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

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 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

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

they need to go after loretta lynch and hillary clinton. hillary clinton gave the russians uranium. when flynn was with obama, he was in russia and obama put him in office, gave him that position. next,david is up albuquerque, new mexico, democrat. caller: good morning, how are you? host: doing well. caller: firing comey, i think that was very strange because comey was in california when they didn't. when -- when they did it. iny went in his office and case he had incriminating evidence on mr. trump, they got rid of all the evidence. aboutwhere did you read cleaning out his office for evidence? caller: think about it, i didn't read it. i am a corrections officer, sir. when you fire somebody like that on the road, he did not have no knowledge of him being terminated. they waited until he waited for california. him a letterp gave and it is already all over the news, that is a conspiracy right there. the man is the head of the fbi. you do not give him that much respect to bring him into the office and let him know? and then the letter trump wrote him, thank you for giving me the heads

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

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

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

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

i did not vote for hillary clinton. i actually spoke with hillary clinton at one of her town hall meetings before the election. i did not like what she had to say. i told 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 sa

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

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we could look at hillary clinton and say she broke that glass ceiling. but by the same token, we have to look at someone like kellyanne conway and praise her for being the first women to successfully run a campaign. >> i think we celebrated her on the day it was announced she would be the campaign manager. she was here that day and she was excited and we celebrated. what are we to do with these lessons? it's hard to know. she was supposed to be the first female president, if you believe the conventional wisdom and then something went wrong. >> that's the question, too. you can do these hypotheticals, which are hard. but if a male candidate who was flawed and had the scandal with him and represented the status quo in what turned out to be a change election, i do think he would have been at an extreme advantage. we do not now how exactly that would have played out, but i think those factors were really important, that she represented something that voters were turning away from. the air apparent was not what they wanted. >> i think that's a strong point. i

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

from the verizon clinton domain, blackberry domain. they said bee thiwe think we ha get a search warrant to search these. and i authorized to seek the warrant and if you can possibly avoid that might have an impact, whether it was a dog catcher or the secretary of state. 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, but i want you to know my thinking. having repeatedly told this congress, there's no case there, there's no case there, to restart in a hugely significant way that would reflect on her intent from the beginning and not speak about it would require an act of concealment at my view and i stared at speak and conceal, and speak would be really bad. there's an election days, lordy, that would be really bad. concealing in my view would be catastrophic, not just to the fbi and well bedwrond and honestly as between really bad and catastrophic, i said to my team we've got to walk into the world of really bad. i've got to tell congress that we're rest

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

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

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

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

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

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.

, 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

it was not a particularly controversial act by bill clinton. but whether this should have been done is of course a very different question. and you've known me a long time. i'm not a cable news shouter. this was an outrage. this was a complete departure can from the american plirl and legal traditions. and the only comparable act october 20th, 1973, the saturday night massacre when richard nixon didn't fire the fbi director, he fired archibald cox who was the watergate special prosecutor. >> other than just are historical precedent of timing, that it's only happened once before in any way similar to this, why is it such a gross departure? >> because james comey was investigating donald trump's campaign and certainly donald trump himself. i don't think there is any doubt that he is a subject -- >> comey told him three times, i said i greatly appreciate you informing me that i'm not under investigation. i never the less concur with the judgment of the department of justice that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau. >> maybe the most tr

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

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

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

she sat alongside hillary clinton. but first president trump and his administration facing major public rebuke from an official fired by trump himself. sources tell cnn former acting attorney general sally yates is prepared to testify 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 expected to tell a senate judiciary committee she expressed grave concerns. flynn could potentially be compromised refuting the white house account that yates gave officials a simple heads up. yates testimony set for monday, russia returns to center stage on capitol hill today. >> fbi director james comey goes before the senate judiciary committee where he'll be grilled about his announcement just before the election that the probe of hillary clinton's emails was back on. secretary clinton now with her most pointed comments on comey and the russians, president trump unleash as late night tweet storm venting h

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

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

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

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

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

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

there's no way of proving the hillary clinton presidency. and i think the fact that both sides, that everybody has been unable to get past the 2016 election has meant that there haven't been enough questions asked about the implications going forward. how were the russians able to accomplish this and what can we do to prevent this from happening in the future. and i really think that for most americans that -- those are the two big important questions. >> and are americans depending on who you voted for looking at this in profoundly different ways, the importance you give it, sabrina on very different levels? >> absolutely. i think that democrats in particular will point to a lot of the polling that did show hillary clinton having a much higher probability of winning the election. and then there was certainly -- and it's supported by data, a shift after the release of that letter. when you look at some of the exit polls. again as karen said, can you definitively say that that she absolutely would have won the election had it not been for the

cecilia vega covered the clinton campaign. we all remember that moment in iowa the plane had landed, the clinton campaign onboard. they had bad wifi reported at the time they learned upon landing that the e-mail investigation had been reopened, 11 days before the election, comey then revealing nothing had been found in that investigation but said he had to make that public today. let's hear what hillary clinton said. >> 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 but got scared off. >> she said that and it made news immediately. she was on the way to winning before james comey made that announcement. >> look, i just got off the phone with sources close to hillary clinton and surprisingly perhaps they're not necessarily applauding this move the concern right now among people close to clinton is that perhaps this move is related to the fbi's investigation into russia, into president trump and not

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

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

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

why did he claim that secretary clinton was extremely careless? all that real el impacted the credibility of the information we're getting right now. >> in your view did comey's decision cost hillary clinton the election? >> well, we'll never know that. we do know russia was trying to influence our elections. we know that they were trying to influence the e-mail investigation now, so they were trying to use every tool at their disposal to discredit the u.s. election and to help donald trump. whether it was the difference between victory or defeat, we'll speculate begun that for the next is hundred years. >> we've known for months that the u.s. meddled in the u.s. presidential election and it would appear they were targeting the american legal system as well with that fake memo. what does that tell you about the capabilities and ambitions of the russian intelligence services? >> well, it tells us not only are they collecting a lot of information, not only do they use fake news, but they will do anything in order to carry out their objectives, inclu

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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

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