director comey, what did general petraeus mean when he said he intentionally shared, quote, code word information with her? what does that mean? >> the petraeus case, to my mind, illustrates perfectly the kind of cases department of justice is willing to prosecute. even there, they prosecuted him for a misdemeanor. in that case, you had had vast quantities of highly classified information, including special sensitive compartmented information. that's the reference to code words. vast quantity, not only shared with someone without authority to have it, but hidden in the insulation in his attic and then he lied about it during the investigation. so you have obstruction of justice, intentional misconduct and a vast quantity of information. he admitted he knew that was the wrong thing to do. that is a perfect illustration of the kind of cases that get prosecuted. in my mind, it illustrates importantly the distinction to this case. >> and general petraeus did not admit to these facts when the fbi investigators first interviewed him, did he? >> no, he lied about it. >> but he did admit to t

director comey, what did general petraeus mean when he said he intentionally shade, quote, code word rmation with her? what does that mean? the petraeus case in my mind illustrates perfectly the kind of cases the department of justice is willing to prosecute. even there they prosecuted him for a misdemeanor. in that case you had vast quantities of highly classified information including special sensitive compartmented information. that is the reference to code words. vast quantity of it. not only shared with someone without authority to have it but we found it in a search warrant hidden under the insulation in his attic and then he lied to us about it during the investigation. so you have obstruction of justice. you have intentional misconduct and a vast quantity of information. he admitted he knew that was the wrong thing to do. that is a perfect illustration the kind of cases get prosecuted. in my mind it illustrates importantly the distinction to this case.kav÷ >> and general petraeus did not admit to these facts when the fbi investigators first interviewed him, did he? >> no. he l

brian: what did you tell jobless trace -- general petraeus? jean edward: we did not discuss that. mmersby.lked about marshallr told general just after the ve day that he summersby andrry k general marshall said that i will relieve you of command. eisenhower decided he would not do that but he never told kate and he continue to live with her until he went home to washington in november of 45. when he was reassigned to become chief of staff of the army. kate thought she was going with shein on the date that was to part, she got orders to berlin. when she was put on the staff. she did not know that she was not going with him. once eisenhower got back, he wrote her a very crisp dear john letter and that was it. himcontinued to pursue after her tour in europe was over. she came back to washington. pentagoned ike and the -- in the pentagon and the next day she received orders to go to california. brian: general petraeus was not happy when he saw that story come out? jean edward: i don't think so. brian: he was quoted as saying he did not know that would come out. jean edward were the gro

you look at general petraeus. you look at ail the other people that did a fraction of what she did, but she has much worse judgment than he had and she's getting away with it and it's unfair to him, end of quote. director comey, you were the director of the fbi when general petraeus pled guilty. >> yes. >> if i understand that case correctly, general petraeus kept highly classified information in eight personal notebooks at his private residence. >> that is correct. >> his notebook included the identities of covert officers. also included war strategy, intelligence capabilities, diplomatic discussions, quotes and discussions from high level national security council meetings, and discussions with the president. general petraeus shared his information with his lover and then biographer. he was caught on audiotape telling her, i mean, they are highly classified, some of them. they don't have it, on it, but i mean there's code word stuff in there end of quote. director comey, what did general petraeus mean when he sa

you look at general petraeus. you look at all the other people that did a fraction of what she did, but she has much worse judgment than he had and she's getting away with it and it's unfair to him, end of quote. director comey, you were the director of the fbi when general petraeus pled guilty. is that right? >> yes. >> if i understand that case correctly, general petraeus kept highly classified information in eight personal notebooks at his private residence. >> that is correct. >> squorg to the filings in that case, his notebook included the identities of covert officers. also included war strategy, intelligence capabilities, diplomatic discussions, quotes and discussions from high level national security council meetings, and discussions with the president. general petraeus shared his information with his lover and then biographer. he was caught on audiotape telling her, i mean, they are highly classified, some of them. they don't have it, on it, but i mean there's code word stuff in there end of quote. direct

