and sari horwitz is an investigative reporter at the "washington post." sari, we have watchedded shoes dropping on this all weekend. what new have we learned today? >> hi, gwen. we're now learning a little bit more about how this investigation started and more of what the f.b.i. found. i mean there have been a lot of questions of why does the f.b.i. do an investigation into harassing emails? i mean lots of people get harassing emails. i get harassing emails but what we found today was that this woman jo kelly who was a friend of the petraeus family, and she lived in tampa, she actually knew an f.b.i. agent and mentioned to him that in june she mentioned to him that she had been receiving these very sort of troubling, strange, bizarre accusatory emails. and gave them to him. he started the investigation. that's how it began in june. and... >> ifill: as we watch this time line unfold, sari, we can't help but ask who knew what when? for instance, we gather that the justice department, the f.b.i. knew about this some time ago. but that the white house didn't

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let me go back to sari as you report the story. why was the fbi agent who found out about this, was brought into the case, why was he taken off the case? what was that about? >> let me explain something on the general allen piece of this just before you go on is that at this point the fbi and the justice department are not investigating allen at all. there's been no sort of idea that he's -- there's criminal charges. the fbi agent was never on the case. he brought the information to the fbi, but he was never part of the original investigation because he was a friend of miss kelley's. >> so what is all this thing about him being frustrated because he wasn't on the case? what was that about? >> he was frustrated because he learned about the information that was being gathered. he brought the original case, he was frustrated that the information about petraeus and broadwell had not come out yet, and he thought that the justice department and the fbi were dragging their feet, so he -- that's why he went to the hill. >> okay. let me get

a lot to keep up with, sari horowitz, thanks again from the "washington post." thanks so much. >> sure, thank you. >> ifill: house and senate leaders are complaining that congress and the white house were kept out of the loop on these high-profile investigations. we wondered, how does that work? for that, we turn to jane harman, the former ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee, now c.e.o. of the woodrow wilson center. and matthew miller, who served as director of public affairs for attorney general eric holder at the department of justice until last year. matthew miller, is there anything unusual in that story that sari just laid out for us about how this case and how this investigation unfolded? is is there anything about how that played out that strikes you as unusual. >> i think everything about this case is unusual. tre not a lot of precent to look at with a case like this. it really does seem to be an unprecedented case. but you look at the principles that the department follows when they conduct these types of investigations. one of the prin

about that it's always been about creating a centralised political state united states of europe in a sari in reality if not in nine that's where it's gone wrong because that isn't what people want so you just want to be people once r.t. conducted its own mini referendum asking the british people if they were given the vote today whether they'd in all out i'd like britain to be part of europe it's good trade is good for business and if we're outside of it then we're going to resell it's just a lot easier when everything is in the you know passports needed. england's doing great on its own outside of the e.u. i don't think we should be in the e.u. because that way we'd be free to make up our own laws and follow them ourselves the process and minuses there's no absolute answer to that i feel artie's results were inconclusive it seems whether you're the prime minister you're a skeptic a member of the public or just a reporter trying to judge the outcome of a possible future referendum is next to impossible right now the recent newspaper poll found more than half of those asked would vote to l

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host: sari. we are short on time. what do you think of those issues?uest: it's important to keep in mind, as i mentioned, there are many people who have reservations about the mormon faith. evangelicals, more so than others, expressed reservations. they say it is very different than their own faith and they expressed doubt as to whether or not it's a christian religion. in polling we conducted about one year ago now, the results suggested that romney's face had the potential to be an issue in the gop primary campaign. i think you saw that play out. many evangelicals, social conservatives, preferred other candidates to romney. perhaps because of his conservatism but perhaps concerns about as a mormon faith boswell. the polling data, even at that time one year ago suggested that, while the could be an issue in the primary campaign, it was not likely to be an issue in the general election. that's because people who have had the greatest concerns about more monism, evangelicals, they also tended to be the strongest opponents of barack obama. when faced bet