what's the big deal with hillary? she was far from perfect but my god, what a difference. >> yeah speedy you had the right to write about it but i don't get. >> it's one of those things with hillary, some people say you're too hard on her educator, then like the same exact quote can be used like you're in the tank and you love hillary gets complicated. but i do think, i see a point and i feel her supporters genuine anger over how she was covered and how her e-mails were covered. those are legitimate concerns that we should listen to and assess. at the same time i think it's a dangerous proposition for journalists to say, like this candidate is under fbi investigation and that's like a bad thing but the other guys like russian hookers in bankruptcy, he is so beyond the pale, let's use kid gloves on his opponent because the other guy -- it's a dangerous proposition winterville start deciding this candidates opponent is so bad that will be softer on -- then the new puttr hand on the scale in an uncomfortable way. >> i di

we are way beyond hillary clinton.e now have an investigation that, in the words of president donald trump, from the very beginning, has been a fix, a frame up, and a witch hunt. it was led by peter strzok, who is disgraceful, and even for the present director of the fbi to have them there tomorrow would be disgraceful. every fbi agent jacob and that that man be fired and tomorrow, mueller should suspend his investigation. he should go see rod rosenstein who created heaven and the deputy attorney general, and attorney general sessions, who should now step up big time to save his department. should suspend that investigation, throw out all the people that have been involved in the pony trump investigation, and to bring an honest fbi agents from the new york office who i can trust implicitly, and they should turn their attention to comey, strzok, page, all those fbi agents who took gifts -- gifts, sean? that's called bribery where i come from. they took tickets to games. they put government donald and jay jail, governor

the lead guys hated trump and liked hillary clinton.ow can any investigation like that and the same people got involved in the trump- russia probe immediately there after. how can there be legitimacy to mueller's case. >> there is no lejetimacy. and there is a deep state. that deep state in the justice department gave 97 percent of the donations in 2016 to hillary clinton. the language they use, i mean, if you imagine a government employee who used the same language about latinos or african-american or mission limb or jewish americans that they use as they do to trump supporters, you would should screams to high even. up have an attitude in the senior level. not down in the case worker or local offices. but in the washington headquarters in the justice department and in the f.b.i., the senior figures, they are corrup. and they were clearly operating on the premise that hillary is going to be president and therefore, anything they said or did was fine because she would cover it up. >> sean: if they did their job, they sent the election i

thrown down by the very same people that gave hillary a pass. tonight we are also learning james comey is under investigation for mishandling classified information. remember, he intentionally leaked his personal notes about conversations he had with the president. that's illegal. you are not allowed to do that. in order to set the ball rolling for the anti-trump special counsel. his buddy, robert mueller, to begin his investigation or witch hunt. the ig also found is fbi director comey was insubordinate and totally mishandled the clinton investigation. legal scholar jonathan turley, a democrat, is now saying these findings in the ig report exonerate trump from any obstruction of justice charges which means they should all end and end now. take a look. >> to me, obstruction claim involving comey was always difficult but after the ig, it's become virtually income principal because the ig said that comey was insubordinate, that he deviated from policies. he violated fbi policies. all those are a good reason to fire james comey. so the problem that

we are way beyond hillary clinton.have investigation in the words of president donald trump from the very beginning has been a fix, a frame-up and a witch-hunt. it was led by peter strzok, who it is disgraceful and even for the present director of the fbi to have him there tomorrow would be disgraceful. every fbi agent should demand that that man be fired and tomorrow mueller should suspend his investigation and the deputy attorney general and attorney general sessions who should now step up big time to save his department should suspend that investigation. throw out all the people is that have been involved in the phony trump investigation and bring in honest fbi agents from the new york office who i could trust implicitly and they should turn their attention to comey, strzok, page, all those fbi agents who took gifts -- gifts, sean? that is called bribery where i come from. they took tickets they put governor mcdonald to jail. the angry democrats who were working for mueller. they put governor mcdamaged on jail for t