whether it's general petraeus or others that have suffered grave consequences for what they did, bill, i think it's a great miscarriage of justice. >> do you believe the fix was in and did president obama have anything to do with it? >> well, it was very strange the timing, because i see him, you know, talking making a speech a couple of hours after this happened. certainly it was very strange to be having your meeting with the fbi on the, you know, one of the biggest holidays of the year. certainly fourth of july weekend and they are having meetings on saturday and then the speech and everybody knew she was going to be in north carolina on monday and then, you know, the semi exoneration. i don't know even know if you would call it exoneration because some pad things about what she said. >> she wasn't exonerated she just wasn't prosecuted. >> she is essentially incompetent. basically they are saying she is incompetent. she is not dishonest she is certainly incompetent. >> he clear live said that comey did. i'm going to pose the question again. do you believe the fix was in and that pr

director comey, what did general petraeus mean when he said he intentionally shared, quote, code wordormation with her? what does that mean? >> the petraeus case, to my mind, illustrates perfectly the kind of cases that the department of justice is willing to prosecute. even there they prosecuted him for a misdemeanor. in that case, you had vast quantities of highly classified information, including special sensitive compartment information, that's the reference to code words, vast quantity of it, not only shared with someone without authority to have it, but we found it in a search warrant hidden under the insulation in his attic and then he lied to us about it during the investigation. so you have obstruction of justice, intentional misconduct and a vast quantity of misinformation. he admitted he knew that was the wrong thing to do. that is the perfect illustration of the kind of cases that get prosecuted. in my mind it illustrates importantly the distinction to this case. >> general petraeus did not admit to these facts when the fbi investigators first interviewed him, did he? >> h

you look at general petraeus. you look at ail the other people that did a fraction of what she did, but she has much worse judgment than he had and she's getting away with it and it's unfair to him, end of quote. director comey, you were the director of the fbi when general petraeus pled guilty. >> yes. >> if i understand that case correctly, general petraeus kept highly classified information in eight personal notebooks at his private residence. >> that is correct. >> his notebook included the identities of covert officers. also included war strategy, intelligence capabilities, diplomatic discussions, quotes and discussions from high level national security council meetings, and discussions with the president. general petraeus shared his information with his lover and then biographer. he was caught on audiotape telling her, i mean, they are highly classified, some of them. they don't have it, on it, but i mean there's code word stuff in there end of quote. director comey, what did general petraeus mean when he sa

you look at general petraeus.ll the other people that get a fraction of what he >> general petraeus kept classified information in eight personal notes at his residents is that correct? >> that's correct. >> included identities covert officers he also included war strategy, intelligence capabilities, diplomatic discussions, quotes and delivered discussions from high, level national security counsel meetings, and discussions with the president. general petraeus shared his information with his lover, and then biographer. he was caught on audio tape telling her and i quote, i mean they are highly classified opinion some of them. they don't have it. but, i mean, there's code word stuff in there end of quote. director comey what did general petraeus when he said he shared, quote, code word information with her? what does that mean? >> petraeus case to my mind illustrates the case that department of justice is willing to prosecute even there for a misdemeanor. in this case you have vast qualities of highly classified in

general petraeus shared that information with his lover and then biographer.otape telling her, and i quote, i mean, they are highly classified, some of them, they don't have it on it, but, i mean, there's code word stuff in there, end of quote. director comey, what did general petraeus mean when he said he intensely shared, quote, code word information with her, what does that mean? >> the petraeus case illustrates the kind of cases the department of justice is willing to prosecute. even there, they prosecuted him for a misdemeanor. in that case, you had vast quantities of highly classified information, including special sensitive compartment information. that's the reference to code words. not only shared with someone without authority to have it but we found it in a search warrant hidden under the insulation in his attic and then he lied to us about it during the investigation. you have obstruction of justice, you have intentional misconduct and a vast quantity of information. he admitted he knew that was the wrong thing to do. that is a perfect illustration

