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. clinton: but it is such an honor to join with the college and all who have come to celebrate this day with you and to recognize the amazing f

by hillary clinton. he didn't want to be responsible for throwing the eight election to the evil donald trump. that's how it came off to me as a former practicing attorney for white-collar crime. and then of course the example you stated which is equally bizarre. if the crime that is committed in the fbi director seems woefully on interested and incurious on what really went o on. the left was not happy with him. the right was not happy with him and i think most people think his investigation -- if you look at this very late, russian collusion, there was nothing there. he found nothing but he managed to put a lot of doubt and a lot of people's minds about the outcome of this election. he did manage to do that. >> sean: clapper suggested and we're almost almost at a crisis point -- a good friend of mine said cuckoo for cocoa puffs. that was you, by the way. they have run with this -- this conspiracy theory. clapper says no evidence of collusion. comey says no evidence of collusion. the media keeps on a st

it was as if hillary clinton was daring her to remark. the republicans said today was a stark reminder of why she lost. she would be wise to look inward, talk about why she lost and ending with "we won't hold our breath, though." >> all right, breanna, thanks very much. what do you think? >> she's a private citizen. she spoke at her alma mater. she has a right to speak her mind. i see no problem with saying what she did and who are we to judge her at this point. i think there were veiled maybe not so veiled attacks on the president. she spoke to other issues we've seen generate throughout the country, not just president trump-related but we're seeing it play out in the landscape and narrative across the country. she addressed and spoke to some of those. >> i would suspect if president trump was here or in mar-a-lago or somewhere, he'd be stweeting. >> it's 6:00 in italy right now. so who knows what we'll get after he sees the speech. i don't know if a failed presidential candidate has been so critical of their opponent so shortly after th

hillary clinton won the female vote. if you break it down, there was also a racial breakdown there as we well. among white women donald trump actually won. but again, take us back to real time. what were you hearing from the campaign about sexism, about misogyny during that race and how they were trying to deal with it. >> well, they felt as though it was playing a role at the time and they tried to highlight that on the campaign trail. they tried to effectively accuse former candidate donald trump of engaging in what they felt were at the time comments aimed at undercutting her for her gender. you'll recall he said he can't picture her being president. but at the same time, steve, there were all of these other interesting factors which you sort of alluded to. the fact that for example during the primaries she didn't do better with those younger female voters who were trending toward bernie sanders. and i think that underscores this broader theme which is that the campaign didn't necessarily have a full grasp of the elec

, many, many from the verizon clinton domain. blackberry domain. they said we think we got to get a search warrant to go get these and the department of justice agreed, we had to go get a search warrant so i agreed. i authorized them to seek a search warrant then i faced a choice. i lived my entire career by the tradition if you can possibly avoid it, you avoid any action in the run-up to the election that might have an impact, whether a dogcatcher election or president of the yooirkts bunit but i sat there that morning and could not see a door labeled no action here. i could see two doors. and they were both actions. one was labeled speak. the other was labeled conceal. because here's how i thought about it. i'm not trying to talk you into this. i want you to know my thinking. having repeatedly told this congress we are done and there's nothing there, there's no case there, there's no case there, to restart in a hugely significant way, potentially finding the e-mails that would reflect on her intent from the beginning, and not s

fbi directore last was fired by the clintons back in the 90's. thank you for your call. we are moving on here. you can see a headline from time magazine. will bring it up on the screen saying president trump previously praised john comey -- james comey over the hillary clinton investigation and that abouten comey was asked .he tweet >> did you give hillary clinton "a free pass for many bad deeds?" >> no, that's was not my intention, certainly. well, did you give her a free pass, made whatever your intention was? -- i believedin what i said, there was not a prosecutable case there. >> there was james comey testify just a week ago. let's go to sweep or -- shreveport louisiana, dorothy, go ahead. >> i would like to call and. .- call in when is america going to say enough is enough. we never had the country run like this. walk down 5thld avenue and should somebody and be fine. he has his children working in the white house, that is conflict of interest, and he never showed his income tax. obama had to show birth certificate. he's not doing anything that he is supposed to do