talking about the people around hillary for example, hillary was interviewed with fbi agents callinger four months before the election the president in their private texts. they were clearly biased in supporting her. numerous ones said to each other they were supporting her. she was allowed to be interviewed with her private lawyer in the room and interviewed not under oath. and the report confirms that the fbi did not bother to go get a lot of the evidence that they should have. they did not bother to go and serge and subpoena and hold and investigate the personal devices of all of the people around her who she would have been communicating with. it's also the case that comes out of this report that the president, barack obama, as one of the people who she communicated with and most importantly from comey down to strzok, page and numerous others, she was investigated by people who themselves were violating the very law that she was under investigation for. using private devices and unsecure device to communicate classified and private information. now it bears belief if you have a c

let's knock out crooked hillary clinton — crooked as a $3 bill.ecommending charges against hillary clinton. then, just weeks before polling day, comey controversially reopened the investigation. more e—mails had been uncovered. it's pretty strange to put something like that out, with such little information, right before an election. in a final twist, just two days before polling, comey again recommended that no charges should be brought. but democrats claim that the damage had already been done, and that comey‘s interventions helped win donald trump the white house. stef kight is a crime and politics reporter with the axios news service in washington and has been covering the story. she told me that both sides of american politics are making capital from the report. we see thatjames comey did not follow protocol and did not announce things when perhaps he should have announced, when it came to the hillary clinton investigation, before the 2016 presidential election. and then we saw another damning text from the two fbi officials that were pro—hil

i'm not a crook like hillary.iked the speech. [laughing] >> sean: well, it's funny, i remember you advocating strongly for it. and i didn't think it was going to happen. >> instead they turned parts of it into three or four commercials in the battle ground states. actually, in retrospect they made the right political decision. i was probably too tiled to myÏ¿½-- tied to my speech and would have pushed for it. they also thought i got leaked from fbi agents about comey. about what comey was going to do. if you had listened to my criticism of comey, who would have leaked to me? he worked for me, once, i'm ashamed i hired him. the guy is going to go to jail, sean. i truly believe if justiceÏ¿½-- >> sean: how did hillary get away with not going to jill? statute of limitations? we know the investigation was tainted, why don't they reopen it? >> they are, i believe horowitz is doing it from an i.g. point of view, i hope and prayÏ¿½-- >> sean: does he have the power to do it? >> excuse me? >> sean: he doesn't have the pow

it's hurtful to hillary. conservatives saying look at all the bias and the people were making decisions that benefited her. where do we go from here? there some threads in the report that lead into the russia stuff. >> this is why when partisans are talking you can have a soundtrack, whatever music you like, turn the background music up little bit while partisans are talking. obviously democrats are going to say that this is proof that hillary was ruined by the terrible fbi and of course republicans were trying to help the president are going to say it's proof that the fbi so corrupt that they can't even investigate the president now. push their rationale aside to a certain degree. i find it interesting that robert mueller to a certain degree and you read this and you read about the spirit of the comey fbi. it's in mccabe, it's in strzok and his texting partner. it's definitely an comey himself. which is that they know better than everybody else, they come to things with a strong sense -- put it this way. com

so he fixed the hillary clinton investigation and goes after trump. he's the lead guy in every case. after months of inquiriys and obstruction, the d.o.j. and multiple discoveries, we can put together an accurate time line of this destructive, biased culture at some of the highest levels of the fbi. it all starts with trump hating fbi love bird peter strzok and his mistress, lisa page. look at this. way back in 2015, strzok texting page, bernie sanders is an idiot like trump. from page, he simply cannot be president. strzok texts back, oh, abysmal. and the text continues, this is important, on february 24, 2016, page texting, hillary clinton might be our next president. the last thing you need us going in there loaded for bear. and peter strzok, who conducts the interview with hillary, is the lead investigator in the case, agrees. time to cover our backs. fix the clinton investigation. she's going to be our next president. we want to be on her good side. on march 3, 2016, trump is a loathsome human being, he's awful. hillary should win 100 million to

