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

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

also the question about whether any kind of foreign entity was able to hack into hillary clinton's emails. >> we did a lot of reporting here at fox news about the likelihood that there was some kind of compromise of the clinton email server or her classifying emails. that's important because that would be a strong indicator that there should've been a criminal prosecution. in the ig report for the first time, we see documentary evidence that the fbi knew that some of hillary clinton's emails were compromised either by foreign nations or foreign intelligence services. and this is a very important quote in the comes from 2017. when an fbi inspecting team did a review of how the clinton email case was handled. it states "classified information was improperly stored and transmitted on clinton's email server and classified information was compromised by unauthorized individuals to include foreign governments or intelligence services via cyber intrusion or other means." that is really in black and white now. we know that there was a breach or a compromise of the clinton emails, at least one, th

mueller, i am following hillary clinton's lead. >> they were obstructing justice. i gave immunity to 5 different people clinton people. they got to keep their devices. the devices that the fbi obtained. some they never looked at. the others had nothing on them. >> this is a tactic of mueller. shaking the trees and making people nervous. >> sean: say here, mr. mueller, courtesy of hillary clinton. can't wait for the book. jesse watters and jessica, this will be interesting. stay with us. melatonin is the body's own sleep ingredient. only remfresh uses ion-powered melatonin to deliver up to 7 hours of sleep support. number one sleep doctor recommended remfresh-your nightly sleep companion. available in the natural sleep section at walmart. >> ♪ >> [inaudible]. >> keep going down that road. it had nothing to do with the national anthem. i said i would not go to the white house a long time ago. the players did not create this situation. >> [crowd noise]. >> [inaudible]. >> things like that. e >> it was never to be disrespectful to the national anthem. to be disrespectfu

>> 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

the question about whether any foreign entity was able to hack into hillary clinton's emails. >> a lot of reporting about the likelihood there was a compromise of the clinton email server or classified email and that is important because it would be a strong indicator there should have been criminal prosecution and in the ig report we see documentary evidence that the fbi knew some of hillary clinton's emails were compromised by foreign nations or foreign intelligence services and this is an important quote from 2017, when an fbi inspection team did a review of how the clinton email case was handled classified information was improperly stored and transmitted on clinton's email server and classified information was compromised by unauthorized individuals to include foreign governments or intelligence services via cyberintrusion or other means so that is in black and white now. we know that there was a breach or compromise of clinton emails, that is a very high level of classification. what it doesn't say is the server itself was compromised. in terms of criminal prosecution that doesn'

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

but in terms of helping hillary clinton during the clinton e-mail probe, that's not here.e. >> of course it is. >> it says the opposite. >> no. >> it says we found no evidence that the conclusions by the prosecutors were affected by bias or other improper considerations. >> so they acknowledge that bias existed, but they don't find the connection between the boyias a investigative decisions. i think that's a decision the american people can make and particularly the e-mail from andrew mccabe to the washington office is instructive. andrew mccabe rips this case away from the jurisdiction of the washington field office so a bunch of people at the head shed at the fbi can cook the investigation and that's precisely what happened. if we would have followed our normal processes, you would have had the front line prosecutors, investigators in the washington, d.c., field office and this is why so many retired fbi agents and current fbi agents were livid with james comey and were e-mailing him after his really bad announcement saying if they had done the very same things they woul

his investigation into hillary clinton deviated from well-established department policies. this includes comey and other fbi agents allowing clinton aide and witnesses to the investigation, cheryl mills, to actually sit in during hillary clinton's fbi interview. an interview that took place after comey had already drafted a letter exonerating hillary of all charges. and there's more. the report also finds that while investigating hillary clinton for conducting official government business, with a private email account, whoa, james comey was also using a private email account to conduct official government business. and by the way comey responded on twitter writing, quote: i respect the doj ig office. which is why i urged them to do this review. the conclusions are reasonable, even though i disagree with some. people of good faith can see an unprecedented decision. i pray no director faces it again. thanks to ig's people for hard work. let's break this down. james comey, the fbi director went rogue. there is no other conclusion. he broke long standing department policy liter

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

hillary clinton this is equal justice under the law. how would that happen? 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. >> sea

