after he had misstated an issue regarding huma abedin. the issue regarding huma abedin.abedin. the issue is that there are complex but he had stated in testimony that huma abedin did something she did not do, send thousands of classified e—mails to her then husband. but over role, i think looks by critics president trump as an excuse and that he was released for different reasons. our correspondent is in washington with more on this. what more are the white house saying about all these? we actually have a letter that president trump set to the now former fbi directorjames comey. it is an interesting letter. in it he says, while i greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions that i, the president of the united states, are not under investigation, like nevertheless concur with the judgement of the department ofjustice that you are not able to lead the bureau. we need to restore public trust. that was directly from the president. the white house spokesperson said that the move came after president trump was recommended by the deputy attorney general rod r

. >> huma abedin in the fact that director comey when investigate hillary clinton and didn't find intent with huma abedin, like sean said, our investigation into the unmasking is showing that this is highly politicized and not beyond flynn -- there were hundreds of people unmasked as well as congress, as well as other members. i think we need to look at the full scope of what was happening during the obama administration and during the election. we will get answers. >> sean: is this potentially the biggest scandal in the history of this republic, when all is said and done? >> i absolutely do believe that this is probably one of the biggest scandals in the republic. everything that we know it comes to true -- and light is shed, i really truly believe it will open everybody's eyes to something and hopefully it will stop.

tonight it is, quote, coincidental, this firing of james comey happened on the same day as the huma abedin news. as you know, when comey testified earlier this week on capitol hill, he said there were hundreds of thousands, i believe, he said of e-mails that were forwarded from huma abedin to anthony wiener. it turns out that that was an overexaggeration, and comey had been in the headlines on this day because of that. and there was a lot of questions as to how the fbi might go about it, how they might correct the record and is so forth. but the white house, their line tonight is this is merely coincidental. secondly, the white house press secretary sean spicer was asked about whether or not the president still has confidence in jim comey, and as it relates to -- it was brought up in the context of these abedin e-mails and the testimony, and spicer said, yes, as far as he knows the president does have confidence in him. however, he did hedge a little bit by saying, well, at least as it relates to the last time that

the handful came down to huma abedin basically using her blackberry. think that those are almost gone. plugging her blackberry into anthony weiner's laptop. how do you do that? you work for hillary clinton who was already under fire for sharing classified documents and then you're going to hand it over. >> harris: only one word pops into my head, entitlement. >> meghan: while he was sending explicit images to underage girls online, think about national security secrets. >> harris: brought to you by the organizers of the women's march, more than 80,000 people have now signed the so-called pledge of liberation asking congress to reject some policies. they are moving forward with an anti-trump activism document organizing the women's march the day after trump's inauguration. the pledge has a list of demands and they include raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, ending police violence, allowing all former prisoners to vote, open border immigration policies, open access to abortion and birth control, and taking away tax money that funds militariz

forwarded from huma abedin to her husband, anthony weiner. when asked if it should be considered a crime, richard blumenthal said this. >> if there was classified information and it was improperly passed to a person unauthorized to receive it, yes, it's a crime without knowing what the intentions were. there is potentially a prosecutable crime. >> should it have been prosecuted? >> it still may be. it is not outside the statute of limitations. the department of justice is going to have to decide, and the question is, who will decide it? we need a special prosecutor to investigate this. >> eboni: i'm going to come to you. i had the privilege of filling in for the thanksgiving special for "the five." has she become the scapegoat of the democratic party? >> eric: when you have richard blumenthal recommending a special prosecutor. the only reason why we know she investigated the information is that anthony weiner was being investigated. they have his computer. oh, we have hillary clinton's classified information. hello. let's go. let's find out w