liz: clintons have always been criticized since 1990s, to -- vehicle -- victim hood. >> the clintons have taken victimhood to a scientific height, the experts, the entry in dictionary should start with them, the things that did affect her and the end of the campaign, comey letter and wicky leaks, all stem and fact that original sin was unof in ablunbelievable air gants arrogance of her using a private e-mail server. >> he is right, there is knoll a market in victimhood, it is quite common, and left does not seem to say anything about it this goes back to her time at secretary of state be we recall, that she left 4 americans to die, in benghazi, then she lied about it on national television, and lied. looked at the families in their faces and lead to the lied to them about it. liz: was that only hillary clinton a fault about benghazi? did it go to more people. >> it was the entire administration, they tried to cover it up, lied and said it happened because of a youtube video. that was not the case, she lied to the american people a number of times, cheated with the campaign, and then

clinton has placed blame on-call meet for trump's win. the relationship with the winners seemed cordial enough. >> james. he has become more famous than me. >> comey's testimony about russian interference was not satisfying many in the g.o.p. because he wouldn't say for sure he would probe damaging leaks the white house police came from the last administration. >> can you assure them that if it's going to be investigated? >> i can't. but i hope people watching know how seriously we take leaks of classified information but i don't want to confirm it saying that we are investigating. >> as recently as march, comey thought he would be around a lot longer. >> you are stuck with me. >> comey testified last week that late in the presidential campaigns when wrestling with whether to speak to congress about the clinton investigation or conceal details, he prayed for a third door, but it wasn't there. today comey was shown the door. >> bret: thank you. brit hume has seen a lot. he is our senior clinical analyst, joins us tonight. good evening. get

clinton did not lie about the damned e-mails. nor did she treat classified material in an extremely careless manner. the e-mail scandal, like many previous investigations into the clintons, was a whole lot of nothing blown to nuclear proportions by the g.o.p. and helpfully served up in an endless stream of tasty poisonous portions by the mainstream media. for week we snacked on high calorie accusations and i insinuations including some delivered permanently by vladimir putin, via wiki licks and then just as -- wikileakss and then as we appeared to be stuffed to brim and the attention turned though trumpish behavior that has shaken michelle obama and other women to her core we are were presented with a flaming dessert courtesy of james comey. the next couple of sections which i won't treat you describe how the e-mail scandal got constructed by the press. part one is called the scandal. it's born. part two is called, clinton becomes a criminal, courtesy of "the new york times." part three is called, clinton is vindicated but no one

campaign of hillary clinton. but republicans on capitol hill also have deep questions about the timing of this firing. the white house acknowledging it did not do, you know, a good enough job explaining it. were caught flat footed a bit. today at the white house no doubt more questions about this as the firing of james comey, the fbi director enters its second day here. >>> jeff zeleny with a very long night at the white house. the source with knowledge of the president's decision to fire comey tells cnn the move was being considered for days. one final straw errors in his testimony to congress leading the president to believe he lost credibility. the fbi clarified comey's testimony hours before he was fired. >> white house facing enormous backlash. senior administration officials did not think comey's dismissal would trigger this explosive reaction since theater my natured him for his unfair treatment of hillary clinton's e-mail issue. listen to kellyanne conway about the timing of the firing. >> you don't think

clinton: that was it. if we had had a race for president -- it was 1968 -- if the election had occurred in that moment, walter washington would have received the write-in votes of every member of our graduating class. [laughter] i want toton: so speak a little longer, but not that much. i recommend you take some time today to ask yourselves, what did i really get out of this anyway? what did i learn? what's more important, that i learned a lot of things i did not know? that i learned how to relate to people who were different from me that i never would have met had i not come here? or that i learned how to think about things, in a world where economic, social, and political developments often seem like the sociological equivalent of chaos theory in physics. how good am i after all at connecting the dots? oh yeah, i got a university degree, so i don't believe in all that alternative facts business. i still think it is important to be as accurate as possible and it really matters if you know anything, but ca

clinton. " you can't review 650,000 email and eight days. you just can't do it." hillary clinton is guilty." changing thoughts about mr. comey? guest: he reacted the of his own prism of reelection chances. he thought it was great when comey came down hard on clinton when in the end he exonerated her saying there was no new evidence on the laptop in new york. that he was saying the fbi was reading the system. -- rigging the system. there is no clear pattern of thought here except what helps personally. i think there is reason to believe moving mr. comey out-of-the-way give some reason to believe he can either stall or potentially shut down the rush of investigation. -- russian investigation. if you were truly innocent he should be banging on the table demanding a special counsel to immediately clear his name, and he should be revealing his tax returns which would tell us a lot about he has borrowed money from russian banks in russian oligarchs. host: madison, illinois. democrat. good morning. c

