we do know that the e-mails being examined are part of a sexting investigation into anthony weiner, former congressman, who is the clinton long-time aid, huma abedin. let's bring in chris frates. chris, what more can you tell us about comey's decision, how he went about it and why the attorney general and others advised him against this. >> what we're learning from our own cnn justice reporter, evan perez, is that in fact attorney general loretta lynch objected to and was angered by the fbi director comey's decision to send congress a letter outlining how he's handling these newly recovered e-mails. in that letter comey wrote, quote, in connection with an unrelated case, the fbi has learned of the existence of e-mails that appear pertinent to the investigation. he went on in that letter to say the fbi should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these e-mails to determine whether they contain classified