>> former secretary of state and presidential candidate hillary clinton was the speaker at the graduation ceremony at wellesley college, her own alma mater 48 years ago. this is just over 30 minutes. [applause] ms. clinton: thank you. thank you so much. [cheers and applause] ms. clinton: thank you. thank you very much for that warm welcome. i am so grateful to be here back at wellesley, especially for president johnson's very first commencement. and to thank her, the trustees, families and friends, faculty, staff, and guests for understanding and perpetuating the importance of this college. what it stands for, what it has meant, and what it will do in the years ahead. and most importantly, it's wonderful to be here with another green class to say congratulations to the class of 2017. [cheers and applause] ms. clinton: i have some of my dear friends here from my class, a green class of 1969. and i assume, or at least you can tell me later, unlike us, you actually have a class cheer. [laughter] ms. clinton: 1-9-6-9 wellesley, yet another year with no class cheer. [laughter] ms. c

clinton received an honorary doctorate from hobart and william smith colleges in upstate new york, and delivered the commencement address to graduates. this is half an hour. >> i now present william jefferson clinton as a candidate for the degree of dr. of human doctor of degree of human letters. [applause] >> william jefferson clinton, 42nd president of the united states, born in the aptly named city of hope, arkansas, to a recently widowed mother and raised by a caring grandfather with a high school education. inspired to public service as a teenager by president john f. kennedy, and taught by his own college professor that america was the greatest nation in history because our people believed in two things -- that tomorrow could be better than today, and that everyone has a personal responsibility to work to that end. for your public service as arkansas's attorney general, presidentand the 42nd of united states, for your continued philanthropic work across the globe with the clinton foundation, hobart and william smith colleges honors your public service and achievements. and w

: now, hillary clinton is saying she is joining the resistance. >> the election were on october 27, i'd be your president, it was want, it was on october 28 there was a lot of funny business. i am now back to be an activist citizen and part of the resistance. liz: welcome to "risk & reward." the day after hillary clinton lost, she said we must let president trump lead. >> we must accept that result, then look to the future. donald trump is going to be our president. we owe him an open mind and the chance to lead. liz: now this, violent riots nation wide. rioters disrupting peaceful trump rallies, saying faishism -- fascism is on the rise, there is no evidence of that in washington d.c., still no democrats are denouncing the violence, that includes the former democratic contendor, some victims of the riots spoke out on this show. >> i suspect someone with razor blades taped in their fingers may have brushed us. and if it hit skin we would have known. >> they pushed us, they said horrible vulgar things to us, things i would never think to say to anybody, in tha in that s or at all. >

clinton investigation last year. was there a time last year that you ever called for comey's firing? guest: i, like many people, thought that he mishandled the intervention into the hillary emails 11 days before the election. that was inappropriate, but it never occurred to me that sitting president barack obama would fire him over that. donald trump seem to be very pleased with the way the investigation turned out. many people believe that come these intervention and effect -- comey's intervention in effect handed the presidency to mr. trump. host: do you think there is a lack of confidence in the fbi that that trust have been broken? guest: not really. [laughter] i think it was a political football depending on which side you are on. people who were critical of mr. comey for the handling of the hillary clinton emails saw him serving of the russia investigation. you can flip that reaction to like the party, who way he handled the clinton emails and that are critical of the russia investigation. i people do look at it through partisan eyes. if you watch mr. comey, you can see that he was s

deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who cited comey's handling of the hillary clinton earn mail probe. that certainly was not the focus of the letter president trump penned to comey firing him. which was more about trump than it was about comey. >> that abrupt letter never made to it comey before he learned of his own termination from tv monitors at the fbi office in l.a. that's where he learned about his own firing. our coverage begins this morning with jessica schneider here in new york. let's start with the trump letter on james comey. let's read it. while i greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions that i am not under investigation, i nerve the less encourage the judgment of thedom doj that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau. the president himself mentions the russian investigation. >> that's the interesting thing. he disconnect in the explanations in these three separate letters. we have that memo from rod rosenstein. two and a half page letter. it really goes into the details of how fbi director comey in the justice department's view mish