>> the bottom line hillary clinton was a terrible candidate. donald trump outworked her every single day on the campaign trail. it wasn't a close election. just remember that. donald trump won in such a decisive act fashion he could have lost the state of florida and won the president of the united states. this was not a hanging chad. this was a blowout when came to donald trump came to the electoral college which mattered. hillary clinton lost the election because she was terribly flawed candidate. had nothing to do with jim comey opening and closing an investigation for her. ashley: don't forget the infamous tarmac meeting between former attorney general loretta lynch and bill clinton. that optics looked terrible. loretta lynch said she regretted since and would take it back, but that was egregious given tying of meeting. >> this notion that bill clinton said he and loretta lynch simply sat on the back of a plane and spoke for 30 minutes about grandchildren and golf doesn't pass the smell test. we were so lucky a journalist that caught the ta

so i think it actually beyond reflecting poorly on the fbi, it does not exonerate hillary clinton. simply shows that a sham, corrupt and incomplete investigation did not hold her liable. elizabeth: you know, the talk that hillary is exonerated because of this report, it doesn't change the fact, to your point, that she did have a private e-mail server and had her team delete tens of thousands of e-mails. does this let her off of the hook for that? >> yeah, it does unfortunately. she hasn't been prosecuted. statute of limitations has gone by. but one of the reasons that we now know why comey came out and said no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute this. maybe he should have said no reasonable prosecutor outside the beltway -- you know, inside the beltway would have prosecuted. outside the beltway people do think that breaking the law should be prosecuted. elizabeth: i want to get to this question. i'm roa sorry. comey himself is a witness in the mueller probe. he kicked off the mueller probe by leaking his memos about his talks with trump. do you think that she should still be a wi

when they investigated hillary clinton. and investigated if the justice department or fbi decisions about the handling of the case were based on improper considerations or bias of any kind. and honestly, the origin of this report from the justice department inspector general was the repeated claim by donald trump and his campaign in 2016 and pro-trump republicans that hillary clinton should have been locked up and the fbi infected with a pro-hillary clinton bias that resulted in not bringing criminal charges against her. the inspector general investigated what the crowds have been chanting for a year and a half and what they found is the opposite was true on the question of whether or not if hillary clinton should have been charged. we found no evidence, we determined that they were based on the prosecutors assessment of the facts, laws and past department practice. so the justice department inspector general said the reason hillary clinton was not charged in the e-mail scandal, despite that, the reason she was not charged

he didn't care if it looked like he might be hurting hillary clinton. but he really, really, really cared and he took great extraordinary action to avoid appearing like he might be helping hillary clinton in any way. that's how he weighed those two consequences. if it looks like i'm hurting clinton, don't care. if it looks like i'm helping clinton, that's a disaster. that's how he weighed those two considerations. that's why i'm saying this is the big political point here. because this isn't just about 2016. this isn't just about donald trump getting a little boost from the fbi to win the election. you wonder why the president and republicans today are attacking the fbi and attacking the justice department all the time? this is why. i mean, if you can just hit them hard enough, if you can just use conservative media to attack them hard and consistently enough, then you can make the justice department and the fbi worry about the perception that they might be perceived as soft on democrats. it might make them overcompensate, right? once they're worried ab

in which james comey came out right here, said that they would not recommend charges against hillary clinton in the e-mail investigation. but then he went on for a good portion of time to say how poorly she handled things. that was pointed to by a number of people in the clinton campaign as unnecessary and that two hurt her campaign. the trump campaign was upset that no charges were pressed. but they did champion the idea that hillary clinton was reckless in her use of the e-mails. let's bring back in -- you know what? bob corker, senator bob corker, is talking about it right now. let's listen. >> i'm sure sarah will have something to say but i haven't seen it. >> broadly do you trust this ig process that produced a fair report? >> honestly i don't know what's happened. i have staffers that have been following it. it is just not part of my daily activity. i can't even weigh in on it properly. now i'm no good, right? >> have you -- you mentioned the texts. have you read any of them and what do you think? >> one of them was read out. but again -- >> that was senator bob corker reacting. we als

the report offers abusing rebuke of comey, saying he was insubordinate in the handling of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation,. and departing for normal protocol, including with this press conference announcing the end of the probe. >> although we did not find clear evidence that secretary clinton or colleagues intended to violate laws handling classified information, there is evidence there were careless in their handling of highly sensitive, classified information. >> reporter: comey did not >> reporter: comey did not tell loretta lynch before making this announcement. the inspector general criticizing comey for ignoring top justice department officials and sending this letter announcing the reopening of the investigation just days before the election. >> jim comey violated practice and procedure. he applied a double standard with respect to the investigation of hillary clinton versus the investigation of russian interference in the election and its connection to the trump campaign. >> comey, defending his actions writing, my team believed the damage of concealing the owe opening of ou

and frankly the hillary clinton has had more scrutiny.my republican colleagues cared as much about the integrity of the mueller's investigation, to make sure there's no motivation to let anybody off easy. >> where are we headed? >> bargainplea bargains. the very fact that it might involve the president of the united states involves the republic itself and the integrity of the republic. it's very important we don't have any interference, nor does this inspector general report give any reason for that. it's got to maintain i. >> what do you think about messages about people having an affair and they were very, very critical of then-candidate donald trump. >> fbi agents, law enforcement agents are people, they never expected private e-mails to be made public. what's important is that people don't let their political beliefs influence their professional work. i think that's what there will be an accounting for. it's the same with the mueller investigation. we need to make sure people's personal or political beliefs, whether they like trump or