a shocking claim from the director of the fbi describing how the e-mails from huma abedin ended up oner's corrupted. >> she forwarded hundreds and thousands of e-mails, some of which contained classified information. >> reporter: the disclosure was made last week at the senate judiciary committee's oversight hearing, but officials say it wasn't true. abadin did not personally forward the majority of e-mails found on her husband's laptop. instead, the e-mails were automatically sent by a backup system on abadin's phone, according to what u.s. officials told cnn last fall, but comey seemed to confuse the issue when testifying last wednesday. >> huma abedin appears to have had a regular practice of forwarding e-mails to him, and i think to print out for her, so she could then deliver them to the secretary of state. >> reporter: analysts concluded abadin may have forwarded some but not the hundreds and thousands comey referenced, and e-mails on weiner's computer were not marked classified at the time they were sent, though the fbi later determined that classified information was contained

he should, comey, ed at a minim done a full investigation of huma abedin.resident trump tweeted this, fbi director "the five" and gave her a free pass for many bad deeds, the phony trump russia story was an excuse used by democrats as justification for losing the election, perhaps he just ran a great campaign. clinton got a free pass and it so did huma abedin and that creepy anthony weiner guy. take a look at this on your screen, our friend jay sekulow who will join us in just a minute. look at the laws he pushed together, a list of loss that hillary clinton very well would have broken and has broken. if it was you or if it was me or jay or monica who's going to join us, if we did a tiny fraction of what they did, we would be wearing a striped suit, sitting at a nice little tiny cell somewhere. there's the issue of the alt radical left in their bizarre ongoing conspiracy without empathy evidence of president trump colluding with the russians in the lead up to the election. comey has been more than forthcoming and that investigation of course. one democratic

apparently, the tipping point was the flip-flop and the conflicting information whether or not huma abedin had sent hundreds, perhaps thousands of mailto her husband's laptop or just a handful. how could they get that wrong? >> yeah, it's amazing that they did if, in fact, that was true, and evidently it is. i think what we saw here is that the president's being consistent. if he finds someone in his cabinet or right underneath in his purview or circle has misled congress or him, then he seems to have indicated exactly how he will deal with them, and that is to terminate them. charles: tammy, i've got to tell you, this is an absolute bombshell. president trump has stood by james comey through a lot. [laughter] i thought, actually, to be quite frank with you, he would be one ofhe first fir. he never out of the news. he was always in the forefront of the news, there was always confusion be every time he opened his mouth, and i think it was a long time coming. but it was certainly, in this particular case without a doubt, warranted. >> one of the problems is when you're the story, something h

that was about his misstatements regarding huma abedin's e-mails. he overstated the number of e-mails classified, some of them, but a large number -- he said it was actually a much smaller number. that was a misstatement. the white house said that had nothing to do with this today. i think you nailed it on the head. this is the president of the united states, president trump, whose campaign aides are under a counterintelligence investigation by the fbi, who now fired the fbi director who was, in effect, overseeing that investigation. so he's now fired the former acting attorney general, sally yates, who was in the headlines over the last 24 hours for what she revealed about the sort of behind the scenes details in those days leading up to the firing of michael flynn. still unclear why 18 days passed before michael flynn was fired. now we know the firing of james comey has also occurred.

weiner is married to top hillary clinton aid huma abedin. it was the investigation into weiner that threw the presidential campaign into turmoil when james comey revealed clinton e-mails discovered on weiner's laptop. >> i'm here today to again apologize. >> reporter: in 2011, weiner resigned from congress in zbris over his first sexting scandal. >> today i'm announcing my resignation from congress. this is why i'm in the race. >> reporter: in 2013 he ran for mayor of new york until he was caught sexting again. their drama captured in a documentary. today abedin officially filed for divorce seeking full custody of their 5-year-old son. it's still unclear how weiner's status as a sex offender could impact a custody battle. and he may have to be off probation before he's able to visit his child's school. the government seeking between 21 and 27 months in prison. >> a defendant doesn't plea because they don't want a messy trial. they plea because they think it's better for them, that they'll get less time in jail. >> reporter: weiner will be se

it basically came out that he claimed thousands of emails huma abedin had forwarded to, that's not correct. it was a dozen or six or whatever. he had eight very, very difficult job. i personally think he should have been much more robust in investigating the clinton emails and he should have at least convened a grand jury to let voters decide. i also think from my experience there was an investigation of the clinton foundation but there was a lot of resistance from the top. it was a good idea for him to resign but it's a very difficult

