loretta lynch decides to indict, call a grand jury or not. and i'm wondering if maybe they were going to say, you know what, no indictment. not enough there. and then she's trying to put it on the fbi before that, knowing that this meeting occurred and the world is going to say, well, wait a minute. if there's no indictment, it's because of the meeting. >> well, i think that she put herself in a box. this is twice in the last couple of weeks. once was after orlando when the heavily redacted statement where all of the references were taken away from jihad, and then they had to go back and put them back in and admit maybe they had taken out too much. and now this. in both cases, it looks like huge missteps by the attorney general. just not reading the cards right. and i think that's what's happened. now, what she's done by saying, oh, look, i'll take whatever the fbi deals out, she essentially is saying don't blame me if hillary gets indicted. and i'm not sure that deep down in the bowels of the white house, there would be some celebration if h

donald trump is not buying loretta lynch's explanation. he said it's highly unlikely a social meeting would have lasted a half-hour. he was talking about golf and grand children. i love my grand children so much. i love, love, love that one. and look at the beautiful. i love these kids. after that what are you going to say? david: i'll be taking all that up tonight with judge alex ferrer. all so "the weekly standard"'s fred barnes. bernie sanders still refusing to endorse hillary clinton. he says he's still trying to come to agreement with hillary clinton on certain issues and quote we are not there yet. the southern general says she understands why her meeting with bill clinton would raise eyebrows. but lynch insists the case is being handled by career agents and investigators who know to follow the facts. catherine herridge has our report. reporter: based on her comments at the aspen ideas forum the attorney general will not bring charge without the recommendation of criminal prosecutors and the f.b.i. she said it was always her plan, bu

ag loretta lynch from this conference. we asked our in-house legal expert judge andrew napolitano for reaction. we'll play the sequence and ask you for your reaction. >> it was really a social meeting. >> if she was investigating a mobster, would she chat with the mobster's wife? if she was investigating the chief of a drug cartel, would she chat with that person's spouse? this stuff just is not believable. deirdre: so, katrina taken out of context, put in another one do you see it the same way? >> i absolutely see it the same way. i mean this was a secret and unethical meeting. the instant that she knew bill clinton was coming on to her plane or the instant she saw him, she should have immediately asked him to leave and let him know it was completely inappropriate for that to happen again. bill clinton could be the target of his own fbi investigation simply because he is heavily connected to the clinton foundation and number of donations that come from looking like political favors from his wife while she was at the state

good morning, rich. >> the white house is defending its attorney general, loretta lynch, after her private meeting with former president bill clinton. lynch is investigating hillary clinton and will determine whether to initiate charges in the matter and clinton and lynch maintain the meeting was social and even though some democrats say she should have avoided the former president. a the presumptive republican nominee piled on. >> i am just flabbergasted by it. i think it's amazing and i have never seen anything like that before. >> the president and the attorney general understand how important it is for the department of justice to conduct investigations that are free of political interference. >> senior republicans are calling for a special council to investigate, and the state department is looking to delay the court-ordered release of about two years of e-mails before four of hillary clinton's top aides. >>> loretta lynch slipping up multiple times over the last few weeks, and allen west saying the latest faux pas is the final blow to her credibility and reputation. >> over the last

bill clinton, loretta lynch. one is a former constitutional law professor, before he was governor of arkansas, the other is the attorney general, former prosecutor. even democrats, david axelrod tweeting yesterday, chris counce saying they should have known better. >> yeah, but we know bill clinton, he's the big dog. that's his nickname, dawg, elvis, he's gushing if you meet him. you had a hard time with a journalist, he still says hi. he's friendly. his tail wags when he sees somebody he knows. i know he has a high iq and somewhere said, my god, this person could be prosecuting my wife potentially, potentially, i should say out of this one, but that sort of the super ego, that doesn't work with bill clinton. don't you think it works with him more powerfully? just guessing. the people on the hard right, and adversarial situation will make the most of it. we got into a war of iraq because of a meeting in prague with some meeting -- you know, whatever, you know. something that connect eed 9/11 because of a meeting