liz: that's what general petraeus was hit with. ashley: so why not in this case, matthew? >> again, he laid out, as i watched it, he included at the end i thought this was -- he was referring a criminal case over. ashley: we did too. >> and then he pulled a punch, and it feels to me like for whatever reason, they just don't have the desire or the political will or the installment to take it at this point as we head into the conventions. and there's a criminal case here to be made against more than hillary clinton, of those that also communicated the highest level of top secret special access program information. ashley: but it's not going to happen, matthew, is it? that's it. we've been waiting for this moment, and i said to sebastion, i felt like we were led all the way to the end, the climax and then boom he being too the carpet away, and we were left with no reasonable person -- we're not going to file any criminal charges but leave it up to the justice department. liz: saying there's a criminal charge of anyone? >> there should be. there should be. ashley: there should

. >> steve, before you go, you heard some people making comparisons between the general petraeus. how does the clinton case, in fact, differ from that of the general? >> donald trump has been at the lead saying how come general petraeus had his career ruined, almost went to jail for a long stretch and hillary clinton, in his opinion, is getting off. there is a substantial difference. general petraeus knew that he was giving classified information to somebody who was not authorized to receive it, paula broadwell, his biographer and lover. and he lied about it to the fbi. clinton, on the other hand, was careless without criminal intent, said the director of the fbi, who made a point of saying that neither clinton nor anybody on her legal team covered up. those are big differences, jim. >> steve handelsman, thank you. >>> a developing story in northern virginia. a former guardsman is behind bars and accused of plotting an isis soil. mohamed jalloh lived in sterling and just purchased an assault rifle when he was arrested. julie carey was in court where he made his first appearance. ju

trump is making, you have general petraeus who gets a fine and faces penalties. we have yet to see what the department of justice does. we already know that hillary clinton -- the formerment met with loretta lynch. you're turning this evidence over to the department of justice that you have to question what going on here. they had a private meeting last week. what happened in the meeting, what really was said between president clinton and attorney general lynch. the system looks like when the fbi turned it over, the department of justice has made it clear what they're going to do. the fact that she won't face penalties is ridiculous. >> remember loretta lynch who had a meeting with bill clinton says she's removing herself from the process and will accept the recommendation from the fbi director who recommends no charge also be brought. we have to get the find word from the justice department on that. i presume that will come soon. i want to bring in david axelrod. you've been listening to rnc strategist sean spicer clearly making clear that republicans do intend

general petraeus did nothing compared to her.ou look at what she did and what they did and she was so much worse the abuser of the system. tom: joining me christian adams, former u.s. department of justice attorney who served under both presidents bush and obama and the author of injustice, exposing the racial agenda of the obama justice department. i'm so glad you're on the program tonight. i would love for you to clear up -- you explain the law in english, which i like about you. this intent, and james comey says we couldn't prove intent, and yet i've been told by judge napolitano and others saying intent doesn't matter, if you mishandle the secret document, doesn't matter whether you meant to or not. which is it? >> it's gross negligence, some ways that's a whole different ball game of trying to prove negligence, gross negligence. can be harder in some ways and easier than others. you can be sure they put up lots of evidence they weren't grossly negligence, and you can be sure they show they weren't gross grossly negligent. ob

general petraeus got involved for far less. very, very unfair, as usual, bad judgme judgment" and then he went on to say, "crooked hillary compromised our national security. no charges. wow!" and then "#riggedsystem." i want to bring in jeffrey toobin and political commentator errol louis is here, too. i want to go over some of the wording that the fbi director james comey said. you know that those words were carefully vetted. he said although we did not find evidence that clinton or her colleagues intended to violate the laws, there is evidence they were careless in their handling of e-mails. we have seen charges brought many a time where the intention wasn't there but the recklessness was. so why is this any different? >> because the crime of disclosing classified information is a specific intent crime. some crimes it doesn't matter what your intent is. if you are drunk driving, for example, and you say to the officer, but i didn't intend to drunk drive, if you're driving with a blood alcohol level over a certain amount, you'

