i mean you just ran through a list of some of them with lanny davis. and that was in her head as she went through that confirmation hearing to become secretary of state. she knew that she was probably going to run for president again. she wanted control of these e-mails. and here's the other thing, she's a lawyer. okay. and so you just heard lanny davis talk all about how she didn't break the law. the federal records act is advisory. there are no penalties for breaking it. and she knew that she could probably do this and get away with it. it was classic clinton. >> we asked you for questions for the panel. we got this on facebook from mark dorsey who writes why does she, clinton, think that the rules we live by don't apply to her? why couldn't she use the government's e-mail address? what didn't she want the public to see? neera, you worked in the clinton white house. you worked for senator clinton. how do you answer mark? >> i would say that she doesn't see herself as above the law, and that's why -- or different from everyone else. that's why she was

lanny davis tried that with you last night. that is not going to work.f the reason is you talk about her media allies according to some of these reports. the "new york times" breaks the story, the "the washington post" editorial page sct her, some msnbc anchors have been after her. pretty broad consensus with some exception that this thing is a serious concern. >> i do want to say by the way that i was discussing with charleák t's irrelevant that some people knew she had this e-mail received documents from her of that e-maid9 the question of concealment is do you have federal records that have not been revealed? that you are concealing ie from the public. just because a few documents or e-mails to other people doesn't answer that question or exonerate her. i want to raise one final thing with you. they're very powerful. they have powerful media friends. what makes you think bill and hillary aren't calling every single one of those powerful media friends and saying really appreciate it if you kind of, you know focused jz maybe al qaeda this week. >> you k

thank you for joining us. >>> now we want to bring in official white house special counsel lanny daviswho handles legal troubles in the clinton white house including campaign finance and impeachment. you said repeatedly on friday, "hillary clinton did nothing wrong." i can understand saying she did not protect the law but do you really believe she did nothing wrong? >> i do. let me correct my friend, governor huckabee. he is a good man. and capable. but he is wrong on the law. 9 director of litigation --. >> if you can answer my question i am asking you specifically? >> no, but she does nothing illegal and governor huckabee suggested she might. number one, there is plenty resident, general powell did the same. >> rues were different? >> they were not. >> there was a new rule in twine. >> the rule in 2009 on talked about preservation which she has followed and in 2014 the rules changed. >> let me go through, a list, if i may, of the rules and regulations and laws she may have violated. >> "may have" --. >> the state department foreign affairs man all i'd employees must use secure depart

lanny davis tried that with you last night. that is not going to work.reason is you talk about her media allies according to some of these reports. the "new york times" breaks the story, the "the washington post" editorial page sct her, some msnbc anchors have been after her. pretty broad consensus with some exception that this thing is a serious concern. >> i do want to say by the way that i was discussing with charleák t's irrelevant that some people knew she had this e-mail received documents from her of that e-maid9 the question of concealment is do you have federal records that have not been revealed? that you are concealing ie from the public. just because a few documents or e-mails to other people doesn't answer that question or exonerate her. i want to raise one final thing with you. they're very powerful. they have powerful media friends. what makes you think bill and hillary aren't calling every single one of those powerful media friends and saying really appreciate it if you kind of, you know focused jz maybe al qaeda this week. >> you know, a

i want to bring in lanny davis. he's the author of "crisis tales." thank you for being here.so hillary clinton is going to say, you know what? i didn't do anything wrong. i didn't violate the law. others say she violated the spirit of the law. i think that's pretty much all that it will take for some like the republicans to come down hard on her. >> so your reporter the republican word spirit is subjective. people will react differently. they should have done something different. she should have used government. i don't do that. i do facts. let's just start with three facts that aren't in dispute. fact one, the law change in 2014 which she did while she was secretary, was lawful and secretary of state colin powell used a private e-mail account to correspondent with foreign governments and conduct official business. fact two, she openly sent this e-mail to thousands of people at the state department who knew the e-mail address wasn't government. that gives me the conclusion there was nothing intended to hide or deceive. she did it openly. fact three, this is really the most im

longtime supporters like james carville and lanny davis coming to her defense vociferously, and in the reports have emerged she will address the e-mail situation at some point this week, maybe within the next few days ,so what should we expect? well, will it signal a turning point in hillary clinton's strategy and enough to slow the bad press. ann gearan, reporter for "the washington post" covering hillary clinton, thanks for joining us. >> happy to be here. >> let me ask you what you're hearing then. we've heard nothing from hillary clinton publicly for a week now. are you hearing that we will hear from her in the next couple of days? >> well, i mean we haven't -- not that we haven't heard anything from her publicly. she has been part of a couple of the sort of scripted events that -- >> on the e-mail issue we've heard zero. >> exactly. when dianne feinstein says you're doing it wrong, you have a problem, and she has to confront that problem because it's gone beyond the argument that she and her defenders can make that this is not a big deal or a completely manufactured republican hit