if you're a democrat and love hillary clinton, you probably like hillary clinton unplugged giving a sort of unvarnished not well crafted necessarily raw take on, hey, i won on 3 million more votes. if you love hillary clinton, you probably loved this. if you're republican, you're being looking at this and saying, the democratic party doesn't get it. if hillary clinton remains out front the foremost speaker of the face of the democratic party, a lot of republicans would feel happy about that feeling like if hillary clinton is the leader of the resistance, we beat her last time. so i think this raises question, how much do democrats want hillary clinton to be the leader of their resistance movement? >> and s.e. cu approximate. cupp, she said she thought misogyny played a role. >> members of her own party in 2008 new her far more than barack obama, the junior senator. they still chose him. it's possible, of course, that misogyny was part of this. to really take accountability, she'd have to understand that when it came down to it, a, people didn't like her and, b, democrats as a party did n

is this the authentic hillary clinton? you were there. >> i agree that the interview she gave today was masterful. and you saw the depth of knowledge that is not equal to the current office. issues are royaling the global stage. she spoke intelligently about issues in rural america, areas that donald trump won and she, i think, is more in touch with the issues affecting the community than donald trump. it just didn't come through in the campaign. and we have to take responsibility for that. we didn't break through on that. that's our failure. and you heard her take responsibility for her personal favors in the campaign, too. i thought it was an extremely wide-ranging interview and a productive one for her as she gets back out there. >> and mayor nutter, would this performance have resonated better? she sort of knows about the issues that the trump supporter or voter than he does. >> there's no question that hillary clinton is in fact smarter and more knowledgeable on virtually all of the issues than donald trump. that was

iowa had never been clinton country. and hillary had increased the share from under 30% in 2008 to 50% give or take a little in 2016. plus unlike obama he was tailor-made for iowa. the state is overwhelmingly white. with decidedly working-class even as bernie sanders was able to eke out a victory. why couldn't they see the difference on one level it was just another of his routine fix about television personnel. they had declared obama the winner of that 2008 primary in may of that year. but it was another sign of the inability to tamp down his emotions at the start of the day he have gone for a walk with his aides to release some of the building stress and at one point he played a combination of card games. he was the protective husband and in a concerned democrat and now he was shouting eight years years of pent up frustration at his longtime friend and advisor. when bill had spent himself he calmly walked into an adjoining space that was part of the sweep for caucus night. he found the man he was looking for i was sta

clinton has placed blame on-call meet for trump's win. the relationship with the winners seemed cordial enough. >> james. he has become more famous than me. >> comey's testimony about russian interference was not satisfying many in the g.o.p. because he wouldn't say for sure he would probe damaging leaks the white house police came from the last administration. >> can you assure them that if it's going to be investigated? >> i can't. but i hope people watching know how seriously we take leaks of classified information but i don't want to confirm it saying that we are investigating. >> as recently as march, comey thought he would be around a lot longer. >> you are stuck with me. >> comey testified last week that late in the presidential campaigns when wrestling with whether to speak to congress about the clinton investigation or conceal details, he prayed for a third door, but it wasn't there. today comey was shown the door. >> bret: thank you. brit hume has seen a lot. he is our senior clinical analyst, joins us tonight. good evening. get

bill clinton. but that decision to have bypass the normal policies of the department of justice was probably the reason that he got embroiled in these political controversies that continue to dog him to this very day. stay well i guess question is, if that was, as the letters point out, the genesis of the concern and that first move in july prior to the election, why not make this action soon after the inauguration and not wait until the first week in may? >> because the justice department was really understaffed for a long time. it took a a while for the attorney general to be confirmed and his deputy was just confirmed a week or so ago. it was the deputy who had been the career prosecutor who had been designated to do the analysis of the fbi director's actions and came up with the recommendation. >> bret: when you hear democrats, and growing number of democrats saying this sounds and feels nixonian, what do you say? >> he did not fire the entire fbi. he fired the director of the fbi in any sugges