i got an e-mail from general petraeus, inviting me for dinner. before.ver met petraeus as i was leaving that evening, my wife said, do not talk about somersby. when the first course was over, that was what he wanted to talk about. brian: that was why he asked you to dinner? jean edward: i would think some. he did not know me. brian: when did this dinner come about? jean edward: well, it came about just after he was forced out as head of the cia, just after he affair. because of the i guess he was interested in som ersby, which is fair enough. i was not surprised by it. i think one of the reasons for classmatesprinceton brought pressure on the president of princeton to resign to create a vacancy. traeus to become principal of princeton and seek nomination as president of princeton as eisenhower had done as president of columbia. if you look at the republican nominee, maybe that was not bad to begin with. cted,e that could be effe the whistle was blown because of dwellpollo -- paula broa affair. brian: what did you tell general petraeus about kay so

even donald trump tweeted out, the system is rigged, general petraeus got in trouble for far less. very, very unfair. as usual, bad judgments. >> what david petraeus did was wrong and he was punished. general petraeus stole a hershey bar in a convenience store. hillary clinton robbed fort knox. when it came out she's doing this on unclassified server, picturing the kgb guys scratching their heads and saying, boris, boris, must be fair, must be hawks. nobody so stupid. it was a gift. it was a gift to them and the chinese and everybody else, and the french were reading her mail, i'm sure. they do this all the time. what she did was so callous, and she put america and americans at jeopardy. i made a joke and it's not funny at all. she harmed us, comey harmed the constitution of the united states, and we learned as one of your earlier guests said, today the fbi director himself told us that there are two standards of law in the united states of america. one for the rest of us and one for the elite of the elite, and it's shameful. deirdre: colonel ralph peters, beautifully put on all acc

general petraeus admitted to doing that. that is a separate federal crime.here was no allegation of that here. i think director comey did something positive by trying to share so much, but that leaves a lot of people picking apart disparate aspects of it. major: i want to pick up on what ari just said, because many people have raised the petraeus case as something comparable, and therefore evidence that the system did not work as it ought to have, from a legal perspective. would you care to validate or invalidate that theory? eric: i think you're right. the impact was the foxy and fbi. the fbi was, yes, while there were similarities between the two cases, the petraeus case was identifiable. he gave his mistress like book journals with classified information in them. he was tape recorded saying he knew they were classified and lied to the fbi about it. those facts from the outside seemed more egregious than those in the clinton case, as much as you can criticize her. and he was allowed to plead to a misdemeanor. the feeling was, if general petraeus was allowe

were thecomey, you director of the fbi when general petraeus pled guilty. director comey: yes. representative cummings: if i understand, petraeus -- general petraeus cap highly classified information in his notebooks. correct.comey: representative cummings: that included the identities of covert officers, including war strategies, intelligence, diplomatic discussions, quote -- quotes and discussions from high level security meetings and discoveries with the president. he shared the information with his lover, and then biographer. he was caught on audiotape telling her, "i mean, they are highly classified, some of them. on it, buthave it there is code word stuff in there." director comey, what did general petraeus mean when he said he intentionally said, " codeword information" with her? director comey: that case illustrates the kind of cases the department justice will prosecute, even if they prosecute for a misdemeanor. in that case, there were vast quantities of highly classified information including a sensitive, compartmented information. not only shared with someone without