donald trump not buying loretta lynch's story. we see this is a new line of attack against secretary clinton. the gop presidential candidate and donald trump's supporter, ben carson goes on the record, good evening, doctor carson, you are buying any of this? >> it seems a little bit unusual, lets put it that way. what would the democrats be saying if these are republicans. they would be going ballistic and here we have a situation, what ever happens to integrity? this is the kind of thing that creates the distrust that exists now. i go around talking to average citizens all over the country, there are few people who actually trust the government. this is the kind of thing that causes that. there are consequences for doing bad. they should just say yes, if it was an honest mistake, yes, we did it and that's a stupid thing. loretta lynch can say i am going to rechoose myself >> but she's not going to rechoose herself. this is a veteran prosecutor and with a target husband. lets talk about lynch. she had a bad week. she's the one who

we expect to hear a lot more from loretta lynch today. she speaks later this morning as aspen ideas festival where she intends to speak specifically on this. >> that will happen around 11:00 a.m. eastern time. >>> to talk about this, we're joined by kabc talk radio host, john phillips, and hillary clinton supporter terren rosencrantz the first question, why would you do this? do you not think that he realized what the fallout would be? >> well, i think we'll have to wait to hear what the campaign officially says on his true reasons. i can only try to guess here. but i'm guessing that he didn't realize this was going to kick off the kind of story that it has. the kind of firestorm surrounding it. they've been having these discussions and investigations for several months now with loretta lynch. so i think in his mind, it wasn't going to be something that would likely kick off the kind of story that it has. >> so john, in new tweet this is morning, donald trump is talking about a conspiracy theory between the two. what evidence does he have

the first is the loretta lynch question. she needs to recuse herself from the rest of this investigation formally, totally. because it's impossible to have confidence, including it's in hillary clinton's interest for lynch to get out of this, to allow the professionals, the deputy attorney general in charge of the criminal division, to be in charge of this investigation because it's more than just a question of formal charges, guilt or innocence. there's also the question of whether or not the investigation's findings and parts of what was found in terms of information is going to be released. in new york, the u.s. attorney in the case involving governor como and the commission that he had appointed, there were no indictments that resulted and it was decided by the u.s. attorney that he would make a statement saying there was no intent found of violating the law, et cetera. so there are nuances in this. this is not just about indictment, no indictment. and the idea that this is going to go away because there is no indictment

pete, is this a departure from what loretta lynch has previously said? >> well, the justice department says no, thomas. they say that she's been broadly hinting that this is the step she was going to take just as recently as a couple of weeks ago when she appeared on all the sunday morning programs, including "meet the press." she said she would be guided by i don't think those were exact words, but she said this would go through the career justice department prosecutor. she was responding to the question of whether she would recuse herself and she said she wouldn't discuss exactly what the internal justice department steps would be, but what we are told by senior justice department officials this morning is that this has always been her plan, to defer to the guidance, to the recommendations by career justice department prosecutors. that's the way these cases normally work anyway. the only question where there's a little uncertainty here is precisely what her exact role will be. these officials say she's not simply going to sort of ministerially accept w

bill: loretta lynch on the hot seat today. she is facing lawmakers in about an hour's time on her decision not to bring charges against hillary clinton. she said she would take the recommendation of the prosecutors and the f.b.i. martha: i'm martha maccallum, we have a big morning on capitol hill. the house judiciary committee is set to get under way in an hour from now. she'll face questions about her surprise meeting on the tar mark in phoenix with former president clinton. she'll also be asked about her decision not to bring charges against hillary clinton. >> we are going to go over that list of things the f.b.i. director found she had done in violation of the law and ask why the attorney general wouldn't exercise her authority to indict hillary clinton notwithstanding the investigators' recommendation. bill: the question now is whether she lied to congress during her testimonies in october. martha: what do you think the focus will be in there today? reporter: we are expecting the attorney general to arrive sometime in the