we're going back to this clinton e-mail investigation. hard to decipher exactly what may have sparked this, led to this, so many thing swirling whether it's the clinton e-mail investigation, the russian probe. we do know, however, that the white house and the justice department have been at odds with the fbi in recent weeks. the white house wants the fbi to focus more on the investigation of leaks into classified information to the media whereas the fbi had continued russia probe. so, really, a disconnect between the doj and the fbi and the white house. >> great reporting. thanks. >>> cnn has learned ksenior officials did not think it would trigger such a reaction. listen to anderson cooper questioning kellyanne conway about the timing of the firing. >> you don't think it looks odd at all that the president of the united states is firing the guy who is leading the investigation into the president's white house and the people around the president? >> well, let me repeat the president has been told by fbi director he's not under investigati

was unfair to hillary clinton. so can you understand why some people look at president trump grabbing the rosenstein letter even if it was completely sincere and saying they don't believe that -- what's going on? >> well, we don't know that yet because the president hasn't yet spoken to the country and i think when he decides to sit down and do an interview on this i think we'll get some more -- >> you're saying that he might actually agree with the rosenstein letter. >> i'm saying until he comes forward and talks about the entire process, we don't know and i don't think you can cast aside and say he didn't agree anything for the rosenstein letter. >> you covered the campaign the last two years. >> two very important things i've got to point out here. nobody tonight is out there campaigning and cheering and saying we need to have director comey in that position. people might disagree with the timing of it, but nobody out there is -- >> i'll say that, jason. >> no one -- no one feels more wronged by director comey's

part three is called clinton is vindicated, but no one knows it. some of you may have seen the rachel maddow asked show after the state department reviews there to-- report on how the e-mail system or handled and she came out with this huge stack of papers which represents how they are supposed to keep and classify their e-mails, completely archaic disheveled cumbersome system. it lead some people to conclude what's really going on here is a mess of a system, nothing to do with hillary clinton at all. then, part four is called james comey abuse of power act one. i will summarize a tiny bit and then i will read a page or two because i think you all remember the first james comey announcement. i don't really have to read the whole accounting in the book in which he delivered what many people thought was a mixedle verdict. he cleared her of all criminal charges, but he went on to accuse her of being extremely careless with her e-mails and in fact spent so much time talking about how careless she was that a number of people came away having seen that t

is this is authentic hillary clinton? because you were there. >> i agree that i thought that the interview that she gave today was masterful. i thought this was you know, made me wistful because i thought it was a depth of knowledge there that is completely not matched by the current oval office. she understands the recognizes of all these foreign officials are doing. i think you saw her spoke intelligently about issues in rural america. areas that donald trump won and she i think is more in touch with the issues affecting those and we have to take responsibility for that. we didn't break through on that. that's our failure and you heard her take responsibility for her personal failures in the campaign true. i thugt it was a productive one as she gets back out there. >> you heard what bryan said. she sort of knows about the issues that the trump supporter, the trump voter more than he does. >> well, there's no question that hillary clinton is in fact smarter and more knowledgeable on all the issues than donald trump. that

clinton's tenure at state. but, of course, any emails related to alienateing records would not have been created until after she left office during the congressional f.b.i. reviews. even though these records were subject to -- the justice department agreed to destroy the laptops. so a cloud of doubt hangs over the f.b.i. objectivity. the director says the people at the f.b.i. don't give a rip about politics. but the director installed as deputy director a man whose wife ran for elected office and accepted almost a million dollars from governor terry mcauliffe, andrew mccabe met a person with that office about his wife's political plans and did not recuse himself from the or the russian matter despite the obvious appearance of conflict. the inspector general is reviewing these issues but once again the people deserve answers and the f.b.i. has not provided those answers. we need to f.b.i. to be accountable because we need the f.b.i. to be effective. its mission is to protect us from the most dangerous threats fa

operative saying lynch would make the fbi clinton probe go away. according to one government official in classified briefings comey told lawmakers that he was afraid that this information would, quote, drop and undermine the investigation, but comey didn't tell lawmakers at the time that he doubted the accuracy of the information even in a classified setting. according to one government official the fbi director felt that the validity of the information didn't matter because if it came public he had no way to discredit it without burning sources and methods. >> in public comey gave the notion for breaking protocol and making this announcement last july because bill clinton had boarded then attorney general loretta lynch's plane which was inappropriate. that's why he decided to speak out. >> that's right. i am told he didn't even mention that in classified settings on capitol hill. he didn't talk about the plane incident. instead he told lawmakers that this russian information was the primary reason he took that unusual step to announce the end of t