start at the fbi in the wake of james comey's handling of the clinton investigation last year. was they were time last year that you recall before his firing? guest: i like many people thought he mishandled the intervention into the hillary emails 11 days before the election. that was an appropriate, but it never occurred to me that a sitting president, barack obama, would fire him over that. and donald trump seems to be very pleased with the way the investigation turned out. many people believed comey's intervention and the presidency the mr. trump. host: did you get a sense there is a lack of confidence in this country in the fbi? that the trusted and broken? host: not guest: not really. i think of it as political football. i think people who are critical of mr. comey handling of the hillary clinton emails that saw him as asserting appropriate independence in the handling of the russian investigation. you can flip that reaction to likinger party who were the way he handled clinton's denounce nelson and critical the russian investigations. if you look at mr. comey, he was struggli

with facts, hillary clinton and the private email servers she uses purposely to circumvent what is known as congressional oversight. here are the facts, plain and simple. her server contained top-secret special access proother words, l of classified information on her computer. she deleted over 30,000 emails on my computer, claiming they were personal. they were about yoga, weddings, grandchildren and emailing bill clinton who never had an email account. this was a lie from the get-go. what's so despicable about this is it back in july when comey made a big announcement about hillary clinton and the investigation, he acknowledged all of these facts which by the way -- it's an acknowledgment that crimes are committed. take a look. >> in a group of 30,000 emails returned to the state department in 2014, 110 emails and 52 email chains had been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. eight of those chains contained information that was top-secret at the time they were sent. 36 of those chains contained secret information

prize and the creation of ann bolin and buy destruction of hillary clinton "out now. joining her in conversation is katha pollitt, has won many prizes, including the national book critic circle award for her collection of poetry and last point of procedure, after the talk, if you could give us just a couple of minutes to set up. we'll have the authors on the other side of the register where we have copies book. after the talk, everybody wants to congratulate so give us a couple minutes to get sit up. without any further adieu, turn it over to susan and katha. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you for having us. i thought i'd start by saying a couple of words about what the book and is what it isn't and then do a very brief reading, which actually was inspired by something that i heard as we drove to washington yesterday. the book -- first of all is not an insider look at the campaign, which as most of you know, there has been recent lay book published that is such an insider look. i don't know the clintons. i don't in the people that worked in their campaign. have no insider knowled

the results of the investigation into hillary clinton's emails last july. the president's opponents were quick to make the firing about him and not the fbi director. there were handshakes from his police escort on the tarmac in los angeles as james comey boarded the fbi jet for the final time. while it was the president who fired comey, white house or the state was the newly minted deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who had lost confidence in comey. sources say rosenstein, confirmed 14 days ago, assessed the situation and determined that comey should be replaced. democrats who had recently praised's integrity, could not question the man, only the timing. >> the first question the administration has to answer is why now. if the administration had objections to the way director comey handled the clinton investigation, they have those objections the minute the president got into office. but they didn't fire him then. why did it happen today? >> exactly when comey's tenure became a problem is unclear. in this march speech to boston college, comey seemed to think he was safe. >> you

hillary clinton, the investigation into her private email server. they are saying his decision to publicly announced so much detail about that probe in july, the bombshell letter in our over to congress announcing desk in october to congress announcing they had fall -- found more letters, they say this is the reason comey had to hit the road. you are seeing democrats with questions about the timing, why now? these actions were last year, so for democrats it is begging the question, is this related to the investigation into any coordination in between trump campaign officials and russia? host: what do we know about the status of that fbi investigation? when we are expected to hear an update? guest: very little. director comey testified in front of the senate judiciary committee and was asked about that and said, we will stick to our normal practice and will not provide detail on what is going on with an active investigation. reporting in the last 24 hours from cnn is that they have issued grand jury subpoenas to michael flynn. at this point, we do not know how far along investigato