joining me now is that harvard professor and lanny davis, special counsel to bill clinton and he's notially affiliated with hillary clinton's potential campaign. good evening to you both. >> good evening. >> lawrence, what do you mean? >> well, i think the thing that elizabeth warren has done so powerfully is to focus the nation on a system that is not working for them. as she puts it the system is rigged. my view is if that's in fact true, which i agree with her it s. we need a debate a campaign that is going to focus on exactly why it is rigged and what are we going to do about it? if we have a one candidate primary, no debates, no effort to push this issue into the center, we won't be able to address it in a way that can rally people into getting back into politics. so many people are turned off by what they see as a failed system and the question elizabeth warren is asked is it a question we need to get answered. >> lanny, do you think the democratic party is better off with anointing hillary or this wider race? >> i don't like the word "anointing." i would say that senator sanders

that has given us some ptsd lanny davis is defending her oh my, not only server private but we've destroyed some of the e-mails just feels like the rose law firm all over again. if you want to get rid of this unfair the scrutiny but you have to come clean move on. >> to be clear i don't think americans care how we react to it. >> or a member of the law firm. >> it does definitely have that feel. >> to dana's point, may not be a huge scandal there has never been another secretary of state or secretary of -- head of any other government agency we know of that has done what she did which was key siding i'm going to set up my own parallel infrastructure in my house after i leave office i'm going to be the judge and jury over what i'm going to release and destroying else. i'm sorry from perspective of history that looks weird. >> does not smell right. >> i didn't know you could have your own server. >> i thought i was the can't date -- got ahead of me. >> schieffer: let's take a break we'll come back. >> schieffer: book now with more from our panel. we've talked about democrats, we've got to tal

i want to move on to lanny davis.fending hillary clinton. >> i can think of to that she has violated. she violated a law that prohibits people that work from the government, from concealing documents. >> she did that by keeping her documents on a server that she controlled. the premise of that statute is that the government owns all of your records when you work for the government. when you leave you can ask for that which is personal. she gave the government what she decided was governmental and kept the rest. second she kept classified documents on a nonsecure site that she controlled. one year in jail and a $250,000 fine per document. we are talking four years of documents. she signed a contract that all high level officials do were acquiring curt to safeguard national security secrets. she violated that. fourth. when she left the state department she signed a document saying that she had given back everything that was thursday. >> she is in grave political danger. >> no federal prosecutor will prosecute without th

joining me now lanny davis, a friend of bill and hillary, and he is not affiliated with hillary's potentialn. lawrence, what do you mean? >> i think the thing that elizabeth warren has done so powerfully is to focus the nation on a sense that many, many people have that a system is not working for them. my view is that if that is in fact true, we need a debate, we need a campaign that will focus on exactly why it's rigged and what should we do about it. the concern that many of us have about it is if we have a one-candidate primary, no debates, no effort to push this issue into the center, we won't be able to address it in a way that can rally people back into politics. so many people are so turned off by what they see as a failed system. and the question that elizabeth warren asked is what we need answered. >> do you think the party is better focused on a -- i don't like the word anointing. senator sanders, senator webb, to enter and join the frey to debate specific issues that will take the country in a different direction. i think that senator warren, senator clinton, governor o'malley a

joining me with more lanny davis who attended the clintons gala last night with president clinton and hillary clinton. he's the former special council for president clinton. lanny, good to see you. >> hi megyn. >> first, i know you don't think she did anything wrong here. but i want to ask you whether you know if she did preserve all of the documents that she created and received during her tenure as secretary of state via e-mail? >> well she says she preserved -- excuse my voice megyn, it will be up to the state department and anybody else to confirm she's telling the truth. >> did she say that? i didn't hear her say that in her tweets. >> yes. >> you're telling us she says she did not delete any official documents. >> all preserved. and if deleted you know they can be found. secondly it is a fact that she did nothing illegal. the law actually changed in 2014. and the preservation of those records nothing -- >> that's not true. let me stop you there. that's not true. i've been looking at this, you're a lawyer and so am i, but i've been looking at this for two days and my information