so the feeling was if general petraeus doing all that he did was allowed to plead to a misdemeanor, the lowest offense, where does that leave us with hillary clinton. i think that was a big part of why you saw them not recommend charges against her. >> rose: there's. >> there's a perception that something went wrong here, that maybe there was an unnecessary or erroneous expectation that the law would come down harder on hillary cln ton than the fbi direct are did. do you think there is anything about this case that raises-- raises legitimate questions about, for lack of a better term, the sank tit of the rule of law? >> i don't think there is anything about this case that is normal. everything, every step of the way has been usual from the profile of the-- one of the subjects of the investigation to the media scrutiny. and yesterday to the remarkable press conference that comey held. so it's really difficult to compare this in any reasonable way to other cases. you can certainly make a case as many are that wasn't her neighbor, prom thens, that got her lenient treatment. people are maki

general petraeus got in trouble for far less, very, very unfair, as usual, bad judgment. two minutes later he followed up with this tweet. fbi director said crooked hillary compromised our national security, no charges. wow. #rigged system. former u.s. attorney general michael mukasey is here to go "on the record." judge, was really looking forward to getting your perspective today. a lot of people want to hear from someone with your esteemed career, prosecuting cases like this. were you surprised at the language and at the ultimate recommendation? >> well, i was surprised about halfway on when he listed all the reasons why she should be prosecuted and then did a 180 and talked about why they were not going to prosecute. i was particularly distressed to hear that he said there was no intention to violate the law when the laws involved don't require an intention to violate the law. one has the felony statute has a standard of gross negligence. and he said that she showed gross negligence when he said that she was extremely careless in handling information, some of which wa

and outlined a series of things general petraeus had done when he handed over classified information to his biographer and knew what he was doing was wrong. at another point, lied to the government about it. and he said this is different than what secretary clinton had done. he made clear many of the things or some of the things that secretary clinton has said over the last year and some months were not accurate statements about her use of private server. whether she had moved classified material act and forth. it was classic jim comey. miles: as i understand it, she had to know what she did was breaking the law. in this case, ignorance is a defense? dan: it is certainly a partial defense and enough certainly that the fbi director and the career prosecutors, who led this investigation, came to the conclusion that no reasonable prosecutor would take this case forward. the attorney general loretta lynch had already taken herself effectively out of the decision-making process. she said she had made that decision some time ago. was ultimately was one that all in the hands of the career p

general petraeus got in trouble for far less, very, very unfair as usual. bad judgment.s? >> no, it wasn't far less. it was very different. what hillary clinton did involved many more pieces of e-mail so you may see it was more but when you look at the totality of the evidence, it was the right decision made by the wrong person. comey should not have been exercising the prosecutorial judgment and discretion whether or not carelessness constitutes gross negligence. that should be done by prosecutor. >> will the justice department take his recommendation and not prosecute? >> absolutely. >> but it not going away politically. >> it's not going away politically. let's assume she showed bad judgment. compare that to the bad judgment we see from donald trump every single day, this is going to be an easy case to make a call about who has the worst judgment. it's going to be who is the least worst candidate. >> a pleasure to have you on. when we come back, a war on terror. a wave of deadly attacks around the world. is isis losing the war but winning the battles? s made me the ha

cooperation along the border today and in any future if and when any of these safe haven concepts that general petraeus and secretary clinton and others have discussed, as these begin to blossom we are going to need to reinforce them and also provide relief within them in a way that will require cross-border movement on the ground. and that requires turkey. so for that reason and also for diplomatic reasons if we get to a place we can actually negotiate some kind of a settlement i think we will need turkey. i don't believe we are on that path right now by the way. i think that united states led policy of trying to negotiate a strong unity government or a place president assad is not prominent, i'm much more interested in a confederation or bosnia and model concept. but be that as it may, and we get to a negotiation that has some promise, we're going to need turkey in the as will a duplicate of a peacekeeping force, which i believe any peace deal in see would ultimately require, we are going to need turkey's cooperation for that. so turkey is important more underground than it is for incirlik come in my