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what the director of the fbi was trying to describe was essentially a forwarding system that huma abedin had whereby her e-mails were instantly, automatically forwarded to the laptop computer that anthony weiner was using. that's not exactly how he said it, however. so take a listen to what he said at the hearing last week. >> huma abedin appears to have had a regular practice of forwarding e-mails to him for him, i think to print out for her so she could then deliver them to secretary of state. she forwarded hundreds and thousands of e-mails, some of which contained classified information. >> reporter: and really what he was trying to say and should have said is, indeed, there were a couple of -- probably there were some e-mails that she did forward for printing purposes, but this was more of an automatic forwarding system, an automatic backup system that she was using. propublica was the first to report this story that the fbi's looking into how to correct the record. that is exactly what they were trying to do today, whether to send a letter to congress to clarify the testimony. there

his then spouse huma abedin had a regular practice of forwarding e-mails. for him to print out for her. >> sources say while abedin did occasional forward e-mails to the lab top for printing, it was not a regular practice and it was much smaller number than the director stated. also no e-mails were marked classified. but later a small number was found to have contained classified information. the fbi sent a letter to the senate judiciary committee this afternoon trying to clarify the directors testimony. during last weeks hearing comey did tell lawmakers the fbi could not find criminal intent and did not recommend charges. democrats express and comey chose to tell congress about the clinton e- mails just before the election. while not disclosing the fbi investigation into possible connections between the trump campaign and russia. >>> in other news she was home for spring break watching a music video film crew when out of nowhere someone started shooting. and a fatal shot hit iana. the gunman is still out there and some family members can't bring themselves

laura ingraham is standing by. >> huma abedin in the fact that director comey when investigate hillary clinton and didn't find intent with huma abedin, like sean said, our investigation into the unmasking is showing that this is highly politicized and not beyond flynn -- there were hundreds of people unmasked as well as congress, as well as other members. i think we need to look at the full scope of what was happening during the obama administration and during the election. we will get answers. >> sean: is this potentially the biggest scandal in the history of this republic, when all is said and done? >> i absolutely do believe that this is probably one of the biggest scandals in the republic. everything that we know it comes to true -- and light is shed, i really truly believe it will open everybody's eyes to something and hopefully it will stop. >> sean: by the way, white house officials are just being cold announcing a new fbi director coming in days. we will get back to lou, stay right there. jay, sara. stay right there. okay, yes. we continue now with the editor in chief and natio

here's what he said last week. >> huma abedin appears to have had a practice of forwarding e-mails toe could then deliver them to the secretary of state. she forwarded hundreds and thousands of e-mails, some of which contained classified information. >> let's talk about this with our panel. politics reporter and editor chris, our justice correspondent evan perez and gloria borger. what are you hearing from your source sources about what the fbi director said? >> what the fbi director meant to say and what she should have said is huma abedin had a practice and system whereby her e-mails were forded as a back up and they ended up on the computer where they ended up on her then husband anthony weiner. when he described it, he said she had a practice where she would forward them. he actually went into this detail. she would forward them so they would be printed for her perhaps to present to the secretary of state hillary clinton at the time. that was definitely not correct. he came back later on in the hearing and tried to fix some of that. but now the fbi is facing the problem of fixing

dan sabina tweeted the screen grab of the two-minute call between huma abedin's and kellyanne conway'sphone promise to share video in the near future. conaway said they are not reminding democrats of election results but they are not doing it to put out the rage fire that's been burning a love for dave last six months. turning to the party panel now. brian is this the right move? on one hand it's kind of interesting and funny but she's been through enough humiliation. >> i think ultimately regardless of hillary's feelings this seems to be the ultimate trump counterpunch. she comes out and says i would have been president if not for james comey so what does trump duquette few buyers comey and releases a concession. some ultimate nuke counterpunch move and the most trump in thing in the world. kennedy: is it unfair though? you know she is arguably the most famous woman on the planet. certainly that tuesday night. >> this does seem a little petty. has it ever been done before and has anyone been humiliated months down the road for concession speech where there were rumors that she wasn't