breaking news on hillary clinton's email scandal, loretta lynch will accept the fbi's recommendationsours after a private meeting between lynch and former president bill clinton. we heard from donald trump and the administration on that controversy. >> i am flabbergasted. it is amazing. i have never seen anything like it before. >> bottom line is simply both the president and the attorney general understand how important it is for the department of justice to conduct investigations free of political interface. sandra: airports ramping up security of millions of americans hit the roads and skies for the july 4th holiday weekend, everything you need to know for the big weekend just ahead including the forecast. nba season wrapped up, the teams and players are looking ahead to next year. the deal will make history. look at the action, futures point to a lower open on wall street, we are two hours from "the opening bell," off the lows of the morning heading towards the unchanged line. dow futures up a couple points. in europe markets are mixed in asia overnight, markets are higher and han

loretta lynch says no. she is just accepting the recommendations and that she is not actually weighing in on them herself. she would argue no. at this point, we don't have sight lines into this. by its nature, it's not a transparent process. >> you have to take loretta lynch and the clinton campaign hasn't said anything, at face value if you want to. there were two people in that meeting on a private jet. you may have been referring to the meeting between hillary clinton and the fbi and how that could affect the fbi investigation. >> right. that will definitely have an impact on the investigation. this is the final step in the investigation. once they have interviewed everyone else, then they turn to hillary clinton and interview her. she is probably the final interview they are doing. they clearly are going to be looking for answers to key questions. her answers will help determine the final outcome. >> we have a lot of our viewers ask about the steps in the investigation and why it takes so long. obviousl

breaking news, word from attorney general, loretta lynch.hillary clinton or anyone else. there is a joint clinton bernie sanders possibly for him to endorse her. more on that shortly. we begin with donald trump, fresh from speaking out against hillary clinton, against fdi director james comey. against a system he calls rigged and controversily praising sad yam hus yan and saying he wishes his campaign hadn't taken down a tweet that some saw

and loretta lynch -- listen, i understand. the former president, your former boss is coming up to your plane and says, knock, knock, i want to come in. i understand the human impulse to not turn him away because he is the former president, and you're a former employee of his. having said all of that, she should have. she should have done the right thing and said, i'm sorry, mr. president, as much as i would love to see you, it's inappropriate. my department is investigating certain matters -- sandra: he would have understood. dagen: the timing, the state department two days after this meeting has filed to they court-ordered release of e-mails from a freedom of information act request for 27 months. it's four of hillary clinton's aides related to the clinton foundation, so they won't come out until potentially october of 2018 which would be roughly almost in the middle of her term. >> and that take us us deep into 2018, obviously, if they do that. i don't think they're going to be able to get away with that now, not on the heel

loretta lynch? stuart: what we did not put on the screen is loretta lynch being sworn in.. judge napolitano: will she risk losing her career to practice law. and administration she served loyalty. >> the president appointed loretta lynch with the attorney general in new york, and -- stuart: loretta lynch is talking about shootings in dallas. judge napolitano: i can't blame her, the shootings in dallas and events, that is not why she has been called there. that is what the majority wants to ask her. and they want to ask about bill clinton and jim comey, and the big story of the day is your money. the dow industrials, 18,310, earlier, went to the highest level ever for the dow jones industrials. back in a moment. this just got interesting. why pause to take a pill? or stop to find a bathroom? cialis for daily use is approved to treat both erectile dysfunction and the urinary symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently, day or night. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex do not take cialis if you t

nutrition starts with nut. >>> the fall out intensifies after attorney general loretta lynch's private meeting with bill clinton. lynch has increased pressure to step aside into the investigation of the private e-mail server. lynch addressed the controversy. >> certainly my meeting with him raises questions and concerns and so, believe me, i completely get that question, but it really was a social meeting with president clinton. it doesn't have a meeting on how this matter will be reviewed, revolved and accepted by me. i certainly wouldn't do it again. it has cast a shadow over what it should not, over what it will not touch. >> in another bomb shell development, lynch announced she will defer to the fbi and career prosecutors on whether to press charges against clinton after the e-mail investigation is completed. >> they will make recommendations on how to resolve what those facts lead to. the recommendations will be reviewed by career supervisors and the department of justice and the fbi and by the fbi director and then as is the common process, they present it to me and i fully expe