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. >> out front tonight, former special counsel to president clinton, lanny davis and we have the chief strategist for the republicans national committee. lanny, we've got a source with hillary clinton saying she will explain what she did was completely innocent. if it was completely no one, why didn't she explain herself a week ago? >> well, in the age of the internet a week is a long time. two weeks is an eternity. we went through three years and $70 million of white water which everybody hyperventilated about, the media, congressional republicans, $70 million of ken starr's investigation and that ended up with nothing. i think that's where this is headed despite the wishful thinking from my colleague with the republican national committee. a few weeks from now, aa few months from now, there's no story, everything she did was legal and accessible. she's offered to publish everything after the state department looks at it. >> i want you to jump on this. lanny is talking about white water. isn't that exactly where you want democrats to be? >> really? i would like them to be anywhere. i

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joining me with more lanny davis who attended the clintons gala last night with president clinton and hillary clinton. he's the former special council for president clinton. lanny, good to see you. >> hi megyn. >> first, i know you don't think she did anything wrong here. but i want to ask you whether you know if she did preserve all of the documents that she created and received during her tenure as secretary of state via e-mail? >> well she says she preserved -- excuse my voice megyn, it will be up to the state department and anybody else to confirm she's telling the truth. >> did she say that? i didn't hear her say that in her tweets. >> yes. >> you're telling us she says she did not delete any official documents. >> all preserved. and if deleted you know they can be found. secondly it is a fact that she did nothing illegal. the law actually changed in 2014. and the preservation of those records nothing -- >> that's not true. let me stop you there. that's not true. i've been looking at this, you're a lawyer and so am i, but i've been looking at this for two days and my information

lanny davis. mr.time friend of hillary clinton but is not officially speaking for her. also with us tonight mercedes schlapp. lanny, what's the strategy here? patience seems to be the policy. when's this going to happen? >> i don't have any inside knowledge. i wish i did, but i suspect it will be sooner rather than later. i think we're all ready for hillary and now it is time for hillary to be ready for hillary. it's sooner rather than later, but that's just my guess. >> governor o'malley said i don't know where she stands. when i think about that we haven't heard what hillary's economic platform is in eight years. the issues are different. where does she stand on the trade and the tpp and fast track? how aggressive is she going to be on the environment? is there a possibility that the democrats won't have a fully vetted candidate, and i know we have known her for 30-something years, but the issues are different now. >> governor o'malley is my governor. i supported him twice. she voted over and over a

. >> can you imagine poor lanny davis? the man's exhausted. they sent him everywhere to go offer the defense, which you know, jeb bush did it and colin powell did it. but hillary clinton issued a directive in 2011 when she was in charge of the state department saying no government business on your personal e-mail. i have yet to hear somebody explain that to me? how about if hillary does it at a presser at which maybe "the kelly file" is present. how would that go? >> i would pay money to see that. >> i got to go. >> okay. >> good to see you, howie. >> same here. >> we'll stay on it. we'll see. is this going to be like a corridor interview, here i am and this is my friend. or is she going to let journalists in there to actually press her, credential journalists, not any journalist, we'll see. new reports about harry reid answering questions from the fbi about hundreds of thousands in donations from a man already connected to a federal corruption probe. why is that happening? chris stirewalt is next. >>> plus, we'll detail the social media showd

joining me with more lanny davis who attended the clintons gala last night with president clinton and hillary clinton. he's the former special council for president clinton. lanny, good to see you. >> hi megyn. >> first, i know you don't think she did anything wrong here. but i want to ask you whether you know if she did preserve all of the documents that she created and received during her tenure as secretary of state via e-mail? >> well she says she preserved -- excuse my voice megyn, it will be up to the state department and anybody else to confirm she's telling the truth. >> did she say that? i didn't hear her say that in her tweets. >> yes. >> you're telling us she says she did not delete any official documents. >> all preserved. and if deleted you know they can be found. secondly it is a fact that she did nothing illegal. the law actually changed in 2014. and the preservation of those records nothing -- >> that's not true. let me stop you there. that's not true. i've been looking at this, you're a lawyer and so am i, but i've been looking at this for two days and my information