. campaign,he clinton just so and i recall it happened that he was in the campaign and the 28th of october. that happened to be my birthday. i thought we have all the , and thought we might take back the senate, but after that, he came out and interdict left.h 11 days i have to tell you, i think it is obvious that there is collusion going on with the trump campaign. with all these people that have these russian connections, it is no coincidence. all these hypocritical republicans -- >> scott, let me jump in and ask you what you think is next? >> i think trouble and so one of his stooges that will do his best to cover it up. i think schumer is 100% correct. the only way forward now is an independent prosecutor. you have to take us out of politics. you can't have the fox guarding the hen house. it is ridiculous. >> thank you scott. we will look at a tweet this thingg from james clapper i have immense respect for jim coming, and this is a tremendous loss for the fbi and the nation. democrats, susan for in wyoming pennsylvania. welcome to c-span, you are on the air. >> i believe he should have

hillary clinton email investigation, and it is the latest chapter in what has been an extremely rocky tenure for the nation's top law-enforcement official. the news breaking 15 minutes ago, coming from the white house for that's where we had. she white house correspondent john roberts starts us off tonight. this is obviously earth shattering. >> to say no one saw it coming would be an understatement. clearly the attorney general and deputy attorney general and the president knew about it. fbi director learned about it a short time ago, and bret, this goes back to last year which is really the most surprising part of it. writing a memorandum for the attorney general, the deputy attorney general rob rosenstein said as you and i have discusse discussed, talking about jeff sessions, "i cannot defend the director james comey's handling of the conclusion of the investigation of secretary clinton's emails, and i do not understand his refusal to accept the nearly universal judgment that he was mistaken in what he did. almost everyone agrees the director made serious mistakes." to the substanc

came into the job. he looked at comey's behavior relating to the clinton e-mail investigation last year. he found it wrong, he found it deeply troubling and he recommended that since comey has refused to admit his errors he should be fired. he recommended that to jeff sessions and passed it on to president trump. end of story according to the white house. here are the problems according to those who are skeptical of this decision and this president. president trump shares exactly zero of rosenstein's concerns about how unfair comey was to hillary clinton. the only problem that president trump has ever had about comey's behavior relating to hillary clinton was that he did not charge her with a crime and president trump clearly loved it when comey essentially reopened the clinton case late in the campaign. it's as if we're expected to have all been blinded by that flashy memory eraser thing from men in black. we wouldn't remember all the things that trump expressed concern that comey didn't charge hillary and then praised him for raising questions last october and after wards. >> i respec

went public to announce the investigation of hillary clinton's e-mails was ending. you remember james comey held an infamous news conference last summer. turns out, he was worried about the russians impacting the integrity of the investigation. dana bash has the new breaking news here. what exactly have you learned? >> cnn has learned, brooke, that then fbi director james comey knew a critical piece of russian information related to the hillary clinton e-mail investigation was fake but felt he needed to take action anyway because he was concerned that if the information became public, it would undermine the investigation and the justice department itself. now, this is according to multiple sources, talking to my colleagues, simone and gloria and myself. now, these concerns were a major factor in comey deciding to publicly declare that the clinton probe was over last summer without consulting then attorney general loretta lynch. now, you may remember that earlier this week "the washington post" reported on this intelligence and the doubts about its credibility. the fact that comey felt

and part of the resistance. >> hillary clinton with her fullest explanation yet of who and what she blames for her stunning defeat in last november's election. >>> also on the agenda, here we go again. >> the purpose of our bill is to get more choices, to lower prices while preserving the protection for pre-existing conditions. >> the second time around a republican health care replacement bill making its way through the house and the second time around again it could be on the brink of failure. what could it take to get this replacement bill through? is it as good as dead if it makes it to the senate? and also how about this, calling for a shutdown. >> that's what's necessaryo do to fix washington d.c., that would be a good shutdown. >> president trump saying that, quote, a good shutdown may be just what washington needs to get its act together. republican leaders have some things to say about that. we will get into that. we will get into much more, but we begin this hour with our top story. hillary clinton back in the spotlight again. the fullest explanation she has offered the pu

handling of the hillary clinton e-mail probe was not the focus of the letter trump penned to comey firing him which was more about trump than comey and talked about the russian investigation not the hillary clinton e-mail scandal. >> that abrupt letter never even made to it comey before he learned of his own termination from tv monitors at the fbi office in los angeles. our coverage begins this morning with jeff zeleny at the white house. >> reporter: the white house will be waking up today to the bomb shell that president trump delivered by firing fbi director james comey late tuesday night. it is something that the white house under estimated the fallout of. the top officials worked throughout the night to reshape the narrative that got away from them in the firing of the fbi director. now the letter, the very brief letter that the president sent to the fbi director thanked director comey for his service but also had some very unusual language. let's take a look at that. it said this. while i greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions that i'm not under inves