we heard loretta lynch. we have her statement for you.he said basically this case is now closed or she recommends that it be closed an she agrees with comey's decision. what's the point of what you are doing today? >> the american people need to have answers. we need transparency. listen, lower loretta lynch met with hillary clinton days before this announcement came out. people need to understand why that took place. loretta lynch will be coming before the judiciary committee next tuesday. we will have the opportunity to ask her that question when she comes to our committee. >> we have a lot of republicans saying the rules were changed for hillary clinton if it were any one else they would have been charged with criminal activity. do you agree with that? >> what i want to understand is why has she continued to mislead the public. the american people are going to be the ones that make that decision in november when we have an election. we need to get to the bottom of this. this is exactly why the over sight hearing that is happening today

meanwhile loretta lynch meets with bill clinton despite e-mail investigation and fbi and report to loretta about that meeting and so is donald trump. >> when i first heard that yesterday afternoon, i thought they were joking, i said, no way, there's no way that's going to happen and it happened and i am just -- i'm flabbergasted. i have never seen anything like that before ♪ ♪ finish. stuart: i know it's lynrd skynrd. sweet home alabama. >> wonderful. one of the seven rock songs you know. [laughter] stuart: look at that on the screen, please. we just keep going up. a lot of people thought we'd see selling -- >> eight points within dow 18,000. stuart: seven points. don't forget about gold. the dollar's a bit weaker, that makes it cheaper for foreigners to buy gold, and it's up $20 an ounce at 1340. i want to get back to the gun debate. speaker of the house paul ryan says the house will vote next week on legislation to block suspected terror its from buying guns. sheriff david clark is with us again this morning. sheriff, welcome back. good to see you, sir. >> good to see you, stuart, and an

i think loretta lynch knows what that decision is. and i think she probably told bill clinton what that decision was monday. they're no dummies. this was not an accident, trish. trish: so, now she is in the situation where she is saying i'm going to take whatever the fbi tells me. i am going to not recuse myself. congressman, what does that mean, effectively? if she doesn't recuse herself, it means she can still override it? , right? >> hey, trish, but it is easiest thing for her to say. i think she knows what the decision already is. so she can sit back and say, i'm not going to overrule the decision but trish, listen to what she said. she said, i will leave it up to the career prosecutors and the fbi. there are no career prosecutors in the fbi. the career prosecutors are in her own department. she has been speaking with them for months. she already knows where they are. again, i think this entire thing is big lie. trish: get ellis into this. in her defense, nothing happened, we just talked about family stuff and it was all good. if

in, loretta lynch's culture, who have they been conferring with on a regular basis at the coffee, loretta lynch, how confident can we feel she is not a part of what they are doing? >> a lot of attorneys looking at what's going on with these constantly changing statements are losing confidence in the way she is handling it. they starts out by saying, i expect to accept the findings. then, she changes it to saying, i will accept the recommendation. then, she talks about findings again. now, for lawyers, findings are "a," "b," "c," "d," facts of the case. her stream of consciousness explanation as to her role, leaves me entirely unclear. i am not going to recuse myself, because i won't be briefed. why does she want to be briefed if she is not going to try to influence the process. how do we know what goes on in the room? >> is that fair? you run the department. you want to be briefed. >> no, you don't. >> one of the most high profile decisions. >> you don't. >> you want to learn it from cnn. >>> the whole concept of recusal is you don't want to send a message from your underlings that you ar

loretta lynch is a very honorable lady. i believe she is telling the truth and they didn't talk about this investigation. charles: 48 hours ago, everyone would have agreed with you with respect to her being honorable. the fact that she is staying on this case, though, adds to the lapse of judgment and a chance to fix it. >> it was a bad decision for bill clinton to approach her. this is a person who appointed her. bit of was a bad decision for optics. charles: she admitted she made a mistake. you all want anyone on the left to be prosecuted. you are trying to get some indictment dredged up on hillary clinton. >> this is not optics. let's look at the reality of this situation. the clintons are shroud in a veil of secrecy on everything they do. will we ever know? we'll never know. everything is secretive. >> the benghazi investigation, $7 million, two years of nothing. you all are trying to get something on the lady who will be the next president. >> you are calling benghazi nothing? >> nothing new in two years, gina? >> did