. >> wary of a politicized investigation of the presumed presidential front runner, lanny davis said clinton would welcome an independent investigation. >> it is a reasonable idea if the state department asks she will say yes. if there's a subpoena she must say yes. >> since tweeting mid last week that she welcome as public airing of the e-mails, clinton has remained silent. meanwhile, several watchdogs are suing. judicial watch president told politico, and i'm quoting here, there are a bunch of judges they're messing with in the federal courts right now. back to you. >> it seems it's just beginning before they get to the bottom of this. >>> senate majority lead earn mitch mcconnell canceling tuesday's vote on the iran nuclear agreement review act. it would give congress the power to review any deals reached with iran. democrats say they will not consider supporting it before march 24. that is the deadline for negotiators to hammer out the framework of an agreement. meanwhile, president obama saying the terms have to be right. listen. >> this is no deal, you're walking away. >> absol

but she does have lanny davis, who served as special counsel to president clinton, he is a crisis manager and lanny joins me now. your mantra tell it early, tell it all, tell it yourlz. she's not following that. >> it's about a week and a half into this. i'm not sure i would be able even with my best client even you to get it all out immediately. but we've gone a week and a half and now one, we now have established the misquotation or out of context quote about new york times that this was unlawful. we now have the man quoted saying it's reasonable to release this within a time period not specified in the 2009 regulations, nothing illegal, one. two, nothing secret. she sent thousands of these e-mails out to state department officials with her e-mail address on it. that's some cover. no cover-up. and three, she has committed to turning all of the e-mails that have been looked over by the state department or will about to to make them public. the number of misstatements by a partisan republican that you just aired are impossible to refute all at once. let me mention that the server is not i

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. >> carville and lanny davis, they are all out there spinning and saying, wait look, the right-wingalking heads media are blowing it out of proportion. we're not. it is important. think about this for a second. '09 to '13, she was secretary of state, benghazi 12, all the pz e-mails, everything with benghazi went through her private server and we don't know what was going on, never know what back and forth correspondence. she is the one that said nothing was classified, her words nothing she did on her personal was classified. >> doesn't matter. it doesn't matter. all federal records, doesn't matter if it's classified or not. >> we should have access to it agreed. >> yep. >> however how can nothing from benghazi or didn't send any benghazi e-mails which i find that more ludicrous. mention yesterday 1 billion, 1 billion e-mails the state department in those years and they only thought 71,000 were important enough to keep. 71,000 out of 1 billion. kim perry, listen to shannon coffin, if you put your prosecutor hat on could you make this case? >> yeah i think make the case. all you need

. >> it will come foreign minister carville and beg gala and lanny davis and everybody at msnbc and theal page of the "new york times." they will be carrying the sexism argue. to the american people. i don't know if it's going to work. >> well, we are going to keep a chart on how many sexism charges, you know, i think we will do that. we will update it. >> the over125,000 in the first week. >> we will start getting that chart together as soon as she announces. we'll have the sexismrnie goldberg, everybody. plenty more ahead as the factor moves along this evening. would you buy them dinner? featuring hillary clinton and secretary of state john kerry tonight. also ahead, gutfeld and mcguirk and the highest states in the union where marijuana is used the most. we hope you will stay tune to those reports. it's as old as our time on earth. and as new as tomorrow. you can have a yard. or slightly less. gardening isn't about where we choose to live. it's about how we choose to live. miracle-gro. life starts here. normally people wear pants. yeah that's why i'm hiding captain obvious. not very

he says when he sees people like lanny davis out there he says do we want to go back to those days?they do not learn of this has to be handled better and differently than in the past, it may spell trouble. john: i know it is hard for you to hear me at the u.n., mark, but what are the three most important questions and requests -- hillary clinton must address if she is to have any success at putting this controversy behind her? >> -- he think that administration policy, which is clear, that government work should be done on a government computer. second, what legal experts did she consult before she decided to do her government business on private e-mail. did she understand that by not having her e-mails in the government system in a timely fashion subpoenaed and a freedom of information act requests were not sufficiently reply to because her material would have been there in full. and finally the question that a lot of people are asking, will she turned over to an independent authority her hard drive to a next her to ensure that all government e-mails on her private server are hande

. >> the staff she has now, they're out there doing the same clinton playbook that was done by lanny davis, which is just to get out there, deny there's even a problem. say there's no car crash over there and really it ticks off the media. it alienates the media. so if there's any serious issues that come up, more serious issues that come up, they have lost the media already. >> the media tends to be caught between, one, hillary clinton and bill clinton in the past, they get involved in something that's questionable. i'll just call it questionable. worthy of question. in this instance, secretary clinton, why did you do that? if you're allowed one question to her this week, it would be why. that question has not been allowed to be asked or answered since the start. and in the meantime, since there's no answer to it, there's a certain amount of discussion and speculation about it. and "the new york times" in an editorial calls it disturbing. reasonable. john mccain calls it a crime. that's the problem, is that the dialogue is stuck between crime and then there's disturbing in here, and then