in each of those cases the benefit was to hillary clinton. the one case they argue it hurt hillary clinton was the comey announcement of later they were reopening the investigation. he had to do that because he told a congressional committee there were no emails out there and that was no longer the case so he was forced to do that not out of political calculation but because he faced the real possibility of being accused of lying to congress. they take one incident in a longchain of events and say this proves there was no bias come you can't look at this in a systematic way and come to any other conclusion then hillary clinton got extensive favorable treatment in this investigation. shannon: thank you for joining us. what is the political take away? editor of the halftime report chris steigerwald, good evening. both sides claiming i was right, i am vindicated, there is no deep state, conservatives saying look at all the bias of these people making decisions that benefited her. where do we go from here? there are some threads with this report

or not they wanted to help hillary clinton.believed that delaying on the weiner laptops was helping hillary and in the end it may have ended up hurting her. that's why the processes are so important and we should follow them in any circumstance so we don't have to monday morning quarterback those decisions. >> no argument here. that's clearly what this report says, that james comey had a choice whether or not to give that july 5th press conference. he chose to do it and that was the wrong choice. he had a choice whether to deliver the letter to congress, he did and that was the wrong choice. you keep on suggesting that there was some conspiracy to get donald trump and that's just not in this i.g. report. you say that these agents were trying to help hillary clinton. where's the evidence they were trying to help hillary clinton before james comey gave that july 5th news conference? >> well, the fact that they were texting one another repeatedly saying they thought hillary clinton should win the election 100 million to 0 is likel

the result would not be the same as hillaries. the deputy ag, rod rosenstein responded to growing calls for his recusal. and stating he would recuse himself if deemed appropriate and recommended that he signed off on the firing. he signed off on the final fisa warrant on the dossier, and given that rosenstein is overseeing the investigation of being key witness, i think it is deemed appropriate a long time ago. and former city mayor rudy guiliani, trump attorney had strong words for the unending phishing exhibition of you the american people. >> they are 13 democrats that make up the muler team that are trying to hard to frame him and get him in trouble. they may not realize they are doing it. but they can't emotional come to grips with the fact that the russian collusion didn't happen. they are trying to invent theories of obstruction of justice. the president has the right to fire the f.b.i. director. the president should have fired the f.b.i. corrector. he was a terrible one. >> sean: even comey said he had a right. there are r

hillary clinton did that.you are gravely concerned about the effect of foreign intel services on ourr government. does it bother you that hillary clinton, your former boss, allowed that to happen?? >> so, let's talk, if we can for a second, there are two statutes. and people -- this report says there was nothing prosecutable. tsa people on this network are saying, no, that's a mistake. two statutes, one required her intent to disclose classified -- >> tucker: i'm not calling for prosecution of anybody. >> okay.si >> tucker: i'm actually against most prosecutions. >> good. >> tucker: as a general matter. i'm just saying that we were told by the left, including you, there was nothing classified on the server and l no chance of foreign intel agencies broke into it. both of those things turned out to be untrue. kind of a big deal, no? since you are worried about foreign penetration of our government, right? >> i'm really worried that donald trump gave classifiedet information to the russians in the oval office aft

>> hillary clinton. >> hillary clinton. because of the ill-advised press conference he gave, calling her careless. because days before the election he decided to reopen part of the e-mail investigation, pee with loretta lynch, then attorney general. ul of these things, democrats are saying that hurt hillary clinton and, by the way, the justice department and they were vetting drpt at the same time and the american public never heard about it. >> stand by, everyone. they're going to be holding a news conference. we're moments away from that. another huge story today, new york's attorney general is suing the president and his children, alleging their charity illegally used money for campaign purposes, among other things. let dive into that. you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. ♪ ♪ don't juggle your home life and work life without it. business financing to help grow your business. another way we have your back. the powerful backing of american express. don't do business without it. i'm trying to manage my a1c, then i learn