listen, i'm from new york and practiced before the attorney general loretta lynch.peccable. people have to step back for a moment. do they really believe that the former attorney general for the state of arkansas and two-term president of the united states would take a meeting with the current attorney general who he appointed in brooklyn and bribe her to not bring charges? it's outrageous. when it looks like a duck and cracks like a duck, people take the conclusion. and it's out of control right now. meeting should not have taken place but now loretta lynch will have to disassociate herself from this -- >> that's what i was going to ask. it sounds like you're saying this a conflict of interest here, she said she would not recuse her self but you say that wouldn't be enough? >> in law there's these terms, the appearance of impropriety and does it take away from the public trust in the administration of justice and here it does. unfortunately it does and it was a mistake by miz lynch and former president clinton and now they have to separate themselves from this and

free advice to the attorney general loretta lynch.m attorney general, you may think you can dodge this bullet but you can't. and, worse, you are poisoning the 2016 presidential race. reports than it already is. talking about that secret meeting with president bill clinton and a private plane on the tarmac in phoenix. yeah, i know. you have said it was primarily social primarily is not completely. sthoos the least of the problems. even if it were 100 percent social the impact of the prosecution business. and we both know it doesn't have to be actual impropriety. appearance is enough. and you should know, you should have met that standard. did you meet that standard, so do yourself a favor. the justice department needs a favor, too. and the nation needs a favor. recuse yourself from this investigation. if you don't get out of this now, it will get worse. don't believe me? well, try this. just two days after your primarily social meeting with the spouse of someone under fbi investigation your lawyers at doj went to court seeking 27 month

i know loretta lynch. i worked with her. people are mixing apples and oranges. apples, did they do something improper? everybody seems -- david: yes. >> well improper substantively about the ongoing case? no. did it -- david: we don't know that, doug. we don't know. it was in private. that the is whole point. if they met on the tarmac with fbi agents within earshot, it was private. >> i've been doing this 31 years and i'm pretty good at guessing i'm going to guess they didn't discuss the case if she did that i would be shocked beyond times 10. however, the appearance of impropriety to a lawyer is just as important. so i can't be on a train as i have, doug, why don't we walk over to the courthouse. i walk in with the judge and my adversary seeing me walk in the judge, you can't do things that appear to be improper. david: let me talk about what is, what has scared a lot of people in the clinton camp. huma be a din is beginning to talk in ways and give evidence, for example, emails huma had to hillary that hillary did not share with the folks in government. she wa

loretta lynch set to speak at any moment in colorado. she's expected to say she will accept the recommendations of prosecutors and the fbi concerning the investigation of hillary clinton's email used as secretary of state. lynch insists that her meeting with the former president on the tarmac at the phoenix airport was a casual conversation after the former president learned that her claim happen to be part of their monday night as well. she said there was no mention of the investigation into his wife's private email server but critics say it does raise serious questions about her impartiality the one we are joined now by brett baer, anchor of special report every weekend here at fox news channel. when you first heard about this is was described as a chance meeting at an airport, brett. if you dig into the details, there was a whole lot more they're going on. this wasn't just a couple of people at gate c 12 who happened to see each other in the lounge chairs . this was a private jet and mister clinton walking aboard to visit the city atto

, should not have been an obstacle in this particular case. >> reporter: the attorney generals loretta lynch was scheduled to testify next week. lynch's meeting last week with bill clinton, hillary clinton's interview saturday and director comey's public announcement three days later, the same day clinton campaigned with the president. tom? >> great information. thank you, catherine herridge. speculation running rampant over who donald trump will choose to be his running mate? trump reportedly gave senator joni ernst of iowa a primetime speaking slot at the republican convention and trump appearing at the cincinnati campaign rally with newt gingrich. carl cameron is traveling with trump and has our report. >> reporter: donald trump returns to battleground ohio tonight and former house speaker newt gingrich who's being vetted as a potential running mate will share the stage and spotted with trump in new york this afternoon. >> newt is neut. great guy. tough and smart and fantastic guy. >> reporter: trump had bob corker on stage in north carolina, afterwards, corker said he was not interested