bill clinton was off. he hollered at john podesta loud enough to be heard through the walls of the little rooms he laid claim of a historic savory hotel in downtown des moines, iowa. it was the pond and he was watching on tv. they're getting it all wrong again as the result of the iowa caucuses trickled in. hillary was reading, but he was going to be tight. omg wolf blitzer said on cnn. it doesn't get a whole lot closer than that. that assessment invited parallels to hillary's 2008 last two barack obama. it was then builds absurd comparison and i had been a three-way race and she was still likely to come up a winner on this night, not the third-place finisher. the upstart challenger competing in iowa in dÉjÀ vu was so hard storyline to resist. and ensures the race will go on for months and months on the democratic side reported that night and sanders headquarters. hillary was such a prohibitive front-runner heading into the democratic nomination by that she should have cleaned up. bill had a much differe

i didn't vote for hillary clinton. her face-to-face at the town hall meeting that i was voting for bernie sanders. both my wife and i. host: what did she say to you when you said that? caller: strictly enough, she said you may not support me, but i support you, which i thought was a very incredible response to my being angry about what happened in 2008. i have to tell you that donald trump draining the swamp -- he is replacing the swamp with a cesspool. the same people who brought the economy down in 2008, he is hiring them to run the economy. it's stupid. host: ron, we are running out of time. want to give eleanor clift a chance to respond to your comments. guest: his campaign rhetoric and the way he stacked his ministration been arisen wants to each other. goldman sachs is well represented in the white house. billionaires are also well represented, which again is counter to what he said he would do. the health care plan that they are now trying to hustle through the congress hurts people in rural counties the most. t

clinton email thing. besides the huma abedin stuff, it's also tied into the hoax russian dossier too. even looking farther back, they let these russian boston marathon bombers slipped through the cracks. the nightclub bomber in orlando slipped through the cracks. and totally embarrassed themselves after the san bernardino shooting when they can crack into the iphone and had apple basically pancake them in front of the entire world. this guy's track record under the fbi -- they have great people in the fbi -- hasn't been not stellar. >> but again, jesse, when you look at that long letter from rosenstein, it had nothing to do with any of that. they could have made that case. it would have bolstered their case, made it bigger. >> it was tangential to the matter at hand. i think they thought they were probably on firmer ground. particularly with this being about hillary clinton. for the trump administration to fire the fbi director for his handling of the hillary clinton issue? i mean, regardless of what demo

clinton. the only problem he ever had about comey's behavior was that he didn't charge her with a crime and president trump then citizen trump loved it when comey reopened the clinton case late in the campaign. it's as if we're expected to have all been blinded by that memory eraser thing from men in black and we wouldn't remember all the times that trump expressed concern that comey didn't charge hillary and then praised him. >> i respect the fact that director comey was able to come back after what he did. >> it took guts for director comey to make the move that he made in light of the kind of opposition he had where they're trying to protect her from criminal prosecution. >> let's us not forget that the fbi is in the middle of investigationing whether anyone in the trump campaign orbit had anything to do with the russian government attempts to interfere last year. in fact the firing comes a day after potentially embarrassing testimony for the white house about the russia investigation from

that was president bill clinton. trace gallagher has more. >> in october 1973, president nixon and the attorney general's office were at odds over nixon's refusal to release recordings of white house conversations. nixon planned to fire archibald cox. but instead, he ordered the attorney general to fire cox. richardson refused and resigned. cox was eventually fired by the solicitor general who became the acting attorney general and later the supreme court nominee. the nixon library apparently is not happy with the trump-nixon comparison's tweeting "fun fact, richard nixon never fired the director of the fbi." bill clinton did fire his fbi director, williams sessions appointed by ronald reagan. sessions was accused of using an fbi plane to visit his daughter and had the government pay for and install a security fence around his home that didn't provide security. sessions voluntarily stepped down under attorney general janet reno. clinton went on to appoint louis freeh and the two were well known enemies who said he wa