because they want hillary? we don't know. because the bottom line it is a head-scratcher, from the inspector general, their motivations were not political. ashley: so what about those emails that we've poured over between peter strzok and the time and his girlfriend/colleague lisa page? it was very clear in the upper echelons of the fbi -- >> there was animus. ashley: there was an my news. what do we do to stop this from happening, if mr. trump, from becoming president? >> well, i would imagine that chris wray, who is jim comey's successor as director of the fbi will make certain people have very, very strong political opinions one way or the other, they get off of cases that could implicate -- go chase terrorists or bank robbers. if you have a strong political opinion and politicians are involved, the opinion is so strong it is going to affect your law enforcement judgment you shouldn't be on the case. ashley: andrew mccabe, for example, should have recused himself because of family ties to the democratic party. >> let me gi

clinto hillary clinton.he ig says that's not a good thing. i have the gutfeld diaries over here, looking for them. >> kimberly: frightening. >> greg: you on page 70. >> jesse: you do not want to be on gutfeld's diary. nice job of the day with the interview with the president. we will be looking forward to 6:00 p.m. for another great "special report." kimberly, it's like we talked about these nuggets coming out. it's going to take probably another 24 hours to get all of them, her emails were penetrated by a foreign agent. that, we really didn't know because comey himself said it was possible that happened in that we learned that it actually did happen. one of those emails was considered secret, which means disclosure of that email reasonably could be expected to cause serious damage to the national security of the united states. >> kimberly: i think this is significant, much was made at the time, possible but there was no nailing it down. obviously they knew and were not honest about it. essentially i call it

clearing hillary clinton and tapped to investigate donald trump. one more reason the inspector general's report should have been released by now. as the mueller witch hunt turns on the special. they are demanding that witnesses turn in their phones so team mueller and his pit bull weissman and ray who worked for clinton get to review all of their electronic devices communications. even text on encrypted aps. if they follow hillary clinton's lead delete all of your emails and acid watch your hard drive and then bash them to pieces and hand the pieces over to robert mueller and say hillary clinton, this is equal justice under the law. how would that work for everybody mueller is demanding their phones? the person in challenge of the mueller witch hunt, the department ag, rob rosenstein responded to growing calls for his recusal. writing a letter to senator lindsey graham. he recommended comey's firing. he signed off on the final fisa warrant based on hillary clinton's bought and paid for dossier that christopher steele said maybe 50-50. given that ro

meaning the momentum of the hillary clinton campaign.e have you unnamed fbi employees lamenting the fact that they couldn't help a specific political candidate become president. what's your reaction to that? >> you know, it kind of sickens me, tucker. i think those employees, those mentioned in this report have failed the organization. they have failed out expectation of the highest degree of professionalism. they have left their biases intersect with an investigation. so it's deeply concerning. and i think christopher wray is determined to take some action on that. >> tucker: i'm confused though as to why we don't have a right to know who these people are and what they are doing now. i mean, if you write in an email and apparently this is real, we broke the momentum, we hurt hillary. we shouldn't have done that i'm heart-broken that she lost, don't i have, as a citizen, a right to know what you are doing now? who are you? who wrote that? these are public employees. >> well, they are public employees. there is also a public process. ther

let's knock out crooked hillary clinton, crooked as a $3 bill. the fbi was not recommending charges against hillary clinton. then, just weeks before polling day, comey controversially reopened the investigation. more e—mails had been uncovered. it's pretty strange to put something like that out with such little information right before an election. in a final twist, just two days before polling, comey again recommended that no charges should be brought, but democrats claim that the damage had already been done, and that comey‘s interventions helped win donald trump the white house. for more on this, i'm joined from washington by stef kight. she is a crime and politics reporter with the axios news service, and has been covering the story. you have been covering this story. insubordination, errors of judgement, but no political bias. what do you make of that? it's been a wild day here in dc, from this report earlier in the day, before it was released, and the reports were just crazy. we see that james comey did not follow protocol and did not annou