hillary clinton's emails last july. the president's opponents were quick to make the firing about him and not the fbi director. there were handshakes from his police escort on the tarmac in los angeles as james comey boarded the fbi jet for the final time. while it was the president who fired comey, white house or the state was the newly minted deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who had lost confidence in comey. sources say rosenstein, confirmed 14 days ago, assessed the situation and determined that comey should be replaced. democrats who had recently praised's integrity, could not question the man, only the timing. >> the first question the administration has to answer is why now. if the administration had objections to the way director comey handled the clinton investigation, they have those objections the minute the president got into office. but they didn't fire him then. why did it happen today? >> exactly when comey's tenure became a problem is unclear. in this march speech to boston college, comey seemed to think he was safe. >> you are stuck with me for about another six

about michael flynn's talks with the russian ambassador. >>> hillary clinton said she would have won the election if it were held october 27th. she's calling out james comey letter that he had says cost her everything and now president trump has something to say about it. >>> and president trump summons key house members to the white house to talk health care. can he get this repeal and replace bill through the house? folks, it's a razor thin margin. this will go down the wire again. welcome to "early start". >>> it is wednesday, may 3rd, 4:00 a.m. in the east. nice to see you all this morning. let's begin here. president trump and his administration are facing a major public rebuke from an official fired from president trump himself. former acting attorney general sally yates is prepared to testify that she warned the white house michael flynn was lying about talking to the russian ambassador. a warning that came three weeks before flynn was fired as national security adviser. yates is expected to tell the judiciary committee she expressed grave concerns that flynn could be compromi

clinton, and one for the rest of us. take a look at the side of your screen. these are all the laws that hillary clinton broke with her private email server scandal. along with a clinton foundation, another big issue, clinton's server had top-secret information, special access program information. she deleted -- you can't delete 30,000 plus emails. she claimed they were personal about yoga, weddings, funerals, grandchildren and emailing with her husband -- who doesn't email. even james comey described her conduct in that closing argument when we thought he was going to indict her, at "extremely careless -- that's gross negligence, can anyone tell me what the difference is? up to five foreign actors had hacked into hungry server. he did nothing. by the way, that likely put operatives in the field and their lives in danger. he of the foundation. the pay to play scheme. the clintons were literally lining their pockets with millions and millions of dollars while hillary was serving as secretary of state. you might remember, she signed off herself and giving the russians 20% of america's uran

dossier, you, chairman comey, publicly released his findings that secretary clinton was extremely careless in the handling of highly classified information and this recommendation has no -- and his recommendation that no one be prosecuted. according to a recent "new york times" article, he did it partly because he knew the russians had a hacked e-mail from a democrat operative that might be released before the election. that e-mail reportedly provided assurances that attorney general lynch would protect secretary clinton and make sure the fbi, quote/unquote, didn't go too far. despite attorney general lyn kprrks h's prior connections to the clintons and now famous private conversation with former president clinton during the investigation, she failed to recuse herself from that. the director's announcement effectively gave her cover to have it both ways. she would appear publicly uninvolved but remain and control the ultimate outcome. moreover, in its haste to end a tough politically charged investigation, the fbi failed to follow up on credible evidence of the intent to hide fede

influenced the pivotal move in the hillary clinton e-mail probe. this hour, fbi scrutiny as feds look at jared kushner in the russia investigation. some democrats say the president's son-in-law should be stripped of security clearance. i will talk to a congressman who has been warning about cushman's role for weeks. dangerous maneuvers, armed chinese fighter jet taking action near a u.s. military plane. we are following new tensions tonight in a simmering dispute with beijing. and trolling trump. hillary clinton seized on the scandal, around the president using a commencement speech to suggest mr. trump may suffer the same down fall as richard nixon. stand by to hear her toughest attacks. on the president since the election. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. >> we're will following breaking news in the russia investigation. tonight democratic national committee calling for jared kushner's security clearance to be revoked. jared kushner is under fbi scrutiny. cnn learning the election meddling is touch