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

clinton, with what was going on with hillary-boy president trump or then candidate trump, these same le were working with the clinton campaign, fusion gps to target and spy on the man. >> tucker: that's an excellent point. we are leading with the subjective analysis but the data are in this report and worth reading. tom fitton good to see you. >> you're welcome. tom tom the former assistant director of the fbi joins us tonight. mr. hosko, thanks for coming on. i want to read to you exchange between fbi employees on election night. i can't stop crying says one. i'm numb says another. i'm so stressed about what i could have done differently. i think the fbi's influence may have had an effect in this. i don't know, we broke the momentum. meaning the momentum of the hillary clinton campaign. here 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 fail

and the text continues, this is important, on february 24, 2016, page texting, hillary clinton might 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 zero. this man cannot be president. on march 16, 2016, i can't believe that donald trump is a serious candidate for president. the lead investigator, in the clinton server case, and by the way would be the lead in the start of this so-called trump russia witch hunt on june 11, strzok calls trump bigoted. on july 18, page calls trump an enormous expletive. july 21, strzok calls trump a disaster, only days away from beginning the so hive called collusion investigation. these texts are even more troubling and they take a more troubling turn. let's look at july 5, 2016, remember comey that

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

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

it was favoring hillary clinton biassed against president trump.r demand the document and impeach the people who broke the law? >> lou: congressman jordan made it clear he would like the latter path. there is a lame duth rinno speaker who is sending your party to hell with amnesty legislation that no one has seen and no regular order or debate and you are handed this and be told to do what the speaker said and destroy the republican party base and by the way cost you 50 seats in the midterms, what do you think? >> i have not read the legislation, but i know that every time republicans trade ammesty for bortder security tomorrow we never get to board security part and the american people know it is a it and switch game and that is like a bad use car lot. immigration is one of the key issues of donald trump's campaign and agenda and we need to deliver and give him the bill that ends chain miitration and opposes everify the and. crack down to sanctuary. if we are doing less than that, we are not fulfilling the trust. >> lou: can you imagine what paul

any other american, all of you would be locked up for what hillary clinton did. still the ig report did not fault the f.b.i.'s decision to clear clinton of all charges. they decided not to second guess the conclusions and they presented a mountain of evidence proving the guilt. and if hillary clinton had a real investigation she would be indicted. politics in the highest level of f.b.i. prevented all of that. and we'll break it down and see if any reasonable person would make the conclusion that political bias did not play a major role in the f.b.i. look at this text. high ranking f.b.i. attorney lisa page and boyfriend peter strzok who was the lead investigator in the clinton case. trump is not going to become president, right. >> strzok replies. no, no, he's not, we'll stop it. and lisa page calls trump an enormous explectative. he's an idiot and menace and loathsome human being. all of this is from the lead investigator and lead f.b.i. attorney. the bias didn't stop from them. and another high racking agent. all trump supporters are poor to middle class anda la

heather: democrats point out it did not find political bias in the fbi decision to clear hillary clintoninvestigation. disagree with that, read it for yourself. bill clinton was actually offended when he was criticized over his tarmac meeting with loretta lynch, sparking controversy with a 2016 conversation with ben atty. gen. just days before the fbi announced no charges against his wife. an interview with the inspector general he said i don't know whether i am more offended that they think i'm crooked or that they think i'm stupid. the ig report called it an error in judgment, you decide on that as well. there are concerns the fallout from the report will do serious damage to more row among rank-and-file fbi agents, the former fbi assistant director says agents need to know this was about james comey, not them. >> and fbi investigation, this is james comey's investigation, he hijacked the investigation, they were not influenced by pressure or fear or politics, through his own office and never let the fbi do it. this was james comey deal with his minions that stopped to influence an inv

hillary clinton's i.g.ails while congress was seeking them he lied to the f.b.i. which according to james comey is a very serious offense and what did the f.b.i. do? they didn't charge him. they gave him immunity. i want to see answers to these matters. peter strzok, lisa page, andrew wiseman all of these agents would have been better off working for george soros or msnbc rather than the upper echelons of the f.b.i. running both investigations with the amount of bias they had. >> sandra: trey gowdy we've been talking about that textbook bias. here is that moment and that exchange. >> they pre-judged the outcome of the hillary clinton investigation before the investigation ended. and these exact same f.b.i. agents and attorneys pre-judged the outcome of the russia investigation before it even began. if pre-judging the outcome of an investigation before it ends and pre-judging the outcome of an investigation before it begins is not evidence of outcome determinative bias. for the life of me, i don't know what