even hillary referenced that in a tweet. if we thought comey came off at imperious because of that stupid book, he said i respect the doj office, the conclusions are reasonable, even though i disagree with some. people of good faith can see an unprecedented situation differently. i pray no director faces it again. thanks to ig's people for hard work. he lost me at "people of good faith." notice howe he makes himself out to be the victim here. unbelievable. comey should change his middle name to huberous. he has learned nothing. this is the guy who signed off on three fisa applications and didn't think it was necessary to tell the fisa court that hillary paidt for this field dossier. this is the same man who allowed peter strzok to change hillary clinton's use of the server instead of grossly negligent to careless. but there was this breaking news to compete with the ig release today. >> the new york attorney general announced a lawsuit against the donald trump foundation. >> filed less than an hour ago, a 41 page civil compl

they still want hillary clinton to be guilty, even today. now they're going after the investigation of the investigation. they're going after the inspector general's report issued last week. they want to review documents the inspector general already reviewed and reinterview witnesses the inspector general already interviewed. some republicans even want to investigate whether anyone tampered with the inspector general's report or watered it down. they simply refuse to accept the inspector general's findings. the republicans point to some individual expressions of bias, and these are facts the inspector general already reviewed. instead, the republicans are now tripling down, threatening to impeach rod rosenstein and christopher wray for somehow obstructing their efforts to get to the bottom of all of this. they had a big meeting on friday, by the way, friday night, with speaker paul ryan. no democrats were invited, of course. but this weekend, chairman gowdy describes some of it during a press conference. press appearance. apparently, after

there are agents that do not like hillary. the fbi is prohibited by law to ask people if they are republican or democrat. they are not allowed to ask those questions. was the investigation tainted in any way? the answer of the inspector general came up with was no. cummings announcements help trump and hurt hillary. >> the report and agent you mentioned, it didn't say that the inspector general could not rule out that it did in fact the investigation. the report said there was no evidence that it did. and said there was no evidence that his opinion were bias or that it affected the investigation. a couple crucial things, like should witnesses -- should some of hillary's associates be suecd to subpoenas. the decision was no. they said there was no evidence that his opinions affected the investigation. that all of the decisions made were reasonable and well within scope of what we would expect. >> i believe you released a statement yesterday saying that the report showed that the announcements affected the outcome of the electio

and they put aside the hillary thing that is the important thing.ame out of this, they thought hillary was going to win early on. >> lou: they were working to make sure she won. >> absolutely. >> lou: they were political activist and organizers within it is f.b.i. at the highest level engaged straightforwardly and engaged as congressman jordan put it. in the clinton e-mail scandal information and engaged in the russia investigation even though they knew it was balderdash. and going to three top agents, go suddenly to mueller special counsel? it should end the dad gum thing now. this is ridiculous. >> i said from the beginning and i had great respect for sessions when he was senator, but he needs to be fired and rosenstein needs to be gone. and the president needs his own people and men there. loupe lou think of what the president is achieving. and paul ryan is working against the president every day he is in the speaker office and working against the republican party and he is willing to throw away the majority in the house and secure his potential

hillary wrote a book called what happened. hillary is more of a diplomat than i was. the book i wrote is fascism, a warning. [applause] the good news is in recent months we've been witnessing the most widespread and far-reaching grounds of clinical activism and organization in my lifetime. thousands of women have stepped forward to run for office for the first time in many of them are in energized by hillary. none of them are dwelling on the past. likes of terry clinton, we are focused on the future. more than two decades ago in beijing, hillary are just never to forget that all people have the right to speak freely and the right to be heard. thanks to hillary's example, voices are being heard and will continue to be heard on behalf of imperatives that are angered and heart, the love of justice, the desire for freedom, the refusal to remain silent in the face of bigotry, and the pursuit of any task. i ask you to join with me in thanking hillary clinton for everything she's done and will do for our country, for women, for men and for the future of us all. hillary, if y

