campaign to work. >> lisa, the other thing here, as we put some of the clips in there and the intro sid blumenthhal, this shadowy figure who has been around hillary clinton for so long, the obama administration didn't want him in an official position in the state department saying some really inflammatory things. and his e-mails talk about that relationship between hillary clinton and sid blumenthal. what role does he play in her political life? >> he's played a really longtime role here for hillary clinton. he's been a longtime confident of hillary and the clinton family. he's controversial not only among republicans but some democrats, the obama administration, and even in clinton's orbit who see him a little bit as a conspiracy theori theorist. he was a staunch defender of clinton through claims of a vast right wing conspiracy. the issue now is that while he was contacting clinton and corresponding with her quite a lot, there are hundreds of e-mails from sid blumenthal to clinton in just this tranche that we got last night. he was also being paid by the clinton family foundation. so there are

and his e-mails talk about that relationship between hillary clinton and sid blumenthal. what role does he play in her political life? >> he's played a really longtime role here for hillary clinton. he's been a longtime confident of hillary and the clinton family. he's controversial not only among republicans but some democrats, the obama administration, and even in clinton's orbit who see him a little bit as a conspiracy theorist. he was a staunch defender of clinton through claims of a vast right wing conspiracy. the issue now is that while he was contacting clinton and corresponding with her quite a lot, there are hundreds of e-mails from sid blumenthal to clinton in just this tranche that we got last night. he was also being paid by the clinton family foundation. so there are questions about whether there was a conflict of interest here. was he advising her and taking money from her? it gets complicated and certainly republicans think there's an awful lot to dig into here. the bottom line question is, as we say, there's poll numbers that do not look good for hillary c

>> i think it's sid blumenthal's e-mails.his report that you're citing from the gas up website is not true. i think somebody sold them a bill of goods. but of course that got some of our sources wagging saying, you don't know the half of it. the real story from our point of view is that somebody in the obama administration's intelligence apparatus had the opportunity to obtain the e-mails over the summer and they passed on it. they decided not to green light getting them. and you have to understand how this works. there are political appointees inside the intelligence agencies whose only authority is to say no to things. somebody said no, they didn't want that point in time want to risk casting hillary clinton in a bad light. of course now that she's politically drowning that decision might very well have been different in it presented itself today. >> and the other shoe may fall because now there are reports tonight according to bloomberg that the fbi began a probe into finding out whether foreign intelligence forces come mi

secretary clinton wanted to bring sid blumenthal over.he white house nixed that because they thought there was too much of a conflict of interest because of his former work. the relationship is really brought out in the last batch of e-mails. i'm going to read a couple. in may 2010 sid blumenthal sent an e-mail to secretary clinton after getting an e-mail from him on the establish elections. clinton sent him a reply that said i shared your e-mails with bill, who thought they were b l brillia brilliant. keep them coming when you can. it was clear he was continuing to rely on his analysis, his advice. he was not only involved in foreign affairs. he was also involved in a little bit of a domestic political arena. in november 2012, very tough message from sidney blumenthal to hillary clinton slamming john boehner, the speaker of the house. it was labeled post midterm strategy. had a long list of insights blumenthal said he received from republican sources. boehner is despised by the younger more conservative members of the house. they're repe

political reports that house republicans discover new emails between clinton and long-time advisor sid blumenthal emails the committee didn't receive from the the state department. >> i don't think it's accurate at all to say that the state department has withheld documents. >> what would do know is that she was receiving information which may have instructed and informed her policy decisions from somebody who had a financial interest in libya. >> everything i did was permitted. there was no law. there was no regulation. there was nothing that did not give me the full authority to decide how i was going to communicate. i have never had a subpoena. there is nothing -- again, let's take a deep breath here. >> but she had been issued a subpoena in march. on july 24th, another bombshell. the "wall street journal" reviewing 40 emails and finding that four contained classified information, despite claims that she never sent or received any classified information. that same day, more bad news for the complint -- clinton campaign. independent investigators are asking the justice department to determine i

stuff that nobody else has, nixon's case, it was hillary clinton's case you have something like sid blumenthal she -- >> how bad and damaging -- >> we don't know yet but it's been a bad drip, drip, drip, and i think joe biden is waiting in the wings. >> do you think he enters? >> i have a feeling he will if it gets worse for her. she has the benghazi hearings, another dump of e-mails. the "washington post" and the -- just reported that issue with the state department, and differences of opinion between state and her. so this is the story -- >> are there smoking guns? with nixon you look at the smoking gun. but here -- >> remember, nixon, there wasn't a smoke gun at first. he gave 1,200 hours of here's a bunch of tapes and then they found the missing seconds of the tapes. and so it's not that we -- >> but changed impressions of nixon. we suspected our presidents used foul language. he proved it. >> it utterly destroyed his presidency. hillary clinton has to get ahead of this and if she doesn't or if a felony charge -- all of nixon's men started falling. december ''7 to 2 nixon says i'm on top t

with a state department server some which were classified and on one hand sharing emails with sid blumenthalor latest political theory. >> she said this is interesting. i will pass it along. i will send it to x, y, z, how these were not given to the committee is a very interesting question. you know, does this really affect her? i think the effect so far is political more than legal. it affects trust people have in her. she lost 1/3 of her support -- david: even if proven some of the classifications on emails were changed to make it look like think weren't classified in the beginning. that is a pretty serious charge. >> that is a pretty serious charge. we don't know who did it and what she knew about what was done. david: all right. >> you can never get inside of an investigation when it is ongoing. it is trick -- david: nomiki we see hillary's numbers go down but how much will this new information affect her? >> as democrats continue to mistrust her as iowa numbers dropped 30 points in iowa alone that is astronomical that is unheard of. as the benghazi investigation start this is fall, diff

. >> sid blumenthal pointed out they were about to lose the seat and there was frustration.e was def con 2. appropriately named. it shows me a lack -- incompetence when you have her own team saying we didn't know she had a private server. the fact there are two sets of rules for the clintons, one for that and one for everybody else. she is secretary of state, she knew or should have known that everything that goes to her is classified. it is basic classified training 101. you get it as a senator, congressman, staffer, secretary. >> a badge of honor he made it into hillary's team, congratulations. >> weird to read and e-mail about you that of a row. >> should be proud of him but what we are seeing here is, recant get away. she can't get away from the e-mail, she can't get away from barack obama and particularly couldn't get on vacation this weekend, had cut her vacation short. he was raising money and having a good time but hillary is back on the campaign trail. why is she doing that? when hillary went on vacation, all the positive conversation about the events she was doing