legal case against hillary clinton and then inexcusably, after 30 minutes of a stinging indictment, he let her off the hook. and comey completely ignored all the laws that hillary clinton broke which you can see on the side of your scream. nobody in the destroy-trump-media is telling you this tonight. if you or i, anyone in this audience, did anything close to what hillary clinton did -- you would be put in jail. you would be perp walked, fingerprinted, mug shot it and put in jail. james comey proved himself to be in the end, nothing more sadly than a political hack. he didn't deliver equal justice under the law. this is because comey thought hillary clinton was going to win and become the president? i i don't know, i won't specula. comey was only three years into his tenured term. let's talk about the clinton foundation and the alleged pay

shatter, inside the hillry clinton doomed campaign. >> we both believed on election night that she would win as much as she did and much of the country did. in the reporting and the writing of this, we had been reporting it for back since the end of 2014, even before she got in, the key for us was that we tried to report it and write it as though we didn't have any prediction of what was going to go on. and so as a result of that, we didn't have to go back and tear anything up. >> we conclude this evening with the architect renzo piano and author victoria newhouse, her book is called chai os and. >> it occurred to me that when institutions make the decision to build, they often did it without really knowing what they're getting into. and so i wrote this book primarily to raise awareness of what is involved when you take on this kind of project. >> rose: the comey testimony, the clinton campaign and a new cultural center innateens when we continue. >> funding for charlie rose is provided by the following. >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwid

. adding fuel to what was already expected to be a fiery hearing new comments from hillary clinton blaming comey in part for her election defeat. that's not all she said. interesting. welcome to wednesday here on "america's newsroom." >> shannon: i'm shannon bream, president trump firing back at clinton saying the f.b.i. is the best thing that ever happened to her. clinton reflected on the election yesterday. did take some of the blame herself but also pointed the finger at comey and russia. listen. >> i was on the way to winning until a combination of jim comey's letter on october 28th and russian wikileaks raised doubts in the minds of pegoing but got scared off. >> shannon: john roberts joins us live from the north lawn. hello, john. >> bill: good morning to you. another busy day at the white house. 103 days into donald trump's presidency yesterday hillary clinton relitigating the results of the november 8th election. taking a lot of the responsibility. in fact, saying she was responsible for the loss because she was a candidate in one breath and then on the other handles blaming the lo

clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive highly classified information. our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. >> martha: no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. those are words that have come back to haunt james comey. reaction is pouring in. we'll get to a lot of it over the course of this hour but first let's go to chief white house correspondent john roberts was standing by with the very latest details on this huge breaking news out of the white house today. good evening, john. >> to say that this was a bolt out of the blue is an understatement. but something that had even the head of the fbi. who blindsided him. i don't think he was expecting any of this to happen, certainly the rank-and-file of the fbi not expecting this to happen. i was told that all of this happened very recently as well. when you look at this, and this doesn't have anything to do with anything recent except maybe the tes

very different circumstance. it was president bill clinton at the time. the fbi director who was fired was william sessions. there were in effect abuse of office concerns that had been documented against him by the department of justice. things like using a department of justice aircraft to fly to see his family. things le using department resources to build a fence around his house that didn't seem to have any security purpose. and maybe was just because he wanted a fence at this house. those kind of concerns that led to sessions leaving. william sessions being fired by president clinton in the '90s. that's the only precedent we've got for an fbi director being fired. we're left as we watch these remarkable scenes and we wonder what's going to happen next here with james comey. we're left to find other context, other analogies that make this make sense. in 1972, there was a tape made in the oval office. june 23rd, 1972. in that tape, the then president of the united states, richard nixon, and his chief of staff, h.r. halderman, they talked about how they would cover up what they knew

election campaign. —— comey. with the hillary clinton in a campaign. hillary clinton in a campaign. hillary clinton suggested the release of certain documents and the handling of the fbi of the hacking of those e—mails relating to the democratic party last year was a contributing factor to her defeat, in her eyes. comey also giving testimony to a house committee looking to alleged links between the donald trump campaign during the fight for the white house and russia and certain diplomats. president trump's first national security adviser michael flynn had to resign for not being truthful about his contact with the russian officials primarily, the russian officials primarily, the russian ambassador to the us, this after he was confirmed as the national security adviser so lots to talk about concerning this decision might president trump to fire james comey, the head of the fbi. this is supposed to be a non—partisan position and they usually serve around ten years in office. he was appointed by president obama but he did have several years to run off his term as head of the fbi.