this certainly hurt hillary's campaign. trump quoted and repeated that any number of times times during the summer. in october, comey announced that they were reopening the investigation because they found new emails on a laptop. two days before the election, they announced they found nothing and it did not matter. for a week, it was all about hillary's emails. violates the fbi and department of justice rules that says you do not make any announcements with regards to the investigation that might affect an election 90 days before the election. both breaches helped trump, not hillary. no one disputes that. the third, i do not know if it is a violation, but peter struck , a key fbi agent involved in investigations in emails and text messages to his then lover, another fbi agent he expressed , his opinion that trump was terrible and he did not like hillary either. he expressed that but trump was terrible. we have got to prevent this election. the conclusion of the report is that he and lisa page did nothing in terms of the inv

, you're being too easy on hillary.here was one other thing, of course, and that is that james comey thought that hillary clinton was going to win. and i think that also informed his decision-making. but you're right to point all this out because we're at risk of making the same mistake again. as you have the republicans once again beating up on the department of justice, you also have them demanding information in the name of transparency. and one thing that the report really didn't go into is that part of james comey's mistake, part of his transparency policy outweighs the department rules and regulations, was providing information to congress, providing witness interviews, 302s to congress, testifying about the details of a pending or closed case or a soon to be reopened case. all of that at the time he called transparency, and at the time i remember saying what you're calling transparency will soon come to be known by another name, and that is mistake. but we are at risk of that mistake again. >> in terms of the int

being too easy on hillary and james comey thought hillary clinton was going to win.informed his decision making. you're right to point this out because we are at risk of making the same mistakes again. the republicans beating up on the department of justice and demanding information and one thing the report didn't go into is part of james comey's mistake and max mus transparency policy outweighs the department rules and regulations was providing information to congress and witness interviews, 302s and testifying about the details of a pending or closed case or soon to be reopened case. at the time i remember saying what you are calling transparency will soon come to be known as another name, mistake. we are at risk of that mistake again. >> in terms of the interactions, the issue of transparency and handing things over about investigations. the briefing you attended today leadership in congress including yourself as the top democrat on the intelligence committee about aspects of the russian investigation a follow up briefing that republicans demanded, what can you te

that's why we call her crooked hillary clinton. frankly, what hillary has done is criminal, folks.iminal. >> so after those comments from then-candidate donald trump, then came another twist. on june 27, 2016, it was then-attorney general loretta lynch. she was sitting on the same tarmac as former president bill clinton. he got word that they were there and he boarded a plane at the phoenix airport. he said nothing about hillary clinton's nomination was discussed, but of course the republicans seized on that meeting that the investigation was fixed. he told loretta lynch that he planned to bypass the justice department and hold his own news conference announcing the results of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. so there it was on july 5, 2016 when comey made this surprise public statement. >> although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. >> so with that statement, the case seemed to be closed. but then just a few months later, in late

hillary benefits but hillary clinton clearly could've given the order.cretary of state and then she was out of the government. obama on the other hand very much did not want trump to win. he knew that trump would try to erase his legacy. very embarrassing for him to be succeeded by trump. i wonder if obama is the one who gave the order. >> laura: roger, we have some emails to that effect. final thoughts. we already found out the president lied when he said he found out about hillary's private email servers whenever video stood. now i find out he's one of the 13 people she communicated with on the private server using the private email account, so he lied about that. >> when you add to the back of peter strzok says in one of his text messages the president wants to know everything, the question is very clear. went to the president know and when did he know it. he answered that question. i think he has to answer it under oath to congress. >> laura: he is going out on the campaign trail always going to be fanning out the election season. thank you both. phe