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.

ssman, let me ask you about the hillary clinton gleaned from the i.g.ort because you said to me this weekend when we were talking about this, this was supposed to be a very serious investigation. >> right, maria. you referred to it as the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. we do that. remember what it really was supposed to be was an investigation into whether the secretary of state of the united states violated the espionage act by mishandling classified information. this is a serious matter and should have compelled a serious investigation. yet the i.g. report confirms that exactly the opposite happened. a very light touch where hillary clinton got preferential treatment, limited use of a grand jury, limited use of subpoenas, immunity agreements handed out like candy to witnesses that destroyed evidence and lied to the fbi. and really speaking to the lack of seriousness, we have this tarmac meeting between loretta lynch and bill clinton and five days later a team of doj and fbi agents and lawyers sitown with hillary clinton and she doesn't get aske

there was a dereliction of duty with the hillary clinton investigation.ake-away. >> fbi agents are allowed to be biased. they're allowed to support political candidates. that's part of the law. where i draw the line is when an fbi agent says we'll stop him. that's not an expression of bias. that's not saying who we're going to vote for. that sends a message to the american people that the federal bureau of investigation is going to interfere in an election, in an effort to try to stop the election of one candidate rather than the other. i don't understand how strzok can remain an fbi agent after saying, we'll stop that, we'll stop him from being president. that to me is where the red line was crossed. when he said we need an insurance policy, i support her, you're entitled to support a candidate if you're an fbi agent. but you're not allowed to try to use your office to stop somebody from being elected president of the united states. >> maria: we've been showing that text all morning where lisa page says to boyfriend, peter strzok, is donald trump going t

we saw hillary clinton took to social media and said, but my e-mails. jim comey supposedly used his own private e-mail for certain state business. i think there's political ramification to her being involved that cuts two ways as well. we'll take it all on. >> we're looking forward to the show. you're doing an excellent job with the new show. chris, thank you very much for doing it. >> thank you, captain. >>> to our viewers, "cuomo prime time" airs later tonight, 9:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn. that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. >>> "outfront" next, doj's highly anticipated report taking on jim comey. doesn't find widespread bias at the fbi, though will trump allies drop the deep state talk? >>> a country ruled like a cult. that's what president trump once said about north korea. so why is he now saluting a north korean soldier and calling kim jong-un very smart? >>> a political cartoonist fired by his paper after 25 years on the job. was it because he was a

the fix was in for hillary clinton and how hillary clinton committed felonies, we have new informationrounding former navy sailor christian. remember him? he was not given any special hillary clinton treatment. hillary clinton mishandled top secret information on her private ema and lie about it all. no charges against her. poor cis t pictures on a submarine he was proud to work on and never put them in the public. he was put in prison for a year. he is suing president obama and james comey saying he was subjected to unequal protection under the law. that sounds right sadly. the former d of the f drew mccabe wasir for lying. hasn't been charged with any crime. there is a criminal referral. mccabe is asking for immunity in exchange for his testimony in the clinton investigation. it's the year of the boomerang. this is a circlular firing squad. more in a moment. first we have some not so shocking news about so-called journalism in america. look at this new poll from the pugh research center. 70% of the american people have news fatigue. just maybe, the american people are tired of the a'

one agent interviewed hillary clinton called her the president. in a message to a colleague, said "trump can't win." october 28, 2016, shortly after comey announced he would be reopening the clinton investigation, another unnamed fbi attorney sent an instant message to a fellow fbi employee and that read "i am clinging to small pockets of happiness in the dark times of the republic's destruction." following trump's election victory, that same fbi attorney sent an instant message and that read "i am numb." fellow employee responding "i can't stop crying." get this, according to the ig report, "agents involved in the clinton foundation investigated were instructed to take no overt investigative steps prior to th" would you get that treatment? this of course is the report found that the fbi was actually intimidated by clinton's high-ranking legal team. the report also found that high-ranking doj officials tried to get a job for his son in the clinton campaign. i'll while sharing, linking case information about the ongoing server investigation the clin