election. hillary clinton and donald trump are facing off one more time. as another key player, the director of the fbi, is now returning to center stage on capitol hill. president trump firing back at hillary clinton after her scathing indictment of the 2016 race. insisting fbi director james comey influenced voters. >> i was on the way to winning until the combination of james comey's letter on october 28th and russian wikileaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inn declined to vote for me. if the election were on october 27th, i would be your president. >> reporter: the president responding in late night tweets. fbi director comey was the best thing that ever happened to hillary clinton in he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds. the phony trump russia story was an excuse used by the democrats. perhaps trump just ran a great campaign. this response coming hours after clinton took a jab at the president's sore spots. >> i did win more than 3 million votes than my opponent. >> i feel a tweet coming. >> fine. better than that interfering in foreign affairs. if he want

comments he made this last year during the hillary clinton email investigation. >> they do not know what i'm about to say. although there is evidence of potential violations with the statutes regarding classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor was bring such a case. >> kimberly, this is big breaking news today. really unexpected. really unexpected for james comey who was apparently doing an fbi recruitment event and didn't know about it until he saw on the screens in the back of the room that he had been fired. >> can you imagine? and this happened in los angele los angeles. following the motorcade that they believed to be former director of the fbi comey, that is a picture of the plane taking off. >> the live action shot of a plain, america. >> you only get that here. >> that is not stock photography. it's a real plane. >> obviously he didn't make his speech but the clip that you displayed, dana, that is the crux of this. a career prosecutor, you don't make that judgment if you are the investigator and tell the prosecutor what to do. he should have allow

. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] while hillary clinton blamed herself, she also blamed and james comey. we want your thoughts. -- it was an event for women and women international in new york city. here are part of clinton passes comments for yesterday. clinton: there was a lot of fun business going on around that. ask yourself this. within an hour or two of the hollywood access tape, being russian thefthe of john podesta emails hit wikileaks p or what a coincidence paid you cannot make this stuff up. did we make mistakes? of course. did i make mistakes, oh my gosh, and my confession request for absolution. we lostreason i believe where the intervening events in the last 10 days. host: that is her assessment and we are getting your thoughts. tennessee, independent line. mrs.do you think about clinton passes assessment? clinton's assessment? caller: doing since the very beginning. against all ofg it, he said he would win because all of the uneducated would vote for him. hillary is obviously the smarter one on how to run a country because s

back under the microscope this morning. hillary clinton and president trump both with fresh comments on the issue. >>> also on the hill, lawmakers wrapping up key items before a two-week break pap vote expected on the bipartisan budget deal but a vote still up in the air, health care. republicans continuing to jump ship because of the fierce emotional reaction to the bill's impact on protections for preexisting conditions. but president trump is still pushing for action. summoning skeptical republicans to the white house. we're going that talk about all of this. malcolm nance is was and on the set with me today, a power powerful, a former fbi assistant director, reporteder for the guardian and national political correspondent for the washington post. let's great to it. this is a routinely scheduled hearing but at an anything but routine time. what are we expecting here? >> reporter: you're absolutely right. the first testimony from fbi director james comey since the march hearing when he did divulge very carefully without giving statement beyond the simple statement that the fbi was

to fire the fbi director, does he not? >> he certainly does. bill clinton fired sessions early in clinton's term. there is no question the president has the legal authority to do what he has done. but that is not by any means the end of the inquiry. this is a political act when the president is under investigation, when his white house counsel was described yesterday as being told that his national security adviser was subject to blackmail by the russians. and they fired the attorney general a few days later. now they fired the fbi director. i mean, what kind of country is this? >> strong words from jeffrey toobin. i'm going to get back to you but i want to go to jim sciutto right now. actually, let's go to jeff zeleny first. senior white house correspondent. more reaction from inside the white house. then we will check in with jim sciutto. >> i've had time to reach documents here. via letters from the attorney general and deputy attorney general sort of laying out the recommendation to indeed fire the fbi director. wolf, so interesting here. this is not about anything that happen