hillary broke the law. hillary committed felonies and obstructed justice.nd comey and others put the fix in and wrote the exoneration months before they did the investigation. >> here is the truth. the inspector general has no power. it's almost as though you want to say thanks for the report. but where is the beef? he doesn't have the power to indict. should james comey be indicted? the question based on what i have heard is yes. >> sean: mccain got a criminal referral after the i.g. report. we'll do this with sarah and gregg next. >> comey, they have to. >> sean: i think comey, strozk, mccabe all in deep trouble. >> will they turn against someone higher? >> sean: they have. they are building a proffer with mccabe now. >> higher. >> sean: well, that was the latest strozk/page text said it's being directed by the white house. what did obama know and when did he know it? >> that's my point. if you want immunity, hit the -- >> sean: for someone who is dead inside, you are doing well. sorry. you know i'm kidding. lou, good to see you. when we come back on the

hillary broke the law. hillary committed felonies and obstructed justice.nd comey and others put the fix in and wrote the exoneration months before they did the investigation. >> here is the truth. the inspector general has no power. it's almost as though you want to say thanks for the report. but where is the beef? he doesn't have the power to indict. should james comey be indicted? the question based on what i have heard is yes. >> sean: mccain got a criminal referral after the i.g. report. we'll do this with sarah and gregg next. >> comey, they have to. >> sean: i think comey, strozk, mccabe all in deep trouble. >> will they turn against someone higher? >> sean: they have. they are building a proffer with mccabe now. >> higher. >> sean: well, that was the latest strozk/page text said it's being directed by the white house. what did obama know and when did he know it? >> that's my point. if you want immunity, hit the -- >> sean: for someone who is dead inside, you are doing well. sorry. you know i'm kidding. lou, good to see you. when we come back on the

the fbi was investigating hillary clinton for improperly using her server. but that was the question of classified information. the ig says that nothing in the -- in comey's e-mails was classified. >> got it. pete williams, i know you got a lot to do. pete, if you read anything else that's pertinent, please come back to the camera and we'll put you on tv immediately. >>> let's bring in jess mcintosh and ben wittis, senior fellow in governance studies at the brookings institution and msnbc legal analyst and a friend of james comey. jess mcintosh is a former clinton campaign advisor. >> i mean that sound you hear is the collective clinton campaign screaming into the void today. of course the fbi acted inappropriately throughout that investigation. of course what james comey did dramatically hurt hillary clinton. he said what he said in public. he allowed donald trump to stand on stage every night and say, americans can't possibly -- you shouldn't even be allowed to run if you're under fbi investigation. that's his number one case that he's making in the final

the original bar is would there be prosecution for hillary clinton? would there be more legal repercussions? and was there bias seeding it all? the report falls short of those patterson goals. it is condemning of comey, i think appropriately, for not following proper procedures. it heights in defensive texts from strzok and to the woman he is having an affair with, fellow agent page. the idea that rudy is saying this compels the immediate shutddown and folks should be in jail by the end of the week. rudy knows in this heart of hearts, it isn't about that. that is pure public opinion language that has nothing to do with the reality of the report. >> i can't get past that he used his private e-mail account. >> as we were saying, it now feels to me like basically every government official does not use their government e-mail. i do think comey -- john touched on this. comey does not come across very well here. it strikes me that he is looking out for how jim comey is going to come out of this thing. the fact that he would lecture hillary clinton while usi

they helped hillary clinton. that they may well have swung the election toward hillary clinton. that runs directly counter to the donald trump deep state propaganda line which is that the fbi is out to get them. i think the headline from this ig report is the fbi was not politically biassed. their actions did not, were not taken for political reasons. but to the extent that they were improper, they were helping hillary clinton. not -- they were not trying to hurt donald trump. so i don't -- this is not going to stop donald trump, fox news, devin nunes, the conspiracy caucus from claiming this supports their crack pot theories about a deep state. if you read the report, it does not support those claims. >> before i get to you, i have to play this. >> okay. >> where do we always two for sage advice and wisdom? rudy giuliani. he's reacting to the ig report with a few strikiing demands. >> mueller should suspend his investigation, and he should go see rod rosenstein and the deputy attorney general and attorney general sessions who should step up big time to save his department, shou