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whether it's general petraeus or others that have suffered grave consequences for what they did, billthink it's a great miscarriage of justice. >> do you believe the fix was in and did president obama have anything to do with it? >> well, it was very strange the timing, because i see him, you know, talking making a speech a couple of hours after this happened. certainly it was very strange to be having your meeting with the fbi on the, you know, one of the biggest holidays of the year. certainly fourth of july weekend and they are having meetings on saturday and then the speech and everybody knew she was going to be in north carolina on monday and then, you know, the semi exoneration. i don't know even know if you would call it exoneration because some pad things about what she said. >> she wasn't exonerated she just wasn't prosecuted. >> she is essentially incompetent. basically they are saying she is incompetent. she is not dishonest she is certainly incompetent. >> he clear live said that comey did. i'm going to pose the question again. do you believe the fix was in and that presid

he sent one tweet that said former cia director petraeus got in trouble for -- the system is rigged, general david petraeus got in trouble for far less. very, very unfair. as usual, bad judgment. but as we talked about, former cia director, this was years ago, he got in trouble for not sending e-mails but sharing an e-mail account with his biographer and former girlfriend, revealing and leaking classified information because they would correspond through the drafts folder. then he lied to the fbi about it and he pled guilty to a single misdemeanor. that's another issue with hillary clinton taking this meeting not under oath with the fbi but there would be an issue with a false statement act where she could be in trouble if something didn't jive with their investigation. that is also not something comey announced or spoke to and it seems as if the investigative interview matches up with their investigation so far. we'll wait to see if there's more that comes out of that. but then there's the other tweet, sean, the one donald trump sent featuring a six-sided star, the pile of money and an atta

to hurt her even more than not pressing charges is she is going to be compared continually to general petraeusand people saw what happened to him for arguably a less severe. >> it's much worse than what the general did, right? >> but on the other hand, perhaps she may go down in history as a clairvoyant. because she wanted a separate server for her dealings when of course we've seen the pentagon's private server hacked by the enemy. hillary's may have been. it may have been. we know the pentagon's was. >> you though who is clairvoyant? trump, for calling her crooked hillary. because it's all coming true. coming up, he thinks a famous comedian sounds like president obama. could he be referring to tom shillue? i hope so. stay tuned to find out. >>> live from america's news headquarters, i'm jackie ibanez. fbi director james comey will be on the hot seat later today. he is going before a house panel to explain his decision not to recommend the prosecution of hillary clinton for mishandling sensitive state department e-mails. comey met with attorney general loretta lynch yesterday. afterwards she

you saw what happened to general petraeus.aw what happened to so many others who did small infractions. here she risked people's lives. she was cavalier about it. she knew exactly what she was doing. she deleted e-mails under personalry. >> she lied repeatedly. >> by the way, it cost people their lives in benghazi, and it cost this nations trillions and trillions of dollars. every week now we have another terrorist attack, whether it's orlando, whether it's turkey, whether it's san bernardino. i mean the list goes on and on. it's only getting worse, sean. it's only getting worse. >> we had men and women in military that were told to change their clothes four times out of uniform. >> as opposed to going and getting people who were getting shot at. >> they never sent anybody to help these americans under attack. it's unbelievable. >> they're not helping the soldiers there. they're making career decisions. they're not making patriotic decisions. they're not making america first decisions. they're making career decisions there. >>

general petraeus got in trouble for far less. very, very unfair as usual. bad judgment and fbi director said "crooked hillary" compromised our national security, no charges. wow. #rigged system. bring it back out to the couch. tony sayegh, tell me how this plays out politically? you have optics of this announcement this morning. then we'll have president obama on the campaign trail with hillary clinton, it is like a football spike. >> and also seems so interesting that the sequence of events since that meeting loretta lynch had on the tarmac in phoenix with bill clinton. hillary testifying for three hours, in her words volunteering there was requirement she do so. melissa: just glad to help out. >> obviously we now know why. the president announcing today his campaign trip with her and of course jim comey. on the prima facie, on its face, this looks really suspicious. here is the problem for hillary clinton. this was not an exoneration. it was hardly enough to put this to rest to people like donald trump and others who truly view this is just more reinforce