here's huma abedin, she's doing this and saying i didn't know i was doing anything wrong the, that isaloney. baloney is better than fish. she also had the same time to get top pay for government and she got a special dispensation from hillary clinton to work for the clinton initiative, she's taken an extra $300,000 while everybody else who works for the government does not have that. now she's trying to shop a $2 million book deal for what? what is she going to tell us? that's infuriating. the >> bob: she's not going to buy jasper, that's for sure. if anybody thinks for a minute call comey whose side was he on? he said were not going to indict her but she's a bum, can't handle -- he wasn't going to be the director of the fbi if she got elected. i have no doubt in my mind she was working for trump, i have no doubt in my mind that letter did affect this campaign. >> dana: she's the one who put them in the position to investigate of the first place it's not his fault he was presented. >> bob: shouldn't of done anything. shouldn't have called that press conference. >> greg: he had to call

>> and huma abedine.night people were spinning -- and this is not true, but for an deher sake it d be out there. jim comey grossly overstated how many e-mails she hads hassed along to her husband. but the idea that the trump administration cared about that and that is motivating this now when president trump's twitter is filled with his desire to oppose the russian investigation strains credit you'llity. but let's talk with somebody who will be charged with doing something about joining us now, senator angus king. thank you for being with us. what do you make of this move? >> well, there are a whole lot of pieces of it that are very strange. number one, what is jeff sessions doing involved in this. i'm sure you have on tape somewhere when he recused himself, he said he will have nothing do with the russia investigation in any way shape or form, directly or indirectly, and yet he is strinvolved in fig the guy who is leegd the investigation for the fooik. numb fbi. number two, the timing as you pointed out

i can say with absolute certainty if this were captain clinton, or lieutenant huma abedin, they would be best case, best case, negotiating a dishonorable discharge and most likely facing prison so that's the thing that's hovering over all of this. the director keeps misstating the legal standard, it wasn't intent, it was gross negligence. this is some of the most highly classified information in the united states government that was found in these civilian systems and then you have this mind-blowing revelation today that huma abedin was sending anthony weiner classified information for him to print out. i minean, i can only imagine wh would happen if a soldier approached his commander with that explanation for mishandling classified information. the root problem here was hillary clinton's decision to use a home brewed server then to lie and to lie and to lie about it and now we know beyond a shadow of a doubt why she's lying. she's lying -- why she lied, because her conduct was so unconscionable and i think that's the real issue here. she shouldn't be bitter that she's not president.

, and her disgraced husband, anthony weiner. >> huma abedin appears to have had a regular practice ofs to him, hundreds of thousands, some of which contained classified information. >> reporter: today the fbi admitted comey's testimony was inaccurate saying only a small number of e-mails were forwarded by abedin and none of the forwarded e-mails were marked classified. a small number of them, however, contained information that was later deemed classified. most of the others were e-mails the fbi had already seen. backed up from abedin's blackberry. comey's handling of that investigation became a huge source of controversy. first, last july he anger the republicans by taking the unprecedented step of announcing the investigation was over. >> we are expressing to justice our view that no charges are appropriate in this case. >> reporter: candidate trump expressed outrage. but trump gave comey credit after the fbi reopened its investigation into clinton's e-mails. >> it took guts. for director comey to make the move that he made in light of the kind of opposition he had. >> reporter: com