that people have for themselves and their kids going forward. >> hillary clinton, thank you very much indeed. [ applause ] >>> there you have it. hillary clinton, the former presidential democratic nominee opening up about losing the presidential election. she says she's in the painful process, her words, of writing a book about it right now. let's bring back our panel. dana, she was very blunt in blaming james comey, the fbi director, blaming wikileaks and putin and the russians for her loss. >> that was an incredible interview for so many reasons. i think the most telling line was her saying i can't be anything other than what i am. and for hillary clinton so she took responsibility for what happened. she had a remarkable moment where she said that she definitely has regrets. she definitely takes responsibility in some ways that she is also spending time looking for absolution. for the most part, beyond that, there was a big focus on james comey and his interference. >> at the end of october. >> at the end of october. that if the election were held on october 27th, the day befo

dismissed aboutpo comments he made this last year during the hillary clinton email investigation. >> they do not know what i'm about to say. although there is evidence of potential violations with the statutes regarding classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. >> kimberly, this is big breaking news today. really unexpected.d. really unexpected for james comey who was apparently doing an fbi recruitment event and didn't know about it until he saw on the screens in the back of the room that he had been fired. >> can you imagine? and this happened in los angeles. following the motorcade that they believed to be former director of the fbi director comey. now we are looking at a plane coming back to washington. >> that is a picture of the plane taking off. >> the live action shot of a plane, america. >> you only get that here. >> that is not stock photography. it's a real plane.e. >> obviously he didn't make his speech but the clip that you displayed, dana, that is the crux of this. a career prosecutor, you don't make that judgment

the president responding on twitter last night after hillary clinton talked about who she believes is to blame for her defeat, and that includes fbi director james comey. >> in two hours, mr. comey himself will be grilled about senators in his actions in the final days of the campaign and russia's meddling in the election vmt all this as the president pushes for a vote on repealing obamacare, whether it happened, whether they have the votes still very much in doubt. we have got it all covered for you. let's begin with joe johns live after the white house. joe. >> reporter: chris, here we go again after six months and that election battle, hillary clinton and president trump are back at it as the fbi director once again on the hot seat on capitol hill. president trump firing back at hillary clinton after her scathing indictment of the 2016 race, insisting that fbi director james comey influenced voters. >> i was on the way to winning until a combination of jim comey's letter on october 28th and russian wikileaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me b

publicly defend his letter on hillary clinton's e-mails that she just said was one of the key factors in costing her the election, and we do understand that he wants to get some stuff off his chest on this subject. we have a lot to cover. let's begin at this hearing outside this hearing with cnn's manu raju on capitol hill. manu? >> reporter: that's right. i just caught him walking in on the door behind me. we do expect him to face new questions about the russia investigation that he announced at a different hearing back in march in which he said there is this ongoing fbi inquiry into these alleged coordinations between the trump associates and russian officials during the time of the election. the question is will he be able to advance the narrative beyond what we already know that the investigation is ongoing. he declined on a number of fronts and last hearing to give any specificity about the investigation. what will he do differently today? democrats do intend to press him on mr. comey's decision last fall, days before the election, to announce an additional investigation

excuse. it is adding color to the story and there is a connection between anthony weiner and clinton. it seems logical it was through his wife, the reasons comey gave were to facilitate the emails turning up on paper that could be given to clinton. it made people throw up their hands. forhis a valid excuse dealing with classified information that should be regulated and only visible to people who have the clearance to to be doing it? saidie: dianne feinstein secretary clinton was treated differently than donald trump. mike, did that have a residence -- resonance there? mike: the issue on trump is in july after the fbi closes the email investigation, comey opens another investigation into the trump associates and of their links to the russians. the questions the democrats, why did comey not disclose that investigation before the election? he did disclose it in march. to theid voters went booth thinking hillary clinton was under investigation, when donald trump's folks were actually under investigation. say is that would at that point did they did not know a lot and it was unclear where it