a new book shattered, inside hillary clinton's doomed campaign, a search that clinton herself was the core problem. the authors join may now, jonathan allen is a columnist for roll call and the head of community and content at sideware. amie parnes is the senior white house correspondent for the hill. i'm pleased to have them both at this table. welcome. >> thank you. >> rose: fifers of all, tell me when the-- first of all tell me when the idea of doing this came about and how the two of you got together to do it. >> so we wrote our previous book hrc on secretary clinton's time at the state department 6789 and we didded questions, we wanted to know if she had learned her lessons. we saw her kiepped of-- kind of talk to a lot of aides post campaign and try to figure out what happened. we wanted to kind of answer those questions in this book. and they are very different books. one is very focused on policy and what she was doing in governance. and this one is a political book. >> rose: so you already had a history of writing together so that was already done. >> right. >> and there is s

along with the 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 mee what the difference is? up to five foreign actors had hacked into hillary's server. she totally compromised america's national security and he did nothing. by the way, that likely put operatives in the field and their lives in danger. you have the clinton foundation. the pay to play scheme. the clintons were literally lining their pockets with millions and millions of dollarw while hillary was serving as secretary of state. you might remember, she signed off herself and giving the russians 20% of america's uranium. that horrible uranium one deal. she had a sign of personally on that. many of the people

one is he wasn't hillary clinton, who putin hated. i think one of the lessons that particularly the russians may have drawn from this is it works. i said a month or so ago, i expect to see them back in 2018, especially 2020. >> with me, michael mcfaul, u.s. russian ambassador, former secretary of defense william cohen. first to you, mr. secretary. the comments that the director made about the danger of russia to democracy were stunning. maybe accurate but stunning, would you agree? >> i agree. and i think it's accurate also. i think that president putin has certainly engaged in trying to destabilize other countries other than the united states, but to alter and affect the way in which we vote or perceive our candidates and basically to call into question the integrity of our entire democratic process. so, i think that's a goal. he has the means to do that with a very capable cyber team that he uses. and, so, he presents a threat to i think western democracies in general. >> ambassador, listening to director comey today, it seems to me

, former president clinton and loretta lynch, i felt i had to act. the deputy attorney general says the director now defends his decision by asserting that he believed attorney general brad lynch had a conflict. but the director of the fbi is never empowered to supplant the prosecutors and assume command of the justice department. so rod rosenstein basically saying here that comay basically took the law into his own hands and rewrote the law here, did something that he absolutely should not have done, but the fact that this comes at the beginning of may, almost a year after it happened really has a lot of people scratching their heads as to how long was this investigation going on? how long was this bothering the president? why did it suddenly come to this? a lot of unanswered questions but the white house press office launching already a kind of preemptive strike against what's coming out of capitol hill in terms of democrats saying the president has acted in a fashion bite taking the head and literally taking off the head of the fbi director saying

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clinton email thing. besides the huma abedin stuff, it's also tied into the hoax russian dossier too. even looking farther back, they let these russian boston marathon bombers slipped through the cracks. the nightclub bomber in orlando slipped through the cracks. and totally embarrassedft themselves after the san bernardino shooting when they can crack into the iphone and had apple basically pancake them in front of the entire world. this guy's track record under the fbi -- they have great people in the fbi -- hasn't been not stellar. >> but again, jesse, when you look at that long letter from rosenstein, it had nothing to do with any of that. >> they could have made that case. it would have bolstered their case, made it bigger. >> it was tangential to the matter at hand. i think they thought they were i probably on firmer ground. particularly with this being about hillary clinton. for the trump administration to fire the fbi director for his handling of the hillary clinton issue? i mean, regardless of wh

decision to reveal a renewed probe into the clinton e-mails. james comey admits the thought of impacting the vote makes him, quote, nauseous, but insists that to do otherwise would have been catastrophic. flipping votes. is it the art of the deal? the president persuades two republican lawmakers who were formerly opposed to the house gop bill, but is there enough support to keep the trump care plan alive? no charges. ten months after alton sterling was killed by baton rouge police while pinned to the ground, the justice department announces no federal charges will be filed against two police officers at the scene, but they may not be off the hook. >>> and nuclear activity. as the u.s. carrier groups holds war games offshore, satellite images suggest north korea is still getting ready for a nuclear test. at the same time, a detained u.s. citizen is accused of plotting against the kim jong-un regime. >>> i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> breaking news. fbi director james comey is strongly defending his late october decision to