he took it off of her shoulders off of the debacle with bill clinton and loretta lynch. lou: he is not going to tell his boss the way things are, she will tell him so who has the power to tell him? only one other person and that's a president. see it that's absolutely right about the way it's difficult to schedule the president or there a lot of logistics with the secret service and setting the area and making sure it's appropriate for security reasons so right then he is flying her on air force one with the presidential seal with her at the podium. if you ever thought the fix was in -- lou: how choreographed is this? leiweke -- week ago today where the lynch and former president clinton meeting on the government aircraft for 39 minutes. how correa graft is this that there would be an interview on a 4th of july weekend and no cameras present for her entrance into the justice department. i mean it goes on and on letting it be known that she will want loretta lynch to stay attorney general. >> by her husband too. how much more of a fix is in. right away you saw trump sent

it's been a rough 48 hours for loretta lynch. e drum report is saying on it banner "lynch in a pinch." she is not making the decision. who is ultimately deciding what would happen. >> it sounds like loretta lynn' is making a critical move which is that of saying again we have to see what she'll say in the news conference. that she would accept the recommendations of the career prosecutors. she want to make sure it won't be a political appointee moving forward in deciding this case but accept the recommendations of the career prosecutors and the f.b.i. director. she is in a tough position. there has been main political fallout because of this meeting between lynn' and the clinton. president clinton is a lie by the for hillary clinton. they want it to seem that they were talking about the family. both republicans and democrats have criticized this meeting, and i think it's very important to note that. abby: regardless of the relationship mall intentions, as you know in politic optic can be everything. even democrats are scratching t

, and how big a political mistake politically for loretta lynch to accept mr.her plane? steve: i think it was a mistake for both of them. i am kind of surprised at the judgment that was exercised in that case. i am sure nothing inappropriate happened, but i am also sure the way it looks to a lot of people who suspect these things, and the conspiracy theorists, is not good. there is just no getting around that. john: mindy, what you think about that? just to give a run of your judgment there. you know, itr: goes into the narrative. people are already distrustful of him, given his background. they tend to be distrustful of her, given what she has been shrouded with over the past few months. it was a really dumb move. even if nothing happened, everyone is going to think something happened. it was just a really dumb move. on a campaign of this, running against the person they're running against at this level, they will have to be smarter than that. john: do you think it will matter a few months are now, or will it be forgotten? mindy fletcher: we don't know if one

he took it off of her shoulders off of the debacle with bill clinton and loretta lynch. lou: he is not going to tell his boss the way things are, she will tell him so who has the power to tell him? only one other person and that's a president. see it that's absolutely right about the way it's difficult to schedule the president or there a lot of logistics with the secret service and setting the area and making sure it's appropriate for security reasons so right then he is flying her on air force one with the presidential seal with her at the podium. if you ever thought the fix was in -- lou: how choreographed is this? leiweke -- week ago today where the lynch and former president clinton meeting on the government aircraft for 39 minutes. how correa graft is this that there would be an interview on a 4th of july weekend and no cameras present for her entrance into the justice department. i mean it goes on and on letting it be known that she will want loretta lynch to stay attorney general. >> by her husband too. how much more of a fix is in. right away you saw trump sent

what more have you learned about what loretta lynch is going to say today? >> she's expected to say that she's going to defer her judgment to the career prosecutors who have been working on it and the prosecutors including the fbi director saying i will accept whatever recommendation they make. and she can't imagine a scenario where she overrules the conclusion they have reached, it's important to note, she's not recusing herself, she will still be the person who receives the findings at the very end, but she's going to say she can't imagine any situation where she would overturn that. this is routinely done in the justice department. they turn over their findings to the attorney general, it's not that common that the attorney general overrules for overturns those findings, but that she's coming out and making this public announcement that this is the way it's going to come down, it's pretty clear the timing of this after the political outcry of her meeting, this impromptu meeting. and raise the concern that there could be political intervention in this case

i was disappointed in loretta lynch's comments, blending too many issues.can we talk about five people killed last night, focus on their lives and their families? we need a president who will focus on police, law enforcement, men and women, black, brown, white, asian officers, all together who are protecting us. harris: okay. >> let's focus on them. by the way, let me tell you what your viewers can do for those families, they can go to atodallas.org, atodallas.org. they have financial hardships they're facing. yes there are organizations and we help police officers. they have to be funded. they are leaving behind families devastated. ato.org. thank you, harris. harris: from the great state of texas. we wrote that down. we'll put that out. we will be right back. stay close. >> thank you. e. your insurance company raises your rates... maybe you should've done more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. liberty mutual insurance. hei don't want one that's hadch a bunch of owners