this was bias in favor of hillary against donald trump. and the real question is what are we going to do about it in congress. are we just going to watch. are we just going to criticize from the sidelines. or are we going to step up with, demand the documents and start impeaching the people that broke the law. lou: congress jordan making it clear the latter path is the one that he would like to take. in your wie w looming a big obstacle, is a lame duck rhino speak whoar ispeaker who is senr party to hell with this amnesty legislation that no one is seeing. there's been no regular order. there has been no debate. you're, handing this and being told to be good boys and girls and do what the republicans say which will destroy the republican base and cost you, i think, 50 seats in the midterms. what do you think? >> i have not read the leadership produced immigration legislation. but every time the republicans trade amnesty today for border security tomorrow, we never get to the border security part. and the american people know game. they kno

rob: they say hillary clinton got special treatment, democrats say james comey and the fbi cost hillaryt do you make of that? >> you have a lot to dislike about the way things were handled. you have an fbi that went rogue, director comey was insubordinate according to the report but if you read it, 600 pages, every single text and email is anti-trump, it shows a bias and animus they have not seen in the fbi for decades. jillian: you say anti-trump, that includes the conversation from august 2016 between lisa paige and peter stzrok and lisa said trump is never going to become president, right? right? stzrok says no he won't, we will stop it. that is insane. >> that is so over-the-top. in a series of these texts we see, the other thing to be concerned about his oversight, i used to be chairman of the oversight committee, in congress, also in the intel committee, they have rejected that not because it was classified or was going to give away state secret but because it was embarrassing, it was illuminating to the true intentions and background of what these fbi agents were thinking about.

this is all dealing with the hillary clinton investigation. unfortunately, i mean, i think that people at the department, the ig can conclude that there is no documentary evidence that political bias affected decision-making but it's kind of hard not to draw conclusion if you look at the way the clinton investigation was handled and then compare it to the russia investigation, which isn't part of this report. it's kind of hard to ignore the glaring differences in terms of on one side have you got people, you know, voluntary statements are given, witnesses are immunized. lawyers are allowed to be in who are also witnesses. it's all treated with kid gloves. on the russia side, with the same investigators, have you got people's doors being knocked down. search warrants, and a much more aggressive approach. i think that unfortunately, i hate to see these things politicized but i think it's unavoidable. really no other conclusion can you draw from that text message other than strzok had a real problem with trump and was trying to do something about

hillary wrote a book called "what happened?" hillary is more diplomatic than i am, the book i wrote is called "fascism: a warning". [laughter] [applause] ms. albright: the good news is, in recent months we have been seeing a far-reaching swell of political activism. thousands of women have stepped forward to run for office for the first time. many of them are energized by hillary and supported by her new organization, onward together. none of them are dwelling on the past. like secretary clinton, we are focusing upon the future. more than two decades ago in beijing, hillary urged us never to forget that all people, and i quote "have the right to speak freely and the right to be heard." thanks to hillary's example, voices are being heard and will continue to be heard on behalf of imperatives that are anchored in the heart -- the love of justice, the desire for freedom, the refusal to remain silent in the face of bigotry and the itas, truth.er i ask you to join with me in thanking hillary clinton in everything that she has done an

they view what hillary clinton did which is insult his followers.all into question their intelligence and mental fitness. who they are. these are cultural leaks in the deep state. people laugh sometimes and flick it away they when they talk about the deep state. it's right there. now, this should be the beginning, not the end of this conversation. folks can ask mr. horowitz for more information. congress if they aren'ted in learning more. they can continue to pursue this and perhaps they should in the interest of the transparency and accountability. jeanine, don't did yourselves, folks, we would know none of this if hillary clinton had been elected, and not donald trump. you wouldn't know what was going on at the tippy top echelon of the fbi. who was giving jim comey a hero's welcome for this leadership book. i don't need a lecture from jim comey about leadership and morality. it's embarrassing that's people killed the fatted calf and rolled out the red carpet for his book tour. a grandstanding, showboating, and subverting the process. he was insubo