when it came out that director comey misspoke when he said hundred and thousands of emails that huma abedin had manually forward her husband. we're going back to this clinton e-mail investigation. hard to decipher exactly what may have sparked this, led to this, so many thing swirling whether it's the clinton e-mail investigation, the russian probe. we do know, however, that the white house and the justice department have been at odds with the fbi in recent weeks. the white house wants the fbi to focus more on the investigation of leaks into classified information to the media whereas the fbi had continued russia probe. so, really, a disconnect between the doj and the fbi and the white house. >> great reporting. thanks. >>> cnn has learned ksenior officials did not think it would trigger such a reaction. listen to anderson cooper questioning kellyanne conway about the timing of the firing. >> you don't think it looks odd at all that the president of the united states is firing the guy who is leading the investigation into the president's white house and the people around the president? >> w

clinton, you have to blame huma abedin or yourself.ears. so if you look back, how many unmasking requests were done by the obama administration, in the year before, i guess it was 2015, there was about 600 requests to unmask americans on the other side of nsa wiretaps, and wiretaps of surveillance i should say. last year, there were over, there were thousands of requests. steve: 30,000. brian: so susan rice, national security advisor, who was probably doing requests or made the request herself has been asked to go in front of lindsey graham subcommittee. she refused yesterday, refused to go. among the people flabbergasted by that, democratic senator dianne feinstein. she thinks she ought to reconsider it, you know why? answered the same questions on cnn with reid. how can you turn down the senate and say yes to cnn and not talk about it now. >> the invitation wasn't from a republican. it is not bipartisan. she will not show. ainsley: interview with your friend than many people are against you? brian: ainsley, using logic she is using t

it was jake sullivan, jen palmeri, huma abedin within john podesta and robbie mook. >> rose: those were the kind of strategic board that ran the campaign. >> exactly. and you know, jake sullivan was kind of her chief strategist. he was her policy guy and kind of became elevated. mook was sort of kept to his analytics and his strengths and that turned out to be a weakness i think in the end. >> when they decided they were having trouble internally because mook and podesta ran things differently and people couldn't get-- people below them couldn't figure out who they were supposed to respond to, the answer to it wasn't to stream line and put one person in charge, it it was to put six in charge. even then some people said it operatedded a little better after that. but it is an unusual structure to be sure on a campaign. >> rose: did she ask for the emails of her staff to try to determine who was what? >> one of the revelations in this book is that after 2008 she was doing an autopsy on the campaign. she wanted to find out what had gone wrong. i think she believed that some of the leaking a

>> his then spouse, huma abedin, who has a regular practice of forwarding e-mails for him to printoutor her so she could deliver them to secretary of state. >> joining us now is the senator asking the questions. senator john kennedy of louisiana. good morning, senator. >> good morning, alisyn. >> you got new information out of director comey there that we hadn't previously known about how huma abedin would send e-mails from secretary of state clinton to her husband to print them out. that prompted senator graham to ask comey should somebody be prosecuted for sending classified information to anthony weiner. then comey said there is no anthony weiner statute. what did you think of that exchange? >> i appreciated comey's candor. he was for the cothcoming. it is not secret he is not invited to party on capitol hill. the impression i get of comey is he will do his job and he doesn't care who gets mad at him. i questioned him at lengths about secretary clinton's e-mail scandal or circumstances whatever you want to call it. he gave me straight-up answers. he answered yes and no questions wi

his wife, huma abedin, was a top aide to hillary clinton. she has now filed for divorce.nthony weiner hung his head as he exited federal court, trying to ignore the throngs of press gathered to cover the fall of a once rising star of the democratic party, now soon to be sex offender. in court, the ex—congressman broke into tears as he admitted sexting and sending lewd images to a teenager who he knew was a minor. he apologised, saying he had a sickness, but not an excuse. mr weiner became infamous and a regular tabloid spread after similar scandals in the past. in 2011, after posting a graphic image publicly to his twitter account in error, he resigned from congress after serving for 12 years as new york was a representative. i make some big mistakes and i know i let a lot of people down. but i have also learnt some big lessons. two years later he would try to make a political comeback, with a run for mayor of new york. but again, his penchant for exchanging lewd messages with women online would ruin him and make him a pariah of the democratic party. but no—one anticipate