. >> lanny davis, good to have you with us tonight. >> nice to be back. >> good to see you again. >> thank you, you bet. >> michael steele former rnc chair, and msnbc political analyst, bob frum democratic strategist and professor caroline hellman. michael, this e-mail account that jeb bush has got going. >> right. >> it sounds like the exact same thing hillary was doing. what is the big issue here? >> withal it may be on paper in terms of the way it was set up. i don't know if you had a private server or anything like that. he did acknowledge using a private e-mail account but i guess that i look at it a little bit different. i don't equate the private e-mails of a governor of florida with what we're talking about here with the former secretary of state, dealing with some of the big and hot issues that she was dealing with at the time. i think she has unwittingly created a mess for herself. this could be handled saying take the server pull off the government-related documents. the private stuff i do not want released publicly could have put the appropriate monitors in place to make

with me now, lanny davis, white house special counsel during the clinton administration and s.e. cupp cnn political commentator. i want to put up the tweet that was september out by secretary clinton pertaining to this controversy. i want the public to see my e-mail. i asked state to release them. they said they will review them for release as soon as possible. i am convinced -- you may have attended the yale law school with her, but she never read your book because your book was all about telling it early, telling it all, telling it yourself. she's not doing in he of that. >> i could have added better late than never though. this is the right move. she could have done it in 2013 and no one would be talking about it today. but she is the first secretary of state. others have used private e-mails e-mails, but she is the first one to say i want the public to read it. and she's ready for that to happen. so i think it is a good move. if it had been done earlier it would have followed my advice. >> you told me yesterday when i asked you the why question, you said convenience. did your

that is just a little bit from lanny davis's editorial in usa today. s get to your calls.ajor news stories of the week. start with an independent from outline, california. this is jim. caller: good morning. thank you for c-span. i was just watching the senate hearings on whether the u.s. should farm the ukrainian army are not. for me, that has been a really serious issue and concern. i served in iraq and i do not feel the government was being very honest with us when they sent us over there. i really think that our media has done a good job of asking the government the hard questions or even taking a good look at the concerns of the russians might have. for years, i have been listening to our government complain about the iranians with their nuclear threat and i knows of people who live in the ukraine and they say that russia's biggest fear is that they do not want a nuclear missile pointed at moscow from there. these are issues that the media has not talked to. another thing that nobody has really discussed -- host: we believe in there and move on to john in fort lauderda

people like lanny davis on the clinton team for a long time making that publicly.r best defense moving forward? >> reporter: you saw democrats on capitol hill, various democrats stepped up last night said there is no there there. once the emails are released by the state department, which said it will take a few months to go through them, eventually they will be on website for public to see democrats are saying at end. day substantively there will not be major revelation about benghazi or anything else. what is in the server we did not see see if she is sole arbiter there are contradictions. at one point, this server, she is the arbiter of it, private communications between her and her husband, former president bill clinton. his office told "wall street journal" last couple days bill clinton does not use email. that seems to be a contradiction she didn't answer to yesterday. bill: one more question. she sent two emails apparently, reported before she came out. active on twitter, not a tremendous degree but a little bit. what is your sense the next page is turned on

john: i have another technological question and we heard this yesterday from lanny davis. she repeated this line that she had done this for convenience to keep just one device. i don't know about you. you are fairly technologically advanced. i personally have e-mails from various accounts on my iphone that come up to my single device. it seems to be something suspect about the notion that somehow -- that she was doing this in order not to gary two devices around. it is easy to carry one device with multiple accounts from multiple servers. mark: i will speculate to that. there may be answers to that that she made it want to give about her and technology. we know that generally state department tends to be behind the private sector. one reason is she may not have wanted to use the state department e-mails because it was clunky. the other is in may not have been possible to have state department e-mail on her chosen device configure the way the state department would want it to be configured. john: i will leave it there. thank you for being with us. we will talk about this a

lannie davis is always defending the clintons, this time hillary. he was at it again with chris wallace. who was curious if he's getting tired of this. >> you served in the clinton white house handling clinton matters like impeachment. do you ever get tired of cleaning up after the clintons? >> i don't call it cleanup. after you mentioned bill clinton left with a 6 #% approval rating. hillary clinton is the most popular political figure in the united states. >> i know lannhim well. he definitely gets tired of cleaning up after the clintons. can you imagine if that was your job? >> when it comes to the word hillary clinton has fallen ten points from 54% to 44% over the last 11 months. he does have cleanup to do there. >> chris outlined it well. he said, this is what she is accused of doing wrong. the state department has told her to use the system. she didn't do it. private e-mails must be preserved. we're not sure if she did it. all work should be conducted on government e-mails. we know she didn't do that. answer those questions. i don't think -- y