and outlined a series of things general petraeus had done in which he deliberately handed over classified material to his paramour and biographer and knew this was classified and knew what he was doing was wrong and, at another point, lied to the government about it, and he said that this was different than what secretary clinton had done. now, he also made clear that many of the things or some of the things, at least, that secretary clinton has said over the course of the last year and some months were not accurate statements about her use of the private server or whether she had engaged in moving classified material back and forth with her advisor. so it was classic kind of jim comey. i mean, he's an independent-minded official and public servant with high respect on both sides of the aisle, and he steered a careful course through all of the mind fields that were -- mine fieldsate laid out in front of him during that hearing. >> o'brien: so people are clear on this, as i understand it, she had to know that what she did was against the law, breaking the law and, in this case, i guess, ig

general petraeus got into trouble for far less. there he, very unfair. as usual, bad judgment." again, it does not look like hillary clinton will face criminal charges after this announcement by the fbi. she is traveling with president obama for a campaign event in north carolina cap we will have that, reaction from capitol hill, and much more analysis as we sort through all of today's findings. jummy: thank you, scott. on the campaign trail, clinton expected to be joined by president obama for the first time this year. the two are scheduled to campaign in charlotte, coming weeks after the president endorsed clinton, not think there has ever been someone so qualified to be president. you can add someone else to donald trump's shortlist of running mate -- joni ernst. other names include chris christie, newt gingrich, and indiana governor mike pence. now to the forecast, and it is shaping up to be a steamy day. it is steamy in our studio right now. chief meteorologist doug hill is here with a look at our first forecast. doug: after an unbelievably chilly fourth of july, things are

general petraeus got in trouble for far less. very, very unfair. as usual, bad judgment. he took harder stance on the trail yesterday. calling the fbi decision a tragedy and accusing clinton of bribing attorney general lor receipt is a limp loretta lynch. >> today is the best evidence that the system is rigged. she lied to the country when she said she did not send classified information on her server. she lied. she said today we may consider the a forward. that's like bribe, isn't snit isn't that sort of a bribe. it's a bribe. it's a disgrace. it's a disgrace. >> news of the fbi decision came just hours before president obama joined clinton in north carolina for their first campaign stop. while the subject of the fbi investigation didn't come up, it didn't take long to fire up the democratic troops and bash donald trump in the process. [ crowd chanting ] >> all: hillary, hillary, hillary. >> the bottom line is, i know hillary can do the job. that's why i'm so proud, north carolina, to endorse hillary clinton as the next president of the united states. this is not a realit

and so the best sales man i could find was general david petraeus. we had petraeus in here, we brought in members after members after members after members and let him make the argument about why he thought it would work. he was a good salesman. we got the funding. the surge did work. and believe it or not, the iraq war was won by the time president bush left office. so the sales job in effect was done largely in this room by general petraeus who is going to be the person to execute the strategy if he could get the funds for the troops. >> this is one of those if the walls could talk sort of rooms, isn't it? >> yeah. >> next is your own personal office, correct? >> yes. >> so how long are your days? >> i usually have something to do in the evening. we're either in session or i have some event i need to attend for my colleagues. so i usually get home around 8:30 or 9. >> when did you start? >> sort of normal time like most people. 8:30 or 9:00. >> so you're regularly 12-hour days. >> yeah. >> how much time is spent here? >> i spend most of my time her