this is a meeting that, as i understand it, loretta lynch's husband was there with her. they met at the airport. it's true you have a security detail, so if you're going to bump into someone and you find out that your friend is going to be at the airport, it's not like if -- if mark and i are stuck in the airport lobby, we just walk up and hang out and have some chipotle. >> you got to go through layers. but, austin, even david axelrod has come out and said the appearance of this is just -- it's wrong. i mean the average joe sitting at home gets it. like joe smith sitting in iowa right now understands that if his spouse were under investigation, there ain't no prosecutor in the land that's going to sit with joe and glad-hand about grandkids and golf. and it just -- it smacks of elitism and how connected the clintons are and how willing he may be to use his name and position to help her. >> if you look at the albert tow gonzalez situation where he was the attorney general and in the scooter libby case and as well as in those previous cases, he did not recuse himself. he d

what really happened during bill clinton's private meeting with loretta lynch last week? nch said their chat centered on his grandchildren. on tuesday, an interested party, let's call him, provided an eye-opening reenactment of the conversation. the account begins with clinton waiting at the airport and then seeing the attorney general. >> he's waiting around. he is waiting at the airport. oh, oh, look. the ag's come. oh, let me go say hello. 39 minutes. i'm going to talk about the grandkids. he's got two. i hear they're beautiful. i hear they're beautiful. he's got two. now i have eight grandchildren, and i will tell you i can talk about them. and after i say isn't she beautiful? isn't it beautiful? oh, i love the kid. i love you. but after about a minute, i can't go much longer. i want to get to business, right? for you, i want to get to business. but he didn't talk about it. he talked about golf. okay? so he talked about the grandkids. and i would say that would take anywhere from 30 seconds to a minute. seriously. am i right? how long can you talk? miss attorney genera

i believe loretta lynch. i don't think anything inappropriate happened.s a social conversation. i don't believe that bill clinton attempted to influence a judicial investigation. i believe them. the point is it was a bad choice and it continues to add to a narrative that they are undermining justice and don't play by the rules, they continue to color outside the lines. >> bill clinton understands optics, too. and i mean, it was a convenient moment, the planes are parked alongside one another. but his wife is running for office. potential ramifications?bout the >> i think he just didn't think he'd get caught to be quite honest. i don't think anyone thought it was going to be a big deal. i don't think they had like, a criminal mind mens rea here. i don't think they thought it was a bad deal. it was an unforced errors. you don't need unforces errors to reinforce the narrative. >> for hillary clinton, this is potentially damaging for her, right? i mean, she now has to either respond -- it's been pretty quiet. either she responds or she hopes it just goes away

and now does loretta lynch need to recuse herself from the clinton server scandal issue? we'll get to that and more as we continue with donald trump tonight on "hannity." i take prig for my frequent heartburn because you can't beat zero heartburn! ahhh the sweet taste of victory! prilosec otc. one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. >>> live from america's news headquarters, i'm patricia stark. donald trump's campaign has reportedly formally begun vetting possible running mates. according to "the washington post," former house speaker newt gingrich has emerged as the leading candidate followed by new jersey governor chris christie. however, people with knowledge of the process reportedly say there are more than a half dozen others being discussed as possibilities. and given trump's unpredictability, campaign associates caution that the presumptive republican nominee could still shake up his short list. >>> well, u.s. stocks rallying a third day as traders feel less anxious about the united kingdom voting to leave the european union last week. the dow rose 234 poi

the best asset hillary clinton had was loretta lynch. appointed by bill clinton in '99. obviously most sympathetic figure. but by having the meeting that president clinton prompted, it means she is effectively taken herself out of the decision making process. i don't know if the fix is in or not. i don't know if pat is right but it smells to high heaven, the whole process. >> isn't there a chance, a lot of people would say it is happenstance an he just did it. >> look at this thing. bill clinton goes on the plane to meet with attorney general. the server in question is in his house in chappaqua. it involves his foundation, his wife is the main target or subject of this investigation. in a proper physical setting the president should fire her immediately for this. to watch her on friday with jonathon capehart and everyone laughing it up, yuck, yuck, i wouldn't do it again. you shouldn't get a chance to do it again. >> you think she should have been fired now. >> the minute it came out. >> we will ask the political insiders how you might advise trump to really capitalize o