the stated reason is this firing was related to the clinton probe and how they handled the clinton probe. and i think most people would agree he did not handle that well. but the timing is very weird. we're months away from that. so why now? and i think more importantly, what was going on in that russia case as we speak. the deputy attorney general, the newly confirmed deputy rod rosenstein, they published his recommendation to attorney general jeff sessions on this. they also published attorney general jeff sessions letter on this. also the letter that president trump wrote to director comey actually effectuating the firing here. is it a complicated factor that he's supposed to be recused from matters released to hillary clinton, issued raised during the campaign like the e-mail concern, or to the trump/russia investigation itself? >> well, that's a really interesting point. trump is the one to fire comey. it isn't jeff sessions who fires james comey. but trump relies on a recommendation from jeff sessions. jeff sessions relies on the word of his deputy attorney general who talks all ab

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.

debates and clinton/sanders fights going on. that's going to continue. >> you do have the president handing out red electoral maps to reporters still interviewing him in the oval office. but i think i take your point, and adrienne, can you respond to that? with hillary clinton still at center stage, how is that clearing the way for the new, younger democratic voices? >> i don't think hillary clinton going back to her ala mater and giving a commencement speech is necessarily getting in the way. >> but she got very political. >> she did get very political. this is why she's very good at doing this and getting under donald trump's skin. she gave an incredibly inspiring speech at her ala mater reminding girls that if you get knocked down, jump right back up and that's exactly what i think our country needed to hear right now. >> john? >> i would just say, you know, the serious core of the speech was about the danger when people in power try to choose their own factses and people get intimidated into silence or straighten up their ba

barack obama has done enough for bill clinton and his family now, and bill clinton has done enough or barack obama and his family that i think they can along, even though they have vastly different personal and political stuff. charlie: what happened to hillary clinton? >> it was a combination of mismanagement -- there were so many factors here. we don't want to downgrade russia and comey, because those were obviously factors. reportingd i were this book, we started noticing these flaws in the campaign. i think all of them kind of contributed to it, she became the inevitable candidate again and that was a problem for her. there was a great sense of frustration among bernie sanders reporters. some of them voted for her and kind of held their breath and voted for her, and even now they don't quite understand why they did it. they did it because she wasn't trump, but she didn't have that energy behind her. i think all of these factors kind of late into that. charlie: did she get the young vote? >> not all of it. charlie: not as much as bernie sanders got in the primary. >> exactly great

what else did hillary clinton have to say? >> well, wolf, she criticized donald trump for his foreign policy and his tweeting habit and picked at one of his biggest sensitivities, that he lost the popular vote even though he won the presidential election. hillary clinton emerging as a leading antagonist to president trump. >> i'm now back to being an activist citizen and part of the resistance. [ applause ] >> reporter: speaking with cnn's christiane amanpour today in new york, clinton criticized the president's recent strike on a syrian air base used by both syrian and russian forces. >> we later learned that the russians and the syrians moved jets off the runway, that the russians may have been given a head's up even before our own congress was. >> reporter: and while she didn't denounce trump for saying he would sit down with north korean leader kim jong-un she did question the president's larger foreign policy goal. >> negotiations are critical, but they have to be part of a broader strategy, not just thrown out on a tweet

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 happened in the last c

and the fbi's going public about the investigation into hillary clinton that hillary clinton said just cost her the election. joining us how a member of the house oversite committee. he's a democrat. congressman, thank you so much for being with us. you, like the rest of us, are not a participant in today's hearing as it is on the senate side. you will be an active observer along with us. what do you want the fbi director to address when it comes to trump campaign associates and russia? >> well, thank you so much, john. i think we need to get to the bottom of what are the trump white house's ties to the kremlin, what are the affiliates of donald trump's ties to the kremlin. that's what we need the director to address. on the house oversight committee, we're doing the exact same thing, except with michael flynn and others. and i have reviewed various classified documents and they're raising tremendous questions about, you know, was michael flynn don corleone or fredo and we need to get to the bottom of what's going on here. >> if those are the only choices, that's a stark comparison. cn