the fbi was on hillary clinton's side? that's the allegation. that the fbi cost her the election. you're going to lie, you have to lie about all the facts. we were the referee on the field of a better match. everybody ended up mad at us, but because we were doing ourjob without regard to either team. a final thought, which is a big thought about the faith americans have in their government and their institutions and the degree to which they can trust them. how much damage has been done? significant damage, but not long—lasting damage. the great thing about america is its values are so deep and strong. no president, no party can screw it up in the time they hold power. we've been through this before. we've progressed, we've retrenched. we will be ok, so long as we continue to talk about the values that matter to us, and rise above the political nonsense that normally consumes oui’ time. and we will get back to arguing about other things. can the recovery begin? can the cycle go on an upswing as long as donald trump is in the white house? yes, in

between the republican-led committees no hearing from atop the hillary clinton's e-mails she was the gift republicans not cannot get enough of with the run-up to the 2016 presidential election they have held numerous hearings about the candidate clinton and we remember what house majority leader mccarthy admitted with each reporter everybody thought hillary clinton was unbeatable, right? ? but we put together a special committee a select committee and today her numbers are dropping. why? because she is on trust ball. while mr. chairman we are now mired in another hearing about her e-mails and instead of holding hearings today we are holding a hearing hoping that the american people are distracted from important issues of today as the chance of lock her up fade from our memory the conscience is disturbed as we hear the pro- public footage of the little children crying. i want my mother i want my daddy. and as i prepared for this hearing last night all i could hear was the cries of those children held in private for-profit jails crying out for their parents. mr. chairman, i think we sho

the conclusion there was no bias in the final determination that no charges should come against hillary clintonher email investigation. listen to what she has to say. >> report is highly critical of director comey. it did not find that it was biased against president trump or in favor of secretary clinton reporter: now fbi director christopher wray all those with biased text messages within this inspector general report will be held accountable in this case. he says that is not going to be something tolerated in the fbi going forward. wray admits mistakes were made and bad unjudgment. that will be corrected going forward to get the public's trust. trish: trish, thank you so much. edward. we're off the lows of the session, but still off 130. some people worry we're heading straight into a trade war, that will be a real problem. are these headlines getting kind of overblown. we'll talk about it. go to the new york stock exchange next as we continue to watch the testimony coming out of washington. stay with me. ... experience lexus safety system+ standard in the 2018 lexus es and es hybrid. lease

they don't all show they were helping hillary clinton. they go in different daexs so you see in the politically polarized environment in which he we live, we see democrats focusing on how the inspector general criticizes comey for holding that news conference -- for announcing that news ten days before the election. there's enough in both of these for both camps to find things to criticize. >> and in fact the report suggests again -- i'm reading inspector general doesn't think comey was politically motivated in any decision but he does lean into the idea that -- i think he uses the phrase comey alone believed he could preserve the reputation of the fbi. he alone believed which gets to the criticism that james comey gets a lot, including on this show, that he has an infatuation with his own sense of integrity. >> it's been called sanctimonious by some. but his decisions are fair game. you don't step into the position of fbi director with all the responsibility that comes with that and not understand you're going to be criticized for decisi

and it's the argument about how hillary clinton clearly broke the law. lou: they have to pay for your book. not the inspector general's report. >> i notice you're a little animated on this subject today. lou: i'm a little animated when i see this country going straight to hell. we're putting up with a corrupt department of justice, a corrupt attorney general, a deputy attorney general, five, at least five corrupt fbi agents at the very top of the organization. this is disgusting. it's appalling and you have the political leadership in congress and the senate. it should be a bipartisan issue and instead it's left to the establishment rhinos to keep their mouths shut and not even say a word, even though this report makes it clear that this was a politically motivated attack on the president and in support of hillary clinton. >> well the key line in describindescribing what peter d is from the inspector general, it's more seriously a willingness to take official action to impact the presidential candidacy of president trump. lou: how the hell does this insp

the hillary clinton email investigation. they didn't drop that and used suerfuge midyear. it is not funny? >>>>> it is dpis gusting. >> the exact people who ran the clinton investigation and not the typical practice when you are doing investigation. those same people took over and ran the russi relationship. and f.b.i. lawyer number two is new in the report. strzok and page and who ran the clinton investigation and put on mueller's team. and find out from the report f.b.i. lawyer number two. was primary on the trump russian investigation on the f.b.i. and also put on mueller's team. in want to know who this f.b.i. lawyer is? we need that person to be dep e deposed as well. and remutualed from mueller's team? >> three top attorneys in the f.b.i. on the same train with the three same stop. and ultimately ending up on mueller's team. it is clearly an anti- trump bias and an anti- hillary clinton bias in term was sanctions. if we have this, i want love to have the comments on bias. number seven ready to go? folks in the control room, i am speaking to you, please. i could not he