his punishment, two yearseqd bts punishment, two yearseqd now, many believe what general petraeus didhillary clinton did. the petraeus case to my mind illustrates perfectly the kind of cases the department of justice is willing to prosecute. in that case, had you vast information, including special sensitive compartmented information. that's the reference to code words, vast quantity of it not only shared with someone without authority to have it, but we found it in a search warrant hidden under the insulation in his attic itbxir during the investigation. >> joining us now from d.c. adam goldman reporter from the "the washington post" who has covered both stories. first of all, were you surprised when director comb were said the comprehensive investigation and then the questioning on the cover that he didn't even look at secretary clinton's testimony in front of congress under oath. did that surprise you? >> not particularly, bill. this is7v'ñ prettyidç bureaucrac town when classified information appears in the newspaper and it's owned by the cia. the fbi waits for a referral from the

little people like general petraeus, you heard about that little guy.indeed. >> he didn't get away. he almost lost his pension, i think fined $100,000 general petraeus for sending classified information visa e-mail. hillary clinton sent at least what, 100 e-mails that were classified and multiple servers, not just one. she used private servers. >> this is what the clinton do, if ear not breaking the law, they're up next to it. i don't know at this point in time how any american could vote for hillary clinton. i don't. she's going to treat the presidency like her own private server. >> the latest uas today poll hillary clinton leading donald trump among african-american voters by 10-to 1. how does donald trump cut into that lead. >> are we surprised by that? yesterday, the first elected black american president stumped th h barack obama was getting down with hillary. he was talking black, pandering, she talks black like she did in 2008 when she, you know, trying to woo the black voters. and what donald trump needs to do. he needs to enroll surrogates. he

. >> reporter: comey drawing con trs from the case of general petraeus. the big difference, petraeus lied to the fbi. clinton did not. >> about instruction of justice, you have intentional misconduct. he admitted he knew that was the wrong thing to do. >> reporter: but he did blast clinton for great carelessness in protecting sensitive information. >> director comey, are you implying in that statement that the private e-mail servers of secretary clintons were, perhaps, less secure than a g-mail account? >> yes. >> reporter: the day's most dramatic moment, comey challenged the idea he orchestrated tuesday's announcement that he would recommend no charges. >> look me in to what i'm about to say. i did not coordinate that with anyone. the white house, the department of justice, nobody outside the fbi family had any idea what i was about to say. i say that under oath. i stand by that. >> reporter: after four hours of testimony, the fbi director left having changed few minds. director, how do you feel about today's hearing and was it useful? >> and pierre thom

general petraeus got in trouble for far less. very, very unfair. as usual. bad judgment. he took an even harder stance on the trail yesterday calling the fbi decision a tragedy and accusing clinton of bribing attorney general loretta lynch. >> today is the best evidence we've ever seen that our system is totally rigged. we now know that she lied to the country when she said she did not send classified information on her server. she lied! but she said today that we may consider the attorney general to go forward. that's like a bribe, isn't it? isn't that sort of a bribe? i think it's a bribe. it's a bribe! it's a disgrace. it's a disgrace. >> news of the fbi decision came just hours before president obama joined clinton in north carolina for their first joint campaign stop. and while the subject of the fbi investigation did not come up, it didn't take long for the president to fire up the democratic troops and bash donald trump in the process. >> hillary! hillary! >> the bottom line is, i know hillary can do the job. and that's why i am so proud, north carolina, to endorse

general petraeus got in trouble for far less. very, very unfair, as usual. bad judgment. and another fbi director said crooked hillary compromised our national security. no charges. wow. #riggedsystem. meantime, hillary clinton's campaign ready to lay all of this to rest with this statement. as long as the secretary has long said it was a mistake to use her personal e-mail and she would not do it again, we are glad that this matter is now resolved. all of this as we are just an hour away from a campaign first this year. the president of the united states hitting the trail with the presumed democratic nominee in the state of north carolina. we'll take you there. >>> but first, evan perez kicks things off, our cnn justice correspondent. comey said while there may be some evidence of violations, no reasonable prosecutor would bring a case since doj said two follow the recommendation of the fbi, does this mean this is a fait accompli? >> we do expect, brooke, that this will be the decision that the justice department announced. onniously they're going to take a little time to