resistance. hillary clinton says she was winning until voters were scared off by russian interference and fbi director james comey's let ber her e-mails. clinton says she's now part of the resistance while reminding president trump she did win the popular vote. >>> we need a shutdown. complaining about senate rules that have left many of his campaign promises out of the budget, the president says the country needs a good shutdown. once again the white house scrambles to explain. >>> and verge of collapse? president trump says it's time for a vote on the latest obamacare replacement bill, but right now republicans don't have the votes, and one source says it's not certain the votes will ever be there. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> breaking news. in an exclusive cnn learns that former acting attorney general sally yates is ready to testify that she gave a forceful warning to the white house about then national security adviser michael flynn weeks before he was ousted. sources say yates warned that flynn was lying about his russia contacts and possibly leaving him

clinton spoke about ongoing efforts to combat childhood obesity at the annual summit for the partnership for healthier america in washington, d.c. this is 40 minutes. [applause] bill clinton: thank you. thank you very much. thank you very much. thank you. thank you, very much. tardy upze for being here, i didn't get the memo about where i could stand and listen. i am mired the doctor, and wish to talk for another half-hour. i'm very grateful to all of you. for the work you do. i want to say that i working on this childhood obesity issue for more than a decade. i have listened to remarks, i have been to the middle east and to asia. to put his debate with the efforts against burgeoning public health problems there. that therey grateful are companies that, where possible, are trying to work themselves out of a job by giving our children a healthier future. thank the schwartz foundation and the johnson foundation for working with us. and i will tell you more about larry soller, the president and friend,ha and my good dr. howell wechsler. i am very glad that all of you are here. that, in this

of hillary clinton, the investigation into the clinton private in l server. they said that his decision to publicly announce so much detail in july, the sort of bombshell letter that he sent in october to congress announcing that he had more letters, they are saying that this behavior is the reason they hit the road. what you are seeing from democrats are a lot of questions about the timing here. why now? these actions were last year. for democrats, citing the is this related to the ongoing investigation from the fbi into any coordination between trump campaign officials? that fbi investigation, when a we expected to hear any kind of update on that from the now fired fbi director? very little. director comey testified last week and was asked about that. he said -- look, we are going to be sticking to our normal practice, we won't be giving a lot of details about what's going on with an active investigation. there has been reporting in the last 24 hours that they have issued grand jury subpoenas to michael flynn regarding some of his business contact, but at this point we really

very bad to catastrophic options on hillary clinton's emails. >>> and the vote is on. but can the republicans carry health care across the finish line tomorrow? we'll hear from a member of congress after meeting with the president at the white house. the 11th hour starts right now. and good evening once again from our head quarters here in new york on day 104 of the trump administration. we learn just tonight that house republicans say they have the votes to pass their health care plan on the floor of the house tomorrow time tba. we also heard from the president today on peace in the middle east. a goal that has confounded every president of the modern era, including two, carter and clinton, who seek toed a huge part of their presidencies on it. the current president met today with palestinian leader and on the subject of middle east peace, he seems to like his chances. >> it's a great honor to have president with us. we'll be having lunch together. we'll be discussing details of what has proven to be a very difficult situation between israel and the palestinians. and let's see if

former fbi director james comey was aware that a critical piece of information in the hillary clinton e-mail investigation was fake, created by russian intelligence. that awareness is what led to comey to act unilaterally when he publicly declared that the investigation was over last summer. our chief political correspondent dana bash helped break this story for cnn. she's joining us. dana, tell us what you and your team have learned. >> as you mentioned cnn has learned that this is the key, that the fbi director james comey, then fbi director, knew that a critical piece of russian information related to the hillary clinton e-mail investigation was fake but he felt that he needed to take action anyway because he was concerned that if the information became public, fake or not, it would undermine the investigation and the justice department itself. now, this is according to multiple sources talking to my colleague and myself. it was because of these concerns that comey decided to publicly declare that the clinton probe was over last summer without consulting then attorney general loretta