aware at various time s antho anthony weinerer s computer was there and they allowed it to sit for four weeks not being touched and four woox eeks in october it just any four weeks. with all due respect, 11 days before the election comey did come out and say that the fbi was reopening the investigation which hillary clinton and her supporters saw as a clear piece of evidence that it would hurt her in her bid to win the presidency and only two days before the election did comey say they saw no evidence of criminal wrongdoing? well, there s reasons that democrats until the president fired comey wanted comey fired and in california 25% of the voters had already voted by the
anything that would negatively affect my career. and when you look back at the anthony weinerer case, nancy pelosi forced him to resign from the house of representatives basically for material like this. that was years before anthony weinerer committed a crime for which he is not serving time. right. you point out, lawrence, this seems to have a criminal aspect to it, threatening someone. not quite extortion but something like blackmail. threatening someone with legal action. i mean, look. one thing you point out nancy pelosi. democrats have been quick it seems to me in pushing for ethics investigations of democrats in congress like al franken, like john conyers accused of harassment. we have not seen the same solid front from republicans calling for investigations of gop people. i mean, i do think for the great part most republicans in congress have really stood
washington post. the woman spoke to the the washington post after the lewd photo was published tuesday by an anonymous twitter account. she shared a secretly recorded phone conversation she had with barton in 2015 in which he warned her against using the explicit materials, quote, in a way that would negatively affect my career. and so, indira, here we have a recording of barton saying that he would use the capital police to try to prevent her from doing anything that would negatively affect my career. and when you look back at the anthony weinerer case, nancy pelosi forced him to resign from the house of representatives basically for material like this. that was years before anthony weinerer committed a crime for which he is not serving time. right. you point out, lawrence, this seems to have a criminal aspect to it, threatening someone.
investigation that they already did which was the investigation of hillary clinton s e-mails. there is some independent analysis of pollsters that james comey s intervention, public intervention in the case and comments about it, especially the last comments about it, involving anthony weinerer s laptop were the thing that tipped the election to donald trump. he is not satisfied with that investigation. he wants a new investigation of the same thing. he does. or he wants to make noise about doing that to muddy the waters for the inevitable trouble that he is going to face. we have seen him make this long-running effort to redefine words by simply using them to attack his opponents even when they don t apply so, for example, in responding to the dnc controversy the other day trump said that s money laundering. why isn t the justice department and the fbi investigating money laundering? whatever that was or think of that controversy, it was not money laundering.
now sessions may be a problem for trump because he may have misstated a lot of things, possibly to the point of perjury, when he testified before the senate so i think trump has two grounds for going this direction. one is to pressure him and the other is there may come a point when he is going to have to throw him overboard. daniel, of course, the president wants a the justice department and the fbi to do an investigation that they already did which was the investigation of hillary clinton s e-mails. there is some independent analysis of pollsters that james comey s intervention, public intervention in the case and comments about it, especially the last comments about it, involving anthony weinerer s laptop were the thing that tipped the election to donald trump. he is not satisfied with that investigation. he wants a new investigation of the same thing.