. >>> there is new fallout over an impromptu meeting between bill clinton and loretta lynch. the meeting has prompted calls for an independent prosecutor to handle the e-mail probe. hena daniels is here in new york. >> good morning. while attorney general loretta lynch says the topic of the private e-mail server never came up she is being called to. many are questioning the timing of this chat as the doj is the middle of investigating his wife. >> reporter: at a facebook event in california thursday, attorney general loretta lynch continued to deflect questions had he ever owner private meeting with bill clinton in phoenix. >> i was arriving, he was leaving. he came on to say hoe. we spoke about a number of things. not much more to it than that. >> reporter: the half hour encounter on board lynch's plane came as the fbi nears the end of its investigation into hillary pe-mail server during her time s secretary of state. >> no discussion were held on any cases or anything of that and he didn't raise anything. >> reporter: at least one democrat, senator chris kuns of delaware sa

the idea that bill clinton to loretta lynch gave some sort of marching orders.t's just outside the realm of possibility. >> corey lewandowski, the argument that you hear from donald trump, you didn't just hear it tonight on this subject. you've heard it for months. the system is rigged. you were inside that campaign and why does the campaign think the system is rigged and why does he tie it to so many things. >> it's the same argument bernie sanders made and it's the same argument that the people in the heartland make and people go to washington, d.c. and they're treated differently and get special priviledges and they get cars and the things american people don't get. the system is rigged. you whatio see many times is you see elected officials go into office and come out very wealth. >> is james comey -- >> no one is questioning his integrity. >> he's not questioning his integrity? >> it's not the job of the fbi director to determine that a prosecutor would not prosecute the case. his determination, his job is to present that evidence to a prosecutor to make th

pete, is this a departure from what loretta lynch has previously said? says no, thomas. they say that she's been broadly hinting that this is the step she was going to take just as recently as a couple of weeks ago when she appeared on all the sunday morning programs, including "meet the press." she said she would be guided by i don't think those were exact words, but she said this would go through the career justice department prosecutor. she was responding to the question of whether she would recuse herself and she said she wouldn't discuss

and now does loretta lynch need to recuse herself from the clinton server scandal issue? we'll get to that and more as we continue with donald trump tonight on "hannity." i i take prilosec otc each morning for my frequent heartburn because you can't beat zero heartburn! ahhh the sweet taste of victory! prilosec otc. one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. house democrats claim it was written by the nra. defense secretary ash carter says it will take a year to implement the program. the defense department estimates there are nearly 70,000 people currently on active duty. i'm patricia stark, now back to "hannity." >>> welcome back to "hannity." as we continue with 2016 presumptive republican nominee donald trump. so the benghazi report finally came in this week. to me, there's three separate issues. there's the before, during, and after. now, there were over 600 requests for security before this attack. the red cross, great britain had pulled out of the area because it was unsafe. those requests were all denied. some went directly to hillary clinton. then during th

barely into the red in the last few moments. >>> we begin with politics, and attorney general loretta lynch dealing with the painful political fallout following private meeting with former president bill clinton earlier this week. while lynch said the two did not discuss the e-mail probe of hillary clinton, there are major bipartisan concerns over how she is handling the situation. lynch addressing the situation today at an appearance at the aspen festival in colorado. blake burman joins us with the latest on the developing story. blake? >> reporter: good afternoon to you. this morning loretta lynch consistently tried to pump back credibility not only into her department but investigation trying to ease the mounting criticisms over her private meeting with bill clinton. the attorney general said she would accept the recommendations of career prosecutor in collaboration with the fbi into the investigation of hillary clinton's e-mail practices while at the state department. lynch adding that would have been the case even before the encounter, she argues, in arizona came to light. >> i can cer