howie: now the story with comey and the investigation and huma abedin seems to be going in a differentirection. erin: the coverage is switching to the fact that this classified information was transmit from huma to her husband. you see the shifting from look at director comey's decisions to the act of huma abedin and anthony weiner. howie: it's like -- it's like they are still endlessly replaying this election. mo: we are still talking about an open investigation at the f.b.i., the house and senate intelligence committee about donald trump's campaign aides and their ties to russia. erin: we don't have any answers. comey has been indicating that he knows so much more than he's letting on, and i think that's why he got some difficult coverage. howie: up next hillary clinton taking heat from the media for saying she would be president today if not for jim comey. stephen colbert doesn't regret his crude sex joke about the president. i'm only in my 60's. i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i looked at my options. then

thank you. >>> the news huma abedin classified e-mails to her husband, did not sit well with lindseyraham. he's trying to nail down the fbi director on that issue. >>. >> do you agree with me that anthony weiner of 2016 should not have access to classified information? >> yes, that's a fair statement. >> if that's not illegal, we've got really bad laws? >> well, if he -- >> well, get on it somehow. >> it would be illegal if he didn't have appropriate clearance. >> well, do you agree with me he didn't have appropriate clearance? if he did have appropriate clearance, that would even be worse. >> i don't believe at the time we found that on his laptop, that he had any kind of clearance. >> i agree. for him to get it, it should be a crime. somebody should be prosecuted for letting ahony weiner have access to classified information. does that make general sense? >> it could be a crime. it depends -- >> would you agree with me, it should be, that anybody that lets anthony weiner have classified information probably should be prosecuted? if our laws don't cover that, they probably should. >

huma abedin, hillary clinton had nothing do with it. >> the deputy press secretary also said anotherwhat can you tell us about that. >> are you kidding me? throw something against the wall and let's figure out what sticks. these guys, that is the attorney general and the deputy attorney general have by my estimate, counting the numbers, 14 or 15 weeks in the business.t( there's 50-plus fbi field officers across the united states in alaska and hawaii and 30,000-plus officers, most of them, 88% of them don't work on russia on terrorism, on white collar crime, on gangs, on drugs, on things that they are passionate b.most of them don't know the fbi director and these folks areñr telling us that the had enough of aqÑi pulseÑixdqe$i to advise the white house that that was a reason, morale, for i'm with jeffrey. these answers get funnier and funnier. tomorrow it's because he didn't pay park tickets. they are trying to find out what sticks and they haven't found anything else. >> you can't make this stuff up. on this day, david chillian, after the fbi director was fired, i think everybodyxd

last year the fbi seized his computer and found in else to his wife, clinton aide huma abedin.ident trump send congress a proposal to balance the budget in 10 years. according to a government official, it calls for deep cuts to discretionary and safety net funding. social security and medicare would not be cut. lawmakers in both parties are likely to object to cuts in both programs. the chinese president said she improve relations with south korea. tona has objected installation of the u.s. missile system in south korea. julian assange his speaking on the steps of the ecuadorian embassy in london. he says today is an important victory after sweden drops rape charges. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am courtney donohoe, this is bloomberg. vonnie: i will take it from here, courtney. what is richard branson's next act? could another airline he in the works. we will find out from the british billionaire next. this is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: breaking news, the justice department has released the rosenstein ope

but when huma abedin were completely exposed, but when they heard about hillary clinton's interview at the fbi and a lot of people, including me, questioned wait a minute, we wouldn't have done that with a gangster like john gotti or somebody else. you're the main subject of a case. by the way, drop by for an interview, bring whoever you want. that would have never happened. that main subject would have testified before a grand jury under oath. every word recorded. so that it could be used later if testifying under oath again and they contradict. so the manner in which the investigation was conducted, a lot of fbi personnel thought wait a minute, if you hold all of the tools available for sensitive investigations that we use every day in organized crime, that we use every day in terrorism investigations, and suddenly you're conducting this extremely important case with what appeared to be one hand behind your back, there was consternation. it wasn't directed directly at comey, but it was in general how could this happen. >> go to sara murray. she is monitoring the reaction from the whi

