artillery shell at a mortar town. there are no details of any

just last night, the campaign manager brian fallon told alan colmes they feel biden would be a quotedable opponent. the white house has steered clear saying selecting biden as vice presidential nominee has been the best decision president obama made. that had one reporter asking earlier this week, what about the former secretary of state? >> yeah, it was, it was, and i think what the president spoke at quite some length about the appreciation, respect and admiration he has for the service of secretary clinton, particularly in her four years as secretary of state. >> reporter: briefly, here is what could be giving the clinton camp some pause in a swing state poll earlier this week. joe biden in a head-to-head matchup fared better against donald trump, marco rubio and jeb bush than hillary clinton and bernie sanders did. and joe biden polling in the low double digits nationally as well. he hasn't thrown his hat into the ring just yet. connell: if he does yet, in you will see the polls switch around. christie setzer and hadley with the independent women's forum. the idea that all the cl

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in it one of her top aides, brian fallon, answers and disspells some of the myths of this e-mail issuehoping when hillary clinton campaigns in october, she'll talk about all of this, that they'll be able to turn a page. but there is question whether they'll be able to do that because there's this ongoing fbi investigation, and it's not clear if and when that is going to come to an end. jose? >> kristen welker, thanks so much. appreciate your time. >> you, too. thanks. >>> donald trump is making new comments about undocumented immigrants during a radio interview in alabama. take a listen to some of it. >> a lot of the gangs you see, this doesn't hopefully pertain to you guys so much, but when you look at baltimore, you look at chicago, ferguson, a lot of these gang members are illegal immigrants. >> those comments come as trump, and more recently jeb bush, are both finding themselves in the middle of a firestorm of sorts for defending the use of the term anchor babies to describe children born in the u.s. to undocumented immigrants. at the same time a new report in politico says the tru

this is a clip from press secretary brian fallon's defense. >> when john boehner tells you that hillary clinton is under criminal investigation for mishandling of classified e-mail, he's dead wrong. the justice department has said it's a noncriminal inquiry. hillary clinton herself is not the target. number three, in every case that has surfaced to date they said none of the information is classified at the time. >> nbc news white house. correspondent kristen welker following the story from martha's vineyard where the first family is vacationing. what can you tell us about the latest about democratic reaction to the controversy itself? >> well, craig, some democrats have the gun to get jittery. they are nervous this could make secretary clinton weak in a general election. on the other hand, you have democrats who say she is still the strong front-runner. she just has to weather this storm and they want her to address these issues. this has become a political problem for sec their clinton because it's giving republicans the opportunity to attack her almost daily over this issue. and we s