but first, joining us now is "new york times" reporter michael schmidt whose paper obtained and released some of these e-mails before they were released today. let me start with what you see is the headline, this looks like it's going to be the first of a series of rolling releases of clinton e-mails by the state department. what, to you, is the big headline that we've learned from all of this? >> as you pointed out, the benghazi e-mail two days after sid blumenthal is giving his intelligent account to the secretary of state is significant because it contradicts what the white house was saying at the time. the white house was saying it wasn't a preplanned attack and such. at the end of the day, i'm not sure where that's going to go. the fbi question is interesting. she also had what is called sensitive and unclassified information on the account. this included the whereabouts of stephens in 2011 when the security in eastern benghazi and benghazi in eastern libya was deteriorated. she had some other very sensitive stuff of conversations the president was having with foreign leaders. so, i

. >> let's go to michael schmidt and bill neely and on the phone from zurich switzerland, we have "new york times" reporter michael schmid. he helped break this story. he is at the hotel where the arrests occurred. michael, you were sitting in the lobby as these arrests were going down. tell us what you saw. >> reporter: it was much different tan we see in the u.s. where guys storm in with guns and there is bulletproof vests and swat teams. this was about 16 swiss agents. they were in street clothes. they came in fairly quietly. they went directly to the front desk. they started talking to the clerk, finding out what rooms the folks they were looking for were in and then they sort of disappeared into the hotel. then over the next hour we saw them come out from different exits and it was pretty civil. now now. what happened in the hotel the clerks went crazy. they didn't know how to handle it. it wasn't like screaming and that type of arrests. >> michael, it's willie geist. was there any indication or have you heard at all that fifa knew this was coming? >> reporter: we had no indicatio

michael jack schmidt signed the ball as a souvenir. >> impressive. >>> 4:39. a high school principal in georgia is accused of making racially charged comments that sent an audience into chaos. >>> a blessing of the bikes gathering in north jersey turned deadly in newark, i'll have the details. >>> if ever there was a day for shorts and ts this is it, you feel it's warm and muggy and stays on the muggy side this afternoon. we have a high pollen count that was with us over the weekend staying with us through the workweek. we'll be back with the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast there's a change in temperatures you'll like, that's coming up. 443 monday morning and looking for some fog in some areas. >> reporter: maybe by the shore, there was a dense fog advisory in effect, they are thinking about maybe dropping it. there are patchy fog in the counties by the ocean, i would be careful if you run into some of that. overall there's no issue with precipitation, storm tracker 6 live double scan is empty of any rain. as we look outside we're looking at low-lying

. >> well, let's bring in the roundtable, michael schmidt who broke that story for the "new york timestoday, april ryan is the white house correspondent for the american urban radio network and michael steele is the former chair of the republican national committee and msnbc political analyst as well. is there something more to this that you're trying to get across here? what is the dark aspect of hillary clinton's relationship with sid blumenthal? there seems to be a dark aspect. what's wrong with it? >> left everything out there. four things, the foundation, the intel reports, the business on the ground and, you know, this ongoing sort of advisory. >> what does he do for her? >> that's what we really don't know. she seemed to be very receptive to it. the clinton people will play it down saying it was unsolicited. she didn't real want it, but these things came in consistently over a two-year period of time. they were addressed directly to her, and they were very detailed and very long, and this is not just like oh, hey, i heard this at a cocktail party. let me tell you this. this is l

michael schmidt.f people were reading this story this morning and talking about how she was passing along this advice to top people in the state department despite the fact they kept telling her what genuinely bad advice it was. tell us about it. >> well, what with a happen is that she would take blumenthal's memos, she would write him back, say thanks, appreciate it, and would send them to jay sullivan her well regarded foreign policy adviser. he would copy the text and then forward to different people at state. he would forward to chris stevens, ambassador to libya before stevens and he would get their reactions to it and he would say it came from an hrc contract or hcontact or hrc friend. they would say some makes sense, this doesn't make sense this is wrong, this is right. and then those responses would be septembernt to the secretary for her to couple and see if there was any there there. >> the root of this, the other side of it, sidydney blumenthal's relationship was with whom, certain people w

michael schmidt, great reporting and thank you for reporting for us. te>>> xas is deunr, aiagn, re lelentss flooding. more lightning flashed around dallas overnight. parts of texas have seen more than a foot of rain in several days. >> the storms have killed 17 in texas and oklahoma since the weekend. more than a dozen are missing at this hour and deluge since monday and tuesday. >> reporter: i am indeed downtown in an area that's usually high and dry, but as you can see in this stairway here it's covered with water. it's an area that bikers and runners get down to a park so they can exercise. now it's filled with floodwaters and damage all brought by the deadly storm that passed through houston yesterday. across the houston area people are recovering from a devastating flood that paralyzed much of the city. six hours of relentless rainfall flooded streets and highways, causing thousands to abandon their cars and trucks. >> we've had ten days two weeks of steady rain. the grounds were completely salt rated and there's really been no place for the water

let's bring in michael schmidt. w york times," who is also working the story and our cnn legal analyst jeffrey toobin. michael, what else are your sources telling you about this case? >> basically the way that this really started was the bank was the one that detected the money coming out. there are these threshholds thaw can't basically take money off on. so that sort of the genesis of it. but the interesting thing here is that -- go ahead, michael. >> is that the, the fbi can't do here is make an extortion case because the victim mr. hastert, is the one who said that he kept the money himself. so they can't turn around and make a case against this man. because the their chief witness is telling them it was just cash that he he held on to. >> and the individual individual a, the person receiving the money in cash from hastert, michael, this individual keeps the money is that what you're hearing? >> yeah. well the individual was taking the money. it was coming in different payments sometimes $50,000. sometimes far le

schmidt offered to sign the ball along with matt stairs. it will be an unforgettable mother's day for that family. >>> great performance in the bronx today. michaelineda dominated the orioles. the that's pretty impressive. seven innings six hits run one, struck out 16 batters. did he not walk anyone. yankees win six to two. >>> final day of the eagles rookie camp as the team prepares awful its first year players for pro football. all the players excited but local product rasheed bailey hit the shot to make the team after a record setting career at delaware valley university. >> a new feeling. it's better than i thought it was. it's everything i, you know, everything i dreamed of. to be here in this situation to be here under chip kelly and theest feeling in the world and going from eagles fan growing up to now being a part of the eagles is just like wow it's a great feeling and i'm proud to call myself an eagle. >> coming up tonight in the buick sports zone sports radio 94 wip's brian hadad will join us. we'll cover shady mccoy's comments he made about chip kelly, chase utley's struggles and account flyers land mike babcock? that's coming up toni

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