>> yeah, absolutely do if the immunity deals, if the subject of the immunity deals like huma abedin didn't end up to their deal of the bargain. they got immunity in exchange among other things turning over all relevant emails to the government but we find out later that a bunch of the emails from huma abdib were also on anthony weiner's computer. huma abedin didn't live up to her end of the bargain and though it's null and void and we will move forward with the investigation again. nick anything should these people be nervous, the statute of limitations has not run out; is that correct? >> if i were them i would be very nervous because the investigation was so slip shot, why wasn't a grand jury impaneled. why was cheryl mills that was top adviser, she was the one determining what was personal and what was work related and could be turned related to work. she was also a target of that investigation. i would never allow two suspects to sit in the same interrogation. what you're looking for as investigators is those mistakes to show a story that was concocted. lauren: we have to see who presi

james comey/ fbi director: "huma abedin appears to have had a regular practice of forwarding e-mails to him, for him i think to print out for her, so she could then deliver them to the secretary of state." ----butt to----"she forwarded hundreds and thousands of e-mails, some of which contained classified information."but, the majority of the thousands of e-mails reviewed by the fbi actually got to weiner's computer via a backup system for abedin's phone. not because she was forwarding them to him.white house press secretary sean spicer says president donald trump fired comey on the "recommendation of the attorney general and the deputy attorney general.comey, was appointed as head of the fbi by president barack obama in 2013.in washington, i'm scott mclean. (pam) california lawmakers are reacting to today's news.... senator dianne feinstein tweeted - in part... 'the next fbi director must be strong and independent .... and will receive a fair hearing in the judiciary committee." and senator kamala harris tweeted quote - "i've said it before and will again - we must have a special pro

his estranged wife, huma abedin, is clinton's top political aide.he judge will sentence wiener september 8th. >>> one more note after his emotion appearance there in court, weaner's estranged wife abedin filed for divorce. the couple has one child together. >>> emergency security upgrades for members of congress. scott macfarlane has learned u.s. house officials plan to spend millions protecting their members when they're back home. scott joins us to explain. >> that's right. at least $2 million in district office enhancements are being planned, to better secure members of congress when they're in their home state offices and away from the protective shield of the u.s. capital. the sergeant-at-arms who helps oversee the safety of congress, says there's been a spike in request for security upgrades from members. he didn't specify the nature of the threats, but i'm told distressed or panic buttons and requests are being made. >> another item i would like to implement if possible, standardized access control system to each reception area, so that doors

then just last week, comey testified about abedin, weiner and those e-mails. >> his then spouse huma abedinto have had a regular practice of forwarding e-mails for him to print out for her so she could deliver them to secretary of state. >> reporter: comey said abedin forwarded hundreds of thousands of e-mails some of which contained classified information. but the fbi admitted, comey's most recent comments were wrong and his testimony was misleading. in a letter to congress, the fbi acknowledged abedin only forwarded a small number of e-mail to weiner. >> there is concern the fbi director gave inaccurate testimony? >> at this point i have not asked, not fully aware. i am aware of the testimony that occurred. and the inquiries, but i have yet to, follow up on that. glad to follow-up. >> does the president still have confidence, full confidence in fbi director james comey. >> i have no reason to believe. haven't asked him. i have not asked the president since the last time we spoke about this. >> last time you spoke about it you said he did have confidence. you are not sure to say that again

of, sitting on his shoulders. >> major mistake. >> with all of those decisions, snap decisions, huma abedin sending e-mails to her husband to printout. loretta lynch -- or excuse me, bill clinton getting on the plane with loretta lynch, a terrible idea. things that happened in the moment were so consequential. >> sure were. everybody stand by. fast-moving developments as republicans scrambling to get enough votes to pass their health care bill tomorrow. plus, no federal charges in the controversial police shooting but tonight the case is entering a critical new phase. let's see, there are the wildcats 'til we die weekenders. the watch me let if fly. this i gotta try weekenders. then we've got the bendy... ... spendy weekenders. the tranquility awaits. hanging with our mates weekenders and the it's been quite a day... ...so glad we got away weekenders. whatever kind of weekender you are, there's a hilton for you. book your weekend break direct at hilton.com and join the weekenders. on a perfect car, then smash it into a tree. your insurance company raises your rates. maybe you should've done

