ag lynch: -- ms. martin: ms. martin: ag lynch: i want to acknowledge her a wilson, -- ms. martin: i want to acknowledge tara wilson, the first year law student. what legacy do you hope to leave when you leave office? i believe you started to touch on it. ag lynch: thanks for that. i hope to leave a legacy of bringing law enforcement and community members together, to have hard discussions but discussions ultimately that connect them. i hope to leave a legacy of protecting the american people from all sorts of dangers and issues. and i hope to leave a legacy having improved our criminal justice system by carrying on with things that ag holder started, doing things on my watch that have worked to make our system more efficient and more fair. we support the clemency project, for example. working within the parameters of the smart on crime initiative that ag over set agth that lets us take -- holder set forth that lets us take a new look at how we handle narcotics cases that look at the lateral consequences. so we can hold people accountable and not destroy lives and families.

she was a partner, and in 2010, president obama asked ms. lynch to resume her service at the attorney's office. she was sworn in by vice president joe biden on april 27th, 2015. president obama announced his intention to nominate her on november 8th, 2014. in the eloquent words of charles hamilton houston, a lawyer is either a social engineer or parasite on society. a social engineer is a highly skilled percentive, sensitive lawyer who understands the constitution of the united states and knows how to explore its uses in solving the problems of local communities and in bettering conditions of underprivileged citizens. so attorney general lynch, we're grateful for your service to local and global communities, and it is my heartfelt appreciation that we welcome you back to campus here at howard university. so let's welcome the attorney general. >> thank you. thank you so much. thank you, dr. frederick, but also for your remarks and your commitment through this university to this issue of though day, what i think is the issue of the day, community po

are also guidelines related to the appearance and conflicts of interest, which as you point out, ms. lynch witness and subject of an investigation, bill clinton, just a few days before hillary clinton was interviewed by the fbi. none of this would be a controversy if mr. comey and loretta lynch had done an honest, thorough investigation from the get go. the fact that these abedin e-mails are out there, it's not a state secret. she testified about e-mails being on her internet devices or her computers and laptops and such to judicial watch. we knew there was classified information on these systems. why didn't the fbi ask for this material to begin with? why didn't the department of justice conduct a thorough investigation? everything the fbi is being criticized for in terms of failing to follow up, it's also the responsibility of the department of justice to do this basic investigation, and then on top of that you have president obama interfering in the investigation by suggesting hillary clinton did nothing wrong, and your listeners and viewers may not know this, but when we're in court ar