computer clinton aide huma abedin shared with her husband, disgraced former congressman anthony wiener lordy, that would be really bad. concealing would be catastrophic. as between really bad and catastrophic, i said to my team, we've got to walk into the world of really bad. >> reporter: they ultimately determined abedin had forwarded e-mails containing classified information to her husband. but the bureau could not prove criminal intent and did not recommend charges against abedin, wiener or clinton. democrat dianne feinstein. >> you took an enormous gamble. the gamble was that there was something there that would invalidate her candidacy. and there wasn't. >> reporter: democrats pressed comey on why he publicly dise investigation during the campaign but did not reveal that the fbi was also investigating the trump campaign and its contacts with russia. senator patrick leahy. >> was it appropriate for you to comment on one investigation repeatedly and not say anything about the other? >> i think so. >> reporter: comey said attorney general loretta lynch forced his hand when she had an

the precipitating event, to your mind, is james comey's misstatement about the e-mails involving huma abedinright? here's another question for you, james. will james comey be allowed to freely speak once he's let go? >> there are some pretty ndas in place as far as investigations like that. if you remember, in the hillary e-mail investigation they made all the fbi agents who were even going to be working on that case sign special nondisclosure agreements so that they could not talk about it even with their colleagues within the fbi. so i'm sure comey is bound to not discuss any of the specifics of this. we'll see if he abides by that, but i'm sure there's stiff penalties if he decides he wants to, you know, talk about things he's precluded from talking about. liz: okay, we only have 20 seconds left. so are you surprised he was fired? >> i'm surprised he was fired, i'm not surprised he's gone. he was on his way out at some point in the near future no matter what. liz: all right. jim hanson, thank you for your expertise and insights. we're all over that breaking news. president trump has fired

was he accurate when he said those thousands of e-mails were forwarded by huma abedin to her husband?tly. the details next. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com so i use excedrin.ments from my life. it starts to relieve migraine pain in just 30 minutes. and it works on my symptoms, too. now moments lost to migraines are moments gained with excedrin. [heartbeat] wiback like it could used to? neutrogena hydro boost water gel. with hyaluronic acid it plumps skin cells with intense hydration and locks it in. for supple, hydrated skin. hydro boost. from neutrogena the shlike a bald penguin. how do i look? [ laughing ] show me the billboard music awards. show me top artist. show me the top hot 100 artist. they give awards for being hot and 100 years old? we'll take 2! [ laughing ] xfinity x1 gives you exclusive access to the best of the billboard music awards just by using your voice. the billboard music awards. sunday, may 21st eight seven central only on abc. >>> all right, top of the hour. we begin with breaking news about current fbi director james comey and a matter of accuracy or ina

his connection is that he's the estranged husband of longtime clinton aid huma abedin. the fbi had to correct the record in a written statement saying that the number was far less. all of that came together to create a lack of confidence in the director. back to you. >> kat: we are going to bring the specialist then. i'm going to ask you mr. buchanan, what do you think donald trump's attitude should be toward the special prosecutor? >> an independent console or special prosecutor, no. the fbi is investigating an intelligence failure, intelligence breach the united states. if a crime is discovered by the fbi and it affects people high in the trump administration or in the campaign, i think then you talk about who's going to prosecute it. unless and until you get a crime, this is the point i've been trying to make, they've had ten months of this. please give us somebody who colluded with putin. they can't come up with a single name. >> kat: and getting a sense you might disagree. >> the fbi was just decapitated, so it's going to be hard for them to produce evidence. it lo